WGTropes, or "TVTropes but for fat fetishists"


Two years ago, I noticed something that our community was sorely lacking: a place where we could discuss tropes and literary devices that were unique to weight gain and expansion works. Mainstream tropes sites like TVTropes are (understandably) hostile to outright porn and fetish works, and fetish-specific sites like BigCartoon.org are more dedicated to cataloging weight gain episodes in mainstream published works.

As the saying goes, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” So, I created WGTropes, the world’s first weight gain and expansion centered tropes wiki.

Here’s a link to the main page (still under construction; if you’re feeling adventurous, mash the “Random Trope” and “Random Work” buttons and see what you can find).

We also have a Discord server for talking with like-minded fetish connoisseurs, suggesting improvements for the wiki, and adding new or improving existing trope pages.

There is one big problem with this wiki: I have a lot of trope pages (almost 600 and counting!), but not a lot of works pages. That’s where you come in. I want you guys to help add pages for notable weight gain games, stories, webcomics, image sequences, you name it, so we can properly populate this site. Feel free to add pages for your own works as well.

I also want to give a shout-out to this site’s very own grotlover2, who helped me troubleshoot some coding issues with tabbers when I was just starting out with this site a long time ago!

10 Likes

As someone who peruses TVTropes a bit too much (And wishes some other wg centric media was on it), this is something both dangerous and something I’m going to enjoy reading through.

4 Likes

Ok, if I understand correctly this WGTropes is a wiki which should contain information about all content around internet which have Weight Gain fetish in it, am I right?

3 Likes

Yep, the focus is on all the user-published weight gain content across the internet; think comics and stories on DeviantArt, FurAffinity, Twitter, etc.

What a lovely idea! I’ll be sure to follow the project and maybe help sometimes.

That’s no small feat there to accomplish. I’m not saying you can’t do it but the section that links to examples is going to make the description of each trope look like a fortune cookie in comparison

Good news, I added a front page that’s now mostly complete and semi-decent to navigate.

2 Likes

This is great. Just made my first page. glad something like this exists given how much good stuff has already disappeared from lack of archiving.

1 Like

Is there a particular format for the character’s section of a wiki page ? I’ve been clicking around looking for an example or a formating guide and couldn’t find anything.