rabecka

MD drabble

2011-09-12T06:10:50Z

Title: sparks in the darkness . . .
Characters: the Blessing, Jack, Rex, and uh, life on earth?
Rating: G
Spoilers: Miracle Day, all of it
Summary: What really happened, from the only one that actually knows...
AN: A bizzare little drabble with delusions of grandeur. I'd love comments. And I'm not a sensitive soul, so don't hold back if your basic reacton is WTF???

the beginning was heat and pressure and darkness . . . essence spread . . . awareness flared . . . stretched . . . emptyness . . . time and time and time . . . essence grew . . . grows . . .

something new . . . flickers . . . sparks in the darkness . . . tiny . . . few . . . what? . . . outside . . . outside?? . . . something new . . . more and more and more . . . what??? . . .

proximity . . . needs . . . needs flow . . . reflect back . . . confusion . . . comprehension . . . essence extended . . . flicker stops . . . sparks grow . . . wanted . . . wanted? . . . unwanted? . . . wrong??

something else . . . something different . . . bright . . . distant . . . come closer . . . come closer . . . come closer . . . yes . . .

comprehension . . . withdraw . . . sparks flicker . . . no . . . different . . . bright . . . close . . . clear now . . . blazing . . . space-time bending . . . beautiful . . . beautiful . . . forever . . .

another . . . linked . . . fading . . . fix . . . the template near . . . it is done . . . stay . . .

rabecka @ 2011-08-15T15:17:00

2011-08-15T21:19:06Z

From a photo on GDL's Facebook page. Gareth defaces a poster at Comic Con :D

The original image is here...

Icons - Miracle Day Episode 1

2011-07-17T05:29:24Z

Yup, it's a bunch of icons from episode 1. Most are spoilery, so teaser images are sorta limited. Thanks to gallicka for the amazing uploads.

Icons - Various manips

2011-06-25T03:31:59Z

Every so often I get motivated to play around with various effects in Photoshop, or I'm inspired to do some photo manip by a story or contest. These have been floating around unposted, and I decided to fix that. Besides, I'm rather fond of several. I'd love comments. Or even better, take some and use them. Enjoy...

20 More Miracle Day Icons

2011-05-29T03:11:46Z

Spoilers again. These are from the promotional photos posted on the IGN site. (Apologies if I'm spamming anyone. I added one more icon of Jack in the bar. The orig, taken from the promo pic looked rather stilted to me. The new one is a photo manip using an image of Jack from an S1 episode. Your challenge is to figure out which one...)

Miracle Day Icons

2011-05-24T22:12:15Z

Well, spoilers obviously, but only from official sources - promo shots and trailers.

50 Icons - Gwen Day

2010-11-08T02:58:50Z

These are inspired by pocky_slash's Gwen Day tribute. Some of these are grabbed from other posts, but many of them are new. Enjoy...

73 Icons - Cyberwoman 1x04

2010-10-18T02:43:46Z

Lots and lots of Cyberwoman icons. Ianto is featured, as you might guess, but plenty of the remaining team, including icons of deleted scenes and a bit of photo manip. Enjoy.

COE Drabble: tw_100 Lost challange

2010-07-14T23:42:41Z

Title: Reality Check
Characters: OC's, Colonel Oduya (UNIT)
Challenge tw_100: reverse fandom Lost (Episode: Numbers)
Rating: G
Spoilers: COE Day 1
Beta: Thanks mellten

"It was awful, Rhi. I managed to grab Sian, but couldn't reach Dafydd in time. He just went flying off the swing. The medics said they've been getting calls from all over Cardiff."

"Not just Cardiff, love. I was online, and everyone's talking about it, all over the world. Twitter's flooded with messages, and there are even vids on YouTube. Nothing on the telly, though. It's odd, that"

Meanwhile...

"...and if anyone files a news report, we'll be crushing it. But, so far, we're the only ones with software clever enough to piece this all together. Well, us and Torchwood."

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AN: Really not trying to open another debate about COE. These were just two things that occurred to me while watching Day 1. (1) The 456 might have stopped the children, but I doubt they were able to stop momentum. Think of kids running, on a bike or skateboard, swimming, etc. Or don't, maybe... (2) The "clever software" scene had my mouth hanging open. Really??? Raise your hand if you think that kids stopping would be the hot topic on twitter before either UNIT OR Torchwood caught on...

Icons - Doctor Who 5x01 - Eleventh Hour

2010-04-05T04:58:52Z

Icons from the first episode of series 5. Icons under the cut are spoilery. Not exactly a surprise that...

Thanks to RAWR-CAPS.NET and pothead for the screencaps...

rabecka @ 2010-03-23T03:54:00

2010-03-23T07:54:48Z

Some icons from the first Desperate Housewives episode with JB... Thank you pfyre, for the avi file here

COE and team competence. Oh really?...

