find a place in the world, he decides to study information science, because libraries and archives are silent, holy places where it doesn’t matter that he speaks with flicks of fingers. he graduates with a supernova of expectation ahead of him. he joins torchwood, twenty-one years old, painfully young to lose so much. lisa hallett is just the girl in the coffee room who promises time and time again she’ll learn sign but never does. the other survivors of canary wharf speak of the screaming, and ianto remembers only silence as ash danced in the air like a living thing. twenty-three years old, with scarred skin and eyes too old for his face, he moves back to cardiff because the memories live in london like a ghost that follows in his footsteps everywhere he goes. when he learns of the existence of torchwood three, he leaves well alone for a while, because that world was built for people who are not broken in the way ianto is broken. after a while, though, he cannot leave it alone anymore. he greets jack harkness for the first time in a voice he cannot hear and reads the denial from his lips. refusal is an old friend to ianto, and he tries again, and again, and suddenly he’s falling back into a world he’d almost forgotten. instead of running comms, mainframe transcribes for him when the team are out in the field. in the quiet in-between, he walks in the cells and the archives, the same quiet, holy spaces that had brought him here, to serve under a man who looks at ianto like he makes the world stop spinning. jack promises to learn sign. ianto braces himself for another lisa, but the very next day, as ianto passes jack in the corridor, he signs ‘good morning’ and jack signs it back. over the following months, tosh and owen and gwen learn it too, and soon the flicker of fingers forming phrases is commonplace around the hub, and ianto finally understands the meaning of family. with them around, the world isn’t silent for him anymore.

(2/2) is literally in grease-stained engineering jumpsuit with notes scribbled all over it. poe’s up in here with like banging contour and highlight and finn has on some deep purple lipstick and sparkly purple eyeshadow bc poe told him it looked cute and they’re like ‘srsly’. basically i just love my trans boi poe and his boyfriend finn and my nb child rey and xyr girlfriend rose and them just being the most amazing queer friendship group the resistance has ever seen i love them so much okay bye

chinchillas are super cute, and as for racebending characters, it depends on the race you’re bending. like if you make poc white it’s ahhhh not good but if you’re diversifying/adding more rep for poc then it can def be a good thing