!Who is Pittsburghmuggle?

I'm a {{Troper}} who lives in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}, but born in UsefulNotes/ToledoOhio because ''someone'' had to be. I love wikis and the ability to crowd source information for all.

I came to TV Tropes (''sometime'' before 2008) when a friend on Website/{{LiveJournal}} complained that it was [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife sucking up so much of his time]]. The first thing I looked up was something that had long bugged me about kid's shows - shows where a character thinks his birthday is forgotten. To my total shock, there it was: ForgottenBirthday. I've been a convert ever since.

I love movies, books and some TV. TV shows are far BetterOnDVD - I prefer my information through a fire hose rather than trickled week by week. I don't really closely follow ([[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch but don't have any problems with]]) Anime, comic books, or fanfiction.

My favorite genre is ScienceFiction. I prefer the hard end of SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness. A story set on a spaceship does not a scifi story make. Yes, I will happy take a good plot with sound science that stands on its own universe even if the characters are boring and flat! I'm also a huge fan of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Apocalyptic Fiction]] - but I don't follow it as much as I used to. Having kids makes the idea of scrounging for necessities rather sour.

A show or work is tops to me if it '''plays with its premise well'''. Some shows consider the premise to be a backdrop in front of which character development takes place, and I find that annoying. Take ''Series/FallingSkies'', where most of the show is what the characters think of each other and the fact that aliens have invaded is only truly developed in season finales. Then take ''Series/TrueBlood'' -- great characters, and the premise that vampires have come out into the open while other, still secret, supernatural beings are dealing with that, intertwines with the characters.

Yes, I know my name has "muggle" in it. Yes, I was a big fan of Literature/HarryPotter back in the day. The series is over now ([[AdaptationDisplacement the movies are nice]], but story's over, folks!), and I've moved on - but the name remains.[[note]]So you want to know more? I wanted Harry to end up with Hermione. I ADORE Hermione in the books - but refuse to accept Creator/EmmaWatson's version. Watson has yet to prove her full acting chops, but she's no nerd. Still, Harry is with Ginny, it's canon, and it's just a book anyway.[[/note]]

While I'm not really into FanFiction, I ''adore'' WildMassGuessing. Just little ideas about a piece of fiction are far more interesting to me than fleshing out a full story.

I got yelled at a few times for not running new tropes through [=YKTTW=] first, and I do now - but I find it annoying because more often than not when I do no one comments at all on them, positive or negative.

I don't hit the forums here much, and don't participate in discussions on guidelines, etc. I trust the PowersThatBe - whoever they may be. When a rule comes down I don't like, I live with it. I'm far too busy watching and reading fiction and trying to contribute to the wiki to get caught up in the nuts and bolts. I've never been very good at that and am quite content being a foot soldier.

I miss TroperTales, but I see why it had to go.


!The moment I finish reading/watching a work, I:
# Read the Website/{{Wikipedia}} entry on it.
# Follow the link to the [[Website/IMDb Internet Movie Database]] entry (not for books, obviously) and read that (Primarily Trivia and Goofs).
# Read/Create the TVTropes entry and do any editing/adding that needs to be done.

!I have started the pages for the following Tropes:
* BlindfoldedTrip
* CartoonJuggling
* ConvenientlyClosePlanet (My baby! First trope page I made here!)
* InappropriateSpeakAndSpell
* LowAngleEmptyWorldShot
* MisplacedNamesPoster
* OverlyCoolPlaySpace (I can't believe it hadn't been mentioned on here before!)
* PotteryBarnPoor
* SellingTheShow (I recognize its importance, but get tired of endless production praise on [=DVD=]s)
* WhosWatchingTheStore
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And thank you to ''everyone'' who has gone on to work on those pages. Each change makes me proud.

!This Index:
* ThisIndexIsAJoke (Oh, I love a good joke.)

!The following UsefulNotes pages:
* UsefulNotes/{{Earth}} (The only page for it said "Mostly Harmless", which - though funny - wasn't very useful notes)
* UsefulNotes/{{Mathematics}} (Didn't start it, but did an extensive reworking.)
* UsefulNotes/{{Mensa}} (I've been a member since I was 10.)
* UsefulNotes/{{Science}} (There wasn't a page for it)
* [[UsefulNotes/ToledoOhio Toledo, Ohio]] (Born there. Of course I was born on ''Earth'', too...)
* UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} (There hasn't been a page and I felt there should be - after all you can talk about pornography without actually talking about porn - people don't seem to get that. I had read a fair amount on the subject and gave it a shot.)

