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5SOS accepting an award for Youngblood in Sydney — Feb. 18th, 2020

[boyneriver-fraser]

How ‘bout that early release of Episode 1 The Fiery Cross? Spoilers, shmoilers. Pfft… what’s a 75-hour Tumblr embargo* when you’re accustomed to a 25-hour one?

After much whining, Season 5 finally arrived chez moi. What did I think?

Cold Open: Gave me chills, despite having seen it during promo. Murtz. In a kilt. Walking across a grassy field. Wind blowing through his hair. Reassuring a bereaved child. What’s not to love?

Theme Song: Missed (Mrs. Bear McCreary) Raya Yarbrough’s solo, but the choral version is already growing on me.

Opening Credits: Quietly thrilled to see Producer Caitriona Balfe, Producer Sam Heughan, and look forward to seeing their influence mid-season forward. (Remember, they received the new gigs after S5 production was well underway.)

Wedding Preparation: Beautiful dress with so many details to highlight the Scottish heritage the bride only recently discovered. So many sweet moments between Claire and Brianna and between Jamie and Brianna. “Je suis prest.” Da, your daughter’s a Fraser.

The (New) Wedding: The Frasers of the Ridge are here! (Chills 2) Loved the callback to S1E7 The Wedding — Jamie and Brianna’s walk through the doorway into the sunlight. Thought the juxtapositions were poignant — A reluctant bride in a dark church, hesitatingly saying her vows. A joyous bride in the great outdoors, eagerly saying hers. A small group of men, a tavern hostess, a prostitute, and no family-of-the-bride as guests. A huge gathering of friends and tenants of all genders and ages, and the bride’s parents, son, brother, sister-in-law, nephew, niece, great-aunt… and great-godfather, who managed to catch a glimpse from afar, as guests.

Fraser-MacKenzie Kids: Germain and Jemmy and Joanie, oh my! And Fergus and Marsali’s privately celebrating Félicité “in utero” was a lovely moment. (For anyone confused about number of the babies, Lizzie looked after Jemmy during the wedding ceremony, while Marsali held Joanie on her knee.)

“Some Shakespeare, anyone?”: Really, Lord John? 🤦🏻‍♀️

L is for the way you look at me: If you’ve never had someone pick up a guitar and sing a love song just for you… well, let’s just say Murtz wasn’t the first man to steal my heart. Rik Rankin truly has a lovely singing voice, and I will dearly miss Roger’s when… well… you know. Sigh.

Favourite Line: “I’ve got more on my mind than kissin’ and what have you, Mr. Fraser, Sir.” (Josiah Beardsley) What have you… 😂

Jocasta Cameron: Snob? Sly? Slut? All of the above?

Black Jack The Sequel: What is it with these corrupt redcoats? Governor Tryon annoys me more with each scene.

Hair Tics: I’m confident me ol’ pal @saint-hildegard-of-bingen​ is unable to count the number of times I’ve referred to myself as a heretic while talking to her, something I never did prior to reading the Outlander series, particularly The Fiery Cross. 😎

The Kilt: Oh, the kilt! (Chills 3) And the callback to S2E9 Je Suis Prest with the song Moch Sa Mhadainn. Powerful Scottish stuff.

Lighting Of The Cross: (Chills 4) I loved it and I’m not sorry. Highland chieftains set fire to a cross to call their men to arms. Period. Jamie lit his cross 90-something years before someone bastardized the long-held Scottish tradition.

Stand By My Hand: (Chills 5) So. Many. Feels. Loved the callback to S1E4 The Gathering. Isaiah Morton’s** realizing Roger didn’t quite get Jamie’s invitation, and teaching by doing, made me smile. Jamie’s being impressed Roger didn’t need to “Repeat what I say” made me smile more. Jamie’s looking to Brianna for confirmation before accepting Roger’s pledge made me tear up. Marsali’s pride at Fergus’s pledging his fealty — and at her not having to prompt Jamie to recognize Fergus’s worth — released those tears. The rest of the men’s lining up to more Moch Sa Mhadainn sealed the deal. Favourite scene, hands down.

Ghoistidh: Jamie’s knowing he’ll abandon Tryon eventually to fight alongside Washington, conflicting with Murtagh’s need to lead the Regulators and antagonize Tryon now, breaks my heart. And don’t get me started on Jamie’s releasing Murtz from his decades-old vow. 😭

Forewarning: If Murtz dies as a Regulator, and if Jamie is directly involved in his death, I will be inconsolable… about losing TV-Murtagh. Real Life Murtagh™ is safe, at home with me. 

