Internal* Revenue Service, not Inland; almost always abbreviated to IRS in speech.

* When I was getting less withheld from my paychecks than I owed, I always wrote "Infernal" on the checks; they got cashed.

Her upper arm was bruised. Well played!

This is BRILLIANT! How did I not know before that TBBT and Diskworld go together like cheesecake and cherries?

Reading about Johanna’s being careful not to be seen looking over the ridge and remembering her fondness for Applied Exothermy made me imagine a Guild class on ‘How Not to be Seen’ with Pythonesque results...

Ya know it would be great? If Ponder Stibbons discovered Dungeons and Dragons. He would like to see a version made for Discworld for magic and non-magic users.

Dear A A Pessimal,

I thought you might like to hear how much I've enjoyed your writing, and how much it's meant to me.

I've been having a bit of a rough year, and I found myself compulsively reading and re-reading the discworld novels (I'm partial to the Sam Vimes storylines), for solace and comfort. Until the re-reading started coming too close together for anything to have faded from memory. That's when I finally turned to fanfiction, and found you.

I have found great joy and psychic comfort in your writing, and am now slowly working my way through all your works. I think you for having put in the effort to write these.

I have noticed the degree of care you put into accuracy (technical, geographic, linguistic), and I therefore offer a solution for two bugs I've found - one recurring and one that ocurrs only once, but is somewhat biggish (akin to getting Mandela's name wrong).

Bug 1: in TBBT, Raj's surname is Koothrappali (vs. Kooprathali)
Bug 2: it's Pandit Nehru (vs. Panjit)

Finally, I don't know if you still check these messages or otherwise do anything about these stories, but I do want to thank you for putting them in the world.

Nice to have you back my friend. :)

Did you ever get the messages I sent you?

Welcome back!

cervithropy: the ability to transform into a deer

Sorry, but no: the author's ideas about resolving the time loop (which Johanna spends most of this chapter being a thinly veiled avatar of) *makes no sense*.

The natural way to solve it would be for her to do nothing; this means she lives through a period of eight days twice, but so what? She's already lived a couple of weeks extra, relative to time passing in Discworld, in Roundworld; being "out of sync" is by what the story previously established no problem. If anything, her sudden worries in this chapter rather come across as the kind of hubris-induced foolish decision that will be the *cause* of additional time-travel problems; one expects that by trying to avoid creating a third Johanna, she'd actually end up causing a third Johanna to be created! But the story didn't go there, and good riddance, as it'd be confusing, pointless, and possibly tragic.

The only thing that could suggest further actions from the older Johanna were even needed is the footprint by the window, presumably meant to be her own. The only catch is that going in through the window as described above cannot create it, as the present in the neighbourhood of the window is eight days later than when she first observed it; in order to have a chance to place that footprint for her past self to see, she would need to enter by the door.

In-story, Johanna can possibly be excused by having been given poor explanations of temporal mechanics by Ponder and Hex. You don't have two timelines fusing when you take a detour via a time loop; while this leaves the history of the universe non-simply connected, it is still perfectly consistent with just one timeline. The case when you get two timelines fusing is when there is a paradox, since that is precisely that there is no consistent history, and the history monks fix things by patching a semblance of history together which minimises inconsistency.

" Weinig bal van bont..." is incorrect. The correct translation is "kleine bal van bont" as weinig has to do with quantity. In this case, that would mean "weinig ballen van bont" which litteraly means "not many balls of fur" which doesnt make any sense in this situation. Apart from that, great story!

You are totally great. Maybe I'll manage to read through this whole story.
I shall tell people that Gimly may be a lady. This will surely put an end to slash stories including her and Legolas.
:-)))

(4)i guess those were made personally for one person adjustingly so they would fit.
THX :-)

The Caltech crew trying to figure out Empirical Crescent reminded me of canon-Howard’s quantum gyroscope from “the Military Miniaturization”.

Hypothetically, if Howard invented a quantum gyroscope and set it up in different rooms at Empirical Crescent, would that help the Caltech crew analyze folds in space-time?

Or am I misunderstanding what a quantum gyroscope is supposed to do? I was under the impression it could serve as a navigational tool, “pointing” towards normal space-time the same way a compass points towards magnetic north.

You misspelled the title in the actual chapter list ;)