'Retroactive' on TVTropes!
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loopy777Remember when I was called out on TVTropes as one of the greatest ATLA fanfic'ers? Well, my troper fan (Agogobell) has been active again. Now, Retroactive has a page on TVTropes. Granted, it's not much more than a placeholder, but I'm not about to let a whole page devoted to a work of mine languish in obscurity. By the time you read this, I'll probably have added it to the Fanfic index page, and maybe even completed a larger description of the story. I'm going to add as many tropes as I can, but I'm not all that experienced with troping, so hopefully some other people will make their own additions.
This leaves me with a question, though. How much of Retroactive's story is a spoiler? Should I consider anything after the first big twist on Kyoshi Island a spoiler? Or only answers to the mysteries set up by that twist, and subsequent major twists? I'm leaning towards the latter, putting a warning up in the description that going into the story completely cold is the intended method of reading, and the descriptions of the tropes that follow are going to assume that the reader is already familiar with the basic premise as established by the "Faces, Old and New" chapter.
I'd protest that Retroactive probably isn't good or notable enough to get a TVTropes page, but it's definitely a fairly unique effort in ATLA fanfic, and 'How I Became Yours' has a page on that site, so as long as we're promoting the worst the fandom has to offer, why not also acknowledge when one of our own displays a little ambition, eh?
Now I've set myself up to earn a TVTropes page for every single multi-chapter story into which I actually put planning effort. (Note: I create the Mai's Ramblings page myself for fun.) Hopefully I won't screw up my clean sweep at some point in the future. On that note, I should probably bury the idea for that "Sokka and Azula fight Vampire Kyoshi Warriors during a Zombie Apocalypse" story before I embarrass myself.
This leaves me with a question, though. How much of Retroactive's story is a spoiler? Should I consider anything after the first big twist on Kyoshi Island a spoiler? Or only answers to the mysteries set up by that twist, and subsequent major twists? I'm leaning towards the latter, putting a warning up in the description that going into the story completely cold is the intended method of reading, and the descriptions of the tropes that follow are going to assume that the reader is already familiar with the basic premise as established by the "Faces, Old and New" chapter.
I'd protest that Retroactive probably isn't good or notable enough to get a TVTropes page, but it's definitely a fairly unique effort in ATLA fanfic, and 'How I Became Yours' has a page on that site, so as long as we're promoting the worst the fandom has to offer, why not also acknowledge when one of our own displays a little ambition, eh?
Now I've set myself up to earn a TVTropes page for every single multi-chapter story into which I actually put planning effort. (Note: I create the Mai's Ramblings page myself for fun.) Hopefully I won't screw up my clean sweep at some point in the future. On that note, I should probably bury the idea for that "Sokka and Azula fight Vampire Kyoshi Warriors during a Zombie Apocalypse" story before I embarrass myself.
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Date: 2013-10-25 02:46 pm (UTC)Should I consider anything after the first big twist on Kyoshi Island a spoiler?
I think the twist and everything after it should be a spoiler, but then again that's most of the story since a Big Twist comes so early in it. A conundrum!
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Date: 2013-10-25 11:44 pm (UTC)"What's it about?"
"Uh... Az- Suki goes on an adventure. Azula is involved. They're trying to find... something important. The romance is... a love triangle? ...look, just read the first three chapters and see if you're interested. It won't kill you, and you watch too much TV anyway."