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[donutsweeper]

I was meandering about LJ and found wtf27  a "Where Crack Comes Home To Roost" community.  Except, where Captain Jack Harkness is concerned, many of their wtf prompts are actually canon...

1) Gender swap.
2) Transformation (animals). (I've already written this)
3) Transformation (inanimate). (Canon for DW- Love and Monsters- thanks mad_jaks!)
4) Wings.
5) Tentacles!
6) Mpreg. (canon for TW, sort of)
7) High school AU.
8) Apocalypse Now. (World's ended twice in canon EOD and SOTD&LOTTL)
9) Supernatural (creatures). (Fairies in canon)
10) Supernatural (powers). (ESP in canon- to an extent- with tech)
11) Fantasy AU (traditional).
12) Fantasy AU (urban). (canon- Utopia)
13) Fuck or Die.  (canon- Day One)
14) Pornstars. (Who doesn't think Jack has DONE this?)
15) Hookers. (see #14)
16) You see, I woke up gay. (NOT an issue with Jack- it's his canon character)
17) Trading Places.
18) Forced Union.
19) Timeshift. (canon)
20) Aliens. (canon)
21) Doppelganger. (canon- considering how many versions of Jack there are in the timeline)
22) Twins or Non-canon Siblings.
23) Out of Time. (canon- the show's already done this- CJH)
24) Slaves. (kind of looks like Jack's forced into working for TW...)
25) Media Crossover. (I've already written this many times over)
26) Spies and Agents. (canon)
27) OMG we forgot ___. (Writer's choice.)

So out of 26 specific prompts 13 are CANON for Jack between Torchwood and Doctor Who and another two (if not more) are completely in character for Jack.  I find that humorous. 

Comments

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Most part of Torchwood's charm is its outrageous over-use of cliché!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! But we love it for that!

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Yep! Gotta love a fandom with canon sex aliens.

[itsarift-thing.livejournal.com]

13) Fuck or Die
*raises hand nervously* shouldn't that be fuck *and* die (Day One)
*hides*

27 - I only have one brain cell left - what do they mean by non-canon siblings??

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

lol- in Torchwood's case it was Fuck and Die... but overall it's the other

noncanon siblings- I think they mean when you randomly introduce a character into a story that turns out to be a brother or sister that never appeared on the show.

eta- yeah- it was 1.02 Day one, not 1.01 everything changes with the alien sex gas. my bad

[itsarift-thing.livejournal.com]

randomly introduce a character into a story that turns out to be a brother or sister that never appeared on the show
Oh right I get that now :D

It's Torchwood gender switch is nothign new

[itsarift-thing.livejournal.com]

Jack: Ianto will you *please* quit staring at my breasts? I mean, it's not like you've never seen any before. Right?
Ianto (totally mesmerised and fingering them reverently): They feel so *real*....
Jack (practically purring): They are real (Jack lets out a small gasp) believe me - *fully* functioning... Now, are you coming to bed to commit insatiable acts of lust with this body or not?

Re: It's Torchwood gender switch is nothign new

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

practically purring *snort*

Re: It's Torchwood gender switch is nothign new

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

*sniggers* Have your ears been burning this morning?? I'm blaming you for all sorts of things though mainly the genderswitch thing that is writing itself in my head *right now* and my joining up to wtf27 ♥

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Mayfly had wings, so did the fairies. Not that Jack ever did anything with either species and he doesn't have any himself but...

Tell the plot bunny with the spangly fairy wings and the diamante sandals to go away please, she's making my head hurt.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Jack certainly wouldn't see wings as a problem though...

Why would I ask the plot bunny to shoo? Embrace the mutant plotbunnies!!! They are our friends!

[ayankha.livejournal.com]

there's also myfanwy... esp after watching Fragments, i'm pretty sure there's some pterodactyl love going on somewhere :p

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

:) oh absolutely!

[chatona.livejournal.com]

That community sort of really cracks me up. I'm not at all tempted to write for those prompts *shifty eyes* Really.

Recently, there seem to pop up fics based on those prompts with Gibbs/DiNozzo. Which makes me all kinds of giggly.

Also? Hi *waves*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I might write for the prompts, without officially signing up or anything. Sometimes when stuck for ideas I'll troll trough prompt tables and see if anything jumps out at me.

A very cute Tony as cat was posted at ff.net yesterday. Very well done, did you see it?

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

God, I love Torchwood.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

ain't it grand?

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Oh and while I was trying not to work on fem!Jack
3 is canon for New Who (Love and Monsters)

(and Classic Who pretty much revolved around 5 and 11 for years and years) :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I forgot all about Love and Monsters!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

That is so funny and so not surprising. I love that this show does cliches like they're going out of style. It's half the raison d'etre, what with Jack as the lead character.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

And we absolutely love Jack for it!

[ayankha.livejournal.com]

22) Twins or Non-canon Siblings.

Jack mentioned dating twin acrobats... :p

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

he's GOTTA write that book one of these days, right?

[amarin-rose.livejournal.com]

I've seen 1, 7, 17, 18 and 22 in fic. Fuck or Die is really canon? Really?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

yes- in S1E2 an alien sex gas takes over Carys' body and if she doesn't have sex she'd burn up (instead the alien sex gas takes the lives of the people she does have sex with, prompting the line "He came... and went")