My name is Emmeline, or Emma for short, but you can call me Cyto if you want. Retired TV Tropes veteran (despite creating this account in June 2022, I've been around a lot longer since 2014 under a different handle), anime fan, writer, and former gamer. Transwoman, Bisexual, and prefers She/Her pronouns. I'm also into the Yuri Genre.
I used to be a regular at Trope Launch Pad, and my specialty was adopting abandoned drafts and improving them for launch.
Since I'm retired and no longer active, this page is a leftover footnote of my former activity here. It should go without saying that please do not send me any PMs because I'm no longer around to reply to them.
Primary Interest
- Touhou Project: Primarily Touhou Fan Music, although I am well-versed into other Touhou fan works.
Tropes I've Launched:
- Memorial for the Antagonist (Adopted from J Dogindy.)
- Accidental Astronaut (Adopted from Nuclear Infected.)
- The Echoer (Adopted from Eviler Than Thou.)
- Healing Boss (Adopted from Magister Flopsy.)
- Sleepy Enemy
- Fast-Killing Radiation (Adopted from zarpaulus and Rock Raider; the former being the original sponsor and the latter being the unofficial adopter until they gave me the rights to the draft via PM.)
Tropes launched under my previous handle:
- World Pillars
- Vortex Barrier
- Stellar Station
- Industrialized Mercury
- Metropolis Level
- School Setting Simulation
- Vampire Lolita Archetype (Adopted from Alice_Luna.)
- Unusual Halo (Adopted from Minorica.)
- Meteor-Summoning Attack (Adopted from Cauchy Rerun When.)
- Strong Enemies, Low Rewards (Adopted from Twoeyesshort.)
- Human Jungle Gym (Proxy launched on Minorica's behalf since their grammar suspension prevents TLP launches into tropes.)
- Swap Fighter (Adopted from Zerukin.)
Tropes launched by other tropers that I've directly contributed to:
- Pineapple Ruins Pizza (Adopted from Nelson And Murdock and launched by »»ᅳChloe♡Jessicaᅳ►. I tweaked the description a bit, added most of the on-page examples and voted the page image via Image Pickin', but my uncertainty over whether the draft was in good shape to launch combined with my overlapping university studies adding a lot of stress ultimately lead me to put it Up for Grabs.)
Touhou Doujin Music Circle Pages I've Launched:
Ah, right. I should probably explain this to the uninitiated folks here (Fan Myopia, whoops). A music circle is a Doujinshi music band of sorts that specializes in creating music arrangements or remixes of tunes from existing works. Most of them consist of a group of people, but there are also single-person music circles as well (think of them as like indie video game developers for comparison). As for how this relates to Touhou? Well, Touhou has the LARGEST doujin music industry in existence, mainly because of how lenient ZUN (the creator of Touhou) is with letting fans create stuff from his works (such a nice guy). The diversity of Touhou music circles is also quite large, covering a wide assortment of music genres. Hopefully this is a satisfactory explanation because, if I were to cover every single detail about this, we would be here all day. Anyway, back to the topic at hand.
- Alstroemeria Records
- ZYTOKINE
- SOUND HOLIC (While I wrote the description and provided the page image, most of the trope list was contributed by Maths Angelic Version, which I ripped directly from Touhou Fan Music back when it had its own folder there. It was simply more convenient that way.)
- Yuuhei Satellite (Same deal as with SOUND HOLIC above.)
Shout outs to tropers I consider good people (You're awesome!):
In parentheses are nicknames for tropers I came up with to make it easier to remember them.- Amonimus (Amon)
- bowserbros (Bowser)
- »»ᅳChloe♡Jessicaᅳ► (Don't really have a nickname for her because her username is simple and straight to the point. Gets a gold medal for best custom wiki username though.)
- Cibryll (Cibryll)
- clemont107 (Clemont)
- Cutegirl920fire (Cutegirl or Marie)
- General Gigan (Gigan)
- MacronNotes (Macron)
- Maths Angelic Version (Maths or Angel)
- The Mayor of Simpleton (Mayor)
- Meta Four (Meta)
- mightymewtron (Mewtron)
- PurpleEyedGuma (Guma)
- shroobot3000 (Shroobot)
- Synchronicity (Synchronicity)
- Theriocephalus (Therio)
- War Jay 77 (Warjay)
- Willbyr (Willbyr)
- ZYTOKINE
- Alstroemeria Records
- DiGiTAL WiNG
- Yonder Voice
- SOUND HOLIC
- Shibayan Records
- Akatsuki Records
- DDBY
- EastNewSound
- Violet Delta
- A-One
- BUTAOTOME
- FELT
- flap+frog
- Frozen Starfall
- Halozy
- Hatsunetsumiko's
- IOSYS (Mostly for the memes, but they do have some good non-meme bangers.)
- Komeiji Records
- Kuroneko Lounge
- Murder Ground
- ORANGE★JAM
- Riverside
- Rolling Contact
- ShinRa-Bansho
- SoundOnline
- Syrufit
- Tamaonsen
- Tokyo Active NEETs
- TUMENECO
- Yuuhei Satellite
- Most hard Heavy Metal circles in general since I'm not into that genre. Some circles include...
