Unfeathered Notes

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 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. :-)

Jack/Ianto fic is currently taking a bit of a back seat while I check out some of the background stuff people have linked me to and finish my S1 re-watch (Combat last night - better than I remembered, though I did skip through a lot of the Owen stuff as it was getting late and I wanted my bed) and consolidate my thoughts, because once I post this thing I don't want to have it Jossed by something else I get given a link for! :-D

In the meantime, I discovered/remembered that Rounds of Kink have an ongoing April Fool's round until the end of the month and there are some really yummy prompts and kinks there.

So I am now 1500 words into a Jack/Giles scene, which started off quite light but got hotter and somehow seems to be encompassing elements of all the kinks in the challenge!!! I am really hoping to get it finished in time to post it before the end of Thursday! Nothing like a looming deadline to make you actually knuckle down and write. At the moment it feels like it will need a fair bit of editing as I've just been getting it down without much editing as I go along but it's a lot more straightforward than the last one (which had a lot of complicated setting up for the whole series, plus unusual positions etc. I needed to make sure were conveyed to the reader) so I might get away without having it beta'd if I run out of time for that. We shall see!