The Mass Effect Kink Meme is Moving to AO3
Jul. 8th, 2026 06:33 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
otw_news_feedThe Mass Effect Kink Meme a prompt meme for the Mass Effect games, 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 works on The Mass Effect Kink Meme
- And what to do if you still have questions
Background explanation
The archive is being imported to AO3 to preserve the works and make them available to a wider audience.
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 Liara!Mod to import The Mass Effect Kink Meme into a separate, searchable collection on the Archive of Our Own.
We will begin importing works from The Mass Effect Kink Meme to AO3 no sooner than August 2026. However, the import may not take place for several months or even years, depending on the size and complexity of the archive. Creators are always welcome to import their own works and add them to the collection in the meantime.
What does this mean for creators who have work on The Mass Effect Kink Meme?
Most fanwork fills on The Mass Effect Kink Meme were posted anonymously. All the anonymous fills will be imported to AO3 using the collection’s archivist account. If the creator of a fill chose not to post anonymously, however, and if they have an email address listed on their Dreamwidth or LiveJournal profile, we will send an import notification to that email address.
We’ll do our best to check for an existing copy of any works before importing. If we find a copy already on AO3, we will invite it to the collection instead of importing it. All fanworks archived on behalf of a self-identified 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. If 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.
Please contact Open Doors with your LiveJournal or Dreamwidth pseud(s) and email address(es), if:
- 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.
- You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
- You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
- You would NOT like your works moved to AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.
- You are happy for us to preserve your works on AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
- 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 LiveJournal or Dreamwidth 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 Mass Effect Kink Meme mods to confirm your claims.)
Please see the Open Doors Website for instructions on:
- importing your works to AO3
- adding your works to the new collection The Mass Effect Kink Meme
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 The Mass Effect Kink Meme 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 The Mass Effect Kink Meme!
– The Open Doors team and Liara!Mod
Commenting on this post will be disabled in 14 days. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding this import after that date, please contact Open Doors.
Spider-Man Today #1-4
Jul. 8th, 2026 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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scans_daily
"It can be intimidating to a new reader. With ‘Spider-Man TODAY,’ we wanted to make sure that a new reader could pick this up, start here, and not feel left out. So we hold your hand through it. In fact, you see parts of Spider-Man’s origin in each issue as we go through there, and then other characters' origins as we get beyond just this first arc. We wanted to make sure that this entry-level comic was a welcome mat saying, ‘Come on in, the water's fine.'" -- Nick Lowe
( Read more... )
X-MEN: ELSEWHEN #1's best panel
Jul. 8th, 2026 07:00 amtcampbell1000 posting in scans_dailyThe first of three graphic novels dropped this week, featuring John Byrne writing and drawing an "alternate history of the X-Men" in which Jean Grey doesn't die because the Shi'ar take an alternate approach to the Phoenix problem. ( A not very smart one, as it turns out, but never mind that for now. )
Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Jul. 7th, 2026 10:43 amicon_uk posting in scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Well, the USA's 250th Anniversary happened... I guess. The least unifying speech imaginable from Trump didn't start until 11pm and, as such, the fireworks display didn't start until the 5th of July. Though the scale of it meant that they're still cleaning the detritus out of the Reflecting Swamp and most of the rest of the city centre (I mean detritus from the fireworks, not the speech, just to be clear).
There were also the 200 or so fully masked, white supremacists walking through the city with Confederate flags, for that real "We are one people" vibe.
Trump also managed to drag the World Cup into another mire, by personally intervening in the case of an American player being given a red card, which means an automatic send off an one game suspension, which was then reversed by FIFA (an unheard of event). The global reaction was, shall we say, not supportive of this move, even if America then did go on to lose the match and be out of the competition.
In good news on the UK front, Nigel Farage is under multiple investigations for accusations of not being open about his finances, which seem dubious to say the least.
My Adventures with Superman gave us another new Super, who looks like Kon-El, sounds like Kon-El and acts like Kon-El, but is actually Jon-El... well, a Jon Kent from the future.
Given "Kara adapts to modern day Earth" is already a story arc, this seems an odd choice. We do get confirmation of the big bad though, Hank Henshaw's Cyborg Superman... a character I wish I had ever actually found interesting, but maybe this show will do something fascinating with it (at least it's not Doomsday, I guess)
A new EP of re-recorded Jem tracks dropped, with Britta Phillips recreating the singing voice of Jem again for four of the classics
And to end on a suitable bit of cheerful absurdity, Hasbro are releasing a Scooby Doo/Transformers Collaboration. The Mystery Machine becomes Mysterious Prime, with four interchangeable heads (Though sadly, probably not Headmasters) and Automutt a robotic Great Dane that turns into a box of Scooby Snacks.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Well, the USA's 250th Anniversary happened... I guess. The least unifying speech imaginable from Trump didn't start until 11pm and, as such, the fireworks display didn't start until the 5th of July. Though the scale of it meant that they're still cleaning the detritus out of the Reflecting Swamp and most of the rest of the city centre (I mean detritus from the fireworks, not the speech, just to be clear).
