#im so lucky to have been in a program and found an advisor where writing about cap fanfiction for my thesis was totally viable

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can i ask about the captain america bachelor's thesis and the score you got for it

hi lorelei!! you absolutely may ask me!!

it was called "Steve Rogers and Captain America aren't always the same guy": Captain America Fanfiction as a Locus of Transformation, Identity Exploration, and Reclamation (a bit wordy, i know) and it basically outlined fanfiction conceptually and went into the history of cap as a character and political symbol to then analyze trends in cap fanfiction as forum for identity politics and fan reclamation. i think we stress so many of his identity markers in fandom that are played down or straight up erased in source material (esp the mcu) and i wanted to elaborate on the possible reasons for and effects of that. it was a lot of fun.

and i got a dutch 9/10!! which translated to an american A+ on my transcript, which is a bit crazy. i was lucky to have a super lovely and supportive thesis advisor :)

i can send it to you if you're interested!

#its like 12k words of dense academic text but it is quite interesting if i do say so myself #and the one academic thing i could always do confidently was write :P #but yeah i had so much fun with it!! #im so lucky to have been in a program and found an advisor where writing about cap fanfiction for my thesis was totally viable #and i even did well?? #i fear i may have peaked #anyway #i will shut up now #thank u for asking!! #it always makes me really happy when people are interested because clearly i'm a nerd about it #tortle answers #captain america