Yeah, ditto on the McKay/Sheppard. I have a vague desire to someday write a McKay/Sheppard story as fucked up as they'd inevitably become if they did try, just because no one else is doing it. I love the pairing, but believable? Not really, and not just in terms of their canon sexuality.

I think the original-fiction feeling to mirabile_dictu's stories is actually one of the things I really like about them, if that makes any sense at all. They're AU not in the sense of "This is the story where Rodney is an alcoholic herpetologist and John is a red-backed gecko", but more because there's a thread that runs through them that makes them feel different, and I actually like that.