ever on and on

[aria]

Aten't dead! In fact I have been posting to both tumblr and twitter with reasonable frequency, but my life in 140 characters or gifs with capslock commentary is not ... particularly in depth. So: hello! I am here to warn you all that Martin Freeman's face has hypnotic powers of suggestion, because my recent fannish activities have fallen into one of these two categories:

1. rewatch Sherlock/rewatch the Granada Holmes series/desperately seek post-Reichenbach fic/reread the Paradox series & all of Katie Forsythe's fic in a fit of madness/gaze upon Sherlock vids/curse the heavens that I have to wait so long for the next series

2. reread the Hobbit/flop about and make joyful noises about how fucking perfect Freeman's Bilbo is going to be/watch the Hobbit teaser trailer about a million times/rewatch all the cast bits in the Extended Edition Lord of the Rings DVDs/read all the Mark Reads entries of the Hobbit & what he has so far of Lord of the Rings/accidentally trip and fall into the first few chapters of Fellowship, which is fair enough as I haven't done a proper reread in three years

I am combating this White Dudes Doing Stuff thing by working on my novel that has basically one white dude doing stuff, and plenty of ladies and nonwhite dudes doing stuff, which is great! But the fannish channel is all hobbits and detectives right now. (Although no hobbit detectives! There seems to be a pretty low crime rate in the Shire, but I really hope there's a hobbit detective in Bree or something.)

Meanwhile I want to pull out something that I posted last time I was reading Lord of the Rings, because it was SUCH FUN, and it is the One Ring game! The One Ring game basically goes: think of (a) character(s) from a fandom other than LotR, and figure out what would happen if they were given the One Ring and charged to destroy it. So, for example: Neville Longbottom would destroy that sucker; Andrew Wells from Buffy would hide in a dark room with it and call it his Precious and be totally useless; Benton Fraser would TAKE OVER THE WORLD. &c. Give me characters! I will tell you what they do! Epic quests and evil overlords for all!

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[oliviacirce]

METHOS.

[aria]

OH MY GODDDD WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS IT'S LIKE WITH ONE WORD YOU CAN SPAWN IN ME THE DESIRE TO WRITE FUCKING EPICS

WHICH I BET YOU ALREADY KNEW

Um but okay there is a five thousand year kaleidoscope of answers to this question! I think Methos' will is absolutely always such that he would never just break down under the Ring's power; there is no world where he sits muttering over it in dark places. Obviously there's a time -- of a thousand years, and probably of over a thousand years, let's say at least five hundred afterward, and probably beforehand for as long as Methos' memory goes back -- in which Methos would take the Ring, and become Sauron.

(And now my mind goes on the world's most bewildering tailspin: Methos is with Kronos when he learns the art of ringmaking from ... whoever the elder Immortals are, and becomes the Highlander-universe's equivalent of Sauron. HEY BRAIN KRONOS IS NOT ACTUALLY MORGOTH.)

If somehow Methos-as-he-is-now comes into possession of the Ring, he wouldn't rule with it, nor change anything with it; but neither would he go on a quest to destroy it. I don't know if he'd find it laughable or potentially useful, but I do know that it would be a terrible temptation, and he'd just -- keep it, hidden, while he goes slowly more brittle. We can only pray that Amanda steals it and then, idk, Joe throws it into a volcano, Joe is the only person in that whole universe I trust to not go suddenly power-mad.

WELL AS USUAL I HAVE ALL THE METHOS THOUGHTS.

[gehayi]

Actually, I can totally see Methos trying to use the Ring to bargain for or save Alexa. Because hell, he pretty much did that in canon.

[beccaelizabeth]

now I can see him accidentally making Alexa a ring wraith. :-(

[mecurtin]

See, I think Methos-now would (a) kill Duncan (temporarily!) to make sure *he* doesn't take it, because Duncan would be on a quick slide to be the Dark Judge, and then (b) persuade Joe to pick it up and head for Mt. Doom. Methos would come along, prepared to push Joe into the volcano at the end, if it comes to that.

Being a Dark Lord = boring. Living under a Dark Lord = even more boring. Been there, done both.

[aria]

COMPLETE AGREEMENT WITH ALL OF THIS. Have an internet!

[astolat]

dude, I read this and now I am all, Methos of today would be one of the few characters who would slot into the Tom Bombadil role -- he would have zero interest in having the Ring himself (he does not need to give people MORE reason to want his head and/or other parts of his anatomy!); he would take it and keep it safe from the bad guys with enormous reluctance if begged harassed by Duncan to do so, but would be an extremely bad caretaker and would probably lose it one night down a sewer after drinking and "forget" about it, cough, at least until Duncan reproachfully cornered him and made him go hunting it out again.

(THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER)

[aria]

I still want to argue that Methos would always be a bit doomed with the Ring (see: when Kronos turns up and he backslides alarmingly) but I really like the notion that he's actually dealt with lots of way more evil things and it just has zero effect on him.

And really, someone should be like Tom Bombadil! Methos is an excellent candidate. (Um, now I'm ... imagining Methos and Tom Bombadil getting together for drinks and reminiscing and singing silly songs? They would totally do this.)