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badly_knittedWelcome to badly_knitted's Fluff Emporium, home to mostly fluffy Torchwood fanfic and other things I may see fit to randomly include.
To answer all the questions I'm sure everyone is asking (pause for hysterical laughter): Yes, I am the same badly_knitted you may have noticed over on LJ; No, I'm not abandoning LJ, at least not for the moment, depends on whether or not they resolve the whole twitter/facebook debacle. In the meantime, this journal will make it easier to keep up with - and comment on - the fics written by those of you who, for understandable reasons, are only allowing comments over here. I've not taken that step yet - I think I've managed to block the facebook/twitter link thingies, but being a technological dunce I'm not certain. I'm not on facebook or twitter by choice, so if anyone spots anything to do with me over there, I'd be grateful if you'd let me know.
For now, I will be posting the fics on my LJ over here as well - call it a backup plan, just in case.
If anyone pops over to read, then I hope you'll enjoy, comments would also be welcome. Don't be shy, introduce yourselves, I don't bite!
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Date: 2013-09-08 03:13 pm (UTC)I'm very friendly, and always happy to have new subscribers. I hope you'll enjoy the fluff here.
I've tried to collect icons for all occasions, there are such brilliant ones out there - mostly they're gathered from old livejournal posts. I love that a dreamwidth paid account allows 100 icons instead of LJ's 50 - double the fun and I still have room to add more!
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Date: 2015-07-05 06:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-07-05 10:28 pm (UTC)I may sometimes be a little over-enthusiastic when it comes to writing, but it keeps me sane... more or less!
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Date: 2015-07-06 03:07 pm (UTC)I'm familiar with Torchwood. I never finished the last season but other than that... (Looking at your journal makes me want to do a re-watch so badly - I miss Tosh!)
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Date: 2015-07-06 04:21 pm (UTC)I miss Ianto and Tosh the most, my two favourite characters. Most of my fics, everyone is alive. I tend to ignore character deaths and just go "Well, I want them alive, so they're alive." I've lost count of how many CoE fixits I've written and how many times I've made Ianto immortal, lol!
Hope you'll find something you like among the mass of fics! Torchwood is still my main fandom, but I dabble in a few others, the Master Lists are on my sidebar.
I just added you back =)
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Date: 2015-07-06 10:36 pm (UTC)Oh, Ianto's a complete darling! Tosh is my favourite but Ianto's a very close second. And of course, I absolutely adore Jack (who doesn't?).
Thanks! I look forward to seeing you on my reading page in the very near future. :)
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Date: 2015-07-06 11:16 pm (UTC)Jack is Jack, it's impossible not to love him. I kind of identify with Ianto though, the one who's always stuck with all the jobs no one else can be bothered to do, but is rarely appreciated. I want to be Tosh when I grow up. Sadly, I'm probably old enough to be her mother o_O
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Date: 2015-07-06 11:30 pm (UTC)Ianto's so good-natured though. I can remember seeing him for the first time and being like: 'You're adorable, please don't turn out to be a terrible person'. And amazingly he didn't...
You can still totally be Tosh when you grow up, if you want. :)
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Date: 2015-07-07 02:00 pm (UTC)There seemed to be an attempt in CoE to tarnish Ianto by implying that he told lies; that didn't sit well with me, because two years of character development were just brushed aside, making Ianto less than he had been as well as making him behave out of character at times *sigh* He's such a loyal and loving person =)
Yes, some days I post two - one Torchwood and one something else. I have to because I have a huge backlog waiting to be posted, over 150 assorted drabbles, ficlets, fics, and a few chapters. There's also a pile of WiPs that I need to get back to at some point... It's all fic_promptly's fault! Three Contest Weeks, with 40+ fills each time, 7 Challenge weeks with 6 or 7 fills each time... they mount up!
Are you wrangling any plot bunnies at the moment?
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Date: 2015-07-08 03:53 pm (UTC)That's an impressive back log - total life goals right there! I can imagine things getting like that with fic_promptly, though. After taking part last week I basically just want to fill everything...
At the moment I'm thinking of doing a series of short Hunger Games fics. I went on a huge Hunger Games fic binge a few months back and would really like to contribute something of my own. I'm thinking of focussing on Mags because ... well, I love Mags.
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Date: 2015-07-08 05:05 pm (UTC)CoE was a shambles, but that's what happens when you try to shove existing characters into a script that wasn't originally written for them. Doesn't work.
And I'm still writing, lol! I think I'm closing in on the end of Through Time and Space though - two or three more chapters after this one? Not sure how long I'll continue it after Jack and Ianto find each other again. Of course, I can always write adventures for them set in the same universe after I end the main story...
There are several prompts I want to get my teeth into, including some of my own. When I'm not so tied up with my magnum opus I'll be able to write other things, maybe finish some other WiPs. Here's hoping!
Good luck with your writing!
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Date: 2015-07-09 10:36 am (UTC)I read the books first so I'm biased but ... I'd go for the books first. The films are good but so many of the characters are whitewashed. For that reason alone I'd recommend going for the books first.
I didn't know that - who was CoE originally written for? :o
Good luck with your writing too! It sounds like you've got plenty of stuff planned...
