#Torchwood Propaganda

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@torchwoodpropaganda @ciapropaganda

What is the likelihood of shipping four Male and Female Mantis Shrimp to the Patrexian Academy?

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Okay Torchwood fans, listen up! ao3 ship polls, right? Janto won against Kylux (by a lot more than I thought, good for us) and it looks like we'll beat Larry too. But next? Next we'll go up against Victuuri. That's a tough one, so I'm trying to get a headstart here. The Doctor Who fandom is big, there are a lot of casual DW fans around. I'm sure we can do it, provided we use all the propaganda we can muster. Ianto Jones didn't die in an AIDS allegory preventable tragedy to lose against two anime twinks. Do you even know how much I cried about Children of Earth?

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Poster, for all your Torchwood Propaganda needs:

And a bumper sticker:

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PROPAGANDA

Goro Akechi

have you seen this man. the fandom doesn't seem to grasp that he can have a "good" goal but still go about it absolutely the wrong way. he's not baby but he's not evil incarnate either, he's just 18. being 18 is just like that

People who are like "he's an irredeemable psychopath who became a serial killer just because he has daddy issues" piss me off. People who are like "he's the only person who ACTUALLY cares about the Protagonist and all of the Protagonist's other friends are fakes and users" piss me off even more. He's a foil for the entire main cast. He has faced all of their traumas with none of the support. He believes that he's responsible for his mother's suicide, and that he's unlovable. He was abandoned by everyone. He made some bad decisions when he was like 14, and his abusive father manipulated him into being a hitman. He lies all the damn time, so you can't really tell when he's being genuine or not. He's a double agent who befriends you and then tries to kill you, believes that he's succeeded, and shows absolutely no remorse. He dies to save your life (and then gets sorta resurrected and then dies again to literally save the world). It's complicated! He's complicated!

Gwen Cooper

God forbid women do anything. Gwen Cooper is a classic victim of fandom misogyny, a complicated kinda fucked up female character who is ultimately a hero, and people act like she’s the antichrist because she’s about as fucked up as every other man in the cast. Gwen’s main crimes are cheating on her then-boyfriend (with another male lead character who weirdly does NOT get any hate for participating in this affair) and having a very emotionally intimate and sexually tense (but never actually sexual) relationship with Jack Harkness, who also has a boyfriend in Torchwood (this is the classic “she’s getting in the way of our ship!!!! Situation, despite the fact that Gwen and Jack literally never do anything together and Gwen is never anything but supportive of Jack’s relationship); perhaps Gwen’s most morally grey action is confessing adultery to her boyfriend and then erasing his memory when he reacts poorly, but I must stress that this is about on the par of the shitty things other men in the show have done (hide dangerous aliens in the secret base, sacrifice children to dangerous aliens, use alien cologne that makes people want to fuck you in a way that is at best DUBIOUSLY consensual, etc). Meanwhile, Gwen also gets hate for things that are NOT morally grey, namely, being an outspoken woman with a strong moral center. She is the HEART of her secret organization, she is the MORAL CORE, and because that means she has the AUDACITY to criticize her male coworkers, she’s a bitch. There are over 100 works on ao3 tagged “gwen cooper bashing,” and even more untagged that bash, demean, belittle, or simply ignore the existence of THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE SHOW!! Gwen bestie you’re so fucked up and I love you and I need more people to appreciate that.

Gwen is a paranormal investigator who accidentally joined the worst polycule on Earth. The Torchwood fanbase (especially the one at the time) really hates/hated her, despite the fact that her coworkers were equally as bad if not much worse than her. Maybe she did a bit of cheating and maybe she’s kind of mean but have you considered: she’s the most beautiful girl in the world, she’s a bad bitch, and I love her? God forbid women do anything

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Janto propaganda: they were a canon mlm couple in a show that ran from 2006-2010. It was pretty groundbreaking, especially considering it was a spin off of a show as big as doctor who.

Thank you for your Janto propaganda submission! I'll add the tags for locating this propaganda on this post.

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Ianto propaganda!! This has literally nothing to do with him being an archivist, simply a list of reasons why he's the bestest boy

- Canonically autistic and bisexual character

- Badass mother fucker

- Used a stopwatch to flirt with a guy and it worked

- Nearly caused the end of humanity to save his girlfriend

- He became canonically autistic bcus his actor agrees with the headcanon and writes canon content for the character, essentially just fanfiction for his own character with a Seal of Approval

- He's forklift certified

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk, vote for Ianto

I will show immediate preference to any autistic character all you really had to say was 'he's autistic'

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Captain John Hart - Torchwood

Propaganda:

He is such a good wifey.

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Propaganda below the cut:

Gwen/Suzie propaganda

Martha/Tosh propaganda

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jack’s flirtacious nature was so bad to ianto in several ways like the jack/gwen straightbait-pining was legimately crazy to me and clearly uncomfy to ianto as seen in the comics

(the envy was not towards gwen herself i feel but it’s just rly bad that he was so downbad for her when ianto is literally recovering from grief and clinging to him like bro he’s made of glass rn I KNOW THATS HOW JACK CAN BE and they’re not perfect but man)

but i dont think they would’ve been doomed yaoi man they needed more time to grow with each other and break down each other’s walls like ianto kept so much to himself and so did jack

and jack prob knows he was a ‘good one’ and had so much potential and happiness laid out for him and he feels like ianto’s death was his own fault and he let this man go too soon and oh i’m just sobbing i rly think they would’ve lasted ianto’s whole life (and eventually gwen and rhys would’ve joined their polycule /s)

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SHE WAS EATEN. BY A PTERODACTYL. IN. EVERY. FANFICITON!

