[fic]

[apiphile]

Title: Someone You'd Die For (Ep #1)
Fandom: Dr Who/Torchwood (AU).
Word Count: 5,600
Rating: PG-13 for violence.
Pairing: There kind of are some, and there kind of aren't.
Warnings: Violent. Gory. Character death. Stuff.
Disclaimer: Allll the intellectual property contained within belongs to the BBC, who need to stop kowtowing to the Daily Mail.

Comments

[strangefrontier]

Ahhhhh, yesssssssss. This is exactly what I wanted from the Torchwood fandom before I dumped it when it threw endless samey safe Jack/Ianto coffee!metaphor fic at me. This is brutal and tight and I'm very much looking forward to the rest. :D

(Also, here's an unpopular fandom opinion of mine: I freakin' hate fic warnings. The blurb on the back of a book doesn't warn me that a character will die, it's a bloody spoiler! I don't want to know in advance! But there would be such an uproar if one dared to skip the warning and lured all those fluffy-wuffy fic-readers into a VILE PIT OF SIN AND GORE. But then again I like a lot of violence in my fiction.)

[apiphile]

I think that if something is written well I will tolerate anything. Literally anything, even if anyone else writing it would fuck with my squick settings something chronic; Neil Gaiman's narrative poem Eaten: Scenes from a moving picture might have been put down without finishing if someone else had been writing it, but I trust him and I like his style. Likewise, it rarely matters what the content or genre of the piece is, if Stephen King's writing it I'm going to be bored and annoyed.

Really, the fic warnings I want - which are probably not realistic to ask for - are stuff like:

Massively OOC.
Author's style is irritating.
Author could not write if their life depended on it.
Unsatisfactory ending.
NO PLOT.
Ridiculously long for no reason.
Author has no concept of actual dialogue.
Author has no concept of human anatomy.
Full-on badfic.
Babytalk.

:D

[apiphile]

Continue here please: http://apiphile.livejournal.com/1822756.html

[mssamyx]

I'm sorry, just, what fandom was that fic in? And there where *no* warnings about it? I feel like I just drove past a car crash, I got to know what happened now...

[strangefrontier]

You sound like you're talking about something else *snerk* But I'd read that, too. And I have a reliable reaction to the word "tight". Also, "hard".

I felt that this stiff, pulsing prose really penetrated me, though I won't be satisfied until the climax of the story, when I will gush forth with praise.

[apiphile]

Hey now, do I write that fic? I write ADVENTURES. Admittedly, also bad porn, but mostly ADVENTURES and STUPIDITY. Largely because romance scares me. :D