Round 84 has ended!!

[lolmac]

Round 84, affectionately known as Fred (but never as Freddy), is over!

Tell us what wonderful things you accomplished this weekend! I saw a lot of lovely new members and lovely, well, not necessarily old, let's say veteran members, and much much wordage and other accomplishments! Now's your chance to boast of your prowess.

Please also take a chance to thank our lovely and tireless Mod Squad, who kept the hourly posts going. We did not drop ONE SINGLE HOUR in this round! (Some of them wobbled a bit, but hey, nothing cracked.)

Your mods were:

juliet316, the Pinstriped Fish Defender, who won this month's crown as Champion Usurper with TWELVE posts
dbskyler, the Slayer of Alien Fish
justice_turtle, the Ninja Pirate Prince/ss
thisbluespirit, the Bringer of Penguins
glinda, the Supreme Tea Temptress
idlewild, the Grand Vizier of Coffee
agirlnamedtruth, the Supreme Temporal Wrangler
lullabymoon, known as Dances-With-Nemeses* 
and myself, lolmac (Beth), known as Queen Mod.

Please give a very special an fervent shout-out to justice_turtle, whose tireless enthusiasm coaxed the 'Rush back into life again. TURTLE ROCKS!!

Many happy thanks to everyone who participated. Please keep an eye on this comm and watch for a new poll to choose a weekend for an April round. I think it's clear that the Rush is back with a mighty roar, and we have plenty more good rounds ahead!

*(even if the Nemesis is no longer there in the house, you can still dance, right?)

Comments

[ashkaztra]

Got 1,163 words written, which is a nice kick in the right direction! I'm glad the community is back and that justice_turtle reminded me of its existence!

I also got a lot of my WIPs sorted into "I can finish these easily", "These have a long way to go but have a lot of potential" and "What the heck was I on (but I'll still keep them for later)", so I actually have a siege plan, which might help.

Or I might get distracted by scientific articles on lobsters. Either or. xD

[justice_turtle]

Yay, sorted WIPs! ...ooh, lobsters. New developments in Wraith culture and physiology? :-)

[ashkaztra]

Sorted WIPs! For as long as it lasts, anyway, given the speed at which I come up with new WIPs. Some of my WIPs have WIP sequels.

Lobsters! They’re sea bugs! xD Actually, they’re arthropods, which makes them a cousin of insects rather than actual insects (though informally, bug is used for pretty much all invertebrates). They’re relevant to my interests because they’re sort of immortal, giving an actual scientific base to a lot of Wraith traits that canon sort of handwaved. See, there’s this thing called telomeres, which is a strand of DNA on the end of our chromosomes. In most vertebrates, these shorten over time because we lack the ability of fully replicate DNA strands. Lobsters, however, have an enzyme called telomerase which helps them elongate their DNA strands over time, keeping them from actually aging the way we do.

And if that can exist in real life, it can certainly exist in a species as biologically implausible as the Wraith. xD

(It also explains how the rapid aging happens when they feed; something in the enzyme they release during feeding has the opposite effect and break down the telomeres, causing rapid aging.)

Science is fun! xD And also, lobsters don’t age, they merely grow. Which sounds ominous, but thankfully they can’t grow over a certain size because their system can only sustain so much.

(Sorry for the science ramble. I get enthusiastic when I can base head canon in science. xD)

[lolmac]

I'm not even into SGA, and I find this SO COOL.