Torchwood!

( spoilers for Children of Earth: Day Five, except not really )

Torchwood.

( Children of Earth: Day Four. )

Torchwood!

( Spoilers for Children of Earth: Day Three. )

Torchwood!

( Spoilers for Children of Earth: Day Two. )

Torchwood! Man, I haven't written an episode reaction since - uh, the last Doctor Who special.

( Children of Earth: Day One )

A rare meme appearance! I grabbed this one from austen.

Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories (here) and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change. Something tiny (e.g. "and then Fay chose silver glitter instead of gold") or big (e.g. "and then Rose was arrested instead of Jack") and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.

I'm about to head off to bed, and I'm working all day tomorrow, and then there will be Torchwood (I still cannot believe that I intend to WATCH it), but I will get to this.

As I'm sure many of you have done, I have lost multiple chunks of my life to TV Tropes. The most recent chunk was at the Wild Mass Guessing page, which is a gathering of pages on different fandoms discussing fanon theories from the sensible to the insane. Many of them have an "X is a Time Lord" guess, and since Dollhouse, there are a lot of "X is a Doll" guesses popping up, too.

So! In my idleness, I have decided to pose this - I don't know, meme I just made up to you guys.

Name me a fandom I'm familiar with, and I'll tell you who's a Time Lord, who's a Doll, or both (probably both) and why.

Feel free to swipe and use this yourself, if you could stand to kill some time.

My first non-Owencentric Torchwood fic is finally complete! Just in time to be completely contradicted in a few weeks.



TITLE: "Full Circle"
AUTHOR: Cathryn (catslash)
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: Approximately 1600
CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Rhys, Gwen, Jack. Gwen/Rhys, offscreen Jack/Ianto.
SUMMARY: Rhys had come to understand, after Tosh and Owen, that he had married into that family; now, while Gwen and Jack tried to keep each other from falling apart, he had to keep them from drowning. Near-future AU.
WARNING: Offscreen character death.
NOTES: I started writing this not long after "Exit Wounds" aired, so any resemblance to spoilers or speculation for series three is pure coincidence.
NOTES THE SECOND: Also, if you can spot the reference to one of the novels, you get an internet cookie of your choice.
DISCLAIMER: Torchwood was created by Russell T Davies and belongs to the BBC. I take no credit and make no money.



( Rhys Williams came home that day to find his wife on the floor, sobbing in her employer's arms. )

Wow, I have been with the fail at posting lately. I'm getting back into the swing of working after the semester, and it's been tiring. Also my manager sucks at life, but I don't want to get pissed off all over again talking about it, so I'm not going any further into that.

Instead, I want to talk about the upcoming new series of Torchwood. (. . . Yeah, I know I quit the show after "Exit Wounds." I am continuing to watch it because SHUT UP, that's why.)

( Spoilers, complete with speculation based on the fact that I have watched television before. )

My sister has dug up and posted a picture of me which I think is one of the better ones of me I've ever seen. So:

( I am under the cut. )

I never do anon memes, either throwing my hat in or commenting (laaaazy, also if I want you to know something I will tell you it), but someone started a new one over on JournalFen, so what the hell.

Anonymous Feedback/Concrit Post is my thread. You should also hit up the post proper to add your name, especially if the LJ ones are too freakily big for you and you'd like to start out someplace a little quieter.

OMG. You guys. YOU GUYS. The Owen in the recent past 'verse. I THINK I FINISHED IT. I figured out where to end it (!!!!!), so then I wrote it. And now it's done.

So, uh. HERE IT IS.



TITLE: "Second Look"
AUTHOR: Cathryn (catslash)
CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Owen, Ianto; Ianto/Lisa, past Owen/Katie
RATING: PG-13 for language. Genfic.
WORD COUNT: Approximately 6000.
SUMMARY: Sometimes, you get a chance to see the past through a different pair of eyes: your own. Set between "From Out of the Rain" and "Adrift," and during/after "Cyberwoman."
NOTES: Thanks to gileonnen, who first inspired the idea during some random conversation; to nightanddaze, for looking over the finished result to make sure it made sense; and to those two again and other folks on the flist for staying interested and thus helping to keep me interested. This fic has been a nightmare to complete (over a year from start to finish! It even got a tag of its own on my journal, the name of which I got from supervillainess, so thanks to her, too) and I never could have gotten it done without you guys.
NOTES PART THE SECOND: Take the timeline here with a grain of salt. Since the Whoniverse timeline is so notoriously fuzzy, and I needed solid dates, I ended up just pulling a timeframe out of thin air and hoping that it would make sense.
SPOILERS: Up through 2x12, "Fragments."
DISCLAIMER: Torchwood was created by Russell T Davies and belongs to the BBC. I take no credit and make no money.



