History Tropers / Whataboutme

Lurking in the dark shadows of the tvtropes [[{{Hell}} Tartarus]], you'll find me. Or not find me, since I don't always announce my presence, but that's beside the point.

So here's a bit about me.

My interests and favorite activities include tea-drinking, playing video games (mostly RPG ones), reading or just plain buying books (you can ''never'' have enough books!), worshi-I mean, ''listening'' to {{Buckethead}}'s music and shaking my fist at humanity's idiocy. And sometimes at my own. I also like to visit this site because... [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife well...]]


Currently reading: TheBrothersKaramazov.


And the rest is history.

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[[folder: Things that (I think) apply to me]]

* AccentuateTheNegative: bit of a bad habit sometimes.
* AdmiringTheAbomination
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: not to the point of calling it a disorder, but I definitely get distracted often.
* BerserkButton: I have several, actually. However, my policy is not to reveal them to anyone that might use them against me. Tough luck.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: you'll know it when you see it. [[{{Angrish}} Or rather]] [[ClusterFBomb hear it]].
* BlueEyes: blue-gray, to be exact.
* BobHaircut: currently.
* {{Bookworm}}
* ClosetGeek / {{Geek}}: easily noticeable, if you look at the signs, but not exactly the thing I start conversation with when I'm meeting someone.
* CloudCuckoolander: ultimately subverted. I can come off as a bit of a weirdo sometimes, considering my odd interests, but I'm actually more normal than people give me credit for.
* TheCynic: let's just say my opinion of things changed a lot during the last few years.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: little bit. Maybe.
* EmotionlessGirl: most of the time.
* ForgetsToEat
* GallowsHumor: my favorite and the type I usually use when joking around.
* GoodIsNotNice: I still act nice, usually to people I know, or for reasons of tact and sheer politeness. But I generally keep to myself and I'm not very good at socializing by means of parties and the like. I'm also a cynic, so the usual first impressions I give are "haughty", "quiet" and "boring".
* HehHehYouSaidX: my mind tends to wander into the wrong places.
* IHatePastMe: because I was too nice, naive and a WideEyedIdealist.
* {{Meganekko}}
* NayTheist
* NeutralGood/ ChaoticGood: I'm generally a nice person. Doesn't mean I always follow rules and regulations by the book, however.
* [[NiceGuy Nice Gal]]: only people who've known me for a while will witness this though.
* NotSoAboveItAll: despite seriously disliking fangirls and FanDumb, I've been known to {{Squee}} at times.
* SeenItAll: type 3.
* SelfDeprecation
* SerialTweaker / GrammarNazi: mostly towards myself. But for the grammar part, I do get annoyed when other people make simple mistakes, such as confusing "you're" with "your" and the like. I may not say anything to them, but it really rubs me the wrong way, considering English isn't even my native tongue.
* ShrinkingViolet: mostly a past problem, but still comes out in some situations.
* SugarAndIcePersonality

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[[folder: Things that make my heart squee]]

* {{Art}}
* {{Fantasy}}
* [[ScienceFiction Sci-fi]]
* [[FairyTale Fairy tales]]
* Myths and legends
* Lullabies
* Various music
* Robots, AI and all questions surrounding them and their possible development of feelings
* Theories regarding the Universe
* Books, especially classics and on all of the above subjects

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[[folder: Animation]]

* VisualNovel/{{Air}} - the anime inspired by the visual novel. Only {{Moe}} series that I find have a few episodes actually worth watching.
* AtlantisTheLostEmpire: my guilty pleasure.
* AvatarTheLastAirbender
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGsFwd2GH3E Belphegor]] - a French-Canadian animated series that are now sadly almost impossible to find in English. The character Belphegor remains my favorite villain from all animations I've watched as a child and nowadays.
* WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}
* CowboyBebop
* EdEddNEddy
* EekTheCat
* FindingNemo
* TheIronGiant
* KirikouAndTheSorceress
* TheLegendOfKorra: ''seriously'' needs to get better. If it doesn't soon, I'm flying into nerd rage!
* NuPogodi
* [[WallE Wall*E]]
* [[WesternAnimation/XMen X-Men]]

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[[folder: Art]]

* MCEscher
* [[http://www.gustavklimtcollection.com/ Gustav Klimt]]
* [[http://www.natasha-turovsky.com/ Natasha Turovsky]]

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[[folder: Books I enjoy greatly]]

* ''TheBookThief''
* ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''
* ''Christmas Holiday''
* ''{{Foundation}}'' (still reading the whole series)
* ''HorribleHistories'' - I have about 11-12 of these. They were a great read when growing up and a good source of both interesting info and BlackHumor. Which is probably why I came to appreciate most BlackHumor in the first place.
* ''IAmTheMessenger''
* ''{{Lolita}}''
* ''The Lord of the World'' - old sci-fi novel
* ''OfMiceAndMen''
* ''ThePaintedVeil''
* ''{{Perfume}}''
* ''ThePictureOfDorianGray''
* ''SalemsLot''
* ''{{Solaris}}''

