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Hi there! I'm 35, live in North Little Rock, AR, and work for the FDA as a chemist. I'm married, no kids, and one cat. I discovered TV Tropes a few years ago and have found it truly addictive.

I'm a huge fan of anime and manga and keep up with and edit several such articles here (see the list below, it's semi-comprehensive). I'm also an avid reader. I played the Diablo games for a long time, then got really obsessed with World of Warcraft for a few years, but now I'm burned out on that and will be getting into Diablo III as soon as we can get the computer souped up to run it.

My Wiki experience started with The Other Wiki but I've pretty much given up on it. Feel free to correct my edits, as I'm sure I'm going to make mistakes with tropes and examples as I go.

In case you're wondering, it's pronounced "Willbur".

Wiki-related stuff for me

I'm now a moderator^note formerly an Engineer, but those positions were upgraded, so if there's anything mod-wise you need me to address, drop a line and I'll see what I can do.

I'm also a Herald for Image Pickin'. The Herald system now sends automatic PMs to newcomers to Image Pickin'. My job is to answer any replies to the PMs, and help newbies in general.

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Tropes for me

Yes, I know tropes aren't supposed to be associated with real people. No, I don't much care.

• Afraid of Needles
• Chivalrous Pervert
• Cloudcuckoolander
• All the F tropes
• Face Palm
• Facebook
• Fascinating Eyebrow
• Kindhearted Cat Lover
• Pungeon Master
• The Quiet One
• Twitter (PM me if you want to follow me)
• Yuri Fan

Me as a Troper

• Grammar Nazi / Spelling Nazi
• Hedge Trimmer
• Serial Tweaker
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
• Wiki Curator
• Very active in the Image Pickin' forum, with several pages' pics to my credit. Also, for a long time, I worked on Pages Needing Example Sorting regularly...I need to get back to that.

TV Tropes pages to my credit

• Chuzzle
• Transformers (haiku)
• Slipknot (haiku)
• Tool (haiku)
• Metallica (haiku)
• A major rebuild of Angry Birds
• Live
• Office Jerk

Some TV Tropes entries I either routinely follow/edit or have edited and am still tracking for the hell of it

Tropes

• Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions
• Laconical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions
• Pages Needing Example Sorting

Works (most are highly recommended)

Anime and Manga

• Neon Genesis Evangelion and its character page
• Haruhi Suzumiya
• Elfen Lied
• Saikano
• Kino's Journey
• Change 123
• Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
• RahXephon
• Ichi The Killer
• Ninja Scroll
• Vampire Hunter D
• Gantz
• The Ghost In the Shell manga, films, and Stand Alone Complex
• Parasyte
• Living Game
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
• Franken Fran
• Dance in the Vampire Bund
• Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
• Gunjo
• FLCL

Comic Books

• Cerebus The Aardvark
• The Crow
• The Dark Knight Returns
• The Sandman
• Wolverine
• Y: The Last Man

Fan Fiction

• The Evangelion fan fics page
  • Shinji and Warhammer 40K and Nobody Dies in particular
• Toy Hammer
• Harry Potter And The Nightmares Of Futures Past

Film

• Transformers

Literature

• Stephen King
• Ciaphas Cain
• Dune
• Eisenhorn
• Ravenor
• The Eden trilogy

Live-Action TV

• The Big Bang Theory
• Good Eats
• House
• Mythbusters, its CMoF page, and Tropes Examined By The Myth Busters
• NCIS
• Jim Rome Is Burning
• Around the Horn
• Pardon The Interruption

Music

• Tool
• Metallica
• Megadeth
• Slipknot
• New Kids on the Block
• Aphex Twin

Stand-Up Comedy

• Bill Hicks

Tabletop Games

• Warhammer 40000 and its character pages

Web Original

• Sailor Nothing
• SCP Foundation
• Tales of MU

Webcomics

• FreakAngels
• Ow, my sanity
• Outsider
• Sinfest
• Oglaf
• Questionable Content
• Goblins

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Feel free to leave a comment/question/greeting/whatever if you'd like!

Irothtin: Can I ask why you're right-justifying what seems like every image on the wiki? I just need to know why.

AlBundyFan365: (knock knock knock) Willbyr? (knock knock knock) Willbyr? (knock knock knock) Willbyr? HA HA HA! I'm just kiddin'. I love watching The Big Bang Theory also. Sheldon makes me laugh so much. (8^)

Wow. Just... wow. Thanks for your work with the ToyHammer page, Willbyr. It is greatly appreciated.

My dear Willbyr, you/maker of tricky haikus/you're such a darn tease. - Amused Troper Guy

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