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."
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!
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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