Title: Conspiracy Theories
Chapter: 19 Thank God for Suzie
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Through Day in the Death.
Summary: With outside influences quickly closing in, Jack and Ianto must begin working with the rest of the team to fight against the former Torchwood agents.
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't profit.
Author's note: So sorry this has taken so long in posting. The holidays have been crazy, and I've been doing some freelance stuff to compensate for day-long and week-long furloughs here at work, so free time when I felt like writing was at a minimum. I will do my best to make sure I never have so long a break without posting a chapter again. Thanks to everyone who hasn't given up on me.

“He’s with a Jones.” Ianto looked up at Jack, a curious expression across his features. “I just don’t think you can be with a Jones and willingly give up on things.”

Dear author, I realize you're trying to portray a case of lust for one of the characters. However, when the character is a sentient robot, I'm not entirely sure the word 'hormonal' applies in any way, shape or form without a good explanation. (YMMV, of course.)

Edit: the word 'hormonal' was applied to the robot. Just clarifying.

1) It is not necessary to stick random Japanese words and phrases into your English language fic, if they translate well into English. I'm talking about things like arigatou, sumimasen, hai, iie, gomen nasai, ohayou etc. If there's an English equivalent, please use it!*

2) I don't mind words like katana, kimono, shihakushou etc. But, dear fanbrats, please be consistent with your romanisation. If you write out a long vowel in one instance, please write itout in all instances (i.e. no Toshirou or Jyuushiro and if you use Toushirou, it should be Oomaeda as well). I'll pass on expecting Tōkyō to be romanised according to those same rules, since Tokyo is the accepted Western spelling.

3) Please make sure you've got the right word. A shikigami is not the same as a shinigami. No, really, it isn't.

4) If you must write dialogue in Japanese, please make sure you have the correct personal pronoun for the character. It's rather jarring when every male character is suddenly using 'ore' to refer to themselves. Quick tip: Ishida, Yumichika and Kira all use 'boku', and Kon and Oomaeda use 'ore-sama'. And these examples are just off the top of my head. Pay attention to the dialogue in the episodes and you might pick these things up for yourself, dear authors.

*Obvious exception for when the POV is from an English speaking character listening to someone else speaking Japanese and not knowing the meaning of the words.

Title: Waiting For the Spark From Heaven To Fall
Author: remuslives23
Rating: PG15
Pairing/Characters: Jack/Ianto; Gwen
Word Count: 585
Summary: Ianto will wait as long as it takes.
Notes/Warnings: lover100 prompt 079 – breathe. Title is a quote from Matthew Arnold.

Title: Does Not Share Well With Others
Author: remuslives23
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Jack/Ianto; Ianto/OC (but not really)
Word Count:
Summary: Jack thought he was good at sharing.
Notes/Warnings: lover100 prompt 076: Strangers

Disclaimer: The Torchwood characters and universe belong to Russel T Davies, the BBC and affiliates. No money is made from this work of fan fiction, and no offense is intended. All characters are of age for sexual situations.

Title: Two
Characters: Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones
Rating: G
Media used: Photoshop, tablet
Warnings: None
A/N: This was drawn for tardistenantsue's birthday

*Cross posted to tw_canvas and jackxianto*


Two


♥

Dear author:

Using cotton balls dipped in alcohol to clean one's genitals and anus is probably just as bad an idea as using alcohol as lube.

Much pain,

Me.

Gather 'round, Naruto fandom, and let us have a chat.

There's this character. Sakura. Yea high, pink hair, can shatter boulders with her bare fists? Yup, that one.

I'd like to address that last point for a moment. She can break solid stone and toss around enormous hunks of iron through the use of her chakra; she's shown doing so repeatedly in canon. It's kind of her shtick, aside from the healing thing. So when I see her take a crack at an enemy in a fic, and that enemy manages to catch her fist without shattering basically all the bones in their arm, well. Color me suspicious.

Guys. Guys. Unless she's been rendered unable to use her chakra or she's deliberately not using it, one hit can kill. Same goes for struggling against someone's hold and being unable to break free of it. Tsunade is the only person in the series who could hope to win a feat of strength against this girl, as long as she's got the full use of her chakra.

Knock it off. I see this shit way too often.

I understand the desire to want your fic to be well advertised and thus read (and reviewed), author, I really do. But when you're crossposting to every single community in existence that's possibly relevant to any part of your work, big or small, it stops being good advertising and starts being incredibly frustrating, in my opinion. Any possible interest I may have had in reading your fic begins to wane by about the fourth time it springs up on my flist in a short space of time.

