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This Is A Productive Use Of My Time
Jun. 1st, 2010 03:36 pmWays in Which My Academic Life and My Fandom Life Resemble Each Other (the short version):
1. Both contribute to my chronic state of sleep debt, as I don't believe in ever doing anything at a reasonable hour that could be put off to 3am.
2. Both tend to involve me going off on long, pedantic, hand-flappingly enthusiastic tangents about random subjects, whether I'm talking about the tragic backstory of a character on Doctor Who or the construction of concepts of trust and virtue in Middle English romances.
3. One way or another, at some point I always end up talking about fictional characters and how they are gay for each other. *grins sheepishly*
I had ambitious plans for the work I was going to get done over the three-day weekend, I really did! But in the end, pretty much the only thing I actually did was decide that I was never going to be able to come up with a decent thesis for a paper about race in Titus Andronicus, so screw it. I'm just going to write a 12 page paper on the Antonio/Bassanio/Portia love triangle instead. I'm pretty sure I can come up with some clever points about a) how the relationship functions differently depending on whose POV we are approaching it from and b) how it reflects the issues of acquisition, trade and fairness going on in the play, and it will at least be more entertaining to write.
I still maintain that this, like most of Shakespeare's love triangles, would best be solved by a proper Elizabethan threesome, but nobody bothered to ask me.
1. Both contribute to my chronic state of sleep debt, as I don't believe in ever doing anything at a reasonable hour that could be put off to 3am.
2. Both tend to involve me going off on long, pedantic, hand-flappingly enthusiastic tangents about random subjects, whether I'm talking about the tragic backstory of a character on Doctor Who or the construction of concepts of trust and virtue in Middle English romances.
3. One way or another, at some point I always end up talking about fictional characters and how they are gay for each other. *grins sheepishly*
I had ambitious plans for the work I was going to get done over the three-day weekend, I really did! But in the end, pretty much the only thing I actually did was decide that I was never going to be able to come up with a decent thesis for a paper about race in Titus Andronicus, so screw it. I'm just going to write a 12 page paper on the Antonio/Bassanio/Portia love triangle instead. I'm pretty sure I can come up with some clever points about a) how the relationship functions differently depending on whose POV we are approaching it from and b) how it reflects the issues of acquisition, trade and fairness going on in the play, and it will at least be more entertaining to write.
I still maintain that this, like most of Shakespeare's love triangles, would best be solved by a proper Elizabethan threesome, but nobody bothered to ask me.