>>22975

It's called milking popularity to death.
And S&40k was never good; mostly because of the 40k, but partly because it's all memes, all the time.

>>22977

It never seemed that way at first. It used to be fun. But yes... memes killed it, jarring you out of the narrative.

Poor thing was Troper'd to death

Tvtropes is killing fanfiction. Tropers don't seem to understand that tropes are useful tools for analysis of fiction, but terrible for writing it.
And I still stand by my statement: 40k alone is just barely tolerable, but adding it to anything instantly makes it worse.

40k was great when it still had it's tongue in its cheek. IT started as a parody of all those Grim and Dark far future settings... and it parodied the lot of 'em by turning them up to damn near eleven. It's now become what it used to parody.

SaW40k was much the same... so gleefully over the top at first, but still commonsensical. Then it just sort of went away with itself madly.

Funnily, this happened about the time it got it's own Tropes page, and it started to become really popular.

Well shit.. I know the tropes I'm using.. I know the ones I'm subverting... I don't need some bloody reviewer asking me if I'm going to subvert play straight or justify random trope entry...

Also, TvTropes is where I found Drunkards Walk... which is fucking awesome.

Anyway, rant rant rabble rabble rabble rabble... back to posting pics.

TVtropes is so addictive it should be banned. I've lost more hours of my life....

No, >>22980. You are the tropes.

And then >>22890 was Narm.

>>rabble rabble rabble

Hamburglar, is that you?

40k had its tongue firmly in cheek... in the eighties. Up through Rogue Trader it was good, silly, badwrongfun. Then the fanboys took over, and it got serious, and as a result, it got stupid.
As for tropes, you really shouldn't need to know what tropes you're using. I know from personal experience that the moment I start thinking about writing in terms of tropes is the moment I stop thinking about it in terms of the characters or the plot. When you start writing like that, you start relying on the tropes alone to carry the story, when they never, ever should.

>>22985

That wasn't what I meant. I'm aware of their existence within the story, but I'm not doing the story by tropes. It becomes obvious when they start namechecking tropes.

Once or twice may be forgivable... some trope titles explain the concept within quite well in a very succinct manner (Like Arsepull, for one). But overdoing sucks.

Getting a review in tropespeak however is always annoying. Especially when they get it wrong.

A review in tropespeak is like a tiny dog yapping away at your feet for attention and affirmation. I've done it before, and felt dirty ever after.
It's not even a matter of whether they get it right or wrong, it's the fact that they give up actual analysis in favor of simplified abstractions and buzzwords while going "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! WE BOTH GO TO THE SAME SITE (as 20 million other people)!"

>>22987

Yeah. Taking trope titles and actually jumping off from them is kinda fun, however. I do find them to be a good source of inspiration. Nightmare Fuel gets mutated in "Petrol on the nightmare bonfire"

But not even bothering to make the effort to do that... you sound like the fanfic equivelant of David Brent... spouting corporate buzzwords to sound like they know what they're doing with no real comprehension of the meaning behind them.

Is Kaworu the sailor in SEELE's village people tribute band?

But Kaworu's not a seabear...

Keel's the police man (robocop), and the sailor was all that was left for Kaworu. Plus a construction helmet just messes up his hair badly.

LCL's an estrogen? Is that why Shinji's able to pull all that cheesecake.

LCL is orange; this is green.

Are you color blind, or just stupid?

Artist is an idiot, much like fans, then.

LCL does not, never has, and never will cause anyone to change gender/sex/sexual orientation. It's all in your head Synaspid, you've made it up, and now you're fanwanking and making a mess of the board. People like you are why anime fans are embarrassed to admit they're anime fans in public.

Perhaps, but still, the artist is an idiot, much like his/her fans.

Shinji's palmgyna has a period?

Good God...I thought this was an image board, not a discussion forum.

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This is a sign that the end is truly near.

Never gonna look at Stonehenge the same way again.

i have yet to look at 2001: a space odyssey the same
since seele started messing with my pool

Yay, ending of 2.0ish

lol.

Protip: getting butthurt during buttsecks is the default.

That's why he loves it, of course.

Shinji you mean?

No, Synapsid, of course.

But Brown-eyed Shinji's the one who acts like a butthurt bitch whenever Kaworu's around.

Are you saying synapsid has brown eyes, then?

You really have an unsettling fascination with my body...and the idea of my having buttsecks with guys.

Question does not mean fascination.

It is when it's off topic and asking for buttsecks.
Denial isn't a good thing.

Nor is assuming everyone wants you.

Protip; you're not Shinji, nor will you ever be.

I'm am sorry sir, but you DID lose the bet. You have to walk around ALL of the base as was stated. And relax, all the cameras are switched to sound only and most of the personnel are gone.

*shuts off visor* What has been seen...

don't worry mr. lorenz......it will be over soon
*videotapes but averts own eyes*

Maybe it can be unseen...*deletes visual log of the last 20 minutes*

heh...this will be good blackmail later on

I was tempted to slap some sense in that wimp all the time, but Anno won't let me...

Oh. My. God.

Looks more like Jet alone guy

That's because Shiro Tokita is actually Kozo Fuyutsuki's stepson.

Actually I'm kinda interested to know how Fuyutsuki looked when he was younger now

He actually IS Bright Noah. He traveled backwards in time to work for Gendou Ikari for reasons as yet undisclosed.

Ever notice that Mirai Yashima kind of looks like Yui with a slightly different hairstyle? And they also look pretty damn hot in white tights.

Oh shit. Does this mean Shinji Ikari and Hathaway Noah are half-brothers?

Don't get me started on Four Murasame.