I love this, I really do; it doesn't suck even a little bit. I like how you didn't fix anything, but you put in place the mechanism for it to be fixed eventually (which CoE really didn't give us).
(I wanted to Britpick in a couple of places but I didn't because I'm not sure of the etiquette of that when it's Jack's POV and Jack sounds like an American even though he isn't.)
*beams* I'm so glad you liked it! Should I show it to all the scary strangers? Where would I even go about doing that? (I love how I feel like a n00b every time I try another fandom...)
I'm not really sure of whether you should or shouldn't either...etiquette or not, I'm just not sure if Jack ought to talk like a Brit or an American. I definitely didn't do my best Brit mimickry on this, but stayed in a halfway place because I wasn't sure which to use. (My vocabulary, actually, is naturally more Brit than American, as I learned most of my vocabulary by reading obscure British books. Ray Kowalski is very very difficult. Actually, being understood by other normal Americans in a reliable fashion is rather difficult. Which is not to say that I sound like a normal Brit; I'm sure the normal Brits would think I'm weird too.)
You should definitely show it to the scary strangers! It's been a while since I wrote anything in TW but from what I remember torchwoodslash and torch_wood are the places to go. There might also be a Jack/Ianto centric comm as well, but if there is I never joined it.
I think don't worry; the only reason I thought of it really is that he's written by British people and I've never noticed them trying to Americanise his dialogue. But really, with Jack, I'd say anything goes! (Aww, poor confused you! American fandoms have changed my vocab to the point where I say what I'm sure are perfectly normal phrases to my parents only to have them blink at me blankly because they have no idea what I mean.)
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I love this, I really do; it doesn't suck even a little bit. I like how you didn't fix anything, but you put in place the mechanism for it to be fixed eventually (which CoE really didn't give us).
(I wanted to Britpick in a couple of places but I didn't because I'm not sure of the etiquette of that when it's Jack's POV and Jack sounds like an American even though he isn't.)
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I'm not really sure of whether you should or shouldn't either...etiquette or not, I'm just not sure if Jack ought to talk like a Brit or an American. I definitely didn't do my best Brit mimickry on this, but stayed in a halfway place because I wasn't sure which to use. (My vocabulary, actually, is naturally more Brit than American, as I learned most of my vocabulary by reading obscure British books. Ray Kowalski is very very difficult. Actually, being understood by other normal Americans in a reliable fashion is rather difficult. Which is not to say that I sound like a normal Brit; I'm sure the normal Brits would think I'm weird too.)
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I think don't worry; the only reason I thought of it really is that he's written by British people and I've never noticed them trying to Americanise his dialogue. But really, with Jack, I'd say anything goes! (Aww, poor confused you! American fandoms have changed my vocab to the point where I say what I'm sure are perfectly normal phrases to my parents only to have them blink at me blankly because they have no idea what I mean.)
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*quivers in boots sandals*
Wow, these comms are so...active. dS, now that I think of it, is probably actually pretty small in comparison with TW.
Speaking of which, what have you been writing in? I'd assumed that you had wandered off to placed TW and SGA, but that was quite a while ago...
(Ha ha. We can be poor misfits without a nationality together, eh?)
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