My brother is to blame/thank for this one. See on the side of a steam train at the Bluebell Railway in Sussex.


This says pretty much everything about his sense of humour.

Title: Secrets and Hope - (2/8)
Characters/pairings: Ianto, Jack, Gwen, Rhys, various other characters introduced in CoE. Jack/Ianto and Gwen/Rhys
Rating: PG
Genre: Angst, hurt/comfort.
Summary: Just because the Earth has been saved doesn't mean there aren't still secrets, and the government is still keeping facts, and people hidden, from Torchwood.
Spoilers: Children of Earth days 4 and 5.
Authors note: Plot hole exploitation fic. Dark angsty fic with a happy ending. I don't normally post WiP, but for this one I'm making an exception.

Part 1 http://the-silver-sun.livejournal.com/79701.html

( The window offers no hope of escape either )

It's only half past nine and so far today I've managed to do something to my ankle - I don't know what, it's not swollen, but it hurts.

And now I've snapped a tooth on a banana. Yes a banana. Okay it was one of those freeze dried banana pieces you get in cereal, but still. It was banana.

And I've got a midwifes appointment the afternoon. Today is looking like a super rubbish day.

I now have a working copy of photoshop again :)

Also I know I said that I would have part 2 of Secret and Hope posted today, but it's going to be tomorrow now, as it turned out to be harder to write this part than I had thought it would be.
I've got it roughly plotted out now, and think that it will run to about 6/7 parts.

Being as Torchwood/Doctor Who/Sarah Jane Adventure all share the same universe, how does what happened in Children of Earth affect them?

( Metaish type thing concerning the effects of CoE on DW and SJA. Non specific spoilers for CoE.  )

I haven't been rude about any of the writers/characters/storylines, and I would hope that anybody commenting on this post would do the same.

Okay, I guess I can't stay away from fandom, even if it feels like the sanest thing to do right now. So here it is, my 'fix it' fic for Children of Earth. It is as far as I can tell canon compliant - I can't make myself watch it again to double check though.   


Title: Secrets and Hope.
Characters/pairings: Ianto, Jack, Gwen, Rhys. Jack/Ianto and Gwen/Rhys
Rating: PG
Summary: Because it's Torchwood and there are plot holes, and plot holes in this case = hope. 
( spoilers for children of earth day 5  )

JUst been given more invite codes, so if there's anybody on my flist who would like a Dreamwidth invite code (Dreamwidth being a free journa/bloggingl type platform thing) I have 2 codes going spare.

First two people to ask get the codes.

I've given it some thought, and for a variety of reasons I'm leaving the fandoms that I'm involved in for while, and in some cases maybe permenently.

( spoilers whats and whys )

I'll probably still post occasional, but not with anything related to fandom and I understand if people want to defriend me because I'm posting fanfic for what might be a long time. All the fic that I have written will still remain here on my lj, as I'm not petty enough to delete it all because I'm stepping back from it. Just don't ask me to write more/sequels, because it's not going to happen.  It's been fun while it lasted.

 I'm going to use this chance to work on some original fic that I've had laying around, in some cases for over ten years. I don't expect anybody to be interested or even really care, such is life.  

Torchwood day 4

( SPOILERS - don't click if you don't want to know.  )

No airdate given apart from Autumn 09.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/07_july/09/bbcone.shtml

Framed
Trevor Eve and Eve Myles star in Framed, a brand new family drama for BBC One. - this seems to be a short 2 or 3 part one off series.

( press release information )

Paradox
If you could see the future, would you change it? That's the dilemma facing Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint (Tamzin Outhwaite) and astrophysicist Dr Christian King (Emun Elliott) when a series of rogue images transmitted into his laboratory from space, throw them together.

( press release information )

Doctor Who – The Waters Of Mars

( cast and location spoilers )

 So I went into the little cafe place just across from work for lunch today.

Two oldish ladies (probably late 60's at a guess) sit down at a table next to mine, start talking/complaining about the fact that there was only apricot jam available with the scones today. Not the workd most interesting conversation.

Then one of them says 'did you watch Torchwood last night?' and they start talking about it. Saying that they'd only started watching it on Monday, because John Barrowman was it.

They say that they are going to watch it again tonight to see if ( small spoiler )  The other one replies, "I hope so, I'm missing bingo this week for it."

Conversation is then about bingo.

It was surprising to hear people who you wouldn't neccessarily think would be Torchwood fans talking about it.

Here's my practice round fic for writerinadrawer. A couple of other people have put theirs up at wiad_the_lounge

Prompts were: From the view point of a non-human. Mention 5 of the 7 colours of the rainbow. And less than 800 words. Practice round is doesn't include any series 3 info.


I thought I'd use the opportunity to write in past tense something that I rarely do. I'm not really sure how well it turned out, but knew that it wouldn't work in present tense or at least 3/4 of it wouldn't.


Title: Reflected Memories.
Warnings: None
Pairing/s: Canon pairings mentioned.
Rating: PG
Summary: Adam reflects on how he's changed Torchwood and how Torchwood has changed him.

(  back in the days before I came to this primitive little green planet and met Jack and flawed, vibrant team, with all their memories of darkness and unspoken lusts )

I've now listened to the 3 radio plays, and I think that Asylum and Deadline were probably the best two in term of plot. Golden Age was good, but I just got the feeling that a lot of the scenes would have worked better if it had been audio book or on TV, as I think it needed more visuals to really work, especially towards the end of it.

