Most of you will discover this tomorrow, but just so you know - colleagues will ask you how your weekend went.

And depending on where you work and who you work with, you will find yourself not really knowing how to answer that one.

salt, say hello to wound.

Partly this is for my own record and needs, but I figured I'd share also. The following is CoE meta.

It is, so far, meta on the negatives of CoE.

My overall message is this: CoE brought up things that need to be talked about. This isn't anti-fandom, it is pro-future fandoms. There are things we are entitled to get from our television shows ( Read more... )

Title: Corridors
Author: qthelights
Pairing: Jack/Ianto/Tosh
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers/Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Not mine, I just play with them (in dirty ways)
A/N: Written for the last torchwood porn battle hosted by 51stcenturyfox and cruentum. I literally bashed this out in 20 minutes or what have you, because I was determined not to miss another porn battle! It is therefore ( Read more... )

Title: He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: G
Notes: Spur of the moment free write. Unbeta'd and purple-prosey. Inspired by the need for sleep and copperbadge's latest ficlet. I might be convinced to make something more of this if there's any interest... after a night's sleep. Title courtesy of William Dean ( Read more... )

Okay so this is what I get for going to bed after posting something without thinking it through.. :(

I don't meant to imply that Jack is not sexual, and that all his actions can be interpreted through the lens of soldierly intimacy. Not at all what my point was. It's unquestionable that a lot of Jack's actions are sexual and overtly sexual at ( Read more... )

I've just read an article called '"Kiss me, Hardy,": Intimacy, Gender and Gesture in World War I Trench Literature' by Santanu Das that examines the act of the kiss between soldiers - dying and otherwise. It's rather complex, but one of the lines of thought is that it isn't erotic (though we may view it as such) but comfort. Soldiers kissed their ( Read more... )

Title: Night Monsters
Author: qthelights
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Not mine, I just play with them.
Summary: The night isn't only for monsters. Shameless pwp.

( Night Monsters )

Title: I Have Measured Out My Life
Author: qthelights
Pairing: Jack/various (Jack/Ianto)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Coffee forms a thread through Jack's time on earth, right up to and including Ianto.
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: not mine, i just play with them
A/N: Title comes from T.S. Eliot - "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons". There are hints of ( Read more... )

I've come to the realisation that I kind of hate what they did to Jack in Exit Wounds.

( cut for spoilers, just in case )

Title: The Inexpressible Comfort of Feeling
Author: qthelights
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Cyberwoman, Countrycide
Disclaimer: Not mine, I just play with them.
Summary: Wounds aren't only skin deep.

( The Inexpressible Comfort of Feeling )