sanerontheinside
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… I am _absolutely_ skipping eps and leaving them for later if Methos is not in evidence
oh dear, I have been caught out  😂

😁

That is the best way to watch Highlander, in my opinion.

Episode Recs:

Methos – because it’s the first episode with Methos, of course.

Chivalry – Methos does not have MacLeod’s hangups about fighting women, especially the kind of Immortal women who are after his head or the heads of his friends.

Timeless & Methusalah’s Gift – Because while they will probably give you Feels, Methos being in love is adorable.

Till Death – Robert and Gina are a little more wince-worthy than the first time, but Methos makes me giggle lots in this one. “Opera. Opera. Opera. Isn’t there any Queen in here?” (or something like that)

Comes a Horseman & Revelation 6:8 – which you’ve already watched, but still. Horsemen. And a lovely glimpse of Methos’s angry adolescence.

Forgive Us Our Trespasses – The Blue Boxers Scene. Also, Methos is a delightful bastard, and MacLeod gets hit with a metaphorical brick.

Two of Hearts – Not a Methos episode, but one of only two episodes in the whole series without MacLeod. Crossover fodder for Babylon 5.

Indiscretions – aka the Joe and Methos show. I cackle my way through this one. Also, best line from Methos: “Just because I don’t like to fight doesn’t mean I can’t.”

sanerontheinside:

morgynleri:

sanerontheinside
commented on sanerontheinside’s post “morgynleri replied to your post “1, 2, 10!” Ooh, Highlander! What…”

I’m just poking at an episode at slightly-less-than random and keeping to it if it sticks. tho, both Mac and Methos are currently inspiring a lot of _how the heck are you still alive_ questions

sanerontheinside
commented on sanerontheinside’s post “morgynleri replied to your post “1, 2, 10!” Ooh, Highlander! What…”

@morgynleri​ re: your tags—yyyyyeah I can see that my ‘attention span of a flea’ problem while watching shows is probably a good thing for my reception of Mac’s character

[most of my characters are based more on fanon than canon, probably, for the same reason o.o never considered that before]

Methos is alive because he has no fucks to give about most of the rules of the Game, avoids fighting other Immortals if at all possible, and prefers to shoot them, bury them, drop them down dry wells, or other means of incapacitating them until he can get far enough away that catching up is going to take months/years/centuries/millennia.

MacLeod is alive because he’s the main character of the show, and is lucky he hasn’t lost his head to someone who has fewer fucks to give about rules or to a woman because he’s a twit who thinks that fighting women is Wrong.

MacLeod also is one of those people who buys into the lie of purity culture that people who have done a Bad Thing in their past are always Bad People, and… well, Methos doesn’t try very hard to make him think otherwise*, but Methos is a Tired Old Man who has no fucks to give about this kid who thinks that their morals are absolute and anyone who has a different set is Wrong and Bad. And also does not have the spoons to keep hiding when creepy stalker exboyfriend comes around trying to gaslight him into becoming a bringer of the apocalypse again.

(There is something sad about him having to kill cuddly murder bear younger brother/student person in that fiasco, but in order to be rid of creepy stalker exboyfriend and serial killer cannibal that is probably crazypants because of him and said creepy stalker exboyfriend, so too must cuddly murder bear die.)

*”I didn’t just kill a hundred. I didn’t just kill a thousand. I killed ten thousand. I was Death on a horse. And I liked it. Is that what you want to hear?” – Methos, because fuck this “well, are you an evil person because you did these things that Cassandra mentioned?” bullshit.

(And as for Cassandra, I have mixed opinions about her, because yes, she is perfectly justified in being angry at Methos, even all these millennia later, and yes, it is well within her rights to never forgive him what he did to her, but also, getting someone else involved in her intent to murder Methos 3000 years later when there is evidence he’s changed since is not a good thing. I will not, however, argue that she was wrong in any way to do whatever it took to get rid of Kronos, because creepy stalker exboyfriend really really needed to die in order to stop him from continuing to attempt to destroy the world.)

Counter-argument: if Mac truly believed that past mistakes make someone irredeemable, he wouldn’t have followed Methos to Bordeaux, though, would he? And Kronos would expect Methos to kill anyone he’d become ‘attached’ to; that entire speech was [very nearly] an effective way to get Mac to cut ties.

Creepy stalker ex, in any case, was an abusive &$@*%, and if Cassandra blamed Methos primarily when Kronos was dangled in front of her, it’s mostly because she knew she didn’t have a chance against Kronos. Not singularly, because Methos was certainly the face of that time for her, but it’s no small thing. She would have killed all of them, gladly, if she could.

But this is my take on more or less the Horsemen episodes all on their own, with few other episodes to speak to Mac’s character. All I can say of him at the moment is that show-MacLeod is a bit too young for 400.

Or else I’m too cynical for barely a quarter of a century. That’s also entirely possible.

