Oh guys, oh guys oh guys ohguysohguys
I found out a thing yesterday that's making me so very very very excited
And just in case you're the type who'd get excited too and like me two days ago you also don't know this important fact:
The Organization for @transformativeworks (OTW; the parent org of AO3) publishes a peer-reviewed academic journal, completely open-access, i.e. free for you to read
A twice-a-year online-only Gold Open Access peer-reviewed journal focusing on media and fan studies, broadly conceived.
Cancel all my appointments forever this is where I'm going to be for the foreseeable lifetime gfasdafdhfgadgd
This post brought to you by "beardo needs to write a literature review about a certain number of a certain type of peer-reviewed paper, on otherwise whatever topics he likes, vaguely contained inside the concept of of 'library or information services', and yesterday he Found His Topic"
I'm so happy everyone, I'm going to write so many academic papers about fanfiction my lecturers are going to get sick of me 🥹🤩
I am Aziraphale rn
Relatedly, I've also just learnt that Dr Lyn Robinson, co-author of a book that's mandatory reading for like 80% of the courses in the academic programme I'm enrolled in, has published research about AO3. Not only does she seem to be into the same sort of information science stuff that I am, she's also researched fanfiction. She's my new idol