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• Occupation: Playwright, Author, Designer, Illustrator, Student, Performance Artist

• Favorite Films: Across the Universe, Chicago, Funny Girl, Inception, The Social Network, The King's Speech, Sherlock Holmes, V for Vendetta, Cats Don't Dance, Beauty and the Beast, Moulin Rouge!, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Kill Bill, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, Show Boat, War Horse, The Fighter, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Rocky Horror Show, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Dreamgirls

• Favorite Actors: Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Zooey Deschanel, Robert Downey, Jr., Catherine Zeta Jones, Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Jim Sturgess, Helena Bonham-Carter, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Rooney Mara

• Favorite TV Shows: Glee, Friends, Will and Grace, Family Guy, Futurama, Ugly Americans, Daria, Invader Zim, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Code Lyoko, 30 Rock, Archer

• Favorite Books: Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Eragon, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Wrinkle in Time, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Scott Pilgrim, A Series of Unfortunate Events

• Favorite Music: Muse, The Beatles, Lady Gaga, The Rolling Stones, Journey, Switchfoot, Jack Johnson, Michael Bublé, Queen, Elton John

• Favorite Plays: Wicked, Rent, Chicago, Cabaret, Memphis, Into the Woods, Company, A Little Night Music, Aida, Sweeney Todd, A Chorus Line, Evita, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, Follies

• Favorite Tropes: High Octane Nightmare Fuel, And I Must Scream, Large Ham, Crapsack World, Dark Is Not Evil, Tastes Like Purple, Complete Monster, Refuge in Audacity, Getting Crap Past the Radar, Even Evil Has Standards, Creator Backlash, Fanon Discontinuity, Grimmification

• Tropes That Apply to Me:
  • Snark Knight / Tall Dark and Snarky
  • Creepy Awesome / Dark Is Not Evil / Nightmare Fetishist
  • It's All About Me / Small Name, Big Ego - And don't I hate myself for it.
  • Large Ham / Camp Straight / Agent Peacock
  • Absent-Minded Professor / Brilliant but Lazy / Mr. Imagination
  • Ignored Expert / Only Sane Man
  • Jerk With a Heart of Gold / But for Me, It Was Tuesday
  • Incredibly Long Note / The Cover Changes the Gender
  • Black Comedy / Refuge in Audacity
  • Precision F-Strike / Sophisticated as Hell - I don't swear much. My curse words are nearly almost these, unless I'm reacting to sudden source of pain. I believe that, as a Christian, I should know how to maximize the use of my curse words to prevent them from being "coarse talk".

• Tropes That Are Prevalent in My Life:
  • Rag Tag Bunch of Misfits / Hufflepuff House / Cast Full of Gay / Everyone is Bi - My glee club. Glee clubs in general, especially in college. If all the jokes we make are true, then we would be a literal example of "Everyone Is Bi".
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl / Tomboyish Ponytail / Mistaken for Gay / Cute but Cacophonic / Pink Boy, Blue Girl / Celeb Crush: Justin Beiber - A girl in my glee club.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl / Blonde Republican Sex Kitten / Mistaken for Gay / Jesus Saves - A girl in my glee club. My roommate thought she and her best friend were gay due to their "ho-mance".
  • Morality Pet / Magical Queer / Wide-Eyed Idealist / The Short Guy with Glasses / Celeb Crush: Taylor Swift - A guy in my glee club.
  • Black Boss Lady - Our glee club president.
  • Sassy Black Woman / Black and Nerdy - A girl in glee club. The nerdiness is well-hidden.
  • Camp Straight / Extroverted Nerd / The Dandy / The Charmer / Adorkable - He speaks seven languages and owns penny loafers. He's also a player. He could probably talk his way into MY pants.
  • Buxom Is Better / Ethical Slut / Gag Boobs / Miss Kitty - A girl in my glee club. She's not a slut. She just likes telling us she is. Also, she is my pimp.
  • Psychopathic Manchild / Angry White Man / Sarcastic Devotee - A guy in my glee club. He's prone to death threats and fawning over puppies.
  • Pretty Boy / Always Someone Better / Mr. Fanservice / All Gays Love Theatre - A guy in my glee club.
  • Girl on Girl Is Hot / Fag Hag / Gag Boobs / All the Good Men Are Gay - Some girls in my glee club really like grinding each other and playing "boob tag". Apparently, I'm just vapor as well.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander / The Pollyanna / Hollywood Tone Deaf / Bi the Way - The girl in the dorm next to ours.

• Tropes Prevalent in My Own Writing:
  • Love in the Time of Zombies:
    • Our Zombies Are Different / Zombie Apocalypse
    • The Hero / Heroic BSOD - Phil.
    • The Lancer / I Call Her "Vera" (Parodied) - Devin and his rifle, Polly.
    • The Smart Guy - Clive.
    • The Big Guy / Fat Slob - Garrett.
    • The Chick / Zombie Infectee / Disney Death / Shallow Love Interest / Small Girl, Big Gun - Jenna.
    • Bottomless Magazines (Averted) / Noisy Guns (Important)
    • Everyone Is Armed (Averted)
    • Mexican Standoff (Parodied)
    • Status Quo Is God - When the play ends, everything is more or less the same, but the characters have changed significantly.

  • A Very Zombie Christmas:
    • Our Zombies Are Different / An Ass Kicking Christmas
    • Hollywood Atheist / Deadpan Snarker - Ian.
    • Stepford Smiler - Martha.
    • Christmas Miracle (Parodied)
    • Everyone Is a Christian at Christmas (Subverted)
    • As the Good Book Says (Subverted) - Ian says "God helps those who help themselves". Martha tells him that is not in the Bible.
    • Belief Makes You Stupid (Subverted) - Ian thinks Martha's faith is what makes her act irrationally, but it's actually her fear that she is losing her family.
    • The Day of Reckoning (Subverted) - Martha thinks this is happening. Can you blame her?
    • Fantastic Religious Weirdness - Martha has difficulty reconciling the existence of zombies with her faith.
    • Flying Spaghetti Monster - Ian tries to invoke this, until Martha mentions that zombies are evidently real after all.
    • Easy Evangelism (Averted) - Ian does not convert at the end, but he and his mother have a lot more respect for each other's beliefs.

  • The Sky Is Falling:
    • Affectionate Parody: Avatar, The Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz
    • Humans Are Bastards
    • Designated Hero / The Chosen One / The Force Is Strong With This One (Subverted) - Jacoby.
    • Wise Old Man (Subverted) / Expy: Morgan for Gandalf or Dumbledore.
    • Heterosexual Life Partners / Ho Yay (Played for laughs) - Jacoby and Artemis.
    • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane / Real After All / Words Do Not Make the Magic - Magic is real, but completely unlike how Morgan describes it.

• Tropes I Provided the Page Quote:
  • Asian Store Owner - "Koreans tend to have two basic expressions. It's either calm and collected and serene or GET OUT OF MY STORE!" - Margaret Cho
  • Miss Kitty - "No problem, man. Now go see Miss Kitty and she'll set you up with a nice hooker." - Chander on Friends
  • Painful Rhyme (I almost destroyed this page in the process.) - "Don't talk about love or you'll have to say "fits like a glove" or, as certain as push comes to shove, you will pine for the woman you're constantly thinking of." - Aaron in Curtains