I've also listened to Sin Eaters. Not sure what to make of that one. GDL was very good reading it and it had an interesting plot, there were a few WTF bits though where I just couldn't imagine characters doing what they were doing.

I think my favourite audio book is still Everybody says Hello or Hidden, as everybody seemed in character for those.


Children of Earth.

Good first episode, looking forward to tonight. Will post more on this later under a spoiler cut as there are probably people on my f-list who haven't seen any of it yet.

I've decided which of the three possible plot ideas that I had to write my scifibigbang on. So another long TW fic to write, this one will be Jack/Ianto, set post series 2 + lost souls, but pre series 3.

Writer sign ups for scifibigbang have now finished but were still looking for artists, cheerleader/alpha readers and beta readers. Sign up for all these will be open until the end of October.

I'm working on my practice round entry for writerinadrawer which has the prompts, The Torchwood team from the view point of a non-human character, any 5 of the 7 colours of the rainbow adn 800 words or less.

I've finalised my maternity leave dates at work now. My last working day is the 18th of August, and I'll return to work after Easter next year, which is early mid/april.

Spent the afternoon shopping in Ikea, and have now bought a cot and bedding. As now there's only 10 weeks to go until baby is suppose to arrive, I'm thinking that I should probably get round to actually buying baby things.

I don't know whether this counts as a spoiler or not as it's just the name of somebody writing an episode and the possible name of the episode,  but it's under a cut just in case.  I'm hoping it's true because it means we are getting a  4th series.

( spoiler cut )

 

There's only one more day left to sign up as a writer for <lj user="scifibigbang">  http://community.livejournal.com/scifibigbang/681.html A multi-fandom sci-fi and fantasy bigbang, with a minimum 25k word count, with fic posting from the 1st Dec.

Artists sign ups are open until the 31th of October. http://community.livejournal.com/scifibigbang/892.html

Also looking for alpha readers/cheerleaders.   http://community.livejournal.com/scifibigbang/2244.html

There will be a post for people offering to beta read going up after writer sign-ups close. So probably on either the 1st or 2nd of July.

My number got picked to be in writerinadrawer  I'm in :D

How long I'll last I don't know, everybody else who's number has come up are really good writers, like copperbadge (aka sam-storyteller) invisible-lift, allfireburns and verasteine.

I've also just realised that if by some miracle I make it though to the final round (which I'm guessing will be round 11 like it was the last two times) it'll be the week baby is due.  eep

For anybody who's on my flist  and would like to take part there's only 2 hours left to sign up for writerinadrawer  round three.

The Year That Never Was. Everybody forgot that it happened. Except those on board the Valiant.

So the Doctor, Martha, Martha's family, Jack, the Master and Lucy......And all the UNIT soldiers and crew that were on board, which to staff something the size of an aircraft carrier must have been a lot of people.  

So what happened to those UNIT soldiers and the crew? They all remember what happened, and had to survive living on the Valiant with the Master for a year, presumably having to do everything that he told them to if they wanted to stay alive.

Those have got to be some pretty awful memories.


So the plot bunny.

What if the soldier Jack talked to in a bar (the one mentioned in Journeys End)  was one of the UNIT soldiers that had been on board the Valiant.  Why did they choose to meet up? A need to talk to somebody who understands just what happened? Had the soldier been kind to Jack during that year, maybe at a cost to himself, and Jack meets up with him to see how he's managing? 

A Year Out of Time - part 4

part one part two, part three,



( The attack on the rockets, despite its success  )

A Year Out of Time - part 3

part one
part two


( After three more nights of walking )

part four.

A Year Out of Time - part 2 

Part one

( We’ve got power )


part three, part four.

Title: A Year Out of Time.
Author: the-silver-sun
Fandom(s): Torchwood and Doctor Who
Genre and pairings (if applicable): Action/Adventure/Romance. Ianto Jones/Andy Davidson.
Rating: R
Beta(s): Santousha and Dvanulya. Thank you for all your hard work.
Spoilers: series one of Torchwood and series three of Doctor Who
Warnings: Temporary major character death.

Word Count 30k
Summary: When PC Andy Davidson meets Ianto Jones the day after Harold Saxon is elected Prime Minister he has no idea of the devastation that is about to happen to Earth, or the fact that Ianto Jones will come to mean a great deal to him as they try to survive.
Notes: This is canon compliant for series one of Torchwood and series three of Doctor Who, but not afterwards.


( The world has gone nuts )part two, part three, part four.

Tardis Big Bang is now live.
45 Doctor Who and Torchwood stories, all 20k+ words with art

http://www.tardisbigbang.com/  

off to see for the first time what the art is that got done for my fic, and who did it.

This is my entry on the main site. I will post it here on my journal eventually.

Title: A Year Out of Time
Author: </a></font></b></a>the_silver_sun
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Ianto/Andy Davidson
Rating: R
Word count: 31,000
Betas: </a></font></b></a>santousha and </a></font></b></a>dvanulya
Summary: When PC Andy Davidson meets Ianto Jones the day after Harold Saxon is elected Prime Minister he has no idea of the devastation that is about to happen to Earth, or the fact that Ianto Jones will come to mean a great deal to him as they try to survive.