User:Sailorptah
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Erin Ptah is a Wikipedian who joined primarily to correct apostrophe errors.
She uses some variation on the alias "Sailor Ptah" for everything, and if you see a Sailor Ptah around, it's her.
She is intelligent, funny, charming, well-read, clever, astute, interesting, and hoping you will not realize that this is a user page and not an article, and therefore not subject to NPOV.
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[edit] About Erin
Erin is a single white female, a civil libertarian, a registered Green, a bibliophile, a packrat, a Universalist Unitarian, a freshman at Wheaton College (Massachusetts), a devout Pastafarian, an Integra Hellsing fangirl, a writer, an artist, a doujinshi-ka, an introvert, gay, overworked, underpaid, myopic, a Sailor Moon fan, a lover of crossovers, and a geek, not necessarily in that order.
[edit] People Erin Admires
Jon Stewart, Octavia E. Butler, Neil Gaiman, Bill Watterson, Orson Scott Card, Scott McCloud, Julia Sweeney, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen Colbert, Ellen DeGeneres, Joseph Campbell, George Herriman, Dave Barry, Scott Adams, Douglas Adams, Paul Graham, Wiley Miller, and Maya Keyes.
Again, not necessarily in that order, although Jon, Octavia, and Neil belong near the top.
All of the people on the list are funny or intelligent or, preferably, both. Generally speaking, Erin admires wit, especially the ability to laugh at yourself; intelligence; and talent of any variety.
It bothers Erin that there are many more men than women on this list, but there's not much she can do about it.
[edit] Erin in Fandom
Erin's first experience with the online side of fandom involved Superfriends. Her first experience with the salacious side of fandom involved Thundercats. She was in fifth grade at the time. And that's all she's going to say about that.
[edit] Sailor Moon
At the end of elementary school Erin got into Sailor Moon, then looked it up online and found out that, wow, there were a lot of people into Sailor Moon! And they had pictures! And there were more Sailor Soldiers (and they were soldiers, not "scouts"), and there were all kinds of universal themes explored in the later series, not to mention homosexuality and crossdressing, and speaking of which Zoicite was originally a guy. Wow!
Erin promptly started creating Mary Sue-ish or simply underdeveloped fan characters, writing bad fanfiction, and drawing bad fanart.
She would get better at all three things eventually.
Erin almost never uploaded any of her fanworks; although she did a lot of reading of fanfiction, she almost never gave feedback. Her fanship was very observational. Nevertheless, Sailor Moon fandom was one of the dominant influences of her middle school experience.
[edit] Hellsing
In high school Erin discovered Hellsing, and all you-know-what broke loose.
The main difference between her Hellsing fanship and her Sailor Moon fanship is that the Hellsing fanship is much more active; her discovery of Livejournal came around the same time, and she joined both it and DeviantArt in order to interact with Hellsing fans.
In 2003 she started a webcomic based on Hellsing, And Shine Heaven Now. It is theoretically eligible for all kinds of awards, if only someone would nominate it. However, reader feedback - ranging from the helpfully critical to the unabashedly enthusiastic - makes up for the lack of official recognition. (Seriously, though. At least give it a Buzzcomix vote.)
Erin is a ridiculously adoring Integra fangirl, and AxI is her OTP. She cosplays as Integra at Otakon.
[edit] Fake News
Towards the end of high school Erin started watching The Daily Show on a sporadic basis, later to become a regular one. She started watching The Colbert Report the day after its debut (and later downloaded the premiere online), and now watches both religiously.
Erin's interaction with these shows is much like her interaction with fictional series that she enjoys; thus, she uses the vocabulary of fandom to describe it.
[edit] Other
Erin is a fan of far too many things to list right now. However, in addition to the works listed above, Erin has actively participated in fandoms for Good Omens, the Sandman series, Victorian Romance Emma, the Oz books, Read or Die, Maria-sama ga Miteru, and Red Dwarf.
[edit] Family
Erin's father is a computer science professer; her mother is about to receive her doctorate in theology; her younger brother is a Lego enthusiast and a gamer.
She agrees with her great-great-aunt that fashion is spinach.
[edit] Beliefs
In two words, Erin is a humanist humorist.
She swears by cheap sketchbooks and 99-cent notebooks. She believes in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. She believes in sprawling multifandom crossovers. She believes that everyone has the potential to be good. She believes you need to be able to laugh at yourself. She believes that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you.
[edit] Miscellaneous
On Wikipedia, Erin has worked on various Hellsing-related pages, Stephen Colbert (character), and Carver Center (her high school).
She is a comics enthusiast, owner of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes and over 150 volumes of manga. (Six are in French; one is in Japanese; she can read the former, but not the latter.)
She loves feta cheese, almonds, korma, and Mountain Dew. She reads science fiction and listens to classic rock.
She will probably think of half a dozen things to add to this page ten minutes after saving it, and not update it until at least a year later.
[edit] Links
[edit] Projects
- The Sailor Neopets RPG - a collaborative Sailor Moon/Neopets crossover epic that Erin started.
- And Shine Heaven Now - the long-running fancomic.
- And Shine England Then - a Victorian Romance Emma fansite.
- And Shine Hell(sing) Now - a Hellsing fansite.
[edit] Social Networking
- Fanfiction journal - mostly Hellsing and Colbert Report fanfiction.
- DeviantArt gallery - mostly Hellsing fanart.
- The Shine Forum - discussion board for the comic.
- Erin's LJ - no longer posted in, but used to participate in communities.
