#MA dissertation
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hello my lovely lot, im here to ask for help.
im doing my MA thesis on how AI chatbots are affecting fandom from fandom interactivity, creativity, individual internalisation etc. i wanna get as many people to give me their opinions for some qualitative data.
even if you have never used chatbots but have opinions on them, i want your answers!
you lot could help me get a really good grade, or even get this published! so please if anyone would i would really appreciate it
link to the google form: click here
disclaimer: you will obviously remain anonymous! I refer to everyone's submission as 'candidate *insert number*' out of respect but also that's just rules in academia.
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PhD. Pretty Huge Dialogue-sections-in-yaoi-fanfiction
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im going to wait how i feel after seeing taash's storyline but i think the reason im finding the trans stuff mildly uncomfortable is because it's so positive. that sounds bad. but as much as i get some people feel they need positive stories right now to counteract the current climate i find it MORE alienating when a significant part of the trans experience is stripped away. we have top surgery scars but no indication of who top surgery is accessible to, how tf is an elf in minrathous getting gender affirming care? mae tells us this heartwarming story about how great her coming out was and if you respond "well my coming out didn't go great!" there's still no room for negativity, it's straight onto "well if you need to talk about it i will always be here for you :)" girl i dont know you? why can't we just sit with the fact that it would suck to be trans in thedas and do something interesting with it
#i wrote my ma dissertation on the importance of negativity in trans stories so maybe im just more sensitive to it than others but#idk! im not one of those 'transition is defined by suffering' people. but if you choose to ignore suffering entirely?#it just feels cheap and nothing#tho i often feel alienated in trans discussions when talking to people in more liberal areas lol#this rant is probably so incoherent sorry i keep getting distracted. surely im not the only one that feels this tho
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you know i've been doing pretty fine with the process but i need at least some reassurance to tell me that it will work out and that everything is going to pay off and i will be satisfied with my writing
#yes this is about my MA dissertation#i spend at least eight hours per week within two diff days writing and researching#and i know my topic from the back of my head#(of course i do tudor history is why i am doing such and where i am in life now)#but at the same time it's like imposter's syndrome is taking over me again#and i need to stop !!!!! worrying a bit i guess#i think this factors in when you're tackling something you are really passionate about#and if you think you aren't doing well enough about it you're just. meh#but i really wanna make myself proud#personal#maria rambles
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#today as both been a very good and a very worrying day#I got the $10k grant I asked for from one of the prominent research forums for work in Europe and the Middle East this coming fall/winter#(plus with what they’re giving I can finally buy a brand new MacBook - mine is 7 years old. has traveled and been through so much. 1 BA 1 MA#first 3 years of a PhD. 1 new battery. and I live in fear of it dying any day. so that gives me so much relief and security)#but the north african studies associations I applied to for manuscript tutoring and archive funding all paused grants this year#so i have to rely exclusively on the Jewish studies foundation associated with my uni to give me everything for that#otherwise I can’t do it and I’ll have to move my whole June-December schedule around#and it will majorly fuck up how the initial steps of my dissertation research and drafting are mapped out#not great. especially when they don’t give decisions until mid May#there’s nothing to do but grin bear it and pray though#at least one of the two major things has gone right and I’ll have reliable hardware#plus something new and fancy to put on my CV#me stuff#not the stones
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aseabell replied to this post:
Congratulations!
triviareads said:
congratulations!
dreamingdespot said:
congrats!!! Dr. Anghraine!!!
steinbecks said:
CONGRATULATIONS DOCTOR ANGHRAINE!!!!!!!
intellectual-carrot said:
Congratulations!
lesbiansforboromir said:
Oh massive congratulations!!
haurasha said:
Congratulations! 🎉
riddlemaster101 said:
congrats!!!!!!
theoppositeofprofound said:
Congrats!
taciturn-nerd said:
Congratulations!!!
ahhh I did want to thank you all who responded re: passing the diss defense after my last acknowledgment! Thank you so much, especially those who've been with me through so much of this ordeal <3
scattyuk said:
Woohoo! Congrats! It's been lovely to follow it in author comments since the Masters days. 🎊🎉
Thank you!! You were in Borgias fandom, I think?? It's wild because I had every intention of studying 18th- and 19th-century lit, but used a paper on depictions of the Borgias to get into my PhD program in the first place, and was so interested by the period that I ended up focusing on 16th- and 17th-century literature instead of most of the 19th (the absolute latest I ended up going was about 1820 and most was far, far earlier). Neil Jordan & Co probably merited a place in the acknowledgments, lol.
#i was clearing out my ma files because they're finally about to delete everything#and found a 'tis pity modern au i'd started lmao#pretty obviously influenced by my borgias fic tendencies etc so i definitely owe one to borgias fandom! still the nicest ever#respuestas#nice things people say to me#ivory tower blogging#anghraine babbles#long post#dissertation hell#political shenanigans and codependent siblings#magnificent bastards of the vatican
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look where I am you guys








it's!!! Edinburgh!!! Scotland!!!
the 5th pic is the National Records, which is one of the locations where I'm doing archival research for my dissertation on the university's dime (I could Not have afforded this on my own.)
