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primroseburrowsTV TROPES IS EATING MY BRAIN. Seriously, do not go there unless you have several hours to kill.
Example: The Dark Tower page tells us that one of the tropes used by the DT is Crapsack World. Then it goes on to say
All-World runs on this trope. As if a world still suffering from the effects of an apocalyptic war (including mutants, infertility, and all other kinds of nastiness) was not bad enough, the entire world has "moved on". The result of the foundations of the entire multiverse decaying, this takes the form of reality raping gaps in space time forming (thinnies), the very directions of the compass (and how they relate to the real world) changing on a daily basis, and the breakdown of what little technology remained in the world. BUT WAIT! It doesn't end there! Add a world wide revolutionary war, preaching the rise of democracy and equality, but is actually a massive overkill way of eliminating the very few people who could potentially do something about the whole problem (the Gunslingers). AND then when each universal foundation is broken, the geographical area that it overlaps in All-World experiences its own personal Armageddon. Put simply, All-World is FUCKED.
SEE WHAT I MEAN? TV Tropes turns you into an INTERNET SURF-ZOMBIE. A few days ago I spent an entire evening there reading about, among other things, Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act, which tells us why trying to kill Hitler just plain doesn't work.
So now you know why I've missed so much on the ole flist. That andDavid Tennant Billie Piper Dr. Who (Whose tvtropes page is here, btw).
Example: The Dark Tower page tells us that one of the tropes used by the DT is Crapsack World. Then it goes on to say
All-World runs on this trope. As if a world still suffering from the effects of an apocalyptic war (including mutants, infertility, and all other kinds of nastiness) was not bad enough, the entire world has "moved on". The result of the foundations of the entire multiverse decaying, this takes the form of reality raping gaps in space time forming (thinnies), the very directions of the compass (and how they relate to the real world) changing on a daily basis, and the breakdown of what little technology remained in the world. BUT WAIT! It doesn't end there! Add a world wide revolutionary war, preaching the rise of democracy and equality, but is actually a massive overkill way of eliminating the very few people who could potentially do something about the whole problem (the Gunslingers). AND then when each universal foundation is broken, the geographical area that it overlaps in All-World experiences its own personal Armageddon. Put simply, All-World is FUCKED.
SEE WHAT I MEAN? TV Tropes turns you into an INTERNET SURF-ZOMBIE. A few days ago I spent an entire evening there reading about, among other things, Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act, which tells us why trying to kill Hitler just plain doesn't work.
So now you know why I've missed so much on the ole flist. That and
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Date: 2009-10-29 04:56 am (UTC)That site is like a damn hydra. You close one tab and a dozen more spring up in its wake.
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Date: 2009-10-29 05:06 am (UTC)You close one tab and a dozen more spring up in its wake.
AND SO ON AND SO ON. And how they suck you in is that they're really really interesting in the geekiest way possible.
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Date: 2009-10-29 04:23 pm (UTC)are you just now discovering tv tropes? oh the days and days of twenty million tabs open at once that lie ahead of you.
no seriously, i think crime library & tvtropes are the two most addicting websites on the entire internet.
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Date: 2009-10-29 05:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-10-29 07:02 pm (UTC)Yes I did have to go look for one. *hates self*
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Date: 2009-10-29 07:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-30 09:45 am (UTC)Oh, man, that happened to me once. Once spread over the course of a couple wasted, wasted days and sleepless nights. I got completely fascinated by the various tropes from anime, which I neither watch nor like, but for some reason... Yeah. All sympathies!
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Date: 2009-11-01 08:38 am (UTC)