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[rm]

We got our lease renewal and the rent went down.

More than a bit swamped right now, especially with WriterCon coming up.

I am disappointed in the lack of romantic impulses in Torchwood fandom. Y'all started a ton of charity efforts (yay!), mailed coffee to the BBC (without comment I note that apparently over 300 letters and parcels with such have been received), left flowers at the Tourist Office (okay, that was actually romantic, you big, beautiful freaks -- see comments for the pics!), came up with some really creative threats and invective against show creators (boo!), and no one, NO ONE, thought about the nature of storytelling and myth and wondered if Ianto really would be remembered in 1,000 years or what you'd actually have to do technically, to make that happen. Maybe I was just involved in too many shitty time capsule projects in grade school, but no one had this fleeting thought? BOO! Not my project, but someone should roll this around in their head a little, it's interesting as a thought exercise.

Getting paid to write an article about Rachel Maddow. This is less cool than you think.

When I have time, I need to write a long thing about my wacky Anubis thing.

HOW FUCKING GREAT IS THIS TOTALLY WEIRD BAND ON COLBERT RIGHT NOW?

The Do-it-yourself Mad Men Makeover is perhaps a little too fascinating to me.

Feeling a little tense about my flight to MN, as this is the shittiest possible weather to be flying it -- summer air is turbulent and we've been having freak thunderstorms and hail the last few days. I'm a baby about turbulence, and blech!

We freeze water in little souffle dishes that we then sit on their sides in the cats' water bowl. The ice just fell out of the one in there now, and Little is staring it with this hunting intensity that is hilarious.

There was other stuff, but lord knows what it was!

Comments

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

left flowers at the Tourist Office (okay, that was sort of Romantic, you big, beautiful freaks)

I hate to say this, but I think that was a myth. :( I asked at torchwoodcoffee if anyone had photos of it, and the only person from Cardiff who responded said that she'd been there a couple of days after Day Four aired, and there was nothing. Which is too bad, because it was a lovely, romantic idea. I totally would have done it if I'd been there.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Boo! Although someone I know who is going in two weeks swears she's gonna do it and send me pics.

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Somebody showed me this picture (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_salter/3749400363/), but I can't vouch for authenticity...

[dr-is-in.livejournal.com]

Nope, Alun Vega had pics of stuff left at the tourist office door...flowers, letters, even a packet of coffee.

[tod-hollykim.livejournal.com]

Your rent went *down*!??! Damn, what sort of photos do you have of your landlord?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Bad economy!

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this. My rent has *never* gone down.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

The cats love the ice! Ours is riveted by it as well.

[rm.livejournal.com]

She is killing the ice! Killing!

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Kismet runs over to the refrigerator every time someone goes into the kitchen for the chance that they'll give him an ice cube.

I have seen a few fics that have Jack very, very purposefully remembering Ianto on July 9th, 3009. One of them used the stopwatch as a mental reminder, the other used Cardiff - or an area of another planet reminiscent of the topology and weather that South Wales had in 2009.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Wait. Ianto died on 7/9?

Oh jeezus.

(Comment more for rm, my apologies.)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

We got our lease renewal and the rent went down.

About time that sort of thing started happening :)

GIP

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I found the Mad Men Makeover thing and kinda went squeefull.

Hee!

Re: GIP

[rm.livejournal.com]

Every one I tried to do of me wound up looking like Ianto. So I got up and made dinner instead.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

wondered if Ianto would really be remembered in 1,000 years

for jack's sake, i rather hope he does not remember all this shit for thousands of years

what band? i missed colbert

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Man I miss smoking when I look at Mad Men. I know, I know!

Ahaha kitties and ice! I put ice cubes in the bowl for Pumpkin and Jasmine and they jump straight up in the air when the ice crackles.

Time capsules - brilliant. And wow, I've never heard of rent going down.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Right! Not as a plot device, but I mean in terms of fans taking on this job. How do you give a story longevity -- that's really the question (or a question) being asked here.

[madambackslash.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I've been thinking about Ianto and his family and his origins and how long the Joneses have been in Cardiff and all that kind of thing lately. I've got something percolating. Want me to keep you posted?

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

For the past couple of days I’ve had this image of Jack, a thousand (light?-)years away from twenty-first-century Earth, being confronted by Ianto (dream? ghost? hallucination?), who is rolling his eyes and saying, with a veneer of patience over a vast well of annoyance, “I wanted my memory to be a happy thing, not an implement for scourging yourself, you idiot.”

[loveslashangst.livejournal.com]

*wibbles on the verge of crying*

OMG, after the way RTD sneered and laughed at the fen this weekend at ComicCon, I sooooooooooooo needed this.

Anyone else who had the misfortune to see the TW panel should be able to back me up -- RTD is as heartless to fen as he is to characters. Not only does he not care that he wantonly murdered a character you cared about (many characters, actually), but he seems to take a perverse glee in insisting that not only do your tears not move him, but he actually murdered the character you loved JUST to have the joy of watching you cry while insisting "it had to happen" and "we're never bringing him back".

I thank the man for bringing back Who. I thank the man for giving us TW. But for the way he acted at Con...?

*cold shoulder*

I'm going to go back to writing cathartic-and-yet-humorous fic.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Great, now I’m imagining RTD as the character in the Silence of the Lambs sequel who likes his martinis laced with the tears of fans children.

[oncomingscone.livejournal.com]

Actually I did write a story where Jack can remember Ianto in one thousand years time. Quite by chance, seeing as I wrote it in December and posted it in January, but it now fits in beautifully and has glimmers of dramatic irony and turns out I wasn't far off in guessing Jack's (more or less immediate) destiny.

I reposted it after COE. Let me know if you're not too swamped to read. It's about 10,000 words and really quite romantic. Also quite imperfect but it was my first Janto plotty thing.

"There was other stuff, but lord knows what it was!"

- I want that on my headstone.

1,000 years hence fics

[marstons.livejournal.com]

I saw a wonderful drabble a couple of weeks ago - and I'm damned if I can find it, but I'll try - with Jack in a 1,000 years waking up with a new lover, and a strange lingering sense of regret as he struggles to remember something, or someone......very realistic and ever so slightly heart-breaking.

I'll post it here if I ever stumble across it again.

Re: 1,000 years hence fics

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh please. That's lovely.

[svollga.livejournal.com]

if Ianto really would be remembered in 1,000 years or what you'd actually have to do technically

Very good thought exersise, thank you :)
The first thing that sprang to my mind was giving his name to a star. Not sure if they will still call this star by the name given in the modern certificate, but it's at least romantic :)

[therealycats.livejournal.com]

My cousin took me to some fancy schmancy mall in Florida last week, and while walking past Banana Republic, I noticed a sign for a chance to win a walk on role on Mad Men, and I think $10,000. I'm just sayin'.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

HOW FUCKING GREAT IS THIS TOTALLY WEIRD BAND ON COLBERT RIGHT NOW?

That was unexpectedly awesome. “Movits!, the Swedish swing/hip-hop band” — they’re playing at Joe’s Pub this Friday at 11:30.

[deakat]

Fun!

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Awesome rent score!

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

Um, I'm running a few days behind with my lurking, but there was a 'Jack remembering Ianto' stopwatch fic (as mentioned above, although I'm sure there are others) submitted to bringthehappy here (http://community.livejournal.com/bringthehappy/18549.html?thread=348533#t348533). Like you, I hope more writers pick up on the theme soon :)