#fandom vote

[tempkiriri]

Naming the new Tiger & Bunny Wiki!

After compiling some ideas, we have devised a poll. It is NOT a tumblr poll, as that likely won't achieve a majority. Being someone from a country with le epic preferential voting system, I came up with the idea for just that to decide what to name the new Wiki (it's moving to Miraheze).

Since this will be a wiki for the fandom, it's best to let the fandom decide, rather than just leave it to like, 4 people.

A tumblr Poll would likely NOT results in a majority winner (majority is over 50%) so this is one way to try and get that. A tumblr poll may have the 1st place lead with a 36% or something, but 2nd or 3rd place may have the overall majority support, just not first-choice support. Above all else we want most of the non-jp fandom to be happy with this decision. You have until the 30th of the month to vote, but voting may be closed earlier.

I won't tell you how to vote, that would be rigging. I have my preferences, though.

[monowritestoomuch]

ULTIMATE FANDOM SHOWDOWN

So I’m doing a fandom showdown with 30 fandoms of my choosing.

this is for fandom showdown one

there will be another if you all suggest fandoms

it’s going to be great

Whatever fandom wins is the one I write for :3

have a fine day and make sure to vote on ur fav fandom!!!!

[gwynlain]

The answer is yes… and I just wanted to poll & see what ship name people liked best😂🤷‍♀️😆😄☺️🫶

… hopefully it’s Gwynlain otherwise I’ve got a blog name to change😅😂

Night Court Edition Addition of This or That

[k-martins]

GUYS GUYS GUYS

DID YOU KNOW THAT WHEN JJK'S FIRST EPS WAS AIR, THE JAPANESE FANDOM NUMBED MEGUMI SOMETHING LIKE "ANGEL OF SWEETS" BECAUSE HE WAS HOLDING GOJO'S KIKUFUKUS BAG WITH ALL THE CARE AND PROTECTION???? ?

WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THIS BEFORE????

THIS IS THE CUTEST THING EVER!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

[unripe-lemon]

PLEASE REBLOG FOR MORE DATA!!!!!!!

[sncrlynwtms]

"i was born in the wrong generation" I wasn't. i love existing at the same time as fan culture. i love knowing I can make a post saying "character a wears big ass pants and is obsessed with character b's thighs" and fifty percent of people are gonna agree with me while the other half call me a dumb bitch because of it. it's great.

[creepst-crypt]

PINES 2024!!

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

There's a poll on twitter we are losing in :(

[someonefantastic]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PIPER HALLIWELL | January 7, 1973

[braisedhoney]

fighting back? against who? they're so happy—they've been waiting for you.

you are wonderful. don't you know that?

bonus: they play sims together :)

[mylittleredgirl]

thinking about the poll about canon vs non-canon ships that didn't define terms, and the current fandom focus on things "going canon," so i made up a scale.

this is NOT a question about whether canon matters to what you ship (or matters at all), just how to define the phrase "canon ship."

many ships start low on the scale and slow burn their way up, so vote for the point when you would have called them "canon." i agonized over the order (especially #4-6) for a day and a half, but i went with the order in which i think joe random with a nielsen ratings box and no tumblr account would notice/call something a romantic relationship.

[scarycranegame]

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND READ THIS.

THE CURRENT VOTE COUNT IS NOT THE FINAL RESULT.

IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL DAYS TO COUNT ALL OF THE VOTES AND DETERMINE WHO WINS THE ELECTION (POSSIBLY MORE IF A RECOUNT IS NECESSARY).

IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT THE FINAL RESULTS WILL NOT LOOK LIKE THE INITIAL RESULTS.

STOP DOOMPOSTING AND LEARN HOW THIS SHIT WORKS.

[wobblefloss]

Link to full article on OTW website.

Hey. Yo.

Call your US senators!

TLDR::

Bill 9495 would allow the US government to kill OTW and Ao3. (And any other organizations that help LGBTQIA+ or homeless or immigrant or womb-having or etc communities!!) Call your 2 US senators and tell them NO!

Full text of the bill.

I see this is bad, but I don't know my senators.

No problem! Enter your address here, and you'll get your 2 senators and your House Representative. The House has already passed this bad bill. Call the senators. Their phone numbers will be listed under their names.

I don't know what to say, though.

Very little, actually! I just called my two senators.

One had an "Opinion Voicemail" set up for me to say, "Hi, my name is [XXX] and I live in your state. I want you to vote NO on 9495. It's very bad and I feel very strongly about this."

For my second senator, I said the same thing to a staffer with a tally sheet.

No one is expecting you to defend your opinion or to give your reasons. You can explain yourself, but you won't be talking to the senator directly. No need to worry about sounding super-political or ultra-smart.

Does this really work?

