First of all, the brilliant missyjack is running a fannish event for Melbourne Fringe Festival - Fan Tales* - it's being held at the awesomely classy and intimate Hares & Hyenas queer bookshop, and will essentially be a bunch of fans talking about and reading their fanfiction. I'm planning on talking about fannish response to Torchwood, CoE in particular, and reading some of one of my fixit fics.

So, if you're a Melbournian fan, come and read! Or come and listen! Tickets are only $15, $10 concession or $10 each for a group of 4+, which is good value, I reckon. I think it'll be a fun evening. If you're interested in reading, there are still a couple of slots left - drop me a line, or talk to missyjack. (You can show/talk about vids and/or fanart too/instead, if you want!)


In other Torchwood fic news:

• Composite and Underwood have been nommed for Children of Time Awards. Thankyou, anon nommer!


• Goodbye Dolly has been included in an epub volume of Jack/Ianto fanfiction compiled by lefaym.

* Which may or may not be streamed live - I would kind of prefer to record my own talk and podcast it later, rather than having invisible!audience!

I began writing this story in April 2009. Since the beginning, the synopsis has been:

The AU where Ianto still brings Lisa to Torchwood Three, but manages to save her - get her out of the conversion unit and rehabilitated - but of course, that’s not the end of it. Lisa is damaged, physically and emotionally, and considering they’ve gone AWOL from Torchwood, they have to run. But of course, Jack tracks them down, and offers them jobs at TW3. They accept.

I've now decided to give up on completing it - but have around 10,000 words of material for it. Waste not, want not! I shall share it here.

( introduction )

( the unfinished work, with commentary )

Title: Goodbye Dolly
Author: Hope (angstslashhope, hope)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~2,000
Genre: PWP
Rating: NC-17
Characters(s): Jack/Ianto
Notes: for amand_r’s help_haiti bid. (You asked for "humour", and I must sheepishly admit that I'm not sure this fits the bill, but it's the closest I could manage right now. Hope it's OK!). TYVM to rexluscus for beta.

Summary: Hotel rooms have a way of aiding nostalgia.

Read on the AO3.

Title: Composite
Author: Hope (angstslashhope@LJ, hope@Dth)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~4,400
Genre: Character study, pre-series
Rating: Mature
Characters(s): Suzie, Jack, Ianto (Suzie/Jack, Jack/Ianto)
Warnings: sex & violence, snuff, necrophilia
Notes: written for james, who secured my services in a help_haiti lightning round. TYVM to betas cupidsbow and rexluscus! PS Don’t let the necrophilia warning put you off, there’s only about a line of it.

Summary: The prompt was “I would love to see some Ianto and Susie interaction. Er, before Susie is dead and all. I'm fond of the idea that she knows *something* is up, that Ianto is hiding something, even if she hasn't a clue what.”

Read on the AO3.

Title: Underwood
Author: Hope (angstslashhope@LJ, hope@Dth)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~6,400
Genre: Desk porn, PWP
Rating: NC-17
Characters(s): Jack/Ianto
Notes: Massive thanks to james and rexluscus for beta help. (Also, whoa, I started writing this 5 months ago. O.O)

Summary: Pornography and paperwork.

Read on the AO3.

Title: Lucky Number
Author: Hope (angstslashhope@LJ, hope@Dth)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~18,000
Genre: Timey-wimey AU, porn.
Rating: NC-17
Characters(s): Jack/Ianto/Gwen
Warnings: Kinks: (highlight to be spoiled) Voyeurism, pegging, somnophilia, object penetration, double penetration, exhibitionism …and several others that probably don’t deserve flagging here.
Notes: Written for unstealthy in the mistletw seasonal promptathon. And zomg, made a billion times better through the tireless beta of cupidsbow, and thanks also to rexluscus for providing the final OK.

Summary: It’s not just like Christmas every day, it is Christmas every day.

Read in its entirety on the AO3

Title: Golden Ratio
Author: Hope (angstslashhope, hope)
Fandom: Torchwood (crossed with Doctor Who)
Wordcount: ~11,000
Genre: fixit, futurefic, crossover.
Rating: Mature
Characters(s): Jack/Ianto, the Doctor
Notes: My final work for 12 Days of Cliché. Thank you to cupidsbow for cheerleading and beta!

Summary: Some things are constants. (A canon-compliant fixit, spanning several centuries.)

Read on the AO3.

This is terribly late today because I had planned on posting a different story, only then that one got ridiculously long (as they tend to), and I am about to fall asleep without even having finished it. Luckily, I had this one loitering in the wings.


