For all you shatter is our seeming, And in breaking we are free

You know when you're younger, and you're watching/reading stuff for the first time, and some things in it go right over your head? And then you watch/read it again, years later, and you realised what you missed?

I tend to get a lot of that. And, to be honest, if a thing is a joke, or an innuendo, chances are I still won't get it - for example, it honestly took me three years and an explanation from my sister to figure out why 'A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End', from Discworld, should be a dirty song. *shrugs sheepishly* (That involved me actually asking my sister, saying I didn't know why this was dirty at all, saying the title out loud, and watching her struggle for a minute not to laugh in my face, before gently explaining).

Some of the things I missed were slightly more macabre, too. For example, you know the Addams Family movie, 1991? There's a bit in that where Morticia is pulling huge canvas bundles out of a wardrobe, checking their labels for contents. It goes: "Uncle Knickknack's summer wardrobe. Uncle Knickknack's winter wardrobe. *pause* Uncle Knickknack. *heavy thud*"

... See, what I thought she meant was, "Knickknack, Knickknack, again, more of Uncle Knickknack's stuff." NOT, "Knickknack, Knickknack, Uncle Knickknack's corpse." Though, in hindsight, considering this was the Addamses, I really, really should have suspected. *shakes head* Oi.

And then ... Some things you don't get because, as a kid, you just genuinely haven't the knowledge/experience to understand them. Things like:

Molly Grue: "Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am this!"

When I was a kid, first watching The Last Unicorn, that scene was funny, watching Molly randomly yell in the unicorn's face, and kind of awesome, because Molly wasn't impressed just because, or afraid to yell at a mythological creature.

Watching it now ... I think that is possibly one of the most heartbreaking lines in the whole story. *smiles lopsidedly* Because when you're a kid, you sort of don't get what had happened between her and Cully, what her dreams had led her into. If you don't know the mythology of unicorns, you really, really don't understand what she's saying. So it's funny. And then, years later ... it's not.

And years later, watching that first scene of her, and then seeing everything she does afterwards, everything she fights through ... It becomes one of the reasons she sneaks up and becomes your favourite character. *smiles softly*

First, just a quick thing, for anyone on my flist in the Highlander Fandom. I'm looking for a fic that I vaguely, vaguely remember reading some time ago (one of these days, I will actually have to start bookmarking these things, but howandever ...). I don't remember all that much of it, all I know is that it involved one scene of Methos jousting a helicopter. *smiles faintly* That stuck in my head, just a bit ...

Second, I've been kinda musing a little bit on my crossover habits. Not my reading ones (I'll read pretty much anything, provided I know both fandoms - though oddly I don't tend to be very fond of the massive-multiplayer-type crossovers), but more the ones I'd write/have in my head. Heh. And I've come to the conclusion that I have at least three fandoms (four, really, but one I haven't looked at in years) that I kinda tend to crossover with everything. Heh. And those are:

- Highlander - because Methos goes everywhere. There's some problems, at least for me, when crossing HL with magic/myth fandoms set on Earth, because of Methos' reaction to Ahriman (you'd think, if demons were common enough, a 5000 year old man who lived through most of the ages of legend would have encountered them before), but I can put that down to Methos, for whatever inscrutable reasons of his own, wanting Mac to figure it out on his own, and not wanting Joe or any of the younger immortals to know. Masquerades within masquerades. It just takes a little work, is all. But, generally, if the setting involved Earth at any point in its present/past, I can find a way to work HL/Methos into it, and have a lot of fun.

- Good Omens - because Aziraphale and Crowley go everywhere. *grins* And sometimes Adam, too. Or the Horsepersons. Again, slightly complicated by religion in some myth-heavy settings, but I've mostly managed to work out a basis for that (Hinduism is wonderful, by the by, as a source for concepts). And ... well, the angel and the demon just go everywhere, and, much like Methos, are a hell of a lot of fun to dump into settings with heavily black-and-white conflicts, because they make everything go all grey again. Heh.

- Addams Family - because everyone, everywhere, should spend at least some time with an Addams. Heh. This one has a slightly narrower range in time, depending on how immortal you think the Addamses are, but the Family seems to endure. The idea. It goes back, according to the movie, at least as far as Nero. And the Addams ... everything, at some point, should be seen through an Addams lens, just to remind yourself of the vague absurdity that hovers over, well, life. Heh. If the setting involves Earth, or any of the fey or twilight realms, the Addamses will get you there.

The fourth one, which I haven't touched in a while, was DC Comics. Simply because, given the panoply of canon alternate universes, mythologies, magics, technologies, time-travel, dimensional travel, reality-spanning entities and what have you, there is practically a canon means to cross characters from that multiverse with anything.

And I think, largely, I tend to think of those canons as the 'chameleon canons', because with a little work they'll fit in with most anything, which is why I tend to cross them with everything. Heh. If I've written multiple stories in a canon, chances are I've crossed it with at least one of them, or it is one of them (and I've crossed HL and AF with each other). I do other crossovers, too, any worlds that seem to fit, or potentially fit, but those four are the ones that seem to go everywhere. Heh.

Also, in something of a non-sequiter, but there was a train of thought, now I kinda want to see Methos crossed into Shannara, via The Word and the Void. *grins, shakes head*

Sort of a follow-on to the early ficlets.

Title: Chivalry
Rating: PG-13
Fandoms: Addams Family, Highlander: the Series
Characters/Pairings: Duncan, Methos, Wednesday, Morticia, Gomez, Lurch
Summary: Duncan Macleod goes looking for Methos chez Addams, and meets death in the form of Wednesday Addams.
Wordcount: 1965
Disclaimer: Not mine
Notes: I have no idea if the Borgia harp actually exists. I read about it in a short story of the locked-room variety of mysteries, that I can't for the life of me remember the title of. But it seemed exactly the kind of thing an Addams woman would receive.

Here on Dreamwidth

Title: Intonation
Rating: PG
Fandom: Addams Family
Characters/Pairings: Lurch, Gomez
Summary: Just a short dialogue from daily life chez Addams
Continuity: Movies
Wordcount: 62
Notes: for senmut

Here

I'm in an odd mood tonight, and I wanted something ... decadent. And really, what better pair for that than these two?

Title:  His All, His Everything
Rating:  PG-13, maybe a touch higher
Characters/Pairings:  Gomez/Morticia
Summary:  on a balcony in the moonlight, while inside they play the Devil's Waltz
Wordcount:  1261
Notes:  warning for schmoop, and a touch of blood. Well, it is the Addams.
( His All, His Everything )