Archive of Our Own ^beta

Dragonfayth, a Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfiction archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

In this post:

• A bit of background explanation
• What this means for creators who have work(s) on Dragonfayth
• And what to do if you still have questions

Background explanation

Dragonfayth is an archive dedicated to the Yu-Gi-Oh! pairing of Anzu Mazaki/Seto Kaiba. Due to other commitments and ongoing software issues, the moderator cannot keep the site open, and has decided to move Dragonfayth to AO3 to preserve the stories for the future.

The purpose of the Open Doors Committee’s Online Archive Rescue Project is to assist moderators of archives to incorporate the fanworks from those archives into the Archive of Our Own. Open Doors works with moderators to import their archives when the moderators lack the funds, time, or other resources to continue to maintain their archives independently. It is extremely important to Open Doors that we work in collaboration with moderators who want to import their archives and that we fully credit creators, giving them as much control as possible over their fanworks. Open Doors will be working with Azurite to import Dragonfayth into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own. As part of preserving the archive in its entirety, all fanfiction currently in the Dragonfayth archive will be hosted on the OTW's servers, and embedded in their own AO3 work pages. Eventually links to the old site will redirect to the collection on AO3, which can be searched and filtered in order to locate individual imported works.

We will begin importing works from Dragonfayth to the AO3 after December.

What does this mean for creators who have work(s) on Dragonfayth?

We will send an import notification to the email address we have for each creator. We'll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on the AO3, we will invite it to the collection instead of importing it. All works archived on behalf of a creator will include their name in the byline or the summary of the work.

All imported works will be set to be viewable only by logged-in AO3 users. Once you claim your works, you can make them publicly-viewable if you choose. After 30 days, all unclaimed imported works will be made visible to all visitors. We will then permanently close down the site.

Please contact Open Doors with your Dragonfayth pseud(s) and email address(es), if:

1. You'd like us to import your works, but you need the notification sent to a different email address than you used on the original archive.
2. You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
3. You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
4. You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3.
5. You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
6. You have any other questions we can help you with.

Please include the name of the archive in the subject heading of your email. If you no longer have access to the email account associated with your Dragonfayth account, please contact Open Doors and we'll help you out. (If you've posted the works elsewhere, or have an easy way to verify that they're yours, that's great; if not, we will work with the Dragonfayth mod to confirm your claims.)

Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:

• importing your works to the AO3
• adding your works to the new collection Dragonfayth

If you still have questions...

If you have further questions, visit the Open Doors FAQ, or contact the Open Doors committee.

We'd also love it if fans could help us preserve the story of Dragonfayth on Fanlore. If you're new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We're excited to be able to help preserve Dragonfayth!

- The Open Doors team and Azurite

Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days, on November 6. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.

Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer's personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today's post is with Alicia, who volunteers as a Social Media & Outreach volunteer on our Fanlore Committee.

How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does?

I’m a member of Fanlore’s Social Media and Outreach team! Our team drafts posts and makes graphics for our social media pages to promote Fanlore, the OTW’s fan-run and fan-authored wiki.

Being on the social outreach team fits into the OTW’s mission of “preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms,” which is something I’m super proud of! Since all of Fanlore’s pages are written and maintained by fans, we’re always looking for ways to welcome newcomers and invite a variety of perspectives. I like to think of us as the wiki’s megaphone, especially for newer fandoms whose fans might not know we exist, or that they can contribute their own experiences.

What is a typical week like for you as a volunteer?

I try to write at least one post a week, sometimes more if we’re doing a themed month (like this year’s Femslash February). I also attend one of our bi-weekly meetings, either with the rest of the outreach team or with the larger Fanlore committee. I tend to be a lurker in the meetings, but it’s always interesting to see how the discussions unfold.

I also help out with some of the organizational tasks, like delivering feedback to our graphic designers and moving things around on our virtual corkboard. I’m a big fan of checking boxes and making things nice and tidy, so I enjoy the behind-the-scenes work as much as I do writing posts!

What made you decide to volunteer?

