I’m just someone who ended up caught in the addictive black hole that is TV Tropes. After some time reading and ruining my life, I decided to contribute writing articles for it. (Of course, my life has also been improved thanks to the site... although my language has become horrible, so it all evens out... I think).
In this site I tend to roam through pages randomly, but I usually can be found on the Useful Notes section.
On a more personal level, I’m a 25-year old man from Chile (you know, the straight line next to Argentina); an Industrial Civil Engineer but sadly without a job and finally with a job! (well, it's a low-brow one, but a job nevertheless... as Don Ramón used to say: "There's no bad job; the bad thing is having to work"). As an aside, I try my hand at writing: not only allows me to exercise my imagination but it’s also cheaper than visiting a psychiatrist.
Some of my favorite stuff:
- Asterix
- Calvin And Hobbes
- Chick Tracts - leaving all insulting things behind, it's way too over the top.
- Garfield
- Mafalda
- Tintin
- Peanuts
- All Quiet On The Western Front
- Robert Altman
- Apocalypse Now
- Baraka
- Ingmar Bergman
- Bicycle Thieves
- Bill and Ted
- Frank Capra
- Casablanca
- Charlie Chaplin
- Chinatown
- The Coen Brothers
- Das Boot
- The Decalogue
- Duck Soup
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Eraserhead
- Federico Fellini
- Ghostbusters
- The Giant Claw – come on, tell me you don’t find awesome a Giant Antimatter Space Buzzard.
- Terry Gilliam
- The Godfather
- Godzilla
- A Hard Days Night
- Werner Herzog
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Inception
- Insomnia
- Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
- Buster Keaton
- Kind Hearts And Coronets
- King Kong
- Stanley Kubrick
- Akira Kurosawa
- Fritz Lang
- Lawrence Of Arabia
- Sergio Leone
- Les Diaboliques
- Harold Lloyd
- Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
- The Maltese Falcon
- Me And Orson Welles
- My Man Godfrey
- Network
- The Night Of The Hunter
- Nosferatu
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Pans Labyrinth
- Plan 9 From Outer Space - a truly magnificent work of art.
- Planet Of The Apes
- Scent Of A Woman
- Martin Scorsese
- Se7en
- Steven Spielberg
- Star Wars
- Synecdoche, New York
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- The Third Man
- Three Colors Trilogy
- Francois Truffaut
- Twelve Angry Men
- Unforgiven
- Orson Welles
- Alice In Wonderland
- Isaac Asimov
- Jane Austen
- Roberto Bolano
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Brave New World
- Raymond Chandler
- GK Chesterton
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Julio Cortazar
- The Count Of Monte Cristo
- Roald Dahl
- The Devils Dictionary
- Philip K Dick
- Don Quixote
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Umberto Eco
- Stephen Hawking
- Franz Kafka
- Stephen King
- Stanislaw Lem
- Les Miserables
- The Lord Of The Rings
- HP Lovecraft
- HL Mencken
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Odyssey
- George Orwell
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Harry Potter
- William Shakespeare
- Stendhal
- The Turn Of The Screw
- Ulysses
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- War And Peace
- Oscar Wilde
- Timothy Zahn
- El Chapulin Colorado
- El Chavo Del Ocho
- Monk
- The Muppet Show – Is it Live Action? I think not.
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Beatles
- Chuck Berry
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Eric Clapton
- Bob Dylan
- Buddy Holly
- Koji Kondo
- Gustav Mahler
- Yasunori Mitsuda
- Ennio Morricone
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Roy Orbison
- Elvis Presley
- Marty Robbins
- The Rolling Stones
- Yoko Shimomura
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Richard Wagner
- The Who
The things about me, as a fellow troper:
I’ve lost track of which ones were created by me and which ones were already existed but I contributed heavily in their final appearance (i.e. more than half, more or less). So I just included them all, so apologies if someone feels robbed of their little creations.
As you can see, they’re not trope pages, but rather articles about books, movies or just Useful Notes. Everyone needs useful notes, after all.
All the articles are Up For Grabs, because that's the only way to keep them growing nice 'n' healthy.
Movies
- Ace in the Hole
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God
- Amarcord
- Blow Up
- The Conversation
- Day for Night
- The Decalogue
- The Double Life of Veronique
- 8½
- Fitzcarraldo
- I Vitelloni
- L'Avventura
- La Dolce Vita
- Nights of Cabiria
- Peeping Tom
- Stray Dog
- Three Colors Trilogy
- What the #$*! Do We Know!?
Books
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
- The Autumn of the Patriarch
- Baudolino
- Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
- The Charterhouse of Parma
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Dianetics
- Distant Star
- The Feast of the Goat
- The First Circle
- From the Earth to the Moon
- Hopscotch
- The House of the Spirits
- Open Veins of Latin America
- Papelucho
- The Red and the Black
- The Time of the Hero
- Tropic of Cancer
- The War of the End of the World
Theatre
People
- Isabel Allende
- Roberto Bolaño
- Julio Cortázar
- Federico García Lorca
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Gabriela Mistral
- Pablo Neruda
- Stendhal
- Mario Vargas Llosa
Useful Notes and other random un-notable stuff
- Afghanistan
- Amused Troper Guy - no!
