Ianto Jones

I saw a couple posts on tumblr but dont want to get into a discussion there because reblogs dont lend themselves to context or nuance.

One person commented on Children of Earth calling Ianto queer, another separate one said fandom shouldnt call Ianto queer because he was visibly unconfortable with that and concluded they should call him bisexual.

Well bisexual gets mentioned in the books and he seemed to me rather against that as well.
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So the problem isn't that people are ignoring his preferred words, the problem is that Ianto existed in a context of homophobia and biphobia, and was as far as I can tell uncomfortable with all the words, probably because of their intended uses and his own internalised attitudes.

Part of the tragedy is he never got to be comfortable in his relationship, he never enjoyed a pride parade, he wasn't out, probably because he was pretty sure how people would react, and he did indeed get the homophobic reactions.

Of course the other part was he never seemed sure of just Jack either.

... I went and read the end of day 4 again, I reckon I'll go think about something else instead...