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Yeah, that's right! And there were, like, 15 of us versus 50,000,000 of them!

Now it is time to wax on about the good old days when we killed sues dead, and didn:t have all this fancy dancy technology.

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And I did it a few weeks ago.

... for having the guts to say that :)

Personally, I didn't like Eragon. But then, there's a lot of books I don't like. And it's a published canon. That means it has a Word World. It *certainly* has badfic. Ergo, somewhere in the depths of the organisation, there WILL be PPC Agents protecting it.

If you like Eragon, good for you. It's almost refreshing to see someone say so :)

Triple mission plug! As usually happens to us, we start missions in a reasonably regular and orderly fashion, but are stymied by two things - our apparent inability to work unless we're under pressure, and our kamikaze muse who buggers off for weeks on end and then suddenly swoops in and compels us to finish everything we have on the books at once. So, for those of you who're curious about what our characters have been up to since February, may we present you with the adventures of Veridian and Stevius in the disturbing world of Narnian RPS:

http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/85271.html (warnings - awful SPaG, fluff, underage)

http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/85577.html (warnings - dub-con, age-gap, first-time-fic)

And Trojie, Pads and Oscar's gallivant through the Jurassic Park-verse:

http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/85191.html (warnings - underage, bestiality, rape)

It goes reasonably without saying that these missions are NSFW and NSFB, and all three are R-rated.

I believe I joined around September or October of 2002. So... 6 1/2 years, maybe?

When I joined, I think there were maybe ten people tops who frequently posted. Almost all of them seem to be gone now. Wow...

also, children break fossils. This cannot be countenanced.

No, there's no help for it. I shall just have to avoid adulthood.

I believe when an adult has had something called "an eighteen year drain on emotional and financial reserves", said adult is allowed to take said drain out to cavort in mud, at least for the first few years.

Here's some bleeperin for him.

Because I can't be an adult if it means I have to give up my degree ... and most of my degree is making mudpies, both literally and figuratively ...

No, dear. Not unless you become an "ad-dult". Which you will be hard pushed to do, at least until we work out the basic requirements.

Also I suspect a shed is involved somewhere.

Which came first, the Narnia mini-dragons or the Eragon mini-Dragons?

According to OFUA the minis for the Inheritance Cycle are mini-dragons.

and strangely it's questions like this that make me wish I was better at genetics, rather than, say, the desire to have got better marks in it in undergrad :P

and I totally agree.
I would have thought MAG would be a downstream gene from ATA (which would be involved in two different, but similar, functions: using Ancient technology, and using magic, though the MAG gene). But any way could work.

*isn't sure how to start with this*

I may be mildly incoherent in this explanation, so if I'm unclear, do ask.

Um, okay. Genes. Right.

Genes are lengths of DNA. DNA is read from one end to the other, so they have to be in the right order to work correctly. DNA condenses into chromosomes, which come in pairs. Each member of a pair has the same genes (well, theoretically, but we won't go into crossing over and mutations and things here) because they are copies of each other. So you have two copies of each gene.

There may be two or more slightly different versions of a gene - these are called alleles. It is alleles that are either dominant or recessive, not genes.

So, the way I interpret what you're talking about is that the ATA gene has two alleles - dominant (= can use Ancient tech) and recessive (= can't use it). If someone is homozygous dominant (that is, they carry two dominant alleles), they have the 'strong' expression of the gene (= phenotype). If they are a heterozygote (have one copy of each allele) they have a more moderate expression. Someone who is homozygous recessive is not able to use Ancient tech - they are a 'normal' human. As is the case with blue eye colour, it is very possibly for the recessive allele to be more common in a population.

The promoter gene would be heritable in the same way, and the MAG gene as well.

Basically her theory follows, but with the modification that genes themselves are not dominant or recessive; that it is their different forms that are :)

Or at least, it works enough for fiction - a real geneticist, which I am not, would most likely kick up at the details, but then again, they'd probably kick up about Ancient technology and about magic as well :P

Does this mean I'll have to start wearing shoes?

That part is sound. I understand that in the story the MAG gene is a sort of promotor gene, and that magic is actually a form of Ancient way of operating technology.

As put here, I think the latter part is sound too.

That said, my speech habits are slightly odd and tend to pick up the style of whatever I've been reading recently, so I can't really say that I'm representative of American speech habits. *shrugs* If it helps, I live in Pennsylvania.

I've uploaded the songs to MegaUpload so I could send them to LJ's Fanmix community, but I was wondering if people here might want to see them. Thought I'd better ask if it was okay to post them on the LJ before I actually did.

The group mind doesn't hate it enough to totally want to run away from it.

After all, a few people have asked to PPC Eragon itself- as well as a few other canons they dislike too.

:P

I joined in early 2008, in either late February or early March. So, roughly a year.

Here's a free extra-special scimitar from the Raven Armory.