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Central African Republic
- The Chaco War
- Chad
- The Chincha Islands War
- Comoros
- The Congo Wars
- Costa Rica
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Fiji
- FS Micronesia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Kiribati
- Latin American Literature
- Madagascar
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Nicaragua
- Other Royal Families
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Qatar
- Roger Ebert Great Movies List
- Rwanda
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Seychelles
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- That Dry Patch of Land Unrecognized
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- War Of The Confederation
- War Of The Triple Alliance
- Zambia
This place is reserved for anyone who wishes to write a comment. Just one rule: don’t be a troll. Put your thoughts in here in any language you want (I speak Spanish and English), though I’d appreciate if you put also the translation so I can understand. Thanks!
- WARNING. COUNTER-VANDALISM DETECTED. -thespacephantom
- ¿Compatriota? ¿En serio? ¡Esto es increible! Saludos igualmente. Por cierto, soy un casi-ingeniero, sin trabajo al igual que tú, al menos por el momento, pero no pierdo el ánimo. ¡Mucha suerte! ¡Y un placer ver una página para Gabriela Mistral! (me quito el sombrero) — Silent Reverence
- HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Ori Doodle
- Штож, я также не знаю Сербианский язык, но по краинеи мере можно и нечто по Русски. (Well, I also do not know Serbian, but at least something in Russian will do.) -Morgulion
- Eh? Hinri ca pala isang taong cathang-isip ng isang sicat na pilosopo! Acala co pa naman, naging mainam ang aking mecanismo para sa pag-iisa ng munrong totoo at ng munrong cathang-isip. Medio nalungcot aco sa acing sariling pagcabigo, datapuwat, napupuno ako ng ligaya sa pagbati sa iyo!note —jcruz
- Translation: Eh? You're not a fictitious person written by a well-known philosopher! I thought my machine that will merge the real world and the fictional world had worked. I am a bit disappointed by my failure, but still, I am happy to greet you! note
- Thanks man! The same to you! :D - Sen
- I did a Double Take on your pagelist: Benin, Bangladesh, Custers Revenge... Wait, what? The page needs more pop-culture though, I'd have loved to see what is your favorite book, movie, TV-series, video game, etc. And thanks for paying a visit to my page! - Sati1984
- Hablas espanol? Bueno. - Spirit
- Hola! Qué bueno ver a alguien de Latino América por aquí! =D - Polarity
- Wedle życzenia, odpowiadam. Niestety, to tylko ja zaczęłam, inne osoby edytowały ją potem, dzięki czemu jest taka świetna. (As you wish I answer. Sadly I just started the page, other persons edidted it afterwards - that's why it's so awesome.) - Dracia
- Vandalism is so much fun! - Stolen By Faeries
- I'm an exception, of course. The bunny army will see that this page is properly conquered, anyway. ~ A Rabbit Filled Nightmare
- Ecco un po' di vandalismo cortese da parte di un troper Affabilmente Malvagio che, a sua volta, ama il cinema. (Translation from Italian: Here's some polite vandalism from an Affably Evil troper who likes movies too.) — Belfagor
- P.S.: Oh, and don't forget to vandalize my page back.
- P.P.S.: I love the little fox in your image.
- Just returning the favor. Hey, non-malicious vandalization is a good way to meet others, huh? - X2X
- I should've left a videogame quote here, but I had no inspiration. -desdendelle
- I used to leave meaningless memes in vandalization sections, but then I took an arrow in the knee. ~ kay4today
- You've just been vandalized! Ha-ha-ha-haaa! By the way, nice choice of literature. - whataboutme
- (Sending a return message from my page) and here I thought I was the only one who enjoyed how crazy we all are! Nice to see I'm not alone in my Bile Fascination, friend! -Blake Diamond (Also, yay! Another Golden Sun fan! ^^)
- You're probably right, a team DOES need a Team Pet...hm. Thanks. :P - Keybreak
- ¡Weón! ¡Otro Chileno! ¡No lo creo! Ya somos... ¡Tres! -That One Guy Named X
- Necessito practicar español. Mi maestro de español es muy fantastico. Dice cosas como "hago lo que quiero" o grita "¡No inglés!" cuando los estudiantes le preguntan a hablar inglés. Es muy comico. Es divertido para pedirle dulces. Él responde: "¡No! ¡No dulces para ti!" Me gusta dulces mucho. Especialmente chocolate. ¿Tiene chocolate? Quiero chocolate... -Indigo12ash
- Well I'm glad to be vandalized by you. So I'm returning the favour. Impressive list BTW. Newt time! - Alrune
- Today I learned that Salvatore Allende's daughter wrote books! xD (Just a little snark here...) - Johnnyfog
- You were a noob once too? That makes me feel better, thank you. : ) -XSoulfire