IcyCrow (also known by his pen name George Coryell) is a troper from Florida whose main interests include writing, language, and travel. He learned about TV Tropes in 2010 at the age of 14, but didn't become a troper until years later, and he aspires to have at least one of his works be noticed by a film studio (preferably a smaller studio).
Projects
- My website
- Kasia (2020)
- Unimaa (2021 as a Web Serial Novel, 2022 as a print book)
- Cubnet (2022 for the free stories on my website, full book forthcoming)
- The Dead Tree (forthcoming novella)
- Claude and Charlotte (forthcoming novelette)
Tropes that apply to me and/or my work:
- The Baby of the Bunch: I'm the youngest grandchild on both my mother and father's sides.
- British Humour: Even though I'm American, some of my humor would probably feel more at home in a British production. I attribute this to watching a lot of Monty Python.
- Cloudcuckoolander: I have a bit of this since I'm on the autism spectrum (for one thing, I'm sometimes making strange vocalizations, as detailed below), which would explain my offbeat style.
- Fan of the Past: For whatever reason, media from the past intrigues me more than modern media, which is one of the reasons why Unimaa's present day is 1999.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: I'm obsessed with Scandinavian culture; I visited the interior of Sweden one summer to do research for a project I was working on (which I sadly later cancelled, but some of the information came in handy for Unimaa), I frequently root for Sweden in international sports competitions if they're not playing the US, and I was also in at least one short-lived Snapchat relationship with a Swedish girl I met online.
- Game of Nerds: Baseball is one of my favorite sports, though I like Ice Hockey the best even though I'm from the Sun Belt.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Even though I've gotten praise for some of my own work, I frequently have a low opinion of it.
- Indubitably Uninteresting Individual: Let's face it, I'm probably the most boring person to have been born in the 1990s - I hate most social media besides Reddit, I prefer actual conversations with people over texting them, TV nowadays doesn't interest me very much, I much prefer Boring, but Practical cars over flashy sports cars, and the list goes on.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: I find women more interesting to write about than men - this is the main reason why Kasia and Cubnet have female main characters, and why three of the six primary characters of Unimaa are female.
- Nom de Mom: My pen surname, Coryell, is in fact my mother's maiden name; I decided to write under that surname because it would be easier for people to spell, pronounce, and remember than my father's Eastern European surname.
- Omniglot: Let's see... English is my native language, and I also speak amounts of, in order from most fluent to least fluent, Spanish, Swedish, German, French, and Dutch.
- Parental Bonus: All of my works have at least one - after all, C. S. Lewis was right in that a children's story only children enjoy is a bad children's story.
- Soccer-Hating Americans: Averted; the Beautiful Game is actually a sport I enjoy watching and the World Cup is something I look forward to every four years even if the US isn't in it. Arguably inverted, since American football is my least favorite out of the "big five" sports - I'd say my order of preference is ice hockey, then baseball, then soccer, then basketball, then American football.
- Speech-Centric Work: Most of my works are like this - it's typically reactions to dialogue that drive the plot.
- Sweet Tooth: I love sweets, especially chocolate - though I feel incredibly guilty eating chocolate now knowing that a lot of it is produced via child slave labor.
- Verbal Tic: All kinds of them, usually when I'm trying to clear my head of an embarrassing memory.
Shows I have truly enjoyed include:
As a toddler (1997-2001)- Blue's Clues
- Little Bear (my favorite at that age)
- Sesame Street
- ChalkZone
- Codename: Kids Next Door
- Dexter's Laboratory
- Ed, Edd n Eddy (my favorite at that age)
- Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
- SpongeBob SquarePants (the pre-movie episodes)
- Futurama
- Monty Python's Flying Circus (on the DVD set my family has)
- Robot Chicken
- SCTV (on DVDs my family rented from Netflix and YouTube uploads of sketches)
- The Simpsons (the show's Golden Age on the DVD sets my family has)
- South Park
- 30 Rock (reruns)
- The Office (reruns)
Movies I have truly enjoyed include:
- Back To The Future (haven't seen Part II or Part III)
- The Big Lebowski
- Blazing Saddles
- Coraline (I watched it after writing Unimaa to see how similar it was to my work)
- Dr. Strangelove
- Fantasia
- Hot Fuzz
- Joker
- The LEGO Movie, its sequel, and The LEGO Batman Movie
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- The Producers (the original, haven't seen the 2005 version yet)
- Pulp Fiction
- Shrek and Shrek 2
- The Simpsons Movie
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
- The Toy Story series (yes, I enjoyed the fourth one but I'm kinda split on the ending and I definitely consider it the weakest film in the series)
- UHF
- WALL•E
- Wreck-It Ralph
