'Why We Slash' beta help?

[trinityofone]

So. I have a draft of the Why We Slash paper. (Yes, I know I haven't fully finished responding to the responses, but I'm really running out of time here, and y'all already know that I suck.) I don't hate it as much as I initially did, but I'm still not sure that it actually, you know, makes sense or says anything. I have to turn it in the day after tomorrow; is there anyone who'd be willing to look it over? Normally, I'd ask my mother, but despite her professed interest in the topic, um, no. It's about 10 pages long, and uses the phrase "blow job" more than any other academic paper I have ever written. (Which is to say, once.)

I also have to bang my Victorianism paper into shape. This is the one that's sekritly about how Holmes and Watson are so very, very gay for each other, and...I'm sensing a pattern here. And the scary truth is, I have written a lot of papers about--sexuality? homoeroticism?--in literature. I mean, there was the Portrait of a Lady paper about how Isabel Archer is incredibly, incredibly repressed, and how the only person in the world who possibly knows more about repression is Henry James himself. Not to mention the one about how in East of Eden, Lee is the Eve to Adam Trask's Adam. (And I still want Lee/Adam, people! You litslash folks are falling down on the job!) I guess you could say I've identified my area of interest. Now what do I do with all this? I mean, like, in life. *deep thoughts*

Confidential (by which I of course mean completely, gloriously public) to:

plainsong_x: I have acquired the book! THE BOOK HAS BEEN ACQUIRED BY ME! And the edition with the cool cover that you liked, too. (We're talking Exquisite Corpse here, for all you people who are BRAZENLY LISTENING IN on our PRIVATE CONVERSATION.)

isiscolo: So I went to the bookstore today specifically to get a computer book. I got there, I poked around in fiction and history for a while, I picked up the above piece of serial killer wacky fun, and then I walked out, having completely forgotten what had been my sole purpose in going there in the first place. *headdesk* So, goal for tomorrow, really! Seriously, though: all I need is a tweed jacket with patches on the elbows and I'd be the quintessential absent-minded professor. (Oh, and a degree. One of those might be helpful.)

And sdraevn: Damn you! You've got me listening to Bon Jovi and liking it! *is ashamed*

No, seriously: her John/Rodney mix is fantastic. Check it out: Weird About Each Other.

I should probably do some actual work now. But yeah, please let me know if I can put your mad beta skillz to work. Thanks!

ETA: Okay, I think I'm cool on betas! Thank you all so much!

Comments

[refracting.livejournal.com]

I may be a random internet person, but if you want I'd be glad to look at the paper for you.

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

Dude. John & Bon Jovi are like peanut butter & jelly, which is to say OMGMFEO!! I can't think of anything I've written that made me giggle quite so much as drunken John singing "Blaze of Glory" by campfire. *g*

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

I'd love to take a look, if you'd like: my email is kalpurna @ gmail.com .

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

I'd love to take a look over it; I haven't actually, you know, taken a grammar course yet (damn maximum credit requirements!), but I tend to be pretty decent with that sort of thing. Although I will say that if you send me a rough and I'm not quoted, I'll insert myself be quite upset ;)

Also, YAYS. You will totally like it, I swear. And if you don't, um. It's pretty?

[whiskeypants.livejournal.com]

hon, you know you don't even have to ask before you send me stuff to read, right? the answer is always yes.

[darcydodo]

If you change your mind about having enough betas, then I'd have an excuse not to do my own work. ;) (Also, I'm probably less about the slash than some people on your list, so the vaguely outside perspective might be useful. *grin*)

[dizzyditz.livejournal.com]

Good luck on your papers! And sweet lord woman do you link to past entries. It must be a writing-lots-of-papers-major thing.

[taelonmahal.livejournal.com]

If you still need someone... I did a term paper on fandom once. :)

[godofwine.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait, are the rest of us ever going to see this paper? Because as a member of the "wish I had a reason to write that paper but as my major/academic interests have little to do with the subject, probably never shall" group, I am so dying to read this. Please?