In the Mary Elizabeth Counselman story "The Tree's Wife", a pregnant backwoods girl and her boyfriend are in the midst of a shotgun wedding when the boy is actually shot and killed. The preacher continues the wedding with a tree standing in for the dead bridegroom. The girl and their daughter relate to the tree as if it were the dead man, and it does things such as providing firewood and swinging the little girl.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tree%27s_Wife
I'm confused, why is this trope YMMV? It seems pretty unambiguous.
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I could argue it as having some serious Squick elements, such as the reaction I had when I heard about the woman in Seattle 'marrying' a building and (Brain Bleach time) tried VERY HARD not to think about how she would "consummate" the relationship... (Yes, I have a very filthy mind, but Even Perverts Have Standards...)
I'm seeing futurama examples with robots that have personalities and the ability to move, so aren't those robots animate? is that Trope Decay?
Shouldn't this trope discus CANON cargo ships? I love fanfic too, but Jesus Christ, if you're gonna include non-canonical ships there'll be literally no end to this crap. Seriously. Look at some of the retarded ships being listed. Many of them are clearly jokes, like the Draco x Goblet thing. Seriously? A freaking one-liner which by the way is even flat-out admitted to be an intentional warping of the original sentence (something about Draco banging the goblet on the table)?
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I agree 100%. I noticed this was a YMMV trope and was confused, but then I come in and saw that it was almost all fanfic stuff. I mean if we wanna keep this as fanficy nonsense there ought to be a page for the canon ones too. (even something as lax as Canon Cargo Ship)
Question: Does "do not pothole work titles" mean "do not pothole external links to the fan works mentioned" or "do not pothole links to the work's TV Tropes article"? It's rather ambiguous.
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I think it means "make the work title visible instead of just listing the ship and potholing it to the work page".
Lackadaisy seems to have some new Cargo ships popping up. The main one being Mordecai and his iron. Or Moron as it is known as now.
Is a Boomerang x Sokka x Sword One True Threesome Cargo Ship out there?
No Dragon Power
Were is Buzz x Jessie?
With the power of a dragon I can make up for my inability to spill.
Guys what about Trailblazer x Trashcan from Honkai: Star Rail?
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