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OKAY... Before I go on picspamming Days One to Three, here's another collection of randomness, entitled I was searching my hard drive and all I found were these lousy pictures of Ianto Jones. Funny thing about this random collection of pics is that I was indeed searching my hard drive, for a picture. Of Ianto Jones. Which I didn't actually manage to find. I did find this shizzle (they're small and friendly, I made them that way):

( IANTOSPAMTIEMAGAIN )

While I'm on the subject of things I found on my hard drive, can anyone tell me who made this macro?

It still makes me laugh every time I see it.
(Actually, the more I look at it, the more I think I might have made it MYSELF. Which makes the thing about it still making me laugh kind of pathetic and sad. But I KNOW I didn't have the picture, because it's from the S1 dvd, and I'm pretty sure the wording isn't mine either, though the actual putting-the-wording-on-the-pic might be because I had this on my desktop for a while. Somebody tell me, please.)

Look, see what inarticulate nonsense I posted in November of 2006 and you'll get a rough idea of why I watched Torchwood. Seriously, I was watching the Who spinoff and I was already contemplating jacking it in when Cyberwoman happened to me and I became enthralled by Ianto Jones. So, yes, I'm a rabid Ianto fangirl, always have been. I fell in love with a fictional character, dudes, that's never happened to me before. Well weird. This just as an aside, there's a point to it which I'll get to in a bit.

The more I think about Children of Earth, the angrier I get, and the more pointless and RTD's-hammer-of-God-like Ianto's death becomes to me. See, when I think about the whole story, I am left with The Lesson which I think was trying to be put across, which is that a Sacrifice only really counts if it's a personal one. If you are not willing to put your OWN BALLS on the chopping block then you are not fit to decide the fate of anyone else's. It's a quite painful truth, and as such, I don't think it's a bad message. The fact that Ianto had to die to put Jack in the position of having nothing left to lose really negates that message for me. In fact, if Ianto HADN'T died, and Jack had decided to sacrifice Stephen, that message would have come across a lot more clearly. Or if he'd decided to sacrifice Ianto. Or Ianto's nephew. Or niece. (That would have been a great place to go, dudes. Because then he could have lost Ianto, leaving him with nothing on this earth. Ianto could have retconned himself to forget about Jack ever having existed, because Jack just brings hurt and man!pain to the party and Ianto can't take it anymore. There's a million places you could have taken it and given Jack equal amounts of angst, yet still made the message clearer and not killed Ianto. I digress.)

But I want to make it clear, I'm not angry that Ianto's dead, I expected Ianto to die, I'm angry about the manner in which it was done. I know there's petitions and all sorts going on about bringing Ianto back, but frankly, I'm not interested. If Russell chooses to bring Ianto back I'll be EVEN ANGRIER, because then I'll feel EVEN MORE like he's been stamping on our toy to make us cry, except now he's giving us a lollipop to make us feel better just so he can pinch us again when we're not paying attention and laugh and laugh and laugh. I'm not participating in any charity drives or petitions or online wailing in that sense because A)I don't want Ianto back. Ianto's deathbed has been made and anything more would feel like cynical manipulation and I already feel like I've been buttfucked by RTD and it's not a pleasant feeling because he didn't bring any fucking lube and B)I don't want to give Rusty the satisfaction of even thinking for one moment that he is responsible for my emotional reaction. It'll just feed his ego to think that he caused THIS MUCH UPSET. The thing is, Russell is NOT responsible for how much I loved Ianto as a character. He rode the bandwagon when he realised the character's popularity but he did NOT create it, and I will not participate in any activity which would make him feel for one moment that he DID. Yes, you know I credit GDL with a lot of what Ianto actually was on screen, but there was more to it than that and the thing that really contributed to the greatness of Ianto Jones was the total ABSENCE of any real overriding leadership within the Torchwood production team and the resulting freedom that GDL had to do whatever he damn well wanted with the guy, which WE then took and ran with like it was a marathon and there was a big fuck off prize to be won. I won't give Russell the pleasure, I really won't. He didn't make Ianto the fandom favourite, WE did, so I'm damn well not going to give him credit for it by begging him to bring him back.

