Unrelated to the fandomwank brouhaha, can someone explain what "female characters getting fridged" means for me please?
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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Morgana - Dec 16, 2009 2:13:46 pm PST #6405 of 10452
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
Dana - Dec 16, 2009 2:24:38 pm PST #6406 of 10452
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
It refers to female characters being killed in order to advance a male character's storyline. Usually to give him angst and stuff.
Morgana - Dec 16, 2009 2:45:49 pm PST #6407 of 10452
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
Thanks Dana. I had noticed that plot element overused way too often before, but I hadn't realized it has a handy title.
Consuela - Dec 16, 2009 8:47:35 pm PST #6408 of 10452
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I am occasionally entertained at how often these discussions in teh blogosphere end up using a link to TVTropes.com. And I remember being one of the first tropers.
Huh.
Dana - Dec 17, 2009 5:44:26 am PST #6409 of 10452
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I can't quite believe that the site is also the focus of a lot of the Victoria Bitter wank.
amych - Dec 17, 2009 12:28:38 pm PST #6410 of 10452
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I always feel the same way when tvtropes comes up -- even more so when it happens in real life (my ex-boss discovered the site the other day and a half a dozen people immediately twittered "see you in a few months!" and the like) (as did I, but also thought "hey, I was there before it was even a domain!")
P.M. Marc - Dec 17, 2009 12:36:02 pm PST #6411 of 10452
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I always feel kind of skeeved when it comes up.
(Hell, Sean and I, we were ADMINS in the first days! Ahahaha.)
amych - Dec 17, 2009 12:38:01 pm PST #6412 of 10452
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Well, yeah, that too. Mostly, it's a "Let me splain... no, is too much. Let me sum up... no, even that is no fucking way going to fit into a tweet."
P.M. Marc - Dec 17, 2009 1:02:29 pm PST #6413 of 10452
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Well, yeah, that too. Mostly, it's a "Let me splain... no, is too much. Let me sum up... no, even that is no fucking way going to fit into a tweet."
Too weird; didn't tweet? (tw;dt?)
JZ - Dec 17, 2009 1:07:41 pm PST #6414 of 10452
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I always feel kind of skeeved when it comes up.
Me too. And the one other board where I lurk regularly posts links to it all the time.