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Date: 2015-07-09 11:18 am (UTC)Thanks for the advice, I'll keep my eyes open for the books. I love reading even if I don't have a lot of time for it these days. Even so, I've got three books and some manga on the go.
Children of Earth was an original script that RTD couldn't get made, no one wanted to produce it, so he recycled it - and later Miracle Day - as a Torchwood story by putting the Torchwood characters into pre-written roles and adapting a few things to fit with Torchwood. That kind or thing never works, you have to go back to basics and rewrite the whole thing so it fits the characters you want to use it for instead of changing the characters to fit the plot. Have you ever read any of the stories written for the reel_torchwood community on LJ? Writers pick a movie and use that as a basis for a Torchwood fic, using Torchwood characters and as much or as little of the film plot as they want to use. The stories are amazing. THAT is the way to to take a script and adapt it to Torchwood characters. Stand-outs for me include the Torchwood version of Singing In The Rain, updated to the modern day so beautifully it's a delight to read.
Right, I'd better get on with editing Chapter 20. I need to post it to the challenge community today!
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Date: 2015-07-11 02:21 pm (UTC)They're worth it if you can find the time. I've got a bit of a thing for YA trilogies at the moment. There's so many around so I'm never short of material.
That's super weird. It totally shows though - there's something off about both of those seasons. TV screenwriters baffle me sometimes. It's like they have this secret urge to do things that they know will be unpopular. :P
I'll have to check out that community - it sounds wonderful! I love that type of ... would you still call it crossover fic? I'm not sure. I seem to remember there was something similar over here, but with romance novels...
I hope your editing went well. :)
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Date: 2015-07-11 03:35 pm (UTC)I have literally hundreds of books I want to read. I do like trilogies, but I'm tending to get bored if they go on too long these days. I'm still inching my way through Vol. 3 of His dark Materials, which swear I've been on for at least 2 years and I'm not a third of the way through yet. I breezed through the first two, but I seem to be bogged down with this one and I've read a bunch of other books in between, going back to it every so often to read a bit more before I want a change again. I think fanfic has spoiled me. So much bite-sized fic and endless variety, I've lost the drive to read long, involved stories. Too busy writing to read much anyway.
Seems some screenwriters are constantly thumbing their noses at fans, going 'I'm giving you what I think you need to see, not what you want to see, because I know better than you." Well, they don't. So we rewrite it ourselves to make it the way we want and just ignore their narrow-minded ideas. We have better imaginations anyway!
Here's a link to reel_torchwood - there are links to the various 'screenings' (rounds) in the sidebar which should lead you to the wide variety of fics that have been written. I haven't read them all yet, but I've loved the ones I have read!
http://reel-torchwood.livejournal.com/
There, that'll give you something to browse when you have time!
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Date: 2015-07-11 09:55 pm (UTC)What I hate is the 'hey guys, you know what would be totally edgy'. Like, no. No no no no no...
Well, it looks like I'm officially never leaving the internet ever again...
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Date: 2015-07-11 10:25 pm (UTC)Who needs 'edgy'? It usually ruins something that was perfectly good as it was =(
That's kind of encouraging that it's not just me. Maybe I'll get through it eventually.
I've read books with a lot of characters before - Peter F. Hamilton's Confederation trilogy was a nightmare, I think the first 20 chapters all featured different groups of characters. Damn books were the size of house bricks, thin paper and small type, over 1000 pages a volume. Still not sure how I got through the whole thing!
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Date: 2015-07-12 09:46 pm (UTC)I think making your viewers feel happy/empowered is totally underrated. Like, why is it like a badge of honor for screenwriters to make people feel uncomfortable or scared? I don't get it at all...
You're braver than me - I'm a total baby when it comes to doorstop books. Which is a shame: it totally limits my intake of sci-fi/fantasy. I think this is largely the reason why I read so much YA...
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Date: 2015-07-12 10:26 pm (UTC)There are plenty of really good, much shorter SF novels, thankfully!
I like writing funny/silly/fluffy fics because I love making people happy. Screenwriters must be warped. They think realism is what people want. They're wrong. People want to be made to feel good and hopeful, not miserable and depressed.
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Date: 2015-07-13 12:45 am (UTC)You have to have some comic relief. I think sometimes people get 'realism' confused with 'violence and misogyny' as well which is just ... no.
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Date: 2015-07-13 10:59 am (UTC)e-readers are a great help - I think I have all three massive tomes as ebooks somewhere, not that I have any intention of ever spending half a year reading them again, lol! I do prefer the feel of a real book in my hands though. I'm old-fashioned ;)
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Date: 2015-07-14 10:07 pm (UTC)Personally I like the option not to have to deal with tiny writing - if the font is too small I can't concentrate, at all. Holding a book is nice, though, and having a pile of finished books that you can look at is super satisfying.
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Date: 2015-07-14 10:38 pm (UTC)If TV shows concentrated more on showing the nice things people do, maybe people would be nicer.
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Date: 2015-07-15 04:25 pm (UTC)I think so, too. :)
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Date: 2015-07-15 05:39 pm (UTC)I've always read a lot, I'd be lost without a few good books on the go.
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