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I'm rather sad that only one person commented on my Torchwood fic. In fact, I don't seem to get many comments on anything in this journal anymore, and it worries me.
Thereforce, I beg for comments nudge the lurkers poll!
Please only take the poll if you have this journal friended or read it at least occasionally.
( a poll, with obligatory silly last question )
Thereforce, I beg for comments nudge the lurkers poll!
Please only take the poll if you have this journal friended or read it at least occasionally.
( a poll, with obligatory silly last question )
But I read. Boy, do I read, and think, and make shiny plans about writing the Best Comment Evar.
Same with emails, btw. I collect comment notification emails (or general pen-pal style emails) like book shelves collect dust.
It's horrible, but I don't know what to doooo.
P.S.: Don't mention the irrational but very peristent fear of annoying people (in this case, you). I know it's stupid. Just... pretend it doesn't exist. I try to work on it ( ... )
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I totally understand the desire to make the Best Comment Evar (I feel it too, and in any case I'm pretty bad about commenting) but of course, the OP just gets . . . silence. And any non-flamey comment is better than silence!
As for Jack/Ianto . . . I think my story sort of got caught between Scylla and Charybdis, fannishly. People who don't ship Jack/Ianto weren't likely to read it, and people who do ship Jack/Ianto may have been put off either by having the Ianto/Lisa pairing there as well, or just by the fact that it wasn't a happy story.
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True, dat. I complain about it myself. Somehow, when you get no replies, you always assume it's because people either were absolutely uninterested, or they read it and thought it sucked. Which does not, actually, overlap with reality, but that's how you feel.
And yet, commenting is... hard.
No, I don't get it, either.
I think my story sort of got caught between Scylla and Charybdis, fannishly (...) people who do ship Jack/Ianto may have been put off either by having the Ianto/Lisa pairing there as well, or just by the fact that it wasn't a happy story.Well, I can only speak for me, but the lack of happy endings is one of the things I like about your stories. Or perhaps "lack of happy endings" isn't quite the right way to put it... but your fics often have this dark atmosphere that I am drawn to. Not the grim-and-gritty dark. It's more ... the way you write about the characters, they are often broken in so many subtle ways. Sometimes they cope. Sometimes they cope, but in a very ( ... )
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The funny thing is, I do in fact like happy endings when they're possible. But they're hard to accomplish, both in life and in writing. Especially as I'm much more interested in characters who are, as you say, broken rather than in happy, well-adjusted characters. (I didn't particularly love Jack during S1 of Doctor Who--it was the unhappy, messed-up Jack of Torchwood that I fell in love with.)
I don't have a problem with a Ianto that is read as mostly/actually gay by people, but I'd have a problem with people declaring that his love for Lisa wasn't real
Oh yeah. Everything in canon shows us that Ianto loved Lisa obsessively, and in fact feels more for her than he does for Jack, even by the end of the season. But the same canon also shows us that Ianto and Jack are sleeping together and that Ianto, at least, has pretty strong feelings for Jack. So there's no need to choose, no need to denigrate one relationship to make room for the other.
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*grins* It's taken completely out of context, of course--the story's cyborgs have nothing to do with Haraway's cyborgs--but I loved that line so much that I had to use it.
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