I was cleaning out my google drive and before I realized what I was doing, the trash was empty. I have no backups of my one treasured document.

This was a TRPG project I spent 7 months working on (think of it like dungeons and dragons, but I made it my own), hours upon hours of testing and reworking and asking for help online... and the original copy is now permanently deleted from the internet everywhere.

The only thing I have to go off of is an outdated paper copy, which only has 17 of the 21 pages I made. At least it’s something, but it’ll take a while to type this up by hand.

Sigh.

EDIT: I wanna reiterate, because I’m still upset, that this was my first ever passion project and I poured my soul into it. If I didn’t have this paper copy of it, I would never want to make something like this again. It would seem like so much work, even though it’s the one thing I’m truly interested in, hobby-wise and also career-wise. I was this close to losing motivation to pursue my dream job.