Why don’t you just start up again on this blog, instead of trying to reclaim the old one? It’s not like the pictures can be retrieved from it now. (They’ve all been deleted.) Starting over here seems like the easier option, since you’d have to start over anyway.

 It’s something we’re considering, but Solar is adamant about getting the old blog back. I’m not sure how restoring it will work, since, as you said, all the posts were deleted manually I don’t believe there’s a way to get them back, but after the hacker is dealt with, we’ll be figuring out where to go from there.