Not to be morbid...

[sherrold]

But I've been thinking about dying a little, recently -- mostly because I've been doing Fanlore articles on fans that have moved on. And I realize that I talked to wickedwords years ago about taking care of my stuff when I died (I have 20 linear feet of zines, still), but she doesn't have my passwords.

Poll #3999 Fannish Executor

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 108

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Have you heard of the idea of a Fannish Executor?

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Yes
85 (78.7%)

No
23 (21.3%)

What do think your Fannish Executor would do?

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Have your LJ/DW/AOO password
98 (91.6%)

Have your fannish website(s) info
81 (75.7%)

Go through your zines and fannish toys
62 (57.9%)

Be mentioned in your actual will as taking care of your fannish stuff
60 (56.1%)

More that I'll put in comments
13 (12.1%)

Do you have a Fannish Executor?

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Yes
24 (22.6%)

No
49 (46.2%)

Dammit, Sandy, I'm thinking about it; don't be so pushy
33 (31.1%)

Comments

[ratcreature]

The main reason I don't have any kind of fannish executor is that I haven't actually bothered with a will at all. But aside from that, I'm not involved with fandom on a local level, so I'm not sure I'd know anyone fannish who could take care of physical things, or how other fans would even know if I got suddenly killed by a falling toilet seat or the like.

As for my online presence, I don't know whether my siblings would care enough to find/circumvent my passwords and make a post or keep up my website, but probably not, so I guess my site would just expire eventually, and it would be the same as if I just gafiated. I guess I ought to leave instructions for them, but somehow that feels an awkward thing to ask, because while I'm not in the fannish closet, I don't really talk with them about online fandom either.

I don't have more than a couple of zines, but do sometimes wonder what would happen to my comic collection. It is quite large (four floor to ceiling book shelves and maybe twenty boxes or so), and in parts actually worth something even at resale value (at least a couple of thousand euro, probably more if you put some effort into selling). Though my siblings like comics too, so I guess they might want some, and they appreciate comics well enough to at least not throw the them into garbage. And they rather than my father would be the ones to clean out my place.

Otherwise there is not much fandom related stuff, unless you count a the originals of the couple of fanart pieces I did. I hope they'd keep those as memento or something rather than paper recycling, but who knows.

As for the porn, my family knows my fannish pseud anyway, so it's not like they'd find much about my porn preferences that they couldn't know already if they looked at my journal. And in any case, the porn on my laptop is mostly written and won't be any more embarrassing than me seeing my parents sex toys and porn photos as a kid (seriously I have no idea why they put the porn polaroids they took of each other in the drawer in which also regular use stuff like headache pills were stored, and the sex toys like vibrators and anal beads in a box in the towel closet). I assume either my sister or my brother would go through my stuff if I dropped dead suddenly, and I don't think they'd find anything surprising. So I don't worry about that part.