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Welcome, delicious friend. Very *squishy* to meet you!
This page is mostly a relic of an earlier time of TV Tropes formatting. I thought it was a funny idea at the time, but I suppose it's come out somewhat poorly. As I tend to have a lot of ideas that I thought were funny at the time but come out somewhat poorly, it shall remain in place, and use this space for clarifying notes.note
This, of course, merely begs the question of how I ought to describe myself such that I won't get demands for further explanation. Let's see.
I am philosophical, queer, whimsical, methodical, anarchic, secretive, honest, analytical, neurodivergent, slightly creepy, needlessly verbose, overly anxious and self-aware, and unfortunately passive-aggressive. I am non-binary, determined partly due to how much joy I took in other tropers being unable to confidently agree on my gender, and accept "it" or "they" as appropriate. Somewhere at the intersection of new weird, magical realism, science fiction, and analog horror is my favourite genre. I post art and writing to Tumblr and DeviantArt under the deliberately-vague description of "night shapes", which encompasses worldbuilding, surreal and body horror, cute nonsense, and pretty people. I am a shifting thing of smoke in a cage of bones and flesh, a rubber-band-ball of neuroses, a crystalline void whose facets refract light into named identities, and even, very occasionally, a person.
Oh, and it's pronounced No-AWK-ee-yoom, or "Noa" for short! I prefer Noa at this point, actually, I just haven't come up with another username I like enough to be worth the hassle of switching.
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- I'm drawing tropers of whom I get particularly interesting/unique/distinct/wasauchimmer mental images. I'm happy to take requests (it helps me remember everyone whom I have such images of), but please don't take it personally if I don't actually ever draw you! note
- Badass Ensemble - Juan Carlos, Sean Murray I, Zam◊
- Beholderess◊
- betterthanstrawberry◊
- Black Wolfe◊
- Blaine the M0n0◊
- Counterclock◊
- The Ginkei◊
- Kuiper◊
- lockonlockon◊
- Loid◊
- Midnight Velvet◊
- The Mighty Anonym◊
- Milos Stefanovic◊
- mst3kluv◊
- Nathaniel The Seeker◊
- nekoalexa◊
- Noaqiyeum - Noa◊, personae group portrait, the Arachnitect
- Ozbourne◊
- queenofdarkness◊
- Sabre's Edge◊
- sabrinadiamond◊
- Shichibukai◊
- Stolen by Faeries◊
- They Call Me Tomu◊
- Tzetze◊
- Zudak◊
Genres (some of my own devising)
- Competence Porn
- Escape from the Crazy Place
- Invisible Diaries or Unnatural Histories: A series of loosely related contemplative vignettes about strange-but-beautiful places or objects, each of which is internally and thematically consistent but mostly self-contained.
- Metroidvanias
- Mindscape Fantasy: The majority of the story happens in a symbolic representation of a character’s headspace, trying to pick through the dream logic and free-association to explore and possibly heal their subconscious.
- Nonsense Isekai: Protagonist, usually a child, travels to another world where everything happens exclusively through dream logic and language games, strictly speaking not a fairy tale but has a lot of similarities, as well as to the previously-defined mindscape fantasy.
- Psychogeography Horror: This entire region of space is broken from human reality, and it alters and infects its inhabitants’ lives and identities. The distinction between "adapt" and "perish" is inconsequential.
- Whatever we call these
Filmed
- A Beautiful Mind
- As Above, So Below
- Casablanca - 85%
- Coherence
- Coraline
- Doctor Who - 70%
- Edward Scissorhands
- Hotel Artemis
- In the Mouth of Madness
- iZombie
- Little Shop of Horrors - 77%
- The Lord of the Rings (And the musical, which distills all the awesome music from the film into ninety minutes of genius.) - 77%
- Marble Hornets - 75%
- Minority Report
- Moon - 75%
- The Phantom of the Opera
- The Prestige - 85%
- The Shawshank Redemption - 85%
- Taskmaster
- The Trap Door
- Warm Bodies
Illustrated
- Broodhollow
- Digger
- Doom Patrol
- ENA
- Fuan no Tane
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Girl Genius
- Gravity Falls
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Hark! A Vagrant
- Homestuck
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - 87%
- The Incredibles
- Instant Classic
- Irregular Webcomic!
