Deleting my LJ

[luzula]

I have finally gotten around to deleting my LJ! \o/ The only thing I couldn't decide is whether I should delete community entries. I'm leaning towards not, because there could be communities that someone wants to import to DW that have my entries in them. What have other people done here?

Also, I have followed sage's example and created a mod journal luzula_mod for any remaining import issues.

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[feroxargentea]

In theory I appreciate the importance of preserving fannish history, but for purely selfish reasons I wiped everything. I'd always wiped my previous usernames too. No doubt there will be copies somewhere, but it felt cathartic. Having said that, I'd backed up the main Age of Sail comms to DW some time ago, so most of that was saved.

(When I moved house recently, I spent a long long time shredding boxes of letters written to our fanzine, going back to the early 90s. That did make me sad - but they had people's personal details on, so there was nothing else I could do with them except skim a few, smile, and keep shredding.)

[luzula]

Oh, that's sad about the fanzine letters! I honestly don't know what I would've done with that. Probably just keep them in some box...

What was the fanzine about? *curious*

[feroxargentea]

There's only so long you can hoard things. All the non-confidential stuff went to another fan - we met halfway across the country and transferred boxes from my car to hers like contraband *g*

It was an X-Files zine called DTA, created to share with fans who didn't have computers (which was most of them, in those days). I've just tried googling it and this is the only thing that came up: https://flexiblefish.tumblr.com/post/161356363509/alakeeffectgirl-rsadelle-alakeeffectgirl
(Hey, look! I made that cover!)

In retrospect TXF wasn't a great show, but its UK/Irish/French fan group was a lot of fun because we lived close enough to meet up regularly. I miss that.