Fic: The Spectacular Catastrophe of Your Endless Childhood [Part 2]

[kalichan]

Title: The Spectacular Catastrophe of Your Endless Childhood
Pairing/Characters: Ianto [Ianto/OFCs, Ianto/Lisa]
Authors: rm & kalichan
Rating/Warning: NC-17, het, pre-slash
Summary: The early education and adventures of Ianto Jones.
Wordcount: ~11,000 [posted in 2 parts]
Authors' Note: This is a prequel to our Jack/Ianto series, I Had No Idea I Had Been

Comments

[electro_club]

I totally agree with that.

[kalichan]

Thank you so much! And yes, even though Ianto thinks (at numerous points throughout this installment) that he is all grown up, and done - fully baked, as it were, he's very much mistaken. This is childhood, still, and he's not fully formed, no matter how much he thinks he is.

[fmanalyst]

It's interesting that you talk about him not yet fully formed because it's something I often think about in relation to young men. I'm a college professor so I'm around 18-25 year-olds all day. There's a stage during those college years in which they've achieved their height, but their bodies are still relatively slender and their faces are softer, less angular, and as one watches over time, their bodies and faces become more defined, more solid and so do their selves

[rm]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes

[fmanalyst]

It's the old line about seeing the boy inside the man, but from the other direction: seeing the man emerge from the boy. And one could get the sense that Jack has become accustomed to watching this process of maturation and finds it very sexy. I'm reminded of the scene from KKBB with Captain John here. Marsters may be shorter and leaner than Barrowman, but his presence is just as solid, and so the kiss and then fight is a meeting of equals, which is a big part of what makes that scene so sexy. Two powerful forces meeting

[rm]

I have (and I think Kali has too) totally read that fic. Jack's also got a sweetness to him Brian doesn't, and whether that connects to the alpha/beta thing it's hard to say, but it's an interesting pairing.

I'm also really fascinated by Tosh's dynamic with both Jack and Ianto (I'd love to read some good Ianto/Tosh fic, I think). I tend to think her friendship with Jack is actually pretty complicated and private, just because of the whole UNIT prison thing and her nature in general.

[fmanalyst]

I've read a fair amount of Ianto/Tosh fic, but none jump out to me as particularly strong. The best one I can think of (I can't think of any titles at the moment) has them working together after Countrycide to train at getting their hands free from various kinds of bindings, culminating in the scene from Meat. Another has Jack assigning Tosh to train Ianto as a technician around the time that Gwen was hired. Oh, it's Geek Gifts by adina_atl.

I think I'm going to start doing fic recs from a literary point of view on my lj. It'll probably turn into a procrastination tool after my sabbatical starts next semester. (I'm planning a project that relates fan work to narrative theory.)

[fmanalyst]

Wait, there's actually another one besides Geek Gifts that I was thinking of. I'm going to have to find that again.

[kalichan]

I think about the Jack - Brian Kinney parallels a lot actually; although they're quite different in affect, there's something about the two characters that seems similar; I wonder if it's the influence of RTD on the two shows.

I think I'm going to start doing fic recs from a literary point of view on my lj. It'll probably turn into a procrastination tool after my sabbatical starts next semester. (I'm planning a project that relates fan work to narrative theory.)

How very cool. I'm writing my dissertation currently (theoretically, very, very theoretically; my procrastinating powers are mighty), and it's ended up being a lot about fan work and narrative. I'll look forward to your fic recs.

A beta male trapped in the role of an alpha male. I think that's very interesting, and very true. Jack, to me, is fascinating because he is coded so aggressively, and yet often responds in ways that we often think of as feminine. There's absolutely no way in which he couldn't be considered badass, but at the same time, his flirtation is so very "