Irish vs. Thesis

So, I'm writing a masters thesis for my Masters of Science in Women's Studies. I'm the kind of girl who puts everything off until the last possible minute, needing a looming deadline to get anything done. The problem is, you can't really write a thesis that way. With two weeks before I have to have a complete first draft, and only having about 20 pages or so actually written, and needing to have at least another fifty... what do I do about it? Start a blog obviously.

I thought I'd keep a little blog about my trials and tribulations over writing my thesis, especially since I conducted a survey on the internet, I thought those who were surveyed might want to know how things were going. Also, as a writer of both original and fanfiction of male same-sex couples, I frequently mention "my thesis," and I thought some folks might want to know what that shit was all about.

My thesis, for those of you who may not know, is on women who write male same-sex couples in fiction. In layman's terms: chicks who write slash/yaoi. I've had some people suggest that this is a very narrow area to research, after all, how many women can there be who write gay men?

The answer: A TON!
I did a very brief count to get a general number for my thesis. I looked at just at Harry Potter fanfiction on fanfiction.net, and only counted the number of stories that cited the most common couples (Remus/Sirius, Harry/Ron, Harry/Draco etc.)I came up with 35,000 stories! As those of us in the community know, the majority of slash is written by women. Anyway, I assume you get the picture. Tons of women all over the world are writing slash, and I believe it is my sacred duty to bring the study of that into academia, and thus begins: Irish vs. Thesis.