Fic: Reclamation (Torchwood, NC-17/R)

[amand_r]

Title: Reclamation
Author: amand_r, cast of thousands.
Characters: everyone

Warnings: This fic contains a trigger (for rape), BUT IT CAN BE BYPASSED by choosing the labelled link at the correct time in the story. IF YOU ARE DISINCLINED TO READ THAT SEGMENT, the non-trigger option is clearly labelled at the appropriate time. It will not affect your understanding of the fic.

Author's Notes: This is a physical fic. I hesitate to call it art (or ficart). The text has been written by me, but all handwriting was painstakingly collected from: kel_reiley, used_songs, valancy_joy, bethcarielle, 51stcenturyfox, neifile7, sanginmychains, joanwilder, copperbadge, pogrebin and cruentum.
The webpage layout, logo and programming of the frame that you see all the pieces through was designed and put together by angstslashhope, who when she heard of the project was appalled that I was going to slap them up there with o background or anything. she even made a flavicon! How gorgeous is that?! UNIT logo lifted from the_dosk, Torchwood logos lifted from the interwebs in general. Cast list at the end. Have fun trying to guess who was who!

Summary: Item: Metal fire-proof box and contents. Catalogue #: 011J36FK-YRT-00l3. Location of retrieval: Roald Dahl Plass, Cardiff (Torchwood Three headquarters). Object was found in debris following explosion at the Torchwood Three Hub; outside of the box is scarred, dented' one box corner depressed; burn marking evident; contents unharmed. Priority: low.

Comments

[hope]

OMG MADE OF WIN.

You = awesome.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG NO YOU.

I DIDN'T EVEN REALISE WHAT I WOULD HAVE BEEN MISSING UNTIL YOU CAME ALONG.

[lawsontl.livejournal.com]

Wow, it is so cool to see this in its final state at last!

And I see you settled on a blood source :)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

It was sharpie. Hope photoshopped it up. all the fake blood looked shitty on paper.

Heeh! Glad you liked!

[thaddeusfavour.livejournal.com]

This is seriously good. Very good. I love it.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[kickair8p.livejournal.com]

Wow. Beautiful work!

~

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Thanks on behalf of everyone.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Wow. The... everything.

Five and six are my faves, I think. Or John Hart's. I CAN'T pick.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

HAAAHAHAHAH JOHN HART.

THANKS. I didn't do much. I was the wrangler.

[wynkat1313.livejournal.com]

That is freakin' awesome. Its like beautiful torture to have those delicious snippets of stories told in other peoples voices/hands all with that way we have of telling the truth as we understand it and want it to be. And always, invariably sharing so much more about ourselves than we realize. Gods that was cool. I never wanted it to end. And I wanted to ask Jack what they all meant to him and what he was thinking when he got each letter. Why he kept those and not others... and and and... and yet... that's the nature of letters and a box of mementos isnt it? *sigh*

Awesome sauce.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG THAT WAS THE POINT.

LIKE, I have no idea what the Alice Guppy one was about, but I WANT to know why he kept it. And what did he say to Harriet on the bridge? I dunno.

I like that he only kept post its from Ianto. LOL.

Thanks for reading! I am glad you liked it!

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE

I just really love all the little bits strung together... like a little paper rosary or sommat.

and I had forgotten the bear shaped kite in 'mine' ... it made me LOL!!

off to bookmark so I can re re re re read everything :0)

OMG so great!!!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THE BEAR SHAPED KITE IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOU CRY!

OH WAIT...

FUCKING SADFACE. FUCKING EVERYWHERE.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

SadFace IS everywhere--and right now sleeping with my Nick. Um. You know what I mean.

Oh Mandr-and all--I realized I was posting my thoughts on twitter instead of here. So now here. I swear, this project turned out so amazing--and I have this strong feeling it will spawn fics. So many questions raised begging to be answered or at least mulled over and explored, so many stories bursting in my mind over every little piece.

Really wonderful project. So awesome, thank you for pulling it together!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

HIS STITCHES ITCH!

I totes wish it would spawn fics. That would be cool.

Aww, thanks, C! You are awesome!

[solsticezero.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I finish one thing and then immediately get to read something else!

This was really goddamn creative. It's so great that you got so many people involved, and the outcome was just perfect. I love the Post-Its; very characteristic. Tosh's card was adorable. And the fact that it is its own little website - really awesome. I love this kind of stuff, like copperbadge's epistolary fic, "All That I Ain't Got". It's my favorite kind of medium to read, and you did a really great job with it.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

God, I haven't read that in ages. LOL!

Thanks so much for reading! Everyone did such an amazing job.

