Why a whelk...

I try very hard (no pun intended) to try to avoid all forms of gaypr0n!cliche as much as possible. Torchwood isn't the first time I've written slashfic; I did it for a looong time in The Libertines fandom, both read, wrote and beta-d, so I know bad!fic when I see it. I don't read much of the stuff in Torchwood, because well...it's over-populated with teenagers who either a) don't have much of a good concept of how slash fic actually works, or b) their grammar in their INTRO for their story is so bad, I don't read. I've searched for a long time to find some epicly good Torchwood fics, and believe me, they're out there, but they usually involve some form of Pretty Ianto being hurt badly, and Jack being evil.