I will research this myself, but I'm on the run and thought I would ask the hive mind, as sometimes that is a lot faster. :)

Where do the Replicators come from? Does Thor offer an explanation of this? I know that Reese can make them, but was she the original creator of the ones that eventually infested the Asgard's galaxy?

Also, who made Reese? Was she an Anient creation?

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I keep finding that this hydropunk thing needs more. More here. More there. And extra scene that I forgot about.

And more than once, in this NaNo season, I have wondered if I should actually make an effort to turn this into my first novel. Obviously, a fandom novel, but I believe the longest thing I have ever done is Arena, which came in about 30k, if memory serves.

Of course, I'm still only up to approximately 15,000 words on the hydropunk piece. But I'm still editing and not even up to the point in the edit where I was hoping to offload onto lokei at the end of the weekend, and I still have probably another 1000 words to add to that section alone. And for perspective, that will result in probably 2000 words being added to the first 6 manuscript pages just with the first cut edit. So. If I keep that up, with a 39 page manuscript, I could almost double the word count just from the editing, putting this around the length of Arena without even really *trying.*

What if I thought about it more, and developed the plot a little, and pushed for 50k?

It's an intriguing thought. I will continue to think about it.

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"Dallas? Dallas..." Jack pretended to search his memory. "Twinkie guy, blond hair, great boots, cute accent? He was a damned good lay. I don't need genetically enhanced memory to remember him. And neither do you, if memory still serves."

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So, I was editing on the hydropunk piece today. I was hoping to possibly finish it today during my day off, or barring that, at least have it done by the weekend. But reading back over it, there are a lot of places I want to fill in with more detail, better dialog. It needs more show, less tell. Just during the edit of the first 11 pages, I decided there needed to be about 1000 words of new material added that I hadn't realized was missing.

I think this piece is nowhere near as finished as I had hoped.

Ah, well. No deadline, no need to rush. I am very fond of this story and want it to be a good one. So. Invest the time to really craft it. lokei, if you happen by, I may still have the first 5000 words or so ready for you by the end of the weekend.

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I am inordinately pleased with the hydropunk piece, even though I think it may be massively self-indulgent. I hope it will at least be a guilty pleasure for a bunch of other people, too. Hit 12,000 words this morning. That's 12,000 words since October 22. Not bad. I'm thinking it may go over 15,000 now. Wonder if it'll go all the way to 20,000.

Meanwhile, I had an idea for a radical, sort of 25-steps-to-the-left AU. Not sure if I will write it or not. Could be quite grim. Also, fear it would be derivitive of that SB/VM thing with the bookstore and the homeless guy (Gah, can't believe I can't remember the name. It'll come to me. Wasn't in any of my old SB/VM recs, either, though I know at least once I crowed when it updated. Dang it.), but hopefully not, as the characters are radically different. It's not a very me story though. Maybe it can be something short.

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On Friday, Boss's calendar has an item: "Metro from AU."

After a double take, I realized AU is NOT alternate universe, but, in fact American University.

*eyes calendar*

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3000 solid words done on my lokei-inspired future!fic. Will we be calling it fin!fic? Hydropunk?

Also, lokei doesn't know it yet, but she will be needing to beta. *nods*

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Dolphin sex
Western Interior Seaway: geography, geology
Cretaceous sea life
Find atlas to review basic American political geography (i.e. CK can't remember the cities of the midwest)
What were the names of the two religions based on the teachings of the prophet Bart?

OK, friends page, I'm counting on you for that last one. You saw the ep. You know it by heart. Two armies faced off over a religious war about the teachings of Bart. It was the same episode where Bart reminds the Catholics and the Protestants that they need to unite against their true enemies, monogamous gays and stem cells.

Ha! Wait! I found it! No. Damn. But now I know the episode. The Father, The Son, and The Holy Guest Star. Perhaps will break out the DVD tonight.

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