I've been a lurker since 2012. I joined the site in December of 2015, but I didn't start editing regularly until March 23, 2018, when I made a bunch of edits to Irreconcilable Differences.
I can usually be found writing pages for any book I read or movie I watch that doesn't already have one. My main areas of interest are Autism in Media, Mermaid Media, Queer Media, New Hollywood, and whatever I find on Project Gutenberg.
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Pages I've created
Creator
Film
- 40 Carats
- Aaron Loves Angela
- The Abduction of Saint Anne
- About Scout
- Adam & Paul
- Against a Crooked Sky
- The Air Up There
- Aloha, Bobby and Rose
- ...And Your Name Is Jonah
- Angel, Angel, Down We Go
- The Angel Levine
- Backstreet Dreams
- Beach Party
- The Beasts Are on the Streets
- Bedtime Story (1964)
- The Big Cube
- The Black Balloon (2007)
- The Black Stork
- Blood Harvest
- Bloody Mama
- Blue Iguana (2018)
- The Blue Iguana
- A Boy Called Po
- Breaking and Entering (2006)
- Breaking Point (1976)
- Busting
- The California Kid
- Call Me Bwana
- The Candy Snatchers
- Catch Us If You Can
- Change of Habit
- A Child Is Waiting (The page technically existed already, but it barely qualified as a stub)
- Color Me Perfect
- Corvette Summer
- Cries from the Heart
- Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
- The Daisy Chain
- Dancing Trees
- Dark August
- David's Mother
- Daylight (2013)
- Disaster on the Coastliner
- Dog Days (2018)
- Dollman
- Dominick and Eugene
- Down in the Delta
- Drive, He Said
- The Drummer and the Keeper
- Electra Glide in Blue
- Eyes of Laura Mars
- Ferry Cross the Mersey
- Fielder's Choice
- Fighting Mad (1976)
- Fly Away
- Fragment of Fear
- Freebie and the Bean
- Getting Straight
- The Ghost Goes Gear
- The Giant (2016)
- God Told Me To
- The Great Fight
- The Great Houdinis
- The Hanoi Hilton
- Henry & Verlin
- Hold On! (1966)
- House of Cards (1993)
- The Idolmaker
- If You Could Say It in Words
- Imagination
- The Innocent (1994)
- In Your Afterglow
- I Think I Do (1997)
- Jack of the Red Hearts
- Jane Wants a Boyfriend
- Jimmie (2008)
- Journey of the Heart
- Joyful Noise
- Just the Way You Are
- Keep Off My Grass!
- Keep the Change (2017)
- Kenny & Company
- Killer Diller (2004)
- The King of Marvin Gardens
- Larger than Life
- Leo the Last
- Like Normal People
- Lolly-Madonna XXX
- Mabul
- Mackintosh and T.J.
- Mad Love (1995)
- Magic in the Water
- Malcolm
- A Man Called Horse
- A Man Called Nereus
- Mandy (1952)
- Man in the Wilderness
- Marathon (2005)
- Mario (1984)
- Mario (2018)
- Massacre at Central High
- Max (2002)
- Meadowland
- Mermaid Down
- Metallica: Through the Never
- Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
- Mickey One
- Midwinter Night's Dream
- The Million Dollar Duck
- Ming and Ming
- Miracle Run
- Molly (1983)
- Molly (1999)
- Most Likely to Murder (2018)
- Moving Violation
- Mr. Ricco
- Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
- Murder is My Beat
- My Demon Lover
- My Science Project
- Nathan's Kingdom
- The Neanderthal Man
- The Night Clerk (2020)
- Nightmare at Noon
- Nightworld: Lost Souls
- The Odd Way Home
- One-Trick Pony
- Partners (1982)
- Passion in the Desert
- The Peanut Butter Falcon
- Please Stand By
- Poor Pretty Eddie
- Privilege
- Psych-Out
- Pushing Tin
- Quantum Apocalypse
- The Rainbow Experiment
- Relative Fear
- Revenge for Jolly!
- Riot on Sunset Strip
- R. P. M. (1970)
- Run Wild, Run Free
- A Safe Place (1971)
- Satan's Triangle
- Savage Messiah (1972)
- Season of Miracles
- See No Evil (1971)
- The Sense of Wonder
- She Creature
- The Silence of Adultery
- Silent Fall
- Sky Riders
- Snatched (2017)
- Son of the Stars
- Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
- The Spirit of '76
- Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
- The Story of Luke
- The Strawberry Statement
- Sugar Hill (1974)
- Sunburn (1979)
- Superdome
- Sweet Hostage
- Terror at Black Falls
- Thunder Alley (1967)
- Toomorrow
- Too Soon to Love
- The Trip (1967)
- Trouble Man
- Tuff Turf
- Tyson's Run
- Under the Piano
- Unwed Mother
- Voyage of the Rock Aliens
- Wanda Nevada
- We Too Together
- When Taekwondo Strikes
- When the Bough Breaks (1994)
- When Time Got Louder
- Where's Willie?