I think how I got started at the OTW is similar to how a lot of other volunteers did—I’d been an AO3 user for a while before I somehow found my way to the OTW’s main page. There, I learned about the archive’s purpose, as well as why it and OTW existed—not just to share fic, but to preserve and protect fandom at large.

After some digging into why the OTW was established, I realized how fragile online fandom spaces really were. It blew my mind that if I’d gotten into online fandom pre-OTW, there was a good chance all the work I’d done—like posting my fics or building relationships with other fans in comments sections—might’ve gotten swept away by time, corporate buyouts, purges, etc. The OTW strives to give fans the resources and infrastructure to preserve their work/communities/histories, and I wanted to be a part of their mission.

Finally, and for a much simpler reason—I wanted to give back to the organization that has been such a bright spot in my life all these years! Fandom has pulled me through some rough times, especially more recently with the pandemic, and I’m so grateful for it. And much like writing fic or any other fannish activity, volunteering is also a fun way to meet new people and do work I feel good about doing.

What has been your biggest challenge doing work for the OTW?

My biggest challenge has probably been understanding that the organization is always learning and growing. There are almost a thousand volunteers now (woot!), and millions of fans worldwide who contribute to the OTW’s many projects. This means that there are a lot of different perspectives to take into consideration when it comes to policy making, and that it’s not always easy to find solutions.

But regardless of the difficulties, I’ve found that others are usually willing to sit down and talk things out. It helps me to remember that the OTW and fandom at large are just groups of people coming together over things we love—and that at the end of the day, we’re all here to help each other out.

What fannish things do you like to do?

I’ve dabbled in drawing fanart and writing meta, but ultimately fic is the name of the game for me! I read, write, and bookbind fic. I’m an avid commenter—since I know how happy I feel when someone comments on one of my own fics, I try to do it for others as often as possible. I also tend to leave long, rambling comments about what parts of the story I liked, what I was doing while I was reading, which lines made me laugh/cry, and so on. The AO3 comments section is one of my favorite places to connect with other fans, and I’ve met some of my best fandom friends there.

I also bookmark nearly everything I read! I’ve found some of my favorite fics in other users’ bookmarks and consider an extensive bookmark collection to be one of the greatest gifts one can bestow upon a reader (especially a reader who, say, just got into a new pairing and spent several consecutive nights exhausting all the available rec lists they could find and still needs more. Not that I would, ahem, know anything about that).

Finally, I’m also a member of Renegade Publishing, a collective of fannish bookbinders! Since most of my primary fandoms are animanga fandoms, I tend to read and bind a lot of animanga fics. Folks in Renegade bind for a variety of reasons, but for me personally it’s about building community, preserving fannish works and history, and making authors feel as loved as possible. (As well as hoarding pretty paper like a dragon.)

Now that our volunteer’s said five things about what they do, it’s your turn to ask one more thing! Feel free to ask about their work in the comments. Or if you'd like, you can check out earlier Five Things posts.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

Our October Membership Drive has ended, and we could not be more grateful for your generosity. We are glad to announce that thanks to 7683 donors in 78 countries, we have raised a total of US$276,467.69! We're particularly pleased that 6147 of you chose to begin or renew your OTW membership with your donation.

Although the membership drive has ended for now, we do accept donations year-round. You can become a voting member at any time of the year—you just have to join by June 30 at 23:59 UTC to be eligible to vote in our annual OTW Board of Directors elections in August.

While our Development and Membership team is hard at work mailing out your gifts, we want to take a moment to say thanks. We wouldn't be here without your support in its myriad forms: your financial contributions, Fanlore articles, Transformative Works and Cultures citations, comments and kudos on AO3, and fanworks both old and new. It means the world to us and we are incredibly grateful! Thank you so much for your participation in this drive, and for making the OTW what it is today.

The OTW is delighted to announce that the Archive of Our Own has reached ten million fanworks! After hitting nine million fanworks in March of this year, it’s taken only seven months for our users to post the most recent million works. By contrast, it took just under four and a half years after going into open beta for users to post the first million works to AO3.

