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Sep. 25th, 2017 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
araliasI LOVE IT.
omg, if you haven't watched this show, you should consider it. everything about it is amazing. we're on episode five (pizza and promises, in which our heroes disguise themselves as used car salesman to expose bad guys).
more on this top story as it unfolds.
Could You Win an OTW Trivia Contest?
Sep. 25th, 2017 11:43 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
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You just might, especially if you have good search-fu!
This is how it will work:
- Answer the five questions we have listed below. Only one entry per person
- Submit those answers to our Communications Committee. (Put "OTW Trivia" in the Subject line)
- Let us know what name or pseudonym you'd prefer we use when we announce the winners.
- We can't guarantee you'll receive a particular prize, but you can include your top 3 choices in order of preference.
Please do NOT post your answers in a comment.
In 72 hours we will be reviewing all the submissions and randomly selecting 10 winners from all the correct responses we receive. If we do not receive enough correct responses to qualify for the prizes we will include entries with 4 correct answers, or 3 correct answers, etc. until we have 21 winners.
Winners will be notified by email and have 72 hours to provide us with a mailing address for us to send their prize to. We will ship internationally, so everyone can participate. But if we do not hear back from you within that 3 day time frame we will be randomly choosing another winner in your place. (Please check your spam folders!)
What are the prizes?
For our 10th anniversary we will have 10 prizes. Four of these prizes were generously donated to us for this event by author Tamora Pierce! These are autographed hardback copies of her Song of the Lioness series. You will be able to choose from Alanna: The First Adventure, In the Hand of the Goddess, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, or Lioness Rampant.
In addition we have:
- A Season 3 DVD set of Supernatural autographed by Ghostfacers, Travis Wester and A.J. Buckley (NTSC format)
- An OTW logo pen
- A copy of the book The First 28 Years of Monty Python
- A copy of the book Buffy the Vampire Slayer Watcher's Guide Volume 1
- 2 OTW stickers and a temporary tattoo for each of our projects
- A large totebag advertising the services of wizard detective, Harry Dresden (in black, 51 by 40 centimeters/20 inches by 16 inches)
But there's more! Since we made our anniversary announcement the folks at First Second Books got in touch with us and offered an additional 11 prizes. These are graphic novels and they will ship them directly to the winners. The titles are:
- Castle in the Stars, by Alex Alice
- Spill Zone, by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland
- Cast No Shadow, by Nick Tapalansky and Anissa Espinosa
- Compass South, by Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock
- Pashmina, by Nidhi Chanani
- Foiled, by Jane Yolen and Mike Cavallaro
- Shattered Warrior, by Sharon Shinn and Molly Ostertag
- Tetris, by Box Brown
- Spinning, by Tillie Walden
- Exquisite Corpse, by Penelope Bagieu
- The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang
Ready to play? Here are your questions:
- In 2014 Naomi Novik testified for the OTW before who (specifically) about why fair use was important to fans?
- So far, among the archives Open Doors has imported into the AO3 have been two specifically for non-English fanworks. What are they called?
- What challenge did Fanlore issue to visitors and users in March 2011?
- On what day in 2009 was the first AO3 News post made that shared stats with graphs about the site's growth?
- In what issue of Transformative Works and Cultures did an article appear about the history of the anime music video in Western fandom, and who was the author?
This post will be updated when the contest is closed, and we'll announce the winners. Good luck!
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.
Fic: (Bible/Original) The Sinner and The Serpent collection | Eve and Lilith
Sep. 25th, 2017 11:00 ampaynesgrey posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
girlgayAuthor: HKrowe/Paynesgrey
Summary: Lilith was once Adam's first wife, but history has a way of forgetting her. What history also forgot, is her obsession with Adam's second wife, and how her lust drove Eve to commit her biggest sin. A Collection of poems and short stories.
Pairings: Lilith/Eve
Main Characters: Eve, Lilith, God, Adam
Rating: Adult
Warnings: adult themes for sex, violence, heresy
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: I do not own the Goddess Lilith, but I love to write about her for sure.
Author's Notes: This is an ongoing serialization of the relationship between Lilith and Eve from the Judeo-Christian Bible, but focused as an original myth/fairytale.
