An Encounter in TV Tropes.

I'm almost through with mock exams, begging the question: WTF am I blogging right now for? I suppose I'm just really bored, and there's only so much time you can look at awful heart diagrams before wanting to keel over and die.

So, I spent some time on the TVTropes forums a little while ago. Handlename: SC Bracer, which is a) my initials and b) a bit of terminology from the Legend of Heroes RPG series by Falcom, which is the most amazing story-based RPG I've ever played, except maybe Xenoblade.

I knew about the site for a few years, back when it was cool and made fun of things like Twilight, Sonichu and FATAL (which I refuse to explain because it's highly NSFW). Sometime between then and now, the site took on this awful "no criticism" ever outlook on life, and became the world's biggest hugbox. Back then, it used to be about making fun of creeps. Now it is the creeps.

I lasted less than 48 hours on the site, which is hilarious because I was banned for pointing out that saying "women have less mass than men and should go to space because of that" was misogynistic. First they shut off my posting and made it impossible for me to visit the forums. Then I appropriately left them an open letter pointing out the paedos and creeps in the forums, which got my page locked and even my ability to delete my account removed. I don't really see the point of the latter, but eh, I suppose they need to make my life harder somehow.

I went there specifically because of the Writer's Block though, thinking, as I'd disappeared from that part of the internet for a while, that it was still sort of cool. I was wrong, for the reasons mentioned above and more.

Let me show you:

The first topic I posted in was the one asking what themes your work had. Now, I can understand not being absolutely sure about the themes in a work, because people do confuse the issue. I know I used to, before I started the IB English course. What was amazing/shocking/awful were posts like these:

COMING OF AGE, BITCH

And my eternal favourite:

I'm not sure I understand what a theme is, let alone how to determine the theme of a story. (I understand what a moral is, but I don't think that's the same thing.) That said, at a guess . . .

My pain and sorrow know no bounds. There are some other terrible examples of humanity in there, including one Major Tom who talks about his awful military novel filled with nonsensical details about guns and cherry blossoms amid character development (there is none). The setting of this novel is apparently Dreyerball (sp?), which reminds me of only one thing:

I hear they do work rather well.

I'll leave you with the most amazing quote of them all, from Natasel, who was highly offended during a series of PMs between the two of us, that I disliked misogynists and paedos. And proceeded to call himself one, which is why it was offensive. Well drat, I can't believe I offended you man. What about my sensibilities?

Ashamed that I did not think of females generally being lighter than males also means its cheaper to launch them into space.

^^^^^^ Ditto children.

Also, with them being smaller, it will take less air, water and food to keep them alive.

A space staion staffed entirely by little girl astronauts is the wave of the future?

This was right after my ban, so it took a little cookie deleting to be able to see this. Yes. If you get banned, all you have to do is delete tvt's cookies from your browser. It's so cute and badly done, I want to cry.