Tag: academia

goddamnshinyrock:

I’ll just finish this reading before I go to bed-
“[…] to achieve a radically rigorous mimesis many feel can trip the transivity of time.”
-nope. sleep now.

update: the entire rest of the reading was like this. and worse. the professor freely admitted that this author was not only hated by all his former museology students, but is generally acknowledged to be impenetrable even among fellow theater scholars. thanks scott.

While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.

Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via rembrandtswife)
Source: francescacoppa

classmate: “[…] and we will see if we can get any photographs or information to include in our exhibit.” 
my edit: “[…] and determine the feasibility of acquiring photographs and information to include in the exhibit in order to broaden the perspective of the history presented.” 

I may be certifiably obnoxious to have in a project group but boy howdy am I good for our wordcount.

meariver:

racethewind10:

romanimp:

I can’t wait for the days where scholarship has to muddle through ff.net and ao3 pseudonyms like “guys, I have evidence to believe that starfucker69 was a pseudonym for one of our landmark literary figures of the 21st century and that they in fact first began their writing career with filthy sinful Steggy smut.”

As an academic and a fan I both want and fucking dread this day because academics trying to tackle things like A/B/O, magic!cock, g!p, mpreg, rule 63, sex pollen like… the language academia is going to have to invent my god  

#this makes me happy#in a deep deep place in my blackened soul