Heya, the name's Iz Powestri. My nom-de-tropé means Miserable Skeleton in Hebrew. This is ironic since I'm the happiest enby I know and very much alive (non-smoker, teetotaller, not-pot-head). Yup, this punk-hippie is as Straight Edge as the surface of a vinyl record. In my spare time I listen to Ian Dury, Cardiacs and Otway & Barrett, watch Digimon & Pokemon, and play the occasional video game. I love 90s Neon Industria and the noise of machinery. Don't even mention cable trays to me, I'll drool!! I also like walking around suburbia, preferably in warm rain and mixed weather.
Pete Atkin and Iz at the Pheasentry, 2nd July 2022
Oh yeah, TV Tropes is Fridging Brilliant
Contributions
The following pages were launched by me with subsequent help coming from others. Thanks guys!
Music
- Cardiacs
- John Otway
- Wild Willy Barrett
- Ferre Grignard
- Juan Mutant
- The Goodies
- Chas & Dave
- Ashton, Gardner & Dyke
- John Tabacco
Theatre
Video Games
Alicia L. Wright's VDBIF
- Vampires Don't Belong In Fairytales:
- Miss Prince:
Tropes relevant to Sheled Umlal
- Badass Normal: Not particularly physically strong but writes a fantastic lyric.
- Butt-Monkey (and sometimes Iron Butt-Monkey) before they got recognized as cool on their own merits.
- Darker and Edgier but less angry and confused.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- Die Urbain Diablo is an unofficial sequel to The Omen. It has a full cast of characters including Damon Spina, Damien's son. Lucifer has a big family over the few thousand years he's been conceiving.
- Keet. Has ADHD. Apart from that is quite the brightly sprite, overly optimistic, uses language as if a library had turned to plasma, and acutely animated to boot!
- Pun. Particularly fond of them, they use them even in the most serious way, although this may come out as word-play
Tropes relevant to ¢entriPetal Fugitive
- Based on a Dream: Their first lyric, Pokémon World, was heard in a dream they had as a kid during the height of their Pokémon fandom.
- Bowdlerise: Mental Crack got 17 fucks taken out of it but Looking Daggers, due to the nature of the song, was untouched.
- Chekhov's Hobby: Music 2000. They played around with it as a kid before writing what became "No Go Disco", "Horror, Paranormal, Erotic", "Chromatic Acid" and "Mental Crack". It was their first writing platform.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The losing side in "Battle Beaten" suffer one of these...
"Those enemies who had survived were heckled and duly hung"
- Dual Meaning Title: You may think that Takeaway, Love is all about a couple eating takeout in their flat on a sentimental Friday but you'd be only half right. Nyotaimori is only the flesh of it!!
- The couple are consummating their love which is based on takeaways and are asking "Do you want a Takeaway, Love?"
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- Lyrics. Specifically rhyme schemes when they were learning how to write songs. Also the last 3 are considerably more angry and potentially offensive than the rest of their output.
- Their first lyric; Pokémon World, doesn't rhyme. At all. It's more of a rap. It would be 7 years before Powestri wrote their next lyric.
- Their next, Looking Daggers, rhymes half of the time.
- Mental Crack is mostly straight but has some breaks from the rhyme scheme, often for the better.
- All the verses of Horror, Paranormal, Erotic rhyme the same but the pre-choruses have some differences.
- Music.
- Mental Crack and Chromatic Acid. They don't write atonal music any more.
- Lyrics. Specifically rhyme schemes when they were learning how to write songs. Also the last 3 are considerably more angry and potentially offensive than the rest of their output.
- Fridge Brilliance
- Arabian Heights. Down has two meanings, you may not get the depressed one instantly.
- Looking Daggers' title. It's DAGgers!! DAG is the chord sequence for the verse.
- The Goldenage: "I saw Midas growing old/It was the golden age". Think about that one.
- Being a Pungeon Master and wordsmith, it's very likely that a lyric will play on your mind.
