Eleven-y thoughts.

[elisi]

Look! I has a new icon. :) From here - there are 5 more, and they are all great! (The emohair is growing on me, maybe because it is so funny.) As for fandom's reaction, then this totally cracked me up: Meta reaction to casting spoiler by rude_not_ginger.

Mostly, what I keep coming back to is that they were looking for someone in the 30-40 range, but Matt Smith impressed them so much that they cast him anyway, despite his age. Or, as Darcy put it, it is reassuring that they went with ability over commerce. Also, there is the fact that this is Moffat's Doctor (albeit seen through River's eyes):

Now my Doctor... I've seen whole armies turn and run away. And he'd just swagger off back to his TARDIS and open the doors with a snap of his fingers. The Doctor... in the TARDIS... next stop: everywhere.

And if that's what Matt Smith can bring... we'll I'm looking forward to it. (Even though losing Ten is KILLING me.)

[Spoilers for The Next Doctor] Oh - by the way I presume that Ten gets killed by the cybermen in Jackson Lake's basement? (better than tripping over a brick, certainly) And then regenerates and tiptoes out the back door or something? That would make sense.[/end spoilers] ETA: Just forget it. I think my metabrain has died.


Finally (must be brief, have a poorly husband), as you probably know buffyversetop5 is open again, and filled with good things. So I shall rec two Whoniverse fics here:

Faces and Names by beer_good_foamy, a DW/Hitchhikers crossover that is quite simply brilliant!

I Were The Heavens by sam_storyteller - a wonderful take on Jack's backstory.