Links: @AO3 | @wattpad
How Front Row sparked real drama in theatreland | David Mitchell
Sep. 24th, 2017 09:00 amdavidmitchell_feedThe presenters of the BBC’s new TV version of arts programme Front Row, launched yesterday (which, at time of writing, is the day after tomorrow), have already sparked controversy. And the show has only just started (at time of writing, hasn’t started yet)! Before I get into that (at time of writing, after I’ve got into it but now I’m going back and putting this in at the start), I should say that one of those presenters is my brother-in-law, Giles Coren. Which means you’re even freer than usual to ignore everything I say because of bias. If so, I applaud the choice – go on your way with my blessing, helping yourself to a history GCSE on your way out.
The controversy is about theatre, one of the art forms the new show will be covering. In an interview with the Radio Times, all three presenters made remarks about it that annoyed people. Amol Rajan said he didn’t get to the theatre as much as he’d like to because of his young baby, but that his “favourite place is Shakespeare’s Globe and I love musical theatre. I went to New York a couple of years ago and saw Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock”.
I’m not sure theatre criticism should be the preserve of those who know what they’re talking about
Continue reading...a playlist of fic
Sep. 23rd, 2017 09:57 pmneveralarchYou can listen to the playlist on Spotify here. If you don't have access to that I suggest youtube maybe? Song list and liner notes under the cut! Song title links to the fic it namesook.
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This was a LOT of fun, highly recommend doing it. I want to hear other people's weird playlists! I'll crosspost this to tumblr tomorrow probably, but for now I'm going to just finish listening to my own playlist and go to bed, haha.
Sunday Secrets
Sep. 23rd, 2017 10:46 pmpost_secret_feed
Dear Frank-
Years ago I started writing notes and putting them in random places like behind paintings in hotels, between the pages at book stores and in Sky Mall Magazines on airplanes. While browsing through a PostSecret book, I found one of my notes. That small ripped piece of paper is featured above. I attended your event last week at CMU. I’m thankful for your ability to speak to people in their broken places.
-JM
With Flames In My Hands.
Sep. 23rd, 2017 11:50 amrionaleonhartOne of the many reasons I am looking forward intensely to Danganronpa V3's release at the end of the month. Dangan Ronpa games are ALL PLOT, ALL THE TIME and it's great.
I'm feeling more generous towards Final Fantasy XV than I am towards most open-world games at the moment, because that game isn't really about the plot; it's a game about arsing around with your friends. Of course you should waste time on stupid sidequests; wasting time with people you care about is important!
Wait, maybe the problem isn't open-world games; maybe the problem is games where the protagonist is alone. In Lost Legacy, you spend most of the time hanging out with Nadine; in Final Fantasy XV, you've got three pals with you. I just want constant dialogue! And that's just not something you get in, for example, the Assassin's Creed games. (As much as I love Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, I'm sad that it went, 'Twin protagonists! You can choose which one to play! But the other twin doesn't tag along with you, sorry.' I want Evie and Jacob to snipe at each other while I'm running around London!)
...okay, I wrote the above in part because I was dithering on whether to play Infamous: Second Son, as a means of passing the time before Danganronpa V3's release. On the one hand, it had good reviews and my housemate had it, so it would cost me nothing to try it out. On the other, I was so tired of open-world games, and I'd tried the original Infamous once and hated it instantly.
I needn't have worried. I came to love Infamous: Second Son just as instantly as I'd come to hate Infamous. Turns out that this game is all about siblings who don't really get along but love each other nonetheless, i.e. my ultimate weakness. Almost at the very start of the game (twelve minutes into this walkthrough video), there was the perfect cutscene, cramming about six things I love into fifty seconds, after the protagonist Delsin got extremely stigmatised superpowers.
And it's so fun to play! Delsin can run so fast and can jump so high and has assorted zooming-and-hovering skills, so you can fly from building to building! He sometimes gives a little giddy laugh as he shoots up into the sky, and it's really endearing. It does suffer a little from Videogame Morality, where it's morally fine to kill the occasional civilian so long as you make up for it by stopping some drug dealers later, but I'm not taking it too seriously. I'm pretty used to suspending my moral disbelief in videogames.
This game further supports my 'maybe the issue is a lack of company in open worlds rather than open worlds in themselves' theory, because Delsin and his brother occasionally have little sarcastic phone conversations while you're running around the city, and it's great.
I'm only two hours into the game, so it's possible my opinion will change, but they have been a thoroughly enjoyable two hours.
