Why OTW? Um, good question.

[shrift]

It's Why I Joined OTW week over at otw_news, where some of the 55+ people involved with building the Organization for Transformative Works discuss why we're here

Comments

[rivkat]

Thank you.

[lferion]

What you said. Yes.

[gritkitty]

You know, I like fandom in all its messy, chaotic, disorganized sprawl of bat-shit crazy-creative-wonderous roller-coaster splendor, but as you said -- "Because as FanLib demonstrated, if we don't make [a welcoming space], someone else will, and they won't have our best interests at heart." I guess we fans have to poke our heads out of what is (for me, at any rate) our safe places, if we want to hang on to our own destiny. Which isn't a surprise. This has been coming down the pike for a while.

I'm glad you're one of worker bees. Thanks -- beer's always on me.

[cofax7]

Awww, man, you cold-hearted bitca, you made me all sniffly!

::wipes eyes::

[nestra]

HA. Four comments in, and I totally win. I said she'd make someone cry. *g*

[cofax7]

Well, if you ever want the unanalytical response, I'm a pretty good one to go to for that. *g*

[veejane]

Damn you both, then!!

(It was the Buffy quoteage that did it.)

[kassrachel]

In order to make this archive happen, we all quickly realized that we would need to be an organization, a non-profit with no single person having ownership, and that we'd need a hell of a lot of volunteers who were willing to devote an insane amount of time at no pay, purely out of love.

Well, that's pretty much the definition of fandom, isn't it.

Word.

Watching fandom come together to make this happen -- okay, maybe this is lame and you all are going to laugh at me, but it was like watching the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

OMG WORD.

::love::