User:Elemarth

Hello!

I am the administrator of this wiki. Please contact me if you need anything (related to this wiki, of course). I will start adding more articles soon. I swear.

I've also adopted GymnWikit. If you have knowledge about gymnastics or gymnasts, please come!

Facts and opinions


 * Real name: Tessa K. Yelton
 * American/British, American resident
 * Too young to drink
 * College student, aspiring author, daydreamer, grammar Nazi
 * Registered voter; Democrat
 * Monolingual, unfortunately
 * Agnosticly agnostic (The original Wikipedia claims that "strong" agnostics believe that God is unknowable and "weak" agnostics believe that someone might know God, but they don't. I don't see how the first is not a religion in itself, and I refuse to be called "weak".

A few favorites


 * Single books: Alas, Babylon (Pat Frank), The Book Thief (Markus Zuzak)
 * Book series: Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Young Wizards (Diane Duane), Old Kingdom (Garth Nix), Keys to the Kingdom (Garth Nix), Pendragon (D. J. MacHale)
 * Authors with multiple good series/books: Hilari Bell, Sharon Shinn (Like fantasy? Like romance? Want to read both in one book? Or both at once for several series of books?), Diana Wynne Jones (queen story wizard, or maybe a goddess brought to authorial flesh), Tamora Pierce
 * Other books from childhood: My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George), Homecoming (Cynthia Voigt; reread this recently and still love it), Over Sea, Under Stone (Susan Cooper), Redwall
 * Movies: Whale Rider, Star Wars, The Lion King, The Sound of Music

Pet Peeves The following are reflected on the medical page:
 * If you write "alright", I will temporarily lose my mind.
 * Do not misuse apostrophe's. I wrote a whole essay about this once.
 * When you put two dots.. I don't know whether you left one out of ellipses or added a period.
 * Do not say that a shy person is "antisocial". Shy people are some of the most prosocial people there are. (They are generally not asocial, either, though they may act that way.) If you want to use a name for a personality disorder, say "avoidant".
 * Do not say you are | OCD unless you actually are. It is insulting to refer to your desire to have things organized or to see correct grammar as OCD when it is so mild. Besides, this actually more resembles obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, which is a different thing.
 * Do not write a story where a character stops speaking due to choice or trauma. I will cry. (Note: Luckily for me, I am not, myself, selectively mute. See below.)

Etc.
 * I used to be the president of my high school's creative writing club. A great honor, I know.
 * I remember a time when I didn't understand stories focusing on character. Now, I can't seem to write anything else.
 * I am a fanfiction writer. My penname on fanfiction.net is... guess!
 * I, too, create Mary Sues. That doesn't mean I share those stories.
 * I was interested in environmental conservation before "green" became cool - before I had even heard "green" used in this context, back in third grade.
 * I spend too much time on the computer, where I talk (or, well, write) too much.
 * I used to be addicted to Tetris. I am now addicted to minesweeper. (I wrote this over a year ago. Nothing has changed.) (Update: I have returned to Tetris.)
 * I am also addicted to writing. I feel grumpy if I have writer's block and cheery if I've been working well on my stories.
 * In contrast, I detest writing essays for school.
 * I fiercely support underdogs. The lower they are, the more I seem to care. Hence my intense fascination with selective mutism.
 * I am obsessed with gymnastics: women's artistic, rhythmic, trampoline/tumbling, and acrobatic.
 * I am also on YouTube, mostly watching gymnastics videos. My penname is... yeah.
 * I have a tendency to write something and then think of what I should have said moments after I've saved the page, so I often edit the same page many times in a day.