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To assist our volunteers in connecting fans to the OTW area best able to help them, questions will not be answered via this account. Pls direct questions or info you're sharing with us to our contact form or for AO3 help use
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🏆😮😁 We're over the moon!
#AO3
just won the Hugo for best related work!
"All our work would be meaningless without the uncountable fan creators who share their creativity freely," —
@AO3
acceptance speech.
#hugoawards2019
#HugoAwards
#Dublin2019
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The results are in and our Elections Committee is pleased to announce the new members of the OTW Board: Heather McGuire, Natalia Gruber, and Michelle Schroeder. Read more at
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The OTW is currently dealing with malicious email attacks against our volunteers. Some of our processes may be slower as a result and we ask for your patience as we manage this issue:
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Ten and a half years after launching in November 2009, The Archive Of Our Own is celebrating the milestone of six million posted works:
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In the US? We need your help! Congress has crammed some unfriendly copyright provisions into the COVID relief bill, including creation of a 'small claims' copyright tribunal which could bankrupt targeted fans, as well as provisions about 'felony streaming'. (1/?)
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Dear Andy : you're welcome (and thanks 😂)
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We're happy to announce that we have reached a new milestone at the AO3: we now have three million registered users! Click through to find out more and to download our celebratory wallpaper for your phone or desktop: .
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Yes, the AO3 is up for a Hugo Award! Look out for our blog post about this in a few hours' time!
The finalists for 2019 Best Related Work (1/2):
Archive of Our Own
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
The Hobbit Duology (documentary in three parts)
#Dublin2019
#AnIrishWorldCon
#TheHugoAwards
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We have gotten a lot of questions about our candidate eligibility requirements: you can read about them at the following link:
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Effective July 25, Audrey R. has withdrawn her candidacy for the 2023 OTW Board election. The Elections Committee wishes Audrey all the best.
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OTW turns 16 today and we're asking you to help us celebrate by taking our user survey! Read more and help us signal boost!
#OTW16thSurvey
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#AO3
does not have an official app, and is unable to assist users using unofficial ones. The
#archiveofourown
is always free to use on your mobile browser and charging for use violates our Terms of Service. Read more at
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The OTW is 14 years old today! We're very proud of all we've achieved since our foundation and we hope you'll join us in celebrating our anniversary.
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The AO3 is now home to works in over 40,000 fandoms! We're celebrating with a post from the Tag Wrangling committee which is full of tips and tricks for tagging your fanworks effectively.
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The OTW is pleased to announce that AO3 has reached 7 million fanworks, an exciting milestone to wrap up the year with!
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The OTW is 13 years old today. Happy birthday to us!
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We have some exciting new thank-you gifts being introduced for this membership drive! The kudos pin is available for a minimum donation of $75 and we also have a new magnet available with donations of $40 or more. See all the gifts at our donations page:
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OTW Legal has an update on what the September 12th vote on EU copyright legislation--including
#Article11
and
#Article13
--means for fans and for
#AO3
. Learn more, including how you can help, here:
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In the past few days, we've heard from many of you regarding May's OTW Signal post. We are sorry for the hurt and confusion it caused and have published an update to clarify:
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Thank you so, so much to everybody who has already donated! Did you know that we have thank-you gifts available for donations of $40 or more? New this year we have this OTW water bottle and limited-edition sticker set. Find out more on our donations page:
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The OTW's April 2020 membership drive is over and we're delighted and honestly, staggered to say that we raised a total of US$458,501 from 14,905 donors across 96 countries. Thank you all for your incredible generosity!
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We're working to address ongoing criticism of the OTW's handling of racism in fandom and fanworks and will have a statement soon.
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The 2022 Board election has opened and will run through August 15, 2022, 23:59 UTC. Every OTW member who joined between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022 should have a ballot by now. If you didn't get one, please check your spam folder first, then read more:
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The OTW gets to celebrate its 16th anniversary month with a new milestone at its
#ArchiveofOurOwn
project! The 60,000th
#fandom
has been canonized by its Tag Wrangling team. That fandom is Kołysanka | Lullaby (2010) which comes to us courtesy of
#FandomKombat
.
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The OTW stands against racism and discrimination in all its forms. We apologize to anyone who has suffered from our inaction in making the OTW and AO3 a better environment for Black fans and fans of color.
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Time to contact your congresspeople and tell them to take copyright out of the COVID bill! Here's how, courtesy of our allies at the EFF: . This could happen any time in the next few days so please take a moment to act now if you can. (3/3)
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The OTW's April membership drive is over. Through the generosity of 7,528 donors in 84 countries we raised a total of US$275,724.51, far exceeding our target of US$40,000. Thank you to everybody who donated or shared news of the drive!
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We encourage everybody to celebrate this way! 📚
in honor of
@OTW_News
winning the Hugo, i'm gonna read a lil fanfic before bed to soothe my soul ❤
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🤷♀️
AO3 IS THE GREATEST THING OF THE 21ST CENTURY I SAID WHAT I SAID
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Another great
#thread
- so much love for fanfic on Twitter right now and we love it 🥰
#HugoAwards
Fanfic is queerness, community, folk art, literature, protest.
It’s fun, sex, love, belonging, comfort, challenge.
It’s finding the words to say what the story should’ve, could’ve, said all along, if things were different.
It’s saying ‘the story belongs to us.’
