An Immortal Ianto fic 1/1

[idontlikegravy]

This is part of my Immortal Ianto series, the beginning of which can be found here. So, this one's a little more somber than usual, my brain is leaning towards h/c at the moment, which is a novel experience for me. Big thanks to aeron_lanart for her reassurances

Comments

[vipersweb]

quite a gorgeous piece. I like that Jack is able to reassure Ianto about being immortal and watching people die. I mean, Amanda could do it, but she's his teacher and I don't think it would work as well as it does with Jack, who Ianto knows and loves - or at least likes a lot - and who has dealt with immortality and watching people he loves die for a long time - and yet, still works for Torchwood, which I think is the important part. After all, working for a place where the mortality rate is quite high is not an easy thing.

[idontlikegravy]

This is very true.

Thank you, I'm so happy you liked it. As I said above, I don't do this sort of fic often because I genuinely feel I'm rubbish at it. I wrote poetry when I was younger, and I think sometimes I tend to lean to a very poetic kind of language when writing angst and h/c which just comes over as melodramatic in a fic. So, positive comments are genuinely appreciated! :)

[vipersweb]

I like angst. Can't write humor very well, but angst and drama? so well. In fact, I got that as a criticism for Schism - a HP/TW crossover. I was told it was too dark and too angsty and too depressing. (I covered cyberwoman to countrycide, which as you know, are quite depressing episodes.)

[idontlikegravy]

Between your angst and my crack/fluff/humour, maybe we could find a happy medium! *grin*

Too angsty? No such thing. We all need light and fluffy, but without the dark we wouldn't know what it was. I love a good angsty piece. And that sounds like it needs to be angsty. ;-)

*toddles off to investigate Schism*

[aeron_lanart]

Schism is bloody brill and is in no way *too* angsty and depressing.

I like humour *and* angst and am not averse to having them in the same fic!

I can do whimsical (hey, if you attempt an H2G2 xover you've *got* to do whimsical)
I can do angst (I tend to the sorrowful side rather than the angry side)
I'm not so sure I manage light and fluffy that well though.

[idontlikegravy]

It is indeed bloody brill.

I think you have done fluffy - the crackier side of it admittedly, but you do that light gentle humour well and there have been some lovely moments in your fic that I'd consider light. I guess in the end the whimsy and crack and fluff all kind of blend together, like life.

Us and our categories, eh? *grin*

[aeron_lanart]

At least they're quaint categories.

Funnily enough, after I wrote that I realised how almost-fluffy some of my shorter things have ended up being, but the only one that was really pink and fluffy involved candy floss on a spaceship.

I'll go with you on the light, then, but I do have to admit being very wary of the insidious power of the fluff side. *g*

[idontlikegravy]

*grin*

[aeron_lanart]

Hee! I feel the need to wear my cookies tshirt...