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In which Adder and Deuce enter the Redwallverse for the first time to tackle a badfic that brings to mind such classics as 'legolas by laura'.

Now... as for what Adder says to Jacob later on in the mission, I probably got some Spanish grammar wrong, and if I did, I apologize. If you're not familiar with the Spanish language and don't know what that means... eh.

Did you get that I want to reserve a hammerspace knife for Kierra once I get her and Nocia all typed up and on my livejournal?

Genetic illnesses can be coded for either on the autosomes (non-sex chromosomes) in which case if you're unlucky enough to have one (in the case of a dominant) or both (in the case of a recessive) chromosomes carry the thing, then you have it, regardless of gender.

If the gene is carried on the X chromosome and you are a girl, then you have two options. If it is a recessive allele you need both of your X chromosomes to have a copy of it before you will show the disease. Otherwise you are a 'carrier' but not a sufferer. If it is a dominant allele, having just one copy is enough. You will have the disease.

If it is carried on the X chromosome and you are a male, then you will have the disease, because there is not a corresponding 'slot' on the Y chromosme to mask it in the case of a recessive (in the case of a dominant, well, you only need one copy to have the disease).

This pattern also follows for non-disease-y traits that are carried on the X chromosome. If a gene is carried on the X chromosomes it is termed X-linked.

If the gene is carried on the Y chromosome exclusively, then only males can get it. Very few diseases are carried this way - the Y chromosome is very small. Traits carried on the Y chromosome are termed Y-linked.

Kh'orr'ak't'ann was actually a character created by myself and a friend when we were younger. He was sort of a comedic character, who could only manage to assimilate worlds for the Tyranids by accident. We've long since outgrown him, but I liked him a lot so I signed him up with the PPC. We never put him to paper, or even considered doing so, so he sort of exists somewhere between a semi-fic blip and entirely imaginary (see: Louise). I also wanted to use Schlect (who was recruited on Jay's last mission and hasn't been seen since), so I threw in someone big and scary-looking for him to utterly dominate.

As to how he functions, Mission 3 gives a clue. Note that he takes "Hive Maspirin."

Munchkin is a hilarious card game which originated as a spoof of DnD, though there's also Star Munchkin, Munchkin Fu, Munchkin Cthulhu, etc. Oh, and then there's the expander packs, like Clerical Errors and The Call Of Cowthulhu. Cheating is part of the rules. It's fun.

21-29 July is out as well. I'll be in San Diego that week.

Like yours, my knowledge of LotR-cosmology is pretty limited, but I'll give it a shot.

The Valar are, indeed "sort of second-in-command gods", although I'm not certain if the Ainur fit into the picture in any manner.

Elvish resurrection is, by my understanding, incredibly rare - as in, to the best of my knowledge, it has occurred roughly half a dozen times in the history of the world.

I'd do my best to seriously rethink the human love interest. I'm not certain, but I think Beren & Luthien, Tuor & Idril, and Aragorn & Arwen are the only Man-Elf couples. Encyclopedia of Arda mentions another as possible, but I don't recognize either of the names, and even so that's only four in the whole history of the world. More than that, I have the distinct impression that Elves take one spouse, and one only, their entire lives.

I might see if I could merge the brain-shapes of the love interest and "Glorgatha", and probably keep her alive - aiming for a sort of "stuck with her, so learn to love her" situation.

Frankly I think the concept is at best an Improbable Crossover, and could very easily become Implausible, but if you think you can make it work more power to ya.

What about turning the HP universe into a second 'province' of Ea(can't add the double dots, sorry), in which access to the Music of the Ainur was more open to humanity (and possibly elvenkind). You can then make the spell system used by wizards a degraded version of it (using latin, and whtever tounges percieved as high). Then, turn Harry/Glorgathon's mission into the reintroduction of the 'true music', which is love (already his post powerful exsisting power). Just my two cents!