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OTW has opposed the 'small claims' proposal but thought, when it passed, there was nothing to be done. BUT as of this morning (23 Dec) President Trump has threatened to veto the COVID bill, asking for ancillary language (including these copyright provisions) to be removed. (2/?)
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The OTW's April membership drive begins today! Click through to learn about the benefits of membership, how to donate, and to see our nifty new rainbow kudos stickers:
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#OTW
#OpenDoors
is pleased to announce new Fan Culture Preservation Project partnerships and a new project to begin digital preservation of select
#fanzines
and other physical fannish artifacts with permission from creators or publishers. Read more at
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Concerned about
#AI
? The U.S.
#Copyright
Office is asking for public comments and fans can add their voices. Read more at:
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The OTW's October 2022 membership drive has concluded. Thanks to the generosity of 7,683 donors from 78 countries, we raised US$276,467.69, with 6,147 donors beginning or renewing their
#OTW
membership. We are so grateful for your support. Read more at
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#AO3
has reached FOUR MILLION fanworks! \o/ Thanks to everyone who has helped make the Archive what it is. Help us celebrate by recommending some
#AO3HiddenGems
for others to enjoy:
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The OTW and its projects, including AO3, are safe and will continue to function despite the recent board resignations. More info to come.
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The OTW's April 2021 membership drive has concluded. Thanks to the generosity of 9,110 donors from 84 different countries, we raised US$264,918.85 and increased our total membership to 16,842 people. We are so grateful for your continued support.
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Note: this is DIFFERENT from Senator Tillis’s copyright wish-list that we posted about on AO3 and yesterday. Senator Tillis is still doing his thing; it’s not a bill and—we hope—may never become one. We anticipate a long road ahead on that front.
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Yahoo! has announced that Yahoo Groups will be permanently closing, and deleting all previously posted material on December 14, 2019. Follow the link to learn what you can do to preserve content and how the OTW can help:
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Okay, we love this 😊
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The OTW has a long history of preserving fandom; help us continue our work. Follow the link to learn more and donate today:
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We welcome this feedback: diverse perspectives make us stronger as a community. We wholeheartedly condemn the harassment of those who have voiced criticism of us, and we apologize to those who have been harassed in our name.
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The OTW’s mission is to preserve and promote fanworks and fannish histories of all sorts. We keep this mission alive through the support of your generous donations. Follow the link to learn more:
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In 2020 OTW made a commitment that we would work towards making our organization & our projects more welcoming and inclusive to fans of color. We'd like to provide an update on what steps we have taken so far to accomplish those goals. Read more at
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It's not long now until International Fanworks Day, which is held on the 15th of February every year. This year, we want to celebrate lesser-known fandoms and fanworks. Click through to read about our fanworks challenge:
#IFDChallenge2021
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With your generous donations, we raised over US$247,000 during our October 2019 Membership Drive! Thank you so much! We also accept donations year-round, so you can contribute anytime:
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Fun fact: the 40,000th fandom was Fantasmagorie: A Fantasy, a French animation from 1908!
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Those of you who noticed our recent newsletter item about the new Chinese readers we've been welcoming on
#AO3
might be interested in this
@Kotaku
piece, which goes into some more detail about what's happening:
Banned from the Chinese internet, LGBT fanfiction writers find a new home on a U.S. website:
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German fans, the
#copyright
law in your country is changing and now is the time to have your say! Find out more about the proposed changes and the OTW Legal team's perspective.
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Lord of the Rings Fanfiction, a
#LordOfTheRings
#fanfiction
archive, is being imported to
#AO3
. Read more at
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Today is the OTW's 12th anniversary! Come celebrate with us and show your OTW pride with new graphics and flyers:
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@MxMacabre
stopped by to show off their Ao3 Logo ink! Look at that color :heart_eyes:
Art by
First con of the year is Arisia! We are up on the Mezzanine talking Fanworks - come stop by, and drop us a rec on the rec board!
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Are you a writer with an eye for technical details, a digital artist, or a translator? Would you like to assist AO3 users? Do you have experience with organizational governance? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! Read more at
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"...repositories like...AO3 [boast] tens of millions of users. English professor Maria Lindgren Leavenworth sees fanfiction as a way to connect source texts with a broader participatory experience of popular culture."
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Are you interested in
#socialmedia
or outreach? Would you like to wrangle
#AO3
tags? Can you read and translate from
#Russian
to English? Are you good at working with people? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! Read more at
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With your support, we've raised US$245,655.00 this week. Thank you so much! Follow the link to learn more:
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Donors to the OTW can claim a thank-you gift when their donation hits a certain level (either in one lump sum or via accumulated smaller donations) and we're excited to introduce our tropes & tags playing cards as a new gift for this drive! Find out more:
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Open Doors is pleased to announce the completion of 17 archive import projects in 2022, a total of over 18,500 works. This is a record number of completed import projects, beating our previous best of 15 in 2017! Read more at
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The Library of Moria, a
#Tolkien
slash, femslash, gen, and RPF
#fanfiction
and
#fanart
archive, is being imported to
#AO3
. Read more at
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The OTW is celebrating 50,000 pages on Fanlore, the fandom wiki! Follow the link to learn about Fanlore's history and how you can contribute:
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At the end of our October membership drive, the OTW has added 2,660 new members. Thank you so much to everybody who joined us!
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