I think in tropes sometimes, and in conversation has yelled out "Fridge Logic!" and received stares. Also, I should be working on homework that has to be done in the next four hours. And it's about seven hours worth.

I never did finish that paper. I also got up at two in the morning just to check something.

Proof that This Troper's life is now completely ruined: She had her first dream with TV Tropes. And probably not the last. She was reading a page for Incredibly Cute Mustache, and there was a whole bunch of entries for short Russian animated films, such as {{Cheburashka}} (which actually exists, and no one on the show has anything ''close'' to a cute mustache), Candy (which doesn't), a show about talking blobs of candy - again, no one has a mustache, and another one about multi-colored rocket ships.

I also had a dream about the WildMassGuessing section.

This troper often struggles to not use wiki words in essays and school papers.

Same with this troper. Not only is he trying not to use wiki words in his essay, but is procrastinating with the wiki.

This Troper has a mantra he has sticky-noted to monitor; Your English Teachers Are Not Tropers.

...I may have to use that now.

Ditto here. This Troper was typing her Heart of Darkness paper and realized that she had just written "This trope is deconstructed by...".

This troper has a bad habit of using tropes in polite conversation to relatives, fellow students, ect.

This Troper is starting to ''think'' in wiki words...

This troper now wishes life was a computer. Searching for a word in a book? Ctrl+F! Screwed up in an exam? Ctrl+Z! Casual conversation? Bold, italic, crossed, underlines, words and links to ThisVeryWiki and TheOtherWiki.

This troper came ''this'' close to using the word "flanderization" in a college paper before realizing that his professor would have no idea what he's talking about.

This troper actually ''did'' use "narm" in a Scrabble tournament. Thankfully, no one questioned my doing so.

Show of hands: How many of you followed a link to this site, only to still be clicking away nonstop for the next few months?

Another show of hands; how many got detentions for troping when you should've been listening to the teacher?

''*raises hand quietly*''

If everyone who did have this happen to them posted about it here, the page would explode.

Why don't you go look at that list of contributors?

This Troper raises hand. This site ''has'' ruined my life. Girlfriend? Forget it, TvTropes. Life? Forget it, TvTropes. Food? Forget it, TvTropes.

[Raises Hand]. I followed a link from GameFAQs, read the article, and decided to click a link (read: stuck my head in a rabbit hole), then another, then another, then another. Then I signed up. Then I made Tv Tropes my home page. I now bring my laptop to class with me and Trope while listening to lectures (I've actually came up with a ton of edits from Psychology). I also identify various tropes I see in my life.

Whoa, that's the same way I got here!

This troper came here from Cracked about five months ago. He has not left since.

You can go about a week tops before someone on Halolz links you to TV Tropes.

This troper got stuck here after researching ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. I was looking for a script of the audience participation lines and found TVTropes instead... my life has never been the same...

This troper is confused as how he got here, if it was from the Less Than Jack forum after clicking the link for MisattributedSong or if he came because he was searching for some idiot named Josué Yrión and got here because someone exemplified him in a trope.

For me, I was never really addicted to TV Tropes. Sure I enjoyed viewing the pages, reading the articles, adding a trope here and there and creating a few of my own pages, as well as referencing them occasionally in an informal conversation. Then, one day, the Edit Page suggests the fun idea to go join TV Tropes Forums page. And let me tell you laconically: if TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, the TV Tropes Forum Will Prove You Never Had One To Begin With. Because in the forums, trope knowledge and article references aren't a common instance there. No it's a ''requirement''. And the worst part- it's so damn addictive. Plus, because the page never announces new updates, it means I'm there constantly checking the forum page every 5 minutes. So yeah, thanks a lot TV Tropes Forums! You managed to suck whatever life I had left and obliterate it into smithereens. TakeItToTheForums my ass.

This troper can't read black, sans-serif text on a white background without hallucinating random dark blue links that aren't there thanks to this site.

I ran into a pole on my walk to school this morning. Why? Because I was engrossed in a TV Tropes entry on my iPod Touch.

Same poster: Every morning I open two or three tabs of TV Tropes on my iTouch to last me through school. Come lunchtime I've completely forgotten my social life and ignore all my friends asking "What are you reading???"

Also, today it was raining in the morning and after school I was walking home, reading a TV Tropes article (on my iPod again), and, not looking where I was walking, slipped and fell in a muddy puddle.

This guy apparently.

My friend showed me this site and I can't help but noticing all kinds of tropes in my favorite video games. Damn him.

And my favorite cartoons. I think to myself "I need to enter that into TV Tropes" and then I plan out what I will say. Then I pull my hair out.

And This Troper, with Webcomics. She has literally 20-something tabs of webcomic pages open awaiting classification.

When I first found TV Tropes, I literally spent about twelve-to-fourteen hours doing NOTHING but reading through it.

Also, being a soulbonder, the videogame section of the uncanny valley page makes for a lot of unease and disbelief for me.

During an essay in English class about archetypes, this troper wrote that some character type had been averted. The teacher left a note saying "Nice try."

It is 1:30AM, and I have a paper due tomorrow. Naturally, I am here.

Fuck, me too, except it's 2:13AM, and that 'paper' is actually two essays for my mid-term in college....