You see, I discovered the anime series, Baccano!, a few weeks ago. Natually, I searched for fanfic, and I found this:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4405692/4/OneHellofaRuckus

Problem is, this fic is also a crossover between two other series, Gunslinger Girl and Black Lagoon, which I have yet to watch (I'm still at Vision of Escaflowne, and am planning to move on to Code Geass). Therefore, I can't asses it's quality. Can you tell me if this is good?

I have a space on my shelf I had intended to use for my subwoofer before I found out the cables couldn't reach there, and had to put it on the floor. Nice-sized lump of coal would fit there perfectly.

A lot of badficcers are just overenthusiastic kids. They eventually end up writing better fic, if they stick with it and don't freak out at concrit :)

It's a practice thing, don't forget. We spork the fic to fix the world, not to punish the author.

I'll be able to read these in more detail when my connection at home is back up, but I thought I should say I like it so far. Chliever's a rather interesting Agent, nice to see how you've made the idea of a daemon of Chaos working for the PPC go smoothly, though I'm not so sure if the Hive Tyrant agent you've made is as compatible, heh. Though maybe I shouldn't talk, since I made an Ork for an Agent. Still, good show so far, I'm working on my third mission myself. I'll definitely read these when things are up and working again.

Last week of June is out. Maybe July or August.

So are you going to burn this coal? Or just... keep it, forever?

I like the human interest part of WWII - last story I got off my grandparents was about when the docks burnt, and my dad found an unexploded grenade in the cupboard under the stairs once. But at school it was all just dates and battles and yawn. And my grandparents were all born at the end of the twenties, so the really entertaining stories have come down from WWI and my great-grandparents instead. So I'll stick with the Vikings for now, because they're being surprisingly fun.

For instance in the TV show Sliders there was one episode where the characters were in a parallel dimension where most of the men had died due to some biological warfare that only affected men.

If the canon itself already claims something can be done, then it can be done. And the science behind it doesn't have to make as much sense.

Two level six biohazards? What is this fandom?

This is coal from the Titanic. The only actual Titanic artifacts that are allowed to be sold are lumps of coal from the ship's bunkers, now scattered across the seabed (obviously; the rest of the ship can be effectively considered a mass maritime graveyard).

So I want one. And the problem is that I can only get one from this traveling exhibit, when it comes around. So I have been unable to get one for like a decade.

I'm mostly into 20th Century history; World War II in particular is my forte, but (as you might have guessed) I'm also big on the Titanic. And the Hindenburg disaster, while not quite as interesting of a human interest story as either of those two, did happen to occur on my birthday, so yeah.

Your parents must love you. Easiest birthday present ever. Me, I'm still badgering Pater for an etymological dictionary, and he's doing his damndest to weasel out of it.

Speaking of blending, not to distress you but nineteen is about where it really kicks in, I found. What with time going faster the older you get, and what with you now having had eighteen different ages to remember already, by the time you get your head round the fact you're nineteen you'll be practically twenty. And it only gets worse every year.

I was going to say "but how do you explain Sedri?" but then I realised she probably wasn't actually conceived down under. Clearly the only way to deal with August heat is to make like a rabbit and get it on.

Which historical stuffs, by the way?

They are, yes. Although Dumbledore's beard is a lot bigger than any Seamus could grow, and works as a lovely soft blanket on naked skin. In Seamus's dreams, obviously.

Every now and again, story ideas get buried in the depths of my mind due to lack of time to write them or them being just plain rubbish. Occasionally, they’ll make a return at some point with a few new ideas. One of them, a Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings crossover, just made its third attempt at resurgence, with a flood of new ideas. The last time it raised its ugly head, I shot it in the face for the first chapter alone (in which Harry was almost certainly OOC). This time, it’s wised up to my strategy for headshotting and come up with a way to avoid the OOC Harry and a way to integrate him into the LotR world relatively seamlessly. Here’s where my question comes in. While I’m looking for your views on the basics of the plotline, there’s a specific aspect of it that I want to know about to discover if I need to bury the fic again:

Harry dies fighting Voldemort (though taking Voldemort with him) after having fought the Dark Lord for about five years after DH. He wakes up at or near Esgaroth/Erebor about five, maybe six hundred years before the War of the Ring, with no memory of who or where he is, only remembering his name. Exploring, he encounters the local population (probably Esgaroth as I feel I could write humans far better than dwarves) and manages to communicate with them (as time goes on, he grows more and more fluent in most of the LotR languages). It’s about this time he discovers that he’s an elf.

