Your icon is hysterical. For some reason, the idea of Beecher writing in IM-speak is true comedy. (And anything that can make me laugh about that particular plot development is true comedy genius.)

I'd prefer polished brilliance to rough brilliance, but I'll take what I can get.

I have enough polished brilliance to keep this LJ going for at least another year, probably more like a decade. I just occasionally get frustrated that a specific diamond is so gorgeous and yet so flawed. (To beat the metaphor pretty far into the ground.) So, given that, do you still want to see the rough brilliants?