Haha! You've got me. I'll endeavor to read your dS FIHL and delve into that world. See, I know I'll love due South and that it's worth loving. It's just a matter of knowing the canon, and unfortunately I don't have your confidence in outlines and summaries. I wish I did. I have never loved a fic whose original canon I didn't know. ...but we'll see, now won't we? :D

As for my favorite fandoms, hrm... I read a surprising amount of Harry Potter, especially Harry/Draco, for someone who really loves unreservedly only one 'ship in that fandom, Lupin/Snape; love Patrick O'Brian, both books and movie; Trek, my only fandom OTP ever being Kirk/Spock -- I'm also always crazy for DS9 and Garak/Bashir; occasionally Buffy, AtS; Horatio Hornblower (Hornblower/Pellew, that rare 'ship, a big yes); X-Men movieverse, and other random lovely things.