Five Things Nikki Bird Said
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Five Things Cosette Said |
| Interviewer: | Claudia Rebaza |
| Interviewee: | Nikki Bird |
| Date(s): | March 22, 2018 |
| Medium: | online |
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| External Links: | Five Things Nikki Bird Said |
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Five Things Nikki Bird Said a 2018 Q&A guest post, conducted by the Organization for Transformative Works' Communications Committee with Nikki Bird.
It is part of a series. See Five Things Said.
Excerpts
How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does?
I am part of the Finance Committee, which handles the money things for OTW. We are responsible for the bookkeeping of the organization, as well as tax preparation, budgeting, and any other fun and exciting financial related matters that come up. Basically, we make sure a lot of the administrative stuff is taken care of for the OTW to keep running.
What’s the most rewarding thing to you about volunteering for the OTW?
I find it incredibly rewarding to be able to help OTW with the accounting. Non-profit accounting has some different rules and quirks than a for-profit company would have and I like being able to share my knowledge in a helpful way. As I progress in my career, I hope to become an expert in non-profit accounting, so my volunteering with OTW is helping me tremendously by gaining experience that I don’t have access to at my work, again just because it’s two very different organizations.
What fannish things do you like to do?
I stumbled into the fandom world at the end of 2016 thanks to looking online to decide if I wanted to read the next series in a fandom and discovered my OTP was canon (and at the time had no clue what that meant and didn’t even realize I had an OTP). That led me to fan fics and art on Tumblr, which lead to my discovery of Ao3, which led to me eventually trying to write my own stuff. I’m sad I didn’t discover this treasure trove of online community sooner, although my school and work productivity is thankful (productivity definitely took a sharp nosedive for a few months as I consumed fics like oxygen and they were necessary for my very survival).
But I really enjoy being a part of the various fandoms I like, even if I’m not a super active participant. I like seeing other people’s headcanons, reading fics, seeing art. I just love consuming it all and feeling connected to other people based on our interests. Nothing is better than screaming nonsense with others about how great something is and how much you love it and all the feels that come with it.
I would love to actively write more often, but life has been too busy for that to be a regular focus. As I have little bits of time I’m slowly working away, maybe someday I’ll be able to post it.