Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@aescling they both are ceremonies that involve a transition in ones life circumstances but like, thats a p broad category

another rec from the #EndOTWRacism collection—sassaffrassa has cut out the middle-man and posted her meta about ao3 directly to ao3:

End Racism in the OTW (290 words) by sassaffrassa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Meta, End OTW Racism
Summary:

to be anti-censorship you must be anti-racist too

@celli@octodon.social they’re very distracting!!! he’s a simple veterinarian who can only withstand so much

@celli@octodon.social fully believe Namjoon only left bc he couldn’t concentrate on filling out Bam’s paperwork with JK’s tattooed forearms right in front of him

@bts_fanfic @celli@octodon.social lmao that is the BEST title commentary

@celli@octodon.social omg what a hero! enjoy your writing then :D

@celli@octodon.social do you have any tweetfic/meta/etc you’ve been meaning to import but haven’t gotten around to?

besides that hmmmm first kiss drabble fics are fun, and guaranteed to be short

@tempest https://reasonstobecheerful.world maybe?

@Lady i have six, apparently (though there are a few more from people who’ve promoed the campaign, so presumably either will be having their titles changed soon or are exceptions for whatever reason)

@admin welcome back!

@Lady @Forestofglory primarily i think it being a monopoly is one of the causes of fandom-at-larges destructuralization and not of its own internal lack of organization

However you could argue that it’s internal disorganization is what lead to the org falling short of some of its initial goals—like creating and easily self-hostable archive software—which did eventually contribute to its monopoly status

@Forestofglory @Lady I have definitely started thinking of Ao3 as essentially exerting monopolistic forces on fandom, not necessarily intentionally but effect matters more than intent

@Lady @Forestofglory i think fandom and the OTW are different kinds (?) of disorganized tho i do agree that fandoms disorganization has facilitated the OTWs somewhat

@shonalika yay more storage!!!

The popular meta-podcast on fandom Fansplaining, did a double episode on race featuring a wide variety of fans back in 2016--I haven't re-listened to hear how they held up but I remember thinking they provided a solid overview of the discussion at the time (particularly if you click through the links in the show notes):

https://www.fansplaining.com/episodes/22a-race-and-fandom

https://www.fansplaining.com/episodes/22b-race-and-fandom

They followed it up with two more episodes in 2020:
https://www.fansplaining.com/episodes/135a-race-and-fandom-revisited-part-1

https://www.fansplaining.com/episodes/135b-race-and-fandom-revisited-part-2

Some more ad-hoc history links for anyone playing catchup:

coffeeandink wrote a parody article skewering fandoms's attempts to avoid taking accountability for racism back in 2006. Point number 1? "Control what your audience sees." So, when the OTW refuses to take any public stances on race & racism, it's playing into tactics that have been called out since before the archive was even founded

https://web.archive.org/web/20060719223818/http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/607897.html