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I have a confession: for the past few days, in between all the real life stuff I have been doing, I've been spending my free time not doing more of the Babylon 5 rewatch but instead a rewatch of the Methos bits of Highlander. (Why? I need more Methos fic like burning, and with a few excellent exceptions, the stuff that is out there is giving me the "If you want this story told, tell it yourself" feeling. Oops.) I think I am discovering the full extent of my horrible weakness for 90s television. In any case, I am done with that now and we'll soon return to your semi-regularly scheduled B5-watching; in the meantime, the net result of my Highlander rewatch is mumble nearly 10,000 words of fic notes, what is wrong with me and a bunch of screencaps.
The latter are here reposted for your edification.
This is not a Show Is Awesome post. Show is indeed occasionally awesome, but I am not looking for converts; I didn't even watch the whole thing. I think it's cute, and occasionally hilarious, and sometimes even quite good; I think the bits I watched are well worth watching if, like me, you have apparently a bullet-proof character kink for five-thousand-year-old snarky bastards who occasionally save the world because their dumbass boyfriends like to play hero.
In any case, it means that this is instead a Methos And His Frequent Swordporn Are Awesome post. It started out entirely as caps of Methos getting threatened with swords and making great faces about that, but then it got slightly out of control and comes with a Duncan/Methos agenda, which means stuff like painting houses together and slamming each other against Range Rovers. As you do.
So, when we first meet Methos, he's having an off day or something, because he decides it would be a great idea to offer MacLeod his head. Happily it results in this:
Maybe it's how he test-drives new boyfriends.
Anyway, then he regains his senses. And wears a cute sweater.
Maybe Duncan doesn't like the sweater?
Ladies and gentlemen, above I give you, hm, Exhibits A and B that Methos sort of likes being threatened with swords.
They take a short break from being kinky to do domestic instead.
Methos is not best pleased when Duncan mistakes his nose for part of the house.
Then Duncan gets a bit evil.
Also, other people sometimes threaten Methos with swords. I think Methos likes it better when Duncan does it.
Although he's a bit put out when he isn't expecting it and can't consent.
Sometimes even Joe gets in on the action, although he just sticks with guns. This is why Methos looks a bit bored.
I am fairly sure this next cap had to do with Duncan and Methos discussing matters of Deep Philosophical Import (and disagreeing about every salient point, because that's how they roll) but a still reveals that in fact when they argue morality they are trying very hard to keep from making out.
Swordporn. :D
But the sword is no substitute for Duncan! Pay attention, Duncan.
Methos is a bit fed up with Duncan not paying attention, and then his ex Kronos rolls into town. I am fond of the following cap because Methos has his "I'm being threatened with a sword! I'm definitely not turned on!" face, and Kronos doesn't even have a sword.
Which can be remedied.
Interlude for Methos and Duncan throwing each other against a car with BETRAYAL!! (I'm not gonna lie, Comes a Horseman/Revelation 6:8 is up there for me with Mountie on the Bounty. I am sensing a pattern even though there is a bit of a difference between OLD SHIPS and THE APOCALYPSE.) Anyway:
LOOK AT HIS CRAZY EYES.
The following cap cannot actually capture what I love about it, which is Methos sort of ... caressing the sword with his shoulder. The full awesome of that is best with context. (I. love. this. episode.)
Sometime later, apocalypse mostly averted, Methos feels the need to run around mostly naked with his sword. Thank you, Methos.
More swordporn.
But we haven't had someone put a blade to Methos' throat in four whole caps! Quick, Keane to the rescue!
Someone tell me this man does not enjoy being threatened with swords. Anyone?
Alas, that is the last of the swordporn. We do, however, have a cap for that time when Methos was friends with Lord Byron, and Byron, being a man of taste, comes on to Methos. Textually. Methos is about as surprised as I am:
But eventually he goes to hang out with MacLeod again. Maybe when Methos finishes ... cleaning whatever he's cleaning? ... they can go spar. If you know what I mean.
Thank you and goodnight.
The latter are here reposted for your edification.
This is not a Show Is Awesome post. Show is indeed occasionally awesome, but I am not looking for converts; I didn't even watch the whole thing. I think it's cute, and occasionally hilarious, and sometimes even quite good; I think the bits I watched are well worth watching if, like me, you have apparently a bullet-proof character kink for five-thousand-year-old snarky bastards who occasionally save the world because their dumbass boyfriends like to play hero.
In any case, it means that this is instead a Methos And His Frequent Swordporn Are Awesome post. It started out entirely as caps of Methos getting threatened with swords and making great faces about that, but then it got slightly out of control and comes with a Duncan/Methos agenda, which means stuff like painting houses together and slamming each other against Range Rovers. As you do.
So, when we first meet Methos, he's having an off day or something, because he decides it would be a great idea to offer MacLeod his head. Happily it results in this:
Maybe it's how he test-drives new boyfriends.
Anyway, then he regains his senses. And wears a cute sweater.
Maybe Duncan doesn't like the sweater?
