Dear Torchwood Fandom redux
Apr. 15th, 2008 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmDear 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?
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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Date: 2008-04-15 10:57 pm (UTC)