the glaring lack of fanfiction for canon het UST pairings, among other things

Due to possibly watching too much Bones too fast, I have started to find David Boreanaz attractive. I still thinks he looks like a charming, friendly, ingratiating bull dog (or maybe one of those big drooly ones, a mastiff perhaps) with a broken nose, just in a mildly hot way. I'm not sure why he was so offputting to me in the Buffy verse in comparison. Maybe it's just the character. Also, I read a badfic last night where Bones and Booth were having pizza with red wine and now I really, really want pizza with red wine. (And then I dreamt that I went to the National Zoo and discovered that the gift shop had been replaced by a giant department store full of animal-themed merchandise and bought a green metallic vegan snake-printed floor-length trench coat with a turtle motif. Don't worry, I don't actually want the coat.)

The badfic was extra enraging and also full of creepy right-wing politics, shitty characterisation, and boring descriptions of army-and-gun-stuff, like Jerry Pournelle with comic sound effects and worse writing ("KA-POW! B-B-B-PUT!").

Wax and I were having a discussion the other day about UST on tv (because the Bones/Booth dynamic in Bones is a lot Mulder and Scully, but it's also a lot Kirk and Spock. I'm not saying there isn't K/S in the Mulder & Scully dynamic - I'm sure it's all related. It's similar to parts of, say, The Sentinel as well - the deliberate UST we get sometimes in heterosexual pairings is at a very similar level to the accidental UST you get in many highly-slashed tv shows).

I think it's possible the deciding factor, in terms of the interest in the pairing/fic about it, is canonicity and not gender orientation. That is, the more canon a pairing is, the less fandom seems to spring up around it. (Except for Mulder/Scully, says Wax. Obviously that's not the only exception, though.) But I don't think there's any way to get enough data to examine the hypothesis because there's not a big distribution of canonical gay pairings out there, keeping other factors the same (like if there's any fanfiction at all).

Threadless loot

I just got a reprint notification for one of the Threadless shirts I was waiting on, and so we went a little crazy and ordered it (What Makes It Go) as well as House Salad and A Salt and Battery. Wax and I are both big fans of bad puns, although House Salad's more my speed; A Salt and Battery is a little broad for my taste, but Wax loved it instantly as soon as I got the pun and explained it. Ahhhhhhhhhhh, t-shirts. The perfect garment!