July. 15th Digging out my Comic in January (defining my research question)

Aug.5th An Interview with Leah Holmes

Aug.9th An Intervention in Edinburgh

Aug.16th~24th Autoethnographical Questioning on Reddit

Aug. 28th An Interview with Henry Jenkins

being invited to join Transcultural Fandom of East Asia

Aug. 22nd~29th Intervention within the Writing Community: An Educational Zine

Sep.6th Sara Z’s Video Essay on Fanfics

Media Specificity.

Sep.18th A Dialogue Essay in the Transcultural Fandom

Transcultural Fandom of East Asia(dialogue essay)(collaborating with projects)(at 3 o’clock in the morning in Santorini)(Proposal deadline at Oct.15th)

Sep.23rd Hotroom Project Feedback

Focus on your Target audience: fantasy fans and media users?(mark’s feedback)

Sep.24th Notes during Class

Sep.27th-28th Unit 3 Assessment Feedback

I was advised to shift away from presenting a dichotomous stance on fan fiction, and considering the spectrum of opportunities in between.
So…myths are also technically fanfiction.

And…marvel stories and DC stories have the same theory as fanfiction to original writing.

Oct.6th An Audition at Hackney Showroom(This is irrelevant)

(Failed. Too scared to email them.)

Oct.10th Bought a Ticket to London Comic Con

Oct.14th Collab with Sociology Student from Columbia University and Uploaded 2 essays

“Slash Fanfiction and Material Culture in the Chinese Fandom”

“Cosplay in Multimedia–Western Media and Fandom within Chinese Communities”

Oct.16th Action Research on Action Research

Oct.19th Autoethnographic Research: Reflecting on My Personal Journey within the Fandom

Oct.20th Emailing to Lydia the Bard and getting a reply(irrelevant…)

Oct.26th Intervention at London Comic Con: Promoting a Stereotype of Fanfiction

Meeting Steve Penfold and having a convo with him right at the Comic Con

Oct.31st Failure of the 2 Dialogue Essays…but gaining ideas from the Structure

Oct.31st Reflections based on the Unit 4 Checklist

Nov. 2nd Sketching an Idea…about the Stories in the Middle

Nov.4th Sketching an Idea of Comparing Fanfics and Original Literature

This idea was brainstormed during tutorials.

Nov.5th Working on my Artist Statement

Nov. 6th Conducting the Newspaper Intervention Thing in CSM

Nov. 6th Focusing on the Holistic View of my Research…and taking note of Anti-Stakeholders

Taking in the Holistic View means the role of my research in the wider fields/settings that it sits in. For example, my role is different in different settings. I’m a student at school, an artist and designer at work, a daughter at home, an Asian person in a multinational background.

Nov. 10th Intervention Feedback: Comparing Fanfics and Original Literature

Nov.11th Final Tutorial and rethinking how to present

Nov.13th~15th Mythology, The Stories in the Middle, and considering the spectrum of opportunities in between

Nov.16th Interview with Sherry

Nov. 22nd Self Intervention: A conversation with Jinx from Arcane

Nov. 22nd: Sketching an Intervention: Using Fanfiction as a methodology to spark Creativity in aspiring writers

Experience Excerpt Games on Fanfiction Reddits

Nov. 25th: Trying out the Excerpt Game in CSM(TBC…)