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Alway reblog a Golden!

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These are two tall, handsome men! ♡

grahammctavish  I think I’d quite like to live here. The journey continues…. @clanlands coming 2020 @samheughan #cawdorcastle #roadtrip #bicycles #history #tweed

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Free the piggies!!

Just straight up stole that sock

(Source)

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Pittsburgh guy!

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No.woman.ever. would squeeze the ass of "just a friend." Never.

Oh Sam... you love sick puppy! We all know you are reserved to Balfe... But keep telling us... I love when it comes from you.

I know, Anon!  Sam is too cute with his “Balfes reserved” IG story. 💗

Something tells me the feeling is mutual.

Heughan’s reserved. ��

Thanks for stopping by and sharing your observations, Anon! 💜

(bts video courtesy of LOutlander on Twitter)

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I have one question, "Will Jon walk out of the flames??"

Chrys Watches Got [x] / requests for individuals [x]

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Ok Sam we believe you 😂😂😂 

Credits: @kisstherain1 @jamesandclairefraser @yellowfeather84 @briannaefraser & myself

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Don’t get me wrong - i love the pics of SamCait on the red carpet or from a photoshoot…i really, really do…It’s just that the bts pics are even more precious to me because we see the obvious affection and love they have for each other rather UNPLUGGED…i mean, small glimses that are not guarded or posed but entirely SamCait without the prying public eye to interfer and still they tell a LOVE STORY. These pics speak even deeper to me than the adorable red carpet pics: about a mutual, deep love and affection - unguarded! Precious little gems indeed…

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If they don't bring Laura Donnelly back as Jenny I will be devastated :(..

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So I come out of my self-imposed Tumblr jail to put this out there ... I just don't get it. I feel like Elaine from Seinfeld saying that she hated "The English Patient."

Book challenge: most overrated book

I’m still going and I’m determined not to let this die… We’ve just found out l’m just terrible at challenges… Anyway, I wasn’t sure what this one actually meant, most overrated generally or by me. So, I’ve gone with both, and I’ve got two books in one post again.

My first book is generally overrated and for this I’ve gone with Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

I loathe this book, not the story but the book itself (1995 BBC version with Colin Firth is amazing!) I really dislike regency literature, and the period in general, and I can’t stand the false politeness of the characters the whole way through. I found Lizzy and Jane insufferable and Darcy was the only one I could stand (although Mrs Benet was hilarious, best bit of the novel and the only part I found funny). I seriously don’t get the love for this book as a book! For someone so caught up in history I found it difficult to read and unrewarding.

However, for my personally most overrated book I’ve picked Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.

This is a book I happened to read at the right moment, if I picked it up now for the first time I know I wouldn’t like it nearly as much as I do… But when I was 16 the atmosphere, aesthetic and immorality of the characters captured my attention. I have good memories of reading this book late into the night and adoring it.

It was a complete accident that I read it when I did, but elitist, classics driven books were my thing back then and I have found a soft spot for this book ever since. However, I have since seen the numerous problems with this kind of lifestyle, even if I haven’t fallen put of love with the idea of it… It’s the closest I get to a guilty pleasure really!

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Paleyfest 2018.

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The ultimate guide to traveling around the world, from how to pack your suitcase to how much you’ll be paying for a beer

Planning to travel to another country, even for a vacation, takes a lot of work.

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From applying for visas for your trips and finding an affordable flight to navigating the subway system, these 10 graphics have you covered.

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I enjoyed this show for about 4 episodes but the minute the conspiracy theories rolled out, I was gone!

Manifest, S01E10 - Complicated Mess

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Now we know where Bree gets her right hook!

1x09 // 3x08

I am so sorry Bree/Roger, this is how you slay a fight 😎

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All of this and I think Bree has a lot of growing up to do also. Furthermore - hello - a marriage of 2 only children would not be smooth sailing. Neither Bree or Roger have even found their vocation yet. As I was watching Claire & Brianna folding clothes I'm thinking neither of those women will be happily domestic for long.

