Just wanted to add my voice here. I'm another anime/manga fan who's frustrated with the general feeling of being unwanted/excluded by the OTW and AO3. I use AO3; I post all my fic there; I volunteered as a tag wrangler for a while. I really want to believe in the mission of OTW, but I don't feel like I'm actually part of that mission.
An anecdote, to back that up:
I actually was going to submit nominations for the server names. But then I was reading through the nominations already submitted and saw someone who'd submitted a list of names, names like John and Jack and Daniel and Sam, no last names, with the appended comment that these names were generic enough that they'd show up in every fandom to some degree.
And I just kind of gave up then. Because none of those names appear in my fandoms.
It's hard to feel like my fandoms are valued, you know? When stuff like this keeps happening. And even harder to care about cheerleading and promoting AO3 when I know that 139 of the 300-some fics in my current primary fandom are mine. And that the numbers of fics in the Asian media fandoms are dwarfed by the western media fandoms. It's just hard to bother, because even when y'all are saying you value diversity, your actions are showing that you don't. Not really.
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An anecdote, to back that up:
I actually was going to submit nominations for the server names. But then I was reading through the nominations already submitted and saw someone who'd submitted a list of names, names like John and Jack and Daniel and Sam, no last names, with the appended comment that these names were generic enough that they'd show up in every fandom to some degree.
And I just kind of gave up then. Because none of those names appear in my fandoms.
It's hard to feel like my fandoms are valued, you know? When stuff like this keeps happening. And even harder to care about cheerleading and promoting AO3 when I know that 139 of the 300-some fics in my current primary fandom are mine. And that the numbers of fics in the Asian media fandoms are dwarfed by the western media fandoms. It's just hard to bother, because even when y'all are saying you value diversity, your actions are showing that you don't. Not really.