The Organization for Transformative Works

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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Contacting the OTW

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In order to assist our volunteers in getting fans to the OTW team best able to help them, questions will not be answered via this account.  Instead please direct all questions or information you’re sharing with us to our contact form https://www.transformativeworks.org/contact_us/

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transformativeworks

Mod Remi is off to Hacker Summer Camp*

What this means

  • The tumblr askbox is Closed until they return (as usual - AO3 Questions should go to AO3 Support, or maybe the Policy & Abuse Team depending on the issue. Questions about other OTW things should go to the OTW Contact Form)
  • The Queue will be running, and I will still be haunting the tags and replies.

If you (or someone you know) is going to be at BSidesLV or DEFCON34, hit the readmore and learn how to acquire swag!

*The OTW is not tabling at these conferences - it is just Mod Remi and their bag full of stickers and badge ribbons.

<3 Mod Remi

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transformativeworks

DAY 1 OF HACKER SUMMER CAMP!

Here are my accessories! I will be wearing these for BSidesLV AND for DEFCON34 (but I'll make another announcement when defcon starts)


a photo of a pair of white and purple sequined cat ears, a black pouch with the DEFCON34 logo, a canvas pouch with an AO3 sticker on it, a blue and subtle!rainbow sling bag with a they/them/their pin on it.ALT
transformativeworks

Mod Remi REVEALED.

Find me at DEFCON today and get some OTW stickers! (I will likely be running around but usually return to the second floor on the left side)

photo of a white person with pink and rainbow hair, knitted white cat ears, a knit blue tank top, a blue skirt, and a lot of trinkets around their waistALT
fanlore-wiki
fanlore-wiki

Fanwork Friday: Dagon (fanzine)

The text “Fanlore Fanwork Friday: Dagon” and “a 1980s British fanzine dedicated to the writings of H.P. Lovecraft and Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.” Inside the “Dagon” logo is cover artwork from the original zine.ALT

Happy Fanwork Friday! We’re spotlighting the award-winning fanzine Dagon, which centered around the Cthulhu Mythos and Call of Cthulhu RPG, then broadened its scope to include other H.P. Lovecraft and weird fiction works. Over its seven-year run through the 1980s, it enjoyed contributions from several notable horror writers and Lovecraftian scholars.

According to creator Carl Ford, the first issue was made for friends, with ten copies printed in total. By the zine’s final issue, that number had grown to around 500. Regular columns included Mythos fiction recommendations, writings by Call of Cthulhu designer Sandy Peterson, and reader-suggested improvements for the RPG.

Have you read Dagon? Were you there for its run? We’d love to hear about it on Fanlore!

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90108s
90108s

A Project Hail Mary illustration. The artwork consists of a 5x7 grid, with smaller illustrations inside the squares. The smaller illustrations include: the xenonite Tau Ceti system; the Hail Mary drawn across three blocks; Grace’s bicycle helmet; Adrian’s green auroras; the Blip-C capsule; the crocheted Earth; the small xenonite figure; Rocky drawn across three blocks; the Petrova Line; the rainbow from Grace’s blanket; the shoreline on Erid; the Taumoeba collector; the green Skittles pack; and Astrophage as seen through a microscope. The squares differ in background colors. There are “empty” squares that reveal Grace on a red-orange background from beneath the small illustrations, only his side profile visible. He’s smiling softly. The overall artwork has an off-white background. The text above the grid reads “PROJECT HAIL MARY” and the text below it reads “LIFE IS REASON.” There are stars at each corner of the artwork.ALT

i commend your body to the stars
[ get it as a print here! ]

[ID: A Project Hail Mary illustration. The artwork consists of a 5x7 grid, with smaller illustrations inside the squares. The smaller illustrations include: the xenonite Tau Ceti system; the Hail Mary drawn across three blocks; Grace’s bicycle helmet; Adrian’s green auroras; the Blip-C capsule; the crocheted Earth; the small xenonite figure; Rocky drawn across three blocks; the Petrova Line; the rainbow from Grace’s blanket; the shoreline on Erid; the Taumoeba collector; the green Skittles pack; and Astrophage as seen through a microscope. The squares differ in background colors. There are “empty” squares that reveal Grace on a red-orange background from beneath the small illustrations, only his side profile visible. He’s smiling softly. The overall artwork has an off-white background. The text above the grid reads “PROJECT HAIL MARY” and the text below it reads “LIFE IS REASON.” There are stars at each corner of the artwork. END ID]

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void-botanist
void-botanist: “derinthescarletpescatarian: “Protip you can do this with writing too ” [Image description: a two-panel comic titled “My Art Evolution”. In the first panel, labeled “Past”, a beelike person frowns at a drawing of a happy sun and says...
derinthescarletpescatarian

Protip you can do this with writing too

void-botanist

[Image description: a two-panel comic titled “My Art Evolution”. In the first panel, labeled “Past”, a beelike person frowns at a drawing of a happy sun and says “Oh no. It isn’t perfect no one can ever see this”. In the right panel, labeled “Present”, the person holds up the same drawing, and with a sly jokester expression (which includes a nose), says “He he. Who wants to see my new eye crime”. /End description.]

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philosoverted

Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is

systlin

Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.

gallusrostromegalus

His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.

bagginshield

gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther

hubris-i

#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"

fridge246

tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc. 

wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades

jemthecrystalgem

Sorry it’s what to elves

dvandom

So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth).  But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven.  To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk.  So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.