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"Needles and Pins" Torchwood drabble Gwen/Rhys Rating-G

Aug 16, 2011 21:07

Title: Needles and Pins
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Gwen/Rhys
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Notes: Drabble-a-Day 2011. Day 228. Prompt from megans_writing: Gwen/Rhys-unraveled. Dedicated to The Pro-Gwen Alliance. Full metal beta by lefaym. Comments and concrit welcome. Takes place between Children of Earth and Miracle Day ( Read more... )

fanfic, drabble, gwen cooper, het, rhys williams, torchwood, drabble-a-day 2011, gwen/rhys

Comments 17

damigella_314 August 17 2011, 05:15:00 UTC

I had to look up tinking, and I'm glad I did. I always love onomatopoeia. And I knit a jumper for my firstborn, because I wanted to be a proper mum.
I don't know how you came up with the idea - it's quite some distance from the prompt!

karaokegal August 17 2011, 05:35:13 UTC

Well, tinking strikes me as pretty close to unraveling. In fact, the big knitting blog is called Ravelry. As soon as I saw the prompt, I was pretty sure knitting was going to be involved. I hear a lot about knitting because of hubby.

It was kind of stretch for me and I might have over-done the metaphor a smidge. Luckily my beta pulled me way back from the first draft which was as subtle as a moose's erection.

damigella_314 August 17 2011, 07:59:35 UTC

as subtle as
My problem seems to be that I had never seen unravel used in its literal (i.e., non-metaphorical) sense. And I've never seen a moose either :).

photoash August 17 2011, 06:16:58 UTC

So sweet :) I love it! Great IC Gwen and Rhys :)

karaokegal August 17 2011, 18:09:55 UTC

THANKS! Writing "lighter" Gwen/Rhys is difficult for me as I think they're a classic mismatch, even though neither of them wants to admit it.

samstjames August 17 2011, 08:55:04 UTC

Aww. Sweet.

karaokegal August 17 2011, 18:10:07 UTC

THANKS!

rustydog August 18 2011, 02:01:10 UTC

Rhys suspected that in Gwen’s hands those needles and fluffy pink yarn could be just as lethal as Torchwood’s dark secrets.

Awesome. And true. :) At first I expected Gwen to be knitting so she could make her baby something that at least *wasn't* pink. But I could totally see Gwen wanting to try to do some traditional things as a mum -- when she does anything, she commits.

I too had to look up tinking, and it turns out I have done it a LOT without knowing the name!

ETA I love that you used an icon of Jack's bum for a drabble about knitting for a baby. *g*

karaokegal August 18 2011, 02:16:35 UTC

UH...honey....that's Rhys' bum. :) This *points to icon* is Jack's bum. This was my attempt to do a Gwen/Rhys fic with virtually no Jack in it at all. And let me tell ya, it wasn't easy.

Tinking is a phrase I hear often from Hubby when he's having issues. In fact, this drabble was very much inspired by his knitting adventures.

Thanks for commenting. It's not a pairing I write often so I'm glad this worked for you.

rustydog August 18 2011, 02:58:00 UTC

Whoops, I need to work on my arse identification skills! Well, the icon makes more sense now and I salute your effort and your success -- I'm sure it wasn't easy! :)

unfeathered August 19 2011, 06:58:20 UTC

Well, I have to admit that I tink regularly but never knew that's what it was called! *g*

Love this. It strikes me as very much the sort of thing Gwen would have done when she was trying to put Torchwood behind her, and of course the metaphor is great. :-)

karaokegal August 19 2011, 22:49:32 UTC

I guess I hear hubby say it so much that I thought it was more prevalent term, at least among knitters.

Thanks so much. I'm really glad you liked the story and it seemed to fit into the canon.

unfeathered August 20 2011, 09:33:58 UTC

It may well be a prevalent term - I don't really talk to that many knitters! Mainly, it's patterns I look at online, rather than blogs or whatever. Though until I went online I never knew the term 'frog' either, but that seems a bit more of a generic term than 'tink'.