- White Dog
- White Frog
- White Sands
- Whitewash
- Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
- Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
- Wild America
- The Wild Child
- Wild in the Streets
- Wild Thing
- Wonderwall
- You and Your Stupid Mate
- Youngblood (1986)
- Zachariah
- Zebrahead
- Zig Zag (2002)
Index
- American Films
- Autism in Media (proposed, but my input was minimal)
Literature
- Afrotistic
- Almost Perfect
- Almost Perfect (2014)
- The Amy Virus (My first page!)
- Ana on the Edge
- And Then I Turned Into a Mermaid
- Anything but Typical
- Apollo Autism
- Are You Alone on Purpose?
- Are You Seeing Me?
- Asperger Adventures
- Asperger Sunset
- Bad Mermaids
- The Ballad of Black Tom
- Bat
- Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
- Because of the Rabbit
- Being Bindy
- Bewilderment
- The Black Fox of Beckham
- Blue Iguana
- Boot Camp
- Born Behind Bars
- Both Can Be True
- Bounders
- The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War
- A Boy Made of Blocks
- The Boy Who Drew Monsters
- The Brotherhood of the Conch
- Bud, Not Buddy
- By Any Other Name (2013)
- Call Me Sunflower
- Can You See Me?
- Cemetery Bird
- Clade
- Colin Fischer
- The Coming Race
- The Coral Island
- Counting to D
- Daystar and Shadow
- The Deep (2019)
- Distress
- Dogs Don't Talk
- Dolphin Boy
- Dolphin Island
- Dolphin Song
- Dolphin Trilogy
- A Drowned Maiden's Hair
- The Eagle Tree
- The Easy Part of Impossible
- Elliott & Win
- The Enormous Egg
- Eric, or Little by Little
- Even If We Break
- Every Shiny Thing
- Evidence of Things Not Seen
- The Evolution of Emily
- Experimental Film
- Eye Contact
- Eye of a Fly
- "Fairest of All"
- Forbidden Sea
- Fractured Stars
- Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
- Ghosts of Tomorrow
- The Golden Hamster Saga
- The Goldfish Boy
- Gracefully Grayson
- Grass and Sky
- The Half-Life of Planets
- The Hampdenshire Wonder
- Harmonic Feedback
- Harmony (2016)
- Hayy ibn Yaqzan
- Haze
- He Is Your Brother
- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
- Hoshi and the Red City Circuit
- Hover Car Racer
- How to Fly with Broken Wings
- If I Fall, If I Die
- In a Summer Garment
- Incandescence
- In Two Worlds
- Island's End
- I Think I Love You
- I Wish You All the Best
- Joel Suzuki
- "Joey: A 'Mechanical Boy'"
- John's Lily
- Julia's Kitchen
- Juniper Sawfeather
- Kea's Flight
- The Key to Charlotte
- A Kind of Spark
- The Kitchen Daughter
- Language Arts
- The Light Jar
- Like a Fish Understands a Tree
- Like No Other Boy
- Lily and Dunkin
- Livvie Owen Lived Here
- Lost Voices
- Love Anthony
- Love Over Gold
- Maddy's Dolphin
- A Mango-Shaped Space
- The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester
- The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family
- Marcelo in the Real World
- MARiiMO
- Martian Time-Slip
- May the Best Man Win
- The Mer
- Mermaid (2011)
- The Mermaid
- The Mermaid Chronicles
- The Mermaid in the Millpond
- Mermaid Moon
- The Mermaid of Black Conch
- Mermaids
- The Mermaid's Daughter
- The Mermaid's Mirror
- Mermaids of Eriana Kwai
- The Mermaid's Sister
- Mermaid's Song
- The Mermaid Summer
- The Mermaid Variations
- The Merman's Children
- Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World
- Mindblind
- Miracle Creek
- Mirror Project
- The Missing Piece of Charlie O'Reilly
- The Monster Garden
- Moojag and the Auticode Secret
- The Moon and the Sun
- More Than Human
- Mouse (2017)
- Mr. Revere and I
- My Dark Vanessa
- The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I mean Noel)
- Naked Came the Stranger
- Navigating Early
- Nickel Plated
- No One Needed to Know
- Not Quite a Mermaid
- The Nowhere Girls
- The October Child
- One-Third Nerd
- On the Spectrum
