#MA dissertation

[admirxation]

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.

[pumpkinmetaphor]

PhD. Pretty Huge Dialogue-sections-in-yaoi-fanfiction

[kirkwallguy]

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

[elephantlovemedleys]

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

[waugh-bao]

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[anghraine]

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.

[wild-oats-and-cornflowers]

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.)

[cliveguy]

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

[jupitersflytrap]

guys i found out that i got a first for my degree :-))

[octaviasdread]

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

[kirkwallguy]

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.

[ghostresidues]

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! :-)

[lawstudentreads]

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 😅

[fitzrove]

I need someone to periodically offer me stable, interesting and decently paid jobs and go "don't you ever do a phd" 😭😂

[swallows-are-for-hope]

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[helianskies]

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