- Lighter and Softer: Nice To Know You're My Friend. Their first positive bit of writing, it's in a constantly major key for a change.
- All of the tracks on "The Forces Which Keep Us Together". That whole EP is about unity whereas the earlier stuff was about alienation, loneliness and fear.
- Genre Roulette: punk, reggae, funk, folk, rap, jazz ballads and songs which don't fit...
- ...which make for a Genre-Busting collection.
- Homage
- Chromatic Acid to Horror Rock by The Jon Entwistle Band's "Music from Van-Pires"
- Mental Crack to the style of Mindless Self Indulgence
- Looking Daggers to Hey Hey Take Me Away by Ian Dury & The Blockheads
- Sum Of All Fears to Joe Cartoon's Joe Mama
- Rocket Of Persistence to Fokker Wolfe by Eddie Stanton
- Dread In Cortex to Dream In Colour by Wild Willy Barrett
- Takeaway, Love to Honeysuckle Highway by Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Life Is A Minestrone by 10cc
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: The Anger Angel
"I've been angry: a jerk's face on both of mine..."
- Lucky Charms Title: The ¢PF logo:
- The "C" is the symbol for the American currency: the cent (¢)
- The "P" is a question mark truncated so that the point is removed (?)
- The "F" is non-standard. It's a mix of the lowercase and uppercase (F/f)
- Lyrical Dissonance: Sum of All Fears
- Mohs Scale Of Lyrical Hardness: 1 to 11. Nice To Know You're My Friend as a 1 and Looking Daggers as an 11
- Non-Appearing Title: Looking Daggers. Sum of All Fears. Ride the Camwheel, Simon. F-Roundabout. Travel to Gravel. Anger Angel.
- A strange example by design is Horror, Paranormal, Erotic, there is half a Title Drop. It's more a twisted Something Song.
- Rearrange the Song
- No Go Disco is Go Disco with lyrics and definitive chords
- Unplug The War/Artificial Bass got lyrics written to it and became "Horror, Paranormal, Erotic"
- Fokker Wolfe by Eddie Stanton inspired Rocket Of Persistence which then further inspired Kong (Rock On)
- "The Notes Song" had a structuring, some chords and lyrics written to fit the melody, and was made the sequel of Rastaman. It was subsequently called Dub Rest You Reggae Rastaman
- My Name Is Marvin is basically a rewrite of Hello Maria (The Android)
- Battle Beaten is a direct descendant of Bus Shelter Reggae by Wild Willy Barrett
- Sequel Gap. Pokémon World + Looking Daggers. Somewhat subverted by their Music 2000 experiments in 2006
- Suspiciously Similar Song: Hello Maria and My Name Is Marvin. This is justified in that Maria is Marvin's android girlfriend.
- Uncommon Time: The middle 8 ("I used to be a fishie...") of Chromatic Acid is in 5/4. This is an interesting example since it was written on Music 2000 which only measures 4/4. It can be explained like this: 4-1/3-2/2-3/1-4; where each block (divided using forward slahes) contains remainders (connected using hyphens). You essentially fit 4 bars of 5/4 into 5 bars of 4/4. Needless to say, it took them a bit of time; composing was the easy bit. This was before they'd come into contact with Cardiacs and Pronk.
- Write Who You Know: Several of their lyrics are about people close to them or stuff they've read. Only a handful are about them personally.
