Comment on Resignation of OTW Directors

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    1. Enya - End OTW Racism (SHIVASDARKNIGHT) Thu 27 Jul 2023 09:46PM UTC

      Image of Ysayle in a sweater with nidhogg's eye on the shoulder

      And you sound like you're a joy to be around. Go be a racist troll on FFA.

      Last Edited Thu 27 Jul 2023 09:46PM UTC

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      1. LugiaDepression Tue 01 Aug 2023 06:09AM UTC

        +1

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    4. Muccamukk Thu 27 Jul 2023 09:49PM UTC

      Close up of parted lips painted with sparkling rainbow lipstick.

      Honestly, I feel the same way as the user you're replying to. This whole thing has made me not want to be part of fandom.

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        1. Muccamukk Thu 27 Jul 2023 09:55PM UTC

          Close up of parted lips painted with sparkling rainbow lipstick.

          I can see your point of view here. I don't personally think every last tag wrangler throwing in the towel would be helpful, but I've got to be honest: the reports of how bad and how long the corruption inside the OTW have been an issue, how badly the volunteers have been treated, how little accountability there is, just one thing after another all summer. It makes me wonder if it is possible to fix this organisation or change it into something less completely toxic. People have tried change from within for years and years, and gotten nowhere. I'm still a member of the OTW, and I'm still going to vote, but I've also started crossposting my fic to Dreamwidth, and am feeling pretty gross about posting to AO3 right now. I have to for fest I'm signed up for, but after that, I don't know what I'll do.

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          1. Merfilly Thu 27 Jul 2023 10:25PM UTC

            Seahorse art with fish

            Plus 1. I am done posting here, though I am HOPEFUL a clean up and progressive policy will occur so I might one day come back.

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          2. gloss Fri 28 Jul 2023 01:02AM UTC

            young fox reading a comic book

            I want to cosign everything* you've said here, and thank you for saying it so clearly. All of this is as heartbreaking as it is infuriating.

            * except one thing: while I no longer post to AO3, I also haven't started crossposting, because lazy

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          3. TexasDreamer01 Fri 28 Jul 2023 03:07AM UTC

            Agreed. I've put my AO3 on hold, and have been cross-posting a lot of my fics to Dreamwidth, but I'm just not sure how much the upcoming election is going to turn things around if there's so much to overcome with the Board and with Legal.

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            1. ThreeByThree Fri 28 Jul 2023 04:26AM UTC

              May I ask how your experience on Dreamwidth has been? I have been thinking of migrating to a new site that supports fanfiction in general (not just one specific fandom), but haven't had much luck.

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          5. Queenofdragons6 Fri 28 Jul 2023 08:15AM UTC

            How does posting fanfic on Dreamwidth work compared to this site?

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            1. Muccamukk Fri 28 Jul 2023 02:52PM UTC

              Close up of parted lips painted with sparkling rainbow lipstick.

              I'm not sure how old you are, but you basically have to manually do a lot of things that are automated on AO3, like you have to make up and pick what tags to use, there isn't a pre-set list, and you can use a rich text editor, but it looks better if you do your own HTML (though You don't need to know very much).

              DW FanFic has a directory of people's personal archives and journals, if you want to see what it looks like.

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              1. Queenofdragons6 Sat 29 Jul 2023 06:16AM UTC

                That link is helpful.

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            3. cyberbrain Fri 28 Jul 2023 06:07PM UTC

              a brown-haired girl wearing glasses and a black turtleneck, making a heart with her left hand. there's a cartoonish halo and wings around her. made in utoooxs' picrew

              Replying because wow the other answer isn't very helpful. Also for anyone who is now hearing of Dreamwidth for the first time.

              Dreamwidth is basically a blogging site, you keep a journal there. You can post whatever you want, though text is mainly what it's used for. That said, most embeds are allowed as well (images can be hosted on dreamwidth, but videos/sounds would have to be hosted elsewhere). Embedding is done using HTML and most sites just have a ready embed in the share dialogue.

              Your journal supports comments and entries have a privacy setting (show to everyone, show to "friends" (i.e. people that you've granted access to), show to only yourself). You can subscribe to other journals and communities and that's what gives the ability to interact with people. Communities are mainly where you come in contact with lots of people, so that's how you find like-minded folk.

              Posting fic can be done in two ways, either directly posting to a community or posting to your own journal and then (possibly in both cases) sharing the link to the fic post to communities. Yes, you'll have to come up with your own tags but you still need to do that here anyway. Searching for fic to read on dreamwidth is a bit of a pain, which is why communities like the one linked before are helpful.

              (Guessing they brought up your age because someone older is more likely to have used a blogging/journal site and know how it works as opposed to someone who is young now and who most likely uses mainly social media, with tumblr being the closest example to Dreamwidth.)

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              1. Queenofdragons6 Sat 29 Jul 2023 06:23AM UTC

                Yeah, I'm VERY unused to blogging sites like Dreamwidth. Just trying to find fitting communities on there is proving very unintuitive to me.

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    6. thewonderofpandora Fri 28 Jul 2023 07:42PM UTC

      This site is going to crash and burn if these clowns are listened to. There is no racism, they've just been treated with kid gloves by society to the point that equality feels like discrimination to them.

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      1. pretty_weird_ideas Fri 28 Jul 2023 09:10PM UTC

        You have made several threats and hateful comments towards POC in the comments over the past few months, from me to several others. I think it's best you water your own plants before you go stomping through other people's gardens.

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        1. Enya - End OTW Racism (SHIVASDARKNIGHT) Fri 28 Jul 2023 09:34PM UTC

          Image of Ysayle in a sweater with nidhogg's eye on the shoulder

          +1

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