salienne

1) Women doing stuff not just about men or babies - check. Like, Bechdel all over the place, spirit and letter. I miss you RTD...

2) A 'sexy man likes my coat' reference that I'm going to take as a shout out to Ianto. ( Small non-important spoiler ) I mean, we already had an outright Owen reference. Now I just want some Tosh.

3.( Small non-plot-important spoiler )

4. Great Jack moments, ngl. Even if it is more of RTD's sadism towards Jack's character. Missing RTD a little less due to repetitiveness.

ETA: Oh RTD... you really dislike the human race. And corporations. But mainly the human race. Oh RTD.

ETA2: There are new Radio Plays??? Cool.

I think that says it all, really.

(NOTE: I think I made these small enough, but if they mess up your friend's pages, just tell me and I'll resize or cut them. :) )

Title: And Deaths Redone (3?)
Author: salienne
Characters: Jack/Ianto, Doctor (Ten), Steven, Alice; eventually the whole Torchwood crew and then some
Spoiler Warning: Through Children of Earth
Rating: R
Summary: ( Here there be spoilers )
Disclaimer: Torchwood belongs to the BBC and the associated writers, directors, actors, etc. I just like to borrow the toys now and again, but I give them back.
Beta: Thank you to the amazing hippiebanana132.
A/N: Any and all feedback is both appreciated and encouraged, and thank you very much for reading!

(Showered, dressed, and very obviously irritated, Jack sat on the jump seat with his feet propped up on the console, fumbling with his wrist device.)

Part 1, Part 2

Title: And Deaths Redone (2/?)
Author: salienne
Characters: Jack/Ianto, Doctor (Ten), Steven; eventually the whole Torchwood crew and then some
Spoiler Warning: Through Children of Earth
Rating: R
Summary: ( Here there be spoilers )
Disclaimer: Torchwood belongs to the BBC and the associated writers, directors, actors, etc. I just like to borrow the toys now and again, but I give them back.
Beta: Again, thank you to my lovely friend Sara, who really needs an lj.
A/N: Sorry for the delay in updating, everyone! There were loads of technological issues. I should be updating about once a week from now on, though.

As always, any and all feedback is both appreciated and encouraged, and thank you very much for reading!

(On top of a grave, beside a headstone with his name on it, stood a little boy.)

Part 1

A quote from Comic-Con:

"It's the cost of making Cpt Jack a hero. He has to suffer: he has to go through that in order to be the hero." said Gardner.

Or, from a slightly more spoiler-y source:

( Obvious Day 4 Spoilers are Obvious )

...There are so many ways I could respond to that: about degrees of suffering, or different types of heroes, or how cost generally has some relation to the degree of the reward, about selfishness and selflessness, about what exactly a reward or a hero is, about how life isn't fair on any count (good or bad), or just on why exactly "a hero must suffer" to the extremes we get in CoE.

I'm just gonna watch "Out of Time" (just in case we need a reminder that Jack wasn't exactly a happy little ray of sunshine before CoE) and write fix-it instead.

If any of you guys haven't read the recent RTD interviews about the end of Day 4, they can be found here and here. (Obviously spoilery)

Now, the first interview, I have absolutely no problem with. I mean, the "poetry" comment is weird (since when is poetry happy? *boggles*), and the Supernatural comment came off pretty badly, but...

The SPN thing was a good-natured joke (although not exactly in the best taste); I can understand him being annoyed by allegations of ( implied spoilers ) and... he's a writer who made a successful drama. Millions of people not only enjoyed it but, judging by the AIs, loved it, and he pulled people's heartstrings, just like he wanted.

RTD believes in what he wrote and why he wrote it, and he isn't about to let a few thousand people out of millions (a distinct minority) change his opinion. After what happened to Moran, I'm sure he's pretty annoyed by certain members of fandom too. And I think that's okay.

The second interview, on the other hand...

( Spoilers for Day 4, and a 'shipper' who is NOT just a slash fangirl's rant )

And on a completely unrelated but just as irritating note, I just watched a House episode where the gay couple's baby dies and the nice heterosexual couple's baby lives, even though both were ill and the former's baby got sick later.

Oi.

On the bright side of things, I go to England in two months, and I've managed to go to the gym 3 days in a row. w007

Possibly getting into Torchwood fandom when ( CoE spoilers ) is a bad idea, but I am loving The Sin Eaters audiobook.

At one point, the author adopts the POV of a cat. And the cat falls into the Hub and lands on Ianto's head.

Best. Gym. Soundtrack. Ever.

I love you FL, oh yes I do...

And I'd love you even more if any of you amazing lovely beautiful intelligent fantastic brilliant Brits would be willing to beta my fix-it Torchwood fic for me?

It's going to be on the longer side of things (about 20 chapters, it looks like), but hopefully worth reading, and I would really really appreciate it. There will also be cookies in it for you! (Possibly not corporeal ones, but we'll overlook that for now, shall we?)

So... any takers?

Because it totally needs to be said.

Huge spoilers for Children of Earth: 3x04.

( Hi, I'm Russell T Davies... )

Nope, I'm not still bitter and writing fix-it fic (seriously--what has happened to me?), not at all.

I do not like stumbling on spoilers. It was my own fault, but...

If it's true, I will be so angry.

(Yes, I obsess. BUT THIS WOULD BE SO STUPID AND INFURIATING IF IT'S TRUE.)

ETA: Sort-of spoiler in the comments. You are warned.