Comment on Calling fanartists! Tell us about your ideal archive!

  1. Pitseleh Wed 07 Apr 2010 03:05AM UTC

    This is a dumb icon.

    I think it would be really great if all submissions to the AO3 could by default be called 'fanwork', and then the creator themselves could pick if they are specifically called fanart or fanfic or fancomics or graphics or fanvids or what have you. And when you search, by default you'd get all the fanwork options (if I went to the Star Trek section, I would automatically see all fanart or fanfic or fanvid or whatever) and then I could select an option if I were only looking for art or vids or fic or graphics.

    Or perhaps in my profile I could select an option so I would by default only see fanart, or only see fanart in certain sections (whenever I went to the Star Trek section, I would always automatically only see fanart, unless I selected a different option).

    Likewise, the option to put multiple types of work together in a series. Like, if I have a fic, and I've drawn pictures of it, and then maybe made a vid for it, too, I could put all of them together in the same series.

    IT IS A WEIRD IDEA, I KNOW, but I think the journal-like setup lends itself to all kinds of fanwork very well (with a bit of tweaking, like for uploading vids and watermarking art), and the inclusiveness of all kinds of fanwork would really give the AO3 a head over its competition? A-and make it easy to use ...etc?

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    1. melannen Wed 07 Apr 2010 03:17AM UTC

      Commander Valentine

      I really like this! It cover most of what I asked more in a much simpler way.

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    2. Lilith Wed 07 Apr 2010 03:23AM UTC

      close-up color artwork of Karolina Dean kissing a smiling Nico Minoru on the cheek.

      This doesn't strike me as a weird idea at all! Mostly because I was just thinking about the same kind of thing (only with multiple creators contributing to the "series"). ;)

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    3. whetherwoman Wed 07 Apr 2010 07:05AM UTC

      I am not an artist, and am in fact mostly a lurker, but THIS. As a consumer of fanworks, this is what I want in my browsing experience.

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    4. Rebecca Wed 07 Apr 2010 08:23AM UTC

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      Whoa, this would be sooo cool! Because I think one of the reasons I don't seek out all kinds of fanwork equally is not necessarily that I wouldn't like to see those works, but that I'm just too lazy to search different hosting sites/comms, especially for smaller fandoms.

      Maybe the media type could just be a tag, too, maybe a special tag like character tags? So you can tag a work "fic" or "vid" or "art" (maybe with subtags for "manip", "drawing", etc.), and use more than one tag if you have a mixed work?

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    5. facetofcathy Wed 07 Apr 2010 02:36PM UTC

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      +1 to this.

      Not an artist at all, but very much a consumer of all fanworks. This is how I'd want to browse the archive.

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    6. calcitrix Thu 16 Sep 2010 03:26AM UTC

      Yes and yes and yes. I already have a fic here missing its accompanying artwork...waiting...

       

      And also I have to wonder how much awesome media I've missed for a fic or a series because it has to be hosted somewhere else.

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