- Last Exile - 85%
- Lavender Legend
- Lovecraft Is Missing
- Making Comics
- Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
- The Meek
- Monster
- Over the Garden Wall
- Paranatural
- Planetary
- Princess Tutu
- Read or Die
- Schlock Mercenary
- Soul Eater
- Spy X Family
- WALL•E
Played
- Ace Attorney
- Achievement Unlocked
- Alan Wake
- Bloodborne - 84%
- Civilization
- Closure
- Continuity
- Cultist Simulator
- Don't Rest Your Head
- (Let's Play) Drakengard
- Dwarf Fortress
- (Let's Play) Eternal Darkness
- Eversion
- Fantastic Contraption
- Genius: The Transgression
- Gloom
- Gretel and Hansel
- Hatoful Boyfriend
- Karoshi
- Last Word
- The Majesty of Colors
- Myst, Riven, Exile, Revelation, URU
- Mystery of Time and Space
- NieR: Automata
- Nobilis
- Paranoia
- Silent Hill
- This Is the Only Level
Vocalized
- Abney Park
- The Arrogant Worms
- Aviators
- Blackmores Night
- Diablo Swing Orchestra
- Gaelic Storm
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Igor Stravinsky
- Jonathan Coulton
- Krypteria
- Leaves' Eyes
- The Magnus Archives
- The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing
- Miracle of Sound
- My Chemical Romance
- Nightwish
- Peter, Paul and Mary
- Petra
- Poets of the Fall
- Russkaja
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Writing Excuses
Written
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- The Ball And The Cross
- Bring the Jubilee - 75%
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- The Count of Monte Cristo - 86%
- The Dark Tower and other stories (the C. S. Lewis set, not the series by Stephen King, thanks)
- The Dionaea House
- Ender's Shadow (better than the original!)
- Fahrenheit451 - 89%
- Four Faultless Felons
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Going Postal
- The Great Book of Amber
- The High Crusade
- House of Leaves
- I Am Not a Serial Killer
- Interesting Times - 80%
- The Man Who Was Thursday - 90%
- Manalive
- Many Waters
- Mistborn
- Myst: The Book of Ti'ana
- Planet Narnia
- The Night Circus - 80% (ish)
- The Space Trilogy
- Thief of Time
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Z for Zachariah
Tropes
- Aesthetics
- Characters
- Cast Calculus
- Guile Hero
- Inexplicably Awesome
- The Mentally Disturbed
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Cute and Psycho
- Friend to Psychos
- Mad Dreamer
- Mood-Swinger
- Psycho Supporter
- Psychological Horror
- Essential Madness
- Happy Place
- Inescapable Horror
- Madness Mantra
- Mental Story
- Mental World
- Personal Horror
- Room Full of Crazy
- Sanity Slippage
- Pyromaniac
- Reluctant Psycho
- Talkative Loon
- Yandere
- Science Hero
- Setting
- Events
- Themes
- Ambiguous Situation
- Being Human Sucks
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
- God Is Good
- Humans Are Flawed
- Humans Are Nothing Special
- Humans Through Alien Eyes
- Loss of Identity
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
- Morality Kitchen Sink
- Pro-Human Transhuman
- Romanticism vs. Enlightenment
- The Sacred Darkness
- The Treachery of Images
- When Is Purple
- The World Is Just Awesome
- Works
- Tropes
- Multi-Gendered Outfit
- Fantastical Social Services
- Reluctant Psycho
- Hostile Terraforming (launched)
- Alien Sea (adopted and launched)
- Madness Tropes (cleaned, re-organised, and soft-split)
- Misc.
- Command & Conquer Economy (title)
- Littlest Cancer Patient (image)
- Monster Organ Trafficking (rename)
- Neuro-Vault (title)
- Reverse Shrapnel (title)