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I. SPOTLIGHT ON OPEN DOORS

Open Doors is preparing to import ArtisticAlley, the last FictionAlley house. Unfortunately, they've only been able to retrieve thumbnail versions of the artworks. They're currently asking creators if they can provide copies of the full versions. If you're an ArtisticAlley creator and can provide your full artworks—or would like Open Doors to do anything other than import the thumbnail copies—please check your emails and reply, or get in touch with Open Doors directly. They will begin importing after 30 June.

In May, Open Doors also announced the import of multifandom fanfiction archive Mediafans and its hosted Duncan/Methos zine Futures Without End. They also completed the semi-automated portion of the import of HBO Oz archive Unit B, with more works being imported manually in the coming months. These additional works comprise Big Bang fics, the Unit B Yahoo Group, and the Cellblock 5 Yahoo Group. Thank you to everyone on Open Doors' technical and administrative teams who contributed!

II. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN

Accessibility, Design & Technology worked on more security updates as well as quality-of-life bug fixes and AO3 internationalization work. Thank you to the coders for those fixes and to the testers for helping with swift releases! They also published release notes for March.

In April, Policy & Abuse (PAC) received 4,358 tickets. PAC also worked with Communications to publish a news post spotlighting ways to keep your AO3 account secure as part of World Password Day. Also in April, Support received 4,325 tickets. User Response Translation completed 77 requests from PAC and Support.

Tag Wrangling wrangled over 638,000 tags in April, or approximately 1,300 tags per wrangling volunteer. They also collaborated with Communications to publish a Tumblr post about a new Avatar: The Last Airbender fandom metatag and a news post announcement of 21 new "No Fandom" tags.

III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW

Fanlore celebrated Public Domain Fandoms, or Public DoMay, on their socials all throughout the month! Check out their Bluesky, Tumblr, and Twitter/X for fun featured articles and posts.

Their annual Bingo Challenge also will begin on June 16 and will end June 29! It's open to new and experienced editors alike, and everyone is encouraged to join in!

Legal continues to answer internal and external questions and monitor the changing legal situation for privacy and free speech.

TWC continued to work on their planned issues related to Music Fandom and Latin American Fandoms. May was the deadline for nominations for the Fans of Color Research Prize, which recognizes the best article about fans and/or fandoms of color published in TWC. The next issue will be a general issue published in September.

IV. GOVERNANCE

Elections continues to prepare for the 2026 OTW Board of Directors election, which will fill four seats (three full term seats and one partial term seat).

If you'd like to vote this year, you must become an OTW member by June 30. To become a member, you must donate at least $10 USD in one donation and check the yes circle under "Do you want to be an OTW member?" on the donation form.

Board, Board Assistants Team, and Organizational Culture Roadmap spent the month collaborating on projects, including sharing the Code of Conduct draft for review from OTW volunteers and working on tasks related to closing out the OTW Crisis Management Plan project.

Finance completed the audit of the OTW's 2024 financials and began preparing our 2025 financials to be audited.

Development & Membership worked on wrap up from the April Membership Drive and began thinking ahead to the next one in October.

V. OUR VOLUNTEERS

In May, Volunteers & Recruiting opened recruitment for four roles for the Fanlore, Communications, and Open Doors committees.

From April 22 to May 23, Volunteers & Recruiting received 202 new requests, and completed 177, leaving them with 70 open requests. As of May 23, 2026, the OTW has 1,040 volunteers. \o/ Recent personnel movements are listed below.

New Communications Volunteers: 2 Event Coordinators and 1 Fanhackers Volunteer
New Open Doors Volunteers: 1 Senior Technical Advisor and 1 Digital Collections Intern
New Policy & Abuse Volunteers: Arashi, Bellis, Citrine, lazyredheeler, Rika G, SaltDove, ZoeT, and 3 other Volunteers
New User Response Translation Volunteers: 1 Translator

Departing Committee Chairs/Leads: 1 Policy & Abuse Chair and 1 Organizational Culture Roadmap Head
Departing Communications Volunteers: 1 Fanhackers Lead and 2 Convention Specialists
Departing Fanlore Volunteers: 1 Gardener
Departing Finance Volunteers: 1 Financial Analyst
Departing Open Doors Volunteers: 1 Senior Technical Volunteer and 1 Import Assistant
Departing Policy & Abuse Volunteers: 1 Volunteer
Departing Tag Wrangling Volunteers: Allonym and 15 other Tag Wrangling Volunteers
Departing Translation Volunteers: Katarina Hjarpe and 1 other Translator
Departing Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers: 1 Volunteer

For more information about our committees and their regular activities, you can refer to the committee pages on our website.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, OTW Legal Advocacy, and Transformative Works and Cultures. We are a fan-run, donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

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conuly

Morning, the glistening
grass draws me into the day,
as if new meant separate
from the day before—

and I, having that human part
that can be transfixed by bauble or blade,
limp out again, a believer,
into memory’s emerald glint.

