TW: It Wasn't Cheating (NSFW) [MA]

[lt_indigo]

Torchwood - It Wasn't Cheating

Fandom:
Torchwood

Title:
It Wasn't Cheating

In which Ianto tries to justify his seduction of Jack.

Author:
lt_indigo

Pairing(s):
Jack/Ianto

Warning(s):
MA, NSFW

Disclamer:
If I owned this, not only would Ianto not be bloody dead, but I would not be

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Excellent!

You captured Ianto's thoughts really well - his attempts at denial are very in character for the timeframe - and quite apart from that it's hot enough to melt the brain!

You really need to get this posted to some of the communities - I'd suggest jackxianto and torchwood_fic - so that more people can read and enjoy it.

I'm already looking forward to the sequel - can't write smut to save my life, but I love to read it.

[lt_indigo]

Ooh, my first comment :)

Thanks for being so supportive - I've only recently started using LJ, so I wasn't sure how the communities work. Thanks for recommending some, though - I'll definitely give them a go.

I'm so glad you liked it, and that you thought Ianto was in character. It was the first time I've really tried going back to the beginning of their relationship, and tried to define what happened there. There are so many different versions of this out there I was a bit worried.

That said, I had a lot of fun writing it, so to have someone else say they enjoyed it is the icing on the cake.

[badly_knitted]

The communities aren't too difficult - they like you to use a header (title, author, rating, pairing, summary and any warnings/spoilers) and it's a good idea to check out the rules on the profile page for each one. Then you just join the community and you can either post your story there under a cut or just post the header with a link leading back to your journal. Either method is acceptable.

Other communities you might like are torch_wood which is for everything Torchwood related, including fics, jantolution which is for janto fics that at least have a happy ending, and tw_classic for anything related to the first two series (I think things set pre-season one are alllowed too).

Have fun exploring LJ, there are still quite a few regular Torchwood writers around and a lot of older journals that are worth reading if you enjoy that as well as writing.

[lt_indigo]

I do love reading - in fact it was stumbling across Angstosaur's fic here that brought me back into the fandom. Since then I've been perusing at my leisure when I have a little time to myself (doesn't happen often).

I've posted this and my other Torchwood fic to both communities you mentioned, using your posts as a guide. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction :).

[badly_knitted]

It's my pleasure! The world needs more quality Torchwood fic, especially since a lot of the original Torchwood fanfic writers have moved on to pastures new. There are still a bunch of good writers around, but far fewer than when Torchwood first started so those of us that remain tend to cluster together and support each other. We're a friendly bunch though, always ready to welcome anyone new.

I'll check out your other fic sometime today, when I can fit in some reading =)

[lt_indigo]

You have absolutely no idea how much you have made my day by saying "quality Torchwood fic". I did dabble a little bit at the beginning, and posted on ff.net, but RL then got in the way and things kind of shuddered to a halt until recently.

[badly_knitted]

Praise where it's due!

Oh, I know how that is, real life is currently beating me to a pulp, all I can manage at the moment is writing 100 word drabbles. Better than nothing though. At least it's keeping my brain working.

I absolutely love your icon!

[lt_indigo]

The bunny? It's my mother's desktop - I stole it from her and popped the caption on (which is also technically hers).

There's a lot of skill involved in a drabble, to get your point across in such a concise manner. I'm not particularly good at it - I tend to over-run. I think every fic I've done that's under 1k words is a failed drabble.

[badly_knitted]

LOL! I used to think I could never write a drabble - I tend to be long-winded (you may have noticed from my comments, lol), but then I had a fic that wasn't going anywhere, it fitted the drabble prompt that week, so I chopped out a few words... and I'm still writing drabbles, 134 this year o_O. I can't get my head around that, they really mount up quickly. I still don't know how I'm doing it, but somehow I am and I think it's mproving my writing, forcing me to look at different ways of phrasing things. Just proves you're never too old to learn something new!

[lt_indigo]

That's the beauty of drabble writing, isn't it? There's challenges in vocabulary that you never even consider normally. I enjoy the challenge, and if the tale behaves, it works. It's the stories that tend to run away with me and inconsiderately develop a proper plot.

[badly_knitted]

I've had a few do that - one I though would be a 1500 word one-shot ended up at nearly 5000 and spawned a whole 'verse. I never know what will happen when I start writing a fic, they usually end up either shorter or WAY longer than I expected, and the characters frequently take over and refuse to cooperate, lol!

I'm not good at plots though, particularly anything action-based. As much as I love reading them, my brain is jammed in Fluff mode and that's all I can seem to write except for in drabble form.

[lt_indigo]

Plots seem to happen accidentally. In general, I get some idea for either fluff or angst, and then plot sneaks up on me as I'm writing. Ianto likes a plot, generally. Jack just goes with the flow and plays with whatever toys I see fit to throw in his general direction.

[badly_knitted]

My Jack and Ianto tend to start having completely unplanned conversations that come out of nowhere, then they won't shut up. The other characters get chatty occasionally, but never as much as Jack and Ianto. Getting them back on track can be difficult.

Writing is both fun and frustrating. I never realised before that fictional characters can have minds of their own and very definite ideas of what they will and won't do. I find myself writing what they tell me to as often as I write what I plan to write.

[lt_indigo]

Oh, I know exactly what you mean - I might have some spark of an idea, but then Jack and Ianto take over. Tosh might beat some sense into them occasionally, but I get very little say overall. I'm just along for the ride.

[badly_knitted]

I'm still getting to grips with Tosh, and Owen for that matter. Gwen is the hardest to write though as I don't like her and I'm trying to make her more likeable rather than bashing her. I'm also trying to learn how to write Rhys, he's tricky. I love him to bits, but he has very particular speech patterns and mannerisms that don't come naturally to me. Jack andd Ianto are so much easier.

[lt_indigo]

Funny how no-one likes Gwen - she's just such a deeply irritating character. She sees the world in black and white that she's very difficult to deal with.

I must confess an advantage with Rhys - I lived in North Wales for a while, so the dialect is more familiar for me. He makes me miss the place a lot. The only real thing I don't understand about him is why he puts up with Gwen!

Tosh I absolutely adore: she comes across as so sweet and innocent, stuck in her little Physicist/techie world, then bam, she's Dr Evil Genius (like in 'Reset'), and you realise she could probably take over the world if she let herself.

The only person I have trouble with is Owen. It was easier when he was just a sarky bastard: now he's a sarky bastard with a tragic backstory and no heartbeat. I just don't know how to deal with him (other than frustrating the hell out of him because he can't have sex any more - that's just fun).