So, this afternoon, feeling the need to write, and having been lured by cathexys into reading SGA fanfic, I decided to pull out what I'd started six months ago on my Stargate:Atlantis/Highlander Crossover of Doom, now that the season's over and I have a chance of finishing at least one bit of it before it gets contradicted by canon.

Atlantis is the first TV show *ever* (unless you count sort-of Voyager back in the day) that I've actually followed from the beginning as it was on the air. (And as it is I think I've missed at least five-and-a-half episodes so I'm probably not qualified to write the fic anyway. Oh well.) In some ways, it's really irritating to be working with new canon coming out all the time. In some ways, though, it's *really cool*.

You know what I realized while going over my old plot outline in light of the SG1 season finale?

Jack O'Neill was SO VERY MUCH Methos' first Teacher.

In the original plan I was just going to have Methos visit the holy library at Saïs (Plato's supposed source for the Atlantis legends) in order to learn all the stuff he needs to know for the story.

But now. Daniel would so *know* about the sanctuary at Saïs, and he would so take the others there after the rebellion, and they would hang around the sanctuary with the last Unascended Ancients and their Immortal priests, and teach Methos about important Methos-y things like tactics, and dirty tricks, and geekery, and snark, and being five thousand years out of time, and the joy of a pond with no fish in it.

I'm almost tempted to write that instead of just using it as background for the original HL/SGA crossover of doom, except that it would entail actually doing historical research and reading the Critias and such.

(I'm also trying very hard to resist the temptation to write Katamari/Amber crossover, after dreamsquirrel had me playing Katamari Damacy last week. Luke: Merle, you've gotta come talk to this kid! It's brilliant! Merlin: Luke, are you stoned again? Luke: No, I've just been playing PS2 and drinking Mountain Dew for the past twenty hours straight. That's *not* the point. Listen, this is the *best* Shadow of the Patternfall War I've ever found.)

(... and in trying to confirm that I had Luke's name right, I stumbled on SG1/Amber crossover fic. Oh dear.)