The guide was useful to me, anyway. The thing is, your guide is more focused on writing fanfiction. There are plenty of guides for writing out there, but not so much in the way of fanfiction. Admittedly most of the rules are the same, but it is sadly important to note "don't spell it Hermine", etc.
The topic I came here to bring up was the idea of Playing With a Trope. In particular, the naming thereof. On TVT's namespace, a page named PlayingWith.RedHerring makes a lot of sense textually. On our system of subpages, "Red Herring/Playing With" sounds strange. (Not to mention it ends with a preposition.) So I'm thinking about renaming the pages to have more of a concrete title.
Currently, "Meta Trope Info" redirects to "Playing With a Trope". So "metatrope" is the first thing to mind. But I'm not sure that was ever the right word. Playing with a Trope includes all of the things like "averted", "subverted", "inverted", "played straight". So I don't think those go above/beyond, nor do they constitute another level of tropiness. But I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of those words include the suffix "-vert", "turning". So I'm going to remember my O-chem and suggest/coin "paratrope" instead, as "para-" means "to the side of/opposed to".
Is "Paratrope" or "Metatrope" good, or do y'all have other ideas? Keep "Playing With"?
At least that works better than "orthotrope", and people who write these pages could be "paratropers"!
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The topic I came here to bring up was the idea of Playing With a Trope. In particular, the naming thereof. On TVT's namespace, a page named PlayingWith.RedHerring makes a lot of sense textually. On our system of subpages, "Red Herring/Playing With" sounds strange. (Not to mention it ends with a preposition.) So I'm thinking about renaming the pages to have more of a concrete title.
Currently, "Meta Trope Info" redirects to "Playing With a Trope". So "metatrope" is the first thing to mind. But I'm not sure that was ever the right word. Playing with a Trope includes all of the things like "averted", "subverted", "inverted", "played straight". So I don't think those go above/beyond, nor do they constitute another level of tropiness. But I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of those words include the suffix "-vert", "turning". So I'm going to remember my O-chem and suggest/coin "paratrope" instead, as "para-" means "to the side of/opposed to".
Is "Paratrope" or "Metatrope" good, or do y'all have other ideas? Keep "Playing With"?
At least that works better than "orthotrope", and people who write these pages could be "paratropers"!
-- ∇×V