[ SECRET POST #2050 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2050 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 114 secrets from Secret Submission Post #293.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I know EXACTLY what you mean. :/

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT
I'm fascinated by this, and a little part of me wonders, hopefully in a non-prejudiced way, whether the posters talking about this kind of problem attended younger universities and colleges than I did. It seems like the kind of ill thought-out thing somebody would say if they had a bee in their bonnet about proving that their department was Worthy and Academic.

I heard loads of the lecturers at my university bitching out things like LOTR (often with fair points to make). I also got lent ten volumes of 'Dykes To Watch Out For' by one of them, and another collected 'The Walking Dead' and had a self-annotated FFVII strategy guide in his office. ("Yeah, the original stuff is good, but it's riddled with errors. Mine's a lot more complete.") Whatever their personal likes and dislikes, my university supported me through my undergraduate dissertation: "'Oscar Is A Lady?' In Which We Discover That The HERO Is FEMALE," which was a rather excitable comparison piece between the manga 'The Rose of Versailles' and the formerly banned lesbian novel of the 1920s, 'The Well of Loneliness.' For my MA dissertation, I wrote a fairly involved essay about the importance of souls and metaphorical and literal re-incarnation in 'Cloud Atlas.' I called it "Streetmap to Nirvana: Mapping the Souls of Cloud Atlas." And neither that one nor the one about Berubara were the most unusual choices that got made on my course. I remember one girl was studying manuscripts at the National Library of Wales, and got permission to write hers about the way that documents bound together used to be read as a single text, and the way that one she was examining, containing biblical pieces alongside parish records, had a self-informing intertextuality. And one of the guys in that group, last time I spoke to him - he was planning a piece about textual spaces, and was strongly considering comparing audience-participatory plays of the Renaissance with dedicated servers on WoW. I don't know if that's the exact line of thinking he followed in the end, but the department was completely behind him. They all had their own interests, but they didn't let that get in the way of ours, and that was a great, professional approach as far as I'm concerned.

They barely even suggested that I justify why an aging shoujo manga was a good topic to write on. :'D I pretty much just said "this is manga, just so's you know, and I'm not going to justify styudying it, because this entire dissertation will do that for you."

[tabaqui]

All of this sounds so damn interesting. :)