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It would be a fun fic to read... and I can name one immortal that would be able to orchestrate such an scheme to perfection!

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hmm. Who were you thinking of? Because it has to be someone tricky enough to set up the scenario but not quite able to pull it off completely. (My stand-by immortal is Methos but I like to write him as uber-competent.) Although--thinking outloud here--it might be interesting to have the recluse be an old-Methos persona and the heir be a surviving Richie, and the whole set up be a learning experience for a new immortal to figure out how to switch identities. Which might explain both the elaborate set-up AND the occasional mistake. What do you think?

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Wow mixing them both might me interesting... I had been thinking of Methos too, because the guy didn't live for at least 5000 years by not being a top dog...

in you HL/SG fic at the end there was the perfect description of him being able to turn disadvantages into advantages and enemies into allies. So yeah I love uber-competent Methos =D

Having Ritchie be learning it from the Master would be awesome and you know that the learning experience would have plenty of amusing moments to entertain ROG and make it worth his time

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I, too, am always thinking of cross-over stories I would like to write. This month I was going to attempt an original fic, but I have a bee in my bonnet to do a Labyrinth/Highlander cross, because, gee, The Source just has to be FIXED, if you know what I mean!

I read 'Square Peg in a Round Hole' and found it really well done. Finely polished and well thought out. Cassandra just made me crack up at the end.... I keep expecting to see Jake do his senior year through Internet distance learning.... ::snicker::

Anyway, I've been on LJ for over five years. It's a wide and varied place. Be warned. It can drive you up the wall sometimes, but it can still be rewarding. Sometimes I feel as if I'm going senile much earlier than I'm meant to, though. After time, people change their user-names, or you forget what fandom you picked up friends in, or if you found a person first on ff.net, then on yahoo-groups then on LJ? Or just what was that progression? LJ doesn't exactly keep a contact database for you (Plaxo does, for free, and it interfaces with *everything*) - Thunk!

Babble....

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~Innogen
....notes from the Treo - computer in the shop!

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Thanks for the compliment on "Square Peg" and for the heads-up about the wackiness of online life. I'm dabbling with online life and trying not to get sucked in completely. It may already be too late.

Anyway, if you write a Labyrinth/Highlander story you really need to tell me so I can check it out. "The Source" sounded back enough in reviews that I've never actually watched it, but I would love to see it done correctly. Plus, I like both fandoms a lot.

One of my current plot bunnies is a Labyrinth/Harry Potter story. Because, (1) Toby is described as "the babe with the power... power of voodoo", (2) Sarah, muggle though she may be, has a will as strong as the goblin kings': can you imagine the first time someone tries to cast Imperio on her? She would beat them down. (3) compare the Labyrinth to Hogwarts, moving walls and staircases and such? Clearly Hogwarts is goblin architecture. The worlds could fit together so well, I just need to figure out a good plot to display it all.

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I've read a few Lab/HP cross-overs, they make sense. I am sure yours is well done.

Believe me, if I get a Lab/Highlander crossover done, it will be completely convoluted. Hey, I'm the gal that comes up with wanting to cross Jeremiah with HP, or at least Hermione's character. Jeremiah/Joan of Arcadia; Jeremiah/Highlander with a dash of Doomsday would work. Really, I should make a list of all those post apocalyptic shows - Firefly is just fun, and I wish

jinxed_wood would worked on her crossover, 'Blue Sun Rising'.

I can't bring myself to write B5 or Buffy, or even SG1 fanfic - and since Atlantis is coming to an end, I can't really find a point anymore.

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Ooh... Jeremiah/Highlander. After you have finished and posted and let me read your Labyrinth/Highlander story, I definitely vote for a Jeremiah/Highlander story. Please?

While there's not as much general interest in fanfic for shows already over, I don't think there's any less of a point to them than any other story. It just depends on how intriguing you find the characters or the premise, if they can survive the loss of their origin.

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My room-mate told me I was obsessed with bizarre shows. Imagine a Dead Like Me/Highlander crossover, where George gets a sticky stating the E.S.D. for a pre-immortal. Then, he wakes up. Soul pops out until after the body wakes up, Duncan arrives on the scene, then soul pops back in. She drags them both to Rube at Der Waffle House, because the Gravelings were there and everything. Besides, she is going to prove that she Did.Not.Miss.Her.Appointment-and the other guy didn't miss his, or hers.

