You know what would be a super-fun experiment? A choose-your-own adventure fanfic.

See it would be a fanfic with chapters and everything, except at the end of each chapter it would say “If the character said/did X go to Chapter 10, if they did Y go to Chapter 12.”

It would be convoluted and an absolute headache to create, but man doesn’t that sound cool? *rubs chin* I might try it sometime.

Ooh! What fandom are you thinking about doing it in? Would you like a cheerleader?

(Also, decision trees and outlining are so useful for doing that. Possibly also will involve frustrated screeching, muttering about how the original media could have been better, and possibly a desire to shake the writers of the original media because Reasons.)

poplitealqueen:

morgynleri:

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and Boromir sarding Not Dying, because fuck canon, I do what I want.*” *WHOOPS* FUCK YEAH FAM!

:D:D:D

… Huh. I’m pretty sure I only have two AUs where he dies and doesn’t get better somehow. *goes to poke at their list of Tolkien AUs* Ok, three.

Let’s see. Eriador Architects is a modern AU and no one dies.

Requiem Court is a ressurection apocalyptic AU, and of course Boromir dies. They all die, and it is glorious and Melkor’s plan to destroy the world doesn’t exactly go as he planned, and somewhere he’s screaming in frustration because all these self-sacrificing sorts to make the next iteration of the world what THEY want, instead of what HE wants.

Immortals of Arda… Boromir dies, and then comes back to life halfway down the coast of Harad, and Methos gets a new student (and later, things go terribly wrong, but Boromir still is not dead, thank you).

Gate of Morning doesn’t even go that far, because it’s Sheppard and Dex and an OC accidentally visiting rather earlier in the Third Age, when the dwarrow were mostly hanging out in the Grey Mountains, before they moved back to Erebor because dragons.

Into the Fire… well, I may get that far, but right now, the furthest I’ve got is a ten year old Aragorn, and a not-much-older Denethor visiting Coruscant. Boromir is not even a thought yet.

Gray Ships involves Boromir not dying because Sirius Black or Draco Malfoy, and only not Andromeda Tonks because she spent the whole decade between accidentally landing in Middle Earth and the War of the Ring in Imladris. However, Sirius finds her mildly terrifying, and Draco would like his aunt not to have reason to come bother him where he’s finally found a home, even if he does spend quite a bit of his time arguing with Haldir.

Time and Valar. Well, time travel, and technically he died, but he got better. And yeah, technically he’ll die again at some point, but definitely not at Amon Hen, and bugger if I’ve quite figured out when yet.

Meren and Gladhant does have his canonical death, but the AU isn’t about Boromir, it’s about OCs, and doesn’t actually have a name, just a designator that tells me who I started with as an important figure.

Two more unnamed AUs going down the list, but one’s a post-BoFA AU that is unlikely to get that far, since it’s an excuse for femslash, and the other is a post-Azanulbizar AU wherein Thorin gets a warg puppy because Frerin is not very discering about puppies, and even Denethor isn’t even a thought yet.

War Consort – this is probably going to get a rewrite along with some deleted comments, because fuck damnit. I remember that I did not kill Théodred, but I don’t remember what I did with Boromir. I need to figure that out.

Road to Mundburg, Boromir doesn’t die because Boromir has very good reason to tell the Ring to fuck off. He gets his head rung but good, and then gets sent home to ready Minas Tirith for the coming seige.

Queen Under the Mountain has not even been planned that far, but probably will keep Boromir alive, because I’m changing things way back before the quest for Erebor, so. (Thorin gets kids. And they live. And stay with their parents.)

Northern Night – well, see post to which the reply was made. 😀

Flame of Durin. Erm. I dunno that I’ve planned that far yet, and don’t wanna go looking at my notes yet.

No Shield For My Soul – not only does he survive Amon Hen, he gets to cause mayhem at the Black Gate, and meets the ever-delightful Alagosiell and her family. This would be the AU that gave me an excuse to make banners, or at least stylized variations of them in Illustrator.

Gaearon Rhûnen’s entire reason for existing is that Boromir doesn’t exactly die at Amon Hen. But he does. But he doesn’t. And Randír o Annûn is what happens when head trauma plus wound feaver plus the One Ring is a little shit all conspire together to make off with a lot of memories, and Boromir doesn’t keep his name, and by the time Aragorn is crowned king back in Gondor has begun to call somewhere else home.

