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They may not like to talk about it but there’s no way these ding dongs got through millennia without dying in some seriously embarrassing ways.
It is our solemn duty to document these moments and preserve them for the historical record.
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A fan protest against the lack of action from the OTW on addressing issues of harassment and racism on AO3 and within the organization
AO3 has acknowledged that they have a harassment & racism problem that its parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), needs to address. Currently, people can use AO3 to harass others through fanworks, comments, and tags. Just a few examples include: racist Untamed “spitefic” that used anti-Indigenous slurs and was written specifically to lash out at fans of color; a Transformer fic that used its Black-coded character to reenact George Floyd’s murder in July 2020; someone naming a fandom scholar who criticized their Nazi omegaverse fic in the tags of the fic specifically to incite harassment to the scholar; writers using racial slurs against commenters who pointed out racism in their hockey fic; and so much more.
In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, the OTW committed to addressing these issues. It has been nearly three years and they have not yet implemented any of the changes they promised, other than a blocking/muting tool that was already in development before 2020. We need to hold the OTW accountable to their own promises. (See the section further down on “Why Are We Doing This” for even more detail.)
As fans, together, we are powerful. We are organizing to protest the lack of action on promises made by the Organization for Transformative works to deal with issues of racism and harassment on their platform, Archive of Our Own.
We call on fans to do any or all of the following actions any time between May 17 to 31, 2023 to send a message to AO3 and OTW that we will hold them to their promises.
On AO3
On tumblr
On Twitter
Help us make this a long-term campaign - sign up to help with other anti-racism projects and future actions!
Since their June 2020 statement, OTW has been working on updating their Terms of Service (TOS) to address racist and bigoted harassment, but with little transparency and only the vaguest of updates. It has been three years since their commitment to this update - we want to see the results of their work implemented in the next 6-12 months. Their TOS updates and complementary policies should include:
These points are not particularly new and are not our own innovation; please refer to Stitch's article written over two years ago, asking for several of these very things.
OTW has also already committed to various process-based actions for longer-term works towards centering antiracism, including hiring a Diversity Consultant. The last update that OTW published said that the consultant would be hired within the next five years (after already having had three years to work on it since their original commitment). That is not soon enough. We want to see the following process-based actions implemented:
16 years ago, Astolat famously published her manifesto calling for a fandom Archive of One’s Own. In that time, AO3 has grown to be a central pillar of fandom, likely far outstripping its founders’ original vision. It is more than just an archive now; it is a central hub of the modern fannish experience. AO3 and the OTW must continue to grow and evolve with fandom over time to remain a healthy and functioning pillar of fandom. To that end, there are several areas in which the organization, as it admits itself, is lacking.
In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the uprising of the Black Lives Matter Movement, The OTW published a “This Week in Fandom” referencing the works of Dr. Rukmini Pande and Stitch, among others in which they discussed ‘making change for a better society’ through ‘conversations about race and racism’. In response, Dr. Pande and Stitch submitted a letter to the OTW calling for a more formal public statement than an offhand reference in a News Roundup that only served to call for thoughts and discussion without any indication the organization intended to do anything, policy wise, to address the issues being raised.
Eventually, the organization did remove the references to the works of Dr. Pande and Stitch and then made an official statement on the issue of racism within the organization and AO3. In it, they identified several things they would be prioritizing to combat harassment and benefit users. Some of those have been implemented (notably those that were already under development). However as of this writing, little else has been done especially in regards to:
By their own admission, the current tools and policies of the OTW are not sufficient to deal with issues of harassment and racism.
Several people who were involved in the founding of the OTW, including previous OTW Board members and staff on the original OTW Content Policy Committee, acknowledge that the founding of the OTW in 2008 and early board iterations failed us as a fandom by not doing enough, and by not even considering the way racism is perpetuated in fannish spaces, despite a long history of racism in fandom.
It has been nearly three years since the original commitment by the organization with little visible, measurable progress on these three crucial issues and a complete lack of transparency on where they are in regards to even beginning to deal with these issues. In fact, in Q&As, it was heavily implied by a member of the board that those calling for OTW to deal with issues of racism (which OTW had already acknowledged as a problem!) were not really fans but outside agitators.
This has cast significant doubt on the organization's sincerity and commitment to their stated goals, and on their position as leaders of a central fan tent-pole. Fans of color are not outsiders. They are right here, members of our community, and they are being harassed and targeted and driven out while space and platforms are being given to racists.
We, as fans of color and our allies, find the current state of fandom and current actions (and lack thereof) unacceptable. Fandom is our space, all of ours. We, as a fandom, have a right to a racism-free space and have a duty to our fellow fans to create that space. Unlike so much of the world, this is a space we can control and make better. It is a space we must make better. To read even more about this movement, visit our FAQs.
New candy unlocked
So....