Title: On the Mend
Author: Hope (angstslashhope, hope)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~500
Rating: PG-13
Characters(s): Jack/Ianto
Notes: For 12 Days of Cliché. Thanks to cupidsbow for readthrough duties and titlage!

Summary: Hurt/comfort of a different sort.

Read on the AO3.

Title: Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Author: Hope (angstslashhope/hope)
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who
Wordcount: ~500
Genre: AU
Rating: PG-13
Characters(s): Jack
Notes: This is a companion ficlet to cupidsbow's constructed reality vid, 1941: The Year That Never Was!

Summary: He is a glutton, and the 1940s on Earth are his feast of choice.

Read on the AO3.

Title: Proxy
Author: Hope (angstslashhope@LJ, hope@Dth)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~1,700
Genre: AU
Rating: PG-13
Characters(s): Lisa/Ianto, Lisa/Jack
Notes: Part of 12 Days of Cliché. Thank you to james for the beta.

Summary: Role reversal.

Read on the AO3.

Title: First Aid
Author: Hope (angstslashhope@LJ, hope@Dth)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~7,500
Genre: Hurt/Comfort
Rating: NC-17
Characters(s): Jack/Ianto
Notes: For 12 Days of Cliché. Thank you to alpha readers cupidsbow & rexluscus, and beta of awesome james.

Summary: First aid: the provision of initial care for an illness or injury, administered until professional medical help is available. (Set throughout Season 1; Small Worlds, Countrycide, Out of Time.)

Bonus: cupidsbow has made an accompanying vid of awesome for this piece.

Read on the AO3.

Title: Performance Review
Author: Hope (angstslashope / hope)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~4,000
Genre: PWP
Rating: NC-17
Characters(s): Lisa/Ianto
Notes: Written for Porn Battle V, using the “Enclosed Spaces/Tight Quarters” prompt. Alas, it's too long for a comment, so posted here instead. Hmph. Thank you to amand_r for beta.

Summary: Ianto and Lisa at Torchwood 1. A porny beginning.

Read on the AO3.

darthhellokitty asked for "five minutes after the end of Well Played", and really, when the timestamp is 5 mins after the end of a PWP, what can be written except more porn?

Again, just posted as-is with very little revision and no beta, just a few readthroughs with my own two peepers.


Well Played + 5 minutes
Jack/Ianto, very NC-17, still genderswap. ~3,300 words (gah!).

Read on the AO3.

Rightio. Because I'm awesome like that, before anyone commented with requests on my timetamp meme post yesterday, I started writing one of my own. Which I have completed and will now post.

Because these are just me mucking about and having fun, I'm not having them beta read and make no promises for things like plot.

But here we go:

Not with a bang or a whimper (second part - Day 1,081), future timestamp.
Jack/Ianto, PG-13, ~2,000 words.

Read on the AO3

And now I go work on everyone else's requests. *beams*

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll tell you what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

For present fandom only, though. Torchwood fic masterlist here, or alternately on Dreamwidth.

I feel like I've created a million places to play in, but don't know where to start, so have at it!

Title: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Author: Hope (hope angstslashhope)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~11,000
Genre: curtainfic, AU, angst
Rating: R
Characters(s): Jack/Ianto, Gwen
Warnings: Angst, but with a happy ending(!)
Notes: Thanks to zortified and rexluscus for beta (and alpha!) help, and cupidsbow for listening to the story the first time around.

Mostly written before (and thus jossed by) Children of Earth, which makes it somewhat of an AU. Set post-S2.

Summary: An ordinary end to an ordinary day. Except this is Torchwood, where ends tend not to be ordinary.

Read on the AO3.

Title: Kiss Kiss, Pew Pew
Author: Hope (hope angstslashhope)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~6,000
Genre: AU
Rating: PG-13
Characters(s): Jack, team.
Warnings: No spoilers or nuffin.
Notes: Most of this was written months before CoE aired. Much is owed to the patience of my beta, amand_r, and consultants cupidsbow and zortified.

Summary: An AU launched from the end of Torchwood season 1. The TARDIS never ended up at the end of the universe, but the Doctor's penchant for leaving Jack behind is still going strong.

Read on the AO3.

This piece was originally written to be one of the five things in Not a bang or a whimper, but the betas pointed out that it didn't strictly fit in with the theme of the rest.

Nothing wrong with it, though, so you get it anyway.


Day 4.5
PG-13, Jack/Ianto. Children of Earth AU. Contains SPOILERS.

Read on the AO3