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Last week - the 10th of December - marked precisely one year since my first Torchwood fic found its way onto the internet.

Being swamped with university coursework at the time (last week, not last year...) I didn't get round to making a celebratory post. So here it is now. :)

I've gone and had a look around my journal, and my "fic - torchwood" tag apparently has 55 uses. Just give me a second while I work that out...

Discounting the multiple chapters of Jack's Capture and adding in the comment-posted-fics in Thirty Flavours (which is still going, by the way, and will be finished at some point...), by my reckoning that's 66 individual fics, with maybe only seven being drabbles. Not bad, really. Considering I have been a bit busy...

Oh, and as shadowbyrd mentioned in her Anniversary post, we posted Fine Lines on the 10th December (my second fic that night...), right before Random Shoes aired (with seconds to spare) and offered virtual cookies to anyone who guessed who'd done which sections.

She's confessed, so I suppose I should too.

I was Jack. Clueless, hopeful, caring Jack. :) Bless him.



And as my anniversary party, I'm nicking a meme from shadowbyrd (you should try it there too... Heehee!). Feel free to invite friends over and join in, I'm really looking forward to being inundated with comments on this one (subtle, huh?).

Stump the writer!

A -- go to the list of my fic (see my fic tags - the Torchwood fic is listed here, since the individuals might be a bit easy, but do feel free) and pick out a line or two from one of my stories. (Must be a full line, please -- no sentence fragments or speech tags or other such nonsense.)
B -- I will respond with which story of mine I think it's from.
C -- A drabble to anyone who stumps me.


:) Simple and fun. Bring it on!


EDIT: Yike. This may have been a bad idea - I keep losing! I now owe dr_is_in, joulez217 and karaokegal gift fic! Mind you, it did take quite a few goes. ;)

In a desperate attempt to improve my Torchwood-writing, and because I have a fanfic100 claim on the entire Torchwood team, not just those members I like/understand/have a million plot ideas for, I'm asking you for help.

Explain to me, please, as politely as you can manage (I'm not here for a fight), exactly why Gwen is a good/useful/likeable character.

Because I don't quite get it. Up to... oh... about Small Worlds (episode 5) I quite liked her. Beyond that...

So, anyway. Gwen fans. I need you to tell me why she's a vital part of the team, and why I'd actually enjoy writing her if I got it right, so I can stop coming up with excuses for her absence in my fic. (Seriously. I don't really give her a starring role (or even a mildly vital role) at any point. I feel guilty.)

Help?

(Also, convince me Jack/Gwen can work.)

... until the end of the current Jantolution challenge. I'm frantically working on a fic for the My Immortal prompt, and busy turning over a few drabble ideas as backup in case I don't type quick enough, and I've already covered Himalaya, Crack!fic, and Jack Returns with Tourism in Lockdown, but - and this is the key point - I have no idea what to do with the Harry Potter prompt.

None at all. This doesn't usually happen to me.

Hmph.

Anything you guys want to see (preferably a reasonably short idea...)? Otherwise I'll have to try and think of something very quickly, and it probably won't be any good.

But I have to have a fic ready for it! I've completed every Jantolution challenge so far, it's a matter of pride/obsessive-compulsiveness now... (Mara, you have me more than hooked. *shakefist* :P)

Darnit.

I need your help!

Actually, that pretty much covers my entire friendslist. So, entire-friendslist, I need your help. ;)

I intend to do one of those lovely 28-flavours-of-so-and-so drabble lists. Just 'cause.

But this list: (as yoinked from Miss Lucy Jane's Ianto list here)

1. Naughty
2. Happy
3. Sly
4. Angsty
5. Poorly-Sick-And-Dying
6. Horny
7. Pregnant
8. Excited
9. Book-Reading
10. Dancing
11. Jealous
12. Kidnapped
13. Caring
14. On-His-Knees
15. Obedient
16. Losing-His-Cherry
17. Naive
18. Shocked
19. Greedy
20. Daring
21. Exploring
22. Swimming-In-The-Buff
23. Bathtime
24. Eating-His-Lunch-And-Drinking-From-A-Soda-Bottle
25. Exhausted
26. Falling-Down-A-Lot
27. Well-shagged
28. Kickass

poses a few problems for me, prudish as I am. I did briefly consider slapping up the entire list of LJ moods and working with that, but I think that might be pushing it a bit (there are what, 100+ of them? Ehee) and I do rather like the scenario ideas as well as the moods. Hrm.

The lovely Zabbers (hi!) also has a list for Ianto here:

[Funny]
[Little]
[Hyper]
[Lost]
[Evil]
[Drunken]
[In Pain]
[Missing]
[Hide And Seek]
[Alone]
[Broken]
[Confused]
[Prankster]
[Best friend]

which is quite great fun but half of what I was intending (I'm masochistic like that) and it would be mean of me to steal it. It's here as inspiration for you to inspire me. :P

Tanarian's got some lovely lists too... Hrm.

Do you throw suggestions at me and I'll compile one for the weekend. So you have... oh, two days... three maybe. :) And then I'll let you know who the list is for.

It will of course be Torchwood, and I will be jumping out into the communities with cries for claims. ^_^ But I need my list first and I need help with that because I'm useless.

So there we go.