It’s been a year of milestones for AO3 and the OTW. In 2022 alone, we’ve reached not only ten million works but also five million registered AO3 users, 50,000 canonized AO3 fandom tags, and the OTW’s fifteenth anniversary. We are forever grateful to our dedicated creators and users for the support and enthusiasm you’ve given us over the years.

Thank you to everyone who’s helped us grow to this point. We can’t wait to see what you continue to create and share!

It’s that time of year again: the Organization for Transformative Works is holding our October Membership Drive, and we would appreciate your support! The OTW and all our projects are 100% volunteer-run and funded by your donations. Every dollar raised goes into maintaining our servers, supporting our work, and furthering our mission of protecting and advocating for fanworks and fan culture. Check out our most recent budget post for more information on how our funds are spent.

In addition to supporting our work, donations above a certain amount are also eligible for some neat OTW thank-you gifts! You can find the full range of what's available at our donations page but we'll pick out some highlights here.

• The Archive of Our Own is now thirteen years old - old enough to get its own account on AO3! To celebrate that, we have new 13th Anniversary pins available.
• You may also have noticed our celebrations last month when the OTW as a whole turned fifteen. We also have 15th Anniversary magnets to celebrate this occasion! These are bundled together with stickers celebrating both anniversaries. All the anniversary items are limited edition, so if you like the look of them, make sure to get yours while they're here!
• We also want to mention the fandom trope playing cards, which debuted in April and have proven very popular with our donors. Each card contains unique word art depicting the kinds of fannish terms and tropes that can be found in AO3 tags. This item is still available to those donating US$100 or more.

If you are interested in the thank-you gifts but aren't able to make a donation of this size all at once, don't worry! We've got you. You can set up a recurring donation for a smaller amount, and fill out the form in your donation receipt to let our Development and Membership team know which gift you'd like to save up for. They'll set it aside and will send it out to you once your cumulative total reaches the level needed for your chosen gift.

The other major benefit of donating to the Organization for Transformative Works is that any donation of US$10 or above makes you eligible to vote in next year's elections for the Board of Directors that oversees the OTW's activities. You can read more about our electoral process at the OTW elections website. If you would like to vote in the next election in August 2023, you can become a member today by making a single donation of US$10 or more and selecting "become a member" on the donation form. Membership will last for one calendar year from the date of your qualifying donation.

If you aren't able to donate to the OTW this time around, that's absolutely okay! And if you happen to have a moment to spare, we'd appreciate your help in sharing news of this membership drive with others. As always, we are so grateful for everything you do to support the OTW and its many projects. Thank you for being part of our community!

Throughout the year, the OTW Finance team has continued its work of ensuring that the organization's bills are paid, tax returns filed, and standard accounting procedures met. The team also revamped the accounting structure to better reflect the OTW's financial activity. Preparation for the audit of 2021 financial statements continues!

The team has also been diligently working on the 2022 budget update and are happy to present it here (access the 2022 budget spreadsheet for more detailed information):

2022 Expenses

Archive of Our Own (AO3)

• US$290,688.25 spent so far out of US$376,186.44 total this year, as of July 31, 2022.
• 66.7% of the OTW's expenses go towards maintaining the AO3. This includes the bulk of our server expenses—both new purchases and ongoing colocation and maintenance—website performance monitoring tools, and various systems-related licenses, as well as costs highlighted below (access all program expenses).
• This year's updated estimated AO3 expenses include a planned US$42,000 for a modest expansion of server capacity to continue to handle site traffic growth efficiently, as well as to replace existing equipment.

Open Doors

• US$1,234.42 spent so far out of US$3,459.98 total this year, as of July 31, 2022.
• Open Doors' expenses include hosting, backup, and domain costs for imported fanwork archives, shipping costs associated with preserving fanworks, and ticketing software (access all program expenses).

Transformative Works and Cultures

• US$275.00 spent so far out of US$2,349.00 total this year, as of July 31, 2022.
• Transformative Works and Cultures' expenses are the journal's website hosting, publishing, and storage fees (access all program expenses).

