- Writer Shawna Benson examined patterns of fandom growth and activity that she’d observed while moderating social media for The 100‘s Writers’ Room, as well as social media lessons learned. “Yes, we sell the US shows to other countries, but what do we do to accommodate those fanbases which spring up in other countries? Suddenly, the ‘official’ accounts feel less useful. They don’t get the CW in the UK, Australia, Brazil, France or Spain, or even Canada — the main countries which outside of the U.S. watch The 100. How do we accommodate those fans? The official accounts are restricted in this. Guess what? Writers’ rooms are not.”
- As part of International Fanworks Day, LiveJournal community Mari di Challenge interviewed OTW Translation Committee chairs Hele Braunstein and Priscilla del Cima about the committee’s work (article in Italian). Both spoke about their fannish backgrounds, how AO3 fits together with the OTW and its other projects, how the organization sustains those projects financially and personnel-wise, what the OTW’s vision of fandom is, and what changes might happen in the next five years.
- Book review blogger Traci began a series of posts about the OTW. “I was recently reading an article and it was mentioned that media seems to ‘see bronies as far more newsworthy that Organization for Transformative Works or the Vlogbrothers’ Nerdfighter movement.’ Now, I see a lot of things about Nerfighters, and the Green brothers in particular, but have not seen much on OTW outside of those in the know. So I decided to fangirl all over one of my favorite organizations for a post. Then I realized that I would need at least a couple posts to fully share my love and appreciation.”
- The Verge‘s Entertainment Editor Emily Yoshida discussed her discovery of fanfiction on the StarWarsChicks.com posting board. “One of the first things I was drawn to besides the message board was…The Library, it was a fanfic archive of the stories everyone in the community had written.” She was asked to speculate about why fanfic writers seemed to be mostly by female writers. She suggested that the medium of writing was better suited to women. “It’s non-visual, it takes a long time to read somebody’s whole novel…and that’s the payoff is this expectation and this waiting and this buildup…but it gets that same kind of following and addictive aspect to it.” (No transcript available).
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