Or, Dr. Amy Zoll visits Seacouver and hits 'Adam' outside of Joe's Bar. Anyway, she is horrified, and runs inside to tell Joe that she just killed Adam. Meanwhile, Georgia is basically trying to keep 'Adam' from diving back into his body. She thinks he's a raving lunatic when he keeps insisting that he'll wake up. Joe comes out and brings 'Adam' into the back room with Mike's help. Then he calls Mac. Amy's in hysteric's. She throws up in the gutter when she sees Adams blood all over her car; Adam is now just inside the bar making really snide remarks about 'see what happens when you argue with the 5000 year old man about history'? George mutters how 'awful' and 'delusional' 'Adam' is and won't let him anywhere near the back room near his body, in case he really tries to dive back in. She drags him to a corner booth/table (?) and orders a soft drink, calls Rube on her pay-per-minute cell-phone. She mutters under her breath that if he causes her any more trouble he will regret it. The hyperbole gets worse and worse. Eventually, Mac tells Dr. Zoll that Adam was pre-immortal, so he should be waking up. Eventually. This sends Amy into Another round of hysterics because 'Adam' is her best researcher! Then don't tell anyone! But that would be wrong!
Rube shows up. 'Adam' states his case. Rube makes a phone call. While Rube is on the phone, Mac bring George a beer - she thinks she is losing her mind and is softly singing...'who is that graveling hanging from the rafters?:thunk thunk:
'Amy has always been a bit excitable,' Mac says like the two of them have known each other for years.
'Why are you here? Talking to me?'George asks.
'Just wanted to let you know that Amy didn't kill our friend. He's okay. Although, he's taking a bit longer than normal to wake up - I figured you might know something about that? Georgia Lass, isn't it?'
5000 year old delusional reaps. Live people who knew who she was. She drank the beer.'Adam'kept prattling on and on about it wasn't fair how she was drinking his beer.'Live with it'she hisses.'I can't'he spits back. 'You won't let me go back to my body and wake up'.
'Well, Peanut, the guys upstairs fucked the duck!'
'Aw, Rube, you always have such sweet things to say to me.'
'I'll be right back,' Rube leaves again, gives some Xanax to Dr. Zoll. Says she can do one of two things. Squeal on Adam Pierson, lose her best researcher, and never find out where Methos is; or, forget this ever happened, give the kid a sabbatical since, 1; you killed him, 2; he's probably terrified of this so called game after Kalas tried torturing him before Mac over there rescued him, and 3; his wife just died. Also, he was running around France trying to keep tabs on a Dark Quickening, witnessed Sean Burns permanent Death, and has run up a huge procrastinator's tab with Joe due to all the stress. Oh, and if you let him keep his job, he has a better chance of actually finding this 5000 year old man, now that he can actually sense when he might be around Mac over there.So which choice?"
Joe is just staring at Rube in shock. Not to mention Mac and 'Adam'.
"You're catching flies." Georgia said.
Dr. Zoll takes her Xanax. "I'll pay his tab. He gets a year off. I keep quiet if he does."
"Good choice-vehicular manslaughter is a bitch to have on your record. Let me call you a cab to take you where you want to go?" Amy nodded. "Yeah, sure. Sounds good. The rental?"
"I'm sure someone will take care of it." Rube said. Amy leaves.
'Adam' yells 'Yes! A valid first death is established!!'
Rube tells Peanut to let him dive back into his body.
George leaves very very pissed off at the whole situation! 'I can't believe she paid his bar tab!'
...and the hijinks can continue, when I remember them?

~Innogen
...notes from the Treo

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Wow!
that seems to be a nice one-shot to be read once properly written!
Please say you will write it?

there is just so much snark potential!

I miss Dead Like ME

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Cross overs?
I want to read it!!!
Even if I have no idea what the Labyrinth is (the fandom that is)

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"Labyrinth" is a great fantasy movie from the eighties in which David Bowie plays "the Goblin King" and Jennifer Connelly plays a young girl who has to make it through his Labyrinth (and not be seduced by David Bowie into forgetting her task) in order to rescue her infant brother.

The fandom is mostly made up of people going: "She turned David Bowie down? We've got to fix that."

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Ahh
seems interesting...
I will have to find it to watch!

I love fantasy movies and seeing DB as a goblin will be nice!