- Orange Clouds, Blue Sky
- The Other Boy
- Otto of the Silver Hand
- The Outside
- The Pants Project
- The Pelican & After
- Peta Lyre's Rating Normal
- Pilgrennon's Children
- The Place Inside the Storm
- Planet Earth Is Blue
- Post-High School Reality Quest
- Prudence Penderhaus
- The Purple Cloud
- Queens of Geek
- Ragged Dick
- Rain Reign
- The Real Boy
- Real Mermaids
- Remember Dippy
- Rogue
- The Roosevelt
- Rosaleen among the Artists
- Rubbernecker
- Rules
- Sanctuary
- The Savant
- Save the Enemy
- Saving Max
- The Schizogenic Man
- The Search for Delicious
- The Secret Life of Kitty Granger
- Shine Shine Shine
- Shock Point
- Shtum
- The Silence of Murder
- Siren
- Sirena
- Sisterland
- Skin of the Sea
- Slug Days Stories
- Small as an Elephant
- Small Persons with Wings
- Social Queue
- The Society of Sylphs
- The Someday Birds
- Song of the Dolphin Boy
- The Sorrows of Satan
- The Speed of Dark
- The Speed of Sound
- Spirit of the Northwest
- The State of Grace
- Stim
- The Storm Swimmer
- The Story of Valentine and His Brother
- The Syrena Legacy
- Tempest (2011)
- There's More Than One Way Home
- Things I Should Have Known
- This Alien Shore
- This Other World
- Thora
- Too Bright to See
- Tornado Brain
- Transpecial
- Trueman Bradley
- Truth or Dare (2000)
- The Tuning Station
- Twelve Days
- Underdogs
- Unidentified Suburban Object
- An Unkindness of Ghosts
- The Vazula Chronicles
- Venus Among the Fishes
- Viral Nation
- The Water-Babies
- The Well at the World's End
- West Meadows Detectives
- Wet Magic
- What to Say Next
- When My Heart Joins the Thousand
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- The White Bone
- Wicked Good
- Wildflower Ranch
- Wild Orchid
- The Wild Way Home
- Wish
- Xandri Corelel
- You Have a Match
- You Look Different in Real Life
- The Young Diana
- Zenobia July
Live-Action TV
Music
Tropes
Other stuff
Tropes I like
- Author Appeal (the non-sexual kind): Even if I don't share the author's obsession, a lot of times their enthusiasm will rub off on me.
- Bavarian Fire Drill
- Bizarrchitecture
- Bizarro Episode: Admittedly a lot of these suck, but at best they're a really fun change of pace.
- Blade-of-Grass Cut
- Body Horror
- Celibate Hero: Society is so sex-obsessed. It's very refreshing to find a work that doesn't feel the need to include any.
- Christmas Episode: For whatever reason, these tend to be better than average.
- Costumer
- Deranged Animation
- Disney Acid Sequence
- Early-Installment Weirdness: It's always fun watching a series evolve.
- Edutainment
- Engaging Chevrons: Aside from my fondness for repetition, if the characters have to encode chevrons one through seven the first time, it only makes sense for them to do it every time. Stuff like this makes a story feel so much realer.
- Fake Band/Band Toon/Music Stories: If it stars a band, fake or otherwise, I'm probably going to love it.
- "Far Side" Island: So peaceful. Who's never fantasized about being stranded on one?
- Fashion Dissonance: I unironically dig a lot of the "worst" fashions of previous decades, especially The '70s.
- Generational Saga
- Great Escape
- Hair-Contrast Duo: Not only visually appealing but also helpful for my mild prosopagnosia.
- Heterosexual/Platonic Life-Partners: Possibly my Favorite Trope.
- Hippie Van
- Hollywood Satanism: When I was a kid, I found this genuinely creepy. Now I find it kind of hilarious. Fun either way.
- How Dad Met Mom
- Infodump: I love information, even if it's fake. It's like reading Wikipedia articles.
- Kid Hero: They're underdogs, and they're less likely to get bogged down in tedious romantic drama than older characters.
- Lens Flare
- The Many Deaths of You
- Match Cut
- Mood Dissonance: The more jarring, the better.
