Tropers / Desdendelle

“Et on s'est tellemont assojetti, en la dernière, à certaines règles et à certains chiffres, qu'on en a fait un art confus et obscur, qui embarrasse l'esprit, qu lieu d'une science qui le cultive.” ^Translation  “And one is so subjected, in the latter, to certain rules and to certain symbols that one has made of it a confused and obscure art that encumbers the mind, instead of a science that cultivates it.” - Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

Describe desdendelle here:
Blue-and-Orange Morality Agnostic Grammar Police Not So Stoic Israeli.

Trivia

• I got my handle from the rather insignificant Yu-Gi-Oh! card Des Dendle.
• I am:
  • Male.
  • A drinker of good tea. Especially Earl Grey.

This Troper dislikes the following things

• Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma and its Subtropes: Rouge Angles of Satin, No Punctuation Period and How Do I Used Tense.
• Obstructive Bureaucrats.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory (excessive symbolism counts, too).

Tropes that that guy, desdendelle, thinks he's an example of

• Agnostic: of the 'weak agnostic atheist' variation. It basically means the following:

1. I don't know whether God(s) exist, or not.
2. I tend to think^note  and assume, due to my philosophy that no such being exists.
3. I think that it is possible to know whether God(s) exist, unless it's proven otherwise.

• Alignment Tropes: True Neutral with heavy shades of Lawful Good.
• Altum Videtur: Oh so very much. Also with English, since it isn't my mother tongue.
• Bile Fascination: That's why I became PPCer and continue to read badfic.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Kind of given, since my moral code is an odd mix of Stoicism, Kantian imperatives, and Cartesian epistemology. Despite my Lawful Good tendencies.
• Bookworm: Yep! Gimme those books, gimme!
• Brilliant, but Lazy: I am gifted (135+ IQ), but incredibly lazy.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: I can't drink more than half a pint of Guinness, and Saké makes me tipsy.
• Captain Obvious: Obviously (and annoyingly, to my RL friends) enough.
• Cloudcuckoolander: I kinda tend to miss the obvious sometimes.
• Crossplayer: I have more female avatars than male ones. My favourite Warframe is Banshee.
• Deadpan Snarker: Who isn't?
• Encyclopaedic Knowledge: Due to Bookwormness.
• Food Tropes:
  • Comfort Drink: Good Earl Grey tea.
  • Does Not Like Coriander: Or parsley.
  • Drink Order: Tea. To the point where it became a running gag among my friends.
• Glasses Pull: Subverted. I sometimes take my glasses off before (or after) I speak, but it has no meaning whatsoever.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Sort of; I really can't understand what motivates people to be malicious (insert standard "too many premises" disclaimer here).
• Grammar Police: I'm a stickler for correct SPaG.
• Hates Every Organised Religion Equally: More or less.
• Honesty Is the Best Policy: I fully believe in this.
• Hype Aversion: Ponies.
• Iconic Item: A longcoat that, unfortunately, makes me look like a Haredi.
• Nerd
  • Geek Physiques: Of the thin, muscle-less variety.
  • Proud To Be A Nerd: Because I am what am and I don't plan on changing because others don't understand that.
• Ninja Editor: If I spot a typo in my posts, I usually go back and fix it as soon as I see it.
• Non-Action Guy: Was a jobnik in the army, am a bureaucrat on the side while in uni...
• Not a Morning Person: Perpetually grumpy in mornings. Not properly awake till around 0900 and a cup (preferably more) of tea.

• Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: I have a tendency to recycle books, movies and the like.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Even more evident when I speak Hebrew.
• The Enneagram A Four. Apparently.
• The Philosopher: FWIW it's what I study in university.

• The Quiet One: Until the ice breaks, that is, and sometimes even after that; if I have nothing to say I will shut up.
• Type 2/type 3 Glasses Adjuster.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: People can't pin down my accent, but most think I was born in Britain or something.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Another bad habit I'm trying to get rid of.
• Younger Than They Look: Take my word on it. People tend to think that I'm ten years older than my true age, probably because of the beard, coat and (sometimes) potted-plant-on-the-head.

Lazy man's box

(This is where I drop off stuff I need but am too lazy to find every time.)

• Itty Bitty Wiki Tools
• TV Tropes Translation Project
• Wick Namespace Migration
• Who edited this page? (put the page name instead of 'NamespaceHere.ThePageTitle')

Space for vandalism, messages etc

Moved.

Former signatures

• "Uhhh, boss? There's this weird portal that's sucking the world up."
  "Build a wall around it. It'll be fine." —Evi I Paladin, describing a certain Yu-Gi-Oh! card.
• "...I don't even mind this derail because it's so much better than the derails that could be going on right now." -Best Of, in the short-lived second Israeli politics thread.
• "... You're making me think about a parasitic, Raising Heart wielding Kyubey living inside people" -Sergio Turbo
• "The! The A and the It have been caught by Daleks!"
  "The who?"
  "No, we left her on Gallifrey..." -hS
• "Sergio Turbo/firemagic/Desdendelle.
  A cuddly sandwich of animé and magical girls and bespectacled folks." -Lily Winterwood
• The British Plover that isn't British.
  [17:27:48] Plummet: Stop being British damn you.
• Madame Vastra: The game is afoot. We are going to need a lot of tea.