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Open Letter on the Future of Star Trek

Open Letter on the Future of Star Trek is a 1977 open letter by David Lubkin.
It was printed in The Cage, a print zine published on the occasion of SeKWester*Con.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* the cohesiveness of fandom
* living without an influx new canon
* attempting to organize fans and fandom
* tie-in books and profit
* Star Trek being replaced by other media fandoms
* "saturated folk" and fandom saturation
* a very quick illusion to Alternative: The Epilog to Orion, the first slash Kirk/Spock novel
==From the Letter==
 
Category:1977 Meta
Category:1977 Open Letters
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Open Letter to Beauty and the Beast Fans

An open letter to Beauty and the Beast fans was included in Destiny #3. It is unknown if it was printed elsewhere as well. 
The subject of the letter was the recent cancellation of the show, demographics, the power and perceived power of fans, fan loyalty, fan campaigns, suspicions that TPTB manipulated fandom, negativity, and the contentiousness that the third season generated.
For more context, see The Beauty and the Beast Wars.
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:Beauty and the Beast Meta
Category:1990 Meta
Category:Meta in Print
Category:1990 Open Letters
Category:Beauty and the Beast Open Letters
Open Letter to FYI from Author P.N. Elrod

This open letter by P.N. Elrod was published in FYI Adzine in September 1992. 
It is a variation of a letter Elrod sent to six adzines As per her comments in The Neutral Arbiter #7 (January 1993) 
A very similar letter, but one worth reading due to the differences, see Open Letter to The Neutral Arbiter from Author P.N. Elrod.
Also see Fan fic - sí! Public Domain - sí-sí-sí!!! by Elrod (2006)
Note: see P.N. Elrod for this author's own Blake's 7 fanworks.
==The 1992 Letter in "FYI Adzine"==
==The 1993 Letter in "The Neutral Arbiter"==
This letter is very similar to the one in FYI Adzine. It was also written in 1992, but due to the lateness of The Neutral Arbiter's seventh issue, it didn't appear until 1993. The differences between these two letters probably had a lot to do with the fact that Elrod was a long-time fan of Blake's 7, and had contributed many letters and wrote and edited fanzines in this fandom; her comments were probably somewhat tailored to this fact. 
 
==References==
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Category:Meta in Print
Category:1992 Open Letters
Open Letter to Fandom by Teri Meyer Regarding Spock's Movie Death

The death of the character of Spock in the second Star Trek movie was a topic of vast and very emotional fannish discussion, both before and after the event.
Tensions regarding blame and rumor were running high when the editor of the most visible Star Trek fan publication, Interstat, ran this editorial, one which was guaranteed to be widely-read not only by fans, but by TPTB. 
This open letter addressed many things, some of which were an actor's wishes, who "owned" a character, blaming rather than crediting fans, "passing the buck" and hypocrisies/politics, Fan Service, and Bjo Trimble's references to Star Trek fans as "dippies," 
==The Letter==
Category:Star Trek TOS Meta
Category:Star Trek Open Letters
Category:1982 Meta
Category:Meta in Print
Category:1982 Open Letters
Open Letter to Fanzine Readers, Contributors, and Publishers by Candace Pulleine

Open Letter to Fanzine Readers, Contributors, and Publishers by Candace Pulleine was sent in 1993.
The subject was zine piracy.
==Some Background Information==
Making copies of zines that were still in print could be financially damaging to many zine editors and publishers. It was an issue that was first publicly discussed in media fandom in the eleventh issue of Probe in August 1977. The editor, Winston A. Howlett, wrote: 
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were strong feelings in fandom about some fans who were making copies of zines still in print and were, from one point of view, "stealing" from zine publishers by copying in-print zines. There were also strong feelings about zine editors who kept zines in print forever, thus continuing to make sales while the story authors never received any additional compensation. This coincided with growing resentment among other groups of fans regarding rising zine prices, often for zines which they felt were not worth the higher prices.
Many of these tensions came to a head at, and after, RevelCon 1993.
==A Series of Open Letters: by Zine Publishers/Con Organizers==
In 1993 and 1994, a number of Open Letters circulated in fandom regarding the photocopying of in-print zines.
See: The Revelcon Zine Piracy Letters.
==Candace's Letter==
Candace Pulleine, the chair of RevelCon, sent an open letter to fandom in response to the letters by Alexis Fegan Black and Bill Hupe. This letter was reprinted in several venues. One of them was printed in Southern Enclave #36 (summer 1993).
Her letter addressed several points, one of which that it was unfair and inaccurate of Black and Hupe to solely blame the attendees of RevelCon for the decline in the number of zines sold. 
 
