Five Things Olivia Riley Said
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Five Things Olivia Riley Said |
| Interviewer: | Claudia Rebaza |
| Interviewee: | Olivia Riley |
| Date(s): | November 11, 2019 |
| Medium: | online |
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| External Links: | Five Things Olivia Riley Said |
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Five Things Olivia Riley Said a 2019 Q&A guest post, conducted by the Organization for Transformative Works' Communications Committee with Olivia Riley.
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?
That old idiom that “a picture is worth a thousand words” tends to hold particularly true on the internet, where users face an info-overload on a daily basis. The OTW needs visuals in order to break through the babble: bright, easily digestible messages to catch audience’s eyes and draw them into the larger conversation. That’s where we graphics volunteers come in!
What made you decide to volunteer?
I’d been studying AO3 & the OTW as the centerpiece of an undergraduate research project for a while, so when I saw a call go out for volunteers, I really wanted to do something to give back to this awesome organization that had so benefited both my personal and academic lives. I’d recently taken a class introducing me to graphic design and realized that the graphics volunteer gig was a perfect opportunity to use those skills!
What fannish things do you like to do?
It pretty much runs the gamut! I love to vid (Gotham and Hannibal, lately), I write a good bit of fic, and I’ve tinkered around with making gifsets and drawing fanart. I’ve recently started listening to a lot of podfic and would like to try making some of my own!