!Created the pages for the following works:
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[[folder: Comics ]]

* ''ComicBook/ThePitt''
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[[folder: Documentaries ]]

* ''Film/TheKidsGuideToTheInternet''
* ''Film/NineEleven''
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[[folder: Film ]]

* ''Film/TwentyEightDays''
* ''Film/{{Abduction}}''
* ''Film/{{After}}''
* ''Film/AlienVsPredator'' (Moved the film stuff over to a film page.)
* ''Film/TheArrival''
* ''Film/CloudAtlas'' (Moved the film stuff over to a film page.)
* ''Film/TheCompleatAl''
* ''Film/Cosmos2019''
* ''[[Film/{{Exit2011}} Exit (2011)]]''
* ''Film/{{Extraterrestre}}''
* ''TheFlightOfThePhoenix'' (The films, which have since been split into two pages)
* ''Film/GhostGraduation''
* ''Film/AGirlNamedSooner'' (I saw this as a kid. The scene where they killed bird haunted me.)
* ''Film/{{Godspell}}'' (Moved the film stuff over to a film page.)
* Some extensive work on the Film/HarryPotter films, sorting and moving the mass of tropes from the Film page to individual pages[[note]][[TheyCalledMeMad They said it didn't need to be done!]] Ha![[/note]] :
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets''
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''
* ''Film/HowILiveNow'' (Moved the film stuff over to a film page.)
* ''Film/{{Iceman}}''
* ''Film/ItCameFromHollywood''
* ''Film/IThinkWereAloneNow''
* ''Film/ItsADisaster''
* ''Film/JackReacher''
* ''Film/JuanInAMillion''
* ''Film/LeftBehind2014'' (Moved the film stuff over to a film page.)
* ''Film/LoveAndMonsters''
* ''Film/{{Millennium}}''
* ''Film/{{Poseidon}}''
* ''Film/{{Repeaters}}''
* ''Film/Risen2021''
* ''Film/SaturdayThe14th''
* ''Film/StrikingDistance''
* ''Film/SuddenDeath''
* ''Film/SweetGirl''
* ''[[Film/TheresNothingOutThere There's Nothing Out There]]''
* ''[[Film/TimeriderTheAdventureOfLyleSwann Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann]]''
* ''Film/{{Trancers}}''
* ''Film/TravelingSalesman''
* ''Film/TheWalk''
* ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}''
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[[folder: Franchises ]]

* ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' (I've only seen the first two movies, but I get annoyed when tropes for an entire series lumped on the page for the first installment.
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[[folder: Board Games ]]

* ''TabletopGame/EmpireBuilder''
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[[folder: Literature ]]

* ''Literature/DragonsEgg''
* ''Literature/EternityRoad''
* ''Literature/HullZeroThree''
* ''Literature/ManhattanTransfer''
* ''Literature/{{Millennium}}''
* ''Literature/MissionOfGravity''
* ''Literature/ThePracticeEffect''
* ''{{Literature/Replay}}''
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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* ''Series/{{Between}}''
* ''Series/ChildhoodsEnd'' (Well... I started the barebones page a few hours before the series started)
* ''Series/DragonsWagonsAndWax''
* ''Series/{{Manhattan}}''
* ''Series/NightSky''
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}''
* ''Series/TheStand1994'' (Moved the miniseries stuff over from the literature page.)
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[[folder: Toys ]]

* ''Film/BellaDancerella'' (I was stuck on the couch with a fractured kneecap when my daughter started watching it, I had to do something!)
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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''VideoGame/RichiesPlankExperience''
* ''VideoGame/RobotOdyssey''
* ''VideoGame/SimCity2013'' (Moved the extensive stuff from the ''VideoGame/SimCity'' page to a new one for the game.)
* ''[[VisualNovel/ThreeSistersStory Three Sister's Story]]''
* ''VideoGame/TheWikiGame''
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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''Literature/TheDotAndTheLine: A Romance in Lower Mathematics'' (My favorite quote of all time is from this.)
-->"Freedom is not a license for chaos"
* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' (With the help of my daughter!)
* ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'' (Moved the animated film stuff over to a film/animation page.)
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