- Morality Chain
- Mouse World
- Nostalgic Narrator
- Pun
- Recursion, in all its forms.
- Robinsonade: I was a huge fan of these as a kid. One of my favorite fantasies was being stranded somewhere and living all by myself in the wilderness.
- Scare 'Em Straight: Like it or not, scare tactics work. Better to be traumatized by a gruesome driver's ed or fire safety video than to star in one.
- Scenery Porn
- Small, Secluded World
- Soap Within a Show
- Stable Time Loop
- Teen Idol: I have a huge soft spot for these. My favorites are the Cassidy half-brothers.
- Theme Tune Cameo
- Time Abyss
- Timey-Wimey Ball
- Stuff that's probably Too Rare to Trope:
- Character who has spent most of their life trapped indoors finally steps outside for the first time in years
- Character has their family's memories of them wiped so they can do hero stuff without being missed
- Mystery plot where a child gradually learns about the eventful lives one or both of their parents lived before they were born
- Unconventional Learning Experience
- Unintentional Period Piece: If I'm old enough to remember the time period, it's a trip down memory lane. If I'm not, it's a look at history.
- Values Dissonance: Can be fun in small doses.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?
Tropes I hate
- Arc Welding: Normally I can suspend disbelief in almost anything, but this tends to be too much even for me. Does everything have to be connected? Aren't things allowed to just happen?
- Collateral Angst
- Dysfunction Junction: This trope wouldn't bother me if it wasn't so overused. I can buy one maladjusted genius, but not entire squads full of them on multiple shows.
- Fanwork Ban: It really irritates me when creators try to stop something that benefits everyone, including the creators themselves, just because of some nebulous "value" like intellectual ownership that doesn't connect to anything in the real world.
- Insane Equals Violent: More specifically, the version where a "mental illness" whose only symptom is zaniness is used to explain why a character's a criminal, with no effort to give the character an actual motive. I have a high tolerance for lazy writing, but come on.
- Jitter Cam: Fine in small doses, but too much of it, especially combined with a really short average shot length, can reduce my understanding of a scene to "I am watching blurry images flash by while background music plays." (Looking at you, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.)
- Music Video pet peeves:
- Talky Bookends and mid-vid skits that add up to more than about 30 seconds. (I'll make an exception if the talky parts are entertaining, like in the "Dream Police" video, but they rarely are.)
- Performance videos full of crowd noise. Especially annoying if I've turned the volume up loud, and suddenly the audience is screaming in my ears.
- Video Full of Film Clips. I can understand why this is done, but if I wanted to watch Dirty Dancing, I'd be watching Dirty Dancing, not a music video.
- Neurodiversity Is Supernatural: If the only way someone can be different from the norm is if they're an alien or something, it makes the whole species less interesting.
- Poor Communication Kills: Or any plot that could have been resolved more quickly if the characters would just talk to each other.
- The Profiler: Humans Do Not Work That Way!
- Romantic Plot Tumor
- Throwing Off the Disability: Especially if it's through Heroic Willpower, with lots of rhetoric about how the character's disability somehow protects him from reality and he's afraid to come out of his shell.
- Token Romance
- Tough Love (when portrayed sympathetically): The vast majority of examples I've seen are actually pretty abusive.
- We Didn't Start the Führer: Humans seem practically engineered to commit atrocities - all the violence and cruelty of any other predator, plus the intelligence and sociality to do damage on a much larger scale than a shark or a bear. The idea that we need supernatural help to commit genocide is laughable to anyone who's ever opened a history book.
- Wet Blanket Wife
- Word of Gay: Either write a gay character or don't, but don't write a character who never shows any interest in their own gender and then declare after the fact that they were gay so you can get progressiveness points without doing anything to earn them. Not only does it tend to alienate both conservatives and liberals, it makes the author look like a cowardly hypocrite. I'll forgive it only if the author wanted to write a gay character but was actively prevented from doing so by Executive Meddling or government censorship.
- Whatever you call the trope where a bully, usually a relative, viciously torments the protagonist throughout the story, never displays a hint of remorse, and never faces the mildest consequence, and in the end the protagonist somehow gains the bully's respect and a temporary reprieve, which is treated as a happy ending when in fact the only happy ending would involve the bully being sent to military school (e.g. Home Alone, Colin Fischer, I Funny, Dumbo)
- Autistic men portrayed as sexual harassers who don't understand that it's unacceptable to grab a woman's breasts or make sexual remarks, and his victims all instantly forgive him because the poor dear can't help it. Not only does this smear innocent autistic men as predators, it also gives a handy excuse to the minority of autistic men who are, which they won't hesitate to use.
