I don't have trouble buying that Jack can fall in love, so much as Ianto specifically doesn't work like that for me. Mmm, totally! In my main fic at the moment, Seeing Double, Jack ends up falling in love with this woman who's Rose's spiritual twin/soulmate, but is in a lot of ways very much a female version of him. But she's different enough to challenge him, and doesn't sleep with him for AGES - not until they've been in love for months and months (mind you, Time Travel does much things up a bit :P) But i never planned it, it just made sense. I thought - yeah, i can really see Jack falling for someone like this. And he does. So i think things like that, and Estelle and Jack and John and the Doctor show he really does fall (and usually quite fast and hard) for some people, but they're always a bit special.
Is this woman a good teacher? She's fantastic. I know this for a fact. But it's... complicated. I can't explain it without ranting for AGES, but she's not just another teacher. And i like the fact that she cares about me and lets me talk to her for half an hour or so every month even when she's really busy, and even though she's not my Year Head anymore. And if she was my teacher... i'd be like everyone else.
It's whatever comes naturally, really, and Jack/Ianto just feels a bit forced. "Oh look, two pretty men, they obviously must get together" is, well, fangirl mentality. It's almost odd to see it on actual TV...
Do you know for a fact things would change? It might be because my college wasn't huge (about a hundred and ten students in my year group when I was there) but I definitely felt I had a relationship with some of my teachers. But I can see why it would be nice to have that sort of support from someone.
Is this woman a good teacher? She's fantastic. I know this for a fact. But it's... complicated. I can't explain it without ranting for AGES, but she's not just another teacher. And i like the fact that she cares about me and lets me talk to her for half an hour or so every month even when she's really busy, and even though she's not my Year Head anymore. And if she was my teacher... i'd be like everyone else.
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Do you know for a fact things would change? It might be because my college wasn't huge (about a hundred and ten students in my year group when I was there) but I definitely felt I had a relationship with some of my teachers. But I can see why it would be nice to have that sort of support from someone.
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