A good counter-argument. (Especially since I haven’t rewatched Highlander in a long while mostly because so many other things, and also have not ripped the DVDs to digital.)

(I also perhaps haven’t rewatched because I need to go through and rip the episodes with Methos first, because fuck it, it’s Methos, and I adore him, flaws and literal skeletons in his closet and penchant for being a bit of an asshole and all. I perhaps identify with him a bit lot.)

Also, I may have stronger opinions on the Horsemen episodes because they were, in fact, my introduction to Highlander, and also involved a lot of certain relatives I do not talk to any more casting aspersions on my ability to tell fiction from reality at the tender age of 12 or 13 or so. I was very cranky and decided that no, I don’t care what you think about it, this is mine, and you can pry it from my cold dead hands, yes, even the bad guys.

roseapprentice:

One of the most useful things I’ve learned about recovering from trauma is that my decisions need to be judged according to the incomplete information that was available to me at the time.

So, say I’m deciding whether to eat chicken at a restaurant. All evidence is that it’s a good idea. I’m hungry for chicken, and I usually feel good after eating it.

I eat the chicken, and I get food poisoning. The resulting illness causes me to fall short of responsibilities, and creates numerous problems for me and the people who depend on me.

What happened?

Trauma brain says: “This happened because I am Bad At Making Decisions. If I had made The Right Decision and not eaten chicken, everything would have been fine.”

Recovery brain says, “According to the information that was available to me, the chicken was unlikely to make me sick. Eating chicken was a Good Decision with Bad Consequences. This happened to me because I had incomplete information.”

The “trauma brain” response makes all decisions really hard, because each decision involves the prospect of being judged by a future self that has more information.

“Should I buy the $2 mouse pad or the $3 mouse pad? If I buy the cheaper one and it doesn’t work well, it will be my own fault for not buying a better quality one…”

(Then I might end up paying myself $1-per-hour to agonize over which mouse pad to buy, which is probably an ACTUAL unwise course of action.)

But if I foster the “recovery brain” response, I can start to trust that my future self will judge my decisions kindly.

“If I buy the cheap mouse pad and it doesn’t work, then I only gambled $2 on it. If I buy the $3 one and even it doesn’t work, then I’ll have more closely guessed how much I need to pay for a mousepad of sufficient quality.”

And then later when the mousepad doesn’t work: “Well, that didn’t work. At least I made a decision. The outcome has given me more information about the options available to me going forward.”

(Meta level: Decisions you made prior to reading this post about how to treat yourself were probably good given the information you had access to about trauma and recovery!)

tl;dr: Bad results are not always evidence of bad decisions. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt about why you do what you do.

amemait:

wizardlogic:

Filch has a doctorate in art conservation and has definitely read Hogwarts A History

Actaully speaking of PoA, can we fuckin talk about Filch and his art credentials?

The portrait of the fat lady gets slashed and Dumbledore hands her off to Filch to get restored?

AND FILCH DOES IT, AND DOES IT WELL?

The next time we see her there is NO mention of anything like, oh she’s back but you can kinda see where she was cut… NO. She comes back in PEAK CONDITION.

Restored by Filch, who *has no magic.*

He restored this however many hundreds of year old painting *by hand.*

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH SKILL MUST HAVE BEEN INVOLVED HERE?

This 100% changes the character of Filch. Like I’ve only ever seen him portrayed as this kind of head janitor kind of character, movies style, but like. Why? Why would Hogwarts need that if it’s full of house elves? According to Harry Oblivious Potter, probably cause Dumbledore felt bad and gave him a shitty job but one he could at least do and still be in the wizarding world.

WRONG. It’s cause that’s not his actual job.

Listen.

Dung bomb goes off in a classroom? Long night for the house elves.

Dung bomb goes off in a 300 year old suit of armor? Long six to eight weeks for Argus Filch.

Fanged frisbee tears up an irreplaceable tapestry?

Filch.

Peeves draws dicks on a portrait of the founders?

Filch.

All these damn kids in and out of here every day acting like dumbasses and blowing stuff up when it’s already bad enough they keep tracking dirt and *breathing* all over everything?

Filch.

Now how about, how does Filch know all the secret passages? A combination of things. Probably paintings told him about some. You spend weeks restoring a portrait of someone who helped build the place which lives and moves and speaks in their voice and you’re bound to at least talk a bit, if not learn a few things. But many he probably found on his own, either by wit or by study- he’s gotta be entrenched in tr history of this place. If Binns hadn’t come back as a ghost Filch could probably teach history of magic in his place.

He keeps the place in order such that generations next will still have it, and said generations next show him no god damn respect for that. He’s bitter for a lot of excellent reasons.

