Beginning Notes: Only another single drabble today. This is something people might find funny, I currently have six different types of cough lollies in front of me. Tomorrow normal posting schedule should resume.

Thank you badly-knitted for catching my spelling mistake. I typed expected, when it should have been expecting.

Before I got sick I was going through the oldest TW fics on this site, I was rather surprised because I had forgotten how Gwen-neutral everyone was at the beginning. But then the more RTD tried to sell Gwen to the fans, the more backlash there was against her. I think the biggest wave of backlash against her landed when RTD stated in a interview that TW could continue without John Barrowman but not Eve Myles. Makes you wonder what on Earth he was thinking. The 2 season ends with killing off 2/5 of the cast (I admire the living up to the anyone can die boast, but killing so much of a small ensemble is problematic) easily alienating those whose favourite was Tosh and/or Owen, the next season there wasn't any replacements for them and then proceed to kill 1/3 of the cast (not any third but the ensemble dark horse, any one with a lick of sense will tell you that killing off a fan favourite will cause a lot of backlash if you don't have a good reason [always wanting to kill them off, is not a good reason], especially if you kill them as the Sacrificial Lamb for the new audience and reeks of Bury Your Gays. Ianto dies as a result of an out of character moment for both Jack and Ianto just for the sake of motivating Jack to do what needs to be done (despite the fact he has been shown to be ruthless in the previous series and didn't need that motivation).

*sigh* I have wanted to rant about that for awhile. Can you tell? Just what happened to the light-hearted, raunchy, adult version on Doctor Who that I fell in love with?

Title: History Is Fickle

Author: Daashi

Fandom: Torchwood

Characters: Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones

Pairings: Jack/Ianto

Rating: 13+

Genre: Drabble

Warnings: n/a

J: "What are you reading?"

I: "A book."

J: "What book?"

I: "Harry Potter."

J: "Which one?"

I: "The Order Of The Phoenix."

J: "Ah. I never liked Umbrage."

I: "It's Umbridge. I don't think that anyone likes her."

J: "I've always liked the 7th book, of course I read the edited version."

I: "Why was it edited?"

J: "All of the books were edited, to remove material not suited for children. The largest edit was to remove the epilogue."

I: "Why was the epilogue removed?"

J: "It enforces heteronormativity, that was considered quite damaging to children by my time."

I: "As it would."

J: "Cheeky."

~End

Word: Umbrage

um - brage (noun) : offence; annoyance; displeasure

End Notes: For anyone who could be outraged at the unwanted, unapproved of edit of children's books; Enid Blyton, author of Secret Seven, Noddy, The Magic Faraway Tree and more, has had her work revised and edited because there was sexist, racist and xenophobic content. One of the weirdest revisions (at least in my mind) is that all four characters of The Magic Faraway Tree have had their names changed; it is no longer Jo, Bessie, Dick and Fannie, it is now Joe, Beth, Rick and Frannie (seriously WTF, I'd love to see someone try to change Dick Grayson's name).

When Harry Potter gets edited (lets face it, as society changes what we consider acceptable to expose our children to changes, so there will be edits), I want the not-so-subtle rape of Umbridge removed. First of all it reeks of Rape As Punishment, which is not cool! It also compounds it, by having turning her trauma into a joke, which is also seriously not cool!