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is that it was too big for the planter, and now it's broken the pot and we may not be able to save the plant :(

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torachan

1. I decided to work from home today, originally because we had an appointment to take the new car to the dealership so they could put some sort of protective coating on it and I thought I might go with Carla and then take the opportunity to walk back home as my midday walk, but then in the morning I heard back from one of the electricians I'd emailed yesterday and he was able to come by to do an estimate this afternoon, so I'm glad I had already decided to stay home! (I ended up not going with Carla after all, but I did take a nice bike ride in the afternoon instead.)

2. The prices the guy quoted were very reasonable and he's just charging based on the distance to run the wires, not that plus another fee, as some other places were, so I decided to go with him. He helped me pick out a charger and I ordered that and it will arrive on Wednesday, so we set an install date of Thursday. The car still has over 50% charge, so even if I drive it to work tomorrow and/or Wednesday, as I think I might, I shouldn't need to use a public charger before we get our own installed.

3. Molly's such a sweetie girl.

conuly

So excited!

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torachan

I woke up around six and had breakfast in the hotel, then walked to the monorail station around seven and got to the park at 7:20 to line up. As with previous DisneySea trips, I made sure to get in the far right line so that Carla could easily find me when she joined me later.

( So many pictures, but not quite enough to break into two posts! )

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They are constructing a new fire station across the street. The empty houses they demolished to make space were a hazard and an eyesore, so it was lovely to see them gone! On the other hand, they cleared most of the trees on those lots, and we didn't really realize in advance that once they did that the entire north face of our house would be exposed to view down the highway all the way across the roundabout, even though our house is a block away from the highway. The view from all the windows on this side of our house is now full of neon signs, which makes it extremely ugly. I suppose the absence of the empty houses, which were ruining the view in a different way, is probably still worth it, though. And we're enjoying following the progress of the project. The site has been leveled and excavated and filled with gravel and groundcloths and now they're pile-driving.

The first episode of the new season of Interview with the Vampire, which has now had its name changed to The Vampire Lestat to reflect which books they are adapting, is out! We watched it yesterday. People were saying that it had 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, which I think is deserved, but still surprising. It was a very good first episode, and a very fun time.

Wax's brothers are planning to help us build a catio for Wax's birthday, and she wants to put it on the balcony, which currently doesn't exist. You might remember that we were in the midst of removing the rotten boards from the steel frame of our balcony nearly two years ago when Snookums died and we had to part with Anubis. Last summer we did not do any work on the balcony, so it is still just the steel frame waiting to be rustproofed. I suppose it's good if this spurs us to finally attaching the new decking to the balcony. On the other hand...

The original wooden front door to the house has been getting worse and worse and now it's so bad that the screws holding the handle fell off because the wood is rotted. Bits (nails from the outside face, splinters of wood around the improperly installed locks from the previous owner) are falling off it.

This is not a weatherproofing or security emergency, because the proper door is between the cold porch and the house - modern, insulated, with a lock. This outer door just needs to open and close and looks cute. But on the other hand, we do want to keep the rain out of the cold porch.

We're gonna have to do something about this door, but we don't really have the skills or the collection of power tools, or enough money to splurge on having it refurbished by professionals. (A couple of years ago before it was this bad, Wax's brother and SIL were here with her mom and stepdad and her stepdad - that is, Wax's brother's wife's stepdad - was like "You should let me fix your door! It really needs it! I know just what to do!!" and we were like "No, haha, it's fine!" because we don't really know him all that well etc. OTOH we translated his doctoral thesis for him and he was able to get several papers out of it, which I also helped him translate (for money though, but he was grateful); maybe that's enough. We should've said yes, because it got WAY WORSE after that. The door presumably needs to have multiple dutchmen, as well as needing to be thoroughly stripped and the outer layer of wooden paneling probably replaced at minimum (totally possible that more pieces of it - like the outer vertical frame piece - will need replaced as well). Even when I was thinking that it could be our main project over Wax's summer vacation this year I was not sanguine about our ability to fix all these things on the door, but if we are actually spending that time on the balcony...? And yet we have to be able to open and close this door... if only by removing the lockbox so it no longer latches. Replacing this door would probably be even harder than fixing it, though, because in 1950 when our house was built they weren't standard sizes, and the house is stucco, which would make any change in the doorframe non-trivial.

I've been struggling for weeks to get together the energy and executive function to bake cookies. I haven't baked cookies for... maybe a year? I keep getting tripped up by the need to take butter out to soften several hours before you start. And today I FINALLY did it! I haven't decided what kind of cookies to make yet though.

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torachan

1. I rode my bike to the store this morning and decided to stop at See's Candies while I was out. I have a gift card from Christmas, but couldn't remember if I'd used it at all or not, and it turns out I hadn't! So I not only got free chocolates today, but still have $8 and change left on the card for another time.

2. Carla made tuna salad for dinner and we had it on some delicious fresh ciabatta bread from the Italian deli that we picked up yesterday. Theirs is pretty much the only ciabatta I've ever liked.

