Comments | someinstant: A Torchwood anti-story.

someinstant

A Torchwood anti-story.

Jun 06, 2011 01:38

Anti-story because I am never going to actually write it, you see. This is just, like--

(does a word count)

Well, shit.

This is nine thousand fucking words worth of a post-Children of Earth Torchwood story outline, where I try to fix the whole Ianto thing without retconning the world. It's an epistolary stream-of-conscious blathery outline ( Read more... )

big brick walls, torchwood fic, writing, wips

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wpadmirer June 6 2011, 13:38:05 UTC

You are a writer to your very roots. (grin) By the way, I adore the Jack/Ianto conversation after sex. Just lovely.

someinstant June 8 2011, 06:00:00 UTC

Thanks for the compliment! :) But I dunno if I'm comfortable with the writer title-- I think maybe I'm a storyteller, instead. Being a writer is-- there's a refinement about it that takes a hell of a lot of time and effort and innovation. And I think I could be a writer, given enough time and opportunity and drive, but maybe I'm not there quite yet.

Storytelling, though-- I've been doing that since I was a kid. Makes it a hell of a lot easier to teach history if you can tell good stories. :)

wpadmirer June 8 2011, 20:09:00 UTC

I really like that you think of yourself as as "storyteller," but that doesn't mean you're not a writer.

About 10 years ago I did a talk on just that topic! I spoke about how I had heard some writers disparage "storytellers" as though it meant something lesser than what they did.

I think all good writers ARE storytellers, and the best are genius storytellers - not only in writing but in vocal storytelling.

I consider it the highest and oldest form of the art!

snakeling June 6 2011, 17:52:57 UTC

Damn. Your outlines/excerpts are better than 90% of the fics out there.

I love the idea of Ianto's consciousness being stored into Jack's wriststrap :)

I really think Ianto can't stand the idea of Jack being alone, because Ianto can't stand the idea of being alone forever
That's one of the things that horrify me, when it comes to Jack's fate. The guy's going to live forever. Not a thousand years, not a million years, but trillions of years, which is simply impossible to imagine. (Which is why it makes me laugh when fic writers prolong Ianto's life by anything to a few decades to a few hundred years. It's still a drop in the ocean.)

someinstant June 8 2011, 06:08:23 UTC

I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who finds Jack's immortality to be so completely mind-boggling. I mean, what would even be left of him after several trillion years? The Face of Boe, even, is young in comparison to that! Would he even be sentient? Or would Jack become sort of a cosmic set of HeLa cells, reproducing mindlessly, living on and on, all alone, even once the universe stretches to its breaking point?

So yes, I take your point re: Ianto's fictionally extended lifespan. Which is why I went with the digital option instead. :p

...oooooooh. Wait. Just had another idea. What if, after many hundreds (or thousands) of years living in Jack's wrist strap, Ianto becomes a sort of sentient computer program? Something superadvanced, and nearly organic-- and then what if he falls through the Rift-- DUDE. WHAT IF IANTO IS THE MAINFRAME?!

I'm getting to the Soylent-Green-is-people stage, I think. I need to stop typing now.