Fic Of The Week - Week Twenty Three

[bk_forever]

Another week, another fic and for this week I've picked an early fic by the wonderful  lone_star_woman . So early, in fact, it isn't even on her journal, which means we must venture into the uncertain terrain of ff.net to find it!

The Thing About Love is just 12 shortish chapters and can be found here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4175466/1/The_Thing_About_Love  It's rated T and described as Hurt/Comfort/Romance.

Here's what the author has to say...

Author's note: This is AU Torchwood because the idea of dead Owen depresses me when there's so much fun to be had with live Owen, especially with his confused relationship with Rory. Basically, I reworked the story that inspired An Excellent Boyfriend into something that I am more comfortable with.

For those who want to read them, the short fic An Excellent Boyfriend can be found near the bottom of the author's ff.net Profile Page here:

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1483299/lone_star_woman , along with the story which introduces the character of Rory, Uncle Jack Harkness (quite long at over 18,000 words).

Hope everyone enjoys reading!

Comments

[bk_forever]

I was concise o_0 That's rare for me! I'm usually more long-winded but I was very tired last night and wanted to get to bed earlier. For three nights in a row I hadn't got to bed until gone 2.30 am. Last night I managed 1 am, which I guess is earlier though still not early enough.

I don't get RTD - it just seems he wants to make everyone depressed, like he gets a sadistic joy out of telling everyone we're doomed and nothing can ever save us. I watch TV to be entertained, not depressed.

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

It was like you read a long article and wrote a quick summary of everything I meant. lol! I wish I could do that. I just like to run-off at the mouth. lol! I am like that too in sometimes I am just too tired or in my case feeling so bad that I just can't type much. Sometimes I can't think straight and wonder if I make a bit of sense.

I'm so sorry you have not been able to sleep. I'm glad you got a little more sleep last night. I feel awful without enough sleep. I didn't get enough last night because, guess what?!...my rash came back, it is not the pain meds! It is the antidepressant and no one believed me or didn't want to believe me! GEEZ! It was the last med I was put on and I had taken pain killers for weeks with no rash or anything! Now I have to slowly get off of it. This is one of those BAD antidepressants to get off of too, and I didn't know it until I looked it up last night, and even once you stop taking it all together, I read you can still have withdrawl symptoms. Bad ones like dizziness, crying, worse depression than before your put on it! Michael said he had read that, but so wanted me to be better that he didn't tell me. At first I was mad at him, but I put him through so much. I was in such a deep hole of depression with the pain and worry that I wanted to die. I read last night also that some people can develop a rash from Pristiq. One person had the exact same symptoms I got! It is considered a "severe" reaction of course and I have to stop taking it. It was like I was being poisoned for weeks because it got worse every morning. Today was not as bad I am guessing because of the strong steriod shot I got yesterday + the steroid pills from Nancy and the Benadryl. I am taking a stronger perscription form of Benadryl now. Oh and the right side of my face started swelling a little last night around my eye, but it got better thank goodness!

Big problem now is Nancy gave me enough of the crappy pain killer for 4 weeks and they don't help the pain. I don't have enough of the percocet that helps me until I see her again, so if I can't get a referral to the pain clinic then I will have to reschedule and see her sooner.

I am seeing a new Psychiatrist next week for my meds while Dr. Marshall is out and I hope he will give me the same mg of Ativan that I am used to. Most doctors won't give the higher mg out. I hope he believes me. I might take a bottle and show him what I take.

Well back to the post...lol! Yes I hate that negativity from RTD. We're doomed!...and I don't like that he implies there is no after life or if there is one, it is in some scary black void that we are lost in. Sounds more like being in some kind of Hell. I try to ignore that, but it bothers me in some of the shows. I believe I read RTD is an atheist which would explain it. 0_O I'm glad Owen was with us through the second season, but for most of it he was the walking dead which I thought was ridiculous! What was that about?! O_O

[bk_forever]

Oh No! Good luck with coming off the antidespressant - maybe it won't be too bad as you haven't been on it that long. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Good luck with your appointments too.

The way I see it, Jack only sees the blackness when he dies because he's not going to be there long. I think it's the place you go to wait until it's certain that you're not going to be revived, then you get to move on to the afterlife. Suzie stayed there because she was so insane and disillusioned it never occurred to her that she could move on. That's my theory anyway ;)

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

I like your ideas on the afterlife and Jack. That makes me feel much better. I have decided RTD can write it anyway he likes, but that they are not showing the whole picture. No one really knows what happenes, even Jack until they really go onto it, like you said. I was like you, coming up with my own ideas of how that worked so I could still watch the shows and not be upset or depressed at his dark view of the afterlife. What hopelessness! I don't believe that our lives are so insignificant that we would go through all this only to die and disappear into dust. Why would any of us want to go on knowing that we had nothing to look forward to but darkness or just blinking out into nothingness. How can he be into sci-fi, knowing all the vast expanse of space that exsist and all the gallaxies and think there is no afterlife and that there is no higher power who made it. There is no way, I believe, that space and all of us are just some kind of accident. How can we come from nothing, someone had to start it. Who made the first atom?...it did not just appear from nowhere. I don't know how RTD or anyone could think there is not someone extraordinary and all powerful that made all this. I feel so tiny; I really don't know anything, it is all too huge for me to even begin to understand. I know though that I/we are not tiny in God's eyes which gives me so much comfort and hope.

Ok, stepping down off soap-box....lol! :D

I can write nothing or be a blabber mouth depending on my mood. lol! I am having some pain, but at the moment I am doing ok. I have no idea what I will be like later or tomorrow.

Let me know how you are doing too. I love hearing about what is going on with you too. Are those mating Ladybugs still around? LOL! Funny, I just thought of them.

love crazy deb*

[bk_forever]

I think the Ladybugs have passed their mating frenzy, now they're just enjoying life (when the weather is good) and hiding away when it's cold and rainy.

I know what you mean - I can't believe everything just came into being without some outside help. Of course, I also find it impossible to believe that earth is the only inhabited planet with intelligent (well, sometimes anyway) beings. I'm certain there must be more than just earth.

I don't know what the afterlife will be like (I hope it's not all sitting around on clouds while playing harps) but I'm sure there is something after. I still don't want to die yet though - there are still a lot of things I want to do in this life first.

*hugs* Love, J xxx