Thirded. There's a blank paper on my desk that's been there for 3 hours.

Forthed. It's 1 am and I have to get up for work in... oh shit. I have to get up at 3:30. G'night folks!

GO! Save yourself!!!

Fifthed. Not only is my paper due tomorrow, but I actually considered citing the DeadpanSnarker page for a source.

Sixthed. Posing a book report that I should be finishing in about three hours. Still have... seven pages to go...

Seventhed. I have a 1 1/2 hour Psychology exam at 9:00 tomorrow morning, and I've been on here for about 5 hours now...

Hey I'm number eight! Biggest project of Junuir year. Due at 7:45 am tomorrow. It is only 10:53 now, but I've been in front of the computer for 9 hours now. So obviously I'm here posting my thoughts...

Ninthed - I have a two page essay due yesterday, still haven't started due to TvTropes

Can I have my wedding on TVTropes? Not that I'm getting married, but still.

This Troper will probably ''die'' on TV Tropes.

There needs to be a trope concerning that it causes you to view TV differently. I'm showing concerns about people on TV Tropes reacting negatively to a story I'm writing, and I'm seeing Idiot Balls in {{Series/Heroes}} where I shouldn't.

I was fortunate. I was able to watch Watchmen, list all the tropes i saw, identify all the moments in which the narrative became a little forced, and still liked the movie (i still do).

Also, the time i spend in tvtropes have reduced over the time to a razonable extent.

This troper wrote this entry on LiveJournal. Send help.

I feel (very) slightly ashamed over the fact that I clicked every single of those potholes.

I glimpsed this site a couple times from irregular webcomic. Eventually, I read a page. One year later, I'm still here.

Seconded

Third

I just spend three-and-a-half hours writing up an article for United 93 after discovering that there was no such article to be found. And then came here to brag about my gross mis-management of time. It's now 3:30 in the morning, and I have class in six hours. It was WorthIt.

@/{{Excel-2009}}. It's finally happened. On 2 November 2009, my sister walked in on me and said "What's with you and that site?"

This site has taken over my life! Every Lent I give it up, and forty days later, it's back to troping as usual! HELP!! ~{{@/Lale}}

@/{{Miso}} over here has a small set of fan fictions she's been ever-so-lovingly writing for months. She uses several tropes as springboards, to the point that if you shoved all the fics into a Trope page, they'd take up quite a bit of space.

I've been sitting here for eight hours. I can't stop. Please, someone, help me. I currently have over 100 tabs open, and I can't bring myself to get up and go to bed until I finish reading them. Yet I tend to find something new and interesting each tab. I thought this would stop, given that I've been here for about four years, but I find myself reading more than I did when I first got drawn in. Gah!

Ugh, seconded. One time I opened so many tabs my browser crashed.

Same thing happened to me, multiple times

TV Tropes has caused me to start troping all my creative input into my assignments. For instance, I started writing a very thin plot for a basic computer game I have been programming. I started troping all parts of it. And working on my UNIX assignment, I have been programming a security login system, with username and password. The password? {{The Password Is Always Swordfish}}

TV Tropes was mention in this troper's school newspaper as a great way to procrastinate from schoolwork.

I regularly hang out on the Cartoons & Animation board on GameFAQs (or used to) and was always seeing links to a site called "TV Tropes". One day I decided to see what it was and followed the link. After reading a bit I saw an interesting looking link to another page, so I clicked it. I'm sure you all know where this story is going. To sum it up, I kept exploring and eventually allowed a part of my soul to be consumed by the site (which we all know is the price you must pay to become a troper).

Something similar happened to me. I was making a criticism on sequels in general, when another guy mentioned this site, but warned me of staying too long here... Obviously, I didn't listen. WHYYYY????

It all started out with a Google search for Welkin Weasels...And now I get on this website EVERY TIME I GET ON THE COMPUTER!!! WHY?!? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOUR SITE SO GOSH DARN ADDICTING?!?!?!?

This troper has never had forty-three pages of tvtropes open at one time and has never spent seven hours exploring the site.

This troper has this site as one of her homepages. So, every time she opens Explorer, she has YouTube, Yahoo, GaiaOnline, and TvTropes.

This troper spent a few classes reading tvtropes on his laptop. As a result, he got a 11% in a Physics test, where he used to get AT LEAST 50%.

This troper has had to install a Firefox add-on that organises his tabs in a tree pattern just so I can follow a train of thought on this site. Sixty-plus tabs no longer scare me.

Please post the site you can get that addon from!!!!!

I found it. URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890/.

I've found the above link to be ''extremely'' useful. Thanks!

I stumbled unto this site by accident. I've been logged on ever since. Damn you, TvTropes! '''DAMN YOU TO HELL!'''

Thanks to the miracle of TVTropes, my college assignments are always late, my exam revision is inadequate, and I've stopped doing a lot of things I used to enjoy, like going to the gym.

While watching ''{{Film/Avatar}}'' in the theater, I burst out laughing when they actually called the mineral they were mining "{{Unobtainium}}," much to the puzzlement of my fellow moviegoers.

Avatar is perhaps the best example of this. According to the "Similar Stories, References" tab on that page, this movie will heavily test how much your entertainment life was "changed" when viewing TVTropes and/or taking a Media or Film studies course. Judging on why such a tab exists for this title, it seems like a lot of tropers here failed the test.

