• Spotlight on Open Doors: Scales of Justice

    By Claudia Rebaza on Sabato, 3 May, 2014
    Tag: Spotlight, Fanart, Open Doors, Television, Zines, Open Doors Committee

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    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.

  • OTW Fannews: Where fanfic is (and isn't) going

    By Claudia Rebaza on Venerdì, 2 May, 2014
    Tag: Gender and Sexuality, News of Note, Books, Fanfiction , Music

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    GeekGirls in Finland hosted a post called Fanfiction goes Korea. "Korean fanfiction comes in two distinguishable types, if I may. There is type A, which (sort of sadly) dominates the whole genre by featuring the readers, themselves, as the main character. The stories are told from the point of view of the reader: these are called “you fanfiction” or “self-insert fanfiction”, and feature the reader’s “character” somehow ending up meeting (and falling for) the idol character. The storyline tends to be the same: you are a young woman who meets the idol character, and through telenovela-like events you fall in love with them...The Asian fanfiction site has, in fact, developed a code to use for these stories, where a certain word (for example, “you”) will change to the reader’s username when viewed."

  • Events Calendar for May 2014

    By Claudia Rebaza on Giovedì, 1 May, 2014
    Tag: Conferences, Gender and Sexuality, Comics, Gaming, Books, Fan Conventions, Event, Fanfiction , Fannish Communities, Television, Fan Videos, Fannish Histories

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    Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of May! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These can be viewed by event-type, such as Academic Events, Fan Gatherings, Legal Events, OTW Events, or Technology Events taking place around the world.

    Free Comic Book Day takes place on "the first Saturday in May each year - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE to anyone who comes into their stores."

    More about Free Comic Book Day on Fanlore

  • OTW Fannews: Fans taking the reins

    By Claudia Rebaza on Mercoledì, 30 April, 2014
    Tag: News of Note, Gaming, Fanart, Movies, Music, Fanfilms, Television, Fan Videos

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    Den of Geek wrote about fans stepping in to create more content. "As Star Wars fandom continued, fans became content creators too...Pablo Hidalgo wrote and illustrated Star Wars tabletops games before he was hired. Martha Wells...wrote fan fiction before she signed on to pen a novel about Princess Leia." And now two groups are creating video games. "Project Black Light is an effort by fans to write Knights of the Old Republic 3, the highly-anticipated KOTOR sequel that never was" and "Another Star Wars fan game in development is BattleCry, which development team leader Cameron Spencer calls 'a spiritual successor' to Battlefront 2."

  • OTW Fannews: Fanwork wonders

    By Claudia Rebaza on Martedì, 29 April, 2014
    Tag: News of Note, Audio Fanworks, Comics, Gaming, Fanart, Fanfiction , Television

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    Malaysia's New Straits Times profiled a local fan artist's work on superheroes. "[H]er drawings of Marvel Comics heroines such as She-Hulk, Rogue and the female Captain Marvel [are] in elegant gowns, drawn in art nouveau style. The illustrations are a stark contrast to the characters’ original style in the comic books which have a tendency to sexualise female characters through costumes and body language."

  • OTW Fannews: Understanding fandom

    By Claudia Rebaza on Lunedì, 28 April, 2014
    Tag: News of Note, Books, Fanfiction , Television, Fannish Histories, Fannish Practices

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    Dartmouth College's Special Collections Library profiled 19th century fanfic."After the success of Charles Dickens' "Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" in 1837, George Reynolds took the characters on a new picaresque journey in "Pickwick Abroad: or, the Tour in France" published in monthly parts from 1837-38. Our first single-volume edition from 1839 acknowledges its debt to Mr. Dickens (or 'Boz'), but also cites a review from The Age boasting that '"Pickwick Abroad" is so well done by G. W. M. Reynolds, that we must warn Boz to look to his laurels.'"

  • Staying in Touch with the OTW

    By Priscilla Del Cima on Domenica, 27 April, 2014
    Tag: Spotlight, Communications Committee

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    Along with the increase in donations the OTW received during our April drive, we also got new people in as members of the OTW! As a result, we wanted to provide an update on how you can stay in touch with the OTW, whether it's to contact us directly or just keep up on news from the OTW at large or its projects.

    Official vs. Unofficial Accounts

    Many people choose to subscribe to OTW news through either their social media accounts or through feed readers. There are some important differences to these choices, though, which can affect both the news you receive and how you can get in touch with us.

  • Yuletide chat reminder

    By Claudia Rebaza on Venerdì, 25 April, 2014
    Tag: Event, Open Doors, Open Doors Committee

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    Just a reminder that Open Doors will be holding two public chats on Campfire (the online chat platform the OTW uses) for Yuletide participants. The first will be on April 26, 4pm UTC (what time is that in my timezone?)

    Anyone who has questions about the process is welcome to join the Open Doors team at those chats, and we’ll do our best to answer you. We would also like to direct Yuletide participants to our announcement post as it has been updated with information about the import of comments. Please read the section beginning with Edited to say as we will NOT be able to add backdated comments to works after the import in May.

  • OTW Fannews: Wherefore fandom?

    By Claudia Rebaza on Giovedì, 24 April, 2014
    Tag: Fannish Endings, News of Note, Gaming, Sports, Fannish Communities, Fannish Practices

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    Kristin Bezio wrote at The Learned Fangirl about responses to a post on Anita Sarkeesian, and defended critical fandom. "This commenter clearly has no concept of how popular culture reflects and shapes society, and I’m fairly certain I’m not going to be able to convince him (presumably) that it does, since he appears to be one of those people who doesn’t realize that his opinions about the universe have been constructed by his life-long exposure to media (including games) and society. Clearly his opinions were plopped into his brain by Truth Itself."

  • The OTW Merchandise Store is coming!

    By Claudia Rebaza on Mercoledì, 23 April, 2014
    Tag: Announcement, Development & Membership Committee, Financial Support

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    The OTW's Development & Membership Committee is working on a permanent OTW merchandise store. It’s our goal to give fans of the OTW and our projects (like AO3 and Fanlore) ways to show your love, give back to the organization, and get swag! When it’s ready, the merchandise store will be available online for anyone to buy without needing to become an OTW member.

    So we need all of you to tell us what kinds of products you’d like to purchase! Would you wear a Fanlore t-shirt? Have you always wanted an AO3 kudos mug? What about an OTW umbrella or a poster with all our projects listed? Whether it's a product you want, or something you'd want on that item, the sky’s the limit!

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