Delight of Battle; Torchwood/Doctor Who

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Comments

[holli.livejournal.com]

Oh, Ian! This is marvelous. Though I don't know if I wanted the image of sex with a Web Planet moth-person in my head, thanks.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I think the Menoptera would be rather fun. They look very soft. :D

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd never thought of it before, but yes, this is exactly what happened.

Obviously. :)

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

See? It works so well!

[tiger-flame.livejournal.com]

Hum....I must watch more old DW... This Ian sounds very interesting...

And as always, lovely!

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Ian was a lot of fun. Often a smug, arrogant bastard, but a lot of fun. So were Barbara and Susan, both deeply badass. The First Doctor has stood the test of time remarkably well.

[chicleeblair.livejournal.com]

Lovely, Sam. I love seeing Torchwood the way it was pre-Jack-taking-over. And the thought that the Doctor impacted it long before 2006....

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Well, canonically we know that Jack was prevented from making contact a few times, from the records montage in Fragments. I do kind of love playing with pre-2000 Torchwood, though :D

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I have not settled on what my fannon is for what happened for Ian and Barbra after they return home, but I can see this happening.

[shane-mayhem.livejournal.com]

I really liked this. Your Jack is always so good.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Jack is fun. So many twists that man has...

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

a computer so advanced the public wouldn't know about it until the eighties

What, an Apple Macintosh SE? LOL!

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I was thinking a top of the line IBM...running DOS!

It fell through the Rift with an Atari and a betamax copy of Pretty In Pink.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I still think the gun range scene is super sexy! :D

I've beta-read a story in which Ianto is trapped in the past and meets up with Ian too. I THINK THEY BOTH HAPPENED. I just really like Ian. *grin*

[neifile7.livejournal.com]

I still think the gun range scene is super sexy! :D

This this, a thousand times! I think you are becoming our leading exponent of gun-range porn. ;)

I have barely seen any Hartnell, but Ian definitely started a fine tradition of Companion smartassery. (And the Dalek Invasion is a surefire win.)

[danceswchopstck.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, SamFic. Thank you. *savors*

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a great idea! This was *marvellous.*

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

I know Ian only by reputation, but this is marvelous.

PS: You could make legions of Amelia Peabody fangirls squee just by changing Jack's comment "Another ruined shirt" to "Another shirt ruined."

PPS: Ooh. Edwardian-era crossover potential there; do you know the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters?

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of Amelia Peabody! I'll have to check it out.

[violent-rabbit.livejournal.com]

I have no prior knowledge of Ian and I enjoyed this thoroughly. This is what takes it above fanfic- the little assumed knowledge I have wasn't needed to understand what this was about- other than it being set in the Who universe.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I did try to write it accessibly, knowing that not many of the newer Doctor Who fans are familiar with the old canon. Glad it worked out well!

[rosepetal9.livejournal.com]

I've never watched much First Doctor, although I have the general idea of the characters by osmosis from others. Now I'm super excited to finally watch those episodes, because with this gem in the back of my mind, I get the feeling I'm going to love Ian even more than I would have already.

Excellent stuff, Sam, but your stuff always is. I'm a long-time lurker, and new work from you always puts a smile on my face.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

The original companions are all brilliant; I focused on Ian here, but I adore both Barbara and Susan as well, and I love the interpersonal dynamics of the early TARDIS.

Glad you enjoyed it! Welcome into the open, o lurker :D

[mcparrot.livejournal.com]

For a horrible minute there I thought you were leading up to killing Ian off. I'm so pleased that's not the way it ended. And loved that former companions got together, obviously a normal life post the Doctor would be very dull (and that the sexual mores of the universe would rub off on one so to speak). Moth porn - write moth porn please.
Write more of this verse please. Actually just write more.
cheers
McP

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I almost did write a section where Ian dies, but I decided, fuck that noise, I want a happy story about sex and punch-ups. :D

[anyjen.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was awesome. I honestly haven't watched that many classic Who episodes, so I don't know all that much about Ian, but what I've seen, I've liked... and now when I go weatch more, I'll have these delicious images in my head. Thank you so very much for that. *__*

(but really, the thing with the moth? probably could have done without that. me and my vivid imagination... >_<)

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I think the Menoptera would be a good time. They're very soft, and they probably have a prehensile proboscis....

[misswinterhill.livejournal.com]

A FUCKLOT OF STUFF ABOUT LIFTS.

YES INDEED!

I love this so much! I just adore the sharpness and ease (even though that is probably oxymoronic) of their relationship, and the banter between them. ♥

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

LOTS ABOUT LIFTS. :D

I think sharpness and ease is actually a good way to put it. They're both rather hard-edged men but because they have this shared experience of the Doctor, as different as their times in the TARDIS were, they trust each other and understand each other in a way nobody else can. They're totally at home with each other, even though they don't fit the world very well.

[thkya.livejournal.com]

Ohh, I always liked Ian very much. I like this for him, thank you Sam :)

[keeperofqkeys.livejournal.com]

This was wonderful, even not knowing much about Ian. Though my mind kept completing it to "Ianto"...

(Also, I think it was mentioned in one of the TW books that the lift had been in place, but it didn't become invisible until the events of Boomtown when the TARDIS was on top of it and the lift somehow picked up on the disruption field. But I may be wrong, as I don't bother with reading the books.)

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I worked really hard to catch Ian's uniqueness, because I realised about halfway through that Ian could very well slip over into Ianto in peoples' minds. :D

[splagxna.livejournal.com]

awesome. ian is usually so underappreciated.

[quean-of-swords.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'd never thought of that, but Ian in Torchwood is a WONDERFUL idea. Awesome awesome awesome!

[queenfanfiction.livejournal.com]

NGL I found this on Twitter before I came to LJ. *facepalm*

Anyway. LOVELY. Even your porn is so academically-stimulating. :D And you make me want to see Old!Who which is probably a very bad thing given my schedule. GRR SAAAM *half-hearted fistshake before trotting off to YouTube to see what they have*

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

Delightful!

[teaboyfan.livejournal.com]

I don't know Classic Who or Ian, but he sounds perfect for Torchwood and Jack. And your shooting range erotica (much too classy to be porn) is wonderful; they were both more than ready and the encounter was as explosive as the charges in the cartridges. You should write more erotica!

[phineyj.livejournal.com]

This is a great read! Wonderful action description especially at the beginning and mmmm, shooting range scene!

Doctor Who jumped the shark when it went to color

[alibi-factory.livejournal.com]

CHATTERTON. And Babs! Lovely. I would never have thought of this pairing in a million years, which is one of the best things about fanfiction, and as far as I can tell (I'm not hugely well-versed in the first Doctor's era), it works. And gun porn, also, which is what Jack was made for. Mmm.

Re: Doctor Who jumped the shark when it went to color

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

CHESTERFIELD! :D

I am not inclined to disagree with your subject line, btw. I've just started on Pertwee and -- well, there's always something in history to interest me, but the stories themselves are...not, very. I do like the Brigadier, but only because he has such a delightfully obvious crush on the Doctor.

Is it wrong that I'm dreading Tom Baker?