At which point, my conscious mind went ‘Wait, what?’ until my brain decided to explain a bit more of the plot to me. It’s dripfed throughout the fic, but I’ll give an infodump here. Harry was an elf first. Let’s call him… Glorgathon, because I have no name for him currently and can’t be bothered to find a proper Elvish example name that hasn’t already been used by Tolkien. Glorgathon died in the War of the Last Alliance, possibly just before the end. I only have a ridiculously basic grasp of the Elven afterlife and I’m probably getting everyone’s names and roles wrong, so don’t kill me if I horribly screw it up now. The Valar (the sort of second-in-command gods, right?) are aware of Voldemort (possibly because the Valar exist in both worlds or maybe the act of creating a Horcrux was so horrific that they became aware of Voldemort) and want someone to sort the guy out. Glorgathon agrees and they send him in the form of Harry Potter. After Harry’s death, Glorgathon is brought back to the Halls of Mandos (?) and given a gold star and a fruit basket before being kicked into Middle-Earth. At first, he has no memory of anything that’s happened to him in either world, but as time passes, he eventually pieces together memories and works out what happened.

Anyway, Harry/Glorgathon (we’ll call him Harry, though) is led to Mirkwood (I’m guessing my subconscious chose Mirkwood simply as a probably misguided attempt to be different from the Suethors who choose Lothlorien or Rivendell for their Sues) and is recognised by the elves he meets, though he can’t say the same of them (you’ll really have to forgive me here. I have no clue how the resurrection part of Elven afterlife works. Do they randomly appear as adults or are they born and raised like any elf child until they reach a certain age where they say, “By the way, I’m Glorgathon” or is there another method?). This lack of remembrance causes chaos when it turns out that he’s married to… umm… Glorgatha the elf. After that, cue life in Mirkwood as he tries to figure out what happened to him, try to cope with having a wife he can’t remember and Sauron rearing his probably ugly head in the East once again. At some point, Glorgatha dies when she… err… ingests rat poison (*shrugs* haven’t figured out her death yet). Now, I’m vaguely, vaguely (lots of emphasis on the ‘vaguely’) aware of Finwe and Miriel (anyone care to explain properly?). Could the same thing possibly happen here? Because my brain is currently demanding that he have a human love interest in Minas Tirith/Edoras around the time of the War of the Ring. This is the main question I’m asking, by the way.

When the war does begin, Harry volunteers to represent the elves, but Legolas is chosen instead. Therefore, Harry only encounters the Fellowship every once in a while (Helm’s Deep and Minas Tirith, probably). There are two things I can do here; a) have him choose to defend Minas Tirith (and get injured while doing so, meaning he’s not at the Black Gate) or b) choose to defend the Mirkwood and Erebor et cetera from Dol Guldor, but I have no idea of the specifics of those battles (I somehow doubt that Battle for Middle-Earth II is reliable) or even if it’d fit Harry’s character to be that far away from the battles that would actually bring about Sauron’s downfall.

After that, stuff happens. Probably Harry healing, marrying his love interest, having two point four children and then leaving Middle-Earth soon after she dies.

So yeah, what do you think? I’m guessing (and kind of hoping, given my current workload) that you’re going to tell me not to ever write this under pain of pain. If I did, I’d obviously come here for beta readers, but it all depends on your reaction. So?

If only I had broadband. I might have been able to claim that for my own backlog. Good luck with it.

I answer that with my own question. How did Sues become so common? Because all these authors are too busy [unsure if I'd get into trouble if I post this word] over their supreme author skillz to notice that the only thing they should be writing is their signature on a court order forbidding them to come within fifty metres of a keyboard.