Especially since your fic actually features the most prominent pairing in this fandom, and would easily reach your entire prospective audience just via a posting to their pairing community, and perhaps the more general fic/slash community for balance.

It's good to use your noggin when advertising for maximum exposure with minimum spammage to attract potential readers. It's similar to TV advertising, if you want to put it that way. Let's say a subway ad comes on around dinnertime and you think 'yeah, I could go for a footlong'. The second time it comes up, you're reminded that you're peckish, and you're more motivated to go and get yourself a sub down at the nearest shop - they look pretty yummy, after all. But by about the tenth time the ad comes on in an hour and a half (and sometimes twice in a row), you swear you're off meatballs for life and you just want to get back to watching Stepford Wives before you put your remote through the screen in frustration.

I'm sure your fic is rather good, and it may cater to my tastes/interests, but the amount of times it's come up has turned me right off of it.

eta: accidentally ate my final sentence while posting, I gave it back now.

Dear Author,

While I was originally gratified to note that you have a beta and assigned a certain amount of praise to her work and effort on your work, I was soon disabused of that idea. While bad enough that your story rapidly devolves into some of the most overused and abused cliches of lezfic out there (eg TruLuv4Ever(tm), badly written AmazingSex(c) "now with mind-blowing, simultaneous, virginal orgasms!", and (my personal favorite (/sarcasm)) the degeneration of the characters into 5 year olds after falling for TruLuv4Ever(tm)) and has a character that is such a truly horrid stereotype of a flamboyant gay man that he is actually offensive, that's not the worst of it.

First, you do not have an even semi-decent grasp of grammar, spelling or even paragraph and/or scene breaks. Punctuation is randomly dropped or included, sometimes causing truly bizarre situations. Spelling is whimsical, but in a bad way. And if the paragraph breaks were included in an at least semi-logical fashion, I may have actually made more sense out of what you were writing. Still not the worst.

Second, your descriptions were so bizarre that I have to assume you have no idea what you're actually writing about. Someone has fenced their multiple acres of land with a six-foot tall wall/stack of chopped wood and it's magically not rotted through? And no one talks to the weirdo who does this because she has a pit bull and pit bulls are really scary. But I really loved the logic of someone making their bedroom in the loft of a rotting, decayed, hulk of a former house. Because a few sacks full of cleaning stuff from Walmart and Dollar General can TOTALLY make a structure sound again, they're just THAT GOOD! But we're still not at the worst.

Third, at least 10% (and I'm probably being generous putting the number that low) of your sentences don't make any sense! I mean I seriously have no idea what you are trying to say! And I'm not talking about the odd sentence structure that can sometimes be used by ESL writers because their first language uses different basic structures than English. I tried figuring it out with all the languages I had an even passing familiarity to the grammatical structures of and I still have no freaking idea what you were trying to get across. THAT was probably the worst.

I get that there's a good chance you're ESL. In fact, I hope so, because I really like to think a native speaker wouldn't churn out something that messed up. I get that you're really proud of your work. HOWEVER, you've claimed you had a beta and within the first page there's at least 20 obvious errors. So one of two things must be true. Either A) you didn't bother to listen to your beta and correct the errors she pointed out, or B) you REALLY need a new beta. If you did listen and correct errors and it was previously even worse, you may want to consider working on your writing skills more before continuing posting. Either way, it might not be best to praise your beta so at the top of your fic.

All in all, I'm deeply saddened by how "highly recommended" your fic was when there were just so very, very many errors. Besides, the quality of the story itself, ignoring the grammar and spelling and bizarrity errors? Just was not good. The only reason I read it through was that I was stuck at work and so extremely bored.

Your Unfortunate Reader,
CyberNinjaSio.

It's a long one. I broke it down in to 3 parts. Thanks for all the great comments. It keeps me going. Sorry I haven't linked them to the next part. LJ is giving me grief.

Author: Glenda

Fandom: NCIS/TW crossover Pairing: Jack/Ianto, DiNozzo/Gibbs, DiNozzo/Ianto.

Disclaimer: I owe neither NCIS or Torchwood. I'm only doing this for fun. I am not making any money. Thanks to my beta Cath for pointing out my glaring mistakes, and of the small ones are mine alone.

Summary: Jack gets a call from an old friend and ends up in Washington DC where no one is happy to see him.I owe neither NCIS nor Torchwood. I wrote only for the fun of it and I do not make any money from it.I started this story before Children of Earth started so this is very AU Rating: R, some adult situations and swearing.

