I've been absent, but recently poking my head back in and (as usual) getting sucked into fandoms that everyone moved on from 10-15 years ago.
I hope the next job comes by soon, but with your skills, this should happen.
Your thoughts about OTW are much on my mind as well. I was donating because someone has to donate to keep AO3 funded, and yet, you're right. What exactly am I funding? If I upload my works to AO3, it will get few comments. It will get more on FF.net. OTW doesn't provide the services our fandom desperately needs (a replacement for ff_press!), marginalizes our fandom as unimportant, and chews up and spits out fan volunteers. As much as anything, I donate out of support for all the work they've been doing for OTW, but I'm not seeing enough support from OTW for its volunteers. Do I reward that, for the volunteers' sake, or not reward that, for the volunteers' sake? Because really, apart from letting me upload fanart into my AO3 story posts, this org gives me nothing. And our fandom has NEEDS (a replacement for Delicious) Yet I really would be surprised if OTW provided any service to fulfill those needs, and if it did, it would be by accident -- for some other, more popular fandom, not ours.
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I've been absent, but recently poking my head back in and (as usual) getting sucked into fandoms that everyone moved on from 10-15 years ago.
I hope the next job comes by soon, but with your skills, this should happen.
Your thoughts about OTW are much on my mind as well. I was donating because someone has to donate to keep AO3 funded, and yet, you're right. What exactly am I funding? If I upload my works to AO3, it will get few comments. It will get more on FF.net. OTW doesn't provide the services our fandom desperately needs (a replacement for ff_press!), marginalizes our fandom as unimportant, and chews up and spits out fan volunteers. As much as anything, I donate out of support for all the work they've been doing for OTW, but I'm not seeing enough support from OTW for its volunteers. Do I reward that, for the volunteers' sake, or not reward that, for the volunteers' sake? Because really, apart from letting me upload fanart into my AO3 story posts, this org gives me nothing. And our fandom has NEEDS (a replacement for Delicious) Yet I really would be surprised if OTW provided any service to fulfill those needs, and if it did, it would be by accident -- for some other, more popular fandom, not ours.