What is Our Flag Means Research?
Our Flag Means Research functions as a shared space for the curious side of Our Flag Means Death fandom. It's a hub for all sorts of research that's connected to OFMD and its fandom. The focus or the type of research can be pretty much anything, as long as it's OFMD adjacent.
The level of academic professionalism or seriousness is not that important. The focus is on collecting this type of content in one place and making it accessible to everyone.
We will help those of you who are working on research projects by sharing information of your ongoing surveys, interview invitations and other studies that are looking for participants. We can also run polls to collect data.
We will share links to published results that are hosted somewhere in a way that is accessible to everyone (AO3, personal websites, Google Docs etc.)
Works shared via Our Flag Means Research may include content that is not suitable for children. Anyone submitting works must be at least 18 years old.Where to find us?
Submissions
- How do I make a submission?
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Leave an ask on Tumblr, send a direct message on Mastodon or contact tikli on Discord. Tell what sort of submission you want to make:
- Promote your upcoming/ongoing study in order to get more participants.
- Collect data for your study via Tumblr and Mastodon polls.
- Promote your published results.
- What sort of works can I submit?
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We're really not too picky. Survey results, media analysis, interviews, essays, statistical analysis... If it was born out of curiosity and you did it to find out about Something, it probably fits the bill.
We expect your work to be respectful towards others and not born out of malicious intent.
Policies
- Do you focus on or avoid specific characters or ships?
- The content we share comes from individual fans who are free to choose their subject however they please. We don't discriminate against any character or ship. Any perceived under- or overrepresentation is due to individual motivation.
- What is your tagging policy on Tumblr, Mastodon and Pillowfort?
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Submitters can suggest what tags they want to use with their content.
NSFW content will be marked as such on Pillowfort and content warnings will be added on Mastodon when needed. On Tumblr, Community labels will be used when needed. NSFW posts will also be tagged with #ofmdnsfw.
If the content focuses on a specific character(s) / ship(s), the established tags will be used when available.
- What is your blocking policy?
- As a general rule, the accounts on Tumblr, Mastodon and Pillowfort don't block anyone. However, targeting the accounts with harassment or interfering with the data collection in order to skew the results will lead to a block.
Who are the people behind this whole thing?
The admin of Our Flag Means Research is tikli. There is also a very loosely organised collective of Izzy enjoyers who are actively doing or planning on doing some research regarding OFMD.
Our previous projects used our personal accounts for data gathering, and that presented a problem with blocked accounts, possibly skewing the samples. A few of us had thought about making a new account for data collection purposes. It made a lot more sense to make just one account that everyone could use.
Our Flag Means Research started out on Twitter, but has since moved on to other platforms.
Despite the origins being in the Izzy corner of the fandom, Our Flag Means Research is for everyone who is interested in doing research about the show and the fandom.