Pulleine also pointed out that by printing some of these accusations in the editorial to the zine Southern Lights #6, that readers would forever unfairly associate RevelCon attendees and the con itself with unethical practices and that as long as a single issue with this editorial existed, the unfair statements would continue to be read by fans and the injustice would continue. 
Pulleine excerpted a paragraph from this editorial:
Pulleine cited several other reasons why there were fewer zine sales, including the timing of certain zines' publication and the appeal of their subjects to a wider audience. She suggested that editors who were having trouble selling their zines were having difficulties for other reasons and were using zine piracy and Revelcon as a scapegoat for other issues and failings. 
In the end, Pulleine cited the convention's policy on zine piracy, and assured fans that the practice itself was not condoned by anyone in an official capacity of Revelcon. She ended her letter with permission that: 
==Fan Responses==
==References==
Category:Zine Piracy Open Letters
Category:1993 Open Letters
Open Letter to Star Wars Fans Regarding the Movie "Spaceballs"

Open Letter to Star Wars Fans Regarding the Movie "Spaceballs" was an open letter by an anonymous fan asking fellow Star Wars fans to boycott the movie Spaceballs. 
It was printed in Southern Enclave #16 as well as Luke's Journey #9/10. From the remarks regarding the movie by fans in Southern Enclave, it appeared this fan had an uphill battle to climb in terms of keeping others away from the film. 
It is also an example of fannish extremes, something the editor of "Southern Enclave" pointed out.
==The Letter==
==The Editor of Southern Enclave's Response==
==Other Fans' Reactions to the Open Letter==
==Some Reactions to the Movie Itself==
==References==
Category:Star Wars Meta
 
Category:1987 Meta
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Open Letter to The Neutral Arbiter from Author P.N. Elrod

This open letter by P.N. Elrod was published in FYI Adzine in September 1992. 
It is a variation of a letter Elrod sent to six adzines As per her comments in The Neutral Arbiter #7 (January 1993) 
 
A very similar letter, but one worth reading due to the differences, see Open Letter to FYI from Author P.N. Elrod.
Also see Fan fic - sí! Public Domain - sí-sí-sí!!! by Elrod (2006)
Note: see P.N. Elrod for this author's own Blake's 7 fanworks.
 
==The 1993 Letter in "The Neutral Arbiter"==
This letter is very similar to the one in FYI Adzine. It was also written in 1992, but due to the lateness of The Neutral Arbiter's seventh issue, it didn't appear until 1993. The differences between these two letters probably had a lot to do with the fact that Elrod was a long-time fan of Blake's 7, and had contributed many letters and wrote and edited fanzines in this fandom; her comments were probably somewhat tailored to this fact. 
 
==References==
Category:1992 Meta
 Category:Pro Author Meta
Category:Meta in Print
Category:1992 Open Letters
Open Letter to Verizon: Extend the Deletion Deadline for Yahoo Groups

In late 2019, Verizon announced it was shutting down and purging Yahoo! Groups. For more on this topic, see Yahoo Geddon.
The Open Letter to Verizon: Extend the Deletion Deadline for Yahoo Groups is a 2019 open letter sent to Verizon in hopes of extending the date of shutdown for Yahoo!Groups in order for there to be more time and assistance in preserving and archiving the information on these mailing lists. 
The letter was posted in many venues with this header: 
==The Letter==
==References==
Category:Organization for Transformative Works
Category:2019 Open Letters
Open Letter to the Editors of All K/S Zines & All Other "/" Media Zines

See also: The Great Australian Radio Show Fiasco.
 
Open Letter to the Editors of All K/S Zines & All Other "/" Media Zines was an open letter printed in Not Tonight, Spock! #9 (May 1985), and probably other, zines. The author's name was withheld by request. 
The letter represents the fear and unease that slash fans felt regarding exposure to the mundane world. 
The letter was printed at the same time as the Open Letter to K/S Fandom by David Gerrold. Also see: The Great Australian Radio Show Fiasco.
 
