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Take the challenge! Join the OTW.

Mar 24, 2011 23:29

Earlier this month I was asked to write a guest blog post for the Organization for Transformative Works (the OTW) in support of their March Fundraising Drive. I hope you will please read this post and others from around the community and think about what the OTW means, or could mean, to each of us in fandom. Please follow otw_news this week as they ( Read more... )

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mywholecry March 25 2011, 03:45:08 UTC

Are the stickers and things only available for sale with the donations? I can't really donate more than $10 right now, but I'd totally dig a sticker, if they were up for individual sale.

an_sceal March 25 2011, 03:49:13 UTC

Reason #2 is my reason #1 for being an OTW member. I think there's an instinctive response, particularly in fans who have been active in the fannish community for a long time, to deny that their works are meaningful. I know that my first response used to be to distance myself from fanfic. The more I looked at it, the more I realized that I was actually making something that was just another form of creative expression into a dirty little secret, and at the same time, adding to the reasons that someone might want to not be associated with fan works.

(If anyone ever fics any of my work, I will feel like the prettiest princess in all the land. I have a list of things that will make me feel like a Real Author-person, and that's right below "See copy of my book in the wild.")

callmeonetrack March 25 2011, 03:51:01 UTC

Congratulations on your article!

(I get to attend the Bloggers Conference for work this year and I'm irrationally excited! Say hi to me at the AudioGO giveaway table when you're filling your swag bag! ;)

cthonical March 25 2011, 06:27:59 UTC

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I've been peripherally aware of the OTW for a while now (I've actually been really enjoying/finding the TWC journal extremely helpful and interesting, and just recently started using AO3 to archive my fic)but never really stopped to think about the organisation behind it all. As a baby acafan I think all this stuff is awesome and definitely want to support it any way I can. So yeah, thanks. :)

silviakundera March 26 2011, 00:20:06 UTC

In May, I attended the first annual Book Blogger convention, where a room full of publishing reps were asked, “How many of you know what fanfiction is?” I was stunned when less than half of them raised their hands.To be honest, that makes me feel better. (though I'd like to have vengeance against the person who even asked that question lol) I really hate the idea of non-fandom persons becoming too intimately aware of fandom. It makes me feel like my safe space is being intruded upon. It's not about feeling that it's illegitimate or not, for me. Just, I feel that fandom, fanfiction, vidding etc is by fans & for fans and not intended for the eyes of others. I don't want attention from outside the community. I don't want to be attacked OR catered to. I want us to be left the hell alone. (may that's a pipe dream, but it's what I want ( ... )