Ladies and gentlemen, above I give you, hm, Exhibits A and B that Methos sort of likes being threatened with swords.
They take a short break from being kinky to do domestic instead.
Methos is not best pleased when Duncan mistakes his nose for part of the house.
Then Duncan gets a bit evil.
Also, other people sometimes threaten Methos with swords. I think Methos likes it better when Duncan does it.
Although he's a bit put out when he isn't expecting it and can't consent.
Sometimes even Joe gets in on the action, although he just sticks with guns. This is why Methos looks a bit bored.
I am fairly sure this next cap had to do with Duncan and Methos discussing matters of Deep Philosophical Import (and disagreeing about every salient point, because that's how they roll) but a still reveals that in fact when they argue morality they are trying very hard to keep from making out.
Swordporn. :D
But the sword is no substitute for Duncan! Pay attention, Duncan.
Methos is a bit fed up with Duncan not paying attention, and then his ex Kronos rolls into town. I am fond of the following cap because Methos has his "I'm being threatened with a sword! I'm definitely not turned on!" face, and Kronos doesn't even have a sword.
Which can be remedied.
Interlude for Methos and Duncan throwing each other against a car with BETRAYAL!! (I'm not gonna lie, Comes a Horseman/Revelation 6:8 is up there for me with Mountie on the Bounty. I am sensing a pattern even though there is a bit of a difference between OLD SHIPS and THE APOCALYPSE.) Anyway:
LOOK AT HIS CRAZY EYES.
The following cap cannot actually capture what I love about it, which is Methos sort of ... caressing the sword with his shoulder. The full awesome of that is best with context. (I. love. this. episode.)
Sometime later, apocalypse mostly averted, Methos feels the need to run around mostly naked with his sword. Thank you, Methos.
More swordporn.
But we haven't had someone put a blade to Methos' throat in four whole caps! Quick, Keane to the rescue!
Someone tell me this man does not enjoy being threatened with swords. Anyone?
Alas, that is the last of the swordporn. We do, however, have a cap for that time when Methos was friends with Lord Byron, and Byron, being a man of taste, comes on to Methos. Textually. Methos is about as surprised as I am:
But eventually he goes to hang out with MacLeod again. Maybe when Methos finishes ... cleaning whatever he's cleaning? ... they can go spar. If you know what I mean.
Thank you and goodnight.
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(I kind of ship Methos/Joe. As well as Methos/Duncan, Methos/Amanda, Methos/Kronos and Methos/Alexa Bond. The man is the little black dress of Highlander fandom. He goes with EVERYTHING.)
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(Also: YES. I think all of these ships are both reasonable and excellent. I would also add Methos/Byron, because it's canon in my head, although that particular iteration of Byron deeply skeeves me, so I wouldn't actually seek out fic.)
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And in the swordporn pictures with Keane, Keane looks as if he is kissing Methos's neck. While holding a sword against it. AND METHOS IS COMPLETELY INTO IT. You can tell from his expression.
I'm surprised you didn't post the homoerotic double Quickening. Which was completely deliberate on the part of the writers and the actors.
By the way, Methos is the first character I ran into in any fandom who was described as "pansexual."
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I wish I found Keane more interesting/attractive, because if I did, I would SHIP IT LIKE BURNING based on those stills alone.
Re: the homoerotic double Quickening, I -- oh my god, well, I love that two-parter, to begin with, and whenever I think of the double Quickening I start cackling with glee, but it's basically impossible to cap; a still visual makes almost no sense. (By the way, I don't doubt that it was intentional, but do you know what was specifically said on the subject?)
...Gosh, thanks, now I want Methos/Jack Harkness.
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(Oh God. Methos in nineteenth-century Torchwood. Because Torchwood could inadvertently expose Immortals, so obviously he would have to be there--probably as Torchwood's medical officer, as he seems to have spent a few centuries being a doctor. And meeting Jack Harkness for the first time. That would be epic.)
(By the way, I don't doubt that it was intentional, but do you know what was specifically said on the subject?)
Yeah, I do. There's this book--it's called Highlander: The Complete Watcher's Guide by Maureen Russell, though it's been years since I read it. Part of the book contains an interview with Adrian Paul and Peter Wingfield about the Horsemen duology and the interviewer asked something along the lines of, "Er...was the homoerotic imagery at the end deliberate?"
After the two men cracked up laughing, Wingfield answered. This isn't word for word, but it's pretty close:
"Oh, God, of course it was. There's a REASON why the lightning is hitting both of us at exactly the same time--not to mention that the source of a man's power is going directly into my open mouth while I'm on my knees. That was about as explicit as we could make it and still sneak it past the censors."
Adrian Paul: "I didn't expect it to get by them, actually."
Wingfield: "Neither did I. I thought, no. There's no way anyone can MISS this. The writers were more optimistic."
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fdmkdffd I I oh my god. They are now my FAVOURITE PEOPLE. I am glad they are aware of how absurdly suggestive that was. <333