[teaboyfan.livejournal.com]

You are all amazingly talented people. After reading through it three times, I have fallen in love with the account of Owen's shooting, complete with Ianto's defiance. Also love Tosh's card, John Hart, and the poem. Incredible work!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

HAAAHAHAHAH I LOVE THE INCIDENT REPORT. SOMETIMES WHAT ISN'T SAID IS THE BEST THING EVER.

THANKS SO MUCH FROM EVERYONE!

[nancybrown.livejournal.com]

*flail* I love stories told like this. (The Sunnydale High detention note series being another fave.) They were all weird and perfect. And Post-Its!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Haahahaah POST ITS!

THANK YOU!

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

!!!

oh wow, finally seeing all the bits together... you are brilliant, lady!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

You guys did most of the work. It was fun to do!

[easilymused1956.livejournal.com]

I LOVED IT LIKE I LOVE AN EPIC MOVIE. I LOVED IT LIKE A MOODY BLUES CONCERT. I LOVED IT LIKE REALLY, REALLY GOOD THEATER. I LOVED IT LIKE I LOVE METHOS. And honey, it doesn't get any better than that.

Seriously brilliant. Kudos to you and your cast, Ms. Producer.

Renee

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THEY WERE ALL SO VERY BRILLIANT.

HAAHAHAH IT'S GOOD WHEN WE HAVE A METHOSIAN SCALE TO JUDGE THINGS.

[easilymused1956.livejournal.com]

I can so see notes being passed around from Methos to Joe to MacLeod and back. Could be interesting...

Renee

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I'd have to dredge up something from the bowels for that.

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

This is fucking fantastic. So good. So fucking good.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

HAAHAHAHAHA your chicken scratch is perfect!

[tencrush]

Wow. Loved this big time. Wow.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[madder-rose.livejournal.com]

2 and 7 and 5 and it's written on the back of a receipt! AND JOHN HART WRITES IN KRYPTONIAN! See? You made me use caps. But it's Kryptonian! I actually dug up my key and translated before I saw the transcription. I am that nerdy.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

HAAHAHAHAH SO AWESOME WITH YOUR KEY. I like to think that Hart loves fucking with Jack. OR MAYBE THAT'S THE LANGUAGE THEY SPEAK ON DOESHANE. I DON'T KNOW.

Thanks for reading!

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Great, great job!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Thank you so very much!

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

This was such a cool idea, and executed so well! Great attention to detail in the choosing of stationery. "Alice in Wonderland" for Alice? Lovely. Money for Hart? Snicker. Going back over it, I really like the Owen-Ianto back and forth, the post-its (of course I do), and I was touched by the drawing -- more so by the fact that he kept it.

Gorgeous handwriting, everyone!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think the most fun in this was the cryptic nature of the things that Jack felt he wanted to keep. He doesn't have anything from Owen, but Owen has written on two different things. He doesn't have a letter from Ianto. He has domestic post its. The drawing. The cryptic Alice Guppy card. I had to make Alice's stationery, but it seems to have worked.

I have to go over and read your DVD commentary!

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is seriously impressive.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[topgeargirl2.livejournal.com]

This was all very impressive.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[beesandbrews.livejournal.com]

Hey! You got it finished. Very impressive. Kudos to all involved.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks so much!

[used_songs]

This is fantastic! It was so cool to see how the tantalizing bits I knew about fit into the whole project. And I loved loved LOVED how many questions remained when the whole thing was done. This is one of those that, in my head, is now firmly part of the canon.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

WOOOOO! AWESOME. I tried very hard to make them things that we could find on the BBC site (well, except for Suzie.), so much so that they could be canonical.

Your Ianto handwriting remains one of my favs.

[neifile7.livejournal.com]

This hits very hard, since I'm going through documents and having to think about the stories and connections embedded in personal archives and...it's painful, but also very meaningful in a way. This isn't an epistolary fic but an archival one, even if most of the documents are addressed to Jack in some way. The real question, of course, is what got saved and why, since there's so much pain as well as joy here.

I'm just amazed at how evocative each of these snippets is, both in what they say and how they look. The Hart letter is MOW of course, but I think the four Ianto post-its are the absolute best match of form and content, the entire relationship practically distilled to haiku. And Alex's poem and the "twin hollows," written on that receipt, just gutted me.

I agree with C. In fact, there should be a fic challenge to go with this. But with strict word limits, I think, because the beauty of this is how spare it is, how fragmentary, and all the richer and truer for it.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Aw, you liked mah poem! Yeah, I think I called it epistolary for lack of a better word, but it is more archival.

I am so glad that you liked it, and I'm excited to work on your epistolary fic! That is going to rule!