I'd fucking KILL to see Ianto back on my screen again but at the end of the day yes, I just am that petty.

A few bits and bobs of interest.

I'd like to repost this quote posted on my journal by kateorman:
"I reckon the chances of Ianto dying (or otherwise exiting the narrative) are diddly/squat. GDL would be insane to quit and the showrunners would be insane to dump their slashtastic drawcard."
Now obviously I'm not just reposting this to point and laugh (well, maybe just a bit), I am in fact posting it because I'm seeing a lot of not-really-based-on-anything assumptions in discussions lately that GDL left Torchwood against his will. I posited the theory quite some time ago that this may well not have been the case, but few people seem to be taking that one up. I still believe it, though, if nothing else, it would explain to me why a stroppy RTD gave Ianto such a craptastic death. Obviously, there's that other explanation doing the rounds that RTD fridged Ianto because GDL turned him down. Sexually. Which is a much more amusing explanantion, obviously. I'm not subscribing to it, but I'm just throwing it out there for everyone to have a jolly fun think about.

holdingoff is hosting a fic project one or two of you might be interested in here. It's called Turn Left, Torchwood, and it's an episode-by-episode rewrite of all three series, each episode with one minor change, which will propagate into the next episode, etc etc. So go write if you like that sort of thing, it sounds cool.

Okay, so probably the weirdest after-effect of Children of Earth has been the charity fundraising efforts. It all started when someone created a charity page supporting James Moran because people were so OMG MEAN to him and Torchwood fans really ought to distance themselves from that sort of behaviour and there's no better way to show how much better one is than someone else than by giving to charidee. Or something. The end result is that two JustGiving pages were created supporting Moran for Children in Need and supporting Moran for Cancer Research. As a retaliatory measure, another page was created mourning Ianto for Children in Need. Now, obviously, all of this is just a bit silly and now that some of the more heated emotions have died down, we can see this business for what it is. IT'S A FUCKING CHARITY FIIIIGHT!!! GO!! Go fight Ianto's corner, guys, this is me, talking trash atcha. WE SHALL PREVAIL!!! We need to win this one, so GO!!! The best thing about a charity fight is of course that nobody really loses in the end. In order to make things truly fair, somebody should probably create a Cancer Research site for Ianto, so that the nature of the charity doesn't create any sort of bias and then WE CAN KICK THEIR SYCOPHANTIC MORAN WORSHIPPING ARSES PROPERLY. I'm joking, of course. I don't give to charity because I'm a fucking tightwad. But I might make an exception just to KICK MORAN'S LYING ARSE INTO NEXT WEEK. No, I'm joking again. Obviously. No, really, I am. You shouldn't take me too seriously, guys.

I'd just ilke to say a warm hello to those of you that have friended me in the past week because of woe or anger or whatever. It's a nice change from those of you who have defriended me for not properly APPRECIATING ART. Welcome. Let's get drunk.

Somebody noted this on the meme the other day, but I don't see it having been taken up as widespread fact. THIS is NOT Rusty Davies' website. I'm just sayin'. It's a website ABOUT Rusty Davies, and it's nice that it has a messageboard which you can all use to vent your frustration, but can you stop pretending it's Russell's website. Look at it. The fanvid, the headshot, the outdated cv. Srsly, guys, come on.

jo02 asked me to do a picspam because apparently I AM THE DANCING MONKEY THAT CHEERS YOU ALL UP FROM YOUR EMO WOE ABOUT DEADIANTO.

Okay, then, I decided to start at Day Four. Not because I love Day Four because of loldeadness, but because, as

cionaudha reminded me, GDL promised us COCK in Day Four. (I don't mean like he personally phoned me up and said "Hey, be on the lookout for my cock", but... well, yeah, that is actually pretty much what happened apart from it being at a convention or somewhere and there not being a phone involved.) Anyway, here we go, I bring you...

