Fanwanking Ahoy!
Jul. 10th, 2009 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsTwo things before I keel over in exhaustion, because this was the second night in a row I got less than four hours of sleep. And only one of them is about Torchwood!
Non-Torchwood: I think I want to get another tattoo. Actually, I've been thinking for about a year that I wanted another one, but I haven't been able to make up my mind about what design/where to get it, since I'm the kind of person who can agonize about that for ages. But yesterday my mom and I started talking while I was over there hanging out, and we sort of independently reached the same conclusion about what design I should do, which makes me think it might be meant to be.
I think for my next tattoo I'm going to get a tree of life, either on my shoulder or between my shoulder blades. Which sucks because I won't be able to see it as easily, but it means I can do a bigger tattoo than the one on my ankle, and the tree of life would be a little complex to do that small, so. I like it, as a metaphysical concept, as a symbol, and aesthetically of course. So now I'm looking for some suitable art I can use to work out a design with the guy at the tattoo place I went to last time. Fun times!
Torchwood: I saw a bit of meta-speculating/fanwanking somewhere that said if you take the radio plays as coming after Children of Earth rather than before, then the whole series can be dismissed as Jack's hallucination while he is in the coma from the phone-thingies. I may adopt this as my official declaration of non-canon. It makes a strange kind of sense, and CoE could certainly be described as Jack's worst nightmare on a lot of levels: losing the Hub and all his authority, having his mistake from the past come back to fuck with him, alienating/killing his family, LOSING IANTO. Even Gwen's pregnancy represents a way she is finally out of his reach in the most serious way possible outside of death. So, yeah, I'm going with that, since there is no way this is canon. Just no.
Fandom-wise, this has really motivatedcolourofsaying and I to work on the Due South crossover of doom, in order to get some measure of non-bleak-misery-tragedy-ness back into the characters in our heads. As far as we've planned so far, it will take place sometime after Exit Wounds, so Tosh and Owen will still be dead, but CoE won't have happened. The radio plays and books may or may not exist. We're also talking about working more on the Sons of Don AU, since the universe needs more of Ianto, Rhys, and Andy's Alien Detective Agency. As disgusted and disillusioned as I am with the canon right now, I'm not ready to be done playing with Torchwood.
Non-Torchwood: I think I want to get another tattoo. Actually, I've been thinking for about a year that I wanted another one, but I haven't been able to make up my mind about what design/where to get it, since I'm the kind of person who can agonize about that for ages. But yesterday my mom and I started talking while I was over there hanging out, and we sort of independently reached the same conclusion about what design I should do, which makes me think it might be meant to be.
I think for my next tattoo I'm going to get a tree of life, either on my shoulder or between my shoulder blades. Which sucks because I won't be able to see it as easily, but it means I can do a bigger tattoo than the one on my ankle, and the tree of life would be a little complex to do that small, so. I like it, as a metaphysical concept, as a symbol, and aesthetically of course. So now I'm looking for some suitable art I can use to work out a design with the guy at the tattoo place I went to last time. Fun times!
Torchwood: I saw a bit of meta-speculating/fanwanking somewhere that said if you take the radio plays as coming after Children of Earth rather than before, then the whole series can be dismissed as Jack's hallucination while he is in the coma from the phone-thingies. I may adopt this as my official declaration of non-canon. It makes a strange kind of sense, and CoE could certainly be described as Jack's worst nightmare on a lot of levels: losing the Hub and all his authority, having his mistake from the past come back to fuck with him, alienating/killing his family, LOSING IANTO. Even Gwen's pregnancy represents a way she is finally out of his reach in the most serious way possible outside of death. So, yeah, I'm going with that, since there is no way this is canon. Just no.
Fandom-wise, this has really motivated
colourofsaying and I to work on the Due South crossover of doom, in order to get some measure of non-bleak-misery-tragedy-ness back into the characters in our heads. As far as we've planned so far, it will take place sometime after Exit Wounds, so Tosh and Owen will still be dead, but CoE won't have happened. The radio plays and books may or may not exist. We're also talking about working more on the Sons of Don AU, since the universe needs more of Ianto, Rhys, and Andy's Alien Detective Agency. As disgusted and disillusioned as I am with the canon right now, I'm not ready to be done playing with Torchwood.