World Enough and Time

Title: Kissing
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Gwen/Tosh
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Femslash. A response to apiphile's PANFANDOM KISSING FIC MEME challenge. Apologies to anyone who has already read it there; I wanted to repost it here on my own site. Cross-posted to my Dreamwidth account, my LJ, and gwentoshiko.

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beccaelizabeth has been counting speaking roles in Torchwood with interesting results - her table for series 1 is here. And she puts it all to the Bechdel test. And notes how surprisingly few conversations Gwen and Tosh have.

Since I've been dabbling with Gwen/Tosh slash, I've been thinking about that. I wanted to make a Gwen/Tosh icon. I went over a lot of screencaps, and scenes, and publicity photos, and I was gobsmacked at how remarkably few times Gwen and Tosh are in the same frame at the same time. When the team splits up to do something, Tosh and Gwen are not in the same grouping. When they are in the same scene, they are almost invariably in different parts of the room. Even when talking to each other, we usually only see one at a time, or see the back of the head of one of them and the face of the other. The men are more commonly shown together in profile during conversations.

When the team is walking in its variable formation, Gwen and Tosh are often flanking the two ends, or at least separated, even though the make-up of the formation is said to 'vary'. More often, in publicity photos and stills, we see Jack with Gwen on one side of him and Tosh on the other. Or the central grouping is Ianto, Jack and Owen, with Gwen and Tosh on the outside.

I'm thinking of pictures like this and this (which further separates Tosh and Gwen by adding Suzie between them), or this. I didn't pay much attention to this until I tried to find pictures of Gwen and Tosh in proximity. Or even vicinity!

An exception: some of the books (see this photo) show Tosh and Gwen side by side. The cover of the second DVD set shows Gwen and Tosh side by side laterally, but Tosh is much further back, so they still aren't side by side.

An exception: in the SUV at the beginning of "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", Gwen and Tosh are sitting together in the back seat.

No conclusion here, except to think that they must have some reason for doing the blocking and composition like this. And that if I want to put Gwen and Tosh together, I'm going to have to do it myself.

This is just to put a link to a tiny ficlet I wrote for apiphile's PANFANDOM KISSING FIC MEME - a brief Gwen/Tosh kiss or two.

Title: Unsaved, Unsent
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Gwen/Toshiko
Genre: femslash
Rating: G
Dislaimer: I own neither Gwen nor Tosh nor mysterious underground alien research stations in Wales. BBC and Russel T. Davies deserve the rights and the credit.
Note: Spoilers for Everything Changes. Crossposted to gwentoshiko

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