Oh, lord. It's dangerous to go back and look at your earliest stories! I had to change the coding on mine recently, and I just sort of closed my eyes and typed in the codes and clicked out quickly before I could read them and be embarrassed all over again.

In slash in particular, I think every writer is wrestling (with varying degrees of success) with the temptation to turn every story into An Ode To The Sexiness Of My Beloved Slash Object.