So, I have nothing in common with a daddy's girl or a daddy's boy. I struggled to earn a bachelor's degree and I'm still struggling to find a career -- and a woman. By anon99957 — On Jul 28, 2010 My husband's ex-wife called me to let me know that their daughter "...
If you enjoy memes or have traveled around YouTube, chances are that you're heard of YouTube Poop. And while it's a common type of video, it's not particularly clear what a YouTube Poop actually is. Below, we explain YouTube Poop by looking at its history, some examples, common the...
In a system that is designed so that each character has strengths and weaknesses, minmaxing has the effect of choosing strengths that make your character very powerful while choosing "weaknesses" that are not really weaknesses because they do not prevent you from doing what you want to do. I...
It seems that lately a lot of our movies and television series are staggering under the load of even more lazy tropes and stock characters – and like the whacked-out Vietnam veteran trope, with even less connection to reality. It is true that there is a Vietnam, and there was a war ...
All readers are trained from a young age in picking up this kind of irony. The stand-out picture book example oft-cited by academics:Rosie’s Walk. Rosie’s Walk was a game changer for picture books. Blind Mistake,according to TV Tropes“is when a character makes some kind of error to...
Shuddering, slow bands of discordant (later, concordant) sustained notes, suddenly fore-fronted sounds yielding to complaining short scales, Bartokpizzicatosnaps, finally a series of soft glissandi: it’s all there in an amiable compendium of technical tropes common to your contemporary writers. Wil...
It’s the first X books Jeff has read sinceHOX/POXand so finds himself in the thick of a very rich fantasy setting far from the usual superhero tropes. Graeme gives Jeff (and you) more of an overview of the post-HOX/POXbooks, (both first and second wave in case you are intrigued)...
instagram, product placement deals are now common, as are the use of affiliate marketing links and sponsored coupon codes. popular youtuber sanders kennedy, who chronicles drama in the influencer world, told wired that a brand once offered him a couple thousand dollars to place a beverage on ...
mental health struggles and suicides are so prevalent in the music biz, and its because of the lengths artists must go to, just to remain relevant and employable. Country music has a lot of Evangelical Christian ideology, pandering to outdated, secular, tropes, ‘’traditional’’ heterosexual ...
Exceptthere are some tropes that are so badand also so hard to avoid. There are a few common ones that are cited as why isekai is a terrible genre. One is the overpowered hero trope. Often, the protagonist in an isekai series comes into their new world with abilities and strength that...