Today I very officially told the people who need to know that I'm not staying in Thailand for a third year. This decision makes me inconsolably angry in ways that I can't hardly explain.( cut for general frustration and cathartic bitching )

This is an American Cultural Studies // Literary Theory rec-post. This is not - by any means - an all-inclusive list of the subject. In fact, it's pretty narrow in scope as my research in Uni focused primarily on the 19thC (why I'm writing a thesis on contemporary fandom is a question I still ask myself on a daily fucking basis because I do NOT ( Read more... )

So there's this phenomenon called Gangnam Style that I've been pretty much avoiding like death.
[I love K-pop, okay? You proabably should too - it's really fuxking INTERESTING]
But I was talking to my Indian friend yesterday - who is an old-school J-rock kid, loves Bollywood, and eats up all the K-pop I send her - and we both remarked on how this isn't the K-pop we love. (And then waxed poetics and I made her watch ["Beautiful ( Read more... )

I have not yet made a Korean Drama rec post. Not because they aren't wonderful, or that I haven't been watching lovely shows... more because penny_lane_42's posts are so incredible - and where I find most of my new shows, anyway. But a few months ago (now) I watchedYou're Beautiful and it was more than just a great K!drama. It was an answer to a conversation ( Read more... )

Day One
Keynote Speaker> Cynthea Masson (possibly the sweetest person on the planet, btw)
“Break Out the Champagne, Pinocchio”: Angel and the Puppet Paradox

( So... Puppet Theory is a THING )