2009-07-25T04:59:12Z

So... many, many others have written brilliant post mortems, and now that I've seen all 5 episodes, I'm not going to compete. However, I have a somewhat different complaint, that I hope others might find interesting.

Essentially, it aggravates me that the team had to be pretty incompetent for COE to play out like it did. There were just so many missed opportunities, right alongside things that worked that shouldn't have. Now obviously, these were a plot device, but it's a plot device I happen to hate. (Remember season 1, Day One, when Carys grabbed the hand and Jack yelled "Put that down. It's only important to me." From a former conman??? That's the type of thing I mean.)

Day One:

1. If Ianto could track any car (as stated in Day 2) why couldn't he track the SUV. And why did he wait til he got back to the hub, then not even get on the computer to look for it?

2. Why was Jack unable to contact anyone? Are you telling me that in 100+ years, the only contact he had with UNIT was Martha, and the only government contact was Frobisher (and not even a direct line)? And what about the crown – that's where their authority comes from after all. Yup, head of a top secret agency, blocked by a sergeant and secretary.

3. When Jack knew he was about to blow up, why didn’t he give his Vortex Manipulator to Ianto? He used it to start the lift, but Ianto wasn’t out of range immediately.

Day Two:

4. After working together for years, Gwen and Ianto couldn't think of one place to meet without specifying the place name? WTF??

5. What about any preplanning at ALL. They're in a dangerous profession, facing aliens with who knows what capabilities and technology, and it never occurred to anyone to plan for the hub being compromised. Or for agents being outside of the hub during a lockdown.

On things that should not have worked:

6. The funeral director was tied with his hands in front of him. Um, pull off the gag? Your hands are right in front of it…

7. Jack's rescue was ludicrous without tight coordination btwn Gwen and Ianto. Consider… Gwen goes into a secure facility, and blanks a security camera. She then walks into the next room, and in full view of that camera, points a device at it, and it goes dead. Like that wasn't going to bring everyone running. As for Ianto, without Gwen and Rhys, he would have been immediately captured. The only way this makes any sense is if Gwen was a decoy to draw the guards, so Ianto could do his thing. And good thing the keys were left in the cement truck...

8. And just to nitpick, ever seen concrete being poured? It doesn't set up that fast.

Day Three:

9. Jack was a former conman, and indications are that his history with Torchwood wasn't exactly hearts and flowers. Wouldn't he personally, have set up false identities and bolt holes for himself? (We see Owen with a batch of fake ID's in Ghost Machine.) Also, given compound interest, the number of years he's lived and knowledge of the future, he should have accumulated enough money to pay off the national debt without half trying. It may not be a big concern for him, but I can't believe he wouldn't have squirreled away enough to run if he wanted to.

9a. If I really wanted to make Jack competent, and manage a completely different track for COE, I'd speculate that he had offsite stashes of alien artifacts that he kept from Torchwood. He was a Time Agent, and could easily have considered some things too dangerous for the timeline.

10. After the hub is very publicly destroyed, and an attempt made to kill the whole Torchwood team, there's STILL no one Jack could contact at UNIT, who might talk to him?

11 After Stolen Earth and Journey's End, he knows Sarah Jane, and knows about Mr Smith. There's another contact. Oh, and Sarah Jane showed up with a warp star in Journey's End, so Jack knows all about her having alien devices.

12. OK, I'll admit I find this hilarious, but has it dawned on everyone that the critical piece of technology (i.e. the contact lenses) required to make everything work was only available because Gwen took them home to play sex games? Now that's the Torchwood we know and love. Except why do Gwen and Rhys get kink, and Jack and Ianto get beans? No, no, NO!

13. The Torchwood thieves. Obviously played for laughs, but uh, folks... when you lift something, don't run. No better way to draw attention to yourself. Certainly Jack, as a conman should have known that.

Day Four:

14. Once the situation is clear, why didn't Jack try to call the Doctor? In Stolen Earth, they sent the call thru the hub, so presumably, he had the number. Even if he didn't have it from that, do you really believe he wouldn't have gotten Martha to share? And memorized it.

15. Personally, I don't see Jack as either arrogant enough or naïve enough to believe that the monsters are going to go away just because he walks in and tells them to, which rather makes the whole thing fall apart for me. Now if it was the Doctor doing the talking, he'd believe it.

16. Which brings us to: Jack’s speech facing the 456 was just lame. Basically, a powerless bluff. Why not invoke the Shadow Proclamation? Let them know he’s immortal. That he has ways to get off the planet, and contacts off world. That he'll never give up tracking them down. The result might have been the same, but at least it had a chance, and would make Jack appear dangerous rather than clueless.