#a lifelong dream...scotland#its been pretty awesome so far ngl everything is really pretty and old and made of stone#and im getting to look at some neat old documents#also tomorrow i get to meet a historian whose work ive drawn on for my MA paper and pick his brain abt my dissertation plans#so everything is as it were coming up milhouse atm#not les mis#personal
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fr the most influential literary experiences of my life are reading dorian gray as a young teen and realising older books (by my little baby standards) could affect me emotionally, AND reading the dispossessed when i was 20 and realising that sometimes when you think you hate a genre you actually just don't know enough about it
#finding out i actually love spec lit and i actually just violently hate star wars was a journey for sure. i remember dreading reading#the dispossessed for class because ew i hate sci-fi. then i sat down and started reading and didnt stop until i was done.#and i felt like OH. of course scifi has massive potential for brilliant political commentary. why didnt i see this before.#um. because i hate every mainstream sci-fi film ive ever watched and bc of this had no curiosity about the lit genre#Anyway last year i ended up writing my ma dissertation on SF <3
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guys i found out that i got a first for my degree :-))
#plant rant#found out a couple of days ago but i was so dazed that it took me a little while to process#my beautiful and powerful dissertation mark (a 75!!!!!) carried me over the finish line#you must now refer to me as jupitersflytrap MA Hons#^ this is my undergrad degree my university is just (justified and) ancient so it's quirky with its degree titles
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archive day is here!!
since the british library system is still down it’s paper orders/in person only and this might be a waste of time if the manuscript I need isn’t available.
love it. thank you hackers. queuing with 50 other people for entry with nothing but a wish, a dream, and two hours sleep
#the ma dissertation is going so well#me and my notebook against the world rn#CO Posts#co speaks#academia
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agree to inhuman characters being made nb! we subconsciously view masculinity as a default without realising a lot that everything whose shape we don't know or can't define is a he immediately. for a she it requires extra extra specific appearance. i love that fiction can show different parts of psychology
it's really interesting and one of my fave things ever to analyse in speculative fiction. because it does sometimes feel like it's easier to swallow for cis audiences when alien / inhuman characters are the ones that exist outside human binaries because they're already othered so it doesn't feel as threatening when they transgress gender. but on the other hand they can be a really fun way of making people think about how societies and lives without gender.
#ask#anonymous#sorry this was my ma dissertation i start talking bullshit whenever the topic comes up it's SO interesting to me#everyone read the left hand of darkness and THEN read essays arguing about how pronouns were used#because my argument is always that the he/him pronouns make sense if youre reading the novel as translation/genly's perspective#since he comes from a patriarchal society. but le guin did see the case for using they in her updated response to the discussion so idk!
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Wait wait wait, youre 21 and handing in a phd proposal?? Girl howwwwww
i’m in the uk so we graduate after three years, i’m now doing an MA and want to go straight to phd after that! :-)
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Writing my thesis has been a constant back and forth between horribly procrastinating doing any work on it at all, and finally sitting down to work and realizing I do, in fact, like my research question. I just wish that wasn't so easy to forget 😅
#filipa rambles#studyblr#law student#law studyblr#thesis#dissertation#master's thesis#academic writing#university#uniblr#uni studyblr#master’s degree#master student#master's degree#mas
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I need someone to periodically offer me stable, interesting and decently paid jobs and go "don't you ever do a phd" 😭😂
#headache about dissertation rn is so real. i gotta promise myself not to go further up in academia ajfdhkl#(i mean i do plan to uh. finish an additional ma after this. but thats alright)#i just hate how difficult and complicated original research and being responsible for such a project are. and scattered primary sources 😭#every professor i meet/talk to encourages me to go for one loll but they dont have funding to give out or anything 😭 its not worth i think#i should become a scammer pop hist amateur on purpose later alslsldld#but yeah.... alexa play mozarts verwirrung
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#i dreamt last night that i was editing a 300 page dissertation by zayn on how he was abused by older men#i have no tea though because most of my dream i was struggling with captions and weird sentences#sometimes i worry about what ma have happened to them#esp harry because of his reputation and personality#but i guess zayn was especially vulnerable as well#tw abuse
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underwhelming results day.
not because of my results. im very happy with my exam results. but no one else is in a celebratory mood so it's just me and a glass of wine sitting in the garden while everyone else. idk. stresses or whatever
#i get the stress and i get work is tough atm#but i was crying tears of joy earlier this afternoon at some of my results#and it's just had to be something i brush off this evening bc no one else really... cares#it feels#just me myself and a glass of wine#helia's ma adventure#helia rants#still got my dissertation to do so... only 66% of my degree has technically been done...#i suppose#:T
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