Doctor Who and Torchwood Recs

[fairyd123]

Doctor Who

Red is the Colour by owlyscribblings

Ten/Jack

Jack returns with the Doctor to Torchwood after a fourteenth month absence and whisks Tosh away on a visit to Mars. The author has the Doctor's voice just right and the Tosh/Jack interaction is every bit as beautiful as it was in Captain Jack Harkness. And I hope that when the series finally airs in a couple of weeks that Martha is even half as fun and sweet as she's depicted in this story.

The Universal Constant by fajrdrako

Nine/Jack implied Jack/Nine/Rose

A haunting conversation between the Doctor and Jack about the harsh truth of life.

Torchwood

Timely Advice by woodsong_1978

Jack/Ianto

Short, silly, very funny and really rather brilliant this story has a temporal mailbox opening up in the Hub and Ianto corresponding with a certain R Jeeves who is very unhappy with Jack's unwanted advances towards his gentleman Mr Wooster!

I adore the concept of the temporal mailbox - I would kill someone to base a challenge on that - the concept of the Torchwood team corresponding with figures from Jack's life past or present is rather wonderful!

What it Takes by sparrowette

Jack/Ianto

Wonderful story told in the first person from a drunken and completely suicidal Jack's point of view. The Jack/Ianto interactions are gorgeous and realistic - no "grief stricken shags" for them.
The writing is even more impressive as the author hasn't watched a single episode of Torchwood!

Five Conversations About Jack and Ianto by kennedy_unknown

Following the "five things" format this is a series of entertaining drabbles as the Torchwood team discuss the Jack/Ianto relationship. The Ianto/Tosh and Ianto/Jack sections are particularly strong.

Word of warning - the author's LJ layout is so bright and busy it is incredibly distracting and initially for me made reading the story virtually impossible. Not the best way to encourage people to read your work. If you want to read the story copy and paste it into word - your eyeballs will thank you for it.

Comments

[vae]

Thanks so much for the rec - but I have to own the idea was lothy's, from the tw_exchange crossover challenge.

That said, if there was a challenge/ficathon on the Torchwood temporal mailbox, I would be so there.

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

Well all hail to Lothy then!

It was one of the most amusing stories I've read in the Torchwood fandom - I really did love it.

[frotcake.livejournal.com]

LOL. It's funny that you mention that about the eyeballs ... I read that last fic this afternoon and I actually copied it into Word too and I never do that!

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

I'm down with people expressing their personal style however they want but when you're trying to encourage people to read fic a plain background works wonders. You don't actually want anything to distract your reader from the words. Unfortunately the story didn't seem to be linked elsewhere or I would have included that link instead.

[melina123.livejournal.com]

There's always just adding ?style=mine to the end of the .html address of the page, too :) If your browser supports bookmarkets, you can get a button for it.

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

That's a great tip thank you. I'm not that good on the techy side of things.