Tastes like Alum but stronger? 🤤
geologists will lick rocks
even when they're formed not deep in the bowls of the earth, but in the raging heat of a nuclear reactor
I assume by modelling what it would do to your tastebuds, comparing that to other tastes’ reactions, etc.
No idea how they’d verify the models but that’s how I think they’d do it
They literally just tasted it like they ate it and everything
In the comments section of a Twitter post, an individual, Daniel Feldman, shed light on an incident involving Donald Mastick, an American chemist, who accidentally swallowed a small amount of plutonium during an experiment gone awry in 1944. The vial containing the plutonium chloride dissolved in an acid solution exploded in the laboratory, prompting Mastick to recover the plutonium he had ingested. According to Feldman and Wikipedia, Mastick had his stomach pumped and his breath tested for radioactivity for the rest of his life. He was also forbidden from working in a laboratory again. Despite these setbacks, Mastick lived until the age of 87 and even obtained a Ph.D. in physics.
My man got a free pass from the Gods and a taste of the forbidden fruit
Note: he was forbidden because he was radioactive and kept fucking things up just by being there, not cuz they were worried he'd eat more.
Or so they claim anyway
Don’t let any of this distract you from the fact that is a photo and description of a candy product, Nuclear Energy Powder - Plutonium Pear
I think booker has been impaled on a wii remote
your mind... the things you must see... the things you must know.......
Booker; 2014; Hawai'i; Cause of Death: "Rasputin" on Just Dance Goes Far Too Hard
this is where dark academia girlies get their thigh high socks
rewatched tog with my roommate and their dad but i am so extremely Writing My Thesis (TM) that i only looked up for the plane fight and the van scene. still a great flick would recommend!
having a character playlist is like this song is them. this song is who they think they are. this song is their brand of insanity. and this song is about a specific ass situation they were in. this song is about their relationship with another character. that song is about the relationship they would have with another character. this song is them but slightly to the left. this song is totally misinterpreted just to fit them. this song is just their vibesTM. this song is if everything had gone different. this song only has one line that applies to them. and this one has nothing to do with them but i was vibing with it real hard at the same time i fixated on them and now i'm unable to think of it without thinking of them
She's forgotten more ways to kill than entire armies will ever learn.
the tendency to remove complexity from well written protagonists(/antagonists) because of a belief that they'd be more likable if they were simpler very frustratingly coexists with the tendency to give minor characters unnecessary complexity because of a belief that the writers were behaving maliciously against them for treating them like minor characters
For today's one word excerpt challenge on Reddit today, and all I have time for right now. This is set vaguely in the first decade of the 20th century. Done in honor of @shitty-old-guard-deaths 's poll on dumbest deaths last week.
While not a stupid death, I did wonder-who amongst the Guard is the first to die due to space/space travel-related causes?
I was listening to a podcast and heard about an Ancient Greek guy who died when an eagle dropped a turtle on his head, and I thought... now That would be the sort of thing to tell this blog about.
hell yeah, it is. Hell yeah. (Lykon; Thrace; 336 BCE; cause of death: some kinda aesopian no-scope situation)
if I had a wife I’d let her practice her knife tricks in the kitchen and I wouldn’t even get mad when she scratches the countertops and drops the knife on my foot multiple times
cannot stop thinking abt the paris review’s essay series on the history of significance of certain colours, hue’s hue:
This one didn't actually cause any near deaths, but it feels applicable to the cause regardless: my father tried (and succeeded!) in crossing the stream by our house after a big rainfall but nearly got swept away by the current. See, there are concerete stepping stones across the stream, and after any heavy rain, the water gushes past and sometimes over them, making them dangerous to cross. He decided to go ahead and ford the stream instead of taking the route that would have been a mile or two longer, but avoided the stream crossing. In the interest of time, this is understandable. In the interest of safety...he almost fell into the stream and came home soaking wet, and decided to *never* do that again. My mother actually fell in crossing one of those one time and now refuses to go near any stream crossing. It's also terrible crossing them in the winter, the concrete gets all icy. TL;DR: Cause of old guard death: Fuck me, crossing this stream is more dangerous than it appears. (2/2...wait, one more)
(3/?) That reminds me, The Bolton Strid in England is a picturesque little creek but has a probable *100% FATALITY RATE*. The stream looks beautiful and easy to cross...but it's anything but. This is because the stream narrows so tightly as it goes through a crevasse that the current moves very quickly, and people get sucked down there and die. I don't know if this is humourous enough for this blog but it's definitely one way to die...I mean, TOG will be fineee and come away having learned a valuable lesson about how appearances can be deceiving..
Nile: What’s up with Nicky? Is he mad at the Sound of Music?
Nicky, bitterly: You shouldn’t “ford every stream,” Nile. Some streams were not meant for us.
