Comments | first_seventhe: Disconnect, Ambivalence, and the OTW

first_seventhe

Disconnect, Ambivalence, and the OTW

Jul 25, 2012 08:26

So I have mixed feelings about the OTW in general. Some days, I love the OTW; other days I legitimately find I couldn't give less of a fuck. I think what it comes down to is that I want to like the OTW - I want to support them and get involved and help them out - but at the very same time I deeply mistrust a lot of what I see, I give a very ( Read more... )

no really: italics overload, not sure if napoleon, abuse of italics, meta, ao3, fandom, otw

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lil_1337 July 25 2012, 13:18:22 UTC

I have no idea about OTW, but any conversation with sharks in it is good in my book.

jessicamariek July 25 2012, 18:38:34 UTC

I had to go google the OTW to figure out what they're about. Oops, I fail fandom.

I think I stand where you do - firmly "eh." Fandom is not srs bznz for me but I like AO3 and hey, SOMEONE's gotta take this stuff seriously, right?

Also, googling OTW led me to info about FanLib and whoa, nelly. Talk about doing it wrong.

shahrizai July 27 2012, 00:01:47 UTC

To me, OTW will always be a bunch of educated, privileged women trying to shove fandom into some sort of academic, This Is Important corner and ignoring anything that couldn't really fit into Specialized College Course 101. OTW just isn't the place for me. I've never followed the trends of the OTW hivemind and probably never will.