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Well, if it's up to Sarah to undo the events of the Source, I'm hoping that she'll see DB (not a goblin, but King of the Goblins) as a petulant five year-old in maturity down the line. She'll give him up for Adam, maybe? Besides, Karen ::sorry, Irene:: always wanted Sarah to date a nice looking young man... and not a glitter freak in pink! ::little does she know...::

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How about a love triangle? Methos falls for the Goblin King (considering his history with Byron and Kronos and even Duncan to an extent, demanding and high maintenance men are definitely his type), Jareth still wants Sarah to prove he won after all, and Sarah wants someone who is unusual enough to be interesting but still able to pass for a nice young man, ie. Methos.

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By the time Sarah figures out everything, she'll be able to kick the Goblin King's Ass! Methos has a thing for Duncan, Sarah is trying to stop a full fledged war in the Underground, and the Goblin King is training Toby to be his heir without her knowledge, and pouts when he doesn't have her full attention....

I'm going with - Lady of the the Labyrinth theme here. Lady in Green. In fact, her 'schedule' doesn't always synch up with the Goblin Kings. But she is the 'Guardian' there. He's meant to scare the kiddies. Heh. How's that for irony?

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I have just now watched the movie (how could I now with so much incentive?)

It really is as magical as you described and Jareth's costumes really show more than they shuold... poor DB having to display the family jewels like that!

I can really imagine Methos and Jareth as old acquaintances!

Especially as Marble says, Methos has a tendency to like high maintenance people and Sarah and Jareth definetely are that!

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From what I know of DB, I don't think he had any problems at all with the outfits. He's not exactly a shy or body-conscious sort of person. Actually, I think I recall hearing he had a lot of input on what his own costumes would be.

Anyway, so here's a question: How old is Jareth? It's never really stated in the movie, and the fandom likes to make him anywhere from centuries to millennium. Naturally, in response, I want to make him really young, since I haven't seen it done before. But what do you think, age-wise?

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I imagine... but they look as if they would cut the blood flow!

well according to what I read of the manga he has been in the labyrinth for 1300 years... but you could make him relatively young species wise and not alone for a change... have him be the equivalent to minor family black sheep who everyone still likes... you know the 19/20year old who wants to live out of his music and not take responsibility for the family business... but still knows that eventually he might have to

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I read the manga (the first two, at least: I'm not sure if there's more by now) and have decided to ignore their existence. Sarah was all droopy!

Anyway, I think your right: Jareth may need a large rambunctious family filled with siblings and cousins who visit all the time, (except when he's babysitting a wished-away, unless it's to drop of their own babies so he can babysit them too) and aunts who tell him to clean up his messy, messy castle.

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I haven't read them but from what I read of them I don't think I want to... fanfic is much more fun!

Oh yes he does! he needs them desperately you know his land is a an overgrown bachelor's pad! Especially in the way a college guy maintains his, everything to be cleaned later if there are more interesting things to be done and games to be played!

And he has to have someone dropping kids with him once in a while h wouldn't be such an accomplished babysitter otherwise!

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Oh My!
That does sound very interesting but I doubt that Jareth will take that lightly...

and the Source must be undone! truly!

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Okay, I added you to my f-list. Add me back if you want to see the drabbles from the Treo... yes, I'm stuck writing with a stylus. Yes. I want my laptop back. They need to fix the USB drivers now that are royally ... well ... just....

uhm.... sign up for Mutable_Cantos as well.... My drafts will be going in there. ::Face Palms::

OMG! I just read on Cracked news that the rough cut had those cannabalistic s.o.b.'s actually catch Methos in 'The Source'... and Kill him! I *so* want to get my hand on the rough cut pirated version of that movie now. Thank goodness that part was cut out.... I would still like to see the scenes the were in the rough cut though.

And, btw, does Anna & Duncan expect to live happily ever after? They have no way to get home, no way to get away from the cannibals. Oh, and Duncan will be furious if he finds out that Methos didn't survive.

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On my the Cannibals getting Methos?
Impossible! He eats them for breakfast! He cannot be killed!
especially by some freaks with spears!

Well Duncan can always throw Anna at them to distract them and runaway with his friend... she would deserve it!

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I found this fanart that totally reminded me of your fic:

http://colloqui.deviantart.com/art/Sarah-s-Goblins-100071631

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Ooh. I like that picture. Thanks for the link.

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