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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-02-01 07:11 pm

[ SECRET POST #2222 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2222 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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16. [SPOILERS for Celeste & Jesse Forever]



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17. [SPOILERS for Superior Spider-Man, Scarlet Spider]



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18. [SPOILERS for DMC: Devil May Cry]



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19. [WARNING for incest]

[A Tale of Two Sisters]


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20. [WARNING for suicide]



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21. [WARNING for eating disorders]



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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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(Anonymous) 2013-02-02 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
This. I think people miss the front page where it states "tropes are tools." Every story has tropes, just like every building has walls. They're what hold everything up. What you do with those tropes (or walls) is what makes the story (or building) interesting.

Personally, I have a lot of fun with tropes because I see them as sort of an analytical toy, and they succinctly explain sometimes complex phenomena. It's also a pretty good gauge of overused or problematic tropes - if it's something my writing falls into, I can catch it and change it without having to be a literary analyst.

I don't feel that it was ever meant to be anything more than a way to label patterns, so I don't treat it as anything more than that. I find it baffling that some people take it as gospel - interpretations of fiction vary wildly all the time, why should TVTropes be any different?