Carmel just asked this question of the hldu list and I has to post a reply. I had such fun writing it that I thought I would post it here as well.
"[Carmel]Anyway, I started thinking that it would be interesting to ask how on earth we all *got into* Highlander???"
What aside from my deep abiding love of sharp and pointy things?
"I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal"
That line is what got me into Highlander! Seriously!
For a while back in my dim and distant past that line was so oft quoted it developed into a whole joke all my itself (I am round and small and spherical, I am a marble etc etc etc)How could you not adore a hero who ran around fighting with a sword and came up with lines like "Nice to see you Kurgan. Who cuts your hair?"
The film assumed a kind of cult status amongst I and my friends and I think I can still quote the scene in the police station line by line. After all who wouldn't remember:
GARFIELD "Are you a faggot Nash?
NASH Why Garfield? Cruisin' for a piece of ass?
GARFIELD I'll tell you what happened Russell, you went down the garage looking for a hand job and just didn't want to pay for it.
NASH Your sick!"
Not to mention the fact that MacLeod and Kastagir were *so* doing it and the best scottish accent in the film was from the man playing an Egyptian! The film just *rocked!*
Then the sequels of which we do not speak (II and III happened and I kinda put Highlander to the back of my brain. Various people mentioned the TV series to me on a several occasions but I just pulled a face and ignored them. The idea of a series which didn't have Connor in it, just seemed like another slap in the face to a great idea following two bloody awful sequels.
Roll forwards now to around 1999 which was when I first really became involved with fandom on the internet. Being a slash fan I'd been aware of the Highlander fandom based on the TV series and the film for a while but had taken very little notice as I was currently up to my neck in Robin of Sherwood, LA Confidential, Gladiator, Star Wars The Phantom Menace and X-men fandoms.
A very dear friend of mine Ben however, was, is and always will be the biggest Highlander fan *ever*. He also is possibly Adrian Paul's biggest fan of the male persuasion as well and he's always been someone who has encouraged my writing and fandom endeavors. I love Ben, he *rocks* with mighty fists of steel and is also the Vice President of S.Q.U.E.E!
Anyway, he *kept* trying to persuade me to watch Highlander the TV series (which he has on video from when they were shown on TV in the UK) luring me along with claims that it was "the slashiest TV series ever"
Finally towards the end of 2002 I gave in. The first fateful episode was (as many of you know) 'Chivalry' and from the moment I heard the words "Candygram" I was lost...
Ben tried very hard to persuade me to pay attention to Duncan but I was hopeless Methos slut from the word go. I pestered and pestered Ben until he showed me more Methos episodes and then on one very drunken evening he, I and The Lodger watched Highlander:Endgame:
"Don't you want to be inside me?"
I rest my case.
Of course with the Methos lust strong upon me I launched myself cheerfully into the internet fandom and was over whelmed by all the wonderful fic and the very amusing people I met. In a moment of weakness *looks at![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lastrega* I was persuaded to attend HLDU5 in Brisbane and you could say its been one long slow slide into the gutter from then on! *grins*
Now one year and a few months later I'm the RC of the UK contingent of the PWFC, I have spent the equivalent of a small country's national debt on fandom related stuff, the Lodger and the Ex both complain bitterly that they both know more about Highlander and Peter Wingfield then any sane, heterosexual man should and I'm traveling to LA in Feb and Orlando in May this year for HL related conventions.
I've also made some of the *best* friends that anyone could hope for!
So how about you?...
"[Carmel]Anyway, I started thinking that it would be interesting to ask how on earth we all *got into* Highlander???"
What aside from my deep abiding love of sharp and pointy things?
"I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal"
That line is what got me into Highlander! Seriously!
For a while back in my dim and distant past that line was so oft quoted it developed into a whole joke all my itself (I am round and small and spherical, I am a marble etc etc etc)How could you not adore a hero who ran around fighting with a sword and came up with lines like "Nice to see you Kurgan. Who cuts your hair?"
The film assumed a kind of cult status amongst I and my friends and I think I can still quote the scene in the police station line by line. After all who wouldn't remember:
GARFIELD "Are you a faggot Nash?
NASH Why Garfield? Cruisin' for a piece of ass?
GARFIELD I'll tell you what happened Russell, you went down the garage looking for a hand job and just didn't want to pay for it.
