We held gold dust in our hands (3/7, Torchwood, Jack/Ianto/Lisa/Gwen/Rhys)

[amand_r]

Title: We held gold dust in our hands (3/7)
Author: amand_r
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Team, etc (Jack/Lisa/Ianto/Gwen/Rhys and all permutations thereof with a heavy dose of the first three), Rhys, Rhiannon, Alice, Ten, Lisa (basically everyone!)
Ratings: NC-17 for sexual content (also mild watersports and lactation sex).
Timeline: AU from pre S1 and

Comments

[amand_r]

1. Flatware is silverware. Just another word for it.

2. That was why they invented supeglue. I still wouldn't want jack using it on me.

[amand_r]

Yeah, I'm a little surprised that you haven't heard it as over the last two weeks it was the only word I hard to describe it.

[amand_r]

Well, I don't know where you are, but I was in Manchester, Cardiff, Birmingham, London and Southhampton, and I heard it in multiple places. In fact, I learnt flatware first from a British person.

Jesus, it's not a big deal. it's a new word that you haven't heard before. I learn new words all the time. What I learnt while I was over there from listening and talking to tonnes of people, some of them Brit fic writers, is that language is very tricky, and some things one person has never heard are used by another. What this tells the American writers is that if we hear it over there it's fair game, because everything is so compartmentalised, it looks like. There is no longer any "we say it this way", except in broad sweeps.

I would really prefer if you PMed me when you have these sorts of complaints.