There is so much angst about Roger in the fandom right now. Would you be willing to weigh in? I trust your opinion

It’s a really hard topic, but here are the things I know at this point in time: 

When I think of Book!Roger, my regard is generally positive. I love who he ultimately becomes, particularly his tenderness as a father. I also live for his relationships with Jamie and Claire– their love of him as part of their family is just so true and genuine, it makes me love him all the more. And, truly, his and Bree’s relationship often is a much more accurate reflection of the actual work of married relationships. It’s a dose of reality that can feel troubling compared to Jamie and Claire, but I appreciate it all the more, the longer I’m married myself. He and Bree have a wonderful relationship–but it’s not effortless, and that’s comforting to see, even in a romanticized fictional world. 

Season 2 and 3 Roger was deeply endearing, particularly in contrast to the limited glimpses we got of Brianna as a character in that same timeframe. In a way, he made up for the ways in which she lacked: In the times she may have come across as cold and unsympathetic, his warmth helped us believe in her. ((As a side note, I have been THRILLED with Sophie’s character and performance from the very first moment this season, and it’s so wonderful to be rooting for her so enthusiastically. All the kudos to her– She is finally, unquestionably my Bree!))

With those two things being the case, I’ve realized how easily I slip my blinders on for Roger’s behavior in Drums of Autumn. I read all the books in a nonstop marathon a year or two ago, so I didn’t have much time to fret about Roger as a negative character. I moved quickly from his YIKES moments in Drums straight to the other books, in which he really grows and develops. When it comes right down to it though, I believe many of his actions and stances are truly problematic, and as much as I hate to say it, I believe Season 4 is doing a good job of actually showing him in that light. The show isn’t pulling this stuff from nowhere: he actually says those things. He actually does those things, and that’s deeply uncomfortable because it’s a character i DO ultimately root for! 

For now, my bottom line opinion is that I know he’ll soon be shown in a much better light; even so, I’m not going to make excuses for his words and actions this season. They are what they are: pretty awful, and not how I or anyone I love would deserve to be treated. My sincere hope is that we get to see him actually have some remorse and growth, not just forgiveness. It would be so dreadful to see these things glossed over with a ‘Well, I was angry and a man, so that explains it. Love me!’ narrative. This is essentially how it comes across in the book, so I suspect there will be some of this. Still, one can hope.  

I’m crossing my fingers that they use all the conflict as a chance for he and Bree to have some true growth, as in “I can’t believe I said those things to you. Looking back, it was truly indefensible and I’m so sorry. I vow to be better and to actually hear you in our marriage.” Something along these lines will do so much to diminish the “Dear God, this fool does NOT deserve the sweet treasure that is Brianna” feeling that is dominating my viewing just at present. 

TLDR: I’m not writing Roger off or putting myself in the hate camp because I know what’s to come for him and I know he becomes a better person. Still, poking fun or shade at him in tags or reblogs feels like one of the only ways to deal with the visceral dislike season four Roger is provoking in me as a viewer. This is a grey area I’m fully okay inhabiting. 

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...or maybe some of us just retired 😐 60 & sexy

fandom is so weird you never know how old anyone is but you just kinda assume most of them are around your age until proven otherwise and then one day someone is talking about their 9 year old kid on your dash and another person is saying they just finished 10th grade. wild.  

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@boyneriver-fraser All of this and I am thrilled to see that Murtaugh's magic eyebrows are intact! What I have missed - and am missing still - is some quality Fergus/Murtaugh interaction. Maybe when the young Frasers make their way to the Ridge.

What are your thoughts on the mature- rebel -leader version of Murtagh this season?

Wednesday, January 3, 2019 (1817 Standard Outlander Time)

Dear @thetigerfanlove,

Welcome to my first Q&A of 2019! Thank you for initiating the New Year’s nonsense.

I’m setting aside my veil and bouquet to answer your question as a fan. 😉 Try not to visualize me as a 🐻 while you read my drivel. (Inside joke. Me dear ol’ pal tends to misidentify wild animals. 😹)

I am impressed with the mature, rebel-leader version of Murtagh this season.

In Season 1, we saw Murtagh as Jamie’s loving, loyal godfather-protector. A solitary man of few words, comfortably unkempt, and ready to support Jamie — and Claire — in any given day’s chaos.

