Gunther

Here are some important facts about me.

1. I am 110% tsundere, can speak a little German, have a super serious personality, and frown a lot.
2. I am incredibly nearsighted and obscenely short (150cm/~5'). Seriously, I can barely close the trunk on a car.
3. In high school I was mistaken for an elementary schooler. Now I get mistaken for a high school student, or sometimes a girl.
4. I am constantly told that I sound British and have no idea why. This is probably why I use Commonwealth spellings nowadays.
5. I like teh dudes. Unfortunately, I have found a grand total of four yaoi/BL manga that I felt were better than the Star Wars Christmas Special.
6. Part of this is because I find the standard characters hopelessly unsympathetic, part of it is because so many are about high schoolers (who, going by the usual algorithm, are a little too young for me to read about without it being incredibly creepy), part of it is because I don't like the most common artstyle, and part of it is because I hate stories with "no point and no meaning".
7. I don't really care that much about the country of origin of a work, as long as it's reasonably decent and not made by morally questionable methods (e.g. sweatshop labourers chained to a drafting table). Western "anime-style" art is OK in principle but drives me batty when it's used as an excuse to avoid learning how to actually draw.
8. I have absolutely no desire to become a professional comic artist, and in fact my drawing is completely awful. Unfortunately there are few, if any, Creative Commons comic projects, so I will probably end up distributing independent publications in a xanatos gambit to goad other, better artists into proving that they're better than I.
9. I don't just read TV Tropes- I edit it on regular basis. Most of my work is on the Gintama article(s).
10. I used to write fanfiction, and actually still want to, but I'm too embarrassed to do so openly. Similarly, I would totally own a dakimakura this very minute if I felt like I could feasibly conceal it from every other person on Earth forever.
11. My ultimate dream is just to become a librarian, marry a nice guy, and live a peaceful, boring life in the suburbs. Unfortunately I live in a conservative area of a relatively conservative country so that will probably never happen. Oh well.
12. I cannot even begin to comprehend music theory. Some of my friends are musicians, and when they start talking about counterpoints and crispness and pedals, my eyes glaze over. Pretty much everything I listen to is just stuff I found on Nicovid or Jamendo that I kind of liked. Asking me to describe these songs or why I like them will never engender a response more eloquent than "it sounds nice".
13. One day I may release a doujin visual novel.
14. The absolute best series ever, to me, are the ones that completely throw sanity out the window and just have whatever seems coolest happen. G Gundam, FAKE, Kitakou Broadcasting Club, Those Who Hunt Elves, and all good shoujo manga (i.e. the Rose of Versailles) follow this concept. This is also why formulaic yaoi is so boring.
15. I'm not interested in girls but still read GL comics and moe comedies/play Touhou Project and eroge, just because I think the characters are cute in a platonic way. Also because they get all the good artists and writers.