I tried using {{PotHole}}s in RealLife and succeed in doing it.

And I've completely failed at same. My sense of humor relies heavily on understatement and misdirection, and potholes were a revelation to me, what with the ability to say two things at once. Now verbal conversation feels limited in comparison.

This troper blames xkcd. In one example, after seeing ''2012'', I tried to explain to my brother about RedemptionEqualsDeath.

Well, you ''were'' warned. Actually, for This Troper, it was the opposite: she found {{xkcd}} through TvTropes.

Ok, first it has to be known that Mysterious Mister Imperial}} This Troper goes to a university that offers a course called "The Music of the Lord of the Rings". The instructor claimed that Villains don't get very good songs; I countered with {{Villain Song}}, and sent her a link. Have not yet heard back from her as to whether or not her life is ruined. I also presented a link to my philosophy professor, {{Card Carrying Villain}} as a counter to Plato. He seems quite happy, for now. I will endeavor to keep the Hivemind posted on their conversion into {{One of Us}}.

Subverted. It barely affects me because I already spent all day doing nothing on the web, so sometimes I link to this site, forgetting what it does to people. It's nice for me but I think I might accidentally cause TV Tropes to consume the internet.

Subverted by This Troper. I am the only Troper amongst my group of diversely nerdy friends and will often quote Trope Names when we encounter them while watching TV/videogames. It usually gets a good laugh.

Today my mom was watching a movie I wasn't paying attention to at all, the few times I did I succesfully predicted (1) A trap (2) A flashback and (3) A little girl getting wounded. My mom kept asking me if I had seen the movie before! It was fun and nerdy at the same time.

This Troper just submitted a short paper about a movie/novel to his professor riddled with TV tropes links.

This Troper HAS to drop tropes in her daily conversation now, like {{Narm}}, {{Squick}}, {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, etc. I mostly get blank stares. Still, staying up until 3:00 on a school night because I couldn't pull myself away can't be too bad for me, can it? (sheepish grin) And I believe I'm slowly turning my best friend into a Troper as well; she now references {{The Woobie}} on a regular basis when we discuss various TV shows.

This troper once spent 2-3 hours ''straight'' on TV Tropes reading a bunch of random articles cause he couldn't stop finding more to read that got him interested. Also does not help that he now thinks in terms of tropes like FanDumb.

This troper has started using trope names in school things to explain his point.

After avoiding using TV Tropes term on formal conversation, this troper finally gave up and exactly wrote Chekhov's Gun and {{Mood Whiplash}} on her exam when asked to describe Anton Chekhov's play and Epic Theatre. This troper does worry whether the lecturer understands it or not.

This Troper has been on TVTropes for the past 3 hours. She is writing a story and constantly thinks of what Tropes are in this story. She also applies Tropes to real life situations...

This Troper ''thinks'' in tropes now. I'll be thinking of something and I'll get the impression that hotlinks are showing up in my {{Inner Monologue}}. It starting to scare me. I've begun using tropes to descibe things too. Like the fact that I'm the {{Pollyanna}}.

This tropes has meaning to do the laundry for the past hour and a half. But tvtropes just. Won't. Release. Her.

This troper has used several trope names in school reports, including MagnificentBastard (but censored), {{Bowdlerize}}, {{Disneyfication}}, ChekhovsGun, AIIsACrapshoot, and more.

I have often used the term "This Troper" in conversation when refering to myself.

ThirdPersonPerson!

This troper is a borderline NightmareFetishist. Operative word being borderline. Usually, I would just creep myself out with subliminal advertising, weird music, creepy anime, etc. Then I found this site. Remember how I said I'm a BORDERLINE NightmareFetishist? Yeah. I will ''never sleep again''. Also, I'm always on here. But I was on the computer all day before this website, so it's not much of a difference. If anything it's just ruined my vocabulary.

This Troper started watching DS9 again. Now, having read ''so much'' TVTropes, I now find the exposition and AsYouKnow ''utterly'' frustrating. Most recent example? "If we remove the Dax symbiont, Jadzia will die!" in front of Jadiza, Sisko, Bashier and the Chief of the Symbiosis Commission - i.e., the four people in the galaxy who ''don't'' need this point explaining.

Apart from consequently thinking in tropes and trope names when dealing with media, I would like to use Pot Holes in everything I write to make clear what I mean or just for fun.

This troper now spends more time ''troping her own work'' than actually working on it.

Same. This troper looks forward to the day when she finally posts her FanFiction... so she can write a page for it.

This troper and his brother point out things like {{Narm}} or CMOAs when watching things.

Several tropes have slithered their way into my everyday vocabulary and have even replaced some words. Whenever I want to say Antagonist, the trope BigBad comes out instead.

This troper is always applying to movies that she watches in film class, and then checks this wiki after to see if the movies under that trope.

This troper is now more interested in tropes than she is in actual fiction. Oy vey.

This troper was part of a focus group for a movie I am legally obliged not to talk about. Either way, when asked certain questions, I responded with a long odyssey about FridgeLogic and the abuse of certain tropes to the extent that they ''were'' bad. They responded with facepalms and groans. It appears that Hollywood does indeed take note of us.

