tosh hates this bullshit

[amand_r]

1. Kidlet is sick. I am not a happy camper. Invariably, I will get sick. Bah. But she's miserable. Keeps walking around the house going, "MY NOSE! MY NOSE!" Yeah, I know, girl, but there's nothing I can do.

2. For reasons that I shan't go into, I need Torchwood Jack/Ianto kidfic recommendations. They can be good, bad or epic. I don't care. But I don't read kidfic, and I need a sampling so I can see tropes and shit. I'm not interested in the MPREG bit, or infancy much. I want kids. 18 months and on. I don't care whose they are originally, but they have to be J/I with kids. [NOTE: YEAH, I HAVE READ dsudis's Get Loved...etc.]

3. I have a new writing regime. I have 10 (ten) stories designated as "open" or "in play". They are all on paper. Every day I pull the stack out and work on every single one until I feellike stopping, then I file it back in the "in play" bin. Then when the pile is empty I get them out, shuffle them, and start all over. It guarantees that I work on more than one thing at once. So far so good. Right now I have:

a. The Jaws thing
b. The VS
c. Project with Crue
d. Project with Hope
e. An owen/ianto
f. The alice fic
g. A truth serum fic
h. Bodyswap
i. A jack/god
j. A tw/hl


4. Because I am procrastinating about all that up there, a meme:

Ask me one fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general.

Just one question, please, but it can (and perhaps should) have sub-parts.

Question can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want.

I figure that gives me a lot of wiggle room. Whatever you want. Just no NCIS, Merlin, or SPN. If you haven't heard me talk about it before, I probably don't know it. OH! I HAVE A FANDOMS LIST!

Comments

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Meme!

Ok, here's your question:

If you worked on the show and could bring one character back on Torchwood who longer is there, Ianto, Tosh, Owen, Suzie, Beth, Adam, whomever... who would it be and how would you do it?

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Or, you know, John Hart or other people like that. He's not dead or anything.

I didn't say Gray, because... LOL WHO WOULD DO THAT?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I THINK TO BE CONTRARY I would say Tosh, an I would have her come back through the Mainframe. Then at some point she'd get to possess a body and she either wouldn't want to give it up, or there'd be an explosion that kills the mainframe and Tosh is trapped int the body that belongs to someone else. It's be real angsty because in order for her to be there the other person has to be subverted or essentially dead, back burnered, but Tosh can't choose to leave the body now that the mainframe is gone an she has no where else to upload herself. So yeah. Naoko Mori in another body. Sorry, Naoko.

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Sopranos is not on your list, yo.

And I'm totally gonna steal that meme.

MANDR, I HAVE LYME DISEASE (STILL).

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION?

YOU PEOPLE DON'T HAVE LYME DISEASE OVER THERE.

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if Livia had continued on in the series, what ideal storyline/role would you have had in mind for her?

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

1. SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SHE MESSES ABOUT WITH FROSTY? PLAGUE.

2. Without a doubt, Get Loved..., because I love it like pie. And Reaction, even though there are no kids in sight, yet, because it's so funny and awkward and perfect, in so few words. :D

3. Bodyswap should be top of the pile. Or maybe the truth serum one. Or possibly Jack/God. ALL OF THEM.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Today we started with truth serum!

I should make a note that I have read dsudis's fic. everyone is going to rec that one.

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

Might be an idea.

Course, there's always my fic that no one read.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

2. i can only think of the mpreg ones (all about the preg, really) or the ones where either jack or ianto actually turn into kids... but i tend to avoid those, so i can't think up authors who are known to write them

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

oh, hey, lookat that
http://recnroll.com/blog/category/themes/kid-fic/
it has other things beside torchwood in it, too (haven't looked at any of them)

[specialj67.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you're still looking for kid!fic, but here's a good list cupidsbow recently made: 12 Days of Cliche: Day 2 - Mpreg and Kidfic Recommendations (http://cupidsbow.livejournal.com/370469.html?view=4879653#t4879653)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Shit! I'm in that list and I forgot all about it!

[specialj67.livejournal.com]

You're on the list too. :)

[specialj67.livejournal.com]

Haha! Comment spam, I know, but I figure I'd throw these out too:

Time After Time (http://totally4ryo.livejournal.com/86120.html)...is certainly epic in length and alternately good and bad in spots.

Dylan 'verse (http://cazmalfoy.livejournal.com/307934.html)...scroll down toward the bottom of the master list and it'll be there. It's AU wherein there is no Torchwood Institute, and Jack and Gwen are detectives and Ianto is a lawyer.

Okay, I think that's all I have to say, but I make no promises.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs! The prior more than the former. I want to see how they deal with a kid in the TW universe.

[misswinterhill.livejournal.com]

I WROTE ONE.

I TOLD YOU THAT I HAD A SHADY PAST.

http://misswinterhill.livejournal.com/7580.html

(Also, you know Teach has a long one, right?)

Fandom meme question: What's your favourite title that you've given a story, and why?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I see that! Thanks for the linkies!

Hrm, I have two. One is old and the other more recent:

OLD: Crouching Stargate, Drunken Yak (http://community.livejournal.com/hlh_shortcuts/7756.html) because a) it's funny, b) it's a play on Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, c) it's contains a reference to Stargate, which appears in the story peripherally, and d) it's a play on drunken martial arts, which are joked about in the story too. It's memorable.

NEW: Det[God]ails (http://amand-r.livejournal.com/326465.html) Because it means exactly what it says.

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

My question: where does my heart beat now? Where is the sound, that only echoes through the night?

Er.

Okay. Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Rhys, Tosh, Owen, Andy and Janet go to a Celine Dion karaoke night. What song does each of them sing?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

JESUS I ONLY KNOW ONE CELINE DION SONG.

[queenfanfiction.livejournal.com]

All right, favorite non-canon OTP pairing(s) and/or three-plus-somes in Torchwood and in Harry Potter, and then your favorite Jack/not-human that you haven't written yet but you're dying for someone to do so!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

favorite non-canon OTP pairing(s) and/or three-plus-somes in:

Torchwood: Jack/Tosh, Jack/Ianto/Lisa, Ianto/Tosh/Owen

Harry Potter: Harry/Ron/Hermione, George/Fred/Angelina

favorite Jack/not-human that you haven't written yet but...

Hrm. Jack/Chaos/Order from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series.

[adjovi.livejournal.com]

dude--i had to push by my shaun of the dead reel tw to the next round b/c i suck and it is 3/4 done just staring at me on my desktop. :( massive fail.

my question is this--how do i get remotivated back to writing tw stuff and how do you continue to stay motivated?

[adjovi.livejournal.com]

and wow that comment is depressing so just ignore. ok--favorite movies of tw staff?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I drink a lot.

No really, I read fic and I talk about it with others. That keeps me motivated to do it. Plus I force myself to write a little every day. some days it's crap. Other days it's good, but it keeps me fresh.