Posting challenge started...more Torchwood!

[westernredcedar]

Hi again! I know! Three times in one summer! What is this world coming to...

My dear magnetic_pole has suggested joining in a challenge to try posting regularly again here, fannish or non-fannish. I'm going to give it a go. I don't know that I can do every day, but I have a little plan in hand for the sake of trying, and it is this:

Maybe I can post even if it is boring, just like a real journal, and then maybe by practicing writing again, I will be less boring soon!

So that is the plan and let's see how it goes.

Today, to start, I will continue on the theme that I am plowing through Torchwood fic like a bulldozer, totally ignoring other important aspects of life like sleep and prepping for the on-coming school year (which is bearing down on me, freight-train metaphor and all). So, since it is what I'm doing anyway, here are a couple of fics I've adored (again, years late) all found in various ways due to rose71, my Torchwood fandom hero! So here's some fic. All Jack/Ianto.

Amazing Jack/Ianto CoE Fix-It Fics
The Rose of Jericho by kaydeefalls
Intersecting Geodesics by nancybrown
From Here to There and Back Again With You by blue_fjords

A Fic to be Read because Ianto is Affected by Some Alien Truth Serum and Writes Everyone Letters
Signed+Sealed+Delivered=Toujours by amand_r

A Rollicking Good Time was Had By All Fic, Including Ianto and More Than One Jack in the Distant Future
A Matter of Time by demotu

I've also made major progress in finally watching Doctor Who- getting acquainted a bit, and then watching all the Harkness episodes and then going back and catching up with the rest. Finished all of ninth doctor, and am in mid-first season of the tenth. Reading up on background and all like a proper obsessive.

Now, to post! *hugs flist* I'll try to be less boring again tomorrow. No promises, though!

Comments

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

On the surface, Jack has all the power- he's Ianto's boss, a time traveler, older, experienced, immortal

:) It's hard to argue with immortal.

That's a fascinating dynamic, because, really, when it comes down to it, there's a lot going on beneath the surface of a relationship. I can imagine good fic coming out of the tension between power-in-the-world and power-in-the-relationship.

I don't know much about Torchwood, but I'm curious about it in a did-they-really-do-that-on-tv kind of way. :)

Apart from Remus/Sirius? Not that many, now that I think about it. Holmes/Watson. Betsy/Tacy from the Betsy Tacy books--did you ever read those? Silly, I know, but I loved those two. Hmm...I'm just not that active a shipper of anyone, am I? I also like reading fic about folks I thought might be queer in canon: Tonks and Minerva and Snape in HP, for example, or James Hathaway from the mystery show Lewis. But I'm less picky with them, since I didn't have them paired off initially. M.

[westernredcedar.livejournal.com]

Betsy/Tacy!! Oh my, that is beautiful. I adore that series, I even have collected first editions of the four high school books. And I went to Mankato, MN and visited the museum in real Tacy's house! I have never really thought about them as a couple before, but I can see a lovely, angsty Tacy with no interest in anyone but Betsy, settling for the first man who crossed her path because Betsy won't stop going on and on about boys. :) Or lifelong love through many marriages?? Aww.

I guess you are not a big shipper, are you? That seems healthy to me. I get annoyed with myself sometimes that I get so involved in romances and miss out on the more subtle, important relationships I could be thinking about. That's one of the reasons why I always like your writing and your recs!

On a final (heh, yeah, right) Jack/Ianto note: I've been rewatching the series and getting more and more convinced that the reason Jack becomes fascinated with Ianto enough to make any effort (and Jack's character is established as being able to have anyone he wants, any time) is because Ianto isn't in thrall to him, and regularly defies and ignores him when no one else does. And THAT dynamic I definitely love. Why?...sounds like psychotherapy time there! If you ever want to watch Torchwood, know that it is basically a version of Buffy or X-Files, only British with more sex and swearing and bisexuality, and many less episodes. But I love the characters in the first two seasons in particular-- all of them, not just the boys.

Canon Remus/Sirius is what got me here, too, you know. *g* So canon.