I don't have anything smart to say right now. It might be because I haven't slept, but it might just be because I found myself nodding in agreement the entire time and wish I had more to add to the larger discussion. Certainly, there's much more to be discovered. Let's do it. :D Also, I may send you my paper, I may not. For whatever reason, I'm intensely self-conscious about my academic writing. (Probably because I have the functional vocabulary of a fetus and it shows.)
Thinking ahead some more: I really want to do my thesis on new half now, but the only thing I've found so far that I could possibly use as my "text" for it is in Japanese, and I'd have to translate it over the summer if I wanted to use it. And even then I don't know how much said text would have anything to do with what I want to do with new half, whatever it is I want to do with new half ('cause I'm not sure of that either at this point). D:
Or I could write my thesis on the nature of fanservice in Japanese boy bands and how it ultimately encourages an already rampant anti-queer culture, using Arashi videos as my "text" (beautifully, this would probably be a completely plausible thesis based on the guidelines), but then I'd be one of those East Asian Studies majors.
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Re: i destroyed the comment limit by 2,000 characters.
Date: 2009-05-11 10:11 (UTC)I don't have anything smart to say right now. It might be because I haven't slept, but it might just be because I found myself nodding in agreement the entire time and wish I had more to add to the larger discussion. Certainly, there's much more to be discovered. Let's do it. :D Also, I may send you my paper, I may not. For whatever reason, I'm intensely self-conscious about my academic writing. (Probably because I have the functional vocabulary of a fetus and it shows.)
Thinking ahead some more: I really want to do my thesis on new half now, but the only thing I've found so far that I could possibly use as my "text" for it is in Japanese, and I'd have to translate it over the summer if I wanted to use it. And even then I don't know how much said text would have anything to do with what I want to do with new half, whatever it is I want to do with new half ('cause I'm not sure of that either at this point). D:
Or I could write my thesis on the nature of fanservice in Japanese boy bands and how it ultimately encourages an already rampant anti-queer culture, using Arashi videos as my "text" (beautifully, this would probably be a completely plausible thesis based on the guidelines), but then I'd be one of those East Asian Studies majors.