== References ==
Category:Slash Fandom
Category:Zine Meta
Category:Star Trek TOS K/S Meta
Category:1985 Meta
Category:Meta in Print
Category:1985 Open Letters
Open Letter to the OTW on Racism in Fandom

Open Letter to the OTW on Racism in Fandom is a 2020 open letter addressed to the OTW Board and Committees calling for a commitment to combating racism in fandom, specifically on their own platforms. It was published during the 2020 OTW and AO3 Racism Discussion, two days after naye's blog post What's up with the AO3 and racism?. 
The letter, which was translated into several languages, allowed readers to sign their name or fannish pseudonyms to the letter, as well as stating their connection to fandom and the OTW.
==The Letter==
==Response==
===Fan Response===
===OTW Response===
On June 20, 2020 the official OTW twitter posted the following:
== See Also ==
* Letter to the 2023 Board of Directors of the Organization for Transformative Works
* End OTW Racism
==References==
Category:Organization for Transformative Works
Category:2020 Open LettersCategory:Race & Fandom
Open Range Hearts

Open Range Hearts a Wynonna Earp fanfic by thewaywedo33, focused on the pairing of Waverly Earp/Nicole Haught.
==Summary==
==Reactions and Reviews==
==Inspired Fanworks==
* art by badartndadjokes
==Related Works==
*Haught on a Horse episode of Earp Fiction Addiction Podcast where they discuss Open Range Hearts 
==References==
Category:Wynonna EarpCategory:Femslash FanfictionCategory:2016 Fanfiction‎
Open Scrolls Archive

Open Scrolls Archive is a strictly non-slash archive. "While we have nothing against the genre, we noted that there are many exclusive sites for slash but not so for het. Therefore, Open Scrolls was created to provide het writers a place to host their work."Open Scrolls Intro Page (Accessed 15 July 2011) 
The focus is primarily on Lord of the Rings (almost 3000 archived stories) but it also hosts fanfic in other fandoms such as Harry Potter, Star Trek, Stargate, Firefly, Star Wars, and Twilight.
File:Open Scrolls Archive.jpg|Open Scrolls Archive fanfic page
File:Open Scrolls Archive - Tolkien archive.jpg|Tolkien Archive section
==References==
Category:Lord of the Rings Archives
Category:2000s
Open Texts

Open texts are those that "allow plenty of room for interpretation", while closed texts are those that "permit little interpretation on the part of the audience".James Watson & Anne Hill, Dictionary of Media & Communication Studies, 5th edition, Arnold (Hodder Headline Group) London, 2000. 
Open texts may be created deliberately "to express ideas or feelings which may be interpreted in different ways and at different levels", or may be unintentional, e.g. the result of internal flaws or a lack of coherency in the text. 
Importantly, for fannish purposes:
While the worst examples of closed texts include propaganda, in which there is only one "rigorously preferred meaning", closed texts can make for excellent reading or viewing due to the high quality and coherence of the content. 
Therefore, there can be "good" and "bad" open texts in terms of quality, as well as "good" and "bad" closed texts; but it's the open texts that most often prompt a fannish response.
==Examples of Open Texts==
===Buckaroo Banzai (1984) film and novel===
The Buckaroo Banzai screenwriter and author, Earl Mac Rauch, also considers the film and novel to be open texts: 
===Merlin (2008-2012) TV series===
BBC Merlin (TV series) is well loved by fans, and includes a hugely popular OTP - but the text's weekly stories, backstories (e.g. Arthur's conception and birth) and overarching 5-series plot often raise more questions than they answer. Luckily for we fans, we're happy to leap in and fill in the gaps.
The first season of Merlin was particularly open in terms of Shipping, as there were no canonical romantic relationships involving the six main characters, except for Uther's marriage to Ygraine which ended with her death twenty years before. Sure, Gwen was crushing on Merlin, Arthur was admiring Morgana, and Lancelot immediately fell for Gwen - but with even the most basic knowledge of the Arthurian legends, viewers could assume that all of these (with the honourable exception of Lancelot) would prove transient.
==Examples of Closed texts==
===Edge of Darkness (1985) TV series===
===Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) novel===
This was the seventh and final volume of the Harry Potter novels - a series which had created a relatively open text, and certainly prompted a huge fannish response. This last volume, however, ended with an Epilogue set twenty years in the fictional future, which neatly tied up the relationships and even the offspring of the main characters - thus closing the text in ways that many fans were not happy about. This has created the Epilogue? What Epilogue? genre of fanworks, which prefers to ignore the author's envisaged future.
==Footnotes==
Open To Interpretation

