A trauma response of when someone makes themself of no bother to their group, but is actively around them like a ‘trophy’. Said person will make themselves ‘ideal’ or ‘suitable’ to the others who keep them around by not talking unless talked to.
A word commonly used when a member of your friends decides to bitch out, (i.e. turning down shots)
Many times this word can synonymously be used with "rosening out"
Basically if you really want to make a person feel like a jackass tell him he is "troping out"
The act of surfing TVtropes.org in order to recover from the impact of a particular work, be it fiction or nonfiction by understanding the tropes which make up the work. Most often used in conjunction with horror movies.
After watching The Orphanage, Sarahspent several hours indulging in theraputic troping in order to alleviate her fears.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brownwill also be accompanied by a dark soda.