Snowflake Challenge #6: List of Fannish Wishes

[akk]

snowflake_challenge #6: make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you...

Numbering for convenience only.

1. Let's start with something smutty. I'd love to see the initial premise of the Chinese web novel Forced Estrus (so NOT SAFE FOR WORK) of a transformed alpha-general used in a culture-detailed, in-character(!) fic for Reinhard von Lohengramm (A) and Yang Wen-Li (O) of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. [fic wish]
   
   
2. I wish there were a tagged, searchable fanart archive similar to the AO3 but for artwork, linked to the stories on AO3 (frontispieces, illustrations) if possible. [fandom infrastructure]
   
   
3. I'd love to get an icon depicting the logo of Sakura Enterprises Inc. I actually started on doing that fanart, but it was one of the projects that got shelved for time constrictions and is unlikely to be revived in a timely manner. [TBX Decagram icon]
   
   
4. Related to the previous wish: anybody's got an idea about how a logo for the Sumeragi that's not just a plain pentacle would look like? [TBX Decagram discussion]
   
   
5. I wish somebody would write a fic that deviates from the Guardian canon right before all the time travel stuff and finish it in terms of a science fiction / space opera story rather than a barely concealed fantasy / horror plot of sacrifice. (Also, something in my mind still wonders which ship of the gargantuan fleets of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes crashed there after which battle to create the Guardian premise; was it of the Empire, of the Alliance, or were there ships of both? *g*) [fic wish - canon revamp]
   
   
6. totally gathered from solo (because I just don't think in general terms that much!): more of my fandoms in comms on Dreamwidth instead of Twitter / Tumblr. TT are just not good interfaces for fandom discourse and ficworks.
   

Comments

[schweetheart]

OMG, a fanart archive would be amazing! Although, I'd settle for AO3 being more user-friendly when it came to fanart as well, tbh.

[akk]

It's the one thing truly missing from the archive, imho. I have a ton of frontispieces and illustrations esp. for my earlier stories, but inserting offsite-art is complicated and messes with the ebook function and is a pain in the derriere when one updates one's homepage / art deposit etc. So all that pretty stuff stays hidden on a barely visited homepage or is even offline.
And I recall so many beautiful artworks, esp. for Tokyo Babylon, which are now lost... Something needs to be done about that! :)

[athaia]

Isn't DeviantArt searchable like that? Or is DA dead (not a fan artist, so I'm not in the know)?

[akk]

Deviant Art was an attempt, but it's bulky and it's not easy to find works on it. Also no way to properly link art to fics or vice versa. I found it always decidedly limited.

[schweetheart]

^ Seconded. DA is very cumbersome and not fic-friendly, unfortunately :(

[schweetheart]

Yeah, I art as well as write fic, and much as I love AO3, it's not the most user-friendly site when it comes to illustrations. An Art-chive version would definitely be a great thing to have, especially for preserving older works and when sites like Photobucket change their TOS. Someone should suggest it to them XD

[akk]

As far as I know the Organization for Transformative Works, who maintains the AO3, was asked that already a couple of times, but artwork - esp. large images and movies - require a lot more of infrastructure regarding server space and capacity, so they decided against it.
I don't know how that goes with podfics, since audiofiles aren't exactly lightweight, either, but since I'm not into podfics (or podcasts in general) I don't know anything about how that is handled.

[jo_lasalle]

I can't help with fulfilling any of these, but I really enjoyed reading your list!

[akk]

That's fine. I guess if they were easily fillable, then somebody would have done them by now.
Browsing the lists is fun, tho. :)