I have this... thing... that I keep writing even though I can't ever post it anywhere (it's a what-if AU of another person's fanfic) because the tropes and the basic idea just won't let me go.

In the last two and a half days, I started contemplating whether it might be possible, somehow, to file the serial numbers down dull enough to make it count as an original story. It's a horrifying (in terms of the amount of work - both writing more scenes, and rewriting - that would be involved) yet strangely addictive thought!

The last thing I need is another multi-K fic-in-progress that I'll never finish, but wow is it tempting.