Fanlore

• US$14,564.40 spent so far out of US$19,276.90 total this year, as of July 31, 2022.
• Fanlore's expenses are a citation tool for the wiki, as well as its share of allocated server hardware, maintenance and colocation costs (access all program expenses).

Legal Advocacy

• US$0.00 spent so far out of US$4,000.00 total this year, as of July 31, 2022.
• Legal's expenses consist of filing fees and other costs associated with conferences and hearings (access all program expenses).

Con Outreach

• US$0.00 spent so far out of US$780.00 total this year, as of July 31, 2022.
• Budgeted expenses include WorldCon memberships for volunteers to attend and represent the OTW at ChiCon (access all program expenses).

Grant for F. Coppa book on the History of Fanvidding

• US$660.00 spent so far out of US$660.00 total this year, as of July 31, 2022.
• The money for this grant comes from a donation made to the OTW in 2020 for the specific purpose of covering costs related to the production of Francesca Coppa's book on the history of fanvidding. The University of Michigan has published the book and it is freely accessible online now. Since the full amount of the grant has been spent and its purpose has been accomplished, the grant is now closed.
• Remaining expenses were spent on the final proofreading and creating a table of contents for the book (access all program expenses).

Fundraising and Development

• US$48,796.15 spent so far out of US$80,962.15 total this year, as of July 31, 2022.
• Our fundraising and development expenses consist of transaction fees charged by our third-party payment processors for each donation, thank-you gift purchases and shipping, and the tools used to host the OTW's membership database and track communications with donors and potential donors (access fundraising expenses).

Administration

• US$27,985.04 spent so far out of US$76,147.32 total this year, as of July 31, 2022.
• The OTW’s administrative expenses include hosting for our website, trademarks, domains, insurance, tax filing, and annual financial statement audits, as well as communication, management, encrypted document storage, and accounting tools (access all admin expenses).

2022 Revenue

• The OTW is entirely supported by your donations—thank you for your generosity!
• We receive a significant portion of our donations each year in the April and October fundraising drives, which together should account for about 55% of our income in 2022. We also receive donations via employer matching programs, royalties, Amazon Smile, and PayPal Giving Fund, which administers donations from programs like Humble Bundle and eBay for Charity. If you'd like to support us while making purchases on those websites, please select the Organization for Transformative Works as your charity of choice!
• US$512,358.90 received so far (as of July 31, 2022) and US$600,118.51 is projected to be received by the end of the year.

Got questions?

If you have any questions about the budget or the OTW's finances, please contact the Finance committee. We will also be hosting an open chat to answer any questions you may have. This chat will take place in our public chatroom on October 15 at 8pm UTC (what time is that in my timezone?).

To download the OTW's 2022 budget in spreadsheet format, please follow this link.

I. THE OTW TURNS 15

In September, Communications celebrated the OTW's 15th anniversary with a trivia game, a fanworks challenge, and special interviews with Francesca Coppa and Constance Penley. Congratulations to our trivia and challenge winners, with thanks to Development & Membership for providing prizes!

Communications also reenabled comments on AO3 news posts in time for the anniversary. And at the end of the festivities, we also announced that AO3 reached 5 million registered users during the festivities--incidentally, on September 15!

II. AT THE AO3

Open Doors announced the import of By Your Command, a Battlestar Galactica fanfiction archive. It also completed the import of Of Elves and Men, a Lord of the Rings archive, and All Things Rat, an X-Files archive.

Since August, Accessibility, Design & Technology deployed releases 0.9.323 and 0.9.324 and started testing the next release (which will probably be deployed as well by the time of this posting). These three releases include code from six new code contributors!

Policy & Abuse received 1700 tickets in September, which is a bit more than before, but they are still making good progress at eating into that number. Also in September, Tag Wrangling made progress on some general changes to the tools it uses that should improve security and, with many thanks to AD&T, rolled out some updates to the wrangulator that will greatly aid their ability to effectively manage their team and workload. In August, wranglers handled more than 420,000 tags across more than 52,000 fandoms--more than a thousand tags per active wrangler!

