Rock-Raider

We all know Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Pete are all officially public domain now, along with the cartoons "Steamboat Willie", "The Gallopin' Gaucho", and "Plane Crazy". As a result, people are free to use them however they like (provided it's the original 1928 renditions of them, of course).

Well, not long after this announcement was made, a couple of Horror projects have risen up on the internet in the form of "Infestation: Origins" and "Mickey's Mouse Trap". I will probably find myself watching the latter at some point in the future. However, this isn't about them.

For you see, there is a non-horror Mickey Mouse-based game that has been announced that I think could use a little exposure. That being "Steamboat Willie: The Game".

It's a game that has you driving the titular Steamboat. Your mission is to ferry cargo to various ports on the river, upgrading your boat as you go. That's what was revealed so far, at least. You can check out the trailer here.

Steamboat Willie Official Alpha Gameplay Teaser| 2024 (youtube.com)

Since I can't edit on TV Tropes anymore, I thought I might give another site like it a try. The website I chose is called All The Tropes. Today, I tried to make a Works page on All The Tropes for a book known as "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper (if anyone has read that book and knows it inside-out, I would like to urge you to make a page for it on TV Tropes).

The book follows a young girl named Stella, who's living in Bumblebee, North Carolina in 1932. Times weren't good to be a black person there. You couldn't go certain places, people looked at you like you were some sort of freak of nature, and you needed special papers to be allowed to vote.

Anyway, one night, Stella and her little brother Jojo go out and spot a cross burning by the Ku Klux Klan across the lake. When they tell their parents, soon the whole neighbourhood is up in arms, and with good reason because, you know, Ku Klux Klan.

Anyway, despite the presence of the Klan, the people of the black neighbourhood of Bumblebee are still going to live their lives. They just need to be careful, and stick together.

Anyway, I tried to make a page for it on All The Tropes, but the process is so much different from what I'm used to on the website I can't edit on anymore. I suppose I'll eventually get used to it and learn my way around it, but for now I need to get used to All The Tropes.

Who knows? Maybe if TV Tropes get new managers who let me back on, I can edit on both sites. Until then, I need to learn my way around All The Tropes.

I know I haven't posted any journal entries in a while, but this is something I think I need to get off my chest. Perhaps spilling my guts to like-minded individuals can help.

Since the mid-2010s, I've had an account on TV Tropes. Since then, I've been all about making pages for Works that aren't as mainstream as others you would know. I've made pages for video games, movies, cartoons, comic books, and even a couple of manga and toys.

It hasn't always been perfect. Some days I would struggle to come up with a good Work to make a page of that day. And sometimes I've had my editing privileges suspended. A couple of times it was for launching new tropes before all the problems could be sorted out. And for others, it's because I have a bad habit of adding Zero Context Examples, using the title of the trope as a form of context.

Well, that second one has now permanently cost me some freedom on TV Tropes.

On Friday, I made a page for a video game called "LUNA: The Shadow Dust". And when I added Black Bead Eyes and Blush Stickers, I said that the game's player character has "these". It completely soared over my head, and I thought nothing of it.

And then the next day, I found I was suspended from editing on TV Tropes again. I tried to appeal for it on the appropriate board, and waited four days for a response. I finally got one from Synchronicity, who told me that because I continually added ZCEs despite being warned not to and suspended a couple times for it, that this suspension would be permanent.

So now, I can't edit pages on TV Tropes anymore. As you can imagine, I got pretty upset over this. I still am, too. Troping has become one of those things that I do. I bought a stack of Indie Comic Books from Toronto Comic-Con for the specific purpose of making pages for them, and then this happens. I was hoping this past Saturday to make a page for a Horror Comedy called Paintball Massacre, and now I can't edit pages anymore.

Sure, I can still make Works pages in the Trope Launch Pad, but it's still upsetting that because I'm so forgetful, I just lost some freedom on a website I spend so much time on. Some of those pages I don't think I finished yet: Samurai Grandpa, Tobot Galaxy Detectives, Galaxy Zack, Fox 'N Forests, and a load of other Works can't even work on anymore.

Sure, I was tempted to make another account. But I still didn't like the idea of Ban Evasioning to keep doing something that was intrinsically part of me. Not that it matters, seeing as that would get me permanently suspended from all TV Tropes.

So, yeah, now here I am typing this thing up. I guess I just need to vent to someone, anyone, in any way that I can. If anyone knows if it'll still be possible to appeal at a much later date, or if TV Tropes will eventually become more lenient, please let me know.