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(Wife of a Broken Man)

Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser x Female OC

*I own only the OC, all other characters belong to the creators of Outlander*

Summery:

Having served with Claire as a nurse in WWII, Isla went with Claire and Frank to Scotland to see her mother’s home country. Her aunt Mrs.Baird told her stories of the stones and both Isla and Claire went to see for themselves the magic of the place. Neither expected to be transported 200 years into the past, nor did they expect to fall for rough and ruggedly handsome highlanders.

Will the women get back to their time and the loved ones they left behind, or will they fall too deeply into the strong arms of our favorite Fraser men?

18+ to Read!! (There will be smut down the road!)

Chapter 1:

One the road Claire and Isla traveled from village to village with the rent party. Slowly it dawned on the women that the men they were accompanying were more than just rent collectors, they were in fact Jacobites, supporters of the Stuart prince across the sea.

Night after night Dougal made a show of ripping off Jamie’s shirt to use his scars for their cause, horrifying Isla more that Claire, as she had never seen these scars and wasn’t told the story of his whipping. That first night when Dougal threw the shirt at Claire to mend and she fought him, Isla grabbed it and mended it instead without saying a word. Murtagh was grateful for her kindness and often started to show her small acts of kindness as thanks, after all, Jamie was the man’s heart and soul. So any act towards Jamie affected him greatly.

Every night throughout their journey Isla would mend the torn shirt and find small gifts the next morning. One day it was a few ripe apples and pears, another morning she found a bushel of heather flowers next to her pillow. It wasn’t until one morning, when she woke up to the smell of roasting meat, that she realized who was leaving these sweet gifts. Murtagh finished roasting the freshly caught duck and plated the bird just for her, finally thanking her verbally for the kindness and compassion she was showing his godson. He told her about the incident back at Lallybroch, the attack on young Jenny, the whipping, and the consequent death of Jamie’s father at the sight of it. Isla understood a little more of the stoic and quiet man after he shared the story, she realized the man held a strong love and loyalty to the young man who he followed everywhere.

They all continued their travels for a few more weeks, Claire tending to minor wounds with Isla’s help. Isla continued to mend the shirt when it was torn, and Murtagh spent more time with Isla, sharing meals and stories, until the day the English officer showed up at one of the villages. Claire had gotten drunk with some of the local wives and had made a scene trying to steal a goat back from the rents to help a mother feed her baby. And that was how Dougal arrived with Claire and Isla in the company of British officers telling stories of how they came to Scotland, planning their journey home. A plan cut short by the appearance of Black Jack himself.

Once again attacked by the vicious man, Claire being almost assaulted again, and Isla bruised and concussed. Dougal stormed in and took them away, stopping at a stream to make the women drink from a foul smelling river. Isla recognized it as the truth river, lies were said to burn the throat once one drinks from the stream. They both drank and both told him that they were not spies and simply came here by accident. Dougal, finally believing them, told them the only solution he could think of for their current predicament, for the two woman to marry Scotsmen and become Scottish citizens.

Back at the camp the other men are made aware of what happened….

“So, I have made up my mind about Mrs, Beauchamp, Jamie you will marry the lass. She’s a good woman, smart and Bonnie. And I ken ye are fond of the lass.” Dougal told Jamie, causing a blush to form on his face and the teasing laughs from the other men as they had all seen his interest in her.

“As for Ms Burns…” Dougal starts “I’ll marry the lass” Murtagh interrupts, staring expressionless at the chieftain.

“Will ye now? Well, I guess that will do fine, if the lass will have ye.” Surprised that the stoic man would take an interest in marrying a woman, after all, he had see murtagh fawn over his sister Ellen for years. It was hard to imagine another capturing his heart in the same way.

Across the field Claire and Isla sat discussing the new turn their lives were about to take.

