TWC is a multimedia journal whose articles may include screenshots, video embeds, and hyperlinks; as such, the journal must appear online. PDFs are unable to duplicate the interactive experience of the online journal.

Additionally, TWC intentionally wishes to buck the importance that academia places on print media. If we created official PDFs, these documents, not the online versions, would be treated as authoritative merely because of the privilege print is provided in the academic publishing industry—and yet the PDF will always be a second-rate static snapshot of an interactive document.

However, we know that fans may wish to make TWC more widely available by creating PDFs of its content. TWC encourages such transformative fan activity – this is part of why the journal is copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. As long as the document provides the URLs of the original source, and as long as the poster does not charge money, this activity is perfectly acceptable under the terms of the CC license.