It's nothing scary per se; just I really, really don't like character bashing, and this author's loathing for Ianto is hard for me to stomach. And when it's a canon ship, I figure even if you don't like it, you need to try to respect it at least. Or at least acknowledge that you're writing total AU and go from there - not try to work it around so the text is made to say what you want it to say. I feel the same about Gwen bashers too, fwiw, and I don't ship Jack/Gwen.

*grins* Yeah, there should be better John/Gareth; I think GDL is studying at the feet of Barrowman, and majoring in fan-service, and if they're gonna lay it out there, someone should be picking it up ;-)