I can't remember when I first visited TV Tropes, but it had a much different design when I did. (I believe I was in college at the time, but definitely before [[Archive/TheGreatCrash the (first) Great Crash]].) I enjoyed it, but it slipped into the back of my mind. In 2008, I was reintroduced to the site by a high-school classmate and I became a lurker (it passed some dead times at work, let me tell you). Finally, toward the end of 2010, I finally gave in and became a Troper.

Most of my contributions are on a smaller scale. From time to time, I will add examples, fix broken Wiki Words, edit grammar or punctuation, or reorder a page if a folder or section is out of order. Occasionally I'll take on something that can be a bit more involved, such as re-alphabetizing tropes or examples, and if you look around, you may find a few reviews of mine as well.

As far as larger contributions go, I wrote the original LutherVandross article (it has been moved to the Music namespace since), the ''Webcomic/AnimalsHaveProblemsToo'' entry, the ''Series/IntentionalTalk'' page, and, most recently, the ''WebVideo/ComediansInCarsGettingCoffee'' page. I am also the curator of the [[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010 The Hub's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010 Pound Puppies]]'' page[[note]]It may not truly be mine anymore; someone took the... **ahem** ''initiative'' to take out the separation I had between overall and episode-specific tropes. Maybe I was wrong to think it was a good idea. The separate folders ''did'', however, survive administrator viewings, in my defense. Just saying.[[/note]], and did both the soft and hard splits between the [[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s Hanna-Barbera]] and The Hub versions. At one time, I also was a curator of sorts of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' page as well, but I've left that to {{Tropers/Minnie Mouse}} and {{Tropers/Ash Spin}} for the most part, though the series remains on my watchlist, and in my heart. I've also done a couple of wick redirecting projects: One after creating the ''Pound Puppies'' series' pages, as well as the "Main/Recess" wicks alongside {{Tropers/Ash Spin}}.

I happily give credit to the SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds page for encouraging me to watch ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', although I no longer consider myself a fan. Nonetheless, the idea of giving a show a chance despite what it might seem like will stick with me. Sometimes it works (''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''), sometimes it doesn't (''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016''), and sometimes it makes me want to throw the television out the window (''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'').

I am getting more and more into anime and manga. If you have a suggestion of something based on what you see here, let me know. (''Manga/OnePiece'', while a good choice, is out; I'll die before I'll be able to catch up.)


In case you're curious:

!!Characteristics of The Walking Anomaly:
* ChaoticGood: Much of the time.
** ChaoticNeutral: Feeling this way more and more.
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh, absolutely.
** SnarkKnight: To a degree. I have even been told I ''am'' Daria once. I was not insulted.
* GrumpyBear: Is my boy. See below.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: [[Franchise/CareBears Grumpy Bear]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} Daria Morgendorffer]] are my patron saints. On the other hand, [[WesternAnimation/DanVs Dan]] is a {{jerkass}} for treating a friend like Chris the way he does, and I enjoyed when Daffy got his on ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' (Tina ruled). The handle has its reasons.

!!Tropes (and such) that make me happy:
* BreakingTheFourthWall: This is usually good for a laugh from me.
* ContinuityNod[=/=]MythologyGag: When I get them, I enjoy these; even retroactively, they can be cool.
* HiddenDepths: Okay, this is an index more than a trope, but still.
** HiddenBadass: Especially BadassBookworm. BewareTheNiceOnes is also good, and one I believe wholeheartedly.
* {{Meganekko}}: I '''love''' girls in glasses. This goes for RealLife too; if you look like Gretchen Grundler, Velma Dinkley, or Daria Morgendorffer, or better yet, are nerdy/geeky like them, feel '''very''' free to say hello.
** [[spoiler:And if you're a nerdy guy, let's just say I won't say no to talking to you, either.]]
* SimilarSquad: For whatever reason, I find these fun. Maybe it's because I like the idea of character study.
* StreisandEffect: I don't know if "happy" would be the word, but "amused" might. It has one simple corollary: "If something you don't like happens to become public, as tempting as it might be to complain about it, ''shut up''. No, seriously, '''''shut up'''''."
** Actually, it might have a second: '''THINK.'''

