featherwizard

Stones are static. Rocks remain (mostly) unchanged. Living beings grow and adapt to circumstances. What does this mean for someone who could live forever?

All of this is leading up to fanvid recommendations to go along with the Methos rewatch on killabeez' journal.

1) Kronos, Methos and the meaning of brotherhood. The only wistful, poignant vid featuring Kronos that makes sense (it may also be the only one period). A wonderful and surprisingly touching look at the end of a millennia-long relationship.
And As For You by Blue Oyster Cult, vid by our lovely host killabeez
http://seacouver.slashcity.net/vidland/andasforyou_highlander.zip

2 & 3 are the quintessential Methos vids, to me. I love how they get at different aspects of his character, while both capturing the feeling of intelligent, economical forcefulness that Methos cultivates.

2) Methos, a practical man, surrounds himself with poets, visionaries, and musicians. Sometimes they drown him out. Sometimes they can't see his perspective. Sometimes they talk too much.
The Trouble With Poets by Peter Mulvey, vid by Anoel
http://anoel.dreamwidth.org/19109.html

3) Methos has spent 3000 years cleaning the blood off his hands. Now, finally, he's clean. Sometimes. Chilling and complex look at how far Methos has come, and how far he still has to go.
Clean by Depeche Mode, vid by JKL
http://pteropus.com/ - put in an email, get a password by autoresponder. Very worth it, there are many good HL videos here.

4) Methos is a civilized man now, but he'll never be a peaceful one. Violence may not be the best way to solve problems, but sometimes he can't stop himself from using it. WARNING: Some brief season 6 cuts.
Temptation by VAST, vid by Fenling
LJ post at https://fenlings.livejournal.com/22399.html

killabeez is hosting a Highlander rewatch! Posts are weekly on her LJ and DW accounts. LJ master post is http://killabeez.livejournal.com/514823.html

So I'm going through my bookmarks, looking to re-read old favorites. Only they aren't up.

Currently I'm on a Highlander kick. Problem is that the show ended more than a decade ago, and most of the fanfiction was written in the early days of internet fandom. So I'm trawling through mailing list archives, individual author sites, and brushing off my dusty Archive.org skills. But some people just aren't online now, despite all I can do.

Sandra McDonald, Sleeps with Coyotes, Dargelos are all offline. Sylvia Volk, Tessa Rae and the taterville.com crowd are slowly putting their stuff up on Archive Of Our Own (very slowly).

There's just no way to get some of this stuff anymore, and the stuff that is still available is often an uphill battle. So I'm resorting to ficsearch communities and asking friends. This is - likely - years of my life, just kind of gone up in smoke. Darn it.

TL;DR I'm donating to both Archive Of Our Own and Archive.org this month. Thank goodness for volunteers who are willing to save the internet in case someone needs it. If anyone has any fics by Cicequi/Sleeps with Coyotes, I'd love it if you could let me know?