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			Paradox Lost...
			...Paradox Regained

"I must have awesome nightmares if you're one of them." - gentlemanorcus

"I think I was more comfortable with xim when xe was an betentacled abomination unto the Lord in my mind." - Sabre's Edge

Welcome, delicious friend. Very *squishy* to meet you!

This page is mostly a relic of an earlier time of TV Tropes formatting. I thought it was a funny idea at the time, but I suppose it's come out somewhat poorly. As I tend to have a lot of ideas that I thought were funny at the time but come out somewhat poorly, it shall remain in place, and use this space for clarifying notes.^note

This, of course, merely begs the question of how I ought to describe myself such that I won't get demands for further explanation. Let's see.

I am philosophical, queer, whimsical, methodical, anarchic, secretive, honest, analytical, neurodivergent, slightly creepy, needlessly verbose, overly anxious and self-aware, and unfortunately passive-aggressive. I am non-binary, determined partly due to how much joy I took in other tropers being unable to confidently agree on my gender, and accept "it" or "they" as appropriate. Somewhere at the intersection of new weird, magical realism, science fiction, and analog horror is my favourite genre. I post art and writing to Tumblr and DeviantArt under the deliberately-vague description of "night shapes", which encompasses worldbuilding, surreal and body horror, cute nonsense, and pretty people. I am a shifting thing of smoke in a cage of bones and flesh, a rubber-band-ball of neuroses, a crystalline void whose facets refract light into named identities, and even, very occasionally, a person.

Oh, and it's pronounced No-AWK-ee-yoom, or "Noa" for short! I prefer Noa at this point, actually, I just haven't come up with another username I like enough to be worth the hassle of switching.

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Mental Images of the Tropers

I dabble in artiness and have been drawing my mental images of other tropers in this thread

. This folder is in satisfaction of a request that I list them in one place.

I'm drawing tropers of whom I get particularly interesting/unique/distinct/wasauchimmer mental images. I'm happy to take requests (it helps me remember everyone whom I have such images of), but please don't take it personally if I don't actually ever draw you! ^note

So... similarly, I don't think I'm going to state whom I'm drawing ahead of time. It'll be a happy surprise for you! :D

Badass Ensemble - Juan Carlos, Sean Murray I, Zam◊
Beholderess◊
betterthanstrawberry◊
Black Wolfe◊
Blaine the M0n0◊
Counterclock◊
The Ginkei◊
Kuiper◊
lockonlockon◊
Loid◊
Midnight Velvet◊
The Mighty Anonym◊
Milos Stefanovic◊
mst3kluv◊
Nathaniel The Seeker◊
nekoalexa◊
Noaqiyeum - Noa◊, personae group portrait, the Arachnitect
Ozbourne◊
queenofdarkness◊
Sabre's Edge◊
sabrinadiamond◊
Shichibukai◊
Stolen by Faeries◊
They Call Me Tomu◊
Tzetze◊
Zudak◊

Interests - (contents under pressure, keep closed when not in use)

Reorganisation in progress. Currently sorted by mode of engagement, ordered by letter, numbered by preference on a scale of 0% to 100% True Art.

Genres (some of my own devising)

Competence Porn
- The Andromeda Strain
- Apollo 13
- Freefall
- Leverage and Leverage: Redemption
- Liar Game
- The Martian
- Mirai Nikki
- Primer
Escape from the Crazy Place
- Antichamber
- The Bright in the Screen
- Inside
- Limbo
- Portal and Portal 2
Invisible Diaries or Unnatural Histories: A series of loosely related contemplative vignettes about strange-but-beautiful places or objects, each of which is internally and thematically consistent but mostly self-contained.
- Invisible Cities
- Invisible Games
- SCP Foundation
- Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies
Metroidvanias
- Axiom Verge
- Hollow Knight
- Knytt Stories
Mindscape Fantasy: The majority of the story happens in a symbolic representation of a character’s headspace, trying to pick through the dream logic and free-association to explore and possibly heal their subconscious.
- American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns
- LSD: Dream Emulator
- Paprika
- Psychonauts
- Yume Nikki
Nonsense Isekai: Protagonist, usually a child, travels to another world where everything happens exclusively through dream logic and language games, strictly speaking not a fairy tale but has a lot of similarities, as well as to the previously-defined mindscape fantasy.
- Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
- The Phantom Tollbooth
Psychogeography Horror: This entire region of space is broken from human reality, and it alters and infects its inhabitants’ lives and identities. The distinction between "adapt" and "perish" is inconsequential.
Whatever we call these
- Baccano!
- Durarara!!
- Hugo
- Lackadaisy
- Repo! The Genetic Opera