Date: 2013-02-20 04:37 pm (UTC)
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Um, is this place still alive? If so, I'd like to introduce myself.

My name is Dorothy, and I'm about to earn my BA in English with a concentration in Media and Communications studies and a minor in Writing.

I'm a nitpicker, a fact-checker, a feminist, and a fan. I love fitting works into their contexts and then pulling them back out and saying, "To hell with the author! This is how I read it!"

I grew up with the Baring-Gould Annotated in the house, reading it from an early age and trying to figure out just what a tantalus is. My Holmes is Jeremy Brett, with Basil of Baker Street coming in a close second. Reading the relationship between Holmes and Watson as a romantic one always just seemed common-sense to me, like Sam and Frodo in my other childhood favorite; it wasn't until I discovered slash fanfiction, paradoxically, that I realized most people weren't seeing books the way I was.

I'm fascinated by, but not a scholar of, Victoriana in general and the minutiae of differences to their social mores in particular. The resources available here seem very helpful; I may try posting a few recommendations of my own soon and seeing if there's any interest.
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