"You keep saying "we", but I can't figure out who you're referencing by it." Sorry. I don't mean a majority group needs the back-ups. When I wrote that I was specifically thinking of fandoms (for which there is thankfully much less societal prejudice than, say, being homeless or a refugee or part of an oppressed ethnicity). When a fandom starts dissolving, or when an author/artist leaves fandom and takes all their content off the internet (for fear of it being found and linked to their off-line identity), they often load their work into a pdf and give it to a few of their friends. That way, all of their work and effort--all the things they were thinking about and working through, often for years--*can* be found...but only at the discretion of the people it actually concerns.
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Sun, Aug. 2nd, 2009 03:38 pm (UTC)"You keep saying "we", but I can't figure out who you're referencing by it."
Sorry. I don't mean a majority group needs the back-ups. When I wrote that I was specifically thinking of fandoms (for which there is thankfully much less societal prejudice than, say, being homeless or a refugee or part of an oppressed ethnicity). When a fandom starts dissolving, or when an author/artist leaves fandom and takes all their content off the internet (for fear of it being found and linked to their off-line identity), they often load their work into a pdf and give it to a few of their friends. That way, all of their work and effort--all the things they were thinking about and working through, often for years--*can* be found...but only at the discretion of the people it actually concerns.