Thank you Players

[stinaleigh]

{This is not another aftermath discussion post}

Thank you very much to all the players for your great work over the course of this game. I am so very glad that we are seeing the aftermath and rebuilding, at least for a bit. I know we won't see "19 years later", and I really don't want that. I've always loved stories that are real and do not just fade to black after the hero finishes his journey. I was quite fearful that we would just get the tidy exposition chapter a la J.K. This is so much better.

Thank you again and I am also looking forward to player reveals if we get them and the plot discussions that will follow such a thing after the game is done. This game will live on, just as the books themselves.

Love,

Stina

Comments

[keshwyn]

This.

I emphatically second everything said here - you have built an engaging, interesting, REALISTIC world that I'm loving, and I'm loving the messy aftermath. You've taken childrens' literature with plot holes large enough to drive dragons through and turned it into adult literature with excellent characterization and all the messiness that entails, without resorting to handing ANYBODY an idiot ball.

Thank you. You've given us a wonderful ride. And I really look forward to seeing how it all winds up, even if it's not all wound up tidily and in a neat little package.

Best,
keshwyn

[(Anonymous)]

I've been reading Alternity avidly since it began, and I agree thoroughly with what stinaleigh and keshwyn have said. Thank you!

If I may quote a recent line from Tosha to Justin: "If I have taught you anything, I hope that I have taught you that there are dozens of sides to every story."

http://alt-justin.dreamwidth.org/75488.html?thread=769248#cmt769248

In Alternity, every player has been the protagonist in their own narrative, with their own rational, emotional, and even spiritual motivations for what they do and fail to do. It's an act of great human compassion to write the "good" characters with moments of weakness and pettiness and the "evil" characters with glimmers of courage and love.

Additionally, reading how these characters have spoken with both the living and the dead has helped me enormously, in times of joy and grief over these seven years, to think about friendship, family, commitment, and love. Though the characters are fictional, their creators (both JKR and the Alternity writers) have drawn on their own very real experiences and transmuted them as a creative gift to us.

I've also been reading alt-fen enthusiastically since its inception, though I've never posted here before. My thanks to the fen for such an insightful community with whom to F5 in solidarity!

Catherine

[adeliej]

I heartily second this.

"Alternity is my canon" is definitely how I feel about the HP world now. I've very much enjoyed the game over the last four or so years I've been reading, and the complexity of the characters and the world (and, as has been said, the realism) is a very large part of that.
Getting to watch allegiances being revealed has been very interesting, and I'm loving reading about the rebuilding, and how these things are not simple, and cutting off the head of the snake doesn't solve every problem.

Thank you so much for doing this. I'm very much looking forward to seeing how it's all wrapped up, and getting to hear about some of the stuff the players have been working out behind the scenes!

[longstrider]

"Alternity is my canon" Every time I see one of the secondary characters in another fanfic, they're just all wrong, Pansy, Daphne & Dolohov in particular. I miss Hydra and Evelyn and then remember that they aren't canon.

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

Right? I was browsing AO3 a bit ago and saw some fics with Hufflepuff Sally Anne. Couldn't even click, because no.

[batrachian]

what no.

*aghast face*


Also, everything the OP said, seconded.

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I've barely commented before now, though I've been reading from the beginning, but the aftermath has brought me out. I really think it's some of the most interesting work you've done so far--though I understand why there will be no 19-years-later epilogue, if there were one, I'm sure it would be a lot more interesting than the canon one. Would love to see what post-Protectorate Britain looks like.

I was right in the middle of the generation who grew up in the Potterverse; DH came out just as I finished high school. Alternity started...my second year of university, I think, and now I'm about to finish grad school (I hope!) If canon were the books of my childhood, I really think Alternity has shaped both the adult and writer I am for the better. I don't know what I'm going to do when I no longer have it to check every day! I am so in awe of all the work you've put in to make this world breathe for us.

With gratitude and affection,
Sarah

[aedifica]

Yes, thank you very much, players! And thank you fellow fen, too--the community experience has made it even better!