This troper keeps thinking of ways to add on to specific tropes.

What do you mean, "will?" It already HAS!

Sorry, that's a different department.

I can't even remember what brought me here, all I know is I can't stop editing! HELP!!!

I keep forgetting that Word is not this site, and hence I have been known to randomly capitalise words that shouldn't be capitalised and not leave spaces between those words. That's right. I'm starting to think phrases like GirlOnGirlIsHot is all one word.

This editor is a subversion of this trope. He is used to working on different tasks at the same time, so it isn't usually a problem. He will simply switch off the computer when he has more important things to do.

The same Italian troper that told his tale in the Awesomeness By Analysis page has also thrown another bait the same way (that is, Wiki Answers). More tropers to come... just as planned.

This troper now has TV Tropes as his home page. And when I typed BlatantLies into the search bar with my sister watching and she asked what it was, I responded "ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin".

Aside from putting names to conventions I was already aware of(and a very very large number I wasn't) Tv Tropes has done little to ruin the life of Anaheyla. It is a rare day when I find myself looking at a work as merely the sum of its parts instead of viewing it as a whole. In fact, I often find myself annoyed by people whose lives ''were'' ruined by TvTropes as their critical views of a series will just ruin the fun for everyone. The biggest impact this place has had on me, in fact, was to expand my (admittedly lacking) knowledge of pop culture.

I find it impossible not to think about what tropes I might find on the page for a work I'm reading/watching and extremely difficult to resist checking before I've finished it. It's even more difficlt when waiting for the U.K to catch up with America.

You know you're addicted to TV Tropes when you're singing 'The Cave' by Mumford and Sons like so: #QUOTE#'''Me:''' And I will hold up hope / and I will let you trope / on the n...wait, what?! What did I say?! Oh, son of a lemon.

Tv Tropes has also caused me - same troper here to call people lemons and make up inventive swears (ever yelled "son of Voldemort's left nipple!!" in public? Well, if you thought that would get you stared at, ItGotWorse when I fell over and said "oh, a green vuvuzela and a pineapple stick!!" in frustration. Cue a '''very''' awkward silence, in which someone asked if I was from a mental hospital in Africa. BigNo occurred and several people walked away feeling light-hearted knowing that there was someone out there who was weirder than them)

Seriously, I don't even remember how I got here. All I know is that now I use tropes in casual conversation and as recommend it as a resource for anybody writing anything. I've addicted several people to this place and now I can't seem to stop looking for tropes in my life. Finally I can't quite enjoy movies the way I used to. I enjoy them differently, not more or less. It's just that now I make a game out of all the tropes I can spot.

Made me realise most fanworks are much worse than I could ever imagine. Upside, got to know {{Rule34}} a [[strike:little]] lot better (why isn't there a HighOctaneFetishFuel entry?) but also noticed there's a Rule 35, almost anything kinky can generate a {{Squick}} response. Wusses.

The "go on, have fun!" at the bottom of the main page is really, really ominous.

Oddly averted by my brother, who laughs at some of the punny trope names and spends a few minutes here or there on works pages, but he has not even shown signs of succumbing. Played straight with me, of course.

Pfft. Not This Troper! TvTropes has not ruined my life. I can say without a doubt that I'm perfectly fine. I am capable of leaving the site and do not spend hours here that I could spend doing something else. I am fine, honest...it's just a website, right? I am fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. ''I'm fine...'' : On a more [[SincerityMode serious note, because of this site, specifically certain articles, I've noticed things about various fictional works that I wouldn't have noticed before. Sometimes this is a good thing because now I notice things I didn't before, but sometimes it's really freaky! Not to mention, like some others, I can't even go on the internet without coming here at least for a few minutes, I'm so obsessed...]] ... I'm fine. ''I'm fiiiinnneeee...''

I've been going to TV Tropes for just about two months now. After a month of being here, I had to make an account. This week I've started noticing that words and phrases such as "{{anvilicious}}", "{{nakama}}", "{{crowning moment of awesome}}", and "{{high octane nightmare fuel}}" have been sneaking their way into at least my internal vocabulary. And I haven't been able to get more than 3 hours' sleep in about a month and a half, thanks to TV Tropes. Oh, and I'm typing this out while I'm at my desk at work while on my lunch break. TV Tropes has officially ruined my life.

This troper was introduced to TvTropes on a forum that she once frequented heavily. She only stopped because of TvTropes. This troper has occasionally found herself with anywhere between 4 to 18 tabs open at any one time. Any link that leads off the site will be opened in a new tab and closed as soon as it's served it's purpose. There may be ''one'' tab dedicated to YouTube for music, but everything else is TvTropes. She's even cited TvTropes as a source for a paper once. She's also already ensnared a few of her friends into the same trap. How many people will she take down with her next time?

This troper was, like the above troper, introduced to this site through a forum that I frequent. That was two years ago. I'm still here. I've cited TV Tropes in several high school papers, I've had at the most 250 tabs open in Safari at one point all from TV Tropes (the extra RAM in my computer helped ease the tremendous load, but it still took a full two minutes to kill the program), and Tropology has permeated my standard speaking habits. It's bookmarked pretty high up on my list of bookmarks, and many pages in my history will read something from this site. And that's only at home.