Tropes relating to Vampires Don't Belong In Filk
- Ear Worm: Try and get the chorus of TvS On Television out of your head
- Filk Song: The album and its songs are based on Alicia L. Wright's Vampires Dont Belong In Fairytales characters and their universe
- Funk: TvS On Television. It's a pop song with a whole ton of swing and chicken scratch guitar
- Genre Roulette:
- Yuki Ondo goes from funk in the verses, rap in the prechoruses, downtempo in the choruses and finishes off with reggae in the coda
- Stranded In Calypso goes from mid-tempo punk in the verses to a kind of twisted reggae in the chorus
- Homage:
- The coda of Yuki Ondo is based on the end of "Lullaby For Francies"
- Stranded In Calypso to early songs by The Police however the bassline in the chorus is inspired by Ray Shulman's on "Just The Same"
- Metal: Fight For The Claws
- Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: Several songs mix Iz' tastes in music often with synergetic results
- Ondo: Yuki Ondo. Sort of. With varying amounts of rap, reggae, funk and downtempo, it keeps the required swing parameter
- Recycled Premise: Stranded In Calypso was based on an earlier idea for a song called "Stranded In America" written around the Icelandic volcanic eruptions
- Reggae: The chorus of Stranded In Calypso
- Rock: Valkyrie Worrier
- Throw It In!: During the "four guitars" bit at the end of Yuki Ondo there's a guitar solo which was improvised on the spot
- Unreliable Narrator:
- TvS On Television is told as if from Fairyland's media point of view. No institution like that is present in-canon and the closest is the rumours from the mouths of nobility, courtiers and townsfolk
- The Ballad Of The Bard Of The Bawdy is told from the position of a legend told over many generations
- Writing by the Seat of Your Pants:
- The "four guitars" bit at the end of Yuki Ondo. The vamps were arranged within minutes of recording and each other
- The coda at the end of TvS On Television
Tropes relating to The Egoni
L-R: Queshead, Mabsy and Pi
- Late 2005: Pi. Resentful, endless work ethic and altruistic to the core. OCD
- Nov 2007: Mabsy. Angry and constantly seeking confrontation when he can. Tourettes.
- Jan 2010: Queshead. Endless dreamer and cheery beyond belief. ADHD
- Sep 2021: iZ the Egoni. Identity seeker and amenity sneaker. BPD
Goofin' off
- Author Avatar: Although all three represent different parts of their personality, it's Queshead Powestri has got the most in common with and what with them looking more like a typical stick-figure.
- Bishōnen: Queshead is very good-looking by stick figure standards.
- Bi The Way: In contrast to Mabsy and Pi, Queshead is the flirtatious dandy.
- Character Development: Pi used to have an eye but Mabsy scarred her. Her outward appearance wasn't the only thing that changed; she became even more resentful as a result.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Queshead. Often wonders "what would happen...", etc.
- Deadpan Snarker: Mabsy. (Just look at the image!) Snarks off at Pi and occasionally Queshead when he's feeling passively aggressive.
- Expy: Pi of π. She was born in a maths lesson so this is hardly surprising.
- Foil: Mabsy and Pi are chalk and cheese. They're both incredibly driven but in different ways. Mabsy will get angry to achieve an instant result whereas Pi is more likely to work at the solution without making a noise. The both of them are also the foil to Queshead who is the social and carefree one.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble
- Sanguine: Queshead (eccentric jolly)
- Choleric: Mabsy (their angry folly)
- Melancholic: Pi (the melancholy)
- Phlegmatic: iZ the Egoni
- Freudian Trio
- Ego: Queshead
- Id: Mabsy
- Superego: Pi
- Gentle Giant: Pi is a very large number but wouldn't hurt anyone.
- It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": Queshead doesn't mind but their name is phoneticised as KES-hed.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mabsy to Pi, who he actually cares about immensely, but is pretty neutral to Queshead.
- Meaningful Name
- Pi was born on the pages of a maths book whilst studying geometry.
- Mabsy started off as "Modern Art Boy" and ended with an "-sy" suffixed on.
- Queshead: Question mark head
- Nice Guy: Queshead. Pi when she's not being a scarred emo.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Queshead, Mabsy and Pi.
- The Perfectionist: Pi likes to do things through repetition.
- Power Trio
- Queshead: The mage of the ¢PF logo. They wield the staff.
- Mabsy: The gunman of the ¢PF logo. He holds the rifle.
- Pi: The soldier of the ¢PF logo. She wears the helmet.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Mabsy and Pi, respectively.
- Three Stick Band
- Queshead: The Hero / The Leader
- Mabsy: Anti-Hero / The Lancer
- Pi: The Big Guy / The Smart Guy
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