Amusingly, Dioschorium found TV Tropes by accident while reading a post on a Livejournal community. TV Tropes now shares the ultimately insignificant honor of being Dioschorium's favorite Web site with the aforementioned Livejournal.com.
Diosch is somewhat alienated from fandom because of its lack of interest in live-action television shows, with the dual exceptions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Blackadder. Thus, it has very little knowledge of what seems to compose a large part of fandom: no Merlin, no Sentinel, no Due South, no Star Trek, no Doctor Who, no Glee, no Arrested Development, no Smallville, no Hercules The Legendary Journeys, no Xena Warrior Princess, no X-Files, no Queer As Folk, no L Word, no Firefly, no Dollhouse, no Lost, no House, no Scrubs, no Heroes, no Supernatural, and no Flight of the Conchords. It repeats: MST 3 K and Blackadder are the only live-action TV shows that interest this troper. In other words, Diosch does not read any live-action television examples on trope pages. This isn't because of Hype Aversion. Diosch simply has yet to be captivated by any other live-action TV show.
Similarly, Diosch does watch some anime and read some manga, but is usually unfamiliar with the most recent or popular productions. Consequently, it has very little understanding of Death Note, Bleach, and the various Gundam series, among others.
However, it is inordinately fond of Speculative Fiction, usually finding the genre vastly more intriguing than non-genre fiction, though there are exceptions (Show Boat, for instance). Recently, it has renewed its interest in fantasy and begun a newfound love of comic books, thanks to Watchmen and the documentary In Search of Steve Ditko. Moreover, Diosch has been a fan of the horror genre since childhood.
Other tropes that describe it include:
- Angst? What Angst?: Diosch takes this approach to its life (usually). Wallowing in self-pity only prolongs the misery.
- Animation Age Ghetto: Thoroughly averted. Animation is its favorite storytelling medium next to literature.
- Asexual—and genderless, too, as if you couldn't tell.
- Badass Bookworm: Its attempts at becoming one of these failed; it is now content simply being a bookworm.
- Cargo Ship: It once wrote a passionate ode to its book collection, comparing itself to King Solomon.
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Covert Pervert: In high school, but no longer. Pornography holds little to no appeal for Diosch by now, and Diosch has always despised Fanservice anyway.
- Goth
- Guilty Pleasures: Also averted, in the sense that Diosch does not regard anything it enjoys this way (even Salo). Pleasure should never be guilty.
- Insistent Terminology: It is a person, not a gendered form of address.
- Intergenerational Friendship: It used to be part of one of these, but then the other half of the friendship killed himself.
- Nerd
- Nightmare Fetishist, in a bit of unintentional self-promotion
Off the top of its head, it has made edits to the following pages:
- Author Appeal
- Estrogen Brigade
- Fetish Fuel
- For Doom the Bell Tolls
- Goosebumps
- HP Lovecraft (It wrote most of the trope list on that page.)
- Human Resources
- I Will Wait for You
- Ironic Nursery Tune
- Nightmare Fuel
- Perverse Sexual Lust
- The Puppet Masters
- So Bad Its Horrible
- Star Control
- Tear Jerker
Responsible for:
- Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death
- Nightmare Fetishist (which it also launched)
- Religious Horror
- Touch of the Monster
Favorite works of fiction:
- the HP Lovecraft canon
- Alice In Wonderland (the Lewis Carroll duology as well as the Disney movie)
- Watchmen
- Star Control II
- Spider-Man (the 1960s comics, but it also likes the movies and the animated series, when not taking them seriously)
- Slayers
- All Dogs Go To Heaven
- Freakazoid
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- In The Mouth Of Madness
- Alan Dean Foster's Glory Lane
- John Carter Of Mars
- the films of Hayao Miyazaki
- some of the works of Arthur Machen (The Great God Pan, "The White People")
- Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God
- Hsu And Chan
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- The Red Shoes (the 1948 movie)
- Starlight Express
- Time Squad
- Star Wars