Dis and Smaug is not that far, and is honestly an excuse for cute awkward baby dragon who grows up with a stubborn dwarrow princess, and hordes dwarves and humans instead of gold. Fuck canon, I do what I want, seriously.

Agnu Ra Nutû. Yeah, I did kill him in this one. Not at Amon Hen, but still during the War of the Ring. Gamekhdarân. *waits patiently for people to read it*

*rubs hands and prepares to dive into your fic tag/AO3 page* I haven’t been this excited to read Tolkien fic since Sansûkh!

😀

(I need to do some updates. If nothing else, to post the unfinished bits to the DW com, because not all of the stuff is posted somewhere.)

For tumblr, the tags are formatted “au: [name of au]”, or “au: nos”, and on the DW com, the au tags are all to the top of the tag list.

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.

sanerontheinside
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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.

Forgotten First Meetings.

theotherguysride:

morgynleri:

For this meme.

“This is not me asking for a date.” Jack knows Severus is unlikely to think he’s asking for a date, but it always helps to make himself clear, just in case. He’s not ending up another favor down for this, not when getting Severus into this damned shindig is as much a favor for him as not having to fend off anyone who thinks he’s there alone because he’s available.

Severus doesn’t return his wand to where Jack suspects there’s a sheath up his sleeve – he keeps his in a holster half-hidden by his side-arm, himself – but he also doesn’t hex Jack immediately, which Jack takes as a win. “How do you know where to find me?”

“You told me.” Jack gives Severus a flatly unimpressed look, waiting for him to lower his wand, and maybe, if Jack’s lucky, invite him in. “What, no ‘hello, how are you, Jack’?” He pauses, frowning at the lack of recognition. “Not even a ‘you still owe me for that business we don’t talk about’?”

“When?” Severus narrows his eyes, and Jack debates meeting his gaze. It might be easier, but at the same time, Jack hasn’t tested his defenses against a mind-magic user for at least five years. He has a lot to risk if he’s gotten as rusty with mind-magic as he has with other aspects of magic.

“1984.” If Severus doesn’t remember, Jack is going to have a discussion with someone in a position to have made that happen. Possibly with the business end of the wand he hasn’t drawn since… well, since before he got involved with the Stargate, anyway. Or maybe just introduce them to Daniel and Janet. He’d need to bring popcorn.

See previous post about not wanting this to sit for fuck knows how long.

Jack does not get his wish to introduce the person who fucked with Snape’s memory to Daniel and Janet, because Dumbledore is already dead.

The whatever it is that Jack is dragging Snape to goes about as well as any SG-1 mission – all ends well once the screaming and property damage is under control. The mcguffin is safely stashed, the bad guys wrapped up like a present, international incidents are smoothed over, and Snape gets a pile of NDAs and possibly a job offer with the SGC.

Jack’s not having used magic since before the Stargate project is in fact tied back to Charlie’s death, mostly that even with magic, he couldn’t save his son, and he’d been looking forward to teaching Charlie about magic. Even looking forward to the parts he wasn’t looking forward to (namely, Charlie visiting around different communities so his magical education – and the rest of his education – is well-rounded).

Snape may or may not take up the job offer.
– Pros: not anywhere near anyone who remembers the mess that was dealing with Voldemort twice, new and interesting potions ingredients, new and interesting potions.
– Cons: whole stacks of NDAs, America, military types, Daniel Jackson.
– He’s not sure if pro or con or possibly both: Jack, figuring out how off-world potions ingredients differ because of solar and lunar cycles that aren’t congruous with Earth, Muggles.

When or how they get together is after figuring out if Snape is going to join the SGC or not.

THIS IS BRILLIANT!

I want. Desperately. Severus to meet Janet Fraser. Because she’s going to look up at this beanpole potions master, he’s going to look down at this bitty healer, and they’re going to either be terrifying work friends or try to out-effective each other.

Poor Jack! D: Magic should always be fun. I DO LOVE the details of him keeping his wand holstered with his sidearm.

Potions as standard SGC offworld team gear. I’d LOVE to know if potions WORK on people from other planets! That’s a fun thing to contemplate.

Definitely terrifying work friends – I mean, have you SEEN the shit that SG-1 brings home on a distressingly regular basis? The regular sorts of illness and injury that happen anywhere, they’re both well-equipped to deal with, and sometimes there is competition on that front, but it’s mostly friendly.

