SHINee on the OTW

SHINee on the OTW is a monthly event created and run by SHINee AO3, an archival project focusing on SHINee RPF. The event focuses on the history of SHINee in fanlore, runs fest highlights and interviews fest moderators, and runs 'OTW Challenges' to encourage Shawols to add to the history and create more in the process. The event is run on both Archive of Our Own, Blogger and Twitter, with some challenges including the Fanlore Wikia.
== Background ==
On December 26, 2022, SHINee AO3 tweeted that they would be debuting a monthly event - for one week in the month, the project would look at SHINee fanlore history via “fest & event highlights, challenges for you guys to archive - and make! - history and more”. They said the first event would start on December 29, 2022 (in KST)https://twitter.com/SHINeeAO3/status/1607522190609600522?s=20&t=YNSkQCpe154UshzG-1kK8Q, however this was pushed back a day due to moderators being illhttps://twitter.com/SHINeeAO3/status/1608110015512219650?s=20&t=7hW3XkMNgshoWn70mzEdHQ. 
The monthly event began officially on December 30, 2022.
The project runs this on Twitter with Archive of Our Own collections serving as an archive for the writing and tagging challenges.
== SHINee on the OTW Interview Series ==
* SHINee Rebanded interview - Blogger post
== First Event - SHINee Rebanded and the Alternate Universe - No Band Tag ==
The first SHINee on the OTW event debuted on December 30, 2022 (KST). The event runs from December 30, 2020 - January 06, 2023. The event was originally run on Twitter and AO3 but was also moved to Blogger - the event post for the first event can be found here.
=== Event Background ===
The first event for SHINee on the OTW was themed around the SHINee Rebanded fest and the Alternate Universe - No Band Archive of Our Own tag due to the fest’s themehttps://twitter.com/SHINeeAO3/status/1608426499367141377?s=20&t=7hW3XkMNgshoWn70mzEdHQ. They did this via a number of events:
* An interview with the original fest creator
* 2 OTW Challenges
* A look at the history of No Band theme usage in SHINee fanlore
* Looking at No Band as a theme in fanlore as a whole and what invented and popularised the theme 
The project ran two events for their first event, of which they dubbed the OTWrangle and OTWriting challenges, respectively.
The OTW Challenge collection can be found here.
=== OTWrangle Challenge ===
For the OTWrangle challenge, they asked creators to add the Alternate Universe - No Band tag to their already existing works for a number of reasons:
# With our fest focus this week, the SHINee Rebanded fest had the active goal of increasing the No Band tags on the site. This is part of our event as a way to give the creator a small surprise that their fest - whether remaining cancelled or ongoing (to be found out in our interview on Jan 4!) - still had an impact on the fandom. Fic fest creators work tirelessly to increase fandom content and this is partly our way of giving back to the creator’s hard work no matter where that hard work ended
# “Alternate Universe - XX” does not necessarily filter under No Band. A Royal AU is - most commonly - focused on SHINee as a non k-pop group, however, some writers will use a Royal AU to look at SHINee as a K-Pop group. It makes things a bit more filtered and organised for readers and other authors to enhance and further describe their works using the tags.
# Increasing the amount of tags tells readers if that Vampire AU is focusing on SHINee as a k-pop idol group as vampires or in a totally different universe! It allows for potentially more readers to your fic!
# It actively helps the Archive, other OTW projects and our OTWols! AO3 uses tags to organise and filter. For instance, if you have the tag “No SHINee” but not No Band, adding “No Band” can allow the AO3 to update the tags, meaning anything with “No SHINee” will auto filter under the No Band tag.
# It helps our OTWols to add more info to the SHINee Fanlore page. [...] it allows us to track and update SHINee history on the Fanlore to the most (and least) popular trends over time.
# We will be sharing all fics that add the tag giving you a little bit of promotion for your fics!
# Some fic fest have said using the data driven by the OTWrangle Challenges will allow them to create more fandom-driven events. For instance, Taemythos - the Taemin-centric mythology focused fic fest - have said if they had more coherent data on what is more popular they can make events for that and events to challenge the least popular statistics - using an example if vampire!SHINee as a kpop group is more popular, they can create events focused on vampire!SHINee as a non k-pop group and such!
- sourced from the project's info post for the event
The following fan works added the Alternate Universe - No Band tag due to the event:
* Setting Sun, Burning Moon, by schoetheisrealaf - a Minho/Kibum fanwork inspired and based off The Untamed
* Dear Minho, by gojiyeong, a Taemin/Minho slice of life fanwork
* Hybrids, by gojiyeong, a Taemin/Minho sci-fi friends to lovers fanwork
* The Person I Used to Be, by gojiyeong, a Taemin/Minho friends to lovers amnesia fanwork
* In Any Way, by gojiyeong, an OT5 poly SHINee work
* Do You Remember When?, by gojiyeong, a Taemin/Minho parenthood fanwork
* Lee Taemin and the Fey Stones of Wander, by gojiyeong, a Taemin/Minho Harry Potter alternate universe fanwork
* On a Night Like This, by gojiyeong, a Taemin/Minho meet-cute work
* You're Still So Pretty - 아직도 너무 예뻐, by gojiyeong, a Taemin/Minho long-distance relationship work
* Between Towns and Thighs, by gojiyeong, a Taemin/Minho explicit standalone linked to Do You Remember When?
