stunt_muppet

Brief fannish points preceding actual content: 

1. Digging through more or less the entire archive of the Highlander slashfic comm rendered exactly zero fics about the original movie. I haven't checked the main fic comm yet, but dammit why don't fandoms cater to my every whim, it's not fair. *stomps about pouting*

I mean, it's not like I dislike Duncan or Methos or Joe or anyone - I've never seen them in anything, except Endgame and The Source, and that's not really anything to go on, and heck, Joe even managed to be really awesome in The Source, which considering that the whole movie is a big "fuck you" to the franchise and anything anyone loved about it is quite an accomplishment. But nothing at all for the original movie? Nobody else wanted MacLeod/Ramirez? Nobody else came away from Endgame wanting Connor/Duncan? lol nobody saw Endgame, there's your problem.

Nobody else realized that, if MacLeod and ramirez are ~ancient aliens~ in The Quickening, this by extension means that all the other immortals are exiled aliens too, which means at some point MacLeod and the Kurgan were on the same side, which might just account for the Kurgan personally tracking down MacLeod? Well, of course not, because even the other movies pretend that The Quickening doesn't exist and rightly so because it's silly, but come on, stop making me write shit I actually want to see.

I'd try to do a fifteen-minute condensed version of the first movie to drum up some interest except I am positive none of you care.

2. Finally saw the Half-Blood Prince movie today! And yes, I am that far behind. For some reason I just can't make myself watch the last two. I'm not super depressed that the franchise is over, because I doubt the fandom's going to run out of steam, but I really did grow up with Harry Potter, and even if I was never very fannish about it it was a big presence in my life as a reader and a fan. I'll miss having more movies to look forward and it feels weird to watch the last two.

But on to my main point, I found that the movie was much, much better at making me feel sorry for Draco than either the book (probably because it's all filtered through Harry's POV) or fandom-at-large has managed to do. I kind of chalk it up to my being in a more charitable frame of mind towards Draco now than I was when the book came out, by which point the Draco In Leather Pants phenomenon had become widespread and extremely annoying, but I think the movie actually does a really good job of giving him all the spotlight it can, and Tome Felton does a similarly good job playing him as scared and angry and backed into a corner. And for the first time after a long time of sticking to the Power Trio, Luna, and Neville fannishly I find myself wanting to write Draco redemption fic wherein he begins working through some of his issues post-Deathly Hallows and maybe even comes to a sort of understanding with Harry.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. (Also, yes, simple statistics tell me that this fic must already exist, but I'm scared to look for it. It's a big terrifying fandom okay.

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And some memes to round it all off, both ganked from several flisters:

Give me a pairing and I will:
1. Tell you who I think tops
2. Who has the prettiest hair
3. What their children will be named
4. Which one would be the loudest during sex
5. My ideal scenario for them

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Pick one of my fics and I will give you five Tropes that appear in the fic. Or Tropes it averts, plays with, subverts, etc. if there aren't five I can think of.

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Good night.