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The OTW is Recruiting Translation Committee News Volunteers
Would you like to help translate OTW/AO3 news posts? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! We’re excited to announce the opening of applications for: Translation Committee News Volunteer – closing 17 April 2019 at 23:59 UTC We have included more information on the role below. Open roles and applications will always be available at the volunteering page. If you don’t see a role that fits with your skills and interests now, keep an eye on the listings. We plan to put up new applications every few weeks, and we will also publicize new roles as they become available. All applications generate a confirmation page… Read more
Guest Post: Olivia Riley
From time to time, the OTW will be hosting guest posts on our OTW News accounts. These guests will be providing an outside perspective on the OTW or aspects of fandom where our projects may have a presence. The posts express each author’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. We welcome suggestions from fans for future guest posts, which can be left as a comment here or by contacting us directly.
Today’s post is a Q&A with University of Minnesota undergraduate Olivia Riley. Olivia’s thesis on Archive of Our Own and the Gift Culture of Fanfiction caught our attention. As she created a video for 2015’s International Fanworks Day, we ask her about looking at fanworks through an academic perspective.
OTW Fannews: Celebrations in Focus
Fandom in 2015 was more “out” than ever before, with increasingly insightful takes on it that questioned common assumptions and sought to educate the public (and not just through academia.) Some of the developments had to do with changes in the media itself, and some due to an understanding of its rewards to both the media, as well as everyday efforts.
Guest Post: Earlgreytea68
From time to time, the OTW will be hosting guest posts on our OTW News accounts. These guests will be providing an outside perspective on the OTW or aspects of fandom where our projects may have a presence. The posts express each author’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. We welcome suggestions from fans for future guest posts, which can be left as a comment here or by contacting us directly.
Today’s post is by former lawyer and a published novelist, earlgreytea68, who started writing fic with a couple of friends around eight years ago, saying, “Sure, I guess I’ll give this a try!” That was, to measure it the way a writer does, a few million words ago. EGT has written babyfic in “Doctor Who,” “Sherlock,” and “Inception,” but she writes other sorts of fic, too. You can find it all on AO3 and hang out with her on Tumblr.
OTW Fannews: Fandom Awakens & Stretches
New York magazine took the opportunity to point out what the release of a new Star Wars film really means and included some early numbers from AO3. “[I]f you have even passing knowledge of the internet you won’t be surprised to hear that hundreds of authors and illustrators in the fan-fiction community are already hard at work asking tough questions, like, ‘Yo, what if these two (or three) characters kissed?’ But in a Star Wars universe with at least four major new roles, the key question is: Who are we most excited to read about boning?”