I don't want future digital archaeologists to have to reconstruct our entire fandom culture solely through complaints about whoever's our equivalent of Ea-Nasir, is all I'm saying. (Cassandra Clare? The author of My Immortal?)
Kidding, but I'm aware my anxieties about fanwork archiving come from my overall hoarding tendencies, compounded with growing up the child of a librarian, and only worsened by working professionally as a journalist/media producer where you have to archive and label everything your entire organization does because you almost certainly will be referring back to or using it in future stories.
I think we as humans weren't really meant to save every conversation we've ever had, no matter how delightful in the moment.
That's entirely fair. And I totally get the hesitation about posting scraps/ficlets/incompletes as standalone stories, I've actually been in the exact same boat since I got on AO3. It's only in the last month or so that I've started rethinking my assumptions about the nature and function of AO3.
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Kidding, but I'm aware my anxieties about fanwork archiving come from my overall hoarding tendencies, compounded with growing up the child of a librarian, and only worsened by working professionally as a journalist/media producer where you have to archive and label everything your entire organization does because you almost certainly will be referring back to or using it in future stories.
I think we as humans weren't really meant to save every conversation we've ever had, no matter how delightful in the moment.
That's entirely fair. And I totally get the hesitation about posting scraps/ficlets/incompletes as standalone stories, I've actually been in the exact same boat since I got on AO3. It's only in the last month or so that I've started rethinking my assumptions about the nature and function of AO3.