So I am back from con.txt! It was fun. If you would like to hear about con.txt, give me a letter A-Z and I will talk about stuff. (Hey, it worked for Iceland last summer...)

Since then I have been busily teaching myself how to use the phylip suite of cladistics programs. Why, you ask? Because MCU Rolling Remix went live, and I have two more days to attempt to reconstruct the phylogeny from scratch. (Well, okay, I know which one I remixed and which one is mine, and that's it.)

(Rolling Remix is a new kind of fest where one person writes a story and then it gets remixed and then that gets remixed so on down the chain. There were three chains starting from the first story resulting in 22 total stories - the original and three chains of seven.)

Phylip using just characters as charactesr got me a good starting place; now I am actually reading the stories, in the order suggested by the cladograms, to extract other characters that might improve the analysis (so far: churros).

(You might ask: did you really need to relearn cladistics just to make guess for a fic fest? To which I answer: did I *not* need to relearn cladistics?)

anyway I will not be trying to guess authors because that would require me to, like, be able to tell people apart, which is unlikely at the best of time (hello undifferentiated mass of con.txt people who were all amazing!) If you want to try to guess mine, I did not try particularly hard to disguise it, and also I hinted at my very favorite vanishingly-rare ship in the background.