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Wednesday 100: Dialogues

Ian doesn't mind traveling without (human) companionship — there is even peace in moving softly through forests with only his thoughts — and yet this time he finds himself breaking the quiet, speaking aloud to his mother.

“For all that ye've said I have too much Fraser in me,” he tells her, “it seems I've Murray enough to keep convincin’ pigheaded Frasers to value their lives over their limbs.”

He smiles imagining her responding hmph, and tries to keep from conjuring a conversation next with Uncle Jamie, one about the precise feeling he might have had the moment he saw Auntie Claire.

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Wednesday 100: Genesis

He doesn't know why he says it. After all, he's been reciting his full name and title practically since he learned to walk, knew the responsibilities it entailed before he could read. Still somewhere in his mind, from beyond true memory, there has always been this other name: so simple, attached to a voice — powerful, yet somehow tender too? — and a sense of warmth and safety.

No one will etch William James on his gravestone or in history books, yet if he is to die, this seems somehow too much a part of his story to remain unsaid, at least once.

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Murtagh cutting off the Dukes head and laying it at Claire’s feet was hotter and more romantic than anything Jamie has done or will ever do.

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ao3 down what am i supposed to do with my life

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Which Hogwarts House would Claire Beauchamp been Sorted into?

I can think of reasons to put her in all four, honestly. But the Claire in this story will be intelligent and ambitious enough to become an Unspeakable. Sweet enough to still enjoy healing people, though it’s not her job. And as usual, she’ll be a badass (with a wand this time). So where should she have Sorted?

Please comment with suggestions and tell me why!

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it’s very funny to grow up and become the age you used to think adults were so old and wise at and realize that their inner monologue was ABSOLUTELY “shit shit shit shit shit shit” the whole time 

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Outlander S07E04 "A Most Uncomfortable Woman"

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friend: i heard you got super glue on your fingers, are you okay?

me: 👌

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TIL “Yankee Doodle” was written by the British to mock americans. “Doodle” is thought to come from the German “dödel”, meaning “fool” or “simpleton” and “macaroni,” a flamboyantly stylish type of dress, painting the Yankees as morons who thought placing a feather in one’s cap made them a “dandy.”

via reddit.com

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PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2023

day 1: favorite adaptation + day 2: favorite tv show

jamie and claire + book to screen (in/sp)

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All the time the ghosts flit past and through us, hiding in the future.  We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway.  By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.

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“ Jamie wasn’t given to purely romantic gestures…I didn’t make romantic gestures, either.”

An Echo in the Bone, chapter 9

Claire's Choice

In 07x03, we see on screen a small, yet powerful scene from early in An Echo In The Bone:

I...turned the blade and pricked the end of my own thumb with the point. It was amazingly sharp; I scarcely felt it, but a bead of dark-red blood welled up at once. I put the knife into my belt, took his hand, and pressed my thumb to his. "Blood of my blood," I said.

What I *love* about this moment - even more than the deliberate parallel to the blood vow that Jamie and Claire made at their wedding - is that it's Claire who chooses to cut herself, reaffirming her vow.

Because at the altar, she didn't choose to marry Jamie. And Jamie knew it - which is why he honored her with a church wedding, and a nice dress, and the best wedding night he could provide.

Claire didn't expect or choose the blood vow, either - Dougal took care of that part.

I saw Dougal draw Jamie's dirk from its sheath and wondered why. Still looking at me, Jamie held out his right hand, palm up. I gasped as the point of the dirk scored deeply across his wrist, leaving a dark line of welling blood. There was not time to jerk away before my own hand was seized and I felt the burning slice of the blade. Swiftly, Dougal pressed my wrist to Jamie's and bound the two together with a strip of white linen.

So - almost thirty years later, Claire shows Jamie how not only is she yet again recommitting to him, most importantly she CHOOSES him. She chooses to honor him, and their marriage, in this way.

Even after so much catastrophic loss - their reputation, their family, their home. All of which they worked so very hard to build for each other. They shoulder the burden together - they choose to continue, side by side.

Which is why, to me, this vow is so profound.

He knows what she's doing. He holds out his thumb, and honors her choice. Knowing that despite it all, he has her, and she has him, and they will always continue to choose each other.

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reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future