Brain!fail

[oloriel]

I have been out of academia for so long that I have forgotten how to do citations ;_; Send help.

Then again, I don't think I've ever felt the need to quote a song in an essay for academia. I once did quote Monty Python's killer rabbit scene for the Shibboleth of Elizabeth I essay*, but quoting Meat Loaf in an essay (or is it just a shipping manifesto? meta? a pathetic defence of mah OTP? i don't know really) is a new one even for me². Is there even a rule for it? Damn, this is not what I signed up for all I was supposed to write was a damn love story and this is what my mind comes up with WHYYYY

Incidentally, elleth, this is all your fault. But you should have done the job yourself BECAUSE I SUCK

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*not the actual title of the essay but the tag I used for it on LJ.

²not the most inappropriate choice of quote though. I mean, my husband managed to quote Asterix in Switzerland for his PhD thesis in Chemistry. His geekery may be different from mine, but geekery it is.

Comments

[meril]

Nothing is too geeky for fandom, don't worry about it

and I am unfortunately well acquainted with Stuff Getting Away From Me

[oloriel]

You're right, writing a fandom essay is in itself a pinnacle of geekdom - everything else just follows suit. ;)

That happens all the time, doesn't it. To be fair, it happened when I had to write actual essays of mild academic interest, too. It's way too easy to stumble over some interesting fact and then get sidetracked by it.

[cowboy_r]

I am amused that the habit of annotating entries with footnotes has spread.

[oloriel]

It's never been gone, only dormant!