UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Reading) Here's my destiny, to stand at a podium in a blazer and say, sorry half of Manhattan got smushed (ph). Millions more drop into appreciate fan stories and podfics, like this one about a hapless woman who works doing public relations for Marvel Comics superheroes. ULABY: The Archive of Our Own has more than 2 million registered users around the world. We don't tell you, if you liked this, you might like that. Here's what she said when I asked her who uses AO3.ĬOPPA: I don't know because we built it not to collect your data. It's what the Internet was supposed to be, says Francesca Coppa. ULABY: A community that created the space when they realized huge corporations were trying to monetize and track their fandom. MUNTER: It results in a very egalitarian sort of community where everybody is in there on the same footing. It's funded entirely by donations, which means, says Munter, you don't have to buy your way in. It's one of the most visited websites in the world, and it accepts absolutely no advertising or grants. ULABY: The Archive of Our Own is not for profit. LYNN MUNTER: Stories tell us who we are and what we're trying to become in our lives. She lives in Duluth, Minn., delivers newspapers and contributes stories to the Archive of Our Own. Or, if you care about who owns and who gets to tell stories, says Lynn Munter. ULABY: If you want to hear people having an absolute ball with their imaginations in podfics like this one - stories, videos - the Archive of Our Own is where to be. We're going to be cutting our show a little short today because, as you may have heard, there is an apocalypse happening. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Reading) Hello, everyone. Don't Tell Me! during a zombie apocalypse? What if NPR's Peter Sagal broadcast Wait Wait. What if they met up with Doctor Who, or Sherlock Holmes, and started solving mysteries? Or. Imagine a hot relationship between "Star Trek's" Kirk and Spock. ULABY: Historically, fan fiction has been about big, imaginative leaps. Making up fiction about characters you love is beyond not useful. Coppa says women, generally speaking, are expected to be useful. That reference to a room of our own by Virginia Woolf is not accidental. ULABY: That's Francesca Coppa - geek girl, university professor and an architect of the Archive of Our Own. And as geek girls, we were on Usenet back when the Internet was two cans and a piece of string. And if you want to write off fan fiction as women writing love stories between TV characters, how about showing a little respect?įRANCESCA COPPA: Fan fiction writers are some of the oldest denizens of the Internet 'cause we're geek girls. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: The Archive of Our Own, AO3, is all about people, mostly women, writing fan fiction. This weekend, it is up for a Hugo Award, one of the biggest awards in science fiction. It has millions of users and was created out of deep dissatisfaction with ad-based social networking. It's the fan fiction site Archive of Our Own. And now we bring you the story of a different kind of online community.
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