A propos of nothing, I found a person for you: fulselden. She's been nattering about epics vs. romances as mappable onto contemporary t.v -- Avatar, mostly, but I brought up Buffy in the comments. I read and immediately squealed, "I have to drag Quin over here!" And then she went and wrote a ficcish meditation on Victorian vibrators, inspired by Marie de France's "The Nightingale" (!), and a villanelle based on Disney's The Little Mermaid. Srsly, Quin, srsly.