There were also the 200 or so fully masked, white supremacists walking through the city with Confederate flags, for that real "We are one people" vibe.
Trump also managed to drag the World Cup into another mire, by personally intervening in the case of an American player being given a red card, which means an automatic send off an one game suspension, which was then reversed by FIFA (an unheard of event). The global reaction was, shall we say, not supportive of this move, even if America then did go on to lose the match and be out of the competition.
In good news on the UK front, Nigel Farage is under multiple investigations for accusations of not being open about his finances, which seem dubious to say the least.
My Adventures with Superman gave us another new Super, who looks like Kon-El, sounds like Kon-El and acts like Kon-El, but is actually Jon-El... well, a Jon Kent from the future.
Given "Kara adapts to modern day Earth" is already a story arc, this seems an odd choice. We do get confirmation of the big bad though, Hank Henshaw's Cyborg Superman... a character I wish I had ever actually found interesting, but maybe this show will do something fascinating with it (at least it's not Doomsday, I guess)
A new EP of re-recorded Jem tracks dropped, with Britta Phillips recreating the singing voice of Jem again for four of the classics
And to end on a suitable bit of cheerful absurdity, Hasbro are releasing a Scooby Doo/Transformers Collaboration. The Mystery Machine becomes Mysterious Prime, with four interchangeable heads (Though sadly, probably not Headmasters) and Automutt a robotic Great Dane that turns into a box of Scooby Snacks.
Gatchaman: Red Impulse #2 is infiltration.
Jul. 5th, 2026 04:27 pmthanekos posting in scans_dailyThe series is a solicited four issues, a focus on the subtitular support squadron.
Issue #1's a solo story for the squadron's leader of the same alias, of course bringing up his secretly being related to one of the Science Ninja Team.
Issue #2's Red Impulse and one of his two wingmen from the series.
( Red Impulse and the other one is this month's issue #3. )
Issue #1's a solo story for the squadron's leader of the same alias, of course bringing up his secretly being related to one of the Science Ninja Team.
Issue #2's Red Impulse and one of his two wingmen from the series.
( Red Impulse and the other one is this month's issue #3. )
June 2026 Newsletter, Volume 212
Jul. 5th, 2026 08:40 amotw_news_feedI. OTW CODE OF CONDUCT
On June 7, 2026, Board approved a new OTW Code of Conduct. This policy comes as the result of months of collaboration between Board Assistants Team, Organizational Culture Roadmap, and Volunteers & Recruiting (including their Internal Complaint and Conflict Resolution subcommittee).
This policy update was a goal on the internal culture roadmap created and announced in 2024. As part of the update process, the policy underwent several rounds of review, including one by all OTW volunteers. Thank you to all OTW volunteers who provided feedback!
Volunteers & Recruiting is now at work rolling out the updated policy and getting agreements from all OTW volunteers.
II. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN
In June, we celebrated AO3 reaching 11 million registered users. \o/
Accessibility, Design & Technology (AD&T) deployed several bug fixes, including quality-of-life and security improvements. They’ve also continued to make progress on their ongoing work to internationalize AO3.
Open Doors announced that Kraith Collected, a collection of Star Trek zines set in the Kraith universe, will be added to AO3. This month, their import assistants also finished importing all unfilled prompts from the Library of Moria!
In May, Policy & Abuse (PAC) received 4,814 tickets; Support received 4,125 tickets; and User Response Translation completed 77 requests from PAC and Support.
In June, Policy & Abuse worked with AD&T to publish updates to the Terms of Service FAQ, which includes new answers to common questions like how to find out what’s allowed on AO3. You can view the differences here! We hope you find it helpful!
Tag Wrangling wrangled over 650,000 tags in May, or approximately 1,400 tags per wrangling volunteer. They also collaborated with Communications to publish a Tumblr post about updates to the Assassin’s Creed fandom tree and a news post announcement of “No Fandom” changes, including 23 new canonicals.
III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW
Communications also established an OTW RedNote (小红书) account in June. This will be a second platform for us to connect with Chinese-speaking fandom (along with our existing Weibo account). If you use RedNote or know anyone who’d be interested in OTW announcements in Chinese on the platform, pass it along!
