Reverse X-Files series where in every episode the protagonists investigate some apparently mundane crime which, through a series of unlikely contrivances, turns out to have been caused by aliens. The leading duo consists of a prissy, straight-laced forensic accountant who’s obsessed with cracking open a massive case of corporate malfeasance (and is endlessly frustrated that every lead they follow keeps turning up aliens instead), and well-meaning but absent-minded cryptozoologist who thinks their partner is paranoid for regarding corporate misconduct as a more likely explanation than aliens.
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tv tropes doesn’t say or imply tropes are negative; it repeatedly specifies the opposite. cinemasins is bad because it actively frames the existence of tropes as a bad thing.
TV tropes- this trope really explains this one part of the movie
Cinemasins- this movie has a beginning middle and end, setting, and characters so :/:/:/:/
I think the younger you are the more likely you are to be certain My Immortal was written as a joke, partially because it’s the progenitor of pretty much all modern Bad Fanfiction Tropes, so when you read it now you think “oh they were trying to use as many bad fanfic tropes as possible, it’s clearly a joke” even though those tropes exist to make fun of My Immortal. My Immortal could have been written as a parody of bad fanfiction but it made such an impact on that subculture that it’s entirely possible that it only seems like a satire because it’s the original thing being satired.
My Immortal could’ve been an intentionally bad fanfic but that’s not a given. The uncertainty comes from the fact that My Immortal was written in a pre-My Immortal world, and the only reason it seems like a parody now is because we already know about My Immortal.
The other reason is “nobody talks like this, nobody writes like this, it has to be someone making a joke” but the thing is, I was a moderator on a fanfic site when My Immortal dropped, and yes, they really really did talk like that. There is not a single line in My Immortal that would’ve been out of place in 2006.
I should say that Mary Sue parody fics had been done before - hell, the name comes from a fic from 1974 - but never, at least to my knowledge, with that level of dedication and immersion. This wasn’t just a oneshot, a little “teehee, look how silly this overpowered, ridiculously-named character is!” fic. This was 44 chapters long, each with a fairly impressive wordcount, an IRL sideplot (an argument between the author and her beta reader that caused a visible drop in spelling), and accounts on multiple websites, including Quizilla.
Like, there’s trolling and then there’s trolling, and if it was indeed a parody, it was done with a level of mastery that would be impossible to recreate now.
honestly what I’ve always liked about this is that the growing power didn’t come from just the act of touching the ground - but from the weight or pressure put into the ground.
As the foot is no longer supporting weight, the life begins to die.
It’s a very subtle, very specific animation decision that makes this different from a lot of similar “touch of life” tropes.
I’m ashamed of what I’ve created.
WHY IS IT ALWAYS PEARL
It’s always Pearl because this meme is structured around a very common comedy trope (which TV Tropes calls ‘The Triple’) which is to list two normal things and then follow it up with a third random or humorous thing. You need to save the joke for last or else it doesn’t work as well and if you have too many or too few examples beforehand it just kind of kills the impact, so the magic number for the joke to work is 3 and since Pearl is listed third she’s always the one replaced with the joke
Meme Science.
Anonymous asked:
I don't have money to share but I do have cursed concepts: Tiny lil tongues instead of nipples
:(
One of my favorite comedy tropes is when immediately after a commercial a person starts informing another person about the commercial even though they both saw it like
TV: If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be eligible for financial compensation!
Person 1: Hey did you know that if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with m-
Person 2: yes
so i made and account on tv tropes and it asked for my relationship status
i went over and was about to put in “single” or “it’s complicated” and, well..
i can’t deal anymore
this is beautiful
Fuck you
Looks like @fano-tastic let you down
Fuck you too
One of my favorite tropes is post apocalyptic towns being named after dilapidated signs with missing letters, like Novac (no vacancy) and Eaden (dead end). There’s something inexplicable about it
One of my favorite comedy tropes is when immediately after a commercial a person starts informing another person about the commercial even though they both saw it like
TV: If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be eligible for financial compensation!
Person 1: Hey did you know that if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with m-
Person 2: yes
My other favorite trope is referring to every animal as a weird dog
Anonymous asked:
D'you think you could make an ISFJ scientist aesthetic board?
I have no idea the tropes associated with ISFJ but I will try after some research