3. I sent emails to a few electricians today to see about getting a charger installed, so hopefully will hear back soon and we can get that done. Meanwhile, I did download an app to see where charging stations are in the neighborhood. There don't seem to be as many random ones at grocery stores like there used to be, so the only larger ones nearby are Tesla ones. One of them does allow non-Teslas to also use the chargers, so I can use that if necessary. There's also one a couple blocks from work that I could use.

4. Tuxie!

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There's a solo TTRPG: Cage of Sand, "A time loop horror TTRPG for one or more players." I got it in the Racial Justice Bundle back in 2020 and promptly ignored it for several years (like most of the 12,000+ games I've picked up in game bundles).

Recently, I picked up a tarot deck specifically for solo TTRPGs: the Calandra Tarot (it's pretty but not one I'd want to use for divination), and went looking through my archives for a tarot-based solo game that wasn't a hack of Anamnesis. Not that there's anything wrong with Anamnesis - I like it very much; I've tried it; I've made my own hack of it. But I wanted to try something else, and after some sorting of the Big Spreadsheet o Game Bundles, I found this one.

( So I decided to try it )

torachan

1. I got some cardamom buns from the farmers market this morning. Tried a sample at the stall and they were delicious, but haven't eaten the ones I bought yet. There was another stall that had really good smelling strawberries, so I got some berries and am planning on having those with the buns in a little bit. I think it will be a good combo!

2. I finished up a puzzle this morning. This was a nice one but not one I think I'll keep.

3. We have a new car!

If you missed my other recent posts talking about what we were leaning towards, it's a Hyundai Ioniq 5. I'm so excited to make the switch to an EV. We've still got the Telluride, which is gas, but we won't be using it as much. I'll use the new car for my commute and when we do longer drives like Disneyland, and leave the Telluride for when Carla needs a car when I'm at work. But with the ebikes as well, there should be less around town driving, too.

Now we just need to get an electrician in to set up a charger at home.

4. Speaking of the bikes, I got some smaller plastic containers to store our Christmas decorations, so that got rid of the giant tub that was sticking out from the shelf in the shed and now there's more room for the bikes in the center.

5. We went to the dealership around eleven or so but of course it took several hours to get through everything, so it was like three when we got out of there and we were so hungry. But it's right near the Italian deli, so we stopped off there on the way home and got sandwiches.

6. And then because buying the car had been emotionally exhausting, even if not physically so, we decided to order dinner rather than cook and got curry from Coco Ichibanya, so today was a very good food day.

7. This may be one of the cutest pictures of Gemma I've ever taken. Definitely one of the cutest!

watersword

Okay, now it's summer.

Got an enormous bag of spinach at the farmer's market this morning, contemplated having popsicles for lunch, and after dinner went for a walk down to the cemetery, got ice cream, and wandered over to the garden. A perfect 1.5-mile stroll. The spinach will be turned into palak paneer, I will once again have an opportunity for popsicle meals later this week, and my evening routine for the next three months is sorted. (Well, in future I will try to make it to the cemetery before they close the gates, although I did glimpse squirrels joyously converging on the now-deserted road through the graves, so at least I have learned a lesson about what happens in the cemetery at dusk.)

torachan

We decided to go down to Disneyland tonight for dinner rather than tomorrow. It was a bit more crowded than usual due to grad nite, but not too bad.

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torachan

1. Today is National Donut Day. My work schedule just happened to be such that I had time to ride my bike to Sidecar this morning and get us some donuts. I recently signed up for their app and got a voucher for a free donut and drink for doing so, so I used that today, plus if you made a purchase today with their rewards program, you got some sort of free offer, and mine turned out to be another one for a free drink, so I have that to use in the future.

2. We went to Disneyland for dinner today. It was a bit on the crowded side; they've got grad nite going for another week or so and today is a grad nite day so there were more teenagers than usual (grad nite used to be an after-hours event only but in recent years they've added higher tiers that also include daytime tickets plus the after-hours event, so there are large groups of teens throughout the day), but we still had a nice dinner.

3. This morning there was the beginnings of an ant invasion, but I seem to have stopped it in time and we did not come home to more ants this evening, which I had been worried about.

4. You wouldn't think this was the most comfortable bag to lie on, but apparently for a kitty, it's great!

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conuly

Which I can sum up for you as "They went on one date a decade and a half ago and have been obsessed with each other ever since. Also, something terrible happened to Boston and everybody therein."

(It got sent to the moon. I'm just going to assume everybody died almost before they had time to realize.)

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Hail the Wanderer! Anthony Head, you will be missed.

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May 2026 Newsletter, Volume 211

I. SPOTLIGHT ON OPEN DOORS

II. ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN

III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW

IV. GOVERNANCE

V. OUR VOLUNTEERS

Firmament of Glass by Vievee Francis

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2026 Disneyland Trip #17 (4/11/26) Tokyo DisneySea

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