OTW Guest Post: Euclase
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | OTW Guest Post: Euclase |
| Interviewer: | Sarah Loch |
| Interviewee: | Euclase |
| Date(s): | July 23 , 2017 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | |
| External Links: | OTW Guest Post: Euclase – Organization for Transformative Works, Archived version |
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OTW Guest Post: Euclase is a 2017 interview done as part of a series. See OTW Guest Post.
" Elicia Donze, also known as Euclase, is a professional artist and fan creator who has been active in fandom communities since the 90s. She is an outspoken advocate for the creation and protection of fandom safe spaces for female and queer communities and a longtime supporter of fandom culture and derivative works. Today, Elicia talks about her history in fandom, her preferred media, and what she loves about fandom."
Some Excerpts
How did you first get into fandom and fanworks?
Way back in 1998, I made a geocities website about Eowyn from The Lord Of The Rings for a class assignment. A few years later, the movies came out, and a few lovely fan girls saw my site and invited me to join their forum, Parma Eruseen, which was quite a big forum in the day, where I eventually became a moderator and fan fiction and fan art contributor. From there I went to livejournal, then Tumblr, but I’ve been creating fan works since I was a child, and I’ve been sharing them online for about as long as the means to do so has been available.
How did you hear about the OTW and what do you see its role as?
Not to age myself, but I remember astolat’s post on livejournal where the whole thing got started, so I’ve known about the OTW and AO3 since it began. I’ve always believed in the value of fanworks, ungoverned by commercial media, and the need of the (predominantly) female fan community to reclaim its own mythology in a free, safe space. The OTW and AO3 are endlessly valuable as a resource and community foundation for those of us who might not otherwise have a validated community.
What fandom things have inspired you the most?
Everything. I don’t know if I could narrow it down. Watching fangirls take themselves as seriously as any scholar or master in a setting where they are respected, where there’s no shame for them to discuss and cultivate and share their passions–there’s nothing more inspiring than that. The best writers, the best artists, the best scholars are in fandom.