It's one of the disadvantages of the Great Migration to LJ, sadly: more fic, but often harder to find because there's less likelihood of there being one, 'definitive' archive. If such things ever existed (especially when, as you say, there were times when there was only one story for a pairing, if that). Still, the mateyness is teh shizz. And more likely to involve people pointing you to the good stuff anyway.

I really liked the purpleness of Valeriana: it's like this slice not just of old-skool-Who fic but old-skool-fic fic too - the kind of stuff that never gets written any more because everything's so knowing now, so it's all cliche ficathons and Five Things... and self-conscious crack. I love those things too, don't get me wrong, but I like melodrama and bombast and ridiculousness too. They suit Five. (And I think I was just trying to find a way to describe 'slash where there is lots of fucking' with the 'hard slash' thing. Our terminology needs troubleshooting.)