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[leeshajoy]

questionoftheday asks: What is something everyone is "supposed" to love or enjoy, but you just don't? (question submitted by author_by_night)

My answer: TVTropes.

I admit I haven't been to TVTropes proper in the better part of a decade, but when I did, I just... viscerally did not enjoy it, at all. It felt like all of my least favorite aspects of literature classes turned up to eleven. They say that analyzing art is like dissecting a frog, in that you can learn a lot but when you're done the frog is dead. Well, TVTropes is like taking the different frog organs and dropping them into individual bins with a bunch of other, vaguely similar organs from other dissected animals.

I know a lot of people consider TVTropes a valuable resource, or just entertaining, but for me it will forever be where storytelling goes to die.

Comments

[sdelmonte]

I don't go as far as you do, but I never found it worth my time. I certainly never fell down a TV Tropes rabbithole the way I do on Wikipedia.

[bjornwilde]

I agree. I find it good for feeling out new canons and sort of funny, but I certainly never loss hours to it.