“I feel like I am betraying Frank.” Isla’s heart broke for Claire, she had after all met frank and knew of the love they had shared. But it was looking more and more like they would never make it home to their own time. Isla knew that living in the past meant that they needed protection, and the only way to get that now was a husband. Isla had also seen the glances shared by Claire and her soon to be husband, knew that they could grow to love one another and be happy, which is all she wanted for her friend.

“Claire, Jamie is a kind and caring man, he would never hurt you and he’d continue to protect you. I know you love Frank, and he loves you, which is why he would understand. Frank researched this time, it was his specialty, and he would understand that the only way for you to stay alive and safe is to marry someone else. The man would move heaven and earth to keep you safe, he would want this for you.”

“What about you? You never mentioned anyone, is there someone you had back home? A man waiting for you?”

“God no! I’ve actually never been in a serious relationship, I’ve had the odd date here and there, but it never really went anywhere. None of them struck that spark, you know?”

“I do. Do you know who Dougal picked for you by chance? I didn’t hear him say.”

“No, he didn’t. At least you already know who you’re husband is going to be. And you know what to expect, I’ve never been with a man intimately, and now I don’t even know who I will be expected to sleep with.” A blush rose in her cheeks at the thought of a certain rugged highlander in her bed.

A silence lulled between the women, which shortly after was interrupted by Jamie and Murtagh walking towards them across the field.

“May I have a word lass?” Murtagh’s asked Isla causing her blush to deepen.

“Of course, I’ll talk to you later Claire.” She followed Murtagh into the near by woods, heart racing trying to keep her emotions and hopes in check.

“What is it Murtagh? Is something wrong? Did Jamie not agree to marry…”

“No lass, it’s not about that. Jamie will marry Claire, he agrees tis a good match. And he is ver’a fond of the lass.” He cleared his throat and stared fidgeting with his hands nervously.

“What’s wrong Murtagh?”

“It’s actually yer predicament which I wished to discuss Ms Burns.” Her brows creased questioningly at the sudden formality. “I wish to offer my hand as the solution to your problem. If ye would have me, I’d me honored to have ye as my bride.” A blush rose on his face so deep it was vibrant through his dark beard.

“Why are you offering Murtagh? Not that It is an unwelcome offer, quite the opposite actually.” His eyes widen in shock, believing that she would reject his offer, “But I will not say yes if you are doing this purely for kindness, like all the gifts you have given me.” Isla felt like she had just put her foot in her mouth and ruined her chance of getting the man she wanted, but she needed to know that he was choosing her for the right reasons.

“Isla, lass, have ye not realized? I have wanted ye since the night I first saw ye. “He grabs her chin and makes her look him in the eye. “Bonnie thing, with curves in all the right places, with that giant backside pressed right against me rocking the whole ride home” he growls stirring something in her. “Mind ye, it’s not just yer body I want, no lass, ye have made me want yer heart as ye have clearly stolen away wi’ mine. Yer kindness, to even the most cruel and distant of strangers. That someone would heal her captures and help a man w’out asking of his past.” His rough hand caresses her cheek as her eyes stared at him, with pure love and adoration, tear up at his sudden declarations.

“Isla, If ye will have me, I will protect ye and love ye, as I ne’er thought I’d love again. If ye say yes, ye will have all o’ me. What do ye say lass?” His eyes travel from her eyes to her lips, waiting for her answer. She leans in to him, like magnets they come together, their lips barely touching.

“Yes” he crushes her body to him as he passionately kisses her. She responds in kind one hand on his neck, the other combing up into his hair pulling him closer still. His hands wander along her curves, on her lower back in an attempt to bring her closer yet, while his other hand traveled further south over her hip and cupping her buttock firmly, causing a yelp which he happily devoured from her lips.

Reluctantly he pulled himself away, laughing at her lips chasing his. A blush deepening to a vibrant rose on her cheeks and a glazed look in her eyes.

“Dinna fash lass, ye will get more soon. But ye will be mine when ye do, and ye will no’ be leaving my side once ye are.” Murtagh whispers in her ear making her shiver and clench her thighs. Her response didn’t escape his notice, and his eyes darkened with lust at just how responsive his little bunny really was.

