Josh Phillips wrote:Spaceman42 wrote:Ah? I was under the impression that Avapr0n was stuff actually drawn by Josh, and that fansmut referred only to fan-made works...
Makes sense, when you consider GlitterFey hates me.

JOSH.
:O
*Glitter cries in a corner and throws away the fanart she inked for JP last night.
Okay, so Avapr0n and fansmut are BOTH drawn BY FANS. Fansmut is pin-up style art, and the relative innocence of it is "smutty" as opposed to "pornographic". It's cheesecake, basically. Avapr0n got so named because there is just so much fanart in this community that has moved beyond fansmut into the realm of fanporn that it gets it's own name.
Specifically: there are 3 levels here. You have generic fanart. You have fansmut. Then you have fanporn. None of these distinctions apply to the actual artistic merits of the piece.
I have no moral or philosophical problem with fanporn, Avapr0n or otherwise. I simply don't like actual porn. However, I sure love some good fansmut! I don't think I am alone on this one, though possibly in the minority in the Avalon community. I can certainly deal with having both the "smut" and "porn" levels in one thread, but my point was simply that it might be nice to divide them since they *are* different.
Alternatively, I've always been a fan of individual fanart threads and then having the fanart all together over at the fanart gallery:
http://packy.dardan.com/walky/avalon or some other location of JP's choosing.