Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family
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Todays #EndOTWRacism rec: fiercynn is working on porting some of her race in fandom meta over from twitter! The first chapter is a summary of the common objections, whenever fans try to do anything about racism on Ao3:
End Racism in the OTW | Fandom, Racism, and OTW: A Collection of Thoughts (441 words) by fiercynn
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: No Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Meta, Antiracism, Racism in fandom, End OTW Racism, Racism on AO3
Summary:
Meta on why addressing racism in fandom - including in the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) and AO3 - matters, and what we can do about it.
@lookitmychicken its difficult to be prepared for Jin even under the best of circumstances
@lookitmychicken the straight pivot from the chaotic and yet resigned vibes of the nickname game and them looking in up and going full throttle on the “oh Jin is fucking hot” is absolutely fantastic
@yesterdaychild aaa!!!! *hides face* *peeks between fingers*
@yesterdaychild i have been personally victimized by that shirt somehow the almost crop top is a million times worse than an *actual* crop top
(and!!! collarbones!!!!!)
@ljwrites i was gonna be like “yep thats the one!” but then i had a frightening thought that it’s entirely possible this has happened twice 😭
@ljwrites great now i’m thinking about that one woman who wrote an omegaverse nazi trollfic and then called anyone who went “uhhh hey what the fuck?” a book burner
Food, happy
@varve that picnic sounds amazing!! v jealous
and yes have been appreciating seeing the blackberry bushes in bloom around here too
@ljwrites we’re the dreaded fandom monolith that wants to uh *checks notes* promote kindness and diversity
@umadoshi i’ve really been enjoying mine! we are up to ep 19 so far and I’d honestly forgotten how much i appreciate Zhu Jiu’s ridiculous grandstanding. also, Ya Qing’s everything (wow its really been a rewatch for the antagonists huh)
@ljwrites i appreciate your contribution to my existential crisis 😂
@umadoshi i hope you enjoyed it!
i have also been terribly slow in my TV watching lately (I’ve been keeping up with the guardian rewatch but not much else)
Also have pinned that tag ^ to my profile so all this stuff remains findable bc, lets be honest, there's a very good chance I'm going to need to dig back up the same set of links six months from now
Back in June 2020 wistfuljane wrote a fantastic bibliography of the fandom discussions surrounding Black Lives Matter & the OTW Elections which was incredibly helpful at the time but! It turns out she's been keeping it updated: https://wistfuljane.dreamwidth.org/2020/06/15/a-decade-later.html
I won't claim its comprehensive because, well, Fandom has spent a *lot* of time talking about race (and failing to talk about race) in the last decade and a half but hopefully at least it provides some perspective for why so many of the people in #EndOTWRacism talk about it like they've been getting ignored by the OTW (and harassed by the OTW's "supporters") for over a decade and have zero patience left
Satsuma
boosted
Today for #EndOTWRacism, I changed my pfp on Twitter (my transformation is nearly complete!!!), talked with friends about how badly the OTW's been dragging its feet on everything from being transparent about what it's doing all the way to properly publicizing the public board meetings—the only place (!!) it's set to provide regular updates on its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work—and shared some links in my weekly newsletter on Dreamwidth: https://runpunkrun.dreamwidth.org/987937.html
@asya and yet we keep paying for the privilege 😅
@asya he enjoys our suffering
@pamela when your whole kingdom near exclusively specializes in mining and smithing, you’ve *really* gotta fill out all those market niches i guess 😆
@pamela wait no but i wanna hear more about this Bladorthin baby clothes thing
@platypus i read this and was like “wait i thought the one in DE was a farm turned state park and the one in PA was a tavern” so i looked it up and there’s a Blue Ball PA named after a 200 year old inn, a Blue Bell PA thats a CDP, Blue Ball DE which is indeed an ex-farm, and also a Blue Ball Tavern historical marker in Elkton Maryland
This seems a bit excessive 😂
sleepy af
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