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All I wanted was a picture of Fin Fang Foom's appearance in Nextwave. What I found was this. From there, it's pretty much been downhill.

My real name is Steven. Welcome to my nightmare.

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Launched the page for:

• Iji
• Whiteout
• Greg Rucka
• Recursive Reality
• Richard Matheson
• The Sandbaggers
• Thank the Maker
• X-Factor

Fan of:

• Azumanga Daioh
• Criminal
• Queen And Country
• Planetes
• Brazil
• El Goonish Shive
• Freefall
• XKCD
• Alan Moore
• Terry Gilliam
• David Simon
• Rumiko Takahashi
• Dykes To Watch Out For
• Weeds
• The Coen Brothers

and a bazillion others in pretty much any media you can think of.

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This troper provides examples of:

• Archive Binge - That Other Wiki before, now this one, as well as Freefall and El Goonish Shive as a direct result.
• Archive Trawl
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
• Berserk Button - Somewhere A Psychologist Is Crying, Get A Hold Of Yourself Man, Did Not Do the Research
• Big Words
• Chivalrous Pervert
• Corner of Woe
• Curiosity Is a Crapshoot
• Epiphany Therapy - averted hard.
• Gallows Humor
• Insufferable Genius
• Keet
• Large Ham
• Love Freak
• Mood Whiplash
• Narm
• Not Now, Kiddo
• Reality Is Unrealistic
• Self-Imposed Challenge
• Swiss Moment
• The Tetris Effect
• TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life (although this started long ago)
• Yaoi/Yuri Fanboy (No, they're not mutually exclusive! :)

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