Dear Torchwood Fandom redux

[rm]

Dear Torchwood Fandom,

1. Show, don't tell.

2. Just because you are a virgin, doesn't mean Ianto is.

3. I can buy a submissive in bed Jack, occasionally and even habitually (you people writing Jack breath-control fic playing with the immortality thing rock my sick little world), but there are more than logistics you have to make work for the reader if you do this.

4. I'd complain about the all alien vibrator stories, but I'm actually surprised there aren't more of them, so it's okay.

5. Slang. Ianto does not use American slang. Jack probably doesn't use any very current American slang. And finally, misuse of British/Welsh slang is worse than omitting it.

6. How many people do you know who utter long complete sentences while fucking that make perfect sense and are delivered in a perfectly ordinary conversational cadence? Right. So why are Jack and Ianto doing that, exactly?

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[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

And now I've found it! It's manage accounts: manage comment settings.

Turns out I don't even have IP logging on. All I can say is, may I be fortunate enough to be able to keep it that way.

[rm.livejournal.com]

okay, anonymous commenting is on; IP logging off.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

But now I can't take advantage of it without identifying myself as clearly as if I were to just post under my own name. Pitiful, isn't it?

So all I will say is that many of my characters talk in complete and complex sentences under even the most distracting of circumstances. So I see no inherent reason why Jack and Ianto shouldn't. Unless, of course, there's something else in their characterizations that suggests they're not people who would; and on that point I have to defer to people who've seen more than a three-minute teaser.