Yay!
Finally, the last body chapter of my thesis is finished! Currently, the entire thing runs up to 82 pages, but I haven't written the conclusion yet. I refuse to do anything that has to do with schoolwork tonight and instead have fun, since editing and writing papers for other classes starts tomorrow.
After remembering stuff about the Forbidden Game and starting my little fic, I've started looking into Norse runes. I think I might end up buying a set... there's this nice place online that sells them carved from wood, where you can pick the wood. So I've borrowed a book on them from S. and started reading up. It'll be interesting to look at something like this that isn't tarot. Heh. Next up, Brian Froud's Faeries Oracle. Even if I never use them to read for people, I want them just because... faeries! How can you go wrong?
scrollgirl's entry that pointed me to an online debate between FayJay and Jemima got me thinking about slash again. Right now, I'm too tired to get all my thoughts down, but I left some comments in her LJ. It's always interesting to me to start thinking about slash, just because it feels like the flip side of what I'm doing for my thesis. Basically, I'm concentrating on how most of the scholarship on shojo manga is strictly limited to yaoi and shonen ai in an attempt to "solve the problem" of why female writers write stuff like this and why female readers would read stuff like this. And then it gets very complicated because the feminists have their ideas, then the queer theorists have their own ideas about the appropriation of gay culture for feminism, and etc. Whereas for slash, the problem almost seems to be taking it not seriously at all. And I'll stop now so I can coherently organize my thoughts and maybe even write something intelligible. My brain is in a state of mush right now.
After remembering stuff about the Forbidden Game and starting my little fic, I've started looking into Norse runes. I think I might end up buying a set... there's this nice place online that sells them carved from wood, where you can pick the wood. So I've borrowed a book on them from S. and started reading up. It'll be interesting to look at something like this that isn't tarot. Heh. Next up, Brian Froud's Faeries Oracle. Even if I never use them to read for people, I want them just because... faeries! How can you go wrong?
scrollgirl's entry that pointed me to an online debate between FayJay and Jemima got me thinking about slash again. Right now, I'm too tired to get all my thoughts down, but I left some comments in her LJ. It's always interesting to me to start thinking about slash, just because it feels like the flip side of what I'm doing for my thesis. Basically, I'm concentrating on how most of the scholarship on shojo manga is strictly limited to yaoi and shonen ai in an attempt to "solve the problem" of why female writers write stuff like this and why female readers would read stuff like this. And then it gets very complicated because the feminists have their ideas, then the queer theorists have their own ideas about the appropriation of gay culture for feminism, and etc. Whereas for slash, the problem almost seems to be taking it not seriously at all. And I'll stop now so I can coherently organize my thoughts and maybe even write something intelligible. My brain is in a state of mush right now.