Fic tropes list version 1

[telophase]

Here's my preliminary cataloging of the fic tropes in rachelmanija's cool bits post. The categories are ... yuck, right now, as is my categorization, but when you're going through a list of over 500 elements, it's amazing how often you're confronted with something that is extrememly hard to decide if it's plot, character, dramatic imagery, sensation, or what. And for some reason I ended up slinging all the language stuff into 'sensation' when it doens't belong there at all. Hm. Thoughts and suggestions quite welcome.

http://www.sfolse.net/random/fic-tropes-1.html About 250K, because I did a simple Save As in Excel, rather than build the table myself. :D


Next logical step: add more of everything, then steal dragonscholar's generator code and make a Crack!Manga generator. *iz tempted*

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Eeee! So cool! I put up my own in a different post, by the way.

I think "writing" counts as a category, and I would also have categories for animals, fighting, food, clothing, bodies, and accessories, as all of those come up so often. Now you just need to combine the ones that got mentioned repeatedly, ie, I don't think "female assassins" and "cold female assassins" need separate categories. You could also do sub-types, ie, "Cold female assassins (4 votes); cold female assassins and the gentle men who love them (1 vote.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just saw yours.

Categories are slippery: one of the respondents told me that she meant horses specifically as characters, as in Black Beauty, rather than ... er, elements in the setting? - for want of a better word. Which is sort of why I put 'werewolves' in 'characters' as well - the thought that the werewolf in question would probably be treated as a character instead of some sort of background or setting element - Remus Lupin, as opposed to Fenrir Grayback, who is as of HP book 6 still mostly vague and backgroundy. Animals as background/setting would be more like the raptors in Hawkmistress, where they don't function as characters but are elements that support the characters and the actions. If that makes sense.

I've combined some things already; it's just hard to find them, especially when I've managed to sling them into two different categories. XD

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, wolves as the occasional howl heard at night beyond the campfire is a totally different element from a wolf companion.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

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Off home now, will ponder on the drive.