I found a lot of SoBadItsGood fanfiction... like My Immortal. I also found anime series I didn't know about and obscure foreign movies that could interest me. But the crappy fanfics are the best part.

I discovered my favorite anime/manga/novel series : SpiceAndWolf.

This Troper was just writing his fanfiction (SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION: It's called: Sonic and Gex: The Awesome Adventure and it's on FanFiction.net) and typed in Flanderization, then spell-checked it and found out that one of the choices was Bowlderization! Looks like we've reached out to the programmers at Open Office.org!

This Troper has had his life significantly improved (as in, I'm no longer a game addicted maniac with decent writing skills). I'm now a self-published author and gaming-community free thanks to this wonderful place. You are all so awesome, I tells ya.

This Troper has been, his whole life, a watch-(or read)-and-write kind of person. If only there were ONE single place where I could post about anything at anytime! Tried Wikipedia, but they got fussy with notability and copyrights. Then a friend mention TV Tropes... ;)

This Troper is often a GameMaster in various TabletopGames. I always was okay at it, but nothing special. Cue me getting drafted to run another campaign after becoming addicted to this site. Through great understanding of most RPG tropes and reading DarthsAndDroids and DMOfTheRings which I found due to ThisVeryWiki, I managed to concoct an epic campaign that already continues for 3 months of very regular play, where all my players are satisfied with almost every game session so far. The gaming group even expanded by 2 people thanks to the word of mouth! Feels legendary, and it's thanks to all you Tropers.

Thanks to TV Tropes i learned the MST3KMantra. Now i'm more open-minded and watch shows that, in the past, i would have discarted as pure nonsense without even watching them.

When my John Milton class was discussing ''ParadiseLost'', we got to the topic one night of the intoxicating effects of the ForbiddenFruit. I mentioned that an "online discourse community" I belong to refers to the portrayal in literature of evil as a drug as "ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil." The class cracked up, and the professor said we should put that on a t-shirt with an image of Adam and Eve eating the fruit.

This troper just enjoys the warm fuzzy feeling of realizing, "Hey, there are other people noticing this stuff too!"

This troper casually disregarded WizardsOfWaverlyPlace as "just another tween show" before TV Tropes. To put things in perspective, I'm watching it right now and will probably watch the rest of tonight's airings. Granted, I got into it for the wrong reasons but it's a good show and I probably wouldn't have watched without TV Tropes.

This Troper would like to give a ''huge'' "THANK YOU" to this website. Why? Well, I'm a GCSE student, and for my English Language GCSE, I need to do some speeches. Now, it was a Sunday, and I was surfing this website, or specifically, TroperTales. I was on the CMOA TT page, when I decided to go for the Public Speaking section. I idly remembered that I was doing a speech - oh, wait ''I was doing it the very next day, and I hadn't done anything towards it!'' Cue a mad dash to my room where I proceeded to write a speech that got me an A* grade. Thank you, TV Tropes!

This troper has found out more about her favorite VideoGame series of all time: BackyardSports.

Before finding this site, I never knew there was a word for throwing something out a window.

This troper got a short story published in a local magazine. She got a lot of positive feedback and has now decided to turn it into a full novel, which she intends on publishing one day. This novel is the longest she's ever worked on a project. What was it inspired by? TheUnfairSex.

Thanks to this site, this troper has made some very good friends, and has changed a lot since he first came to this site over two years ago. Before, he was a quiet shrinking violet who cared too much about what other people thought of him. Now, while he still has quiet moments, he is more outspoken about what he thinks, and knows that the only thing you should care about is what you think of yourself. If someone says something negative to me in an insulting way, I shrug it off and move on. Thank you, TV Tropes, for showing me how to be more confident in myself.

This Troper has finished a book will be listed if it gets published and started another. Some characters from the former are called Mooks, while in the latter, one of the main characters went off in a specific and highly satisfying direction.[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic His name is Axel, and he turns into an anthropomorphic axe, because smashing his face repeatedly against a problem is just what he does.]]

I actually used some tropes in a essay explaining them and I got a very good grade. Thanks to this awesome webite, I was able to do my homework!!

This troper expanded her vocabulary, and is more critic and concious now. TvTropes may even help her to get into literature career in college, even gave her, finally after a lot of HeadScraching, the tittle for her story: she decided to name her story after a trope. It also saved this troper from her creative BrainBleach, and most likely will help her to write her story better.

This Troper can proudly state that TVTropes may in fact have saved my life (or at least significantly extended it)! One of my main reasons for quitting smoking and switching to electronic cigarettes was so I wouldn't have to spend time away from my computer. Fellow tropers, my lungs thank you.

This troper was up until recently, working at a graveyard shift job that was really draining. When some of his co-workers asked why he had taken the job, he remembered a certain article, and instantly replied: "Money, dear boy," thus making him feel awesome and witty. Thanks TvTropes!

This Troper was taking her AP European History exam and one of the prompts was about comparing Romanticism and the Enlightenment. I almost had a spaz attack in the exam room because I remembered the versus Enlightenment}} Romanticism versus Enlightenment trope! And the trope totally helped me write my essay. Thank you TV Tropes! ^__^

Thanks to TvTropes, I have discovered 3 great mangas: Franken Fran, Ibitsu, and Future Diary. Thank you so much, TvTropes!

At this troper's school, almost every website that could be remotely interesting is blocked. Then I found out TvTropes wasn't among those websites.

Do you often find yourself struggling to argue against InsaneTrollLogic online? Can't make a hole in their ChewbaccaDefense? This Troper was once like you, until I started to use ''reductio ad'' ''tropum''. Phrase your responses in tropes(bonus points for an AllBlueEntry) and watch as your opponent suffers a tab explosion and never gets around to responding! You win! Thanks to this tactic, TVTropes is now my InfinityPlusOneSword for internet arguments. Case in point, how many tabs did you open while reading this tale?

Thanks to TvTropes, This Troper has discovered VisualNovels, the NasuVerse, NitroPlus, the {{Rance}} Series, TengenToppaGurrenLagann, MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha, and several awesome FanFiction. Thank you, TvTropes. Now excuse me while I go cry ManlyTears.

I felt that there was only one word for me: Weird, and not in a good way. I spend a lot of time on my own, and do in fact prefer thinking about some things to communicating them with people addionally (eg: Working on my own as apposed to with a group). This of couse, leads me to spending a lot of time on my own, although I have little diffulty TALKING to others and get lonely if alone for too long). I could go on, really. Yesterday, I was browsing troper tales and visited the "ShrinkingViolet" page. After doing some research stemming from a link on that page, it turns out I'm probably just introverted. Thank you, TV Tropes + Helpful Troper. I am weird no longer. ''Please, tell us of your trope-based enhancements...''