But for me specifically: most of the fanart I do is part of larger fanwork narratives, associated with work in other media. I would love for AO3 to let me seamlessly and naturally integrate my work across media, the way I can on a blog or my own website, but nearly all archives & art hosts aren't set up for.
In the simplest case, for illustrations for fanfic: I would like to be able to simply have the illustration embedded in the fanfic's page, without needing a separate "art" page for it (though, of course, let me have a separate page if I want one - and still embed directly in the fic.)
For more complicated situations - images with extensive associated textual content, "documentary" fic that includes mocked-up telegrams or newspaper articles or website screencaps, themed collections of fanworks in various media with no "primary" text - I want to be able to post everything as one mixed-media work, without having to choose a "main" medium or segregate parts based on whether they're textual or not.
And finally, two things that I'd also like to have in the fic-only site, but will become even more relevant if I start uploading fanart: 1.) A way to "group" a set of your own works in a way that doesn't imply sequence (the way a series does) and is more like a one-person collection; and 2.) A site-integrated way to indicate "based on" and "given to" relationships when the based-on work or the given-to person aren't on AO3; something that would appear as prominently on the work as the current links to other AO3 works, and that would let you easily see other works on AO3 that link to the same work or person.
...And finally, make it really easy and extremely encouraged to have long text descriptions of any images, particularly as part of mixed-media works but really in general. And *strongly* encourage transcripts of any image files that include text.
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melannen Wed 07 Apr 2010 03:16AM UTC
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