- Works written and set in The New '20s that don't mention the COVID-19 Pandemic. It's a little thing, but it takes me right out of the story. If the author really doesn't want to deal with the pandemic, she should set the story 20 Minutes into the Past.
- American editions of British novels that go past changing the spelling and half-assedly change the language too, so it's a struggle to figure out what terms like "football" or "tenth grade" are supposed to mean.
Tropes that apply to me
- Afraid of Needles
- The Anti-Nihilist: We're all alone in an uncaring universe, so we have to do what we can to help each other out. There's no such thing as free will, so no one deserves to suffer no matter who they are or what they've done.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
- Autism: PDD-NOS, back in the DSM-IV era.
- Beige Prose: The results of all my attempts at writing, unfortunately.
- Boyish Short Hair
- Butch Lesbian
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Cuteness Proximity
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
- Ditzy Genius: I'm good at taking IQ tests, but I still flunked out of community college, and I have zero common sense.
- Does Not Drive: I'm way too absent-minded. I'd probably kill someone.
- Does Not Like Spam: I can't stand spicy food.
- Enemy Within: My goddamn instant gratification monkey.
- Famous Ancestor: My great-grandfather is Robert Shayne, best known as Inspector Henderson from The Adventures of Superman.
- Fangirl: Well, yeah.
- Fan of the Past: My favorite pop cultural decade is The '70s.
- Fleeting Passionate Hobbies
- Forgetful Jones: Sometimes I'll forget what I wanted to look up in the time it takes me to open a new tab.
- For Happiness: It's the only thing that matters.
- Girly Run: For when speedwalking is too slow, but a regular run isn't safe. (For example, when running up an empty aisle to answer a page.)
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: I was The Smart One, and my younger sister was The Pretty One. She's actually a lot smarter than I am, but I was more bookish.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!
- Happiness in Minimum Wage: Sorta. I like my job bagging groceries, but I really don't like being a Basement-Dweller.
- Hates Being Touched
- Hates Small Talk: After a long day at work, the absolute last thing I want to talk about is my day at work.
- Home Schooled Kids: On and off.
- I Hate Past Me: I went through a reactionary phase in my early teens. My politics have changed almost completely since then, and I'm very glad I never had a social media account.
- The Illegible: I have the handwriting of a fourth-grader.
- Immortality Seeker: I'm working on getting a Cryonics Institute membership. I know I probably won't be revived, but if I'm buried or cremated I definitely won't be revived, so cryonics is my only hope.
- The Insomniac: My brain thinks I'm nocturnal. I have to take sleeping pills to get to sleep before 6 AM.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Most of my friends are much older or younger than I am.
- Introverted Cat Person
- The Klutz: No wine glass is safe when I'm in the room.
- Learnt English from Watching Television: I learned Dutch from Suske en Wiske.
- Mathematician's Answer: I used to get in trouble because adults assumed I was being a smartass when I was just trying to be honest.
- Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: One of my Guilty Pleasures is really stereotypical fiction about autistic savants.
- Mouthful of Pi: My sister and I once competed to see who could memorize more digits. We got to about 100 before losing interest.
- Music/Age Dissonance: When I was a kid, I listened to classical music. Now I listen to bubblegum pop.
- No Sense of Personal Space: I was like this as a kid until I developed the opposite problem due to bullying.
- No Social Skills
- Not a Morning Person: If I had it my way, I'd sleep from 10 AM to 5 PM and work at night.
- Properly Paranoid: I use Tor for most of my online activity. I'm not doing anything illegal, aside from occasional piracy, but my browsing habits are none of the NSA's business.
- Raised Catholic: Although I became an atheist in my late teens.
- Reverse Arm-Fold: This has been my default pose since I took Tae Kwon Do as a kid.
- Ridiculous Procrastinator
- Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: I reread and rewatch my favorite media over and over again. When I was a kid, I read the My Father's Dragon trilogy almost 50 times.
- Security Blanket: My plastic frog collection, which I've been using as fidget toys since I was three.
- Simpleton Voice: My voice is slow, deep, and nasally, and I hem and haw a lot. I cringe whenever I hear myself.
- Sweet Tooth
- The Teetotaler: When I was younger I was scared straight by addiction horror stories, and when I did eventually try alcohol in college, I hated the taste.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: I love fanfiction and Teen Pop.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Whole milk.
- Troper Types: The Advertiser and the Trope Editor.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Water.
- Womanchild
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