Mar 29, 2018
I’m so pumped I can’t even pretend to sleep anymore, so I’m listening to Nightfall in Middle-earth in the pitch-dark early morning daring everything to get rekt ‘cause I’m so ready for this
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I’m so pumped I can’t even pretend to sleep anymore, so I’m listening to Nightfall in Middle-earth in the pitch-dark early morning daring everything to get rekt ‘cause I’m so ready for this
THIS PAPER IS ON SANSUKH AND I AM SITTING THE AUDIENCE GRINNING LIKE A LOON
so I’m looking over my paper for tomorrow (I’m on the first panel, Asdfghjkl) and I don’t totally hate it on sight after hearing today’s panels, so I’m fucking pumped
(also please please please no sore throat until Friday afternoon if I absolutely have to have one)
first panel on queer studies and Tolkien, and so far so good
First paper was on partial penetration (and I nearly keeled over when the presenter actually said that the ring is Sauron’s body, so what are Ringbearers doing every time) (I love that we’ve long said that first)
Second paper is complicating the officer/batman dynamic between Sam and Frodo because the rival, Gollum, can’t be the Sedgwick conduit - sort of? Jealousy is partially professional and partially relational
Third paper was on destabilized gender roles and gender interpelation for filmic Eowyn and Faramir, fourth on paired same-sex watchers (“apocalyptic voyeurs”)in the Argonath and the Watchers in Mordor
. . . Mentally exhausted right now and thus procrastinating a bit on the 50 million things to do post conference and prep for flight back tomorrow
Today’s last panel (interdisciplinary) has so far included a paper on political anarchism in the Shire and how that helped overthrow Sharkey after the Scouring, and then a great reading of mental illnesses that posited Eowyn as Gandalf’s narrative successor (no, I was skeptical too at first but she made a great case)
The hotel WiFi kicked me off tumblr (. . . so they know what I do on here - hmmm), but I promise I grilled two participants on their views on Shadow of Mordor