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Things enjoyed immensely

• Homestuck (overall favourite fictional work; it's just that good)
  • By extension, pretty much anything Andrew Hussie has ever written
• LEGO (favourite is LEGO Rock Raiders, both set line and game, though LEGO Alien Conquest is a close second)
• Anything Douglas Adams ever wrote (favourite is Life The Universe And Everything)
• EarthBound (alternates between this and MOTHER 3 being my favourite videogame overall depending on the particular time)
• Fire Emblem (favourite is Radiant Dawn)
• Pokémon (favourite is Pokémon Emerald, though Pokémon Black and White came very close to dethroning and surpassing it)
• Metroid (favourite is Metroid Prime)
• Kirby (favourite is Kirby And The Amazing Mirror)
• Digimon (favourite is Digimon Tamers)
• Excel Saga (discovered via TV Tropes, current overall favourite anime)
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (discovered via TV Tropes)
• Haruhi Suzumiya (discovered via TV Tropes)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (well aware of it for years, but rediscovered it via TV Tropes)
• Futurama
• The Chaser's War On Everything and other works by The Chaser
• The Gruen Transfer
• Good News Week
• Frasier
• 30 Rock (probably the only thing I'll ever discover on an airplane)
• Iron Chef
• The Goodies
• The Daily Show (discovered via TV Tropes, current favourite TV program)
• The Colbert Report (aware of it for a while, but rediscovered it via TV Tropes)
• Media Watch
• Inception
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Tropic Thunder
• Iron Man (current favourite film)
• The James Bond film franchise (favourite is GoldenEye; probably should track down the novels at some point)
• Star Wars (favourite film is Return of the Jedi; am also really enjoying Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
• Harry Potter (books preferred, favourite is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, both book and film, though the Deathly Hallows films presented a very solid challenge to this title)
• The work of John Grisham (favourites are The Street Lawyer and The King of Torts)
• Dinosaur Comics (partially discovered via TV Tropes)
• Questionable Content (current favourite webcomic, not counting Homestuck)
• xkcd
• Axe Cop (discovered via TV Tropes)
• Cracked
• TV Tropes (current favourite website, not counting any webcomics)

Things to read/watch/finish eventually because TV Tropes introduces me to too much stuff:

• The Big Lebowski (will be a bitch to track down probably)
• Azumanga Daioh
• FLCL
• Lucky Star
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Naru Taru
• Serial Experiments Lain
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (probably going to be the most difficult to track down; does it even run in Australia?)

Pages started

• Digimon Xros Wars (manga)
• LEGO Alien Conquest
• LEGO Exo-Force
• Shigesato Itoi

Pages substantially cleaned up, revised or expanded upon

• Andrew Hussie
• Classic LEGO Space
  • Actually, pretty much every LEGO-related page ever, or will have by the time I'm through with them
• Digimon Anode Cathode Tamer
• Digimon Adventure 02 Tag Tamers
• Digimon Adventure 02 D-1 Tamers
• Digimon Rumble Arena
• Digimon Battle Spirit
• Problem Sleuth

Tropes present in this troper

• Always Someone Better
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
• Berserk Button: Bad journalism of all kinds, among other things.
• Cloudcuckoolander
• Do I Really Sound Like That?
• Grammar Nazi: In fairness, I'm pursuing a career in which you really shouldn't fuck around with typos.
• Guilty Pleasures: For some reason, early-to-mid-90s American sitcoms. I don't get it either and don't think I ever will, but I do find myself regularly sitting down and enjoying them if nothing else is on. This doesn't count Frasier, which I legitimately really like.
• Ineffectual Loner: If slightly less so than when working with other people.
• Informed Ability: I'm still waiting for my parents' assurances that I'm supposedly really intelligent to be a thing that happens. Come on, any minute now...
• Land Down Under
• Old Shame: EVERYTHING.
• Royal Australian Air Force Brat
• Stoic Spectacles
• Suppressed Rage
• Tall, Dark and Snarky
• The Teetotaler: Of the variety where I was raised in a home where alcohol was simply there and treated as nothing unique or special, resulting in complete indifference and not seeing it as anything amazing or interesting.
• TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Life

Useful resources

• Brickset: a comprehensive LEGO set guide and database, providing an intuitive and thorough collection-tracking system in addition to excellent news on developments in the LEGO product line and marketplace. If you're a LEGO fan or collector, there's pretty much no excuse for not using this.