Comment on Fandom nonfiction: seeking feedback

  1. navaan Thu 14 Mar 2013 01:13PM UTC

    The Unwritten Tom Taylor and his winged cat Mingus

    I haven't read your essay and apart from being slightly annoyed by anything that is heavily overtagged I have no opinion on whether it belongs on the Ao3 or not. (I think the Multifandom tag is a great idea and I hope this becomes a thing for meta that namedrops or list may fandoms, pairings and characters without discussing them in depth. Of course, I don't know if this applies to your meta...)

    But this is exactly why I think we need clear policies on what is fanish nonfiction and what isn't:
    As for posting on a journal, what do you have in mind? Most fans have left LJ and such, so really what's popular now is tumblr. But tumblr isn't very usable when posting essays imho. Pics, yes; anything written, not so much.

    I don't think any of this is an argument for why something should be on the Archive - because the Ao3 is not here to be the better fannish blogging platform and the proposed policies above make this clear. So don't let yourself be annoyed by anons interpreting stuff and instead look at the (proposed and later at the final policies) and decide if your meta fits the Archive policy or not.

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    1. kowaiyoukai Thu 14 Mar 2013 02:23PM UTC

      Clear policies would help, that's for sure. Thanks! :)

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