If only I could be bothered to like Ten/Simm!Master. I dunno, it just doesn't ping for me in spite of the oodles of angst potential. But it is nice to see a socking great slash pairing in the new skool.

Yesyesyes to all the weirdness of Who as a fandom, though. Fic suddenly taking a sonic leap from being long droney plot (I like plot, I love plot, but sometimes it's not what makes for great fic) to being comfy with teh sex (as lizbee says, around the same time as LJ started to eat fandom and it became more of a female space: really, the new series couldn't have hit at a better time).

These are the things that make me explode with geekery, because fan history is one of those thrilling things that it's hard to keep track of but is just fascinating. I was not around for the radw days, but from what I gather pron (het or slash) was reserved for silly comments and fic was for being terribly serious and creating complex skientific societies in a hard sci-fi kind of way (rampant generalisation, obviously). Hence the 'oh noes he kissed Grace/half-human' debacle.