( CHECK OUT MY FAYCE, A Ianto picspam from Day Four, with added cock and NO REFERENCE WHATSOEVER to whatever it was that happened in the last ten minutes. )

... about Ianto and posted them here. They are the TRULY IMPORTANTS things I learned from Children of Earth. I am now firmly on the course of TWISTING REALITY ITSELF to fit into my own worldview. Denial is a wonderful thing.

Now... back on track people, let's forget our troubles and attempt to work out if the events of the past week have taught us anything about the size of Gareth David-Lloyd's cock.

SRS BSNS TIEM OVER NAO Y/Y?

Please to be coming, joining if you're not a member and participating in the

over at

ninja_teaboy. For it is time to bring the luls and crack back into our big gay show.

Details are here. Because srsly, guys, it's never too early for luls.

This will probably be an incoherent list of thoughts about CoE, just to get it out of my system so I can move on.

( MY DEFINITIVE THOUGHTS ON CHILDREN OF EARTH )

That's it. That's all I have to say about Children of Earth. I've reached the point where I don't want to think about it or write about it ever again. I tried to find some beauty in it and I tried to find some hope, I tried to find an uplifting theme, something about Ianto having come from that 10%, but every time I thought about it, I just ended up back at pointless death, hopelessness and despair. And while I understand that that's a tale that needs telling sometimes, I didn't want my big gay cracky pterodactyl show to be used to tell it. I'm upset that it was, and I think I have every right to be upset. If you enjoyed it, good for you, I'm glad somebody did. I didn't, and I reject it. It never happened, dudes. That's my final word on the subject.

I am still holding off reading your comments and reading most of what other people have posted on CoE. I woke up from a sleepless night yesterday and I thought I had salvaged some good from the ruins, but the more I thought about it, the more I realised I was wrong. All I do is just get angrier and angrier the more I think things over. I wish I was able to articulate the thoughts I have as quickly as others are, but my head's a fucking mess at the moment, I feel like I've been retconned.

I'll get there eventually.

Dudes, feel free to carry on conversing in my journal, but don't be offended if I don't jump in, I'm having a hard time even reading your comments. I have thoughts, guys, but they're proving hard to articulate.

Honestly, though, it's not all that bad. I might post on what WAS bad soon, but after that, there's good things. Maybe great things, even.

( I don't think I'll have that much to say about Day Five, so I'll just say this: Debenhams. )

( SPOILERS FOR TW CoE DAYS THREE, FOUR AND FIVE, A VALID QUESTION ABOUT JACK AND IANTO IN DAY THREE, AND SOME RIGHTEOUS ANGER THROWN IN )

( CoE Day Two: Moar Bulletpoints. )

So I DO have a few thoughts on Children of Earth, Day One, and I DO have ten minutes to write them down, but probs not to comment. They're randomly here below the cut.
( Bender. Lol. )

kateorman made this:

I like to think she made it for me. So...

( Speculation about THAT rumour pertaining to Children of Earth, spoilery. )

( Yes, I did also have thoughts about the radio plays The Golden Age and The Dead Line, Jack/Ianto generally, and Ianto in particular. )

IS IT MONDAY YET???????

This picture deserves better than to be lodged in the comments of my previous post.

AAAGHGLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!1!!1! Thank you,

cionaudha. I am still laughing at it now. Best picture ever.

Okay, so the wait for TW season 3 has me a bit antsy and is making me MEH, but this still made me do a wee double take, yeah? I think I've mentioned before how much I like a man with a BIG FUCK OFF GUN in his hand. It's just so... yeah. That.

I know, I'm shallow and politically incorrect. Meh.

Hello! I'm back. And now, Shitty Photoshop Theatre presents a new shitty manip for your shitty delectation. IT IS UNWORKSAFE, and contains kittens.

