[TW fic] Numbered (Jack/Ianto, NC-17)

Title: Numbered
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Vague S1 and S2 references.
Stuff you should know: Written for kink_bingo. Contains chastity devices.
Author's notes: I had a choice between 20,000 words and minimalism. Minimalism won.

( They're lying on Ianto's couch. Well, Ianto is. Jack's sitting on the floor next to him and trying to get him to focus. )

sundries

Patty has a desperate need to know how to say "fuckers" in Welsh. Look, I just report the news. Can you help?

A woman who lives in a trailer without electricity with her elderly father is in desperate need of a home so that she can safely recover from impending surgery. Again, real people, real situation, serious need. Your little can go a long way.

The Internet got it done for shes_unreal. She's posted a thank you note.

More on the NYPD's systematic mishandling of sexual assault cases. Basically, victims have been laughed at and cases intentionally lost of misclassified because they bore the common hallmarks of sexual assaults against women, including that the perpetrator is often (but not always) someone the victim knows.

I feel a certain sense of relief that the coverage of the oil spill is starting to recognize how bad, how permanent, how world-changing this event is going to be for all of us. It's still terrifying. Don't avoid talking about the oil spill just because it feels like you can't say enough. Here are some links to get you started on all the angles of this thing and no, that thing about nuking the spill site is not a joke. If you're not afraid, especially if you live on the coast anywhere in the eastern half of the US, you should be. Current estimates on the duration of the leak continuing to gush range from August until the end of this year. Since all the estimates have been wrong so far, I wouldn't consider this an end in sight.

Are you all following this news about a possible breast cancer vaccine? I'm hopeful in a very personal way! Anyone out there with any expertise want to tell us if the news is as hopeful as it sounds?

Y'all might hate Twitter, but anything with Sir Ian McKellan playing along can't be bad. (@ianmckellen118)

We talk a lot (often here) about the things Obama hasn't done for LGBT people. But we should also be talking about the list of things he has. They may not be the showy ones, but they do damn well matter.

Transman and wheelchair user Tyle McCormick is International Mr. Leather 2010.

Gay stewards who work for KLM want to be excused from working flights to Iran because the country is regarded as one of the world's most dangerous places for LGBT people.

For the first time in ages, I committed fic. See post prior.

Today on Angel: ( Read more... )

on helping people

I've been trying to avoid this situation for a while, and it's not working.

I try to post links when people need help because I have a friendslist of 1,100 people, some of whom actually read this thing and some of whom on given days in given circumstances are willing and able to provide assistance, whether that's financial, logistical, advice, etc.

And I don't really have a system for posting those things. If I see something that seems like a problem the Internet can solve, I tend to post it, although sometimes I forget (i.e., the now more awful than it was before case of the late Steve Perry).

I can't vet everything for a scam, because, hey, I'm not a private detective. And what seems a worthy cause or a good plan to me may not seem one to you. That's cool. That's how it goes. I have the luxury of making a mistake with my $5. A lot of people don't. And a lot of people who do, don't want to. That's all chill. And way not my business.

What's not chill is stuff where I'm being insulted or told I must do something or told I must do something in a certain way (all of which has happened lately mostly in private communication. What this isn't is me harshing on anyone's public, cordial skepticism. Charity doesn't work without skeptics and vetting, and those functions are important too. This is a response to both a too-much-email problem and a nastygram problem).

Whether you engage with these things or not, isn't my business. And whether I donate or not in these circumstances, isn't yours (sometimes I do, sometimes I don't). And certainly, I never, ever want to mislead anyone.

But now I'm getting not only an increase in requests, but an increase in criticism about what I both do and don't link to, and that isn't helping anyone.

Additionally, I'm keenly aware that too many such things dilutes the level of action people are willing to take, which also falls into the area of "not helping."

So here's the new rules, which quite frankly are about the same as the old rules, other than I'm going to say "no" a lot more (something which, frankly, annoys me to have to do):

1. If I've never met you in person -- whether you're the asker or asking on behalf of someone else -- please take the no graciously when I say no. And mostly, these days, I'm going to say no. (BTW, knowing me doesn't mean your thing is definitely going to get in; it just means that our conversation about it may be different if it doesn't).

2. If I've met you in person and the request is for a third party, feel free to ask and sometimes I'll say yes.

3. If it is a fandom auction or similar -- i.e., there's an exchange of something for assistance -- that I will link to no questions asked beyond it being for a reasonable cause (i.e., don't bring me political/social causes that I oppose or the auction to benefit your random vacation).

4. If we've never met and I've posted links on your behalf in the context of an ongoing issue, I may be willing to do so again. It's chill to ask.

5. My blog, my whims. Sometimes I'm gonna break my rules because something grabs me. So it goes.

And yes, I still have to do ALL THE HTML EVER to put together that awesome list of charities I had you all recommend a while back.

Any questions?