And I think you're setting me up in a very "here's what you oppose" way, when I'm trying to frame things as "here's what I support." I am finding this problematic.
I apologise: that's the message I was getting, but I must admit I've gotten increasingly defensive after getting the "Fanworks are X" message a lot recently where X does not cover all or any of my work. EDIT: and so I admit it's entirely plausible that it was all in my head (not sure that was clear)
I don't think there's anything wrong with you thinking the strength of fannish work being that it's not intended to be commercial, but while I appreciate that aspect myself it's definitely not the major draw or motivation for me, and I have put some of my fanworks up for commercial sale (I'm never going to make much money off them, but that's true of my original as work as well). Wanting an archive for noncommercial fiction is an entirely valid goal. But the idea of setting AO3 up to be that archive bothers me (which may of course not have been what you meant, but that was the implication I got).
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I apologise: that's the message I was getting, but I must admit I've gotten increasingly defensive after getting the "Fanworks are X" message a lot recently where X does not cover all or any of my work. EDIT: and so I admit it's entirely plausible that it was all in my head (not sure that was clear)
I don't think there's anything wrong with you thinking the strength of fannish work being that it's not intended to be commercial, but while I appreciate that aspect myself it's definitely not the major draw or motivation for me, and I have put some of my fanworks up for commercial sale (I'm never going to make much money off them, but that's true of my original as work as well). Wanting an archive for noncommercial fiction is an entirely valid goal. But the idea of setting AO3 up to be that archive bothers me (which may of course not have been what you meant, but that was the implication I got).