Bucco Babe here! The username is a tribute to my longstanding affection for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who are the love of my girlhood and a onetime championship baseball team. When I first claimed the name it was with a bit of bravado; my Buccos were in the seventeenth year of what would eventually become a twenty-year losing streak, but I still cheered for them, and so what? Got my hopes up when Pittsburgh's boys of summer made it to the playoffs in 2013, 2014, and 2015, with the prospect of better things to come. They never came, but hope on, hope ever — I'll always be a "Bucco Babe."
Tropes That Apply to Bucco Babe:
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!....I'm sorry, were you saying something?
- Beware the Nice Ones. Oh, so you thought it would be safe to hassle the placid fat girl? Well, I guess you thought wrong, now didn't you?!? Fortunately for the rest of the world, my retaliatory strikes are usually limited to what can be done with the spoken or the written word. But I'm very good with words.
- Blind Without 'Em. Downright cliche on this one. Without my glasses, I'd have to hold a book up within a couple of inches of my nose to read. And forget about driving without them — I couldn't even see the dashboard well enough, let alone the road or any traffic signals.
- Bookworm. My mother was reportedly the only mom who ever asked my elementary school's PTA how to get a kid to stop reading.
- Brainy Brunette. With just a touch of gray for added distinction.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Grammar Nazi
- Happily Married. A former Christmas Cake who found her Cake Eater.
- Mama Bear
- Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls. I'm about as "shippy" as the main entry for that trope implies, too. Some of my favored pairings include Picard/Crusher, Janeway/Chakotay, Chakotay/Paris — oh, heck, Chakotay and just about anybody. Series-era Robert Beltran is hot!
- Otaku, in the generic sense of "fangirl." My focus has varied over the years. Originally I was an otaku of Pirates baseball, later of X-Men, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (2003), and other properties.
- Proud to Be a Geek
- Smart People Wear Glasses. See above.
- Team Mom
- Trekkie. And how! Since the 1970s.
Pages Which Bucco Babe Started:
Pages to Which Bucco Babe Has Contributed Two or More Examples:
- 1632
- 1776
- Barbara Hambly
- Bride and Prejudice
- A Brother's Price
- The Cape
- The Danza
- Darkover
- Divergent
- Earth's Children
- Emberverse Except for the page I started, this is probably the page I've contributed most to. Great chunks of it are mine, and I keep adding new trope examples as I find them.
- God Loves, Man Kills
- Island in the Sea of Time
- Night of the Comet. I didn't start this page, but I was the first to contribute examples. (Ten of them.)
- Operator Incompatibility
- Patronymic
- The Postman
- Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman
- Rocketship Voyager
- The Snow Queen Series
- Timeline191
- Under the Dome
- Unwind. Also Unwind (Your Mileage May Vary page)
- Villainous Valor
- Worldwar
Also managed to cite Pirate second baseman Bill Mazeroski's 1960 World Series-winning homer under three separate tropes: Down to the Last Play, Moment Of Awesome (Real Life/Sports category), and Signature Scene. A "Bucco Babe" indeed!
