kaydeefalls | some thoughts on eucatastrophe.

I posted some of this as a comment in

blackbird_song's LJ, but I want to solicit input.

HP folks, remember Bring Back Black?

The Remus/Sirius fandom in Potterverse didn't stop when Sirius died, it flourished. I've been thinking about that since I woke up this morning, and it makes me a little more cheerful -- or, well, a little less soul-crushingly depressed, anyway. And apart from the necessary period of mourning, which, oh man, I've been at the edge of tears all day -- man, I just want to do something proactive here. I HATE this choice canon made, but though it kills me to admit it, I adore the way the writers and actors handled it, and still think Day Four was a wonderful and exquisitely painful piece of storytelling, possibly the best of the entire series. Poor choice, I think, for practical as well as emotional reasons, and don't even get me started on the dead queer trope -- but still very well executed.

I don't expect canon to provide us with a miracle, unfortunately -- I really do think Ianto is gone for good -- but jeez, this is what fanfic is for. And this is the Whoniverse -- which reset Rhys's death, which brought back Owen and Suzie, however briefly. Which gave us Turn Left and for chrissakes the Year-That-Never-Was. Canon gives us time travel and paradoxes and parallel universes and the bloody Rift. We can work our way out of this.

I'm considering trying to start up a Torchwood Eucatastrophe fic challenge, though I'm not sure how to go about it. But I am certain that other fic authors are already thinking about it, if not already posting fic. Let's take Children of Earth as our foundation and bring about our own fannish eucatastrophe -- snatching a happy ending out of the jaws of defeat. It won't change the fact that Ianto has reached his end in canon, but if the Ianto fanfic ends now -- no, no way. We all love this character too much to just leave it there.

And, hell, while we're at it, I wouldn't mind seeing Tosh or Owen again, either.

Think there'd be interested in this sort of fic challenge? I've never organized one before, so possibly it's doomed to failure. Or quite possibly someone else is already getting it started, I'm sure I'm not the only one to think of it. But...yeah. Not Ianto. Not yet. Not for me.