“Let’s get back to everyone and plan the joint ceremony, shall we lass?” Isla nodded and followed Murtagh back towards the clearing when they planned a joint ceremony with Jamie, Claire hiding somewhere until she had to be married the next day.

See you at the wedding….

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I updated this monster. 😂👏✨

I added Cal and the Foster Boys, because they won't stop screaming for more attention. 🙄🤣

Here are the other close ups again, just because.

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 22

1561 – On this date, the English statesmen, essayist and philosopher Sir Francis Bacon was born in London (d.1626). His influence over the James I, who held Bacon in high favor, inspired resentment or apprehension in many of his peers. He is best known for his philosophical works concerning the acquisition of knowledge and the general "scientific method."

He was also extremely fond of men. As the British scholar Rictor Norton points out that Bacon did not marry until the late age of forty-eight, and that contemporary figures, such as John Aubrey, related that Bacon was by preference homosexual. Aubrey noted "He was a Pederast. His Ganimeds and Favourites tooke Bribes". He was known for his preference for the "young Welsh serving-men" who were in his employ and who Bacon became a patron to. Rictor points out most a "young Tobie Matthew, who was left only a ring to the value of £30, but who had become Sir Tobie through Bacon's efforts, and who was well able to care for himself." Tobie was the inspiration for one of Bacon's most famous essays, "Of Friendship."

Several other authors also believe that despite his marriage Bacon was primarily attracted to the same sex. Professor Forker, for example, has explored the "historically documentable sexual preferences" of both King James and Bacon —and concluded they were both oriented to "masculine love", a contemporary term that "seems to have been used exclusively to refer to the sexual preference of men for members of their own gender." The Jacobean antiquarian, Sir Simonds D'Ewes even implied there had been a question of bringing Bacon to trial for buggery.

Indeed, evidence of Bacon's fondness for "red-cheeked lads from Wales" survives in the form of a letter written by Bacon's own mother, in which she complains about the long list of "servants and envoys" who find their way to his bed. She refers to a gay Spanish envoy as "that bloody Perez and bed companion of my son."

Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618, and the Viscount St Alban in 1621; as he died without heirs both peerages became extinct upon his death. He famously died of pneumonia contracted while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat.

1788 – Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron was born in London (d.1824). It's funny how Byron comes down to us as the über-heterosexual romantic, but the evidence of his deep same-sex love is very clear (if still denied by homophobic historians).While he was still a child, Lord Grey, a suitor of his mother's, made sexual advances to Byron. Although Byron was a very self-centered individual, it is probable that like most children, he would have been deeply disturbed by these sexual advances. His extreme reaction to seeing his mother flirting outrageously with Lord Grey after the incident suggests this; he did not tell her of Gray's conduct toward him, he simply refused to speak to him again and ignored his mother's commands to be reconciled.

Byron's later proclivity for, and experimentation in, bisexuality may be a result of his being sexually imprinted by both genders at an early age. Leslie Marchand, one of Byron's biographers, controversially theorizes that Lord Grey's advances prompted Byron's later sexual liaisons with young men at Harrow and Cambridge. Another biographer, Fiona MacCarthy, has posited that Byron's true sexual yearnings were for adolescent males.

While at Harrow school, Byron formed a circle of emotional involvements with other Harrow boys, which he recalled with great vividness: "My School friendships were with me passions (for I was always violent)." The most enduring of those was with John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare — four years Byron's junior — whom he was to meet unexpectedly many years later in Italy (1821). His nostalgic poems about his Harrow friendships, Childish Recollections (1806), express a prescient "consciousness of sexual differences that may in the end make England untenable to him".

"Ah! Sure some stronger impulse vibrates here, Which whispers friendship will be doubly dear To one, who thus for kindred hearts must roam, And seek abroad, the love denied at home."

