#maybe it’s different in torchwood i never watched it but he has a bf there i think

[seveneyesoup]

look i’m gonna be as nice about this as i can but i genuinely earnestly think the reason we have a whole generation of queer teens happily begging for table scraps from the walt disney corporation is because no one listens to welcome to night vale anymore. wtnv was a generations introduction to explicit positive queer rep, and for some people, myself included, queer rep at all. and it sets the bar at a reasonable place. from the first episode, our narrator, a man, is outright stated to be in love with another man. this is taken seriously, and treated as healthy and normal, rather than secret or shameful. once you have that, you can’t go back to crumbs. and you certainly can’t go back to pretending crumbs are a four course meal.

#also the discourse machine branding popular queer made queer content as Problematic contributes as well #convince a bunch of kids they can only get media from mainsteam sources; tell them the explicitly queer stuff is bad; and youve effectively #blindfolded a population #and like it brings to mind the old ‘ooo dean winchester referenced a gay bar 👀’ people #but at least then there was less to choose from and it was harder to find #literally welcome to night vale changed the face of narrative podcasts #i just think if we taught these people to expect more and introduced them to the idea of independent storytellers telling queer stories #vs getting it all from corps n conglomerates #that they might end up with a healthier relationship to media and be willing to demand more from these corps or else forgo them entirely #you don’t need disney to tell your story when you know you can tell your own story; you know? #you wanna feel seen and so do your peers. go out and see each other then instead of begging for attention from netflix or the mouse #anyway also wtnv being my first experience w queer characters isn’t exactly true bc jack harkness #but that’s played somewhat for jokes yk and it’s not. you know that bit of writing about how all the definitions of homosexuality and they #never mentioned love? yeah. that #maybe it’s different in torchwood i never watched it but he has a bf there i think #but yeah #disney hate blog #whole rant bc it takes a week off my life when people say a disney movie is ‘for the gays.’ they’d sell you to satan for one corn chip

[jbharrisauthor]

Tag game - Torchwood edition

Tagged by @humany-wumany-stuff (thanks very muchly!)

Rules: Always post the rules. Answer the 11 random questions posted for you. Create 11 new ones and tag 11 people. Let the person who tagged you know that you answered.

1. When did you start watching Torchwood and what (or who) got you to start watching? I started way back when it aired on TV (in 2007), but I live in Australia and the TV channel who had it played the episodes out of order and kept changing the time it was on, so I got really confused about what was happening and gave up not even halfway through season 1. I always meant to watch it properly but never got around to it until 10 years later it popped up on my Netflix suggestions and the rest is history. 

2. What is your go-to episode to watch when you’re feeling down/bored and why? Probably either Cyberwoman because its such an intense episode, and obviously all the Janto angst or Something Borrowed because there are some truly brilliant moments in that episode. Rhys with the chainsaw, Gwen’s reaction to waking up pregnant, Ianto quips, Tosh being a badass, and of course the Janto dance at the end. It’s an episode with everything you could want. 

3. Which of the TW villains/aliens/whatevers did you find the scariest and why? Its a tie between the 456 and the cannibals in Coutrycide. The thought of people being capable of such evil in a group is seriously scary. But the 456 had the creep factor down by talking through the kids and all the slime they splattered in the tank when they got angry. 

4. If you had to pick 2 characters to do a BF audio, who would it be and what would it be about? Easily Ianto and Gwen. I just think there was so much unexplored potential in a close friendship between them, especially since they both loved Jack in different ways and no doubt had come to understand that Jack wasn’t the easiest person to love. I’d probably trap them somewhere together, not in immediate danger, just more an inconvenience, and maybe have some humorous element to it. They’d work well together to save themselves, and I can see Jack turning up with “I’m here to save you!” just after they’ve recused themselves, then Jack ending up a little deflated since they didn’t need him after all, but Gwen and Ianto assuring him that if he’d just been a few minutes earlier, he definitely could have played the hero for them... think I feel another fanfiction coming on... :D

5. What is your favourite fanfic-trope to read/write? More like what ISN’T my favourite trope! I’m not keen on fully AU where like Ianto’s a uni student and Jack is a professor, or similar kinds of things, but I like cannon AU where Jack or Ianto go to other timelines and meet alternate versions of each other. Soul mate fic if it’s done really well, CoE fix-its are always good. Or post-Miracle Day where Jack finds a way to bring back Ianto. Pretty much anything where Ianto is not dead is good. Oh, I really hate Gwen-bashing fics because although I know she had her flaws, I don’t hate her. And I don’t like the fics where Ianto gets upset about something Jack has done and then retcons himself, I just don’t think Ianto would have ever done that without a good reason. That being said, I did read one fic where he had retconned himself for a very good reason, and it was a great story. 

6. If you could assemble your own TW team (post-CoE) with canon characters from the extended Who-niverse (any show related to DW), who would be in it? Easily Martha Jones and Mickey Smith. Haven’t see the other DW spin-offs, so can’t comment on them. But if we’re going all out, I’d also bring in Rose and the Metacrisis Doctor (TenToo) because I just know that would make for some amazing stories. And Jack, of course. Wouldn’t be Torchwood without Jack. 

7. A question you would like to ask the actors on a panel (assume they are all present :p) Oh um... Probably I’d ask if they could pick any audio, comic, or book to make into a TV episode, which would it be and why. 

8. If there was another season and they would do a crossover with any show/movie/book/whatever of your choosing for 1 episode, what would it be and why? Supernatural with Dean and Sam. I don’t know why, but I just feel like it would be hilarious. Imagine what Sam and Dean would think of Captain Jack!

9. If you were to find out tomorrow that Torchwood is real and Jack is leading a Torchwood team in your home city, how would you convince him to let you join them? Um I WOULDN’T because I don’t have a death wish. In fact I’d be like “please retcon me right now so I forget that I know this. I like being alive and not traumatised.” Hahah. 

10. How would you recast the original Torchwood team? (Jack, Owen, Tosh, Ianto and Gwen) No! Blasphemy! It can’t be done! Honestly, I have thought about this before, but the first person I thought about recasting was Jack and I never got any further because there seriously isn’t another John Barrowman in this world. 

11. If you could pick any author to write a Torchwood novel, who would it be and why? Can I be totally self-centred and say ME? I actually really would seriously love to write a Torchwood novel, but I have no idea how an author gets to do that! If we’re talking other fanfic authors i think @gmariam321 would write amazing Torchwood  novels and also another author who goes by Angstosaur. 

And now I’m going to cheat and not tag 11 people because everyone I would have tagged have already been tagged! 

#tag game #torchwood