( Home 10 part 1 )

( Part 2 )

( Part 3 )

Title: Untitled
Fandom, Pairing: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG13 i guess for angst and mentions of nekkidness.
Genre: Angst, Drama, Romance, FixIt
Disclaimer: Not mine. If it was, this wouldn't need writing.
Warnings: Spoilers for all Torchwood, just to be safe. Especially Children Of Earth.
Short Summary: Erm, idek what i can say about this one without giving anything away x
Notes: Think this might be slightly OOC?? What d'you think? x

( Follow shiny fake cut to my journal )

Yep, I'm writing a sequel! (At last, I hear you say - I've *blushes* actually been writing it for a while, but decided to wait to post on here until I had a reasonably definite structure and chapter length for it! :D I'll also be posting with probably five chapters in one post, so I don't spam the boards or anything! So, here goes! 

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We Could Be Heroes 1/30
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, John/Nick, Gwen/Rhys
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Rhys, John Hart and a cast of (probably!) thousands.
Spoilers: Set after Exit Wounds. Sequel to 'Will My Arms Be Strong Enough?'
Rating: Adult - it's going to get very dark in some places.
Warnings: Slash, language, angst, dark themes.
Summary: Now the team have to carry on.
Disclaimer: I'm a student. I don't own Torchwood.

Chapter 1: anduria-trianys.livejournal.com/27269.html#cutid1

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Title: We Could Be Heroes 2/30
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, John/Nick, Gwen/Rhys
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Rhys, John Hart and a cast of (probably!) thousands.
Spoilers: Set after Exit Wounds. Sequel to 'Will My Arms Be Strong Enough?'
Rating: Adult - it's going to get very dark in some places.
Warnings: Slash, language, angst, dark themes.
Summary: Jack needs some comfort after a terrifying nightmare.
Disclaimer: I'm a student. I don't own Torchwood.

Chapter 2: anduria-trianys.livejournal.com/27692.html#cutid1

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Title: We Could Be Heroes 3/30
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, John/Nick, Gwen/Rhys
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Rhys, John Hart and a cast of (probably!) thousands.
Spoilers: Set after Exit Wounds. Sequel to 'Will My Arms Be Strong Enough?'
Rating: Adult - it's going to get very dark in some places.
Warnings: Slash, language, angst, dark themes.
Summary: Nick's sister gets married.
Disclaimer: I'm a student. I don't own Torchwood.

Chapter 3: anduria-trianys.livejournal.com/27958.html

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Title: We Could Be Heroes 4/30
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, John/Nick, Gwen/Rhys
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Rhys, John Hart and a cast of (probably!) thousands.
Spoilers: Set after Exit Wounds. Sequel to 'Will My Arms Be Strong Enough?'
Rating: Adult - it's going to get very dark in some places.
Warnings: Slash, language, angst, dark themes.
Summary: John and Nick's flat is cleaned out.
Disclaimer: I'm a student. I don't own Torchwood.

Chapter  4: anduria-trianys.livejournal.com/28379.html

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Title: We Could Be Heroes 5/30
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, John/Nick, Gwen/Rhys
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Rhys, John Hart and a cast of (probably!) thousands.
Spoilers: Set after Exit Wounds. Sequel to 'Will My Arms Be Strong Enough?'
Rating: Adult - it's going to get very dark in some places.
Warnings: Slash, language, angst, dark themes.
Summary: The results of Jack's research - and what's in that box?
Disclaimer: I'm a student. I don't own Torchwood.

Chapter 5: anduria-trianys.livejournal.com/28576.html

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And the Master List (as it stands so far) is here: anduria-trianys.livejournal.com/27610.html#cutid1

Title: Crossing Back
Author: arwen_kenobi
Rating: R
Parings: Jack/Ianto
Spoilers: All of Children of Earth and scattered references to series one and two
Summary: Set three years after Children of Earth. Strange events force Jack to reconsider his opinion on the existence of ghosts along with his definition of impossible. Yep, you guessed it, more Children of Earth fix it fic.

Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten

( Chapter Eleven )

Maybe I'm completely off-base here, but is anyone else annoyed when Americans attempt to write British English? I'm not talking about when an American is writing for a British fandom - then it makes sense to me. If you're an American author and you write in the Torchwood fandom, go ahead and use words like torch, especially in dialogue, and spell words like color with a u. That doesn't bother me. What's starting to really irritate me is when an American author writing for an American-based fandom picks and chooses when to spell words using the British English spellings. So you're reading this story, and all of the sudden a character goes "Hey, can you toss me that green-coloured flashlight and your cell?" To me, that's like mixing two different languages together. Especially because I read a word like "colour" or "realise" with a slightly different inflection than I would read those same words with the American English spelling. So suddenly, I'm not sure whether or not the author is trying to look hip or if the character just isn't sure what continent he or she is from.

