a situation where there is an X that love could solve for perfectly easily.

What a lovely way of expressing this.

I was, in fact, just reading an old old post of yours about the 4 prerequisites for slashiness ("Weird About Each Otherness," which I think is just great) so I had to hop back to the present to see if "Miller's Crossing" had changed your mind about McShep. Hee!

::relurks::