Spoilers: "Exit Wounds".

What do you get when you find a fic called A Sweeter Oblivion which is deliciously smutty and still breaks your heart? You get a fic rec and a good one. This takes place after Exit Wounds, and explores how much Jack needs to find some peace and how hard it is for him to do that. Every tremble in this fic is tied down to ( Read more... )

Spoilers: "Everything Changes," "Cyberwoman," "Greeks Bearing Gifts," "They Keep Killing Suzie," "The Last Of The Time Lords" from New WhoIt's always hard to think of things to say about drabbles that sell the story but don't give anything away. 100 words doesn't leave a lot you can summarize or excerpt without telling you the entire drabble. I ( Read more... )

Spoilers: Uh. I talked with the author a lot about this, and the thing is that so much of it is rewritten from canon that even the spoilers are buried in a lot of stuff that makes them look made-up. To be safe you should have seen through "Utopia" in DW and probably "End Of Days" in TW, and probably a good portion of "Life On Mars," but if you ( Read more... )

Spoilers: None that I could see

In Reaching Into The Darkness, flora2313 blinds Ianto, making Jack find a different way to get through to him. Sure blind angst is a cliche, but when the fics are as good as this one is, who can blame it? Sweet tender and hot like a cake out of the oven. You should definitely go taste it right now.

His lips are soft as they ( Read more... )

Spoilers: after "Cyberwoman" in Torchwood

In The Smell Of Skin, beatthedisco gives us a slow thoughtful piece about one of the little, rich details of what Ianto does after "Cyberwoman" and how he copes. Of course this is Ianto, and his coping looks a lot like not coping, but beatthedisco gives us a nice, smooth arc and brings us just far enough out the other end ( Read more... )

Spoilers: through "Day One" in Torchwood.

In Craving, jo19844-twfic gives us a smoking hot and tantalizing missing scene of Jack/Ianto for "Day One." Come for the slash, stay for the porn, cry for the delicate, sad character development that happens at the end ( Read more... )

Spoilers: through "Countrycide" in Torchwood.

In Four Things Jack Never Would Have Guessed About Ianto, and One Thing He Suspected, ninefics makes a beautiful character study of Ianto which weighs in at a lean 1550ish words. Thereby making my list of "people whose brains to eat and thereby gain magical powers."

It cost him nearly a hundred pounds, two ( Read more... )