Like I said: maybe this isn't something that should bug me. Maybe I'm the only person who winces at it. But it seems a bit pretentious to me. And it's something that's started to get under my skin and just throw me out of a story. There's something jarring about seeing British English spelling with American English words when you're writing in an American fandom. I think the same would be true in reverse, though I see that much less. Maybe you Brits are just more on top of things. I rarely see something like "Hey, can you toss me that green-colored torch."

I'm not really trying to pick on anyone with this. It's just something that bugs me, and I'm curious to know if other people get thrown for a loop when they encounter American English words mixed with British English spellings (or the opposite), too.

ETA: This isn't aimed at ESL speakers. I wrote this mostly because I have an friend who is American who insists on using British spellings in an American fandom (and every other time she writes). Not British words, which I could forgive because I'm not going to get on a Brit's case for using the words and spellings that are familiar to them, but just the spellings.

People! How you guys doing?? Good Holidays?
Anyway... I'm back with two little drabbles... hopefully you guys will enjoy it! =D

Title: Heroic
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG
Pairing/Characters: The whole team with explicit mentions of Jack/Ianto;
Genre: Humor; and a bit of fluff?
Summary: The Hub has been invaded by something worst than aliens.
Warning: None
Spoiler: A small hint of something that happened mid-season 2
Disclaimer: Sadly, they are not mine. I'd never kill Ianto and ruin the best cannon shipper ever!
Notes: English is not my first language and I have no beta, so forgive any mistakes.


Title: Coffee Break
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG
Pairing/Characters: Ianto; Tosh; Jack; suggestions of Jack/Ianto (if you skint hard enough), Gwen/Owen, Gwen/Jack and one sided Tosh/Owen. (yep, this is a full work!)
Genre: Humor; and a bit of friendly fluff?
Summary: Tosh is sad because of Gwen and Owen and Ianto decides to cheer her up.
Warning: I bit of Gwen bashing, so be aware.
Spoiler: None
Disclaimer: Sadly, they are not mine. I'd never kill Ianto and ruin the best cannon shipper ever!
Notes: English is not my first language and I have no beta, so forgive any mistakes.

Click on the titles for silly fics! =D and please, don't forget to comment! I love comments! =D

Title: Lessons Learned
Author: Erin Giles
Rating: PG
Words: 2500
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Tosh, Owen
Disclaimer: Torchwood is property of the BBC.
Summary: Jack learns the lesson ‘look but don’t touch’ the hard way, with almost deadly consequences.

Emergency lockdown is initiated.

Title: Epiphany
Written By: Beesandbrews
Rating: PG
Characters: Ianto Jones (with reference to Jack and mention of the rest of the team.)
Disclaimer: This is a work of fan fiction. No copyright infringement is intended.
A/N: Thanks to the amazing amand_r for beta and gumdrops.

Ianto Jones has a startling revelation while serving lunch to the team.

Epiphany

You want to write Ayane/Kasumi? I'm fine with it. Hell, DoA is built on a foundation of shameless fanservice, I don't mind femmeslash, and the pairing's interesting.

The problem here, specific you, is in the timing. Of all the times for Ayane to reevaluate how she feels about Kasumi, after winning her match against her in the tournament of DoA 2 is not the one you should have picked, mainly because Kasumi would be dead at that point.

Yeah, Kasumi canonically wins that fight for a reason - if you win as Ayane, it's either heavily implied she leaves Kasumi for dead in the snow, or (depending on triggers) is outright shown finishing her off with a jutsu of some description*. If you had changed the leadup to this battle it could have worked, or made it some manner of deathfic, but as a starting point for a relationship, not so much.

tl;dr: if you're going to break canon in a fighter, make sure the developers didn't account for that.

*Admittedly, these scenes are only present in DoA 2 Ultimate, but given it's a fighting game, it's generally accepted you take what canon you can get.

Title: Detach Me
Characters: Jack/Ianto(kind of)
Summary : Fact is that Jack hasn't spoken at all since Ianto found him sitting like that at the table...
Genre: angst
Rating: hard R
Warnings:strong sexual content, messed up boys and definitely nothing to read when in dire need of fluff.
Spoilers: post-'Cyberwoman' so spoilers up to that episode possible
Disclaimer: Torchwood belongs not to me but RTD and the BBC, I don't get money for any of this.
Author's notes: This is the wholly unplanned post-cyberwoman sequel to my fic pair Absolute Denial/Flux. You don't need to read the prior ones to understand this fic which acts as a standalone in its own right. All you need to know is that Ianto had sex with Jack before the events of 'Cyberwoman'.
A/N2: Like the other two this fic is divided into Ianto's and Jack's point of view, second is linked at the bottom of the first one.