First, a reminder that Open Doors will be holding the second of two public chats on Campfire (the online chat platform the OTW uses) for Yuletide participants on May 4, 1am UTC (what time is that in my timezone?).
Open Doors would like to thank everyone for coming to the last chat, hanging out, and asking questions! We have a few updates we would like to share:
- Comment notifications will be turned OFF for all works affected by the Yuletide import. That means if we are importing comments for your works, you will NOT receive an e-mail notification for them. (There will still be e-mail notifications for newly-imported works themselves.)
- Comments will be imported as backdated comments on the imported work, and will be signed but not linked to an AO3 account.
- If you have already imported your works to the AO3 and we match its original Yuletide URLs to its AO3 URLs before the import takes places, those works will automatically be added to the appropriate Yuletide subcollection, so you will not need to do this. This will also prevent duplicates of the works from being imported, import comments from the original Yuletide archive onto the work you uploaded yourself, and ensure that the redirect leads to the correct story once the import takes place.
As a note, if you would like us to match your Yuletide URLs, please contact us before May 11, with the following information:
Work Title:
YuletideTreasure.org URL:
AO3 URL:
With that settled, today we’re focusing on Scales of Justice, a famous Starsky & Hutch zine dating from 1985. It featured original ink drawings, silk screen prints, and intricate calligraphy, and is considered, according to Fanlore, “one of the most beautiful fanzines ever created.”
As part of Open Doors’ Fan Culture Preservation Project, a copy of Scales of Justice will be permanently preserved as part of the University of Iowa’s Special Collections.
Open Doors chair Michelle Dong notes: “I got to hold a copy in my hands, once. The art was lovely, and the colors still bright.”
If you swoon the way we do over the possibility of being able to preserve and protect parts of our historical fan heritage and culture like Scales of Justice, please consider becoming a member of the OTW. Your support directly contributes to the continued existence of fanworks like Scales of Justice.