Title: Trying To Communicate
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Gen (Very minor Ianto/Jack)
Categories/Genres: Humor, Crack
Length: Short (1533 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ: copperbadge
Author Website: copperbadge

Summary:

There's an alien in the Hub, and it's trying to communicate.

Review:

Fair warning, this is an entirely self-indulgent rec, chosen for no specific redeeming qualities aside from the way it tickles my fancy, being a long-time fan of science fiction and the Internet.

Reading about aliens, watching aliens on the movie or tv screen, playing video games, I've always wondered what actual aliens would think of humanity, particularly in this e-renaissance where the only limit on creativity is your available bandwidth. What would they think of the structured chaos of internet memes, or the billion and one cat gifs on tumblr? Why 140 characters? Less than three and semicolon close parentheses? Good lord, what would they think of pornography in all the myriad formats and varieties we create it in?

Personally, I don't much care, seeing as what they choose to think about us is well out of my hands, but fics like Trying To Communicate make it fun to wonder.

Trying To Communicate