- Crow's Claw
- Demetori
- UNDEAD CORPORATION
- Unlucky Morpheus
- FALSE&TRUES (I find their music to be incredibly off-key and their vocals so heavily drowned out by Auto-Tune that it's jarring to listen to.)
- RichaadEB (No disrespect to the guy because his general rock arranges are really good. It's just his Touhou arranges leave something to be desired when compared to other circles, being just 1-to-1 remixes that hardly stand out from the original themes aside from genre change. I'll admit that his cover of Alstroemeria Record's "Bad Apple!!" remix with vocals by Cristina Valenzuela of all people is the only exception. It's so freakin' good!)
- TAMusic (Specifically their orchestral compositions which are far too sad and depressing for me to relax to, so they're not really something that clicks with me. Their works on other genres are fine though.)
- Black Cat
- A Certain Magical Index
- Date A Live
- Fruits Basket
- Gosick
- Haruhi Suzumiya
- Inuyasha
- Lycoris Recoil
- Princess Principal
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
- Rozen Maiden
- Shakugan no Shana
- Spy X Family
- Summer Wars
- Tearmoon Empire
- Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- (The original manga, not the anime adaptations.)
- Violet Evergarden
- Your Name
- Cave Story
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
- Crypt of the NecroDancer
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
- A Hat in Time
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
- New Super Marisa Land
- NitorInc.: Touhou Microgames!
- Outer Wilds
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- RosenkreuzStilette
- Shovel Knight
- Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed
- Sonic Unleashed (Yes, even the Werehog.)
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
- Spyro Reignited Trilogy
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
- Tales of Berseria
- Tales of Vesperia
- Touhou Hisouten ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody/Hisoutensoku (Favorite main Fighting Game spin-off.)
- Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom (Favorite main Bullet Hell entry.)
- Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
- YuuYuu Jiteki no Yuukarin
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
- Asterix (Specifically the animated films.)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Danny Phantom
- The Fairly OddParents! (Pre-Poof's appearance.)
- Futurama
- Invader Zim
- Looney Tunes (At least the episodes that don't suffer from Values Dissonance.)
- ReBoot
- Samurai Jack
- SpongeBob SquarePants (Pre-Season 5.)
- Atelier (I tried getting into this series because of its Moe cast, but the overly-complex Item Crafting systems turned me off. I just couldn't figure them out to play the games properly.)
- Black Bullet (The only LN series to date that I vehemently dropped because it entered Too Bleak, Stopped Caring territory. It tried way too hard to be the next Gen Urobuchi.)
- DEATH BATTLE! (Fatigue followed by growing resentment of VS debates as a whole eventually lead me to stop watching the show altogether.)
- Genshin Impact (I used to play this game extensively between 2021 to early-mid 2022, but unfortunately the game took an emotional toll on me to the point that I made an irrational move to sell off my PS4 just to keep its gacha system from taking over my life. It wasn't until Sumeru released in Version 3.0 that the realization of me not being able to play it again for the foreseeable future finally hit me hard, and not even keeping up with the story through other indirect methods helped. So, in a Know When to Fold 'Em move, I've decided to accept my circumstance and put Genshin behind me for good.)
- Neptunia (No amount of Moe Anthropomorphism can salvage just how grindy, monotonous and boring the actual games are. Makes me really wish they were Visual Novels instead.)
- Senran Kagura (Gratuitous Fanservice aside — although that's part of the reason why I'm no longer motivated to play the games anymore —, its Spectacle Fighter gameplay doesn't hold up well in my eyes and is way too repetitive and samey to keep me engaged for long periods of time. That, and the series' inconsistent continuity between games with its penchant to Retcon itself frequently has made it difficult for me to take the story seriously.)
- Most Shonen Jump works (A lot of them fall into the same Shōnen pitfalls of repetitive story formulas that get stale really fast and fail to capture my attention, and even works that I used to enjoy in the past like Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and One Piece I dropped purely because of their absurd length. Even I have my limits when it comes to Long-Runners. Spy X Family is the only exception.)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Even before the series' Audience-Alienating Era kicked in, I was never really into most of the games that much since each of them had caveats that made it difficult for me to go back to. Sonic Unleashed and Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed are exceptions.)
- Sword Art Online (Now I didn't drop this series because of the Hype Backlash it received at the time. In fact, I quite enjoyed the Aincrad Arc for playing the Deadly Game aspect very well. It's just after that, I felt the series suffered from Seasonal Rot with poor narrative decisions and shoehorned cliches like harems bogging it down in order to stay relevant, and later arcs downplayed many of the aspects that made the initial plot of the Aincrad Arc so great. I guess that's a price to pay for becoming Dengeki Bunko's Cash-Cow Franchise and kickstarting the modern Isekai genre.)
- Tales Series (This used to be my gateway JRPG series back in the day, but aside from Tales of Vesperia and Tales of Berseria, most of the games don't bring me much enjoyment anymore and I find them to be way too antiquated by Action RPG standards.)
- Team Fortress 2 (My inability to keep up with the high skill ceiling in the main game modes has discouraged me from ever returning to this, and most custom game servers that I used to frequent are now dead.)
- Trails Series (I find its Worldbuilding aspect to be way too ambitious for its own good and requires a lot of time investment that I simply can't afford nowadays due to my limited free time.)