Yes, actually! What makes it work isn't that any one of us gives a speech so powerful that we single-handly change the hearts and minds of the US Congress. It's a group effort.

When hundreds of us call and bitch about it to each of our senators, that's 100 senators from 50 states with 100 headaches from all the calls.

Some senators are cool and already agree to vote NO on 9495.

Some senators need to be made aware of just how many of us there are. We're watching. We're voting.

Do your duty as a US citizen. Keep AO3, its writers, & its readers safe.

Call and Complain.

[rayrayxz]

Just saw this on tiktok, ERIC HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT 2024🇺🇲🇺🇲🔥🔥

[alvivaarts]

AO3 is Removing 'All Media Types' without Public Input or Announcement. What Can We Do?

What's Happening?

For those who don't yet know: AO3 and the Tag Wranglers have begun to slowly remove the 'All Media Types' tag for older fandoms. Aka, removing the 'umbrella' tag for many franchises, and forcing franchises to be split by media, or to be shoved under one umbrella that does not accurately reflect the types of fics or source medias they come from. This has been slowly occurring with no official announcement, under the pretense that things will be 'easier' to manage, or that some users claimed that the 'All Media Types' tag was confusing. This has begun in secrecy, without genuine input from the userbase, and without any public announcement. (As of 9/5/2024 9:30 AM PST) Many of us are pretty confident in AO3 staff's decisions, but the fact that this decision is not only incredibly impactful, but made without public input, has deeply violated the condition of the site as an archive... an archive of OUR own.

Current seen issues and active risks:

Removal of 'All Media Types' automatically makes fics from different sources in the same franchise a 'crossover', forcing users to consider non-crossover fics 'crossovers'. So, any fanfic that spans or implements elements from multiple pieces of media in a franchise are now considered a 'crossover', despite being from the same franchise and not a crossover.

Removal of 'All Media Types' forces users to manually search for the fics and ships they want one by one through each fandom tag in a related franchise. (Imagine looking through all the separate DC or MARVEL movies one by one).

The 'include crossovers' and 'exclude crossovers' filters are now useless, and removing genuine crossovers (crossovers between franchises) must be done manually through the filter system, which can take upwards of half an hour, if not longer, with the amount of one-off genuine crossovers that exist.

Slightly smaller franchises are being shoved under the umbrella of a single, super popular fandom. (See, Sherlock Holmes. All Sherlock Holmes media has been relegated to the tag 'Sherlock TV', which confuses users, as the tag now includes not only BBC Sherlock, which is the umbrella tag, but any works based off of Arthur Conan Doyle's original works, the 2009 Sherlock Holmes films, and the 16+ Sherlock Holmes adaptations and international TV shows... none of which are BBC Sherlock.)

Anime and manga fandoms (especially smaller ones) are being automatically split by media type, without regard to the fact that many anime and manga adaptations are very similar, and/or authors tend to often implement elements from both anime and manga.

As far as we are aware, no one is going to be correcting any improper sorting resulting from this.

Accounts that are no longer active/accessible, memorial accounts, and orphaned fics and no longer be corrected by their original authors and are at risk of being misplaced into incorrect fandom tags. Unfortunately, no one can fix this but the tag wranglers, who were supposedly removing 'All Media Types' in the first place to prevent MORE work. Counter intuitive, isn't it?

Already, fandoms are being improperly split, others being improperly merged, and still more being far more confusingly sorted. This deeply damages AO3's integrity as an ARCHIVE.

What Can I Do?

As soon as it's back up again, make sure to stop by the Contact Support page! There, you're able to let them know exactly how you feel about this, and what fandoms your fear will be impacted by these changes. Many already have been.

In the meantime, make sure to contact AO3 on Twitter (or X): ao3org (AO3's general twitter page), ao3_wranglers (AO3's tag wrangler page), and OTW_news (the parent host of AO3).

There is also tumblr: ao3org (AO3's tumblr page) and transformativeworks (OTW's tumblr page).

And finally, the Organization for Transformative Works contact page.

If you are aware of any additional medias, please add them below to ensure that AO3 thoroughly understands the negative impact of this decision, especially the violation of trust resulting from making such a massive choice without impact. Be sure to share this information elsewhere, repost, share the links, and make a stink. Furthermore, if you are able, letting AO3 know that you are no longer comfortable financially supporting them in the future.

Be sure to also repost and list any fandoms you have personally noticed have been impacted by this change!

Already Impacted Fandoms:

MARVEL, MCU, Marvel Comics, Avengers, and related tags

Any Sherlock Holmes based Media

A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon)

World of Warcraft

Assassin's Creed

Monogatari

BanG Dream!

Jujutsu Kaisen

Disney (all media, now: Disney Theatrical Animated Universe)

DC and DC Comics

AND MANY, MANY MORE!