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Now, I'm used to mentally assigning songs to characters/situations. I'm used to plotting imaginary songvids that I never actually do. I'm used to the urge to repeat a song over and over and over while writing.

However, I'm currently sniggering at myself. My song for Ianto? Is Ani Difranco's "Studying Stones". *giggles*

Okay, most of the amusement here is coming from the way that Ianto is clearly such a woobie -- and TW itself is at one with the emo side of the force -- for me to connect in this way. The other amusement is freakin' Ani Difranco. I mean, I know Ianto isn't an alpha male, but according to my deep-down-brain, he's barely even registering as male. *snorts*

Also? Painkillers kicked in. So I'm easily amused. And my picfor1000 story refuses to... be more than three lines long.

ETA:

Lyrics:

studying stones
i am out here studying stones
trying to learn to be less alive
using all of my will
to keep very still
still even on the inside
i've cut all of the pertinent wires
so my eyes can't make that connection
i am holding my breath
i am feigning my death
when i'm looking in your direction

'course numb is an old hat
old as my oldest memories
see that one's my mother
and that one's my father
and that one in the hat, that's me
it's a skill i'd hoped to abandon
when i got out on the open road
but any more pent up emotion
and i think i'm gonna explode

there's never been an endeavor so strange
as trying to slow the blood in my veins
to keep my face blank
as a stone that just sank
until not a ripple remains
i am high above the tree line
sitting cross legged on the ground
when all of the forbidden fruit has fallen and rotted
that's when i'm gonna come down

'course numb is an old hat
old as my oldest memories
see that one's my mother
and that one's my father
and that one in the hat, that's me
it's a skill i'd hoped to abandon
when i got out on the open road
but any more pent up emotion
and i think i'm gonna explode

Comments

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Loving this! As someone who generally reads fic with two characters (or sometimes only one), I completely understand why you'd rather not deal with the whole team. Particularly in a short fic. Hell, half the time the series writers can't be bothered to write for the whole team.

*snods* It's the trick of balancing them, and still saying something about the characters. I don't know how possible it is. Meanwhile, it's not like I want to say anything vital in the teamfic, I just wanted to write Owen complaining. (Yes, he's a pratt, but he's an amusing pratt. I actually like Owen, partly because he's so unapologetically unlikeable.)

In a few short paragraphs you've explained so very much that makes no sense in the show and gotten well into Ianto. And after that first sentence, I'm curious to see how Captain Jack comes back into this.

Captain Jack will be the one to open the front door. And flirt with Ianto. And take him out for coffee.

*looks back over those sentences*

You know, seriously, that is the plot for this story. It just seems a lot less... ridiculous when it's interspersed with dialogue between the two of them (because first impressions? Ianto would be focusing strongly on not giving much away while giving the impression of being honest, and Jack's main concern would be getting to know the newest member of his team. As far as Jack's concerned, I don't think he wants perfect employees -- he likes flawed ones, as long as he knows what the flaws are and how he has to look out for them).

Not to say that gen teamfic isn't interesting, but I'm always going to vote for more Ianto and less Owen.

Hee. Fair 'nough.

I just watched Doomsday and The Runaway Bride this weekend, so I'm feeling the Doctor Who angst at the moment. But you're right, it's not emo in a dark way, and it's more about wonder and joy and other cheesiness that makes my friends mock me for loving it. Weird that between Doctor Who and Torchwood, it's the one with decent scripts and without gratuitous sex that's the guilty pleasure.

Hee. I still haven't seen teh Runaway Bride but I'm guessing it'll be angst-o-rama.

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Captain Jack will be the one to open the front door. And flirt with Ianto. And take him out for coffee.

Doesn't sound ridiculous to me. Sounds fantastic, really. Between the dialogue (and Ianto is always good for the best dialogue) and the POV, I think I'd be pretty well engrossed. You're gonna write it right now, right? *g*

I still haven't seen teh Runaway Bride but I'm guessing it'll be angst-o-rama.

omg, it's angstastic. I hope you won't feel spoiled if I tell you that there's one scene with music and flashback that made me think I was watching a fanvid. Not that I'm complaining, honestly, because I'm a bit of a whore for angst. And the Doctor is wearing his glasses in the scene. TPTB would have to try very, very hard to get me to find fault with any scene in which the Doctor wears glasses.

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omg, it's angstastic.

Hee! Best way to describe it, really.

I hope you won't feel spoiled if I tell you that there's one scene with music and flashback that made me think I was watching a fanvid. Not that I'm complaining, honestly, because I'm a bit of a whore for angst. And the Doctor is wearing his glasses in the scene. TPTB would have to try very, very hard to get me to find fault with any scene in which the Doctor wears glasses.

Oh, the Doctor in glasses. I swear, I actually make these happy little squealing sounds every time he wears glasses on-screen. Ten is the geek-Doctor, truly and utterly, and I love him for it.