NASH Your sick!"
Not to mention the fact that MacLeod and Kastagir were *so* doing it and the best scottish accent in the film was from the man playing an Egyptian! The film just *rocked!*
Then the sequels of which we do not speak (II and III happened and I kinda put Highlander to the back of my brain. Various people mentioned the TV series to me on a several occasions but I just pulled a face and ignored them. The idea of a series which didn't have Connor in it, just seemed like another slap in the face to a great idea following two bloody awful sequels.
Roll forwards now to around 1999 which was when I first really became involved with fandom on the internet. Being a slash fan I'd been aware of the Highlander fandom based on the TV series and the film for a while but had taken very little notice as I was currently up to my neck in Robin of Sherwood, LA Confidential, Gladiator, Star Wars The Phantom Menace and X-men fandoms.
A very dear friend of mine Ben however, was, is and always will be the biggest Highlander fan *ever*. He also is possibly Adrian Paul's biggest fan of the male persuasion as well and he's always been someone who has encouraged my writing and fandom endeavors. I love Ben, he *rocks* with mighty fists of steel and is also the Vice President of S.Q.U.E.E!
Anyway, he *kept* trying to persuade me to watch Highlander the TV series (which he has on video from when they were shown on TV in the UK) luring me along with claims that it was "the slashiest TV series ever"
Finally towards the end of 2002 I gave in. The first fateful episode was (as many of you know) 'Chivalry' and from the moment I heard the words "Candygram" I was lost...
Ben tried very hard to persuade me to pay attention to Duncan but I was hopeless Methos slut from the word go. I pestered and pestered Ben until he showed me more Methos episodes and then on one very drunken evening he, I and The Lodger watched Highlander:Endgame:
"Don't you want to be inside me?"
I rest my case.
Of course with the Methos lust strong upon me I launched myself cheerfully into the internet fandom and was over whelmed by all the wonderful fic and the very amusing people I met. In a moment of weakness *looks at
lastrega* I was persuaded to attend HLDU5 in Brisbane and you could say its been one long slow slide into the gutter from then on! *grins*Now one year and a few months later I'm the RC of the UK contingent of the PWFC, I have spent the equivalent of a small country's national debt on fandom related stuff, the Lodger and the Ex both complain bitterly that they both know more about Highlander and Peter Wingfield then any sane, heterosexual man should and I'm traveling to LA in Feb and Orlando in May this year for HL related conventions.
I've also made some of the *best* friends that anyone could hope for!
So how about you?...
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To be fair, he'd been to both Spain and Japan, so it's not surprising that his accent was wonky *sound of furious retconning*
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Good try Nick! I dunno, Connery never does anything else other then scottish and somehow he always gets away with it, witness The Hunt For Red October.
Ahhh Mr Connery, we wuv you..
By the way you *points at Nick* the mad woman apparently thinks I hate her. This is all your fault for pointing out her LJ. Now my brain hurts. Train crash does not even begin to cover it!
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She has the same effect on me. My attitude is that I'm Al's friend, and that means that I should at least be civil to her, even if reading her LJ makes my brainstem want to throttle my cortex.
(btw, you forgot Connery-the-Irish-policeman in The Untouchables)
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How could I forget him...
As for the whole Tiff thing. Honestly I have given up. I bearly know the woman but apparently I hate her. I was sorely tempted to say "No I just think your a bit odd and a source of amusement" but I guess that would have made things worse.
I actually quizzed Darth Rich and C Elsewhere on this and they both looked at me blankly. Life is definitely too short for this kinda crap!
Am off to see ROTK again on Thursday. I am *not* going to cry nor am I going snicker at the Merry/Pippin slash or moon after Eomer.
I'm not..
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C Elsewhere seems to be on her shit list (http://www.livejournal.com/users/angryangeltoo/108235.html) at the moment, as is Steve (no surprise there). I'm with you on the giving up thing, even if I do keep getting "OMG!!! CAR CRASH!!!" relapses.
(Eowyn was the subject of my mooning - a good, strong female character in LotR, even if she did spend rather too long swooning at Aragorn)
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Ooh, and are you still able to send me some early eps? I have a bank account now and could pay you easily.
(Squee, you're using the icon I made! I feel so proud.)