The art is called:
( WOULD YOU STILL LOVE ME IF MY COCK WERE AN OLD SKOOL INTERNET MEME? )

I have epic meta in my head about Ianto, but I can't seem to order my thoughts and I'm reluctant to write anything fandom related because I'm still in one of those moods where the words will come out all wrong and I'll end up coming across as a bitch or something. I honestly never set out to do that, but I do pretty much most of the time anyway, so there you go.

I'm still having this fume over

who_anon for no real reason just because everyone on there seems to think it's full of luls and all I can see is a bunch of people finding reasons to point at and mock other people, and I really don't like it. The first time I was mentioned, when I was called an attention whore, I really didn't feel I'd done anything particularly attention-seeking that would deserve that kind of remark. I ended up getting really upset, not even really because of some anon with a grudge posting that shit, but because nobody bothered to step up in my defense either, so I figured everyone agreed and hated me. I actually debated deleting this journal for a bit, but figured that because of the thirty day change-your-mind thing, I'd probably just end up reinstating it and being called an attention whore over that instead. If you could instantly delete your journal I probably would have. Since then, I've been mentioned a few times, and I'll be honest, most of those times were when I did indeed post something reasonably wanky, I jumped in non-anon once or twice to defend myself, but then I stopped doing that as well. And now I've stopped reading it alltogether. WHICH IS FUCKING HARD, I must admit, the temptation to just mosey in is really high, but the last time I looked (yeah, I'll admit that was a day or two ago, AFTER I said I'd stopped reading it) all I saw, again, was people being shitty about other people.

And now that whole paragraph up there will just come across as bitchy, again, I'm sure. If you're on my flist and you're on the meme, good luck to you. I'm not calling anyone on it a bully (I don't really think it qualifies as bullying if you actively have to seek it out, surely? People will always bitch about other people, that's what people do. I totally get that, I just bitched about other people on this very journal, it's just the anon part I don't really understand.) or a Cult-of-Meanist or anything like that, I'm sure loads of you just go there and have a laugh and that's great, have fun, I'm not judging anyone, I'm really not. I just can't do it, I don't know why. I'm not really a fandom person, I guess, the whole culture just sort of flies over my head most of the time.

So yeah, I have this epic meta in my head about Ianto, but I can't order my thoughts and I think one of the reasons I can't order my thoughts is that my brain is asking itself Why would you want to write epic meta about a tv character anyways? I've reached one of those points in my fannish experience where I really cannot fathom the point of sharing out any opinion or theory about anything because it will just get read and commented upon and is that really what I want? Also, I can't order my thoughts because they're really unordered. And also, I know someone already made a list once of how many times Jack cries in Torchwood and could someone point me at it so I can stop with the rewatching every episode already? It's tiresome and I keep remembering how many episodes I actively dislike. FAIL.

LOL. I'm so crap.

This took me FAR too long, the animation is FAR to jaggy, the file's FAR too large and will take ages to load, but it's my homage to pornographic photomanips it is NOT WORKSAFE and it is entitled:

( IT JUST WANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND, IANTO... )

And I made it so that we may never forget the crazy that is out there. And also: COCK.

Okay, and just in case you're not aware of the fucking horrorshow manip that is the original, it's TOTALLY NSFW and it's here. DON'T FUCKING CLICK IT. I'm only telling you because she'll probably come along demanding CREDIT for me STEALING her ART or something, when it is, in fact, A FUCKING BRAINMELTING THING OF SHOULD-NOT-EXIST-NESS.

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Entries tagged with ianto

Tiny random picspam with no real point...

Still... angry...

Randomness...

PICSPAMTIEM

I thought thoughts...

Time for luls??

Children of Earth: My verdict

I lied.

Oh boy.

Ianto

AN OBSERVATION ABOUT A CERTAIN CONVERSATION ON CoE: DAY THREE

CHILDREN OF EARTH: DAY TWO

DAY ONE

So, anyway...

Thoughts

Just because I can...

Is that a big gun in your... oh, never mind.

BECAUSE EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH KITTENS

I'm not cut out for fandom...

FAILBOAT