Open To Interpretation is a Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan story by RavenD.
Summary: Obi and Qui enjoy the bounties of nature. An interested party enjoys the bounty of Qui and Obi.
==Recs and Reviews==
==References==
Category:Star Wars TPM Q/O Fanfiction 
Category:2000 Fanfiction‎
Open for Business

Open for Business is an explicit het A-Team 75-page fanzine. It also known as, "Professional Help: The Team is In." 
It is a sister zine to Closed for Remodeling.
==Contents==
* Gift Certificate by Lori Beatty (19 pages) (It is an epilogue to "Wheel of Fortune" -- Murdock and Jody Joy on their Hawaiian vacation trip after the "Wheel of Fortune" episode.)
* Snowbound! by Jackie Edwards (22 pages) (Hannibal & Maggie)
* Nobody Does it Better by Lori Beatty (Set during "The Spy Who Mugged Me," Murdock and Dominique battle it out in a bit of sexual...espionage.) (13 pages)
* Oak Alley by Jackie Edwards (Hannibal and Maggie on a vacation at a Southern plantation.) (15 pages)
==Reactions and Reviews==
==References==
Category:The A-Team Zines
Open letter to Life With Derek TPTB

In 2009, a Livejournal user sugah66 wrote an open letter to Daphne Ballon, the creator of Life With Derek.
In it, sugah66 expresses her opinions on how believable the season has so far been. It also describes her feelings towards the pairings Casey/Truman and Derek/Emily who both end up together in the season compared to the Casey/Derek of the season.
==Message==
==Response==
The letter was met with a lot of positive comments and agreements from fellow Casey/Derek fans:
==References==
Category:Life With Derek
Category:2009 Meta
Category:Meta on Journal Sites
Category:2009 Open Letters
Open letter to everyone interested in or involved with D'ALLIANCE

The D'Alliance Open Letter was published in Southern Enclave #4, Starwings #2, and perhaps other venues. 
In it, a fan cancels a planned zine called "D'Alliance," a not-uncommon occurrence. What made this letter controversial is that the fan stated she was not refunding any of the deposits she'd taken for it over the years. 
One thing that is unclear is why it took almost a year for the original letter to be publicized to the wider fandom audience.
==The Letter==
==Reactions and Reviews==
==References==
Category:Zine Meta
Category:1983 Meta
Category:Meta in Print
Category:1983 Open Letters
Open the Door

Open the Door is a popular Derek/Stiles story by Renay that was written between season one and two. It is a slow-build romance with an action-oriented B plot featuring faerie antagonists.
Since the fic was written in early Teen Wolf fandom, some elements are now jossed: Derek is a good alpha; Stiles, Scott, and Jackson all join Derek's pack; later characters do not appear; and Lydia Martin is left in a coma following Peter's attack at the end of season one. Meanwhile, the emphasis on pack and the use of non-werewolf magical creatures are good examples of Teen Wolf fanon. (Until season three hinted otherwise, werewolves were the only magical creatures in the show's mythology.)
As of October 2013, the story had the fourth most hits (234991) of all the Derek/Stiles fanworks on the Archive of Our Own.Determined using the AO3's Works Search on October 18, 2013. The story also ranked 16 in number of kudos (4902), 19 in bookmarks (1845), and 182 in comments (282). Total number of Derek/Stiles fanworks was 17270. See Open the Door on the AO3. As of 25 December 2014, the story had slipped to fifth place in hits (327229), 31st in kudos (6780), 37th in bookmarks (2512), and 346th in comments (298) out of 31607 Sterek fics. By 25 December 2014, Goodreads users had rated the story 35 times, with an average rating of 3.69, and wrote 11 reviews.
A "spiritual sequel," Ours, was posted six months later.
fire_juggler posted a podfic of the story on June 1, 2012.Fire Juggler. {Teen Wolf} Open the Door by Renay. Posted to Amplificathon 1 June 2012.
==Reviews/Reactions==
==References==
Category:Slash Fanfiction
Category:2012 Fanfiction‎
Open your eyes

open your eyes is a Game of Thrones vid by MoonCalledA focused on the Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth pairing.
==Vidder's Notes==
Vidder's notes on YouTube:
== Reactions and Reviews ==
== References ==
Category:2013 Vids
Category:Het Vids
Category:ASOIAF/Game of Thrones Vids
Operation: Blackout