This troper has a hard time enjoying science fiction anymore on account of becoming familiar with three tropes: ScienceMarchesOn, TechnologyMarchesOn, and {{Zeerust}}. And not just old sci-fi, either, but ''new'' sci-fi as well; I'm always thinking "Sure, it looks sleek and futuristic ''now'', but in ten years? It will look just as outdated as the stuff it purports to be old."

This troper was considered a prodigy before learning about this page. Thanks to my former intelligence I can barely pass the subjects in college now.

This troper can't read a book without checking TVtropes every day to see what tropes are in it. Unless I do that, I can't enjoy any book.

I have spent countless nights browsing tv tropes. All night long. Straight. The most tabs I've had open was 195 and it made my browser lag horrendously. I've even gone to tv tropes while at school. Needless to say, I didn't get much research done.

This troper was about to ask someone out... until the Romance Tropes suggested that he shouldn't. Dammit.

This troper has been on it for three years and there is no more space for new memories - it's all taken up with TV Tropes entries. Consequently, I now directly modify the URL because it's faster to remember the trope name than click the link... but have the "here/now" memory of a fruit fly. Oh yeah, and my first instinct upon finding something new is seeing if there's a trope page for it. [--Help.--]

And recently I was called outside by a bouncer because some git blamed me for smashing a glass. Later, I said I'd been scared because he was a "ScaryBlackMan". "Isn't that a bit racist?" "I mean, scary ''bouncer''". Thanks TV Tropes.

This troper is currently in school as she types this. I'm suppose to be researching for a paper to write. Guess where I ended up? (and yes, I have been on tv tropes for the duration of the class.)

If my browser is open and I don't go anywhere within the second, I subconsciously go to TVTropes. I used to wonder why I did it. Now I know that I just can't help but endlessly stumbling through these halls.

This troper makes a game out of how many tropes he can spot in his own comics and writing. He also likes to yell out "Narm!" whenever something narmy happens in a show or movie he's watching.

I should '''''really''''' be doing my homework.

This troper should be listening to his lecture right now.

This troper was talking to a girl she didn't know at school about ''AceAttorney'' and randomly dropped the term "EstrogenBrigadeBait". She recognized it as a trope and was shocked at seeing me as a troper. Yep, it's ruined ''both our lives''.

I too have fallen victim to the dreaded time sink[=/=]EntryPimp[=/=]tab explosion phenomenon that has eaten so much of our lives. But it can get worse. Let's just say that TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug + NoExportForYou = {{Angrish}}.

This troper has started to ruin movies for his family. Every time this troper sees a trope he recognizes, he calls it out. "There's a Trope for that" is fast becoming a well-known phrase in his house, and if any of his family members see something anything like a trope, they ask him "Is that a trope?" He recently turned his younger brother onto the site, and smiles with pride whenever he hears him talk about recognizing tropes in fiction.

How about TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Chem Lab? This troper got to talking with her lab partner about TV Tropes, and an hour and a half later, our magnesium still hadn't oxidated. Whoops.

Happily averted by this troper, who has NOT done any of the following:

Used tropes in normal conversion

Thought of movies/videogames/books/etc. as a collection of tropes

Used more than 5 tabs while browsing TV Tropes (3 of those were for Facebook, YouTube, and Newgrounds)

Spent more than 2 hours on TV Tropes (I already wasted all my time on the internet anyway) OR

Had my soul stolen by the wiki.

This troper has been on TV Tropes for a few months and the devil has consumed him. He must read to his interested girlfriend a wide variety of tropes at any given time... and adding our own contributions in the process. Thank God she loves tropes - I would be single by now!

Not TV Tropes in general, but reading {{Just Bugs Me}} pages ruined this troper's enjoyability for some of his favorite series.

I'm so addicted to the Homestuck TvTropes pages that it is actually preventing me from reading through Homestuck itself.

Thanks to this damn website I can predict where most shows/movies I watch are going, and then accidentally blurt out my predictions when I'm watching them with my friends. Now they think I'm a spoilsport and way too cynical.

This troper first came to TV Tropes while nostalging over Grand Theft Auto:San Andreas and came to its page, looked through, figuring it was some minor fan site or something. Then on GameFAQS there was a user with a name like tvtropes_addict. I would have ignored it, but he was posting in the same topic as me. Now I should note I didn't realize the connection until later. Then I went to this site and the rest was just a blur...

This troper could be out there doing something great. But nope, instead she is here. ''Thanks'' TV Tropes...

All of you tropers did this to me. All of you, with your smooth writing and link dropping. All those links, stuck together in perfect harmony, in just a way that it could slowly drive a man mad. Just a click, or a clatter of the keys to look up my favorite books, or movies. It used to be manageable.But after a while it got worse. The tropes, they beckoned. Soon it was every afternoon, tropes this, tropes that, I could barely get away. If I wrote in my English class, I'd dissect the stories I wrote for tropes later. And so I joined in, hoping to curse others with this tragedy. Thanks for ruining entertainment forever guys. I could've done something with my life by now but no...

Last night I had a dream where I and some other people were trapped as slaves on an alien spaceship, and forced to fish for spacefish with a net and a hole in the hull. The first thing I thought of in my dream was "Man, this would have made a great trope image for WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture".

