New fandoms are also my self-destruct method of choice. My plan is to adopt them at a furious pace, so that sooner or later I will run out of fandoms, and then I will have to, you know, do whatever it is that people who don't read FF do. Shampoo my carpets or something.

The double-Ray thing confused me when I started in the fandom, too, and I was seriously thrown by the whole lip-reading-in-five-languages half-wolf thing, but I got over it. Because, as you say, there are many, many good writers in that fandom. And - you'll like this - a lot of BDSM fic. (For reasons unknown, many due South and The Sentinel writers are convinced that immediately after the guys admit their mutual passion they will plunge into a long-term relationship that will involve handcuffing each other to lighting fixtures on a nightly basis. And, in dS's case, moving to Canada.)