17. Ianto's “Go back 150 years and see what you're facing” was a great line, but unfortunately it makes no sense. Why would the 456 have records of Jack from 150 years ago? It's not like he's on the Internet. (Interestingly, this might have worked anyway, since the 456 seem to have some psychic ability and might have picked up the intent.)

18. Shooting the tank? Really? When the 456 presumably have enough ships in orbit to transport millions of children. Yeah, that works.

Day Five

18. Torchwood's computer systems have been compromised for years? I don't know about anyone else, but I really, really don’t want to believe that Tosh wouldn't have noticed. And, actually, this didn't change anything, so it was just a gratuitous slam.

Comments anyone?...

24 Icons - COE Episode 5

2009-07-17T04:31:02Z

Lots of folks are dealing wtih COE by writing. I play with pictures. So... here are 24 icons - the ones under the cut are spoilery. Thanks to marisha and sunset_to_dawn for the screencaps.

rabecka @ 2009-07-15T10:34:00

2009-07-15T14:52:36Z

Title: Lost and Found
Author: rabecka
Rating: G
Characters: Jack, OC, mystery guest
Warnings: Spoilers for COE
Summary: Flat Holm is for those damaged by the rift. What about the ones who are just displaced?

"Hi David, thought I’d drop by."

"You’re a long way from Cardiff. What’s happened?"

"Torchwood’s destroyed. They’re gone. Everything I touch-"

"Not everything Jack. You saved us. We’ve built a good life here. A place lost in time, you said once, for time’s refugees."

"I’m giving you a contact - Gwen Cooper. Get her out here. Show her around. She could use some hope right now."

"And what about you?"

"Too late for me, but I have one more refugee for you. She’s lost. Far more lost than the rest of you... Her name’s Myfanwy, and she likes chocolate. Preferably dark."

Icons - COE Episode 1

2009-07-07T08:25:47Z

Some icons from COE Episode 1. NO spoilers, just pretty pictures... Thanks to stormfronticons for the screencaps.

rabecka @ 2009-07-02T03:17:00

2009-07-02T07:50:25Z

Well, with COE about to hit, I figure we're due for plenty of OMG-the-earth's-coming-to-an-end drama. So... how about a light hearted recap of the team (and actors) in some lighter moments of S1-S2.

Icons from Gay Times article

2009-05-28T03:58:54Z

Couldn't resist... Here are icons from those gorgeous pics in Gay Times.

JB Icons from Justin Lee Collins Show

2009-05-04T02:46:01Z

Thanks to pfyre for all the screencaps here. I made icons, a baker's dozen...

Drabble - tw_100 Episode Tag challange

2009-03-08T18:53:46Z

Title: Forget It
Author:rabecka
Characters: Jack, Suzie, unknown PC
Challenge: tw_100, Episode Tag (They Keep Killing Suzie)
Rating: PG

"Follow them. They won't want us there, but follow them anyway."

Two days later and I'm still shaking. Forget it, my partner says. Nothing we can do. Forget it or you really, really will. And I’ve heard the rumours. Bodies with odd, inexplicable injuries. Missing evidence, missing reports, missing hours, missing days…

But I saw it. Heard it. That bastard in the coat. His rage. The woman lying helpless on the pier, her body jerking as he fired bullet after bullet… You tell me how the hell I'm supposed to forget that.

Bloody Torchwood. You have absolutely no idea mate.

AN: I apologize if I'm spamming anyone with this. I didn't realize til after I read one comment that the original might be unclear.

Icons - End of Days

2009-02-24T03:32:00Z

Good individual shots of everyone, but also particularly good for pairs and groups. Including janto, of course...

Icons - S3 Trailer

2009-02-06T09:50:33Z

These are all from the S3 trailer (thank you staceyuk for posting in torch_wood).

Icons - Adrift

2009-01-26T03:41:45Z

TW3 drabbles - **Spoilers

2009-01-13T08:28:59Z

I've noticed lots of people are very leary of various season 3 Torchwood spoilers. But... since we really know very little about them, I thought I'd try my own interpretations. Behind the cut are two completely ludicrous theories. Enjoy.

Oh, and I'd absolutely love it if some of you joined the party and provided your own speculatons.

Title: Who Knew
Author:rabeka
Characters: Ianto, Myfanwy
Rating: G
Words: 100
Spoilers: *WARNING* TW Season 3
Summary: An explanation of certain spoilery video near the Millenium Center

It had been a hectic week. First the earth got stolen, and then a dalek came to visit. All in all, good reasons for a lapse in the normal cleanup routine.

But even in a crisis, Myfanwy continued to eat. Eyeing the inevitable result, Ianto lit a cigarette; postponing the job, and hopefully, deadening his sense of smell. Unfortunately, just as he was about to drop and extinguish it, Myfanwy decided to dive over her nest (and him), sending the still lit cigarette on a trajectory toward a large pile of, well…

Who knew that pteranodon dung was so explosive.

