Troping your own fics

When I was troping In Darkness I Hide. I literally pulled up trope pages for my past works that had pages, trope pages for work from my friends, etc. and literally went down the list of tropes on each page and asked myself: do any of these fit my current story? If they did, I'd add it, but I made absolutely sure there was an example to show to justify the trope addition. Always have examples.

About Darkest Dungeon, Blazing Bright: The page looks ok, but some examples are ZCE with Word Cruft. Could you re-write those? These all need improvement:

• William the Houndmaster and his trusty dog Annabelle definitely qualifies. [plus it should be qualify, if anything]
• The Warrens is this in spades.
• Both Estelle and Joshua use it to deal with the horrors they witness.
• The Collector is definitely this.
• Reynauld speaks this way.

Have a look at page Zero-Context Example for more info.

• Noodle Incident: Estelle has killed somebody in the past, but she didn't have any other options at the time.
  • This doesn't sound like a noodle incident. That has to be something more obscure.

Thanks for the advice. I'll go retool some of them and remove the others.

For reference, I've done my own pages at Project Arashi and Full Metal Panic! Bonds. I did 90% of the work myself aside from a few contributors to FMP that I never knew about and my ex helping with Project Arashi. And some folk throwing in a few YMM Vs. The only thing there I'm responsible for myself was adding Ensemble Dark Horse on one of my characters that was notably becoming quite popular.

Is it safe to assume troping your own fics is far more common than I thought? In that case, I'll try to maintain my page on a regular basis (i.e. whenever I publish a new chapter).

I gather it is indeed common.

Phew. Been doing a lot of work on my own page this weekend, adding Characters, Shout Out, and Foreshadowing pages. Still needs more work though.

Edited by Berserker88 on Mar 3rd 2019 at 8:14:11 AM

So what you are saying is that it Needs Wiki Magic Love?

I would be flattered if someone made a page for one of my fics...

I'm of the same mind lol. Although I'd like to earn that privilege through actually finishing my fic (Or at least hitting the 100k mark) and polishing it up.

Reviving this thread to ask another question related.

What about creating a Creators page for yourself, assuming your works have trope pages? Is that a thing? I saw the Fanfic Authors page had launched, so was wondering if I was allowed to create a page for myself with The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan attached to it or if that wasn't permitted.

I think it should be fine as long as you don't touch the subjective opinion pieces/pages like YMMV/Awesome/Tearjerker/etc.

Another question: If a character from something you wrote makes an appearance in another fic, even a major one, you don't list that on the original character page, right? You would only mention that on the page for the other fic? Because this isn't the only character who has cameo'd in something else and it kinda seems like a relevancy issue.

Apologies for the potential Thread Necro, but what about indexing your own trope page? Is that something the original author should worry about, or should it be left to other Tropers?

Indexing is OK. We suffer far more commonly from its absence than from authors doing it.

In such a case, how does one go about indexing their own trope pages? I want to make certain I don't end up screwing things up.

You basically look at other fanfic pages similar to yours and see what common indexes they are listed on and basically go to those pages and edit a link back to the main page of your troped work in their listing following the format of that index page. BOOM! Done.

Hey, dudes. I made a tropes page for my fanfiction and I was wondering if any of you guys would perhaps like to check it out and maybe read the fanfic and add some YMMV items? I can't add them myself but I certainly intended to create a designated hero with the original fanfic and even in the more serious remake (the original trilogy was a troll-fic that varied in levels of trollishness) he could definitely be considered to be unlikable. It'd be interesting to hear you guys' opinion on the fic.

older thread, but there's a point the original question brings up i don't think was addressed - is there an etiquette on adding examples to tropes pages from your own fics? is it frowned upon? i always worried about doing it and being seen as egotistical or self-promoting, but on the other hand (to use an example i did) i don't think many people are going to the flaying alive page for fanfic material.

any thoughts on this?

I mean, if there are legit examples in your fanfic and you can back them up with those examples, I don't see harm in it.

I want to ask if it's redundant to list tropes on a fanfic page that were already in Canon, especially if the tropes play out the exact same way in both the fic and the original work?

In that case I'd simply note "As canon." and move on to the next trope.

That's a ZCE. This thread is discussing it, currently we're looking at "there's no need to bother mentioning it unless it's different from canon somehow."

44: Theoretically, crosswicking is not just permitted, but required.

Weirdly, I've never thought it odd to fill in my own fic trope pages, because otherwise no one would. What I have felt is a bit too self-aggrandizing is to go on my own and link my fic on the trope page. For some reason, I feel like I don't have the right to say my stuff is good enough to be represented on an actual trope page?