GRINDELDORE FOR GOATS - the conclusion!

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So here I am, twenty-four hours later, totally unslept and reasonably well-fed, mostly-naked and well-flirted-with, and, most important, bearing a more-or-less complete fic!

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Fic Links

being a correspondence between Albus P.W.B. Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald, and being also somewhat unedited and in need of a title, but done, in the end, for the Greater Good:
GG, 09/10/51
AD, 10/13/51
GG, 10/16/51
AD, 11/12/51
AD, 08/04/52
GG, 09/26/52
AD, 10/13/52
GG, 11/19/52
AD, 01/01/53
AD, 04/18/56
GG, 07/11/56
AD, 08/02/56
GG, 09/27/56
AD, 02/28/57
GG, 03/15/57
AD, 05/17/57
GG, 06/30/57
AD, 12/05/57
GG, 12/25/57
GG, 07/12/66
AD, 09/05/66
GG, 12/25/68
GG, 12/25/70
AD, 12/13/81
GG, 12/25/81
AD, 12/25/95
GG, 01/96
AD, 06/09/97
GG, date unknown
OO, 07/21/97

*takes a deep breath*

I DID IIIIIIIIIIT!

About 9,500 total words of fic!

And I feel surprisingly good!

Comments

Re: please, say "yes"!

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I've been so out of touch--currently homeless (long story), amongst other problems, and do not have much time to deal with fandom stuff.

One concern, one request:

The concern is: I don't know what the ettiquette is with this sort of thing, but I had two other people requested permission for a Russian translation, maria_barring and aldhissla18. (The translation requests have been on hold--I've done a lot of necessary revision, though I still have a few more sections to fill in the next time I get the time and a friend's computer. But I know the contest is coming up soon, and I'll try to either finish the revision or have a copy I can let you have.) I really don't know whether this is going to be a translator turf war or what, but if you want to contact them and check and so forth, there you are.

(Personally--I don't have an issue with there being multiple translations out there, but I know translation can be a lot of work, and I'd hate to have three people spending their time on the same thing due to not knowing other people are doing it.)

The request: could I have a link to the contest?

When would you need an English copy by? If it's a week or so, I could probably get you the final version--I hope to have it done soon, I just need to find the computer time and focus. I admit that I'm not happy with the idea of having the unfinished version out there more than it already is, but I know you have a deadline and I've been nonexistent and such. :/

Re: please, say "yes"!

[alvina3.livejournal.com]

You have nothing to be sorry about - you are The Author, after all! LOL

I've written both maria_barring and aldhissla18 - no problem there.

The games start 30/03 and my translation is due to 21/04, so if you send the final version in a week, it's fine! As for the link, since the contest hasn't started yet, i could only give you the link to the Astronomy Tower site, if you like, where it will take place eventually: http://hp-fiction.fastbb.ru/. Oh, and my direct email, just in case: alvina3@gmail.com

PS: Oh, and did you by any chance write this one as well?
http://community.livejournal.com/hpvalensmut/97334.html

I bet you did!!! :D