Hey.
This is my page. But enough about me and my page. I have contributed significantly to
TV Tropes' pages on life sciences and prehistoric life. I was officially diagnosed autistic at about the age of six. If you want to wish me happy birthday, the big day is January 22.
Pages I have started include:
I like (in alphabetical order, including troper friends):
My alter egos on other sites:
My recent edits:
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Reviews I've written:
On Taylor Swift:
There are so many bad female singers these days like
Ke$ha and
Miley Cyrus who are the first nails in the music industry's coffin. Now, 96% of female singers are people who can't sing for their life. Thankfully, Swift is not one of this 96%. She's basically the best female musician except maybe
Kelly Clarkson. Unlike those talentless songstresses, she can actually sing. Songs like
"Love Story" and
"Mine" are just great (the latter, along with
"Fearless" and
"Change", is my personal favorite). The fact that she's
gorgeous is just icing on the cake. Not to mention that she's nothing like, say,
Lindsay Lohan. She hasn't done drugs, alcohol,
controversy proof images or pole dancing. The most controversy she's directly caused was a homosexual reference in
"Picture To Burn" (the video I linked to uses the clean version) - and that's small potatoes compared to Lohan and Cyrus. So haters - quit your whining. She wrote
a song about you. All in all, Swift is one of the only good female musicians today, and should get the attention instead of the talentless ones.
This troper (and his friends, family, etc.) provides examples of:
- Ancient Grome: Averted!
- Asperger Syndrome
- Berserk Button: Do not show me bipedal pterosaurs or tell me that Deinocheirus was a therizinosaur.*
It's more likely an ornithomimosaur.
- Bowdlerise: My local radio station has always been an odd mix of averting, exaggerating and playing it straight. "Damn" in "Teardrops on my Guitar" gets censored, although "eff" in "Superbass" and "bullshit" in One Republic's "Good Life" are more or less ignored. What.
- Brown Eyes
- Cake Eater: There's a nine-year gap between me and my Celeb Crush, below.
- Celeb Crush: If you know me in person (heck, if you read some of my Troper Tales), then you know I have a pretty major one on Taylor Swift.
- Celebrity Is Overrated: Please remind me this on a daily basis.
- Distracted by the Sexy: The Buffalo Wild Wings location near my place has television sets all over the building's interior. These play sports channels, although commercials on said channels include Covergirl ads with Taylor Swift and the such, so this trope could easily apply to me.
- Everything's Better Deep Fried
- Everything's Better with Bacon
- Everything's Better with Dinosaurs
- Feathered Fiend: I love maniraptors (dinosaurian ancestors of birds).
- Hatedom: I hate People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Pe TA). Here are several damn good reasons. #4 is elaborated on here and here, and #6 here.
- Homeschooled Kids: I'm one, and proud of it.
- Just Here for Godzilla: This has always been my opinion of Jurassic Park.
- Periphery Demographic: My cousin and I love Dinosaur Train and Tinga Tinga Tales. We're in our teens.
- Periphery Hatedom: My 16 or 17-year-old cousin hates Dino Dan, although it probably isn't meant for anyone over the age of 10. Strangely, he enjoys Dinosaur Train very much, despite it having an even younger target audience (not that I blame him).
- Science Marches On: Until recently, I had the hardest time admitting that coelophysoids were not ceratosaurs.
- Scotireland: Oh so, so much.
- Seldom Seen Species: Capybaras were once my favorite animal.
- Snark Bait: My opinion of Monsters Resurrected, Clash Of The Dinosaurs and, to a lesser degree, Jurassic Fight Club.
- So Bad, It's Good: In my opinion, the original Dino Lab (which was followed with a Surprisingly Improved Sequel).
- Appliance Direct commercials and anything by LMFAO also count.
- Somewhere, a Palaeontologist is Crying: As the creator of its Troper Tales page, I have more than a few moments to share:
- My mother insists that Spinosaurus looks just like a Tyrannosaurus rex with a sail. Hmm... I think they're just a bit◊ different◊... (first pic is Spino, second is T-rex).
- Also, I have a 2006 encyclopedia on prehistoric life (this one here). Having noticed several inaccuracies in it, I typed them all up on Microsoft Word. IT TOOK SEVEN FREAKIN' PAGES TO LIST THEM ALL. Such anomalies include naked raptors, swan-necked plesiosaurs, "Anatosaurus" and "Stenonychosaurus" (both of which were renamed in the eighties or nineties), Teratosaurus as a dinosaur (thought to have been a land crocodile since the eighties) and tail-dragging dinosaurs of all sorts. Remember, THIS IS A 2006 ENCYCLOPEDIA. By the way, this review sums up the problems quite nicely. I'm seriously considering sending a letter to the editor.
- My father insists that glyptodonts were reptiles.*.]]
- A brain teaser I submitted to Braingle.com was rejected because the editors thought that BAND was correct. If you don't know what the problem is, see the "Real Life" folder on the trope's main page. Albertonykus, you'll be glad to know I quoted your blog several times in my rebuttal.
- I have a Creationist dinosaur book which is actually quite accurate by evolutionist standards. However, one flaw remains: Tyrannosaurus rex is shown with three fingers.
- Stalker with a Crush: Insofar as Googling Rose Schaefer from the most recent Jeopardy! Teen Tournament counts as stalking.
- That Came Out Wrong: When half-asleep, I once mispronounced "Do the Funky Pickle" (that's a book, by the way) as "Do the F***ing Pickle".
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