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[[folder: Films]]

* AmericanHistoryX
* BowlingForColumbine - whether it was edited in a few places or not, it makes good points about people, society, politics and media in general. It's good to make people think a little.
* TheCrow - only the first movie. And, oh yes, one of the few cases of BackFromTheDead that I approve of. I generally hate that trope.
* DonnieDarko
* [[GoodbyeLenin Good Bye, Lenin!]]
* AHistoryOfViolence
* {{Kukushka}}
* ''Letter to America''
* ThePeopleVsLarryFlynt
* {{Psycho}}
* Film/{{Scream}}: just the first one.
* TheShawshankRedemption
* SLCPunk

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[[folder: Live-Action TV Series]]

* TheBigBangTheory
* GameOfThrones
* MarriedWithChildren
* StarTrekVoyager

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[[folder: Music]]

* {{Ayreon}}
* {{Buckethead}} (or [[AffectionateNickname Mr.B]] as I like to call him) - edited a relatively large portion of his page and I continue to edit. He's my favorite musician and weird guy. Somehow always manages to both creep me out and make me smile.
* ''Chiasm''
* ClassicalMusic
* TheCure
* ESPosthumus
* Music/{{Ministry}}
* TheMysteryOfBulgarianVoices
* APerfectCircle
* Music/{{Queen}} - Freddie Mercury will always be the best singer and frontman of all time, to me at least.
* Music/{{Rainbow}}
* Soundtracks
* {{Tiamat}} - my favorite band.
* YngwieMalmsteen

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[[folder: Video Games]]

* AgeOfMythology
* AmericanMcgeesAlice
* DragonAgeOrigins
* DragonAgeII
* TheElderScrollsVSkyrim
* GuiltyGear
* NeverwinterNights
* VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines

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[[folder: Web Comics]]

* CaseyAndAndy
* [[http://championsandheroes.smackjeeves.com/ Champions And Heroes]]
* HarkAVagrant
* [[http://lastplacecomics.com/ Last Place Comics]]
* [[http://epantiras.deviantart.com/gallery/26672451 Mess Perfect]] - a MassEffect parody comic.
* [[http://epantiras.deviantart.com/gallery/31228611 Mess Perfect 2]] - ongoing second part of the above comic.
* {{XKCD}}

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[[folder: Web Original]]

* AngryJoe
* BumReviews
* ExtraCredits
* TheNostalgiaCritic - he's gone, I can't believe it! ;(
* {{Spill}}
* TheSpoonyExperiment
* ZeroPunctuation

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!!You may vandalize below, if you're into that kind of thing. Graffiti are preferred.
* Here's a lullaby I like: "Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr." (8^) - Tropers/{{AlBundyFan365}}
** Aww, why thank you, Dr. Cooper! I happen to like this one too! ;) - Tropers/{{whataboutme}}
* Don't be so pessimist about your country; all of them have something positive to highlight. I, for one, try to do it with mine: it has a lot of problems, but at least has a nice, original shape. - @/AmusedTroperGuy
* Why you gotta hate on BoysLove? Gays have just as much of a right to shitty [[RomanticComedy Romantic Comedies]] / PornWithPlot as the hets! *Angry pout* (Just kidding. I know it's not for everyone ^^) -@/BlakeDiamond
* Hello there. -@/CrimsonZephyr

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Quotes of the moment:

-->"''If you find your truth, you must follow it. You could find it in a paper bag, or in a statue, or in a slaughterhouse; you might find it dangling somewhere. People might say, "What the heck are you doing?" But it's OK if they don't understand. And if you follow it, stay true to it, and respect it, you could be in store for the greatest journey you could ever imagine.''" - {{Buckethead}}

My interests and favorite activities include tea-drinking, playing video games (mostly RPG ones), reading or just plain buying books (you can ''never'' have enough books!), worshi-I mean, ''listening'' to {{Buckethead}}' music and shaking my fist at humanity's idiocy. And sometimes at my own. I also like to visit this site because... [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife well...]]

"Write about yourself", said a sign on this site. Write what about me? Fine, here goes nothing.

My interests and favorite activities include tea-drinking, playing video games (mostly RPG ones), reading or just plain buying books, worshi-I mean, ''listening'' to {{Buckethead}} and shaking my fist at humanity's idiocy. And sometimes at my own. I also like to visit this site because... [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife well...]]

* ClosetGeek / {{Geek}}: easily noticeable. Still, I'm often reluctant to openly admit interests in geeky stuff right away, especially when meeting new people. They give me that weird look, I hate it when people stare at me.
* CloudCuckoolander: can come off as a bit of a weirdo sometimes, considering my odd interests, but I'm actually more normal than people give me credit for.