OPERATION: Blackout was a fan campaign started by Jade (an X-Files fan) and Billy C. (a Buffy fan). This action was a response to FOX cracking down on fansites, particularly sites sharing images, sound bites and short video clips from television shows. The organizers wanted to see an end to the crackdown and supported improving copyright laws to allow for the fair use of media clips.
The Blackout involved fans shutting down their websites for 24 hours in protest.
==About==
==Participants==
In the lead up to the Blackout, one publication named Angela DiPrima (co-creator of SlayMe.com) as the founder of Operation: Blackout, but she was in no way associated with this campaign.
As of May 31 2000, 264 sites had signed up to Operation Blackout. These included:
* 140 Buffy and Angel Sites 
* 65 X-Files Sites 
* 16 Simpsons Sites 
* 6 Music Sites 
* 4 Young Hercules Sites 
* 33 Other Sites
While many of the sites which had signed up for the Blackout did not participate, many other sites took part in the Blackout without signing up.Message Board Comment, 5/13/00. This makes it difficult to gauge the level of fan involvement in this campaign. For example the number of Xena sites involved in the Blackout could be much greater than the number which had signed up.
==References==
Category:Fan Campaigns & Petitions
Category:2000 Events
Operation: Masada

Operation: Masada is a gen Star Trek: TOS 134-page novel by Lynn Syck & Mary Rottler. The cover is by Christine Myers. 
 
 
==Summary==
From On the Double: "While on patrol, the Enterprise crew finds one of its own under mental attack."
==From the Author's Editorial==
==Excerpt==
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Operation 'Zine Rescue

In 1996, Bill Hupe, the largest fanzine dealer and agent in North America, retired and handed over his inventory to Peg Kennedy. 
Peg carried on for several years. However by 1999, the business had fallen into disarray. 
In January 1999, several fanzine publishers received a letter from a man who had purchased the contents of one of the Hupe-Kennedy storage lockers and was offering to sell the zines back to the publishers. The inventory included both gen and slash zines, numbering over 3000 items. In addition, almost 1200 art prints were in the collection, including work by Rich Corben, Adrian Morgan, Jean Kluge, Heather Bruton, Suzan Lovett, Lucy Synk, Melissa Elliott, ARLA, Tara and Carol Walske.
The initial monetary request for the storage locker was $3000 On February 5, 1999, Randall Landers posted that "someone's been trying to sell me Bill Hupe's fanzines for a lump sum of $3500, but I'm not interested. He did have a lot of old stuff,
though, so I expect folks to be selling pieces of his collection soon." -- old fanzine fiction (not including the slash zines) and several fans mounted a rescue effort. Funding came from Laurie C-F, and she along with Celeste Hotaling-Lyons recruited and organized volunteers to conduct an inventory. Seah volunteered to set up a rescue page at her website fanzines.com and to help push the message out to mailing lists. By May 1999, volunteers had cataloged around 75% of the collection and an inventory list was posted online.
From the 1999 MediaWest*Con program book: 
Some fans were glad to have some inventory returned to them, some were happy to know that the zines would go back into fans' hands, and others were glad to have them "safely disposed" of so the zines and art didn't fall into wrong hands. from extracted comments in January 1999, CI5 Mailing List 
==Text of the Letter: Sent by the Storage Locker Owner==
The letter was sent to a number of fanzine publishers. The buyer of the storage locker, a guy named Jerry, used the addresses he found printed in the fanzines.
The letter:
==A Fanzine Publisher's Response to the Storage Locker Letter==
==References==
Category:Zine Fandom
Category:1996
Operation Assegai

Operation Assegai is a gen 160-page Professionals novel in a series by Sara Lansing and Barbara Jones.
==The Series==
Series order taken from a 1999 Entropy Press flyer. Note that the zine order (and content) differs from what is noted at Palely Loitering.
* Goblin (1992)
* Knife's Edge (1993)
* Operation Assegai (1995)
* Hellburner (1997)
* Deep Fire (1998)
* Hostage London (1999)
==Summaries==
Summary from the flyer: 
==Reactions and Reviews==
==References==
Category:The Professionals Gen Zines
Category:1995 Zines
Operation Corporate

Operation Corporate is a gen 128-page Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea novel by L.C. Wells. It has a sequel called Grenada and is a Below the Surface Special Edition. 
Summary: A visit to the Antarctica has unexpected consequences that lands the Seaview’s crew, and a very sick Chip Morton, in the middle of the 1982 Falklands War. 
Category:Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Zines
Category:1994 Zines