Representation
Apr. 15th, 2023 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI have been thinking
about Torchwood
the first time I watched and read, I noticed that there were actual queer people in actual queer relationships, and they saved the world a lot.
This was not a thing that happened. So it was shiny. And I liked it.
(and I nearly stopped watching at Greeks Bearing Gifts, because I noticed this other bit too...)
This time I watch and read and listen, and I mostly notice that there is a lot of misery and a lot of death, and it gets connected to the sexuality in a way that... might be processing trauma through horror, but, also makes me want to read a different genre.
One where we save the world a lot
and get to be happy.
So, back to fanfic I go.
... that said, it is starting to creep me out how many Children of Earth fanfics focus on saving *Ianto*. Like, there was very much another problem in that story. We could fix that one more often? Even in the Ianto tag.
I have read some very good and subtle minimum intervention fixes, I have read some excellent and emotional Day Five with Ianto still in it, but I... would fix more. Than some of these.
I mean, we're authors, we can just be like, hmmm, needs a child? remember when the TARDIS youthed that Slitheen? And the TARDIS loves Jack, see every time he dies. Deus Ex big blue Machina...
granted it's not very satisfying that way but if I found CoE satisfying I wouldnt be reading through the fixit tag.
about Torchwood
the first time I watched and read, I noticed that there were actual queer people in actual queer relationships, and they saved the world a lot.
This was not a thing that happened. So it was shiny. And I liked it.
(and I nearly stopped watching at Greeks Bearing Gifts, because I noticed this other bit too...)
This time I watch and read and listen, and I mostly notice that there is a lot of misery and a lot of death, and it gets connected to the sexuality in a way that... might be processing trauma through horror, but, also makes me want to read a different genre.
One where we save the world a lot
and get to be happy.
So, back to fanfic I go.
... that said, it is starting to creep me out how many Children of Earth fanfics focus on saving *Ianto*. Like, there was very much another problem in that story. We could fix that one more often? Even in the Ianto tag.
I have read some very good and subtle minimum intervention fixes, I have read some excellent and emotional Day Five with Ianto still in it, but I... would fix more. Than some of these.
I mean, we're authors, we can just be like, hmmm, needs a child? remember when the TARDIS youthed that Slitheen? And the TARDIS loves Jack, see every time he dies. Deus Ex big blue Machina...
granted it's not very satisfying that way but if I found CoE satisfying I wouldnt be reading through the fixit tag.
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Date: 2023-04-15 11:00 pm (UTC)Tosh and Owen don't get as much attention either, but I think the focus on Ianto is because the others died as heroes, saving the world, while Ianto did by stupidly storming in without a plan and threatening an alien who had advanced tech, with just a couple of guns. While it was different with Stephen, his death did save the Earth's children. I would be willing to bet there would be a lot fewer fix-its if Ianto had gone out saving the day like the others.
Have you read Nancy Brown's fantastic 'Straysverse' series where Amy Pond saves Stephan and Ianto (and many others), and then Ianto has to raise Stephen for awhile? It's really good, if you haven't, I recommend it.
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Date: 2023-04-16 02:15 am (UTC)and get to be happy.
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