Hoorah wayback machine

[lucky_guess]

I 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.

Comments

[gwendolyngrace]

Aww.

I was at a great party Saturday night and we were talking about HP and JK's flaws in the story, and also about fix-it fic and somehow I mentioned how we were scheduling the Battle for Hogwarts, and how of course it had to be held on the weekend of one of my big camping events. I still chuckle thinking about having to leave site, drive home like a maniac, and get online as soon as possible while y'all were stalling in the meantime.

Good times. Miss it and you all like crazy some days.

[jenett]

If you can't find the final letters, I'm pretty sure I still have them all in my email somewhere.

[sporky_rat]

I keep poking at the Wayback Machine for more of the .pdf's but it's not working.

[longstrider]

I believe this is the final zip file that I made.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2_yk-uKW6AqUm9hSEQ5YVNiOU0/view?usp=drivesdk

[naomikritzer]

The other night I was online and saw both Gwen and someone else from the game in my Google chat bar and had this impulse to just ... start up a conversation.

I was on a panel at Convergence (big volunteer-run fandom con, local to me) with Seanan McGuire a couple weeks ago on profic/fanfic (like being a fanfic writer who moves to professional writing OR being a professional writer who writes fanfic for fun) and in my intro I mentioned I'd participated in a journal-based RPG/fanfic thing that was a real-time Harry Potter AU. Seanan turned to me and said "which one?" I said, "Alternity." She said "SHUT UP." I guess she read it!