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Klar, thank you so much for that thoughtful and detailed review.

I totally agree with you that superheroes interacting with Gods is rarely done right, and that there should always be lasting consequences. I put a lot of thought and effort into making the Goddess as...well, for lack of a better term...Goddess-like as I possibly could, and having her effects on mortals be as plausible as I could make them. Thanks for confirming to me that the hard work paid off.

The Goddess is, indeed, not the same diety as Nightmare's daughter Dreamqueen. It was imperative to me that the Goddess be a character cut from whole cloth, rather than her having some connection to Marvel continuity. That was part of my effort to make the story as accessible as possible to readers who are not Alpha Flight cultists such as myself.

And as I think back on it, I realize now that I really should have listed a special thanks to writer Fabian Nicieza, whose all-too-brief 15-issue run on Alpha Flight is not only the last part of the AF canon before the alternate-continuity divergence, but also the first and only AF run that gave some of the second-and-third-string team members some real depth. It was Nicieza, for instance, who was the first to show readers that Diamond Lil had a real vulnerability hidden behind her brash, tough exterior.

For that matter, I should also have listed special thanks to Nicieza's two best AF writing predecessors, James Hudnall and AF creator John Byrne.

I do believe I'll go fix that omission right now.

Keep an eye on this thread...something's coming in just one week.

A slight change in plans...

Good news is, the Transformers fic is ready to post and, bar any unexpected cosmic disruptions, it will be posted on Archive of Our Own tomorrow morning at 7:00. A link in this thread shall immediately follow.

Bad news is, the Gobots fic, which I've actually been working on longer than the TF one, still needs some fine-tuning, so I've set a new deadline for posting it: Monday, September 26th.

Hmmm...methinks the Gobot haters might interpret both items as good news. But I kid the Gobot haters -- to each their own, I respect your opinion and your inalienable right to hate 1980s Hanna-Barbera toy-driven cartoons with space-opera trappings.

As promised:

http://archiveofourown.org/series/543541

Enjoy.

And, as always, comments are greatly appreciated. It doesn't matter to me whether the comments are left here in this Legion World Bits thread, or on Archive of Our Own.

Coming tonight at 9:00...

"We are experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by..."

Just kidding. OK, half kidding. Basically, I'm running a little behind schedule, BUT I will have the entire fanfic posted before 12 midnight. One way or another, I *will* have it ready *on September 26th*, as promised.

It's still going to happen. Put it this way, I can finally see proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.

And this is the last post I will make about the delay until all seven installments are completed and posted at Ao3.

Famous last words. :s

But I'll keep this short and sweet:

It became painfully obvious last night that the Gobots fic needs a lot more work than I realized. I won't bore anyone with the details (I've got my fanfic writers' community for that post.) Suffice it to say I'm now looking to have it ready by Christmastime, because I still intend to do one "movie-length" Gobots fic a year, from 2016 through 2019, just like the old sci-fi TV show "Alien Nation" did a series of TV movies after lasting only one season.

Now I'm off to get a long rest, and then I'll have myself a stress-free, fanfic-writing-free (but not Legion-World-post-free, oh no) weekend.

Later, 'gators.

Take all the time you need, Fanfie. Can't rush art.

Thank you, Ibby. Much appreciated.

My brand-sparkling new Transformers fan fic!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37407001/chapters/93349153