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That's cos all your HL icons *ROCK*
This one is my other fave! For obvious reason, and because Methos is such a lying toe rag as he's *so* obviously a pain!slut.
I can send you early eps. I have DVD's and have finally worked out how to tape them! Yay! Go me! What episodes do you want? I have Season 1, 2 and 3 on DVD plus The Best Of DVD set and I have just melted my credit card and bought Seasons 4, 5 and 6 on DVD so hopefully they should be along soon.
I also have more Peter Wingfield stuff on tape then you can shake a very large stick at *grins* Should you be requiring any!
In return I ask only that you write me a bit of kink!fic with the pairing of your choice....
..although Amanda/Rebecca is a sadly neglected area of HL fandom? *wink*
So little girl *leers* want to come and look at some puppies?
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Re: That's cos all your HL icons *ROCK*
Squee, early HL! Let's see... I think I'm short about twenty episodes overall. Would that be too much for you to tape?
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Hmm... I wonder if I could pull off a properly kinky K/M for you?
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Well a proper kinky M/K would be fab!
So please do try! *makes big kitten eyes*
Yeah 20 episodes id fine. Just don't expect them straight away as I have a bit of a backlog. Email me your snail mail and let me know exactly what 20 episodes you want
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You say that like it's a badthing...
It was a great day for the fandom (and me) whenever it was.
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For me yes, for the fandom ????
For my hormones.....sadly a *bad* day.
*makes kitten eyes at Sonia from half way round the world*
Still at least I can txt you now. Oh and any chance of any porn from you anytime soon?
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Yum...
Sensory deprivation is lovely...and there just isn't enough fic with it in about...
I shall look forward to it arriving :)
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Yes, really.
Some author of really good erotica had a link on her page to someone writing Higlander fanfic, who had more links...
I had seen the show and liked it,but I'd never been particularly fanatic about it.In fact I'd always sort of looked down on fandom,equating it with the same sort of teenage hysteria you get with boybands.Goes to show what I knew.
I have since gotten first into Sentinel and later into Stargate,Starsky & Hutch,Star Trek TOS and M7 fandoms, mainly through crossovers.
Now I'm on way too many lists. ;-)
Go figure.
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Yay! Porn!
Actually that is damn fine way to get into a fandom. That's how I fell into the LA Confidential fandom *sighs*
Good written porn is a highly underrated thing. Hence the kink!fic challenge. :)
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But admitting to finding good porn kin of implies you've waded through oodles of bad porn.
That's a bit embarrassing.
Even if the result is worth it. ;-)
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The author in question was Maureen Lycaon
http://members.vclart.net/Maureen/index2.html
and the link,no longer there, was to Tritorella:
http://tritorella.tantalis.org/index.php
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corruptedconverted with her lovely porn?From:
Re: Yay! Porn!
(This is what you get for visiting my site on the one night I actually look at my visitor stats.)
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Yay! Tritorella *ROCKS* and her BDSM stories are some of the best in the fandom :) YOur in good company and you also should *never* be embaressed about reaidng porn. Great written porn is a wonderful thing which should be celebrated. I find it very odd that women seem to feel they have to justify their liking of it
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You're coming to PWFC con? Because I am too! I live here! OMG! This is my first HL related con and I was sad that I would only know three people there, and one of those being PW, who doesn't really know me, but feh.
OMG SQUEEEEE!!!!
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*SQUEEE*
Yeah I am definitely going!! EXCELLENT! I actually get to meet you for real. *does the dance of joy*
I'm on my own so if you wanna crash in my room you are welcome!
Also, you kindly said I could have your mirror masturbation story for the kink!fic challenge. Could you email it to me so I can pass it on to the gracious person who is putting them up for me. Also if you haven't got a name for it yet I thought either "Narcissus" or "...The Fairest Of Them All" whatcha think?
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Yay more porn introducees!
Hi gorgeous lady how are your magnificent breasts?
I'm finding it good to know that people are getting into fandom through written porn. It somehow validates my role in life as an evil kink!fic pusher *grins*
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The breasts are a little smaller these days, as I've lost 8kg, but I'm still very curvy ;)
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The whole concept of Highlander just hooked me immediately and even his french tinged scottish accent made me melt lol ohhh for some more!!!!
Hugs
Axxx