Averted - I think being TVTropes savvy just landed me a job. Of course, {{YMMV}} if that's a good thing or not - but I really wanted one.

This troper was writing a response paper for ''The Narrative of Frederick Douglas'' and was writing at how Douglass runs a risk at talking about how he learned to read and write; he even implies it a bit when referring to the boys who taught him. The urge to write "Douglass even lampshades this when..." came up.

This troper once stopped by at this site to look around. Soon, he had tabs of many tropes up. Since then, he has never been the same...

This troper is addicted to this site. And it's actually having an adverse effect on his literary criticism tendencies. He has become obsessed with spotting Mary Sues and Ubermenschs in any work, and he's more than once confused an Ubermensch with a Nietzsche Wannabe.

This troper doesn't blame TV tropes for his unfortunate Genre Saviness. Both of his parents are doctors and DangerouslyGenreSavvy and have thus been ruining the endings to media for his entire life.

Ever since the advent of TVTropes, it is ''absolutely impossible'' for me to use the word "ironic" without quintuple-checking to make sure it actually ''is.''

In June, this troper was linked here from Know Your Meme. I wasted my whole summer browsing TVTropes. Now, I'm addicted to Dr. McNinja and MST3K, and I have to refrain from using tropes in my conversation, or when I'm watching my Tv shows.

This troper tropes everything, from book he's reading in English class to Magic: The Gathering. Also, he made this edit at a time when he should have been studying for a mid-term exam.

This Troper justifies this trope as it is the only good thing he has to do.

This troper is now stuck in a ''perpetual'' {{Humans Are Bastards}} thought process thanks to TV Tropes. But I actually feel better with that.

This Troper discovered this site when its AffectionateParody Uncyclopedia article was the article of the day. I searched up the site right after. The first article I went on? JumpTheShark. Next? TheMovie. Third? ProductPlacement. Six mounths later, most of my social life has gone towards this site, making me much less active, I use Trope Speak in everyday conversation, and media has never looked the same. On a positive note, however ,I've discovered ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, a site that I now often visit and laugh with , due to it's overeferencing in pretty much every article. The source to watch my first TheNostalgiaCritic video? In ReviewsAreTheGospel, clicking onto Rock-a-Doodle going to the review link.

I think it's a given most of us here have a problem with talking in tropes. But I have a question: is it still TVTropesWillRuinYourLife if you start to ''dream'' in tropes, or does it go to a whole new level?

Day Three: pretty soon I will have been stuck since last year.

This troper used to consider TvTropes a safe haven, a place of peace and prosperity that he could go to at the end of the day filled with annoying classmates and parents. However, he recently read an article which stated that you ''need'' to interacte with people, even annoying people to survive in todays social society. Even though you could make as many friends as you want on here, but it can never replace the real social interaction you get with real people.

TvTropes made This Troper feel guilty for not minding double standards. For crying out loud, I have AspergersSyndrome, and people with Aspergers often think that the world should be in a certain order. But no, I should StopBeingStereotypical, in all ways.

Not to mention my parents don't understand most {{tropes}}. Like when I told my mom about BreakTheCutie, she didn't "get it." That trope is now HarsherInHindsight.

And then when my sister's BlackBestFriend (DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?) came up, and I mentioned WhereDaWhiteWomenAt (I didn't know that it was so controversial.) I am now kicking myself while typing this.

ItGotWorse. I told my mom I spent my free time on a writing site (but ''technically'' didn't mention TvTropes), and she made me write a story of when I got in trouble. Boo.

And finally, some of the tropes just ''sound'' lame.

Doubly subverted in the case of this troper. As a drama student, he saw things in this way before... So TVTropes shouldn't ruin his life, right? Nope, ItGotWorse.

This Tropette stumbled across the website when she googled "AVeryPotterMusical quotes" just for fun. She read the page for AVPM. She clicked on tropes to learn what they meant. Nearly a year later, she's still here.

I'm this for two reasons. I spend too much time reading this (when i could be having fun playing games) and the other part is a lot of Troper Tales, stupid WMG (the timelords, hahuri, etc) and huge focus on anime and doctor who have just made me feel a lot more disallusioned with humanity. People even admitting to liking things related to anime, doctor who (and shipping, mentioning "i have aspergers", etc) are instantly met with suspicion from me as my first thought is that i shouldn't talk to crazy people. I haven't lost friends over it, but its kinda frustrating thinking so negatively of people i randomly talk to.

This Troper has had experienced this trope. In my first semester, in my school, this troper has this Digital Design major that takes up half of his High School hours(tis' a unique school it is). Whilst searching something on the internet one September morning, I cam across a TV Trope article that got my attention. Remembering the fact he liked that website, he decided to go visit it for a little while. What became a little while, turned into an entire semester of unfinished work. Because of this site, my grades are lower than before, and my enjoyment for entertainment has suffered, becoming GenreSavvy with life and love by the day. Perhaps I made an unconscious Faustian pact, trading happiness for knowledge. It really is our lot as Tropers in life isn't it? As of now, since all the other classes(English and Precalculus) are done and over with, I can focus on getting my grades back up with. Cue HardWorkMontage.

