Soulbonding (Livejournal community)

"A Robust Connection to Fiction" --from the community's subheading (2009, January 1).

The primary LJ comm for soulbonders; it was created on January 2, 2002 (soulbonding, 2009 January 1), and deleted between January 18, 2018 (soulbonding, 2019 January 18), and June 20, 2018 (Lee, 2018).  Its archive appears to have no back-ups, except for a few stray archives in the Wayback Machine; it is lost.

Quick Details

Created by: ???
Time Active: 2002-2018
Location: Livejournal

Lockdown

Originally, the soulbonding comm was somewhat public.  However, the comm was locked down in December 2007 after a college student under the name of myprotagonist stated that they had created " a term paper which focuses on soulbonding, otakukin, and the relationship of these two subcultures to Japanese popular culture and capitalism" (soulbonding, 2013 May 9).  The comments are lost, but apparently things got heated enough that within the day, myprotagonist returned to post (after numerous edits) "I’ve looked into the legal and ethical issues surrounding the matter, and I see no reason to do anything more than remove usernames, so that is what I’ll do. Hopefully this will alleviate anyone's concerns" (ibid).  This post is deleted sometime between 2009 (August 17) and 2013 (May 9).

A couple months after the fight, the community's profile page reads, "If you plan on using material discussed in this community for purposes of writing a research or school paper, we would ask you to introduce yourself and state that you are writing a paper, since not everybody is all right with having their words quoted to a wider forum than that of this community. It should go without saying that, should you use specific quotes, you should ask for permission from those you quote," (2008, February 5) seemingly in reference to this event.  No public posts were ever made on the community after that.

Citations

Lee, LB [lb_lee]. (2018, June 20). LJ-soulbonding has been deleted [Dreamwidth post].  Retrieved 2019/03/15 from https://lb-lee.dreamwidth.org/947592.html

soulbonding. (2008, February 5).  Profile [Livejournal page]. http://community.livejournal.com/soulbonding/profile Internet Archive.  Retrieved 2019/03/15 from https://web.archive.org/web/20080205210724/http://community.livejournal.com:80/soulbonding/profile

soulbonding. (2009, January 1). Profile [Livejournal Page]. http://community.livejournal.com/soulbonding/profile Internet Archive.  Retrieved 2019/03/15 from https://web.archive.org/web/20090101072848/http://community.livejournal.com:80/soulbonding/profile

soulbonding. (2009, August 17). A Bonding of Souls. https://soulbonding.livejournal.com/ Internet Archive.  Retrieved 2019/04/18 from https://web.archive.org/web/20090817093541/http://community.livejournal.com/soulbonding

soulbonding. (2013, May 9).  A Bonding of Souls. https://soulbonding.livejournal.com/ Internet Archive.  Retrieved 2019/04/18 from https://web.archive.org/web/20130509070728/https://soulbonding.livejournal.com/

soulbonding. (2019, January 18). Deleted Journal [Livejournal Page].  Internet Archive. https://soulbonding.livejournal.com/ Retrieved 2019/03/15 from https://web.archive.org/web/20190118081527/https://soulbonding.livejournal.com/