Signal Boost: OTW election reflections

[branchandroot]

starlady has, in addition to writing up her own cogent summaries of why she will be voting the way she will, posted a list of links to other people writing similar reflections.

I strongly encourage anime/manga fans who have any interest in or contact with the OTW to read these, and that goes twice if you're eligible to vote in this election.

Comments

[annotated_em]

You know what really bums me out? That despite having donated, I won't be eligible, because I donated after the 17th. Because I didn't care enough about what was going on with the OTW to donate before the candidates started making their platforms clear via chats and interviews. Meh.

[branchandroot]

Argh. Yeah, that kind of sucks. *wry* Especially the not caring, because there's so much fuckwittery.

[annotated_em]

It's really sort of indicative of how deep the problems run: no reason to donate until after it becomes apparent that there's a reason to care, but then it's too late. Bah.

[foxinthestars]

I'll be voting. Having not known much at all before the election cycle but followed the candidate chats and questions, I am planning to vote for Betsy R., partly because I do think legal is so essential, and partly because when the question of anime/manga outreach was asked, her suggestion of supporting fan translation work impressed me a lot more than the talk of graphic design and skin capabilities that was going around. Other than that, tho, I'm agreeing with the linked post.

But I also have such hermitage-induced naivete I didn't realize the minefield I was stepping into when I decided to do Yuletide, either... (Currently having a blowup about new rules that pretty much require participants to request at least one specific canon character, which turns out to be overly prescriptive for a lot of people...)

[branchandroot]

*rueful* Yeah, YT is definitely a minefield, and only becoming moreso. Which is a shame, it's a lovely idea at heart.