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OTW Guest Post: Jessica Hautsch
Every month the OTW hosts guest posts on our OTW News accounts to provide an outside perspective on the OTW or aspects of fandom. These posts express each individual’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Jessica Hautsch earned her PhD from Stony Brook University, where she currently teaches as a lecturer with the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Her scholarly interests include cognitive science and philosophy, fan studies, and performance studies; her fan interests include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Game of Thrones, Black Sails, A Court of Thorns and Roses, Dungeons & Dragons, and early… Read more
Open Doors celebrates the completion of 17 archive imports in 2022!
Open Doors is pleased to announce the completion of 17 archive import projects in 2022, a total of over 18,500 works. This is a record number of completed import projects, beating our previous best of 15 in 2017! We hope that you will find old and new favorites in the collections listed below. The Croft Codex Completed: February 2022 The Croft Codex was an archive for all kinds of Tomb Raider fanfiction, founded in 2005 by HeidiA to house stories formerly archived at Lara Croft’s Tales of Beauty and Power. It ran until 2008, when the archive went offline as a generational shift in the… Read more
The 9 Forum’s Fanworks are Moving to the AO3
The 9 Forum, a message board for fans of the film “9”, is importing its fanworks to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). In this post: A bit of background explanation What this means for creators who have work on The 9 Forum And what to do if you still have questions
The Library of Moria is Moving to the AO3
The Library of Moria, a Tolkien slash, femslash, gen, and RPF fanfiction and fanart archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3). In this post: A bit of background explanation What this means for creators who have work(s) on the Library of Moria And what to do if you still have questions
What We’re Doing for #IFD2022
It’s only a week until the eighth International Fanworks Day and we at the Organization for Transformative Works have a whole lot in store for you all! Please take a look at the events below and join in the fun. 1. Fanworks Challenge Our theme for this year’s IFD is ‘fandom classics’ and in a post made last month, we invited you to participate by creating fanworks which riff on, remix, or otherwise pay tribute to works that you consider classics of your favorite fandom. You could even write meta about your favourite pieces! We invite you to share your creations using the hashtag #IFD2022… Read more