I’ll take “Unexpected results of writing fanfic” for $0.00, Alex

[firecat]

Comment on my stories Twice-born and If Not Victory:
“My name is [redacted], and I am a research assistant at [a university] in the Netherlands. I am reaching out to kindly request your permission to include some sentences in an academic publications analyzing how characters die in fanfiction of Greek and Roman myths”

This describes the study the team is doing.
https://golemlab.eu/about/

‘The goal of GOLEM is to model the evolution of fiction in the context of digitalized and datafied culture, the so-called “digital literary sphere”’

Comments

[anagrrl]

Ahh, very neat!!

[pameladean]

Goodness! That is pretty cool! P.

[ljgeoff]

I will add - So cool!

[firecat]

♥ ♥ ♥

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

That's...cool! And unexpected!

[firecat]

I’m part of SCIENCE! :D

[selki]

!!!

[jesse_the_k]

Huzzah!

(Now I'm imagining the rabbit warren the inquirer traveled to locate your story -- friend of a friend? Rec list? SWAG search on AO3? long time lurker, first time academic?)

[firecat]

Yeah that’s fun to speculate about — I suspect it was a search for fandom: Ancient Greek Religion+Lore, tag/warning: Major Character Death

[silveradept]

Noice!

Also, I hope we get to see the final paper!

[firecat]

Me too! The researcher signed up under Xiaoyu_GolemLab or you can probably follow the research at its web site, linked above,

[snippy]

Cool!

[lirazel]

The world in general and academia in particular are such interesting places!

[firecat]

They really are!

[hitchhiker]

awesome!