This special minded troper always laughed at situations like all the ones mentioned above...guess who hasn't done their Math homework in two days because of THIS PAGE?----

This troper was looking for a porn related topic and stumbled upon this site....then found out the next night that more than just porn troeps abound on this site.

Since this troper's History teacher doesn't collect his students notes, he allows them to write whatever they want, as long as they do the assignment. This troper has actually added tv tropes markup to his notes, including the brackets and potholes.

The first time this troper found TvTropes, he was on for 6 hours straight. Unfortunately, he went on again. And again. And again. You know where this is going....

This Troper's boyfriend is OBSESSED with Tv Tropes, and kept persuading her to give it a try. I'm always on the internet and didn't want another distraction. I was bored one day, he sent me a link to it. I'm hooked ... damn it.

I consider TV Tropes to be a manifestation of what RichardDawkins called a "meme". No, not meme as in MemeticMutation. Memes are the cultural and behavioural analogue for genes, designed to be easily imitable and be spread like TheVirus. They can self replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures. Religion, with its imitable practices and claims of "Godidit", is an example of a meme as Dawkins conceived it. Seeing TV Tropes as a Virus is very simple, really. Take TV Tropes. Then take a structure of a Virus. We all know Viruses are simple packets of DNA encased in a protein capsule. When the Virus comes in contact with a Cell, the Virus injects its genetic code, merging with the Cell's DNA and converting it to the point that the Cell's DNA actually produces more of the viral DNA. Replace TheVirus with ThisVeryWiki, Viral DNA with Tropes, and the Cell with You, and that is why TVTropesWillRuinYourLife.

''There will be no social life, except social life in the form of Tropes. There will be no love, except PerverseSexualLust. There will be NoFourthWall, no sense of reality, no contentment in RealLife. When we are beyond the Fourth Wall we shall have no more need for reality. There will be no distinction between surprise and recognition. There will be no curiosity and enjoyment about new plots. All competing plot devices will be torn apart and incorporated. But always, always there will be the intoxication of troping, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of editing, the sensation of providing examples and analysis to make ThisVeryWiki expand. '''If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Troper clicking on Wiki Words... forever.'''''

Trope Trope Trope.... Masturbation anyone?

TV tropes will ruin my story, more like it. I can't write anything without saying "OMG IT'S A CLICHE TROPE! FIX FIX FIX!" Fortunately, TropesAreNotBad.

I spend too much time adding to the TroperTales section of the TVTropes Wiki. Such as right now.

It's to the point now that every other word I say is either TvTropes or a trope. My friends stare at me blankly whenever I mention either.

And then one trope gets stuck to my attention for longer than 10 minutes.

I was linked here by accidentally looking at somebody's signature in a forum. It said "Damn you TvTropes! Why must you ruin my life?

At this troper's school, there's free wifi. A few classes allow me to use my iPod touch during class. TV Tropes is one of the few websites on the school network that isn't blocked. Do the math.

I was sucked in when I read over my friend's shoulder. Then I was exploring on my own. Three months later I LOST A WEEK OF MY LIFE TO THIS HELLHOLE!!! Now we all quote tropes, I wrote a speech for class based off of a trope, AND I OVERDOSED ON COCA-COLA JUST SO I COULD EDIT THIS PAGE DHEWBHUIufufno.......

This troper clicked on the NotWhatItLooksLike link from another page. That was six months ago. I now skip lunch in a computer lab & stay up until my eyes are too tired to focus on the tropes pages. Thankfully, I had no social life to begin with, and I'm a firm believer that sleep is a symptom of caffine deprivation.

When I was linked here last year...got addicted. Proof: When I was staying in the hospital because I had penumonia(spelling?)...hospital had wi-fi...besides YouTube, this was the only website I visited for the whole time (6am to 12mn)...I stayed there for about 3 days...in addition half of my vocabulary are ''tropes''. Visiting TVTropes also made me very GenreSavvy And...it's my first full year here! True story.

Dammit TVtropes, why are you so ADDICTING! HNNGGGGGG My grades have gotten a little bit worse after I found out about this site. I stay up until 12 just exploring this wiki!

My pops was fixing a lamp, and being stupid like he does, he puts the lampshade on my head. Most people would think, "Dude, what the hell?" Me? "Oh no, ''I've'' been Lampshaded!!!"

This Tropes almost fell asleep during her Social Studies (History) OGT (Ohio Graduation Test; it's a standardized test you have to pass to graduate) because the previous night, she stayed up late reading the tropes in the indexes for MagicAndPowers and SpeculativeFictionTropes. She couldn't focus on the page, got a headache writing extended responses, and frequently mixed up words.

'''''40000}} It is probably the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred minutes This Troper has sat immobile on his computer. He is the master of his imagination by the will of the Tropes, and master of a million words by the might of his inexhaustible clicks. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Real Living. He is a Carrion Contributor of TV Tropes on which a thousand minutes that should have been used for something productive are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly leave.]]'''''\\ \\ '''''even in his lifeless state, This Troper continues his eternal reading. Mighty indexes cross [[TheInternetIsForPorn the porn-infested miasma of the Internet, the only route between distant places, their way lit by the servers, the manifestation of the Tropes' will. Various editors give battle in a trope's name on uncounted webpages. Greatest amongst This Troper's are the . Their articles in arms are legion: the and countless , the ever vigilant and the to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from real people, real duties, real jobs - and worse. ]]'''''\\ \\ '''''be a troper in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the addictive and most ruinous website imaginable. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary Forget the power of vocabulary and studying, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of reality and plot surprise, for in the {{GRIM DARK}}NESS of your own far future there is only TROPE. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of browsing and surfing, and the laughter of thirsting moderators.]]'''''

