I guess when I can enjoy the commonplace story points of fandom (tropes or cliches) because they are used in a literate and creative way, I feel grateful and really not guilty. I remember something I was told in 18th-century lit class about how poetry was not then revered for originality but rather how cleverly the poet reworked conventional classical themes within the conventional forms. Since then violent revolution and mass production has made us value originality more highly, but I love fondling that little bit of lore as a handy personal justification.

I mean, geez, how often do you get to use anything you learned in Eng Lit.

For originality, try "And Dance by the Light of the Moon" (Mustang Sally and RivkaT), in which Mulder and Scully drag a decaying corpse around a college campus and end up screwing in a graveyard.

I just love Halloween.