During the first half of Season 2, we saw Murtagh with a new wardrobe and the unwelcome burden of that shameless slut Suzette. Despite these hardships, being Claire and Jamie’s closest ally remained his role, and so it continued when fate ferried the Frasers back to Scotland and into more relaxed clothing for the second half of the season. (We saw a brief glimpse of Murtagh The Leader when, under Jamie’s direction, he trained the lads to battle the Redcoats in The Rising of ’46.)

Unbeknown to us mere mortals, everyone’s favourite show runner, Ronald D. Moore, defied the Outlander book gods and delivered unto us one less dead Highlander on Culloden Field.

Murtagh FitzGibbons Fraser, meet Season 3

We saw Murtagh for a welcome, but all-too brief time last season and, between live rats’ biting him and his eating dead ones, we feared he might not survive. His weakened condition created a role reversal, with Jamie’s becoming his protector and his delegate in Ardsmuir Prison’s governor’s office. Murtagh was among the prisoners transported from Ardsmuir into indentured servitude in the Thirteen Colonies at the end of Episode 3 and, although his rat bite wound was healing and his general health improving, the poor soul still looked like death warmed over. Who knew if he would survive the sea voyage much less the next Droughtlander?

Enter Season 4 Episode 5 and boyneriver’s return to this cesspool of time mismanagement

#MurtaghSaved

Now we see Murtagh as a sly silver fox, with trimmed beard, washed knees, a confident air, AND A FREAKIN’ TRADE!

Much is made of the strife Claire and Jamie endured from the end of The Rising to the fainting in the printshop, but what of Murtagh’s suffering? There was no hot running water or Too Much Of Frank in well-furnished surroundings to comfort him. He had neither Lallybroch family, nor knowledge his (god)son was cared for by loving nobility, to ease his burden. He had become a reluctant outlander.  A stranger in a strange land.

Fortunately, misfortune could not keep a good man down.

Murtagh survived The Rising, the rat bite, transportation, indentureship, and loss of kith and kin. He carved out a life for himself outside of Scotland’s familiar embrace. He now has his own purpose, his own responsibilities, his own life. He’s the blacksmith! “Aye. I mastered all order of smithery.”

And yet… he’s still a Highlander. Dig that swatch of Fraser tartan boldly pinned to his chest.

And a proud one… The Redcoats and their king have already taken too much from his people. He’s mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore.

He’s had front-row seats, watching Jamie — and Dougal MacKenzie — rally civilians into action, along with his own stint as commanding officer during The Rising. Armed with reason rather than rifle, a confident Murtagh — independent of Jamie — has assumed a leadership role in a new rebellion.

New world. Renewed purpose. Same damn Redcoats.

Yes, I’m impressed with mature, rebel-leader Murtagh. He’s been to hell and back, and emerged stronger, wiser, and slyer. Like the sliver fox he is.

You know, I watched his scenes in Savages over and over, and not once was I reminded of Douglas MacKenzie’s rabble rousing in Season 1. Murtagh’s no snake oil salesman or showman — I mean, have you SEEN his sword dancing? — when he wants your attention, he calls a meeting. He doesn’t invite you to join him and the lads later for a drink. When Murtagh convenes the group, they already know the agenda. 

Do I think he’ll continue in this leadership role as is? Beats me. Do I want him to? No.

I want Murtagh — and Jamie, Fergus, Ian, and Roger — to work and play well with others, to pay fair taxes, and enjoy the rewards of life on Fraser’s Ridge. I want them to rebel against unfair taxes, civilly… from a distance. And when the times comes — SPOILER ALERT — for them to once more fight for their independence from British rule, I want them alive and well enough to answer the call. Let someone else’s husband lead the Regulators. Murtagh deserves life on the Ridge. And Brianna’s and her children’s generations have so much to learn from him.

And that, dearest @thetigerfanlove, is all about it. You — and anyone else in the class still sifting through this drivel — are good people. Thanks, again, for your question. Happy New Year and Alba gu bràth. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Slàinte!

boyneriver-fraser, BS, MS, PhD, lots of shady trees 🛶

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