Beliz’s Introduction

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  • #199
    Beliz Yilmaz
    Participant

    Hi!

    My name is Beliz and I am a rising sophomore at UNC majoring in Computer Science. I am from Turkey and located in Turkey with my family since UNC decided to shut down due to COVID-19. I like reading almost everything and I wanted to experience a new genre of writing and reading with this class. I am excited to hear some ideas from those who are more experienced with this genre and share my ideas with you all throughout this course!

    #214
    Grant Glass
    Keymaster

    Hi Beliz! Thank you for the introduction! Please let me know if the timing of the assignments and lectures is good for you (I don’t want you to be up really early or staying up late). Are you familiar with any Turkey specific fanfictions? I would be really interested to hear if they were different or focused on different works. Nice to have you in the class!

    #237
    Beliz Yilmaz
    Participant

    The timing seems to be working fine for now, I’ll try to catch up! I’ll let you know if there appears a problem in the future. Thank you for your concern, though! I am not specifically familiar with any fanfiction in Turkey, I know Wattpad was especially popular a couple of years ago and many fanfiction writers published their own work and they even made it to the book stores. From what I know, though, most of the fanfiction works in Turkey are based on popular American stories such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Percy Jackson, etc. I’ll do more research on it, I feel like I should be more familiar with it.

    #254
    Grant Glass
    Keymaster

    That is really interesting to hear that the same texts are universal across different cultures. Not surprising though!

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