III. FANLORE NEWS

Fanlore got an upgrade! On the 3rd October, the wiki was upgraded to the newest version of MediaWiki. Among other things, this upgrade added a "visual editor" mode to Fanlore that does a lot of the formatting heavy lifting for contributors -- meaning you won't need to master wiki markup to edit (but markup fans will still be able to use it)!

Also in October, Fanlore is celebrating its anime and manga themed month, Fanimangalore, on its social media platforms with help from its new Graphic Designers and Social Media & Outreach Volunteers.

IV. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW

September 15 was a big day not only for the AO3 but for TWC, which released No. 38, a general issue. Meanwhile, Development & Membership hosted a table at this year’s WorldCon and is looking forward to participating in more conventions as it updates the OTW's convention outreach program.

Legal did some research and analysis regarding legal developments concerning online service providers and U.S. nonprofits, attended a U.S. Copyright Office oversight hearing, and responded to queries from users and other parts of the OTW.

Finally, Systems moved Fanlore and the AO3 to a new certificate provider. Systems is continuing to work on upgrading different parts of our infrastructure, such as Fanlore's MediaWiki and the Archive's SQL servers.

V. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PEEPS

From 26 August to 23 September, Volunteers & Recruiting received 88 new requests, and completed 80, leaving us with 130 open requests (including induction and removal tasks listed below).

As of 23 September 2022, the OTW has 903 volunteers. \o/ Recent personnel movements are listed below.

New Open Doors Volunteers: Beth B, Hookedonthesky, runt, & 7 other Import Assistants
New Strategic Planning Volunteers: Audrey Richards
New Tag Wrangler Volunteers: 2D Trash, allonsyechoes, AoiH, Asterism, Barnesarmed, Bellivision, Cactus, Chaya, CheddarMonk, Cheshire, ChuckyBlue, Connor, CorvusGrey, dazyndara, dingding, Eirinen, EllaW, elyyyna, Faye Z, Flamingo, flowermemory7, FourSparks, Howl, JanB, jeiroh, Jenn Casso, Jules F, Kaesa, ladydragona, Larrant, Lavender T, Lizbean, Lombyn, m0th3rw4r, Maria Foivi, Mierke, Nyde, Rayon, Reya, Roz, sunshine712, Tsumego, Ultramarine, Uneasy, Virin, Yi Luo, Ymir (all Tag Wranglers), Harlow, Tafadhali, and 1 other Supervisor
New Translation Volunteers: Dasha (Volunteer Manager) & 1 News Translator

Departing Communications Volunteers: Allegra (Fanhackers Volunteer)
Departing Fanlore Volunteers: Katherine Hoovestol (Social Media & Outreach Volunteer)
Departing Open Doors Volunteers: Beth B (Administrative Volunteer), 1 Technical Volunteer & 4 Import Assistants
Departing Policy & Abuse Volunteers: Tei and 1 other Volunteer
Departing Support Volunteers: HurricanErin & 8 other Volunteers
Departing Systems Volunteers: 1 Volunteer & 1 Project Manager
Departing Tag Wrangler Volunteers: Singy
Departing Translation Volunteers: Ayati, farah and 2 other Translators

For more information about the purview of our committees, please access the committee listing on our website.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

Are you a writer with an eye for technical details? Would you like to wrangle AO3 tags? Can you read and translate from Spanish to English? Do you have experience copyediting or proofreading academic journals? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting!

We're excited to announce the opening of applications for:

• AO3 Documentation Editor - closing 12 October 2022 at 23:59 UTC or after 30 applications
• Tag Wrangling Volunteer - closing 12 October 2022 at 23:59 UTC or after 115 applications
• Tag Wrangling (Spanish) Volunteer - closing 12 October 2022 at 23:59 UTC or after 40 applications
• TWC Proofreaders - closing 12 October 2022 at 23:59 UTC
• TWC Copyeditors - closing 12 October 2022 at 23:59 UTC

We have included more information on each role below. Open roles and applications will always be available at the volunteering page. If you don't see a role that fits with your skills and interests now, keep an eye on the listings. We plan to put up new applications every few weeks, and we will also publicize new roles as they become available.