This troper had a dream last night in which his sister got tackled into a pool, thensucked into a giant fan and died. The only thing i could see was blood in the water, and i Screamed "My sister is Dead!". Then i realised how much ham and narm that had, and i woke up.Is it a delight to have a potential nightmare denounced narm thanks to tvtropes?

This troper has a placement test to get into college tomorrow morning, and has been coming to a library this past week to study for it via internet excercises. As we all know WritersCannotDoMath, so all I really have to do is the math parts, right? I've been here everyday this week instead. Today, the last day before the test, and after a year and 4 months of lurking, I've finaly created an account, edited a page, added a few pages to my watchlist, and haven't looked at any algebra since last Friday, which is the one day I studied, at home. Thank you, TVTropes

I commonly refers to tropes in RealLife. I talk to my RPG group about BreakingTheFourthWall, talk about some characters being BadassNormal, noticed they have the entire collection of MahouSenseiNegima (I heard about it here), I know Karate, noiced how one of the other guys at the karate class did un UnnecessaryCombatRoll, said I should put it on TV Tropes troper tales, explained him about the trope, and the worse part? I am supposed to be a CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey. That's right, I am french!

Show of comments. Who else besides me is supposed to be doing homework right now?

My girlfriend wants me to come to bed and have sex with her right now but I just can't stop browsing this horribly addictive site! And she's an F-cup!

Tvtropes is doing its best to prevent me from finishing my Senior Project and thus graduating high school.

At work last night, a co-worker was complaining to the manager that she didn't have any pockets. Without thinking of how awkward it would be, this troper blurted out (right in front of the manager!) that she should use her VictoriasSecretCompartment (pointing to the appropriate place in case they had no idea what I was talking about). Fortunately for the troper, hilarity ensued.

This troper had time to kill in an IT lesson, having finished their course. They were looking for writing tips. Instead they found this and it's been equal parts TVTropesWillRuinYourLife and TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife. I'm not going to go on about it too much, though I will say that my vocab has not gone TOO badly. I did once say "lampshaded" once to the confusion of my friends though.

This didn’t happen to this troper but rather a good friend of mine who I introduced to TV Tropes. A month or so later afterwords I got a text in the middle of the night saying “TV Tropes has ruined my life!” Troper could not help but burst out laughing.'

A lesser example: Thanks to TV Tropes, This troper keeps thinking "humanitarian" means a human cannibalist.

My brother directed me to this site. Now I visit it three times a day and think of trope names whenever a trope happens. I hate you, brother. TVTropes has become my #2 source of information. My #1 is Wikipedia.

Ive read so much Tv Tropes, that no matter what these three kids I know are talking about, i can chime in "oh, that reminds me of somthng i read on tv tropes. eventually, one says "Oh, you mean that place you live?" i say" "No no no, Wikipedia is where i lve, tv tropes is like a bar, i go there for fun."(note, despite this being posted at 1:20 A.M., that is facebooks fault. T.T. keeps me up till 11 tops. what do you mean i have a problem?)

I actually get overly excited when I watch a movie/read a book/etc I haven't seen before because it means I get to read all the tropes related to that work (as well as add new ones). Similarly, if I'm watching a TV show I have to restrain myself from reading its page before I catch up/finish it so I can avoid spoilers.

... Dude. I don't even remember how the hell I got onto this site! I think I was looking up something for RecordOfLodossWar and stumbled onto tvtropes.org (via the YouCantGoHomeAgain page) but ironically the pages I spend the most time editing are for {{Berserk}}, RurouniKenshin, {{Claymore}}, and sometimes WesternAnimation/AdventureTime. This has been going on since January. '''OF LAST YEAR.'''

Okay. I lied on that last part. But since January of this year, yeah: TV Tropes has ruined my life. It has become my new, more accurate, bible. So long, Urban Dictionary dot com.

I realised i have troubles enjoy stories because I am Genre Savvy enough to tell a spoiler from a Kilometer away. In Fahrenheit, there is supposedly something in a vent above the protagonist's bed. What could it be, I mean they only live in a society where books are illegal. I just guessed books to easily. When my class had to read Of Mice and Men, I guessed to easily something bad was going to happen and Lennie would have to run back to the bush because George discussed the bush for too long for it too simply slip by. I spot Chevok's gun too easily and ALWAYS see a twist coming thats not a total Deus Ex Machina.

NEVER!!!

You have no choice in the matter.

ScrewDestiny, that's what I always say!

I was almost late to school this morning because I slept in. Know why? Because I was having too much fun dreaming about reading nonexistent tropes.

Nonexistent, eh? Well, we can always change that...

NOOOOOOOOOOO! Somebody shoot my friend for telling me about this site! I'm a writer! I'm supposed to be EDITING, not surfing TROPES! On the other hand, it's very fun to read the Troper Tales. :)