Fleeting Fancies - Fanworks Recommendations

Torchwood: Trying to Communicate by Sam Starbuck - So. Pretty much everyone and their dog has either recommended to read this fic by now and, well, I might as well hop on the bandwagon as well. I'm nearly through all of season 2 of Torchwood and I've been vaguely curious about reading some genfic and I remembered the concept of Torchwood + LOLcats and I had to go see. This fic seriously deserves all the praise and comments it's gotten because it's a brilliant mixture of the show and internet memes, two things you wouldn't think would go together so seamlessly, but this fic pulls it off. It's just. I laughed the entire way through this fic, so many of the lines in here are just pure gold and even the way it was worked in was brilliant and... well, if this was going to happen to anyone, it would certainly be the Torchwood team, wouldn't it? Plus, everytime I get to the ending, I just break down into helpless giggles. (Eh. Nothing I'm going to really warn for, beyond whatever's canon.)

Torchwood: So Bad by TheSummoningDark - I kind of took a long path to get here, a lot of journal hopping, but eventually stopped to read because I've been kind of pining for more Jack/John fic in this fandom, but never looked that hard for it, overwhelmed by the sheer amount of everything else. But I stumbled over here and was surprised to find such a short little piece that was so powerful and so good, just what I wanted. For all that their relationship is a simple one, it's also a complex one, which the fic gets across without having to say a word of it. The connection and distance between them, two time travelers bouncing around like they have in their lives, that was done really well, too. And I really liked this take on John especially. *__* (Jack/John.)

Torchwood: Rude Introduction by 51stCenturyFox - More browsing of Torchwood Decaffeinated in order to find more Jack/John and I-- I really liked this. I love what a dick John was in this one, yet such a charming one and not entirely a bad guy, the kind you know is trouble and yet you can't help yourself anyway, which you could totally see he used to be. I had so much fun with the dynamic between him and Jack here, their first meetings and the way their relationship first unfolded, it was totally easy to see this happening. XD (Jack/John, maybe around an R rating.)

Torchwood: Excalibur, Week 1 by 51stCenturyFox - This is another short ficlet, but I liked the author's previous fic enough that I had to read this one, too. It's almost pure dialogue, Jack and John in the time they were partners and they're on a mission together, but it's fun and easy enough to hear the actors with their lines, yet still see that they're so much younger here. And I continue to love this characterization of John. XD (Jack/John.)