( Owen always sort of thought that something like this might happen to one of them eventually. He just thought it would be more - dramatic. )

I have one more Dreamwidth code. First come, first served.

AUGH.

My usual source for Dollhouse is falling down on the job tonight. Can anyone hook me up?

Comments are screened, so you're safe.

And saved! I love my flist, I really do.

Baldacci signs same-sex marriage into law.

That would be the Governor of Maine.

I don't even know what to say, you guys. I never dreamed this would happen here so soon. I thought maybe, you know, within the next decade or so. I mean, socially progressive Maine is not. It took repeated efforts over years of votes and referendums just to get equal rights made into law. I kinda figured we'd be one of the last, and but here we are, right up there in the first ten. In the first five.

I just . . . I'll be over here, being totally overwhelmed.

Yeah, so. You know Chuck and Dollhouse? The shows I was grousing about the other day? No? Well. I was. So, of course, I ended up writing a crossover snippet. It would not go away.

And so I give you Chuck/Dollhouse: A crossover that makes perfect sense as long as you don't think about it too deeply. No real spoilers for either show beyond the basic premises.



( You don't need a treatment. For anything! Look at you! )

I work at a sandwich/pizza/pasta shop, and while we of course maintain perfect food hygiene at all times (. . . ahahahaha), there's been an additional notice posted about being even stricter about hygiene due to the swine flu. (I think we're up to five confirmed cases in Maine?)

It starts out with the obvious stuff about washing hands a lot and not sneezing on people, and then it - sort of unravels, until it gets to the following gem:

"If you have the swine flu, stay home and call your manager immediately."

. . . if I am diagnosed with the swine flu, my ass is probably in quarantine, and [shop name redacted] doesn't even make the list of my priorities, okay? I mean, there's probably some set of laws or guidelines in effect that would require some kind of contact, but believe you me, I'm not thinking of that without being reminded.

Oh, [shop name redacted because I don't feel like turning up on a Google search with this particular entry]. Never change.

. . . wow, okay. So. You know what's a really good way to highlight Chuck's inherently juvenile and creepy treatment of women? Watching an episode of it right after tonight's episode of Dollhouse.

(Yeah, I've resumed watching the second season of Chuck after exasperation with the Buy More subplots chased me off when I was marathoning the show a couple months ago. Those subplots still suck. I'm tired of all those people and I have no idea why none of them have quit or gotten fired. But the actual interesting part of the show has proven worth sitting through the annoying and boring parts.)

Buuut anyway. See, Dollhouse has its issues too, many of which are FOX-induced, but it knows it. These past couple of episodes have deliberately ramped up the creepiness factor, with Joss making the entire premise as queasy as possible without actually causing people to vomit. It's made the show better, because it's thought-provoking and it won't let you settle down and choose a side, because EVERYONE is horrifying.

Chuck just - does it accidentally. And I gloss over that, probably because of internalized blah blah blah, but going into it with the mindset Dollhouse put me in ended up with me getting pretty pissed off.

I'm not really sure what my point is here. Don't watch fun goofy stuff with women issues after watching dark creepy fucked-up stuff with women issues, I guess.

I think it's time for me to sleep now.

* Dreamwidth codes. I got five two ONE of 'em. You guys can has.

* I am slowly but surely working my way along on the crossover challenge, commenting with finished snippets as I go. There's no way I'm going to finish all of them - some of them just aren't happening for me, or they're ideas I've already read and I can't get that out of my head to come up with my own take - but I'm working. I'll make a post with all the ones I finish when I, uh. Finish.

* . . . there would be more stuff, but I'm tired.

Well. It's nice when the episode titles are true.

Sorry, Supernatural. Acknowledging the cliché doesn't make it less of one.