Line #8 Tropers/Shonengirl


1	(I first wrote this profile when I was 16 or around that age. If there’s a quality shift in places, I probably added some stuff later. May edit more)
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3	Hello, Shonengirl here! I'm the writer of Fanfic/AWildBadficAppearedCommentaries on DeviantArt, and you may know me from there. I'm not exactly a gamer, but I like Nintendo games, especially the ones represented in SuperSmashBros, and am into Fire Emblem and Pokemon. Generally, I like filling out characters and imagining how they would interact more than actually playing the game, which most of the time I absolutely suck at. I also love history, geography, and international politics, which is why you may see me poking around Hetalia pages; it’s kinda similar to how I experience most games, I don’t watch the franchise’s media, at least now (I have seen clips of the show and some comic strips though, and from what I saw there it’s actually pretty funny), but something about it draws me to it and I like seeing what people do with the idea and characters more than anything (in this case it’s more the concept though). I am also really into Music/{{Vocaloid}}, and partway in the Franchise/EvilliousChronicles fandom, partway because I’m not that well-versed in it. I also tend to find myself dabbling in franchises that touch on historical topics in some way (e.g. the Fate series), though I’d hardly consider myself a fan of them due to barely bothering to look into the deeper lore of them. Well, please check out the commentary; fans are always wanted.
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5	!Tropes Applying to me:
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7	* AsianAndNerdy: I'm Japanese; as in, actual full Japanese, not a Weeaboo. I've spent 13 years since birth in the States, so my English is actually better than my Japanese though.
8	* BerserkButton:
9	%%The one that comes to mind now is Yaoi fangirls. Especially the stupid ones, and [[ShippingGoggles those who scream that a character is gay because he (or she in the case of yuri) often hangs out with the same gender]] or is HeterosexualLifePartners with someone. Call me ObliviousToLove, but in most so-called HoYay or ShipTease moments, I only see a very close, beautiful friendship between these two people. And in general rabid shippers annoy me with their ShippingGoggles, me being one of those few teenage girls who don't feel the need to ship everyone and everything. Oh, and those who make fun of "lesser" franchises in Smash Bros too, such as Fire Emblem and Xenoblade. It got old. Really quickly.
10	** This has come to bother me less over the years, but OOC-ness, whether for the sake of humor, manipulative angst, some yaoi/yuri fantasy, or because of lack of research. The way I see it, you may as well use OCs if you aren't being loyal to their character. The "OOC BECUZ FUNNEIHH!!" really grinds my gears since I see it way too often. The only exception is if you have a damn good reason for it; maybe you think the character could have been written differently, or want to consider how something would change a character. I would actually like to read something like that, and I play around with the Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia characters myself for this reason. And there are surely many people who decided to write better versions of [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella Swan]] for example, and I appreciate badfic rewrites a lot. But again, most of the time there’s no real reason to do so, and as such no real reason to be using those characters. And I've seen way too many commentaries which make them OOC in the opposite way; as in, make them as bland as possible, in a format where you should be exploiting character quirks and their unique personalities. If I see Sonic, Pit, Fem!Robin or Palutena, I'm expecting things to be bursting in snarky/trollish goodness, not extremely bland and unimpressive. And no, references to their games do not cut it.
11	** Also an annoying thing is the DracoInLeatherPants and RonTheDeathEater tropes. It goes into part of OOC and is a particularly irritating strain of it. I’ve grown to tolerate it more, but man is it annoying. I’m looking at you, WebShow/GameTheory.
12	%%** One that is also more mild annoyance nowadays, but a pet peeve is hearing anime or game characters talk about “being feminine” ([[Franchise/FireEmblem for fluck’s sake, you are SOLDIERS! Who the flick cares if you’re feminine or not! Hell, you have even LESS of a reason to be feminine here than a civilian! Your job is stabbing people!]]/Yea yeah, I’m sorry that guy offended your fragile wittle Japanese Girl feelings. What are you getting so weepy about?! It’s not like he broke up with you, you crybaby!). I appreciate femininity, but man, time and place!
13	%%** For things that actually matter, there's animal abuse, anyone saying animals are to be exploited, environmental pollution and people who say it's okay, those who try to be offensive just because and to be “EDGEY LOL” instead of to make a point (otherwise, you better be actually funny), genocide deniers (because oh, I see them a lot like you wouldn’t believe...), stupid Alt-right wingers and nationalists, stupid Uber-left wingers (though for some reason I find [=SJWs=] to be more comically insane than genuinely terrible), and general ignorance on issues being used as evidence; one of the reasons why EncyclopediaDramatica still angers me is more because I'm ticked off at their sheer stupidity and hypocrisy than actually being offended as they claim. And polarization in general is like a frustrating, Never-endingness of dramatic irony playing out in real life.
14	%%** Another more of a pet peeve, but ItsPopularNowItSucks. As a fan of Disney/{{Frozen}}, I know this pretty well. And due to being a (former) fan of WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter (and seeing some of this with the Pokémon anime, which I should note is a canon that I’m not a huge fan of, but can see that Gen 6 was a jump in quality through how others talked about it), I’ve also grown to absolutely hate people who use really old criticisms to bash someone or something, even after the creator or show or game or whatever in question remedied that problem ages ago. If you want to criticize something, actually criticize it in its current form. Or criticize the work and the creator at the time specifically. I still mock older badfics sure, but I’m mocking the badfic and the creator AT THE TIME it was written, not who the creator is now if they have improved; like being shown an old journal and going “Lol, you were such a cringey edgelord back then!”.
15	* {{Bifauxnen}}: Apparently I look like a guy to some people. Or [[OlderThanTheyLook a kid]]. Or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a young boy]]. Though I get mistaken for a young girl more often recently. It’s probably because I don’t fuss over my looks a lot. Though yeah, maybe I should care about it more.
16	* DeadpanSnarker: I run a commentary, what do you expect?
17	* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: You know how I said my English is way better? Well, yeah... if I consider English my “first language”, since my first word was (apparently) “apple”, though I speak Japanese at home, I could be considered a downplayed example. Otherwise, it’s an Inverted downplayed example. My Japanese is... pretty mediocre for my age. I can do everyday stuff fine, but it can get incredibly frustrating trying to express myself in Japanese, but not being able to come up with the word for something or not knowing how to describe something, which means if you ever hear me speaking in Japanese, you’ll likely hear me peppering my sentences with GratuitousEnglish in place of words or concepts I can’t convey otherwise (on top of a bad case of MotorMouth and butchering of the pronounciation of “s”, and depending on how early it is since I’ve woken up, possibly worse). It makes me sound stupid, and it’s a bit embarrassing, but I’m planning to work on it.
18	* GoshDangItToHeck: I like to do this; cussing sounds immature, why not use InherentlyFunnyWords in place of them? I might use bleeped out swears for comedy occasionally too.
19	* TheIdiotFromOsaka: I'm not stupid, I'm pretty intelligent, if I say so myself. Yeah, I know, bragging. But I can be kind of brash at times.
20	* PerverseSexualLust: Man that trope name is uncreative. But my crushes include Dr. Jekyll from the ''Franchise/FateSeries'' and Luke and Anakin Skywalker from the ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies. I will probably be extra cringey when talking about the former especially lol.
21	* {{Tomboy}}: I’m somewhat of one I’d say, though have become a bit less so over the years. Especially when I was a teenager, since gender norms are followed by pretty much every girl around me even in an international school (as of in high school), this is Japan after all. It really marked me as an American, lol. Though I’m actually not a fan of sports that much.

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