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alt_fenI finally got around to backing up my alternity files.
I also couldn't help myself, and read the codas, and the final month of game play, and also the Battle for Hogwarts month.
It took me a solid two-day marathon just to get through all of it, and I cried like a dozen times. Mercy. (Also, I may end up getting on a computer that has advanced adobe and rearranging some of the pages during 2015-05 to match order of events -- silly time zones interfering in the height of battle. I'll re-post here when I do in case anyone else wants a copy.)
There were so many sweet little touches I'd forgotten, or let fade a little.
Draco and Ron's mutual respect.
Ernie being so good to Linus.
The agony of Ginny and Charlie.
Tonks and Hydra being awesome cousins to one another.
Titsed.
Toast.
The sheer resiliency of the younger Order members in the aftermath, despite their obvious hurts -- their hope, and joy, and sense of the future being so wonderfully wide open, and how damn few of the original were left -- in the end, just Poppy, Molly, and the Longbottoms.
And Padma continuing to be Padma despite everything, for which I loved her endlessly
And Seamus and Jason! God, those two.
And Dolohov and Barty's totally epic dramafest of death, and Hydra and Justin's maneuvering and sense of... immense destiny and doom about the whole thing that was just EPIC.
The sheer audacity of what the Order and allies managed to pull off in 24 hours, and after, too, cobbling together a brand new government while fighting a war. (I seriously got chills when Alice called out for Jerusalem.)
I cried about Daphne, and Harry, and Severus, and Neville, and Colin, and Justin, and Sirius, and Remus.
It was SO GOOD, y'all.
Just.
Thank you.
I may also have to dig around for some of those final letters, and re-read them, and let them break my heart all over again.
I also couldn't help myself, and read the codas, and the final month of game play, and also the Battle for Hogwarts month.
It took me a solid two-day marathon just to get through all of it, and I cried like a dozen times. Mercy. (Also, I may end up getting on a computer that has advanced adobe and rearranging some of the pages during 2015-05 to match order of events -- silly time zones interfering in the height of battle. I'll re-post here when I do in case anyone else wants a copy.)
There were so many sweet little touches I'd forgotten, or let fade a little.
Draco and Ron's mutual respect.
Ernie being so good to Linus.
The agony of Ginny and Charlie.
Tonks and Hydra being awesome cousins to one another.
Titsed.
Toast.
The sheer resiliency of the younger Order members in the aftermath, despite their obvious hurts -- their hope, and joy, and sense of the future being so wonderfully wide open, and how damn few of the original were left -- in the end, just Poppy, Molly, and the Longbottoms.
And Padma continuing to be Padma despite everything, for which I loved her endlessly
And Seamus and Jason! God, those two.
And Dolohov and Barty's totally epic dramafest of death, and Hydra and Justin's maneuvering and sense of... immense destiny and doom about the whole thing that was just EPIC.
The sheer audacity of what the Order and allies managed to pull off in 24 hours, and after, too, cobbling together a brand new government while fighting a war. (I seriously got chills when Alice called out for Jerusalem.)
I cried about Daphne, and Harry, and Severus, and Neville, and Colin, and Justin, and Sirius, and Remus.
It was SO GOOD, y'all.
Just.
Thank you.
I may also have to dig around for some of those final letters, and re-read them, and let them break my heart all over again.
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Date: 2017-07-26 04:52 am (UTC)I just lost my ENTIRE evening (literally, from 6 PM to just now) re-reading August... and then digging through my email and the non-redacted files for some of the final letters and the "behind the scenes" bits of Justin's death...and weeping all over again for him, Sirius, Remus, Harry, Daphne.... And that's after going to wayback over the weekend and spending a good hour or two downloading all the pdfs!
I look back on all this and think how extraordinarily lucky I was to have the time and freedom and access to online that I did from 2008-2015. My current crappy job would make a game like this and my level of involvement in it next to impossible - even with smartphones and the like now. (Remember when we started and pretty much none of us had 24/7 online connectivity?)
Anyway... yeah, I miss it so much. I don't know how I would play in anything like it again at the moment, but man, I miss everyone.