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OTW Guest Post: Jennifer Duggan

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This month's guest, Jennifer Duggan, researched the demographics of Harry Potter fandom by searching through AO3 profiles and author's notes. The results revealed more than just numbers. Read more at https://otw.news/otw-guest-80838
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[personal profile] otw_staff2020-05-26 05:42 pm

This Week in Fandom, Volume 148

This Week in Fandom: Omegaverse dynamics in the New York Times; the Snyder cut gets a release date at last; Ruby Rose exits Batwoman; and more: otw.news/twif-148

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[personal profile] otw_staff2020-05-06 05:12 pm

This Week in Fandom, Volume 145


This Week in Fandom: quarantine specials from Good Omens and Parks and Recreation; a new Twilight novel; and more: otw.news/twif-145
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[personal profile] otw_staff2020-04-07 11:13 pm

This Week in Fandom, Volume 143


This Week in Fandom: a Hamilton reunion, Gen Z's My Immortal, Seanan McGuire on how fandom has impacted her career, and more! otw.news/twif-143
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[personal profile] otw_staff2020-01-07 04:51 pm

This Week in Fandom, Volume 130


This Week in Fandom: furries and fan culture, the new BBC Dracula, That Song from The Witcher, and more: otw.news/twif130
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[personal profile] otw_staff2019-11-19 05:27 pm

This Week in Fandom, Volume 126


This Week in Fandom: the new His Dark Materials TV series; what happened at GeekGirlCon; why fandom made the Good Omens TV show so awesome; and more! otw.news/twif126
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[personal profile] otw_staff2018-07-19 11:12 am

FictionAlley is Moving to the AO3

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FictionAlley, a Harry Potter fanfiction, fanart and essay archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (although the FictionAlley Park forums are staying where they are). Learn more about the import, including how to claim your works, here https://goo.gl/i6L4p9

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[personal profile] otw_staff2017-09-30 03:02 pm

Transcript for OTW’s 10th Anniversary Chat with Tessa Gratton & Kate McNair

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*Kate M.: And then the internet came to my house. And that little dial up connection changed my life. All of a sudden this comic from Japan was at my fingertips! I could find all sorts of websites about Sailor Moon and even more anime and manga. I devoured it all! I became almost as obsessed with these websites as I was with the series I was reading and watching. And soon I wanted to contribute to this community. I wrote my own, very bad, fanfic and went to make website to host the first few stories and fell in love with web design. Soon I was more interested in the web design part than I was in the fanfic (thank god, as I was very bad at writing fanfic). I started making websites about all my favorite series which lead me to all sorts of coding languages and information hierarchies. By that time I was working in my public library as a shelver…and they asked me to help them build a collection of manga and comics and I was hooked. I haven’t looked back since!

*Tessa: For a long time YA was the genre where you could do ANYTHING. Genre-bending, pushing the envelope re: sex and narrative, you could experiment—the only thing you had to have in the story was some kind of teenage experience. I do think that YA has specialized a bit more in the past five years, and it's united by the Teen Experience—regardless of genre—and opening up in huge ways to marginalized teen experiences.

I love the intimacy and immediacy of YA. Most of it, especially the successful books, put the reader right into the heart (narratively and emotionally) of a character, and pull the reader along unstoppably until the last page. YA is the kind of genre where you can hope for and even expect to not want to put a book down until you finish. Not because they’re all action-oriented page-turners, but because you become that character, and invest in them in a way that isn’t always present in other genres.

Did you miss our chat with author Tessa Gratton & Kate McNair of YALSA? If so you can check out the transcript of their talk https://goo.gl/FGo9pM
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[personal profile] otw_staff2017-09-28 10:19 am

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Karen: A great thing about working in fan studies is that people spontaneously e-mail you with remarks like, “OMG I thought I was the only person who considered this stuff valuable! And you edited this book!” So I want people to remember that not only is fan engagement valuable, but it is constitutive of fandom — fundamental, essential. Fans talking to each other = fandom. This book is part of that. By editing this book, we sought to make the conversation transparent and overt, so anyone can join in, be it outside academic or current fan, because it’s all about engagement.

Want to read about fanfiction?  There are various ways to support the Organization for Transformative Works but this might be the most fun: https://goo.gl/g3DnBw 
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[personal profile] otw_staff2017-09-25 10:57 am

Could You Win an OTW Trivia Contest?

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Would you like to find some OTW trivia? If so, we've got prizes for you! How many questions can you answer? https://goo.gl/A8bPvD
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[personal profile] otw_staff2017-09-17 01:19 pm

Transcript of OTW 10th Anniversary Chat with Seanan McGuire & Martha Wells

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What were some of your early experiences like when your work gained its own fans?

*MarthaWells
I think my favorite experience is seeing the fan art, and seeing fanfic from my books show up in Yuletide. That’s hugely exciting to see fanfic and fan art of your work, especially to someone who was a fan from way back in the print zine era.

