A thread idea I've had for a while, a sort of spinoff of the "old shames
" thread: talking about your dumb shoehorned edits, inappropriate forum posts, lazy TLP drafts, etc. from when you first began using this site.
I came on this site when I was 12 - that was 2012 so things were a bit more lax. I made a page for every lousy fanfiction idea I had, even the ones I hadn't written yet. I also shoehorned in Getting Crap Past the Radar examples despite not understanding adult content at all, leading to entries along the lines of "This character called a guy 'good looking' at a party which could be a hint that he's gay."
(Ground rules: Don't act rude about anybody's old mistakes. The goal is to acknowledge our flaws, some of which may be very common misunderstandings, and just be glad that we've improved as tropers. On the flip side, don't complain about any punishment you received for these mistakes or otherwise get accusatory, and if you got in trouble for sharing certain details, don't go into detail about them in here.)
Edited by mightymewtron on Feb 3rd 2021 at 7:15:15 AM
uwu
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Is it bad that I read your username as "walkin' shadows" and not "walk in shadows"? Because I think the latter was the intended spelling.
Speaking of "I didn't know about Wiki Word and custom titles", my sandbox has the hyphen in the title because I didn't know about custom titles at the time.
THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN!
Troping myself on my troper page.
It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.
What if we kissed... and we were both trucks...
Wait, are you not allowed to do that?
Anyway, I once changed an image without asking or making an IP thread. Not on purpose, I just didn't know you had to. Thankfully, nobody noticed since it was on a characters page for a fairly obscure work. It's good I know better now.
Just a Mettaur
The troper page thing is allowed, but a lot of people don't like the idea of doing it.
❀ Mint, Nuts, and Waffle ❀
Looking back at my old queries, I am now kinda disappointed that my first query at Trope Finder was about pooping unicorns. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Edited by callmeamuffin on Jun 15th 2023 at 10:50:37 PM
Come play Character Uplift Game!
Why not?
In my case, it's because I don't want to risk coming off as self-aggrandising; I feel like there would be a temptation to identify myself with tropes that present me as "cooler" or more "badass" than I actually am. On the other hand, I might lean more towards self-deprecation, but that would be bad for different reasons.
Edited by ArgoTheBlank on Jul 13th 2023 at 1:53:14 PM
Tobias/TJ (He/Him)
When I was fairly new to the website, I added a Headscratchers entry asking something about how a character made a mistake in a way that shouldn't even be possible. I knew full-well that the joke was supposed to be "How Is That Even Possible?", and to make it worse, I even specifically said I knew that was the point in my entry.
I'm honestly not really sure what I was thinking...
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
I'm not sure if this is the place to put it, but I think my username is silly and I wish I went with something else.
"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"
❀ Mint, Nuts, and Waffle ❀
Oh god, I now remembered my 2020 incident regarding Ninja and whether it was tropable. I thought it wasn't and argued to others a lot.
Was told off BTW.
Come play Character Uplift Game!
susie.
I feel you on username regret. So much so it's now my signature! I was a teen when I joined so I picked a first name I thought was cool and wished I had (and I stand by "Adele" being a great name), and "Potter" because I was knee-deep in my Harry Potter phase at the time. Given later real life events that I shouldn't and probably don't need to recap here... yeah, I got regrets.
Now a lurker. Thanks for everything. | he/him
I'm not fond of my username but I've sunk too much time into this account to change it.
TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper Wall
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Third.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
CG for short
I'm fine with my username as is. The only major problem about it is that it'll immediately become Artifact Title the moment I no longer identify as "fem" (which currently seems pretty unlikely but I have the occasional confusion over my gender identity so who knows).
Victor of HGS S320 | "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."
Tobias/TJ (He/Him)
I'm okay with my username for the most part, but given it was something I kinda came up with on a whim, I did have a brief period of time where I kinda wished I came up with something different.
Given that most of my avatar gallery is pictures of crows/ravens, though, and I do consider myself "punk-adjacent", I would say I've embraced it at this point.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
What the hell does "hqami" even mean
Hqamilicious
Miyamoto Musashi
My username comes from a Tekken OC who has since become something of an Old Shame... I've kind of just. Accepted that this is me now though. I've put over 10 years into this shit so no point deleting and starting over lmao
FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Fate/Samurai Remnant
Self-loathing in the threads whose subject matter makes me feel guilty. I might still be on edge but I won’t interrupt people when I need to collect my emotions.
More or less everything I did on the old Nightmare Fuel Vanity Plate page. I know, I already posted about misusing NF in the past, but even with the "scary" examples....
- I wrote an entry that used a chained sinkhole in ALL CAPS.
- I wrote an entry using improper bullet point formatting. Note that I wrote the original bullet point and the "response" bullet, basically being self-Natter.
- I wrote an entry for a "logo" that was basically just an in-credit notice over a scary image that was from the film the logo was on, making it more a case of the film being scary than the logo.
Friends forevermore
Although it predates my time on TV Tropes, going the Real Name as an Alias route has made it hard for me to separate my online identity from real life.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
Angry babby
I made my account when I was 12 and named it after a Pokémon OC of which I was so proud, I wanted to send it to Ken Sugimori for him to put in a future game.
If it helps, we do have MechaMew2.
I don't like my history with Zero-Context Example and possibly Square Peg, Round Trope on the wiki, but at least those can be cleaned up, which some have.
I'm more ashamed of my old thread on critiquing how Heteronormative Crusader is described and indexed, partially because I was heteronormative myself. I'm surprised I didn't get in trouble for it so I'm guessing it wasn't super serious, and if it caused any harm I hope it's in the past.
My username is written like that because when I created this account, I didn't know what Wiki Word was.
Edited by Walkinshadows on May 27th 2023 at 3:11:19 PM