I do think BtVS has some awesome and complex exploration of being yourself while facing society, like it or not, being normal vs. being part of "the life" and so forth.

Oh, you definitely should write Sam/Ruby! I think you can really do the pairing justice.

Thanks for the rec :)

For what it's worth, I find Stockholm Syndrome really interesting, and very common, I guess, in the broader sense. I can identify with such feelings, I think most everybody can, and yet it's considered so weird and far away. There is some really great fic around it. I'd love to read some deep, interesting D/A about it, or better - season 4 Dean trying to come to terms with it. It makes more sense to me than Dean just not being able to keep suppressing this sadistic side of himself. Dean is about approval more than he is about suppressed violence, IMO.

Summergen - ahhh... butbut... I need to write six papers, a lecture, my novel (yeah right :( I reached the point in which I always get stuck - breaking it into coherent, linear scenes), and so many other things... I don't *intentionally* take on other writing projects! ;)