But then SG-1 brings home another weird alien bug that mutates people or Jack downloads another Ancient database into his head or Daniel does something that may or may not get him killed AGAIN… and Snape and Janet ignore the competition thing, because figuring out how to fix the spectacular mess SG-1 has brought home this time goes so much better with both of them. And at least once, it wouldn’t have been solveable without both of them, because this is SG-1, and they do not know how to do normal.

After more than one of SG-1′s shenanigans, Snape has contemplated knocking them all out, tying them up, stealing Jack’s wand, and leaving them in an otherwise empty locked room for a while just for a chance to rest. And then Janet reminds him this is SG-1, they’d probably manage to find trouble even then, and please, do not give them a reason to try.

For the 6 Characters meme, for Harry Potter and specifically OaLC (since there are different interpretations and some of these people don’t really appear in canon except by repuation): Nizar, Severus, Hrodwunn, Godric, Helga, and Salazar

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

*blank stare*

Guys, I worry about y’all. 😀

#readers are awesome #WHY WOUlD YOU DO THE THING #OaLC

Because the thing is fun? 😀

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morgynleri:

*makes a vaguely rude gesture in your general direction* Fuck.

For this meme.

Push off a cliff: …. Fuck that.
Kiss: Godric, just ‘cause.
Marry: Hrodwunn, with the acknowledgement that if either of us ever is interested in bedding someone, there would be discussion/seeking of permission beforehand
Set on Fire: Why do I have to set any of them on fire? I don’t want to set any of them on fire.
Wrap a Blanket around: Nizar and Salazar and Severus. Because they all need it.
Be Roommates with: Helga, ‘cause she is awesome and terrifying and wonderful.

@deadcatwithaflamethrower, ‘cause it’s your AU. 😁💜💜💜

…tbf, Godric kind of seems like the sort of person who would put a flame-freezing charm on himself and jump on a bonfire, just to see what it was like. Then spend the rest of the evening jumping back and forth over it, because wheee.

*cackles, and points @deadcatwithaflamethrower at the thing*

tsaomengde:

morgynleri:

I’m not sure if my distrust of this character is because Seven doesn’t entirely trust him, or because he’s played by Mark Sheppard.

(Also, I’m pretty sure my dislike of Icheb is both because recently becoming aware the actor has engaged in serious asshattery, and because the character is an arrogant little shit.)

Mark Sheppard is one of my faves because he seems to have wholeheartedly embraced playing That Shady British Guy in literally everything ever and he rocks it

He does. And I enjoyed him in this role, even if I didn’t trust his character for a moment.

(Which, yup, he wasn’t trustworthy in the end, if not for the reason that originally passed through my head. On the other hand, I don’t think I’d have been upset if the scheme of his character and his character’s wife had succeeded, and Icheb had been reassimilated by the Borg. The kid makes me want to throw things at his head.)

ladyvean:

morgynleri:

ladyvean:

Tell me about your Star Trek OCs.

*sees this cross their dash via @guljerry* Oooh. An excuse to babble about everyone.

Keep reading

“A sculptor of new truths.” Sounds fascinating! Are these stories you wrote?

Most of them are actually titles of AUs, though not all of them have more than one story at the moment.

Children of the Order is an AU where the primary story has the working title The Butcher, and there’s also a short – When All Others Sleep. Currently the main story is stuck approximately end of s1/beginning of s2 in terms of where things are when compared to canon.

Burning Bridges is an AU born from a title prompt, and not quite what I originally outlined. Primary story so far is Transformation (on AO3), with Aerit and Julian after his genetic resequencing is outed, and things go differently, and there’s also this story snippet with Nadya and Damar, post-Dominion War, and some drabbles. I’d have to do rewatching from the episode where the genetic resequencing is revealed to figure out what I’m doing next.

A Galaxy Away From Home is a crossover AU which has a series of shorts, with one more part still sitting on my hard drive, and hasn’t been added to in longer than the rest.

And the story which is me playing with a post-canon set of survivors in Lakarian City has a working title of Rebuilding, and currently isn’t posted anywhere.

(And all of it is currently on hold until I finish my current rewatch of Voyager, and also until I finish a commissioned story, and then I’m going back to DS9 and poking at either Children of the Order – specifically the next part of The Butcher – or Burning Bridges – namely figuring out what’s going on with Julian as the Dominion War begins.)