Don't let the weird musical based around the manipulation of this girl distract you from the MAIN CHARACTER of a series who was demonized for cheating in favor of a relationship between two men.... where one of them VERY MUCH CHEATED ON THE OTHER IN CANON- and he didn't even cheat with this particular woman! I don't CARE how Zoe was ignored by the fanbase in favor of her dead brother- back in the days of Superwholock, women were GRAPHICALLY killed as a JOKE in slash fics and Gwen got the absolute worst of what people were ready to throw at them. If they weren't killed, they were: beaten, verbally abused, fired, and degraded by every other character.

I know the big thing today is "Can we stop randomly making characters lesbians/ace to 'get them out of the way?'" and that DOES suck and is obviously an instance of virtue signalling to avoid "looking bad" while still obviously partaking in a culture where we ignore women for the sake of centering a story on a man. At the same time, I think we can all agree that brutally killing a woman off as a GAG- especially when she 's the PROTAGONIST of that show with a complicated morality and history with relationships in a cast of characters with equally dubious morals- is Way. Worse.

Again: Eaten. By a pterodactyl. Viciously pecked apart, while sometimes: other characters laughed and watched! Sometimes, she was deliberately FED to the creature by one or both of the men she was "attempting to seduce."

Round 1

Propaganda Under Cut

Zoe Murphy

People who ship Evan and Connor want to demonize her SO BAD. Like it is NOT her fault she's upset at her brother and having a hard time mourning the guy who was a dick to her - and this is as a Connor Murphy apologist. All the best Connor/Evan fics are where she and Connor slowly repair their relationship and he puts in the work

hey remember when ppl shipped evan with connor even though the WHOLE POINT of the show is that evan never actually knew connor and their entire "friendship" is an elaborate lie

She's the main love interest but people ship Evan with her dead brother so they make her into a jerk or a wingman and ignore the fact that the brother was abusive towards her

Gwen Cooper

she literally did nothing worse than the rest of the team yet so many people hate her guts and there is a literal gwen bashing tag for her on ao3. just cause she's a complicated character and confident and assertive and oh yeah she had sexual tension with jack harkness who ended up w ianto in the end. god forbid.

fans think she "gets in the way" of the canon m/m pairing of the series just because she has straightbait scenes with one of the two guys. when in reality she literally has a husband and has been nothing but supportive of her friends and their relationship 😭 she tends to be written as like super insensitive and spoiled and its unbearable 

An amazing, badass woman who has a complicated relationship with Jack Harkness, 1/2 of “Janto,” the ship she “gets in the way of.” People use this slight complication to decide they HATE HER and turn her into this vile, evil, vindictive person. She often tries killing Ianto (other half of “Janto”) in many poorly-written fics, simply so that everyone can realise how badly they treat poor, poor Ianto. This makes Jack fall harder in love with Ianto xoxo Mwuah Mwuah and Gwen is hated and killed. This occurrence is so common that it has its own tag on AO3: “Gwen Bashing.” The writing, again, is always very bad, and solely created to make people hate Gwen. She’s chill in the actual show though. Very supportive of the two men and their relationship, and is literally happily married. She is not at all like what people make her out to be.

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PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT: [SPOILERS AND POSSIBLE TRIGGERS AHEAD]

JACK HARKNESS:

ACHILLES:

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making my pitch for Ianto Jones from Torchwood:

Ianto Jones never did anything wrong ever and I am counting the time he almost got his whole team killed/maybe almost wrecked the world when I say this. It's fine. He's allowed.

He uses "lot's of things you can do with a stop watch" as a pickup line, and it works because it's on Captain Jack Harkness of Doctor Who fame. He wears a suit almost all the time. He's sarcastic, but also cares so much. He got the job by catching a pterodactyl that the team keeps as a pet.

He's so beloved by fans there is, to this day, a shrine dedicated to him in Wales, even though the show started airing in like 2006.

Please vote my boy!!! He deserves it!!

"It's fine. He's allowed."

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ROUND 2D, MATCH 8 OUT OF 8!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Jack:

OKAY SO preface with I don't *think* he was asleep for the almost 2000 years he was buried alive and dying and undying and dying and undying and dyi you get it. I am pretty sure every time he comes back to life he wakes up. BUT in the year 1901 Torchwood 1 find him and cryogenically freeze him in the vaults until 2008 👍 this is his life. as for why he is the best in general?? hes an icon hes a legend. omnisexual (canon) in 2006. they named the "can you fuck the monster" test after him. god's favourite queer (canon). straightbaited the masses only to have gay sex with his boyfriend on screen. life. serving cunt. death. resurrection. serving cunt. death. resurrection. serving cunt. he is a wanted man across time and space both sexually and by the police. he was human until rose got weird abt it and then he lived to 5 billion. killed satan. got bisexual in the timeloop. i could go on. what can't he do.

Shen Wei:

he spent like 10,000 years in a dirt nap

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I hope that we can still submit propaganda especially for this final round, because gwentosh rights, gwen literally looked tosh in the eye and told her that love suited her.

<3

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ROUND 5: POLL #2 - Finals! (Third Place Poll)

ROUND 5 ALL POLLS [HERE]

PROPAGANDA BELOW

Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones:

Propaganda submitted through ask [HERE]

Propaganda by @queerlyhalloween (tags) [HERE]

Elim Garak/Julian Bashir:

The actors both consider the ship to be canon and have actually preformed fanfiction with the characters as a couple before. It called "Little Achievements" and it's posted on Sid City's YouTube page.

Andrew Robinson (who played Garak) has straight up said that multiple of his lines were delivered with romantic intent.

Propganda by @cardassiangoodreads (post & tags) [HERE]

Propaganda by @voicelessalveolartrill (post) [HERE]