This came up in the comments to Together and Apart, but just for the record:
Demi is an expy (along with her parents) of a character from aroslav’s The Transmogrification of Jacob Hopkins. I didn’t use Desi herself because I needed my version to do something out of character for the original. So instead, Teri meets a cosplayer with a suspicious similarity to her inspiration.
While I’m on T&A, I should mention that I fixed the borked formatting of Mike’s sonnet, in chapters 11 and 18. And yes, it is a strict sonnet, with iambic pentameter and strict rhymes. He could use a little time away from e.e. cummings, though.
And while I’m on administrivia, I finally got around to creating a Hanging Out universe, with the two stories (so far) set in and around the club, They and They and Tangled Up, Halfway Between You Both.