History Tropers / Punkcrow

A guy from Northwest Indiana who mostly edits and creates "[[PlayingWithWiki playing with]]" pages for tropes, although I've also become fairly active on the Trope Launch Pad and the forums (especially Yack Fest and the Forum Games) lately. On occasion I'll also expand [[Administrivia/ZeroContextExample zero or partial context examples]], and I sometimes bring up examples and help out in the cleanup threads when I can. TVTropes somehow simultaneously ruined and enhanced my life and I owe it all to them.

You can call me by my username or any derivatives of it (Punk, Crow... [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Punkcrow]]...), but my name is Tobias, or TJ. You can also write my username with/without a capital letter, it's fine either way.

I have several avatars relating to my interests, though usually, my avatar is of [[WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw Milo Murphy]] ([[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2023_09_08_14121_am.png the one I typically use]] is from the episode "[[Recap/MiloMurphysLawS1E18SchoolDance School Dance]]").

I'm also currently working on a {{Fanfic}} based on ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''.

Young Midwesterner[[note]]I'm from Northwest Indiana, if that matters[[/note]] who mostly edits and creates "[[PlayingWithWiki playing with]]" pages for tropes, although I've also become fairly active on the Trope Launch Pad and the forums (especially Yack Fest and the Forum Games) lately. On occasion I'll also expand [[Administrivia/ZeroContextExample zero or partial context examples]], and I sometimes bring up examples and help out in the cleanup threads when I can. TVTropes somehow simultaneously ruined and enhanced my life and I owe it all to them.

I have several avatars relating to my interests, though usually, my avatar is of [[WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw Milo Murphy]] (the one I typically use is from the episode "[[Recap/MiloMurphysLawS1E18SchoolDance School Dance]]").

* Please don't ask me "same question" - I've since started answering my own question (under spoiler text) as well. You can usually ask me a similar question, though.

** Well, crows and ravens, of course - they're [[CleverCrows clever]] animals, and crows are ones I see quite often here in Indiana.
** Vultures are another one I typically associate with myself. I tend to focus on the positive rather than [[VileVulture negative]] aspects of vultures in this case - for example, vultures are resilient, and I feel as if they represent new beginnings.

* AnimalGenderBender: Averted as often as possible - I often look at the differences between male and female individuals of a species before designing a character. One exception to that is a character of mine who is a male calico cat, but even that's a justified example, since he's also transgender.

* EitherOrOffspring: Any of the {{Funny Animal}}s can reproduce with each other - no matter what their species is - but resulting offspring will only be of one species of the parent, which occurs at random. The only way [[MixAndMatchCritters hybrids]] can occur is if the two species [[TruthInTelevision can actually reproduce in real life]], or if the hybrid is created through genetic engineering.

* StopFauxtion: Besides traditional cartoons, my art style also has several influences from StopMotion animation (for instance, I tend to add some semi-realistic elements to my artwork, which in a lot of cases includes texturing of things like hair, fur, feathers, scales, or clothing). This is mostly because in my early teens, I was - and still am - a huge fan of stop motion films, especially the works of Creator/{{Laika}}.

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Other contributions:

When I first started out on this site, most of my avatars were pictures of crows or ravens. I switch avatars every now and then, and [[WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw Milo Murphy]] is the character you can expect to see the most. (You can expect to see several other characters and such in my avatar gallery as well, notably [[Series/MoonKnight2022 Khonshu]] - you never really know.)

* BunnyEarsLawyer: I've got an odd sense of humor and I'm definitely not without my quirks, but I do take my work quite seriously when I need to.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: I have a lot of friends who are older than me, mainly because they're typically my parents' friends as well. It makes sense when you consider that my parents and I are frequently involved in local theater - something that tends to involve people of varying ages.

* SignatureHeadgear: My ball cap which I got during a vacation to Colorado in 2021 - I tend to wear it in public regularly. When it's colder outside, I tend to swap it out for a plaid ushanka-styled hat.

* ConstantlySpellsTheirName (from TLP)

** Since around late 2018-ish, my main mascot (as well as the main character in my series, ''Corvid of the Buckeye State'') has been an anthropomorphic crow named Tobias. Tobias is usually wearing a PlagueDoctor's mask, and he's got a lot in common with me, though he is quite a bit younger.
** To a lesser extent, Mr. Vulture Bones (a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie/skeleton cowboy vulture with sunflowers growing out of him]]) has also been a recurring mascot of mine since mid-2021.
** In a more general direction, a lot of my characters tend to have at least some of myself in them.

* Please don't ask me "same question" - I've since started answering my own question (under spoiler text) as well.

Young Midwesterner[[note]]I'm from Northwest Indiana, if that matters[[/note]] who mostly edits and creates "playing with" pages for tropes, although I've also become fairly active on the Trope Launch Pad and the forums (especially Yack Fest and the Forum Games) lately. On occasion I'll also expand [[Administrivia/ZeroContextExample zero or partial context examples]], and I sometimes bring up examples in the cleanup threads. TVTropes somehow simultaneously ruined and enhanced my life and I owe it all to them.

I have a [[TroperWall/{{punkcrow}} troper wall]] now, if you wanna come vandalize it!

Unlaunched tropes I'm working on:
* Nothing right now, but I have a few ideas brewing!

You can call me by my username or any derivatives of it (Punk, Crow... [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Punkcrow]]...), but my name is Tobias, or TJ.

* SpeciesSurname: There are plenty of characters in my story whose surname has something to do with their species. It's often part of their scientific name or genus, but sometimes it'll be a BilingualBonus (e.g. a goose whose surname is Gans[[note]]German for goose[[/note]]), some kind of APigNamedPorkchop (there are two pigs who fit this; one whose surname is Hamhock, and another whose surname is Bacon), sometimes a variant of ADogNamedDog (e.g. a duck whose last name is Mallard) or ALizardNamedLiz. Occasionally, ADogNamedCat shows up as well (an opossum whose surname is Wolf is one example).