* love (noun), by gojiyeong, a Minho/Taemin college AU
* Tales of the Red Planet (Tome 1), by gojiyeong, a sci-fi hurt/comfort Minho/Taemin work
* As the Rising Tide, by gojiyeong, a Minho/Taemin domestic slice of life work
* Strangers with Memories, by gojiyeong, an angst Minho/Taemin post break up work
* The Bottom Line, by gojiyeong, a Minho/Taemin/Kibum polyamory explicit work
* Me In Your Sweater, by gojiyeong, a Minho/Taemin slice of life domestic work based on the Conan Gray song, Heather
* I-L-Y, by gojiyeong, a Taemin/Minho roommates, friends to lover work written for the K-Pop Bingo event
* Back When We Were Young, by gojiyeong, a domestic slice of life Minho/Taemin work written for Flufftober 
* Gonna Make You Scream, by gojiyeong, a Halloween Taemin/Minho work, inspired by Scream
* my boyfriend told me to water the plants and be happy, by gojiyeong, a Minho/Taemin strangers to lovers work
* The Shape of You, by jisooooya, a Taemin/Minho, Jonghyun/Kibum strangers to lovers rom-com work
* Flavours of Love, by jisooooya, a Taemin/Minho rom-com angst with a happy ending work
* The First and Only, by jisooooya, a Taemin/Minho coming of age work
* Play Me, by jisooooya, a musician AU Taemin/Minho work written for Summer of 5HINee's fourth round and inspired by SHINee's 2021 Season's Greetings
* i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart), by jisooooya, a soloist!taemin Taemin/Minho angst work
* i'm your toy, by jisooooya, a Taemin/Minho sex shop manager!minho PWP work
* all this time, by gothtaemten, a Taemin/Kibum fem!taemin x male!kibum fashion designer AU work
* i gave him a bj, hyung, by gothtaemten - a Taemin/Kibum, Taemin & Jonghyun humour work
* little chick please, by gothtaemten - a Taemin/Kibum sci-fi angst work inspired by Key's Bad Love
* it's just a capitalist scam, by gothtaemten - a Taemin/Jonghyun slice of life Halloween work written for Taemythos' Halloween round
=== OTWriting Challenge ===
For the OTWriting Challenge, the project asked authors to see if they could write an Alternate Universe - No Band fic in 2,000 words or less, although, they allow slightly over due to some authors struggling with the 2k word cap.
The works written for this event were:
* your betrayal, by gothtaemten, a wizard alternate universe, post break up Taemin/Kibum work, inspired by Bullet For My Valentine's Your Betrayal
* looking at him, i cry, by gothtaemten, a domestic Jonghyun/Minho parenthood fic as they welcome child!taemin to their lives
=== SHINee Rebanded Moderator Interview ===
On January 3rd the journalism moderator for SHINee AO3 - Mod Flame - hosted an interview with the SHINee Rebanded moderator to give more information into the fest's background. Posting was delayed due to the project working with the SuperM writing challenges due to antifan behaviour leaving the fests at risk and looking for a place to post the interviewhttps://twitter.com/SHINeeAO3/status/1610561014885658624. 
The interview was published on the 6th on the project's Blogger page and can be read here.
=== First Event Summary ===
The look at the No Band history never happened and no clarification was given as to why although the project was quiet for a few days only logging on to inform that they were working with the SuperM fests. Due to anti-fan behaviour, the fests were apparently reported, leaving fests with getting warnings on their accountshttps://retrospring.net/@SHINeeAO3/a/109629759353898881 - SHINee AO3 worked with the projects as 'at risk projects' until the SuperM equivalent of the project could help them outhttps://twitter.com/SHINeeAO3/status/1610539631233142787?s=20&t=JY1tAkB7obOqCLeL-pKm-Q
https://twitter.com/SHINeeAO3/status/1610539792306929665?s=20&t=JY1tAkB7obOqCLeL-pKm-Q. They were initially stated to be posted later on January 1sthttps://twitter.com/SHINeeAO3/status/1609516427018371073?s=20&t=JY1tAkB7obOqCLeL-pKm-Q but no further information was given as to the status of the two projects. 
On the 7th - 8th in KST - the project announced it would be wrapping up the first OTW event - they did state that authors would have longer to upload their OTWriting Challenge works to Archive of Our Own, howeverhttps://twitter.com/SHINeeAO3/status/1611634329741918209?s=20&t=JY1tAkB7obOqCLeL-pKm-Q.
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