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This is what I wrote:
Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood
Duncan/Methos, the Four Horsemen
Adult, ~7,500 words
written foramand_r in the 2011 Highlander Holiday Shortcuts Festival.
Summary: "I leave you alone for ten minutes and find you directing troops into battle," said MacLeod. "Well," said Methos, "I came out here to find out what all the fuss was about, and, you know." Methos finished with a shrug and a wave of his hand, as if to say this sort of thing was a natural hazard of his day-to-day life.
Great big thank yous tokillabeez for hand holding and betaing, and also to unovis for reading and betaing.
Link to story at hlh_shortcuts comm.
Link to story on AO3.
Link to story on HL Archive.
Honestly, I have never really thought I would ever write a Bronze Age/Horsemen story. It was fun, though.
amand_r said she liked (among other things) battles, first time stories, Duncan/Methos, Caspian, and Mad Men. *g* There was a time early on when I tried to fit all this into a story, and my head exploded. And, I gotta say, I tried for a while. Had an outline and everything. You try to write Caspian in the offices of Sterling Cooper Draper Price! Someone with more talent than me should do it. It would be awesome. Anyway, my brain couldn't handle it.
But there were some things that I took from that short-lived idea. What I like the most about Mad Men is not so much the characters, but this notion of questioning image, and the falseness of the image we all portray. Advertisements are all about manipulating your audience to look here, or to see this. And all of that reflecting on the main character of Don Draper, who is nothing but illusion. He doesn't exist, everything about him is made up, a lie, a sham, except that he is very real at the same time. And then I started thinking about Methos, who can be Death on a Horse at the same time that he's just a guy. And how much of either of those (Death and Just a guy) are completely made up? Lies always work best when you mix them with truth. Also, I thought of this in relation to battle. Like, how do you sell war? How do you advertise for battle?
With Caspian, I wanted more than a two dimensional character. I always think of that scene in Rev 6:8 with them all around that fire in the submarine base. He's crazy, but not stupid. Anyway, it was fun to explore Caspian a little bit, and especially to see him compared and contrasted against Methos.
The whole thing didn't completely gel until the "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood" song came up on my Pandora while driving one day. *g* Sometimes, that's all it takes. I had a title and then I had a story. :D Can't tell you how relieved I was when the story came together more, because for a while there I was really worried!
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Crap, I'm late for work again. LOL.
This is what I wrote:
Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood
Duncan/Methos, the Four Horsemen
Adult, ~7,500 words
written for
amand_r in the 2011 Highlander Holiday Shortcuts Festival.Summary: "I leave you alone for ten minutes and find you directing troops into battle," said MacLeod. "Well," said Methos, "I came out here to find out what all the fuss was about, and, you know." Methos finished with a shrug and a wave of his hand, as if to say this sort of thing was a natural hazard of his day-to-day life.
Great big thank yous to
killabeez for hand holding and betaing, and also to unovis for reading and betaing. Link to story at hlh_shortcuts comm.
Link to story on AO3.
Link to story on HL Archive.
Honestly, I have never really thought I would ever write a Bronze Age/Horsemen story. It was fun, though.
amand_r said she liked (among other things) battles, first time stories, Duncan/Methos, Caspian, and Mad Men. *g* There was a time early on when I tried to fit all this into a story, and my head exploded. And, I gotta say, I tried for a while. Had an outline and everything. You try to write Caspian in the offices of Sterling Cooper Draper Price! Someone with more talent than me should do it. It would be awesome. Anyway, my brain couldn't handle it. But there were some things that I took from that short-lived idea. What I like the most about Mad Men is not so much the characters, but this notion of questioning image, and the falseness of the image we all portray. Advertisements are all about manipulating your audience to look here, or to see this. And all of that reflecting on the main character of Don Draper, who is nothing but illusion. He doesn't exist, everything about him is made up, a lie, a sham, except that he is very real at the same time. And then I started thinking about Methos, who can be Death on a Horse at the same time that he's just a guy. And how much of either of those (Death and Just a guy) are completely made up? Lies always work best when you mix them with truth. Also, I thought of this in relation to battle. Like, how do you sell war? How do you advertise for battle?
With Caspian, I wanted more than a two dimensional character. I always think of that scene in Rev 6:8 with them all around that fire in the submarine base. He's crazy, but not stupid. Anyway, it was fun to explore Caspian a little bit, and especially to see him compared and contrasted against Methos.
The whole thing didn't completely gel until the "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood" song came up on my Pandora while driving one day. *g* Sometimes, that's all it takes. I had a title and then I had a story. :D Can't tell you how relieved I was when the story came together more, because for a while there I was really worried!
~~~
Crap, I'm late for work again. LOL.