At the end of May, Fanlore wrapped up their Public Do-May, a public domain fandoms-themed month. They also ran their annual Bingo Challenge with tasty pastry-themed badges for editors to collect.
On June 15, 2026, TWC released Issue 48, a special issue on “Disability and Fandom” guest edited by Olivia Johnston Riley and Lauren Rouse. The essays in this issue focus on disability both as a marginalized identity and as a critical scholarly approach to fandom and fan studies.
IV. GOVERNANCE
Elections announced candidates for the 2026 OTW Board. This year’s election will be uncontested, as there are three candidates running for four open seats. Platforms for each candidate can be viewed on the Elections website. They also provided the public an opportunity to submit questions to the candidates which will be published soon, refer to the Elections Timeline page for specific dates. Translation is working alongside Elections to make election-related content available in as many languages as possible.
Meanwhile, Development & Membership has begun working on premiums for the October Membership Drive.
Board, Board Assistants Team, and Organizational Culture Roadmap also continued to collaborate on developing procedures to handle compromised volunteer accounts and other situations that necessitate urgent access removal.
Board also approved signing-on to a letter opposing the overbroad NO FAKES Act, which could negatively impact fan art and artists.
V. OUR VOLUNTEERS
From May 24 to June 22, Volunteers & Recruiting received 204 new requests and completed 189, leaving them with 87 open requests (including induction and removal tasks listed below). As of June 22, 2026, the OTW has 1,037 volunteers. \o/ Recent personnel movements are listed below.
New AD&T Volunteers: marcus8448 (Senior Software Developer)
New Communications Volunteers: Caitlynne, callmeri, and 4 other Posting Volunteers, belana, Bianca Sevidal, and Xiao Yi (Social Media Moderators)
New Elections Volunteers: Jahnavi and 1 other Communications Specialist, 1 Candidate Liaison, and 1 Chair Track Volunteer
New Fanlore Volunteers: Hobgirl, Minty, and 2 other Chair Track Volunteers
New Legal Volunteers: asatistic (Paralegal) and Kat M (Trademark Specialist)
New Open Doors Volunteers: elusivefalsehoods (Import Assistant)
New Policy & Abuse Volunteers: Anam (Volunteer)
New Tag Wrangling Volunteers: Beth B, Lululu, and tomurai (Supervisors)
New Translation Volunteers: artemissmythe, Karasu, madinator, and 3 other Volunteer Managers, and 1 Translator
Departing AD&T Volunteers: marcus8448 (Software Developer)
Departing Communications Volunteers: Aditi Paul, Caitlynne, callmeri, and 2 other Media Outreach Volunteers, 1 Chair Assistant, 1 Posting Specialist, 1 Report Writer, and 1 Social Media Moderator
Departing Communications News Post Moderation Volunteers: 1 News Post Moderator
Departing Fanlore Volunteers: 1 Policy & Admin
Departing Open Doors Volunteers: 2 Technical Volunteers and 3 Import Assistants
Departing Policy & Abuse Volunteers: 1 Chair Assistant
Departing Tag Wrangling Volunteers: Erica L., Wond3rland, and 4 other Tag Wranglers
Departing Translation Volunteers: 1 Translation Volunteer Manager, Alisé, and 3 other Translators
Departing User Response Translation Volunteers: Kseniia and 1 other Translator
Departing Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers: 2 Volunteers
For more information about our committees and their regular activities, you can refer to the committee pages on our website.
Happy 4th of July, Treacherous Colonials!
Jul. 4th, 2026 11:53 amicon_uk posting in scans_dailyAhem.. Excuse me, I have no idea where THAT came from...
I did wonder if I should make a 4th of July post and wasn't sure what to post, but then, the gods of media smiled upon me.
Now I get to make what it simultaneously, a 4th of July post, an "enjoy the heatwave" post AND a "THIS got through Marvel's approval process?" post
Also the embodiment of our motto "It's only subtext if it's subtle"
( Captain America - Sentinel of the Beach - and then some! )
I did wonder if I should make a 4th of July post and wasn't sure what to post, but then, the gods of media smiled upon me.
Now I get to make what it simultaneously, a 4th of July post, an "enjoy the heatwave" post AND a "THIS got through Marvel's approval process?" post
Also the embodiment of our motto "It's only subtext if it's subtle"
( Captain America - Sentinel of the Beach - and then some! )
AO3 Releases 0.9.469 – 0.9.473: Change Log
Jul. 3rd, 2026 12:08 pmotw_news_feedIn April, we deployed improvements to tag search and several security fixes. We also made some progress on making more parts of AO3 translatable. And of course, AO3 officially exited open beta in April as well!
