Solandra / Tropers

Hi! I'm just one of the many contributors here on TV Tropes. I'm an Aquarius, so don't be surprised if I go into a sudden period of inactivity after a heavy one of editing. I keep on vacillating in my interests—one week, I'll be crazy about manga, the next, I'll be tired of it and be more interested in riddles and optical illusions. Of course, somewhere in the next month, I'll be hankering for manga again.

I originally took the username Roseanne before it was pointed out that there was a TV show of the same name. Oopsies.

Most people who know me in real life would label me a Meganekko (if any of them read this site, which they unfortunately don't), but I'm more of a Cloud Cuckoolander deep down inside. I have a horribly selective memory that will remember entire quotes from books but not the author or character names!

Case in point: I remembered a book from my childhood being about a male character's experience in a labor camp, and also that there were complaints about there being no snow-ins so far (a snowstorm means no work assigned on that day due to escape attempts, see), and that the main character managed to smuggle a shard of metal (useful for cutting things) into the camp by hiding it in one of his mittens, made a point of picking the old-aged inspector over the young one, and was almost busted when the old inspector crushed the mitten not holding the shard (thankfully, at that point, the inspector was told to hurry it on already). Despite recalling all this in minute detail, I could not for the life of me remember the author or even the protagonist's name! (Happily, Wiki Magic did its work and some random tropers who read this identified this as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Did I mention how much I love TV Tropes?)

Additionally, I tend to get my story ideas from minor, unimportant scenes in books that just happen to tickle my fancy and send my imagination running off into less and less related tangents. Though I'm currently just trying to finish some of the half-finished fanfics lying on my hard disk and overcome my chronic Attention Deficit Creator Disorder.

I am also a Yaoi Fangirl who likes to believe that I can tell the difference between well-written and poorly-written Slash Fic. I dislike Natter and Complaining About Shows You Dont Like, but have been guilty of indulging in them quite a few times. Hey, I'm only human!

Finally, for the record, I'm a young nerd who just happens to be female.

Series TV Tropes ~~is guilty of corrupting me into~~ deserves to be worshipped for introducing me to:

Avatar The Last Airbender
Axis Powers Hetalia: My current obsession. Who'd have thought that such a cracktastic series would be such fertile ground for fanworks of every possible tone? Though I can't help but be amused at the most prominent Hetalia Entry Pimpers having a blatantly obvious slant toward America/England...okay, I guess I shouldn't complain as I'm a huge America/England fan myself and that's largely due to all the great America/England recs on the APH Fanfic Recommendations page, but it's a bit funny to see them promoted as a couple in s o m a n y a r t i c l e s (not that I haven't mentioned them on a few articles myself, but these are the ones inserted by someone other than me) when they're not even an Official Couple in-series and any other pairing with the same amount of subtext (including pairings from other series and the other Hetalia pairings) doesn't get one-eighth as much attention or support on this site. (Hell, even the sample strips linked to on the general Hetalia entry on Art Evolution feature the most Ho Yayish moments between them, which simply cannot be a coincidence.) Then again, I never thought I'd dare to get so thoroughly immersed in a fandom before Hetalia came along; maybe Hetalia's just that good at sucking in people who'd otherwise never touch a series like this?
Bridge Of Birds
El Goonish Shive
Friendly Hostility
Girl Genius
Good Omens and anything by Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, anyone?)
Gunnerkrigg Court
Mahou Sensei Negima
Rurouni Kenshin
Sailor Nothing
Shadow Of The Templar (created the main article, but was introduced to the series itself through references to it in some trope articles)

Pages I started (most of them taken from YKTTW):

Accidental Pervert
Am I Just a Toy to You?
And Then There Were None
And Zoidberg
Art Evolution
Beauty Equals Goodness — the cause of many a Broken Aesop.
Behind the Black
Belated Backstory
Big Brother Mentor
Bile Fascination — the reason why I actively seek out zero-star reviews on movie critique sites.
Blade Run
Blue Bishōnen Ghetto — Because we females like fanservice too.
Bookworm Adventures
The Call Knows Where You Live
Chekhovs Invisible Gun
Chobits
A Clockwork Orange
Corrupt Church
Cultural Translation
Embarrassing Rescue, after Lale's suggestion on the Unwanted Rescue discussion page.
Eye Tropes (and became embarrassed when I didn't know where to mark it up in)
Femme Fatale
Fictionary
Friendly Fireproof
Get A Hold Of Yourself Man
Girls' Love
Going Down with the Ship — Kudos to adam850 for coming up with a double entendre title (well, sort of).
Gravitation
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
The Grotesque
How To Become A Love Interest: The seed for this was planted in Heroes Want Red Heads Discussion. (Also my first Made Of Win!)
Hype Backlash — When the latest classic just doesn't live up to all the hype.
I Coulda Been a Contender!
Jane Eyre
Kimagure Orange Road
Look Both Ways
Love Hurts — "Is it better to love once than to never have loved at all?"
Love Martyr
Midair Bobbing
Morality Tropes — index page for Good Is Dumb, Evil Is Cool, Balance Between Good and Evil, etc.
More Expendable Than You
Never Got to Say Goodbye
Operation: Jealousy
Opposites Attract — index page for Odd Couple, Odd Friendship, Different as Night and Day, and Salt and Pepper.
Out-of-Clothes Experience — after it hung in YKTTW limbo for nearly two weeks.
Pair the Spares
Passing Judgment
Personal Space Invader
Plot Leveling
Pocket Protector
Portal Splat
Quality by Popular Vote
Race Tropes — yet another index page for Mighty Whitey, Scary Black Man, Asian Store-Owner, Token Minority, etc.
Rape Is Love
Rashomon
Revised Ending
Screw Destiny — Hell, yeah!
Seme and Uke, being the yaoi fangirl that I am.
Sexy Shirt Switch
Shadow Of The Templar
Split the She Is All Grown Up entry into Beautiful All Along (take off the glasses, shake out the hair, instant nerd-turned-beauty) and a new She Is All Grown Up (okay-looking childhood friend turned babe).
Shirtless Scene
Shrinking Violet
Skater Boy Syndrome
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Spirited Away
Standalone Episode
Stoic Spectacles
Talent Double
Tenchi Solution
Token Romance (Aesop: If you see a busty female in an action, adventure, or disaster film, she's 99.9% likely to become the hero's arm candy.)
Troper Tales for What Do You Mean Its Not Didactic and The Untwist
True Art Is Angsty
True Art Is Offensive
The Tyrant Falls In Love
Unwanted Rescue
Vindicated by History
Vocal Evolution
Waaaangst
Weasel Edit (Second Made Of Win!)
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
Who Wants to Live Forever?
Why Am I Ticking? — I did only the lead paragraph; other people added the examples.
Why Couldn't You Be Different?
Why Didnt You Just Say So
Wingding Eyes
A Wrinkle In Time

Other pages I significantly contributed to:

Added Alliterative Appeal
Boys' Love
Butterfly of Doom — Didn't start it or suggest it, but is the original source of the "frail, pretty, delicate-as-a-sheet-of-glass butterfly causing the world to turn inside out" line.
Even the Guys Want Him — Didn't start it, but replaced the confusing how-to entry with a basic description of the trope.
Nineteen Eighty Four — Expanded from a one-sentence entry into a multiple-paragraph one.
Stardust — Added an actual summary and more tropes.
Vertigo — Again, added a summary and listed some more tropes. Many series articles just Need More Love.
A good number of discussion pages and Troper Tales.

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