"I love temporarily being the alien, because it gives this shot of multiplicity to my one single life. Hell, my first slash pairing, not only before I knew what slash was, but probably before I reliably knew what *sex* was, was Davidge and Jerry from Enemy Mine (yes, my first interracial OTP was human/lizard."

Thirded.

Igonoring the metafandomish issue here, because I'm not coherent about it.