In addition to the milestones above, we also had several new contributors to the AO3 codebase this month. Thanks and welcome to Aya Sayadi, bre-nana, Jesse Malark, kinnerapriyap, Kylie, and Ling-Yi!
Credits
- Coders: Aya Sayadi, Bilka, bre-nana, Brian Austin, caitlin, Danaël / Rever, EchoEkhi, Jesse Malark, kinnerapriyap, Kylie, Ling-Yi, marcus8448, not-varram, ömer faruk, sarken, Scott Venkataraman, Tom Milligan, Xiang Rassul Li
- Code reviewers: Bilka, Brian Austin, james_, marcus8448, redsummernight
- Testers: Berix, Bilka, Brian Austin, C. Ryan Smith, calamario, choux, Dre, james_, lydia-theda, marcus8448, megidola, mumble, ömer faruk, pk2317, Tal, therealmorticia, TinaOe
Details
0.9.469
On April 2, we removed the “beta” note from our site header! End of an era.
0.9.470
On April 3, we deployed a quick security fix.
- [AO3-7372] – We made sure that when removing images from comments we didn’t leave potentially dangerous HTML in their placeholders.
0.9.471
We deployed a couple more fixes related to image embeds on April 4.
- [AO3-7373], [AO3-7374] – We made sure that when we disable embedded images in comments, the restrictions can’t be bypassed with creative HTML.
0.9.472
Our April 13 deploy included an improvement to our tag search and a bunch of other miscellaneous fixes.
- [AO3-7244] – We prepared the help pop-ups about our rich text editor and HTML mode for translation.
- [AO3-7283] – We added a configuration option for the number of shards that Elasticsearch data for pseuds and tags is stored in.
- [AO3-7293] – We added two more options to the Wrangling Status section of our Tag Search.
- [AO3-7326], [AO3-7327] – Your statistics page and your preferences page now have your username in the browser’s page title!
- [AO3-7339] – The way we’d structured the translatable portions of our password reset emails wasn’t compatible with future translation work, so we made sure the wording will work in different languages.
- [AO3-7348] – We removed the word “Archive” from the success message “You are now using the default Archive skin again!”
- [AO3-7355] – To build the dropdown menu for each user, we now only query the database once if the user has special permissions that require another menu item, and then save that information. Much nicer to the database servers!
- [AO3-7359] – When a site admin is viewing their two-step verification backup codes, there is now a button at the bottom of the page to copy the codes to the clipboard.
- [AO3-7360] – Updated a link on our Privacy Policy page.
- [AO3-7368], [AO3-7369] – The browser page title now reflects whether you’re on the page listing our public site skins or public work skins.
- [AO3-7370], [AO3-7371] – Gem updates.
0.9.473
Another grab bag of fixes and improvements went out on April 24.
- [AO3-6229] – We now make sure the 404 Page Not Found error always looks like it’s part of AO3, and not just a blank white page.
- [AO3-6281] – On pages listing gifts for recipients without an AO3 account, apostrophes in a recipient’s name wouldn’t be properly displayed. Now it all looks tidy.
- [AO3-6531] – On some works, if there were replies to a now-deleted comment, the whole comment section wouldn’t load. We fixed the way we handle deleted comments in a thread, so everything should display as expected.
- [AO3-6604] – Admins can create banners (the informative blue, red, or yellow text boxes at the top of all pages) and save them for later, or delete outdated ones. It’s now impossible to accidentally delete the banner currently in use.
- [AO3-7080] – If an account was suspended, we now make sure the email address associated with that account can’t be used to leave guest comments.
- [AO3-7140] – When creating a draft work to eventually fulfill an assignment, the page listing your assignments would display some contradictory information about the status of your work. (Is it a draft? Was it accidentally posted?) The work title now contains the word “(Draft)” and we display the date it was created.
- [AO3-7165] – We now make sure you can pick a different site skin from the list of options in the footer even if you have disabled JavaScript.
- [AO3-7295] – We cleaned up some old code that would be unsafe to rerun now.
- [AO3-7322] – When a tag wrangler visits the tag wrangling assignment page, the filter selection now defaults to their name.
- [AO3-7333] – The page listing your challenge claims now has your username in the browser’s page title!
- [AO3-7351] – If a character or relationship tag belonged to several fandoms (such as the book and the movie version of a franchise), and you entered all the applicable fandoms when posting your work, the character or relationship would show up several times in the autocomplete suggestions. The autocomplete has now calmed down a bit and won’t show you duplicates of the same tag anymore.
- [AO3-7377], [AO3-7381] – Gem updates.