Signal Boost: AO3 Wins 2019 Hugo Award for Best Related Work

ao3_news_feed posted: AO3 Wins 2019 Hugo Award for Best Related Work

the Archive of Our Own has won the 2019 Hugo Award in the category of Best Related Work! This is the first time an OTW project has won — or been a finalist for — a Hugo Award!
"All fanwork, from fanfic to vids to fanart to podfic, centers the idea that art happens not in isolation but in community. And that is true of the AO3 itself. We’re up here accepting, but only on behalf of literally thousands of volunteers and millions of users, all of whom have come together and built this thriving home for fandom, a nonprofit and non-commercial community space built entirely by volunteer labor and user donations, on the principle that we needed a place of our own that was not out to exploit its users but to serve them."~from Naomi Novik's acceptance speech

Hear, Hear! Ao3 deserves every award it is eligible for, it does an amazing thing in an amazing way, for free, out of love.