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Went to look at Libby, vainly hoping for a book on 70s design (interior, fashion, or art history). Found nothing.
Saw among the categories 'reference'.
Thought, huh, I wonder what they'd put in the 'Reference' section. A lot of books *could* be called on for reference, but I was expecting maybe dictionaries and encyclopedias.
'Let's see,' I thought, as I clicked through.
Then I saw the first result.
Huh. OK, then.
A good, solid, reliable reference book if ever I saw one.
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One of my girls showed me the 2025 Sorting Game the other day, and it brings me such joy I can hardly express myself!
Just look at all the glorious categories, all the items waiting to be sorted! And this is an incredibly small fraction. I could stay here for hours.
A decent number of you would become better critics and theorists almost immediately if you were forbidden from diagnosing by means of broad categories (eg. "capitalism", "wokeness", "toxic masculinity", "culture") and were instead forced to explain what you actually Mean By That.
Klaus Zynski
I enjoy when people give me a hard time about using the term "sequential art" because they think it's just a pretentious way of saying "comics", because when I point out that "comics" and "sequential art" are overlapping but non-identical mediums, they invariably demand an example of sequential art that isn't comics, and I get to hit them with "PowerPoint presentations".
"So does it count if" let's stop right there. All systems of classification are fake. We made them up. They are not capable of being correct or incorrect; they are only useful or not useful. The question you should be asking is not "does A technically fit into category B?", but rather, "does it have utility to draw our lines such that A fits into category B?"
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You've talked a lot about how TvTropes isn't suitable for literary analysis (the specifics elude me), but I haven't been able to parse your point, could you possibly elucidate on your thoughts of TvTropes as an institution?
The short version is that all systems of categorisation are at least in part prescriptive, in the sense that each one depends on a particular set of assertions about how the lines between categories ought to be drawn. When you sort things into buckets, you're not just describing those things – you're also enforcing those boundaries. This isn't inherently a bad thing, but it's critical to recognise that when you apply a paritcular system of categorisation to a particular topic, you're forcing that topic into a shape that will fit into that system's buckets.
To the topic at hand, then, the issue with TV Tropes is that its system of categorisation – that is, how it relates tropes into hierarchies, how it draws the lines that separate one trope from another, even its basic concept of what a "trope" is – are all informed by the fact that it started out as a Joss Whedon fansite, and even though most of its present users aren't aware of that fact, its analytic framework has never really moved beyond those roots. Any media that's understood through the lens of TV Tropes' system of categorisation unavoidably gets smooshed into the general shape of a TV show written by Joss Whedon, whether that was the intent or not. This is a perfectly fine analytic lens if what you're describing is, in fact, a TV show written by Joss Whedon, but it becomes a progressively worse fit the further you get from that sphere of competence.
Ask game!
(Not my invention)
Thanks to @pinkiepiethesmiley for tagging me in this!
The link is here: https://uquiz.com/quiz/fHQodq/what-tumblr-mutual-are-you
My results:
Huh, fairly nice results fur me.
Now, onto tagging: @sodapops0lstice @winter-thebearded @inkweaver
