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In my (very gradual) uploading of fics to AO3 I have reached the end of July 2008 and the first Jack/Ianto fic I ever wrote - Enough. Set right after Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang which I re-watched a couple of nights ago and have been trawling through meta on ever since, because it really is one of THE best episdoes ever and tells us such an awful lot about, well, everyone!
And fascinating re-reading this fic in the wake of all that because I discovered that I really did have a lot of what I've now decided upon there already. The main issue is that I really hadn't done much thinking about Ianto (partly because he just didn't interest me, partly because all the over-enthusiastic shippers slamming people over the head with the pairing made me really want to avoid it at all costs) and so most of my reading of Ianto in those days was down to the relatively few discussions about him (compared to, say, the Doctor) in my flist and on the very particular characterisation and relationship portrayed by the two people playing Jack and Ianto over at the role-playing game I was immersed in, both of whom were also in my flist and I kind of saw their take on the pairing as the definitive one.
It's taken me a long, long time to move past that. RPing with my own wonderful Ianto over recent years finally got me interested in the character, and I'm now very belatedly going back and re-discovering the relationship - and the character of Ianto - for myself. And while I still don't find him particularly interesting from a sexual POV (not dominant enough, old enough or exciting enough), I am finding his character and his relationship with Jack really fascinating. It is at least as complicated as Jack's relationship with the Doctor, if not more so, and there's a lot of depth there. And now that I've finally figured out, I think, how it all started and what Jack actually sees in Ianto, I'm really enjoying writing it. :-)
Speaking of which, I have signed up for this prompt at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
rounds_of_kink:
Jack/Ianto - Kink: forced orgasm or orgasm denial, humiliation, noise - Prompt: lesson learned the hard way
Due on 13 June - something for you all to look forward to! :-)
And once I've rewatched Fragments, just to check up on those early J/I scenes, I'll see about getting my J/I manifesto/personal canon fic finished and posted too. :-)
And fascinating re-reading this fic in the wake of all that because I discovered that I really did have a lot of what I've now decided upon there already. The main issue is that I really hadn't done much thinking about Ianto (partly because he just didn't interest me, partly because all the over-enthusiastic shippers slamming people over the head with the pairing made me really want to avoid it at all costs) and so most of my reading of Ianto in those days was down to the relatively few discussions about him (compared to, say, the Doctor) in my flist and on the very particular characterisation and relationship portrayed by the two people playing Jack and Ianto over at the role-playing game I was immersed in, both of whom were also in my flist and I kind of saw their take on the pairing as the definitive one.
It's taken me a long, long time to move past that. RPing with my own wonderful Ianto over recent years finally got me interested in the character, and I'm now very belatedly going back and re-discovering the relationship - and the character of Ianto - for myself. And while I still don't find him particularly interesting from a sexual POV (not dominant enough, old enough or exciting enough), I am finding his character and his relationship with Jack really fascinating. It is at least as complicated as Jack's relationship with the Doctor, if not more so, and there's a lot of depth there. And now that I've finally figured out, I think, how it all started and what Jack actually sees in Ianto, I'm really enjoying writing it. :-)
Speaking of which, I have signed up for this prompt at
rounds_of_kink:Jack/Ianto - Kink: forced orgasm or orgasm denial, humiliation, noise - Prompt: lesson learned the hard way
Due on 13 June - something for you all to look forward to! :-)
And once I've rewatched Fragments, just to check up on those early J/I scenes, I'll see about getting my J/I manifesto/personal canon fic finished and posted too. :-)
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