Dear Torchwood Fandom,

[rm]

Dear Torchwood Fandom,

I am as much about Jack/Ianto as many of the rest of you, BUT, perhaps you have not noticed, these are two really fucked up people in fucked up circumstances with a distinctive disinclination towards monogamy.

So, can we please stop writing fics that involve Jack cooing over how adorable Ianto is? or making him breakfast in bed? Or saying "I love you" every two seconds?

BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT THOSE GUYS. Even in happy ending fics (which I like), even when they are taking comfort from each other (which is probably how it evolved out of Ianto trying to get Lisa into the Hub) and even when they're in love with each other (which I can totally buy).

Ianto is both weirdly innocent and incredibly fucking devious and generally pretty at sea and FILLED WITH TRAUMA and also tough as nails. And Jack is actually out of his goddamn mind. And immortal (more or less). And a huge slut. And a very manly man. Mostly. And also, FILLED WITH TRAUMA, and I don't mean screaming girl trauma for either of them, okay?

So, please, pelase, please, people, let these characters be into each other on their own terms, not your unimaginative heteronormative romance novel crap.

Also, didn't we learn anything about sickeningly cute and character inappropriate nicknames from the Harry Potter fandom?

Thank you.

Gah. I hate new fandoms.

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[thalia]

There are some decent Jack/Ianto stories out there, although there's plenty of dreck to go along with them. Honestly, though, I don't think the dreck-to-good ratio is any worse than in any other fandom I've been in, and it's probably better than Harry Potter's, not that that's a huge accomplishment.

Some generally reliable authors (and I hope I don't misspell any) are misslucyjane, jadesfire2808, szm, miss_zedem, tanarian, laligin, paperclipbitch... and probably others that I'm not thinking of. Anyone is welcome to have a wade through the Jack/Ianto stories I've bookmarked on del.icio.us.

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Oh, um, smooshed ship names? "Gwack" has to be my favorite, possibly of all time.

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[lannamichaels]

Butting into a comment thread, but...

Oh, um, smooshed ship names? "Gwack" has to be my favorite, possibly of all time.

The best thing I have ever seen (tm) was a comment on a YouTube vid to the effect of "uhhh, it's spelled Ianto, not Janto! get it right!"

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[thalia]

Hee! Go, whoever that was!

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, Gwack is great enough to justify that hideous habit of eliding pairing names.

Also, thank you, thank you, thank you for the recs!