Line #49 Tropers/SamCurt


1	Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori (nee Samuel Curtis), [[Manga/DetectiveConan Shinichian and Hirokian]].[[labelnote:note]]My most commonly used sig.[[/labelnote]]
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3	Born and lived most of his live in UsefulNotes/HongKong, but now studying genetics in the US. As expected for a Hong Konger, I'm of Chinese blood and speaks [[ChineseDialectsAndAccents Cantonese]]-- but I associated more with the ''English''-speaking fandom than the Chinese.
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5	I hardly consider myself {{otaku}}; my dosage of manga is well within normal limits for any urban teenager in East Asia, I read quite a bit of other books, and I don't fawn over anything fictional. This is marked by my interpretation of fictional works:
6	* ''unless otherwise stated, everything is realistic,'' and
7	* ''"this is a plot device" is only an explanation at the last resort.''
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9	Which is not surprising, given my GatewaySeries is ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' and my current portfolio, which also includes ''Manga/LuckyStar'' and ''Manga/HidamariSketch'', are still realistic enough to sustain the above.
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11	!!I am also examples of:
12	* AngstAversion
13	** ''Manga/DetectiveConan: Phantom of Baker Street'' was giving me such heart-crushing angst (that lingered [[BeyondTheImpossible for several years!]]) that:
14	###the movie was banned for me even now, and
15	###there's no doubt that that angsty character is already part of my psyche.
16	** A more recent example is ''Manga/SketDance'', in which I was on the verge of starting until... knowing about Switch's MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe {{backstory}}.
17	* AsianAndNerdy-- So Yeah.
18	* [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Attention Deficit... Ooh Shiny!]]-- Diagnosed in an age when ADHD was hardly a buzzword in my place. Which quite certainly led to...
19	* BookDumb-- people ''always'' commented that I am smarter than what my grades showed. As a matter of fact I ''barely'' got a B+ in undergraduate, the minimum to get into grad school--which left me wondering now: how did I get into the PhD of this Top 100 school?
20	* BrilliantButLazy-- [[JustifiedTrope certainly a consequence of ADHD]] as ADHD is mainly a consequence of impaired norepinephrine signalling-- and norepinephrine also mediates alertness and wakefulness. I actually have that "unshruggable grogginess" that has been very prominent before going on psychostimulants which made me has the drive but not the energy to do things.
21	* EatingLunchAlone-- Pretty evident after entering college.
22	* GentleGiant-- which led to [[HugeSchoolgirl Huge Schoolboy]] tendencies, below.
23	* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation-- I ''won't'' call myself ''that'' intelligent; [[YouFailTheIQTest 128]] isn't that high of score--but being clinically in the autistic spectrum, this is somehow inevitable. By the way, I interpret [[DetectiveConan Shinichi Kudo]] to be between this and InsufferableGenius.
24	* [[HugeSchoolgirl Huge Schoolboy]]-- I'm considered to be very tall at home, and suffered from the insecurities mentioned in that trope; I once compared myself to [[AzumangaDaioh Sakaki]]. Which, strangely, led me to have a tendency to [[TheWoobie woobify]] {{Ill Boy}}s. Will be on that later.
25	* AngstWhatAngst Despite the above, don't think I'm so angsty. To be frank, I [[AngstAversion avoid angst]], lest it would damage my sanity; I understand well that I can be into angst so much when I got to meet them.
26	* LiteralMinded: To the level that I can calculate but not predict.
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28	!!Editing Portfolio
29	I group my Watchlist into several classes. Works are grouped by chronological order of my knowing it.
30	!!!Portfoilo Class I
31	Works that have more than 100 {{wick}}s, and personally selected for personal importance.
32	* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' (Traditionally declared in 1994)
33	* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' (Traditionally declared in 14 July 1998)
34	** ''Anime/CaseClosedThePhantomOfBakerStreet'' has a ''separate'' entry. Traditionally declared 8 December 2002.
35	* ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'' (31 January, 2012.)
36	* ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' (16 October, 2012.)
37	* ''Manga/KotouraSan'' (The first work page I have launched. 12 January, 2013.)
38	* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'' (The third launched. 12 November, 2015 )
39	* ''Manga/HidamariSketch'' (designated 17 February 2020; for protocol purposes backdated to 10 July 2008)
40	* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' (designated 18 February 2020; effective 8 March 2020; for protocol purposes backdated to 8 February 2020)
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42	!!!Portfolio Class II
43	Works that have more than 100 {{wick}}s[[note]]With the exception of redirects and intra-work wicks[[/note]], but not selected into Portfolio Class I.
44	* ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' [[note]]Strictly speaking it can be seen as a ''former'' P-I; I would have categorized it as such between 1999-2002 if this wiki existed.[[/note]]
45	* ''Manga/LuckyStar''
46	* ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass''
47	* ''Literature/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions''
48	* ''Manga/ServantXService''
49	* ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo''
50	* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun''
51	* ''Manga/GourmetGirlGraffiti'' (Second launched work page.)
52	* ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon''
53	* ''Manga/CastleTownDandelion''
54	* ''Manga/KiniroMosaic''
55	* ''Manga/FoodWars''
56	* ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying''
57	* ''Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit''
58	* ''Anime/TamakoMarket''
59	* ''Anime/{{Shirobako}}''
60	* ''Manga/NewGame''
61	* ''Manga/SakuraTrick''
62	* ''Manga/BlendS''
63	* ''Manga/CellsAtWork''
64	* ''Manga/WastefulDaysOfHighSchoolGirls''
65	* ''Manga/LaidBackCamp''
66	* ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor''
67	* ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''
68	* ''Literature/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel''
69	* ''Literature/EndoAndKobayashiLive The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte''(A rare case of having portfolio status before the AnimatedAdaptation aired)
70	* ''Manga/BocchiTheRock'' (''rather'' reluctantly)
71	* ''Manga/SPYxFamily'' (Rare return to a shonen series, isn't it?)
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73	!!! Honourable Mentions
74	* While I don't see ''every'' of them favourably, I usually handle works from ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara'', having personally launched the magazine's article and have several works listed under P-II.
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76	!! Other launches
77	* ''Manga/MagicOfStella''
78	* LikesOlderMen (First launched trope (10/23/2016), as a side effect of the aforementioned ''Magic of Stella'')
79	* EnergeticAndSoftSpokenDuo
80	* SelfImposedExile
81	* ''Fanfic/FortuneLoverTGSBetaSaruRipTPlusEng0Point75SincereDotZip''
82	* InsignificantAnniversary

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