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thinking again about TvTropes and how it’s genuinely such an amazing resource for learning the mechanics of storytelling, honestly more so than a lot of formally taught literature classes
reasons for this:
basically TvTropes breaks down stories mechanically, using a perspective that’s not…ABOUT mechanics. Another way I like to put it, is that it’s an inductive, instead of deductive, approach to analyzing storytelling.
like in a literature or writing class you’re learning the elements that are part of the basic functioning of a story, so, character, plot, setting, et cetera. You’re learning the things that make a story a story, and why. Like, you learn what setting is, what defines it, and work from there to what makes it effective, and the range of ways it can be effective.
here’s the thing, though: everyone has some intuitive understanding of how stories work. if we didn’t, we couldn’t…understand stories.
TvTropes’s approach is bottom-up instead of top-down: instead of trying to exhaustively explore the broad, general elements of story, it identifies very small, specific elements, and explores the absolute shit out of how they fit, what they do, where they go, how they work.
Every TvTropes article is basically, “Here is a piece of a story that is part of many different stories. You have probably seen it before, but if not, here is a list of stories that use it, where it is, and what it’s doing in those stories. Here are some things it does. Here is why it is functionally different than other, similar story pieces. Here is some background on its origins and how audiences respond to it.”
all of this is BRILLIANT for a lot of reasons. one of the major ones is that the site has long lists of media that utilizes any given trope, ranging from classic literature to cartoons to video games to advertisements. the Iliad and Adventure Time ARE different things, but they are MADE OF the same stuff. And being able to study dozens of examples of a trope in action teaches you to see the common thread in what the trope does and why its specific characteristics let it do that
I love TvTropes because a great, renowned work of literature and a shitty, derivative YA novel will appear on the same list, because they’re Made Of The Same Stuff. And breaking down that mental barrier between them is good on its own for developing a mechanical understanding of storytelling.
But also? I think one of the biggest blessings of TvTropes’s commitment to cataloguing examples of tropes regardless of their “merit” or literary value or whatever…is that we get to see the full range of effectiveness or ineffectiveness of storytelling tools. Like, this is how you see what makes one book good and another book crappy. Tropes are Tools, and when you observe how a master craftsman uses a tool vs. a novice, you can break down not only what the tool is most effective for but how it is best used.
In fact? There are trope pages devoted to what happens when storytelling tools just unilaterally fail. e.g. Narm is when creators intend something to be frightening, but audiences find it hilarious instead.
On that note, TvTropes is also great in that its analysis of stories is very grounded in authors, audiences, and culture; it’s not solely focused on in-story elements. A lot of the trope pages are categories for audience responses to tropes, or for real-world occurrences that affected the storytelling, or just the human failings that creep into storytelling and affect it, like Early Installment Weirdness. There are categories for censorship-driven storytelling decisions. There are “lineages” of tropes that show how storytelling has changed over time, and how audience responses change as culture changes. Tropes like Draco in Leather Pants or Narm are catalogued because the audience reaction to a story is as much a part of that story—the story of that story?—as the “canon.”
like, storytelling is inextricable from context. it’s inextricable from how big the writers’ budget was, and how accepting of homophobia the audience was, and what was acceptable to be shown on film at the time. Tropes beget other tropes, one trope is exchanged for another, they are all linked. A Dead Horse Trope becomes an Undead Horse Trope, and sometimes it was a Dead Unicorn Trope all along. What was this work responding to? And all works are responding to something, whether they know it or not
An incomplete list of really useful or interesting reads from TvTropes.
please note that yes many of these are concepts that exist elsewhere and a few are even taught in fiction writing classes but TvTropes just does an amazing job at displaying the range of things that can be done with them
legitimately so much of the terminology I use to talk about storytelling, and even think about it in my own head, i learned about from TvTropes
Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Watsonian vs. Doylist
Trope Tropes, for all the ways tropes are used, deconstructed, subverted, and played with.
The Oldest Ones in the Book, which is basically my favorite thing on the entire Internet
Punk Punk, for -punk subgenres
Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness, Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
The Weird Al Effect is a fun one
Chekhov’s Gun, Chekhov’s Boomerang, Chekhov’s Skill, and further variations
Law of Conservation of Detail
Law of Conservation of Normality
Anthropic Principle
Word of God, Death of the Author
Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness
Genre Savvy
Flashbacks and Chronology breaks down all the ways you can handle chronology in storytelling
Show, Don’t Tell is a very good breakdown of what is showing, what is telling, and how both can be used effectively.
Lampshade Hanging
Noodle Incident is just fun imo
Genre Title Grab Bag
Fridge Horror
Rule of Cool, and also Cool of Rule
The Smurfette Principle
The Hays Code - not a trope but a very good breakdown of how the Hays Code affected storytelling in film
this is just a really short list of examples I encourage people who write or otherwise create stories to browse around on this site it’s so useful
Informed Attribute is one of the ones I reference most often as an editor.
