So! As you might imagine, we have some feelings. ? This is Elizabeth writing, by the way—I always mention this because I think it’s weird when entities speak in one unified ~brand voice~. Some links:
Flourish’s post yesterday, which concludes with the phrase “EITHER LEARN FROM THE PAST, OR GET OFF MY LAWN,” is now updated with some practical information in addition to the general message we both still stand by: “This is why the OTW owns the servers.”
I wrote two Twitter threads yesterday—1 and 2—that spawned some great discussion about fandom, platforms, social media contracts, archiving, and the recent AO3 ~debacle~.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, if you somehow missed my recent piece on the OTW, speech, censorship, and fandom:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18072622/fanfic-ao3-free-speech-censorship-fandom
Which goes hand in hand with our recent DISCOURSE TRILOGY:
1) Purity Culture 2) Age in Fandom 3) The Money Question
But perhaps you are very clued into our various social media presences lol and have listened to all of this already. WELL. We don’t have plans to devote a full episode to it immediately, because our next guest will be Rukmini Pande (!!!) and the one after that will be our year in review. It will certainly come up! But we’re also planning on having @cfiesler back on for a proper full episode in January. She’s probably one of the best people to talk to about this specific topic—it’s one of her areas of expertise—and hopefully by then we’ll be able to dig in with a little more perspective than immediate reactions. In the meantime, she’s been gathering resources in this great thread, definitely check it out.
I think anyone familiar with our work, especially in the past year, talking about how the structures of fandom intersect with the structures of capitalism, will be aware that we are going to have Some Thoughts and Feelings about all of this. A few quick notes, under the cut:
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