Sadly Absent: Young Ian. I really missed Ian. And Rollo. (Which is more than I can say for Lizzie. She looked at Josiah Beardsley on the big house verandah the same way she looked at Young Ian on the Cape Fear boat.) Hurry home…

Reality Bites: Too clean? Too modern? Too fancy? Too funny. Three of the four main characters touched a rock and instantaneously travelled 200 years. One of them three stinkin’ times. Reality left the building at 37:41 of the first episode. (Well, Frank saw a ghost at 24:20, but who wants to talk about Frank?) Embrace the fiction…

Closing Credits: Reports of Ronald D. Moore’s executive-producer death have been greatly exaggerated. Like the author’s, we see his name in big, bold font immediately before and after the episode. **I recognized Isaiah Morton by John Quincy Myers’ “Come on, Morton, time waits for no man” during the drinking game (if you didn’t catch him there, Isaiah was the first man to pledge fealty to Jamie), but I can’t put faces to book-familiar names Murdina & Arch Bug, Margaret Chisholm, Duncan Innes, or Ronnie Sinclair. Could you? 🤔

Get your act together, Starz, and offer your app to the rest of the world. *On W Network in Canada I’m able to start watching Outlander 25 hours after Starz app users in the USA and Puerto Rico start watching it. Of course when you change your cable package without subscribing to W Network and discover your thinking it’s available for free preview in February is a mistake, 75 hours extends to 85 hours, minimum, what with having to wait till morning to call to subscribe. Blah blah blah. 🧀 🧀 🧀 to accompany the whine.

Note: If you choose to read my recap/review(s), and think, “Of course she’s all positive and happy about the show; she wouldn’t say shite if her mooth was full of it,” you’re sadly mistaken. Few things come more naturally to me than being negative and critical. I grew up in an environment where, if you have nothing nice to say, you make sure everyone can hear it. I wrestle with the ghost of that environment every time I open my mouth. I refuse to let it haunt my blog. #TV #Fiction #Fun

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Gifs: @mclintocks​ (1 & 2), @thewanderingace​ (3)

#Outlander #Personal #Review #TFC #S5E1 The Fiery Cross #Claire Fraser #Jamie Fraser #Brianna MacKenzie #Roger MacKenzie #Fergus Claudel Fraser #Marsali Fraser #Jocasta Cameron #Ulysses #Too Much Of Frank #Murcasta shmurcasta 🙄 #Slut #190 #021820

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Mr. Freeze 1/6 Scale Figure

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Harry Styles and Kendall Jenner with friends at a 2020 Brit Awards after-party in London (via levanahloves)

[idkmybias]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VERNON!!

[iwantsomesleep]

ORIGINAL:

[17'S 승관] 이도겸 ㅅㅊ ㅅㄱ

TRANSLATION:

[17′S SEUNGKWAN] Happy birthday Lee Dokyeom. Keep up the good work.

[fyeahprism]

prism_terra 오묘한 톤다운 🧖‍♀️by @zzina_style #염색 #염색추천 #톤다운염색 #매트브라운 #레이어드컷

[hash-tag-official]

hashtag_official_ [#수아]해삐들~ 맛점해요 오늘은 뭐먹을거예요? 히히😊 #해시태그#수아#점심시간#메뉴#추천#맛점#😍

[chieetos]

Monday

Dear You,

It’s Monday tomorrow and I cannot wait to see you.

I don’t usually like Mondays

but with you in it is always a happy day.

my heart flutters when i think of Monday

I saw you that Monday, early as usual

and i just can’t stop smiling

Someone commented how blooming I looked

How I wish you heard that because it’s “you” who makes me so happy

You cutted your hair that Monday

I noticed and so does everyone

They keep telling me how good you looked

and yes, that’s true

Oh, How I wanted to touch that hair of yours

but no, I’ll take the slow pace

So let’s be friends. For now.

[skybluelatte]

Happy Birthday DK!!! 💕💕💕

[the5sosarchive]

5SOS accepting an award for Youngblood in Sydney — Feb. 18th, 2020

[boyneriver-fraser]

Murtz at the ‘Broch 👨‍👦... AKA Murtz on the Ridge 🏔: Part 20

Murtz at the ‘Broch 👨‍👦 (Murtz on the Ridge 🏔: Part 20)… with Wee Jamie Fraser

What they said

I swore an oath Jamie Fraser, when you were no more than a week old and a bonny lad at your mother's breast.

She's gone now.

But I'll always be with you.

Always.

What Murtz was thinking

Someday they’re going to make us tie back our flowing manes, lad. Damn the establishment! 

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Gifs: @scotsmanandsassenach​

#Outlander #TFC #S5E1 The Fiery Cross #Murtz at the ‘Broch 👨‍👦 #Murtz on the Ridge 🏔: Part 20 #Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser ⚔️#Wee Jamie Fraser #186 #021820

[heliarae]

⟿ Rapline | Without You | 021820 THE SHOW

[mindful-air]

021820| Super pumped for New Horizons!

[idkmybias]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DK!!

[iwantsomesleep]

ORIGINAL:

[17'S 승관] 겸돌프 사슴코

TRANSLATED:

[17′s SEUNGKWAN] Kyeom-dolph’s nose