Theory of Narrative Causality is one of my personal favorites, because it's kind of fun when a story acknowledges that things are happening in the story because that's what makes it a good story.
Also Applied Phlebotinum, because sometimes you don't need to know how something works, it just does, and that's all that matters for the purposes of the narrative.
Christopher Lee talks about the eye prosthetic he has to wear as Fu Manchu
Mind you, Zeb has a smokey eye and an hourglass figure... welcome back Kim Kardashian
i fucking hated your shoelaces this entire time
for the uninitiated
obviously there’s nothing morally wrong with the projectionist lens through which a large portion of fandom operates but it does get kind of tiring to constantly feel like. hey guys what if we stopped talking about ourselves and instead talked about the character
and of course a degree of projectionism can be a very useful lens in certain circumstances, such as having unique insight into a character who shares certain aspects of your own experiences. but at the end of the day you still gotta recognize that there are going to be aspects of them that diverge from yourself
wip wednesday
missed a few of these because i forgot about wip wednesday's existence and got reminded about it only the next day. for few weeks. the next I Pray chapter is in process
More than a month and a half, almost two.
Sifo-Dyas was in that dark, terrible place week after week. He was tormented by the darkness, consumed by it time after time, torn apart by his own mind, abandoned alone on the cold stone. He was there. All this time he was there, and Dooku- Tyranus didn't come to his senses after a few days, seeing his suffering—no, why should he? Instead, he visited Sifo-Dyas whenever he pleased, when he was bored or found this cold galaxy he had chosen for the two of them unbearable. Tyranus might toss him a few touches or words, like alms to a beggar. Was he satisfied with that? Did it give him some strange pleasure watching Sifo-Dyas lose time after time? And how tenacious was he in this struggle! How long had it really lasted? Did he break that same hour or the next day? He doesn't remember, it didn't matter anyway, and the Count knew it. Tyranus left each time, to return to his dazzlingly alive planet, to his warm castle, to his loving sister. While hunger ate away at Sifo-Dyas's mental defenses, while the only thing keeping him from dying was the sharp darkness filling his stomach, the Count attended banquets and dinner parties. While Sifo-Dyas curled up on a rock floor, trying to snatch a sliver of sleep, the Count was in his bed. Only when his Sith Master was killed, when his goal was achieved, did the need to keep Sifo-Dyas there die too. How... generous of the Count.
OBI-WAN KENOBI + ART (part 1)
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich A Monk by Thomas Stuart Smith Saint John the Baptist by Guercino After Flodden by William Brassey Hole Christ on the Mount of Olives by Gyula Benczúr The Remorse of Judas by Christopher Williams Saint Joseph and the Christ Child by Adam Elsheimer Etude pour la mort du moine by Alphonse Osbert If Thou Had'st Known by William Brassey Hole The Good Samaritan by Ferdinand Hodler
I see that you enjoy time travel in your stories. Interesting! What’s that one big event in your life that you’d give anything to change then?
It is... June 9th, I am still 110$ behind on rent. The food banks have been lifesavers and our landlord couple have been patient, but this whole thing has me REALLY anxious. I do not want to play this game again. So, here I am with my tin can again... if a dozen people can spare 10$ or so to help make sure we don't fall onto bad terms with the landlords (or worse) then that would be immensely helpful and I would be equally grateful paypal cashapp
And if you're broke like me, but you still want to help out a very poor queer during pride month then please share! Reblogs arent just helpful, they're essential
this is simply too funny
@jedijune Week 1 : A Choice Not Taken
#so you think that's what he was thinking off when he was holding palpitante at sword point#do you think when anakin was arguing for palpatine's arrest#he was thinking “i failed once before out of compassion. not this time”#and then it was the wrong choice again
No, it wasn't
Mace Windu did not make the wrong choice, Anakin did
killing Sidious was the right thing to do, killing Sidious would have stopped him, stopped the purge, stopped the empire, saved the Republic, ended the sith, it was objectively the morally correct decision, and Mace chose it
But Anakin chose not to kill Sidious himself, he chose to save him, and then Anakin chose to obey Sidious' commands
Mace Windu did not fail, he was backstabbed
i feel like tumblr doesnt know about the pain and suffering that is english tap water,,,, girl there are stalagmites inside me
Lmao op lives in the south. The tap water up here is from fucking springs. It's so clean and fresh and has no stalagmites whatsoever. Cope and seethe southerner
My bones are so strong from all the chalk I've been drinking that I could mull you into a fine paste
You guys are like a two hour drive from each other
me anytime that I am writing and require a timeline: wow I should really write down these numbers!
me two months later when i return to my wip: damn it.
People who are gay: “I’m gay”
People who are straight: “I’m straight”
People who are aroace: “What are your thoughts on Count Dooku?”