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• The Ages of Superhero Comics: I've recently become obsessed with figuring out where media would belong if they were superhero comics, including a pre-Golden Age era I affectionately refer to as either the "Proto-Golden Age" or the "Pulp Age" for Curefics that had a stage before their familiar form came to be.
• Alternate Continuity: I created one to accommodate for my Fanboyism (see below).
• Apologizes a Lot: Yes, I sometimes suffer from this—too much on occasion. "Too much", as in I'm willing to go to great lengths to apologize for a perceived slight (as in, perceived by myself).
• Berserk Button: I get a bit irritated when I have to discuss sensitive issues in my fanfics, because really, I shouldn't have to discuss them, mainly because they should be obvious (e.g. I don't like racism or stereotyping), but also due to the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment.
  • Wiki Vandals who create accounts for the sole purpose of carrying out personal grudges against fellow Tropers in violation of this Wiki's general "No Personal Attacks" policy make me wanna puke. Seriously, I'd invoke the old saying of "two can play at this game", except it'd be just childish and hypocritical of me.
  • Go ahead. Try cleaning a spider off your car's window while not parked. You will be yelled at for littering if that napkin slips out of your hand and you just drive off not caring one whistle about it because you think that to pick the napkin back up at this rate would put your car at risk of being rear-ended.
  • Any disparaging of The Ages of Superhero Comics is enough to make me lose myself in utter rage even as I try to stay calm.
  • Extending your legs over a path is another major sore spot, especially since people might trip.
• Beware the Nice Ones: 99% of the time, I'm not looking for a fight; however, I'd be more than happy to give one to the 1% of any given website that's looking for one. Bottom line: DO NOT CROSS ME.
• Butt Monkey: If anything, I've been this recently.
• Cassandra Truth: I get this too much recently, but to name specific examples would likely be pushing it.
• Caustic Critic: I've had more than my fair share of them; it may be for good reason, but it certainly isn't alleviating my (admittedly minor) case of writer's block.
• Celeb Crush: Emma Watson (lately of My Week With Marilyn).
• Country Matters: Due to the tone it presents, I have a major aversion to the C word, though I don't mind merely alluding to it; I only use it in clear English very few times in my entire fanfic repertoire, and each time it's spoken by a female character or to show that a certain character can't be trusted.
• Creator Breakdown: I've had more than my fair share; the most recent one was caused by completely blind fury against other Curefic authors, particularly Caits Meow, but fortunately, I'm actually recovering from that one (and about fucking time, too) and am currently working on revamping Pretty Cure Club Activities (which wound up being a Berserk Switchboard for several in its current incarnation).
• Deadpan Snarker: I'm like this sometimes.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As far as movies go, I'll gladly watch a gorefest, though I consider the "objects flying at skull" poster for Final Destination 5 (thankfully replaced by a tamer poster showing a skull formation in a wrecked suspension bridge) to be Nightmare Fuel Supreme Unleaded taken ONE TRILLION LIGHT YEARS TOO FAR (with most instances of Eye Scream coming a close second, though I do include that trope in my works on occasion; see the relevant entry below).
• Eye Scream: Included an "eyeball gag", Fulci-style, in Pretty Cure Hollywood Stars even before watching my first Lucio Fulci film (guess which one).
• Face Heel Turn: Yes, I, a true Vol fan, threatened to pull one on the University of Tennessee and defect to the University of Georgia as a fan for the time being should the former be sanctioned for kriffing Lane Kiffin's recruiting violations, though I ultimately decided to stick with the team as the sanctions weren't severe enough to merit my departure from the Vol fanbase (not to mention, the Vols sanctioned themselves, and the NCAA decided that was sufficient enough).
• Fanboy: Of Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, though I wish they made anime-inspired movies rather than that franchise (see, I like the actors, but not the movies).
  • Although some of my colleagues in the Pretty Cure fan community think my crush on Emma Watson can, at times, seem slightly unhealthy.
• Fridge Logic: No wonder I've got some people wondering, "Does Rupert Grint even know that much about anime?"
