A reminder/plea

I would still very much appreciate replies to this here, folks. Anomymous replies are totally fine. Also, no special knowledge is required - if you've been holding off on replying so far because you feel you don't know enough about the science to really pick any of the options, just pick the option that sounds most plausible to you based on whatever little you've heard. If you're afraid your reply betrays your ignorance of the topic, and are embarrassed by that, remember you can reply anonymously.

What I'm trying to do here is getting an 'emotional image' - I want to know what the situation feels like for people who are not following the news on it so closely.

Yegads! More LoM slash! (Well, pre-slash, actually. Sort of.)

Insta-rec: Poor Little Greenie by amy_wolf

No, I've not succumbed to the lure of Gene/Sam. Erotically, the pairing still does nothing for me; never will, I suspect. But the above fic tickles my sense of the surreal, plus it points out the - really kinda glaringly obvious - quasi-canonicity (is that a word?) of Sam's attraction to Gene, which I do believe in - as noted earlier, what I doubt is not the attraction but the likelihood of it ever resulting in something like a relationship.

So, go; read. In fact, read everything by Amy Wolf. Unusual POVs, slightly shifted universes, original ideas... this is Good Stuff.

(To all those who are wondering what I'm doing here, reading fic when I should be working on my thesis, the obvious answer is I'm procrastinating I occasionally need a break, and since I've been meaning to catch up with LoM fic for, literally, years, and most fic nowadays comes in small portions, and my attempt to suppress my 'need to fangirl' only resulted in the plot bunny/mindfic factory going into overdrive, which is even *more* massively distracting, I've decided to, uhm, take homeopathic doses of fic, every now and then. So, I'm on my way through the 'A' section of lifein1973's memories once again.

There'll probably be recs, every once in a while.)