*SeananMcGuire
The first time something I’d created showed up as a fandom option for Yuletide, I literally cried. Happy tears! But it was like, HOLY WHAT NO HOW OMG VIXY LOOK AT THIS DO YOU SEE THIS. It’s amazing. It’s still amazing. I can’t read any of the fanfic of my own work, but knowing it exists makes me so happy.

Did you miss our chat with Seanan McGuire & Martha Wells? If so check out the transcript of their talk https://goo.gl/Q3Wu6P
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[personal profile] otw_staff2017-09-16 07:38 pm

Transcript for 10th Anniversary Chat with Christina Lauren and Catherine Roach

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What things have you been excited to see in recent years, either regarding fandom or work in your genre(s)?

*Catherine R.
I really like fanfiction and its explosion on the internet. I think fanfic is a great way for people to learn the craft skills of writing. Many of my college students fall in love with writing that way: by reading fanfic and then starting to write it themselves. I always encourage them to go for it! I love the supportive structure it creates for imagination and fantasy to run wild. I think that realm is so important. Imagination lets us explore quandaries of desire and justice and truth and conflict: all the central problems of what it means to be human.

*Christina L.
It’s been incredibly exciting to see so many writers from our fandom specifically or fandom in general out there publishing books. Of course we all know the big ones—EL James, Cassie Clare—but there are others from the Twi world that had fantastic voices and ideas and who are now also bestsellers. Sally Thorne, Alice Clayton, Nina Bocci, Leisa Rayven, Mariana Zapata, Amanda Weaver—all of these women wrote fantastic fic.

Did you miss our chat with Christina Lauren & Catherine Roach? If so check out the transcript of their talk! https://goo.gl/8DR1PG
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[personal profile] otw_staff2017-09-10 01:58 pm

Transcript of the 10th Anniversary Chat with Lev Grossman

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Did you miss the chat with author Lev Grossman? If so you can check out the transcript of his talk at https://goo.gl/KGa7sw
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[personal profile] otw_staff2017-06-29 10:09 am

OTW Guest Post: Marina Cano

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In 2015, researcher Marina Cano asked fans to help with a survey of Jane Austen fandom. She has now published the results & has a further request for OTW followers: https://goo.gl/VvnWJA
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[personal profile] otw_staff2017-04-30 10:16 am

OTW Guest Post: Ann McClellan

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“We often think of fandom as something new and something in the hands of the audience, but my research revealed a long history of how businesses and publishers like Titbits played important roles in devising, ‘activating,’ and controlling seemingly amateur fan spaces. Perhaps this will make us think more deeply about the supposed divisions between author and fan, between corporation and individual, and between corporately controlled spaces and fan controlled spaces.”

Ann McClellan writes about Sherlock Holmes fandom in the latest issue of Transformative Works & Cultures, and tells us how fandom history was shaped. https://goo.gl/jZLjB5
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[personal profile] otw_staff2017-03-15 10:47 am

Transformative Works and Cultures releases No. 23

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“This issue of Transformative Works and Cultures seeks to address that perceived gap in the fan studies literature by extensively engaging with the Sherlockian fandom that dates back to the 1890s. The essays in this issue shed additional light on the explosion of the fandom by taking a look backward, examining Sherlock Holmes fandoms (for they are all fandoms) through the lens of historical context or with an eye to the fandoms' sometimes fraught cultural divisions.”

Transformative Works and Culture's issue 23 is out, and it's all about Sherlock Holmes fans & fandoms, from historical to present day. Share your favorite articles! https://goo.gl/bOEODC

Transformative Works and Cultures releases No. 23

Transformative Works and Cultures


“This issue of Transformative Works and Cultures seeks to address that perceived gap in the fan studies literature by extensively engaging with the Sherlockian fandom that dates back to the 1890s. The essays in this issue shed additional light on the explosion of the fandom by taking a look backward, examining Sherlock Holmes fandoms (for they are all fandoms) through the lens of historical context or with an eye to the fandoms' sometimes fraught cultural divisions.”

Transformative Works and Culture's issue 23 is out, and it's all about Sherlock Holmes fans & fandoms, from historical to present day. Share your favorite articles! https://goo.gl/bOEODC
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[personal profile] otw_staff2017-02-26 10:30 am

OTW Guest Post: Jackson Bird

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In today’s OTW Guest Post Jackson Bird discusses the mission & projects of the Harry Potter Alliance and what grabs him about fan conventions https://goo.gl/cVglol

OTW Guest Post: Jackson Bird

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In today’s OTW Guest Post Jackson Bird discusses the mission & projects of the Harry Potter Alliance and what grabs him about fan conventions https://goo.gl/cVglol

This Week in Fandom, Volume 33

This Week in Fandom

Canons don't always deliver what we want & sometimes the magic is gone. But for some the magic is also now back https://goo.gl/2JD83I