History Tropers / CassandraLeo

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I rarely sign into any of these anymore. If you want to contact me, the best way to do it is through messages here, through my forum, through my forum’s IRC channel, or through last.fm.

aim: same as my screen name here\\
msn: aaronfreed@gmail.com (Note that I will not check emails sent to this address as it was long ago overrun with too much spam for me to bother filtering out the valid content; if for some strange reason you wish to email me, ask me for my current address)\\

Vell, Aaron's just zis guy, you know?

I run a forum called [[http://fools-gold.org/forum/ Fool's Gold]] (which is currently closed). I've also been active on a number of other boards, but much less so, and they're mostly pretty inconsequential in the scheme of these things; [[http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/ Freethought Forum]] and [[http://thelifestream.net/forums/ The Lifestream]] are really the only two I still maintain any appreciable amount of activity on these days. I'm pretty obsessed with music (especially jazz, soundtracks, metal, and progressive rock) and basically one of those BombThrowingAnarchists, but without the bombs. (See TVTropes' UsefulNotes on UsefulNotes/{{Anarchism}} and UsefulNotes/PoliticalIdeologies for some actual factual information on anarchism. My thought tends towards anarcho-syndicalism, but I'm not particularly dogmatic about any particular form of anarchism, apart from disliking "ancaps"). I live in Florida, much to my chagrin. See also [[http://www.last.fm/user/Cassandra-Leo/ my last.fm]], [[http://soundcloud.com/cassandraleo my Soundcloud]], and [[http://www.last.fm/music/Aaron+Freed/ some neo-classical electronic music I wrote awhile back]].

Some works I like (alphabetical order, and the list is nowhere near complete; I'll probably add a lot more stuff later, but it'll probably never be fully complete as I want to keep this to stuff that has wiki entries):

* ''TheInvisibles'' [[note]]Although I'm pretty sure I comprehended less than half of what was actually going on[[/note]]

* If you think I like any of these for any other reason than ForTheLulz then I don't know what to tell you

* ''[[Film/{{PansLabyrinth}} Pan's Labyrinth]]''

* This is actually pretty unrepresentative of my taste because I've only listed the ones with their own TVTropes pages, which basically only means the artists that could be vaguely described as mainstream are listed, and many of the most adventurous ones are left off. (Although Magma, Zappa and a few others are still pretty adventurous). The list would have been longer than the entire rest of the page combined otherwise. See [[http://www.last.fm/user/Cassandra-Leo/ my last.fm]], seriously. Though I would like to note that the "Shining" on my page contains plays from both the Norwegian and the Swedish artists. I probably have around 500 plays of each.

* ''[[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi's Island]]''

* AmbiguousDisorder - I've actually been diagnosed with "components" of several of them
* AmbiguousGender - I'm frequently confused for a woman, which no longer bothers me
* UsefulNotes/{{Anarchism}} - the dominant influence on my political thought. As it's a highly misunderstood philosophy, I'd recommend reading the article, which does a pretty good job explaining it

* LoudnessWar

* ''{{Archer}}''
* ''{{Futurama}}''

[[AC:ComicStrips]]
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''

* ''ChronoTrigger''
* ''ChronoCross''
* ''DragonQuestV''
* ''FinalFantasyVI''
* ''FinalFantasyIX''

* ''TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''
* ''TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening''
* ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''
* ''TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap''
* ''{{Marathon}}'' trilogy & Game Mods

* ''SecretOfMana''
* ''SeikenDensetsu3''
* ''SuperMarioBros3''
* ''SuperMarioWorld''

* ''YoshisIsland''