Heh heh, no problem and thanks. I'm kind of a lurker in fandoms and sometimes there's that fic that you just want to have long and serious conversations about. 'Observations' was one of those fics. I was exactly like you. I enjoyed it first; then, I was soured on it by the homophobia but I kept going, because- darn it- I was already so far in. Then, there was the chapter were the author copy and pasted straight from a 'Firefly' episode and, like, put Mal and Zoe's dialogue right into the mouths of Kirk and Uhura and I couldn't go any further.

I personally wouldn't reccomend the fic, but I won't begrudge those who enjoyed it.

That's an interesting (and sad) tidbit about the author. Now I'm kind of morbidly curious about that aspect of the fic, though I'm not into going through someone else's trauma either.