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poplitealqueen
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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*

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  😂

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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
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@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:

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.

petermorwood:

petermorwood:

What a splendid example of safe gun handling to set before impressionable youth.

Some of whom may not even have noticed that there are guns in the photo…

@korblborp said:  I think most people would be fine with being accidentally shot by Milla Jovovich, tbh

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I say:  Milla Jovovich is sexy and attractive, 9mm short rounds are neither.

Guns have one function. They turn living things into dead things.

Once you’ve accidentally shot someone (I did – my kid sister, many years ago, fortunately a low-damage ricochet – more here if you want) you’ll not regard shooting, or being shot by, even the prettiest, handsomest, whateverest person as anything but something you would rather please god not have happened.

@seriously-mike said: Those are inert lumps of plastic. Not even cheap toys.

I say: They look enough like guns that they should be treated like guns. Where does gun safety rules have an exception for Not Real Guns?

IF IT LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING* GUN, TREAT IT LIKE A FUCKING* GUN, BECAUSE GUNS ARE NOT FUCKING* TOYS.

* First time eff-word ever on my Tumblr, and I don’t even live in Merika, but please, people, if ranting like this can save just one life, I’ll fucking rant.