I have spent the past 24 hours having an existential crisis about Meredith and Derek in ways I am too tired to detail again here (short version: I was struck by a sudden compulsion to watch 10,000 clips I either have not seen or have forgotten, and my current tagline for Tumblr is "how very dare they have spent the better part of 5 years working my last nerve only to develop into a beautiful marriage that will ultimately RUIN ME"), but the thing I cannot contain to Tumblr because linking to ff.net both reveals my minimum age and leads back to here is:

Even though it has nothing to do with my shipping frenzy, it did remind me that I am so. damn. proud. of any other name. Like, 10/10 would analyze McDreamy the same way today, with only the smallest edits.

p.s. OH MAN I just remembered I did one of those "DVD fic commentaries" for it, too. Awesome. I just learned like 5 things about my development process that would have been lost to time.