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Title: Family Affairs
Author: rabeka
Characters: Jack, Jack's daughter, Jenny, Ten
Rating: G
Words: 200 (double drabble)
Spoilers: *WARNING* TW Season 3, DW S4 (Doctor's Daughter)
Summary: A theory on how Jack's daughter came to Cardiff

In 6021, Jack landed on Messaline. Shortly after, to the immense surprise of the inhabitants (but not the readers), he died and resurrected. Recognising a good thing, some surviving soldiers stuck his hand in the progenation machine and, voila, instant daughter.

Jack who, on principle, objected to reproduction without sex, collected his brand new daughter and departed for more congenial ports, where they (surprise) ran into Jenny.

The two women hit it off immediately, sharing a zest for life threatening adventure, with revelry afterwards. Hand in hand they vanished into the sunset, while Jack waved goodbye to his fully grown, baby girl.

* * *

Meanwhile, in a timey wimey sort of way, the Doctor was skipping randomly through time and space. By an amazing coincidence (raise your hand if you think the TARDIS is powered by an improbability drive), he arrived just as the dynamic duo were running for their lives from a pack of hungry, venomous pseudo-dinosaurs.

On learning Jenny was alive, he was ecstatic. When introduced to her companion, unfortunately, he was appalled. Next stop Cardiff, 2010.

* * *

Jack knew he was in trouble when a familiar voice called out with a distinctly infamous intonation, “Jaaack...”

“Hey, what’d I do now?”

11th Doctor icons

2009-01-04T00:09:46Z

Drabbles for the tw100 challange

2008-12-16T03:31:18Z

I'm much more likely to play with photos than with words, but the tw100 challange seemed like a good, well... challange, to take a chance and try something new. Enjoy, I hope... (I'd love feedback, pro or con)

Title: Journey's End
Author:rabecka
Characters: Jack
Challenge: 100 drabble challenge (Seduction Lessons, Life Before Torchwood, reverse fandom ST:TNG)
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: POTW

It should be funny. Jack Harkness, ex-Time Agent and conman, seduced by a 21st century girl and a U-boat captain. Not with sex, but with laughter, and running, and hands that reached out in friendship. So for a while, I belonged; with a Time Lord who saw everything, and a child who saw what I could be. Until the day I offered my life, and they took it, and never looked back.

Shit. I should have known better. Seduced and abandoned, like the girl in a bad romance novel. I suppose I should be glad they didn't leave me pregnant.

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Title: No Place Like Home
Author:rabecka
Characters: Jack
Challenge: 100 drabble challenge (reverse fandom Buffy)
Rating: G
Spoilers: 2x12 (Fragments)

Torchwood. Not what anyone would consider a family. Except it was, sort of, for him. A place where people knew what, if not entirely who, he was. Where individuals died, but old hands told the new ones about him. Where they kept his history, and told his stories, so he didn't have to. Where, for a hundred years, they let him into their lives, and kept him sane.
Then, in a moment of madness and despair, it's gone. He wonders if Alex had any idea what he destroyed.
He'd learned to accept death, but could never handle being left behind.

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Title: Unnatural Selection
Author:rabecka
Characters: Jack
Challenge: 100 drabble challenge (Alternate Universes, reverse fandom Buffy)
Rating: G
Spoilers: 1x05 (Small Worlds)
Summary: "They can make great storms... wild seas... turn the world to ice." - Jasmine

It's the 21st century, and everything's changed. But not like this. It was never supposed to be like this. One little girl, who didn't want to be saved, is safe. With them.

The rest? Well… it's just me now, forever roaming the damned ice. It's everywhere and always. Except…

I never slept much, after the Game Station. These days, I try not to sleep at all. Their idea of a joke, I guess. I wake up warm; the sun on my skin and the smell of summer in the air. I wake up surrounded by rose petals and laughter.

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Title: The Awakening
Author:rabecka
Characters: Jack
Challenge: 100 drabble challenge (Alternate Universes, Sleeper, reverse fandom DW)
Rating: G
Spoilers: 2x03 (Sleeper)

Though he knew about Sleeper Agents, it was just weeks after the Year of Hell, and he couldn't be the cause of yet more pain. So he took the mind probe off Beth; let her believe it was a mistake, and let himself believe he could contain her. Until she changed. And locked down the hub. And killed his team. Until the bombs went off in Cardiff. And the remaining cells activated. And the missiles launched.

And when the message went out: "Objective accomplished, awaiting invasion force", it was far too late. There wasn't a damn thing he could do.

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AN: About the last two... I occassionally read reviews that have real trouble with Jack's actions in these 2 episodes. Personally, I think he made the choices he had to make. These 2 drabbles are my rebuttal.