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This Week in Fandom by Olivia Riley

This Week in Fandom, Volume 122

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Welcome to This Week in Fandom, the OTW’s roundup of things which are happening! Before we start, here are the 2019 Emmy Award winners, courtesy of Vulture. What do you think of the results? Let us know in the comments!

There’s a new article from The Indian Express about fandom and fannish practices of fans in India. It talks about AO3’s Hugo win and how that’s “a moment of recognition” for the “oft-maligned genre.” The article tells the stories of numerous fans from around India and why they participate in fandom and produce fanworks.

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October 2018 Newsletter, Volume 129

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I. OTW MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

Thanks to you, this month’s membership drive was a huge record-breaking success! Once everything was counted up, the donations received totalled US$203,557.29 from 8203 donors. 479 premiums were requested–including the very popular new kudos stress ball.

Kudos to all the OTW peeps who worked hard on the membership drive, including Development & Membership, Communications, Translation, Finance, and many others!

And kudos to you–everyone who donated, signal boosted, and celebrated the OTW with us. Thank you so much! Read More

OTW Fannews: Making the Old New Again

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  • The return of The X-Files prompted a number of media sites to reminisce about changes in fandom since the original series. Flavorwire wrote about the tools and companions of old. “The AOL-hosted Cabin X site is still available via the Wayback Machine, in all its late-millennium glory. Hand-coded HTML tables. Lovingly crafted Photoshop collages of Mulder and Scully (along with B’Elanna Torres and Tom Paris of Star Trek: Voyager). A ‘dreambook.’ Links to a chat room and a message board, and to the other sites in a ‘webring‘ of Cabin X members’ pages, all of which were hosted on AOL or Geocities or Angelfire…I decided to track down the people who were a part of my little corner of the fandom universe – and see if I could recapture some of that teenage feeling.”
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