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I joined April 2008. I certainly feel like I've been here forever. :P

I think it involves strange footwear. My trainers and I cry out in protest at this notion, but really, I can't even picture what's meant.

People tell me these job things are good, because you get to fill your pockets while you're there. But the government gives me money and my feet stay comfortable, so the idea has yet to really grab hold of me. Beyond that, I have no idea what it entails.

It is call a J. O. B. Sounds like it sucks. I never want to be an aud alt if it means that I will have to get one of those. Anybody hear of it and can tell me what exactly it is???

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Was that sarcasm?

In case it wasn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom(videogame)

He went "Nnngahh".

I don't know. What's Doom?

Have some coconuts and a pair of Boots Of Running Really Fast.

You don't know who I am, but I'm going to hug you anyway. Have some coconuts (a lovely bunch) and the Sword Of Slaying Everything Except Squid.

Well, since last November. But it's the thought that counts.

I actually like Eragon... book, that is, even people who haven't read the book think the movie sucks.... But I really, really hate Twilight.

I'm betaing a Harry Potter/Stargate crossover for someone and we've been discussing the ATA gene and if it has an effect on HP magic or not/controls HP magic or not. She came up with this and asked if this was sound. From what I can understand, it seems to be, but I thought I'd get a second opinion (obviously, this is directed mostly at Trojie, goddess of biology). In case you're not familiar with Stargate, the ATA gene (does that actually stand for anything?) is what gives people the ability to control Ancient/Alteran technology.

"There are three general principles that are the basis of this theory.

1. Either you have a gene, or you don’t.

2. The expression of genes you do have can be strong, weak, something in between, or even non-existing.

3. Promoter genes are genes that tell other genes if they should be turned on or off, and how strong their expression should be.

Keeping that in mind, if you look at the ATA gene, you either have it, or you don’t. If you don’t have it, you cannot turn on, or in some cases even control, Ancient technology. If you do have the ATA gene, the expression can be different. O’Neill, Beckett and Sheppard, for instance, have a very strong expression.

The ATA gene has shown no sign of being recessive, so I’m considering it as a dominant gene. It is, however rare, and needs some promoter genes to work, which is the reason the gene therapy works for McKay, but not for everyone. McKay has the necessary promoter genes to turn the gene on, while others don’t have it, so the gene therapy doesn’t work on them. The promoter genes are passed on separately from the ATA gene, so active ATA genes are not always heritable.

All magical people, and that includes most Squibs, have the ATA gene, but in order to have working magical abilities, they need to have an additional, dominant gene, which I’ll call the MAG gene. Squibs, born from two magical parents, do have the ATA gene in most cases, but lack the MAG gene, so they can’t do magic. Muggleborns have one parent with the ATA gene, while the other has the MAG gene, and they have inherited both, enabling them to do magic while their parents can’t. The fact that Wizards need both rare genes to be magical accounts for the very low number of magical people on Earth.

Magical ability is correlated with the expression of the MAG gene, just like the strength of the ATA gene is correlated with its expression.

In my story, Daniel has both the ATA gene and the MAG gene, with a moderate ATA gene expression and a strong MAG gene expression (like Harry had before the merging). Jack doesn’t have the MAG gene, but he does have the ATA gene and it is expressed very strong."

but now I have to ask.

Why is fanfiction dominated by women?

"(popular badfic -- particularly lots of it -- at times makes me wonder whether it's perhaps I who is wrong about the canon.)"

Well, you'd be wrong. My badfic was stupidly, ridiculously popular. It Sucked. With a capital S.

that could count as badfic?

but basically everything I've ever written is on my computer. They were on my laptop too, but that went boom.

I've been here since about mid-2007 I think, was quite active for a bit, then vanished. I popped up once every few months to check up on your guys, but now I'm back. Feel free to cheer/cower in fear, whatever suits you guys. :P

But that said, yes, we do seem to have something of a hive mind, don't we? It's a fine line between camraderie and keeping to the constitution's statement that anyone can like anything. Not saying it's a bad or good thing; just something to keep in mind.

Or rather, while there may be people, even people on the Board, who don't, the PPC Hive Mind (the Porg?) has decided that It hates Eragon. And therefore that no components of It will want anything to do with it.

hS

. . . so we were probably about the same time.

I'm pretty sure Leto is the oldest oldbie still around. All hail Leto!

Have a welcome-back laser chainsword anyway.

It might show what the mini'd be for that fandom.

Mini-Ra'zac perhaps?