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Card #c736IR // #c736Verbatim excerpt
Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body.

— Source: Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)

[Use when]

Use when your field is under attack from outside. Close ranks; the reviewers will not save you.

[Why it matters]

Six words of maker solidarity: the producers of the despised form owe each other loyalty precisely because the world withholds it. No one else will patronize the work, so the workers must.

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