Line #67 Tropers/Dioschorium


1	Amusingly, Dioschorium found TVTropes by accident while reading a post on a Livejournal community. TVTropes now shares the ultimately insignificant honor of being Dioschorium's favorite Web site with the aforementioned Livejournal.com.
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3	Diosch is somewhat alienated from fandom because of its lack of interest in live-action television shows, with the dual exceptions of ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' and ''{{Blackadder}}''. Thus, it has very little knowledge of what seems to compose a large part of fandom: no ''Merlin'', no ''Sentinel'', no ''Due South'', no ''StarTrek'', no ''DoctorWho'', no ''Glee'', no ''ArrestedDevelopment'', no ''{{Smallville}}'', no ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', no ''XenaWarriorPrincess'', no ''X-Files'', no ''Queer As Folk'', no ''L Word'', no ''Firefly'', no ''Dollhouse'', no ''Lost'', no ''House'', no ''Scrubs'', no ''{{Heroes}}'', no ''{{Supernatural}}'', and no ''Flight of the Conchords''. It repeats: ''MST3K'' and ''{{Blackadder}}'' are the '''only''' live-action TV shows that interest this troper. In other words, Diosch does not read any live-action television examples on trope pages. This isn't because of HypeAversion. Diosch simply has yet to be captivated by any other live-action TV show.
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5	Similarly, Diosch '''does''' watch some anime and read some manga, but is usually unfamiliar with the most recent or popular productions. Consequently, it has very little understanding of ''DeathNote'', ''{{Bleach}}'', and the various ''Gundam'' series, among others.
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7	However, it is inordinately fond of SpeculativeFiction, usually finding the genre vastly more intriguing than non-genre fiction, though there are exceptions (''Show Boat'', for instance). Recently, it has renewed its interest in fantasy and begun a newfound love of comic books, thanks to ''{{Watchmen}}'' and the documentary ''In Search of Steve Ditko''. Moreover, Diosch has been a fan of the horror genre since childhood.
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9	Other tropes that describe it include:
10	* AngstWhatAngst: Diosch takes this approach to its life (usually). Wallowing in self-pity only prolongs the misery.
11	* AnimationAgeGhetto: Thoroughly averted. Animation is its favorite storytelling medium next to literature.
12	* [[{{Asexuality}} Asexual]]--and [[{{Transsexual}} genderless]], too, as if you couldn't tell.
13	* BadassBookworm: Its attempts at becoming one of these failed; it is now content simply being a bookworm.
14	* CargoShip: It once wrote a passionate ode to its book collection, comparing itself to King Solomon.
15	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
16	* CovertPervert: In high school, but no longer. Pornography holds little to no appeal for Diosch by now, and Diosch has always despised FanService anyway.
17	* {{Goth}}
18	* GuiltyPleasures: Also averted, in the sense that Diosch does not regard anything it enjoys this way (even ''[[SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom Salo]]''). Pleasure should never be guilty.
19	* InsistentTerminology: It is a '''person''', not a gendered form of address.
20	* IntergenerationalFriendship: It used to be part of one of these, but then the other half of the friendship [[spoiler:killed himself]].
21	* {{Nerd}}
22	* NightmareFetishist, in a bit of unintentional self-promotion
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24	Off the top of its head, it has made edits to the following pages:
25	* AuthorAppeal
26	* EstrogenBrigade
27	* FetishFuel
28	* ForDoomTheBellTolls
29	* {{Goosebumps}}
30	* HPLovecraft (It wrote most of the trope list on that page.)
31	* HumanResources
32	* IWillWaitForYou
33	* IronicNurseryTune
34	* NightmareFuel
35	* PerverseSexualLust
36	* ThePuppetMasters
37	* SoBadItsHorrible
38	* StarControl
39	* TearJerker
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42	Responsible for:
43	* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
44	* NightmareFetishist (which it also launched)
45	* ReligiousHorror
46	* TouchOfTheMonster
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49	Favorite works of fiction:
50	* the HPLovecraft canon
51	* ''AliceInWonderland'' (the Lewis Carroll duology as well as the Disney movie)
52	* ''{{Watchmen}}''
53	* ''StarControl II''
54	* ''{{Spider-Man}}'' (the 1960s comics, but it also likes the movies and the animated series, when not taking them seriously)
55	* ''{{Slayers}}''
56	* ''AllDogsGoToHeaven''
57	* ''{{Freakazoid}}''
58	* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''
59	* ''InTheMouthOfMadness''
60	* Alan Dean Foster's ''Glory Lane''
61	* ''JohnCarterOfMars''
62	* the films of HayaoMiyazaki
63	* some of the works of Arthur Machen (''The Great God Pan'', "The White People")
64	* Robert J. Sawyer's ''Calculating God''
65	* ''HsuAndChan''
66	* ''AClockworkOrange''
67	* ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari''
68	* ''The Red Shoes'' (the 1948 movie)
69	* ''StarlightExpress''
70	* ''TimeSquad''
71	* ''StarWars''
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