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* Like most people I've always thought that in scifi/fantasy, the common [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]] where the female of a race looks like a [[Cute Monster Girl]] and the male most definitely looks monstrous/unhuman was meant to appeal to male fans, it makes sense right? But if you think about it wouldn't that also mean that even the manliest human would look a lot like a female of their own species to an alien male? Cue the fanfics... |
* Like most people I've always thought that in scifi/fantasy, the common [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]] where the female of a race looks like a [[Cute Monster Girl]] and the male most definitely looks monstrous/unhuman was meant to appeal to male fans, it makes sense right? But if you think about it wouldn't that also mean that even the manliest human would look a lot like a female of their own species to an alien male? Cue the fanfics... |
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** [[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s short sci-fi story "[[wikipedia:The World Well Lost|The World Well Lost]]" is based on exactly this. In it an alien couple land on Earth and request asylum. They never reveal exactly why they're on the run, but everyone they meet are so touched by their relationship that they agree to help them. Later on it's revealed that {{spoiler|although they look like a straight couple to humans, they are in fact both male -- their females look completely different. They were on the run because their people disapproved of homosexuality, and they were relatively safe on Earth because, to their culture, Earth is a planet of [[Depraved Homosexual|depraved homosexuals]] and best avoided.}} |
** [[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s short sci-fi story "[[wikipedia:The World Well Lost|The World Well Lost]]" is based on exactly this. In it an alien couple land on Earth and request asylum. They never reveal exactly why they're on the run, but everyone they meet are so touched by their relationship that they agree to help them. Later on it's revealed that {{spoiler|although they look like a straight couple to humans, they are in fact both male -- their females look completely different. They were on the run because their people disapproved of homosexuality, and they were relatively safe on Earth because, to their culture, Earth is a planet of [[Depraved Homosexual|depraved homosexuals]] and best avoided.}} |
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* [[Mining Accident On Troy]] is a [[Stealth Pun]] - combining [[Mole Miner]] (the trope of a character, like a mole, who mines) and [[The Mole]]'s (Villainous spy pretending to be an ally to the heroes) background - so naturally it would be a ''mining'' accident. |
* [[Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story|Mining Accident On Troy]] is a [[Stealth Pun]] - combining [[Mole Miner]] (the trope of a character, like a mole, who mines) and [[The Mole]]'s (Villainous spy pretending to be an ally to the heroes) background - so naturally it would be a ''mining'' accident. |
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* I was reading [[How Not to Write AYKTTW (Darth Wiki)|How Not to Write AYKTTW]], and I kept seeing potholes for [[Your Trope]]. I clicked on it, expecting to see some humorous lecture about how tropes belong to everyone, but the page was empty. There is literally no such thing as [[Your Trope]]. |
* I was reading [[How Not to Write AYKTTW (Darth Wiki)|How Not to Write AYKTTW]], and I kept seeing potholes for [[Your Trope]]. I clicked on it, expecting to see some humorous lecture about how tropes belong to everyone, but the page was empty. There is literally no such thing as [[Your Trope]]. |
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* Alice talks to Bob, and starts with [[With All Due Respect]] followed immediately by a string of swears or insults. The usual reasoning is that it creates [[Sophisticated As Hell|humorous contrast]], but I feel it's much simpler than that: Alice is giving Bob [[Exact Words|all the respect she feels he's due]]. --Wackd |
* Alice talks to Bob, and starts with [[With All Due Respect]] followed immediately by a string of swears or insults. The usual reasoning is that it creates [[Sophisticated As Hell|humorous contrast]], but I feel it's much simpler than that: Alice is giving Bob [[Exact Words|all the respect she feels he's due]]. --Wackd |
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* When you read the trope [[Dead Horse Music Genre]], you come to the realisation that: a.) practically anything and everything that ever got a lick of success anywhere in the world gets to be a DHG; b.) a lot of the styles mentioned as a DHG were competing against each other in the same pop culture space, and maybe were even ''conceived'' as an antidote or antithesis to another popular style; c.) if they were popular once, [[Popularity Polynomial|they may well become popular again]] with at least ''somebody'', at least if given a new lease on life, and d.) because the styles did become [[Deader Than Disco|popular to the point of overkill]], [[Hype Backlash]] and a certain amount of [[Fan Dumb]] will always be a factor in the perception of those styles of music. The critics and tastemakers who declared them "dead" often ''were'' [[Ascended Fan]]s, after all, perhaps [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|overreacting to a style's overexposure]], [[Opinion Myopia|not necessarily fans of the style (or fans of a different style) to begin with]], and/or [[Sturgeon's Law|whining about the amount of below-average examples that inevitably rears its head as more and more people adopt that genre]]. |
* When you read the trope [[Dead Horse Music Genre]], you come to the realisation that: a.) practically anything and everything that ever got a lick of success anywhere in the world gets to be a DHG; b.) a lot of the styles mentioned as a DHG were competing against each other in the same pop culture space, and maybe were even ''conceived'' as an antidote or antithesis to another popular style; c.) if they were popular once, [[Popularity Polynomial|they may well become popular again]] with at least ''somebody'', at least if given a new lease on life, and d.) because the styles did become [[Deader Than Disco|popular to the point of overkill]], [[Hype Backlash]] and a certain amount of [[Fan Dumb]] will always be a factor in the perception of those styles of music. The critics and tastemakers who declared them "dead" often ''were'' [[Ascended Fan]]s, after all, perhaps [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|overreacting to a style's overexposure]], [[Opinion Myopia|not necessarily fans of the style (or fans of a different style) to begin with]], and/or [[Sturgeon's Law|whining about the amount of below-average examples that inevitably rears its head as more and more people adopt that genre]]. |
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