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This morning I dreamed I was trying to get Ianto into bed
because we were both so tired
just, so tired
no sleep
tired.

... thank you, subconscious, for that interesting break from the travails of my day...

*sigh*

Torchwood: Before the Fall

Torchwood One: Actually Evil
which we knew
a very bureaucratic and backstabby evil, lots of politics, of the sort that's mostly people talking and pretending to get along, and a big bang finale.

And Ianto Jones is right in the middle of it.

Big Finish seem to like him, but, Lawful Evil is the nicest interpretation available of this him.
It's the ending the story by ( Read more... )

I like the story, but they are all terrible people doing grimy through awful things.

The Doctor wouldn't like a one of them.

Impediments I am really really tired of

I know I am reading old fic in old fandoms
but
it's not so old that it should be such a big deal that a character is gay and wants children.

I mean, I'm not saying the laws are set up to make it smooth and easy, but on the whole, that is a solved problem.

Making with the archaic inheritance laws solely to stick obstacles in teh way of your OTP is just
it's boring
they don't have a problem, there is no practical problem, but they're going to spend tens of thousands of words on this 'problem' anyway.

And I mean, this is in a world with magic, you have every excuse to make their reproductive 'technology' more advanced. A simple spell to confirm parentage is one of the Knowledge spells most likely to be invented in a world that cares about hereditary rights. And oh look, a paternity test was possible even when the story was set, and a full bloody genome test is around now. It is not difficult.

I can understand the character's parents might not want him to be gay, I can even understand his society might want him to have formal marriage bonds with the other genetic contributor to his child, but I do not want to read a novel on this particular source of angst, because it is boring and stupid and solved.



... I should obviously just back button and read something else, but by the time it became clear what the problem was, I was much more than half way through and invested. Which is my problem. Obviously. I'm not yelling at the writer, I'm being vague about it here. I just...


I am reading fiction where there is magic, and a recent war, spurred by philosophical differences that could be deep or shallow, depending on how you want to play it.

And do the plots use any of that? Do they heck.

It's just patriarchy and homophobia.



... so I should skip to the next story in hope of something more interesting. obviously.

or listen to something else.

just... i realise people are writing for different reasons, and playing through real life social tensions with familiar characters is obviously a story generator, I just... I wanted the unique stories, the escape from the norm, the new and interesting angles.

I get this.




/rant
I shall go away again.

NSFG and Munchkin

I went to the Ribs and talked to the one other person in the group
mentioned all the MCU and Torchwood stuff I seen and listened lately
and then we played Munchkin with my new cards mixed in.

... with only three players we played two games without getting anywhere near to using up the cards
but
we also used plenty of the new cards, and had fun with the Dragons rules.

The bar was very quiet and I successfully ordered 'J2o the apple one that is purple' as well as my appletise so yaay me.

The pub has scaffolding up and bits of it closed because it's fixing something, but our bit was just nice and quiet. ... not nice for their business, nice for us.

Next meeting is in two weeks and I can make up themes for the year if I can think of them
so that's nice.



Also
discovered my current Wednesday employee has been alive less years than I have lived in this flat
so
that
is a thing.

Wednesday employee will be Thursday employee this week because Thursday guy's car is busted.
Wednesday lady's car has been busted twice and the heater is stuck on and makes a smell and I'm very dubious about the whole thing.
but it got me there and back again, so.


was pretty good evening.