Key Concept: An attractive name makes a gem more marketable.

(Subject is paraphrased as none of my school books are in immediate reach and moving is absolutely out of the question).

Okay, you know that few minutes where you are almost asleep but not really, or almost awake, but not really, and your mind goes to some really, really straaaange places? C'mon, ya'll know what I mean. When your brain hijacks your thoughts and you end up thinking that writing fic from the Summers house's POV is a really freaking great idea?

Right, so I was there this morning, swimming through a sea of the bizarre and suddenly I had a single minded desire to read Harry/Dan fic. I mean, there's got to be some out there, right?

Oh, and a pause to see if anyone knows what I'm talking about as the pairing ain't no typo.

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Right, figured it out? I am, of course, talking about Harry Stone and Dan Fielding from the wonderful sitcom Night Court. Wanna know how I got there? Started with thinking about Spuffy. Specifically Moxie's wonderful AU fic, specifically her wonderful fic Something Worth Fighting For that includes a bit of dialogue along the lines of "He won't be fathering any children any time . . . ever." (as said by Spike, natch).

Naturally my mind segued to the Ep. of Night Court where the guy has the ray gun and is giving Dan and two others the option of death or castration, and the men choose death (snerk). Dan's such a horndog. I loves me some John Laraquette).

Then I was thinking that Dan really was randy, and so, if I recall, was Harry, just is a less obvious way. And they always got into the silly, silly situations and so why wouldn't they end up together? I mean, neither of them really could commit, even if they pretended they could (Right, Christine. Whatever). Throughout the whole run of the show, Mac got married and Bull had a nice ladyfriend (did he marry her?) And I think even Roz had a honey, but other than the Christine thing (which I don't remember being all that big. Or maybe I don't want to recall it) I don't remember either of the boys getting all that serious.

So I wonder. Is there any Harry/Dan slash out there? Not that I would read it, of course unlesssomeonefounditforme, I'm just curious. I would think that most of the fic would revolve around Bull in some way, or if Dan and Harry got together it would only be in a "Dan screws anything that breathes" kind of fic.

Wow, I've gone on far too long about this.

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I've also been giving a lot of though to The Prisoner of Azkaban as it is almost upon us (June fourth! Mark your calendars!) and thinking about 'ships. And, without question, my HP OTP is Ron/Hermione. Like peanut butter and jelly, Oreos and milk, Buffy and Spike, they just go together.

But there is a scene in PoA where Hermione slaps Draco and I read it and suddenly . . .

R/H is still my OTP. But suddenly I would love it if Hermione and Draco had some huge book seven affair that is horrid and heartbreaking leaves them both drained as they don't like each other, hate what the other represents, and still can't deny the attraction, or maybe even need. Of course it doesn't work out. Hermione ends up with Ron and Draco with whomever and all is as it should be, but for the rest of their lives they occasionally get that thought of "what if" and when they occasionally see each other, purely by accident, of course, there is a brief moment of pang but then it is gone, *poof*, and they really do hate each other.

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Final thought. I don't think a lot of people on my fl are big slash fans, or S/X fans, even if they like slash (Hi thesaucyone! You're a queen, yo!), but if they are, just a bit, then I hope they know about willshenillshe's Slashed Sonnet Sequence which is pure genius. It is basically any slash pairing (usually male) in the Jossverse that you can think of and it has everything. Dark, fluffy, threesomes, fivesomes, angst and love in most combos you can think of (really. I think the next one is Riley/Lindsay. Seriously). And they are all to a specific Shakespearian sonnet, going in order through them all.

Willa's a genius.

But not the actual point of this little antidote. No, the point is she is currently playing with a Spike/Xander AU in which Spike is the mouthy, punk, metal-head owner of a piercing and tattoo parlor and Xander is the construction guy hired to make sense of the pre-opening mess. Slash ensues. Much slash. Really freaking good slash.

And in this fic Spike is, naturally, pierced . . . everywhere. This is where my story comes in.

I am walking home from doing errands this morning, la la la, la la la, and I happen to almost almost drop my keys into a manhole which would, quite frankly, be bad. But I don't. I do, though, contemplate my keys and think about how bereft I would be if I lost them (as they were the only set I had on me) when I actually take notice of my keyring. See, I have the Classic Tiffany Keyring that comes with the ID tag. It was a gift from a long time ago and I really love it. So I was looking at it when it dawned on me.

I have a PA for a key ring (PA being Prince Albert). And, well, it gave me a perverse sort of pleasure. You see, I am currently obsessed with this fic. I love, love, love it. And now, I have joy. And a bizarre link between Pierced!Spike and my debutante days.

It's a strange world, yo.

So, I've rambled on quite a bit. I'm now going to do dishes. Or read Spike/Xander slash. Decisions, decisions!