!!Tropes that make me... less than happy.
* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: Let's be real, here: The sixty-five episode limit is simply a big F-U to viewers, both young and old alike. For the younger audience, it says that they are not important enough to make more shows for, and aren't [[ViewersAreMorons smart enough]] to notice that (in syndication) the shows repeat every three months. For [[PeripheryDemographic older viewers]], it simply says your dedication and viewership don't matter.
* AbsoluteComparative: '''I hate these.''' One in particular that drove me up a wall was the claim from the early 2000s commercials that Diet Dr. Pepper tastes more like regular Dr. Pepper. You don't say. What the hell else is Diet Dr. Pepper going to taste like? Mountain Dew?
* AuthorTract: If you want to preach to me, be upfront about it. I'll probably ignore what you write, but at least I'll appreciate your honesty.
* TheDitz: If your defining characteristic is that you're an idiot, '''''you will annoy me'''''. [[spoiler:Unless you are [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky]].]]
** CloudCuckoolander: You'd better be ''damn'' funny. [[spoiler:''Naaaaaaarrrrrrrf!'']]
** GeniusDitz: Maybe, I'll forgive you. ''Maybe.'' [[spoiler:Egad!]]
* DracoInLeatherPants[=/=]RonTheDeathEater: Two of the main reasons I tend to stay away from shipping fics. Being a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fan, I particularly despise the second, not only because I like Ron, but because that seemed to be the preferred way of Harmonians to get the pairing they wanted. I might read a fic (''HP'' or any other) that does the first; I will stop reading one that does the second.
* {{Eagleland}}: As much as I detest the flag-waving, stars-and-stripes-plastering, "my country right or wrong" Type 1 people, I hate the whiny, America is the source of everything wrong with the world Type 2 people even more.
* EverythingIsRacist: ...or sexist, or homophobic, or ableist, or blah, blah, blah. If you want to know why bigotry will never end, it's every bit as much this as it is the bigots. (I don't mind this so much in fictional characters, though, because they usually tend to show how stupid it is.)
* {{Flanderization}}: Your characters should get ''deeper'' as your series goes along. Characters who don't develop depth are often aggravating, let alone the ones that lose it.
* GreenAesop: When an environmentalist makes a show, film, or documentary that isn't essentially a HumansAreBastards tract and has even a hint of nuance, be a pal and let me know. Speaking of which...
* HumansAreBastards and HumansAreTheRealMonsters: I've never been considered a huge fan of people in general, but I'll recognize there is more to humanity than malice and destruction.
* HollywoodNerd: Especially when the nerd is the protagonist, because it is always his awkwardness in social situations that drives the plot, and since they are never based on real nerds, it is grating, to say the very least. This goes about octuple for nerds in movies like ''Superbad'' and ''Road Trip''.
* TheKlutz: I'm not sure if this is more annoying than TheDitz or not. I'm leaning toward yes.
* PublicServiceAnnouncement: I bet you could count the total number of [=PSAs=] made that treated their viewers like intelligent human beings without taking off your shoes. Nothing outside political ads makes me grab my remote control faster. If I want to be spoken to like a six-year-old, I'll go sit in on a first-grade class.
* RapeTropes: '''All of them.''' The quote on the page says it's second to homicide in the "ultimate violation of self". I'll argue that order is reversed. It's not redeeming, it's not funny, it's just plain cruel. That being said, at the risk of making someone angry, "rape" is a term that needs to be used more delicately than it is, or it loses all meaning. (Example: A guy looking at a woman could be a douche, but it is not a "mini-rape".)
* SpinOffBabies: Barely liked the original ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' when I was a kid, hated all the other ones. I was one of the seemingly few that did like ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''' inversion, ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' though.
* ThinkOfTheChildren: If anyone uses the innocence of children in an argument, they have no argument. All it does is make an (unfortunately often successful) attempt at short-circuiting or circumventing logic. Furthermore, it is borderline disingenuous and a flat-out insult to both adults ''and'' children. Children as a whole are impressionable, but they're not stupid.

[[spoiler:It's also a dream of mine to punch Jamie Kellner and Michael Eisner in their faces.]]


This is, of course, continually a work in progress.


Bye for now!