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: I don't just use this trope; I ABUSE IT TO HELL AND BACK due to the amount of foreign languages I'm becoming interested in. I hope to translate my fics (and, when I starts writing them, my screenplays) into numerous foreign languages in the future.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It seems to me the only way to deal with an Internet Pesci is to become a Pesci myself. I try to restrain myself, but there are some users who somehow don't know that pushing my limits can lead me into a blind fury that can potentially take a long time for me to cool down from.
• Have a Gay Old Time: Apparently, I've been reading too much of The Joker's Comedy of Errors, because I have a tendency to use the word "boner" when referring to stupid mistakes (the only sense in which I use the word, FTW).
• Heroic BSOD: I'm currently experiencing one, unfortunately.
• Hero with an F in Good: No matter how hard I try to patch things up after each boner, I always seem to commit a worse boner in the process. Though I seem to be getting better...
• Idiot Ball: It sounds quite unbelievable, but I nearly fell victim to a spammer who tried to get into my AOL account. There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for the treachery that nearly followed... and would've, too, if I hadn't tossed the Idiot Ball, picked up the Smart Ball, and tightened my AOL account's security and changed my own password. Hopefully that'll keep the spammer out for good.
• Kayfabe: As far as my general Pretty Cure Fan Fics are concerned.
• Nineties Anti-Hero: And damn, does it show! Unfortunately, this tends to get played up by outside sources (though to elaborate would be pretty risky at this point).
• No Respect Guy: Damn, do I suffer constant bad luck with each eBay auction, from retroactive outbidding (happens a lot when eBay users bid too many consecutive times) to obscenely high prices (which is less frequent but still frustrating, especially when trying to obtain the 1st edition of Song of the South) to getting sniped at the VERY LAST SECOND (as when he was trying to obtain the Wizard Video VHS of The Streetfighter's Last Revenge)!
  • Although, I do have videocassettes of several rarities, including Snow White Live at Radio City Music Hall (1981 Disney), Mary Poppins (1980 Disney), Superman (1980 WCI), the 3D version of Creature from the Black Lagoon (1980 MCA), The Sea Hawk (1984 Key), Giselle (1981 Magnetic), Deadly Games (1982 Monterey), Zombi 2 (1981 Wizard), Equinox (1981 Wizard), Psycho (1980 MCA), Dirty Harry (1980 WCI), The Streetfighter (1980 MGM/CBS), Blade Runner (1983 Embassy), The Godfather (1979 Paramount), The Godfather Part II (1979 Paramount), M*A*S*H (1977 Magnetic), Star Wars (1982 Fox), Rocky (1982 Fox), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1985 U.S.A.), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1980 Paramount), The Last Chase (1982 Vestron), The Driller Killer (1982 Wizard), Network (1980 MGM/CBS), The Nutcracker (1980 MGM/CBS), and the Mexican Spanish dub of Song of the South (1986 VideoVisa). I also have the 1st editions of all 7 Howling films as well as a Disney Fotomat. Oh, and I was actually lucky enough to get probably the cheapest authentic working copy of the Guns N' Roses cassette of Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide (and yes, I did check its authenticity) from a legitimate source, at $2.50 plus tax (not counting other cassettes included in the same purchase).
• Sir Swearsalot: It's hard for me to not swear up a storm when not in public (and sometimes not even then, so long as the others around me don't mind); I do make it a point to tone it down outdoors, though. Some of my fics also feature heavy swearing.
• Take That: I hate LJN with a burning Cure Passion, to the point of having Lina Eastwood bash the company in my current fanfic, Pretty Cure Hollywood Stars. Also, I enjoy taking amicable potshots at one of the greatest words that isn't in the English language, "aboot".
• Technology Marches On: Ultimately subverted as of late; I now have a plasma 3D TV, a pair of like-branded 3D glasses, and a 3D Blu-ray player.
• Ted Baxter
• This Is Wrong On So Many Levels: My reaction to the phenomenon known only as "retroactive outbidding".
• Throw the Dog a Bone: That time I bought an authentic cassette of GNR's Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide (one of the rarest albums or EPs in music history) for just $2.50 plus tax at a mom-and-pop brick and mortar music store by chance, and when I picked up a VHS of Zombi 2 off of eBay and got a 3D TV and 3D Blu-ray player for Christmas.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: I'm working toward getting better at this, though.