All applications generate a confirmation page and an auto-reply to your e-mail address. We encourage you to read the confirmation page and to whitelist our email address in your e-mail client. If you do not receive the auto-reply within 24 hours, please check your spam filters and then contact us.

If you have questions regarding volunteering for the OTW, check out our Volunteering FAQ.

AO3 Documentation Editor

Do you have a passion for good documentation? Are you a writer with an eye for technical details? If so, then consider joining Docs!

AO3 Documentation is the committee that writes and updates AO3 FAQs, tutorials, and more. We’re looking for people who love the Archive of Our Own and who have experience relevant to writing and proofreading user help documentation. If that sounds like you, then follow the link for more information and apply today!

Applications will close on 12 October 2022 or after 30 applications

Tag Wrangling Volunteer

The Tag Wranglers are responsible for helping to connect and sort the tags on AO3! Wranglers follow internal guidelines to choose the tags that appear in the filters and auto-complete, which link related works together. (This makes it easier to browse and search on the archive, whether that’s Shěn Wēi/Zhào Yúnlán with ABO Dynamics, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark with angst, g-rated Rose Lalonde/Kanaya Maryam fluff, or Jeon Jungkook & Kim Taehyung | V Are Childhood Friends.)

If you’re an experienced AO3 user who likes organizing, working in teams, or excuses to fact-check your favorite fandoms, you might enjoy tag wrangling! To join us, click through to the job description and fill in our application form. There will also be a short questionnaire that will help us assess whether you have the skills and attributes that will lead to your success in this role.

Please note: You must be 18+ in order to apply for this role. For this role, we’re currently looking for wranglers for specific fandoms only, which will change each recruitment round. Please see the application for which fandoms are in need.

Wranglers need to be fluent in English, but we welcome applicants who are also fluent in other languages, especially af Soomaali (Somali), Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Español (Spanish), Filipino, Italiano (Italian), Polski (Polish), Português, Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese), ไทย (Thai) and 中文 (Chinese - we welcome all dialects) — but help with other languages would be much appreciated!

Applications will close on 12 October 2022 or after 115 applications

Tag Wrangling (Spanish) Volunteer

The Tag Wranglers are responsible for helping to connect and sort the tags on AO3! Wranglers follow internal guidelines to choose the tags that appear in the filters and auto-complete, which link related works together. (This makes it easier to browse and search on the archive, whether that's Bakugou Katsuki/Todoroki Shouto romance, James Potter/Lily Evans Potter with angst, g-rated Rose Lalonde/Kanaya Maryam fluff, or Jeon Jungkook & Kim Taehyung | V Are Childhood Friends.)

If you're a fluent Spanish speaker who likes organizing, working in teams, or excuses to fact-check your favorite fandoms, you might enjoy tag wrangling! To join us, click through to the job description and fill in our application form. There will also be a short questionnaire that will help us assess whether you have the skills and attributes that will lead to your success in this role.

Please note: You must be 18+ in order to apply for this role. We’re currently looking for applicants who are fluent in both English and Spanish (we welcome all dialects!). The work will involve both regular Tag Wrangling work and translating tags from Spanish into English.

Applications will close on 12 October 2022 or after 40 applications

TWC Proofreaders

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international peer-reviewed Gold Open Access online publication about fan-related topics that seeks to promote dialogue between the academic community and fan communities. Proofreaders carefully proofread the final online HTML-tagged manuscripts for online publication according to Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) 17, Merriam-Webster online, and the TWC style guide. Editorial standards are those of a university press. Applicants are required to pass a brief test. All returned tests will be assessed and the applicant provided with feedback.

Applications will close on 12 October 2022

TWC Copyeditors

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international peer-reviewed Gold Open Access online publication about fan-related topics that seeks to promote dialogue between the academic community and fan communities. Copyeditors professionally copyedit submissions for TWC according to Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) 17, Merriam-Webster online, and the TWC style guide. Editorial standards are those of a university press. Applicants are required to pass a brief test. All returned tests will be assessed and the applicant provided with feedback.

Applications will close on 12 October 2022

Apply at the volunteering page!

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.