…

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

sanerontheinside
commented on sanerontheinside’s post “morgynleri replied to your post “1, 2, 10!” Ooh, Highlander! What…”

I’m just poking at an episode at slightly-less-than random and keeping to it if it sticks. tho, both Mac and Methos are currently inspiring a lot of _how the heck are you still alive_ questions

sanerontheinside
commented on sanerontheinside’s post “morgynleri replied to your post “1, 2, 10!” Ooh, Highlander! What…”

@morgynleri​ re: your tags—yyyyyeah I can see that my ‘attention span of a flea’ problem while watching shows is probably a good thing for my reception of Mac’s character

[most of my characters are based more on fanon than canon, probably, for the same reason o.o never considered that before]

Methos is alive because he has no fucks to give about most of the rules of the Game, avoids fighting other Immortals if at all possible, and prefers to shoot them, bury them, drop them down dry wells, or other means of incapacitating them until he can get far enough away that catching up is going to take months/years/centuries/millennia.

MacLeod is alive because he’s the main character of the show, and is lucky he hasn’t lost his head to someone who has fewer fucks to give about rules or to a woman because he’s a twit who thinks that fighting women is Wrong.

MacLeod also is one of those people who buys into the lie of purity culture that people who have done a Bad Thing in their past are always Bad People, and… well, Methos doesn’t try very hard to make him think otherwise*, but Methos is a Tired Old Man who has no fucks to give about this kid who thinks that their morals are absolute and anyone who has a different set is Wrong and Bad. And also does not have the spoons to keep hiding when creepy stalker exboyfriend comes around trying to gaslight him into becoming a bringer of the apocalypse again.

(There is something sad about him having to kill cuddly murder bear younger brother/student person in that fiasco, but in order to be rid of creepy stalker exboyfriend and serial killer cannibal that is probably crazypants because of him and said creepy stalker exboyfriend, so too must cuddly murder bear die.)

*”I didn’t just kill a hundred. I didn’t just kill a thousand. I killed ten thousand. I was Death on a horse. And I liked it. Is that what you want to hear?” – Methos, because fuck this “well, are you an evil person because you did these things that Cassandra mentioned?” bullshit.

(And as for Cassandra, I have mixed opinions about her, because yes, she is perfectly justified in being angry at Methos, even all these millennia later, and yes, it is well within her rights to never forgive him what he did to her, but also, getting someone else involved in her intent to murder Methos 3000 years later when there is evidence he’s changed since is not a good thing. I will not, however, argue that she was wrong in any way to do whatever it took to get rid of Kronos, because creepy stalker exboyfriend really really needed to die in order to stop him from continuing to attempt to destroy the world.)

sanerontheinside:

morgynleri replied to your post “1, 2, 10!”

Ooh, Highlander! What kind of Highlander fic? Also, have you had a chance to look at HLH fics? ‘Cause there’s a variety in them, most of them pretty damned awesome (even if certain ones aren’t my taste).

Oh, apparently what it takes to pull me into a fandom is a good ship and a compelling character or two, so by this time I’ve done a cursory scroll through all… *checks tab* 47 pages of Duncan/Methos fics on ao3. 

Which is to say I’ve read/scrolled through maybe up to, but likely fewer than, 50 out of 928. (my guidelines are roughly: ‘oh I know this author from sw’ / ‘ok I’ll bite’ + ‘I liked that one fic from them, let’s find some others’)

I will happily take recs now, since I’m currently camped out in one author’s bookmarks anyway. ^^ 

😀

I’ll start with my Highlander fic, because Reasons. And Highlander Holiday Shortcuts. And my Highlander bookmarks.

There’s definitely some Methos/MacLeod in the HLH fics, though you’re not likely to find it in my fic or my bookmarks, for all that there’s a lot of Methos in there. But. Methos. Methos is awesome and the best.

cedrwydden:

antioch-actius:

charlesoberonn:

mistaballista:

charlesoberonn:

I wonder what JRR Tolkien would think if he was alive today and found out people were salivating over and sexually craving the Orcs he created.

Tolkien: Lewis, are you seeing this shit? These people want to fornicate with the animalistic allegories of evil I have created! Is there no morality left on this earth?

C.S Lewis, also revived and remembering that furries based on Aslan exist: No, none.

The master of lore that is Tolkien would do that.

Tolkien regretted not being able to humanize and redeem the orcs right up until he died so I seriously think you all should reconsider his imagined reaction to this.

Huh, I never knew…though I personally doubt that Tolkien would entirely jive with the vast majority of the fandom’s dirty headcanons.

Huh. *tilts head, and goes to write more of Dazbol and Razul*

Hugs for EVERYONE*

morgynleri:

*hugs you all* Because today is a day for hugs, and I’m going to run out of spoons if I go putting hugs in everyone’s ask box.

Feel free to reblog this to give a hug to every one of your followers.

*who is comfortable with being hugged. If you do not like hugs or are uncomfortable with physical contact, or even just prefer not a hug from someone not a mutual friend, cookies or other snacks suitable for your dietary needs and restrictions.