Okay. This is the Coolest Master's Thesis EVER!

[eilowyn]

I was going to post something quick saying that I was going to take an official break from LJ for a while (for realsies this time), but then I found out about this:

Fandom Then/Fandom Now

In the words of the chief investigator, Katherine Morrissey (a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaulkee):

For many people, fan fiction is

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[spikesjojo]

I have pimped it on my tumblr!

[shapinglight]

See you when you get back from your break. And thanks for the link. It looks very interesting.

[red_satin_doll]

All of this is of interest to me because I love fandom history but - yeah, Thelma and Louise fanfic? Why didn't I ever think of that? Of course the quoted passage sounds like it could have come from any fandom story. Aren't vampires like a universal deus ex machina get out of mortality free card now?

Teachers often claim that "there are no right and wrong answers," but students are correct to suspect otherwise. They know, at the very least, that there are right and wrong ways to arrive at answers, right and wrong kinds of evidence, right and wrong styles of arguments, even right and wrong questions. All those rules probably don't correspond with the ways students talk about films with a friend, let alone how they think about film images in their erotic fantasies.I'm reading the essay and when I hit that passage I thought, oh yeah. I figured that out in 2nd grade when the teacher who had just told me "there are no stupid questions" looked at me like an idiot when I asked her a question. Apparently what she meant to say was "there are

[makd]

impresssive Ph.D. project. I'll be interested to read it when she's finished. Thanks for sharing.