While a student at Trinity College, Byron fell deeply in love with a fifteen year old choirboy by the name of John Edleston. About his 'protégé' Byron wrote, "He has been my almost constant associate since October, 1805, when I entered Trinity College. His voice first attracted my attention, his countenance fixed it, and his manners attached me to him for ever." Many years later, upon learning of his friend's death, Byron wrote, "I have heard of a death the other day that shocked me more than any, of one whom I loved more than any, of one whom I loved more than I ever loved a living thing, and one who, I believe, loved me to the last." In his memory Byron composed "Thyrza," a series of elegies, in which he changed the pronouns from masculine to feminine so as not to offend sensibilities.

In later years he described the affair as "a violent, though pure love and passion." This statement, however, needs to be read in the context of hardening public attitudes toward homosexuality in England, and the severe sanctions (including public hanging) against convicted or even suspected offenders. The liaison, on the other hand, may well have been 'pure' out of respect for Edleston's innocence, in contrast to the (probably) more sexually overt relations experienced at Harrow School.From 1809 to 1811, Byron went on the Grand Tour then customary for a young nobleman. The Napoleonic Wars forced him to avoid most of Europe, and he instead turned to the Mediterranean. Correspondence among his circle of Cambridge friends also makes clear that a key motive was the hope of homosexual experience. He was successful in this motive, as evidenced by the subject matter of poems like "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and other writings from this period.

Ultimately he was to live abroad to escape the censure of British society, where men could be forgiven for sexual misbehavior only up to a point, one which Byron far surpassed.

1893 – German actor Conrad Veidt was born in Berlin (d.1943). He was best known for his roles in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," and "Casablanca."

A bisexual himself, Veidt also also holds the distinction of starring in the first motion picture on the subject of homosexuality: 1919's "Anders als die Anderen" (Different from the Others) which was written and produced by German sexologist and early gay-rights champion Magnus Hirschfeld. "Anders als die Anderen" was released in a DVD format a few years back and provides an amazing historical document of the times.

Veidt also appears in Christopher Isherwood's "Berlin Stories."

The Man Who Laughs

His makeup for his title role in The Man Who Laughs is said to have been the inspiration for Bob Kane's The Joker, Batman's arch-enemy.

In late 1916, he was examined by the German Army and deemed unfit for service and given a full discharge in January 1917. Veidt then moved to Berlin to pursue his acting career. From 1916 until his death, he appeared in well over 100 films.

In the twenties, he moved to Hollywood and made a few films in the twenties but the advent of talking pictures and his broken English made him return to Germany.

Veidt fervently opposed the Nazi regime, motivating him to emigrate from Germany in 1933 a week after marrying Illona Prager, a Jewish woman. He settled in the United Kingdom, perfected his English and became a British citizen in 1938.

He continued making films in Britain, notably three with director Michael Powell: The Spy in Black (1939), Contraband (1940) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940).

In the 1940s he moved back to Hollywood, California, and starred in a few films, such as Nazi Agent (1942), in which he had a dual role as a Nazi and as the Nazi's twin brother, but his best remembered role was as Major Heinrich Strasser in Casablanca (1942). He found himself invariably playing the very characters he detested.

He died suddenly of a heart attack in 1943 while playing golf in Los Angeles. In 1998, his ashes were interred at the Golders Green Crematorium in London.

1898 – Sergei Eisenstein (d.1948) was a revolutionary Soviet film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films Strike, Battleship Potemkin and Oktober. His work vastly influenced early film makers owing to his innovative use of and writings about montage.

Eisenstein was a pioneer in the use of montage, a specific use of film editing. He believed that editing could be used for more than just expounding a scene or moment, through a 'linkage' of related scenes. Eisenstein felt the 'collision' of shots could be used to manipulate the emotions of the audience and create film metaphors.

In his initial films, Eisenstein did not use professional actors. His narratives eschewed individual characters and addressed broad social issues, especially class conflict. He used stock characters, and the roles were filled with untrained people from the appropriate class backgrounds.

Eisenstein's vision of Communism brought him into conflict with officials in the ruling regime of Joseph Stalin. Like a great many Bolshevik artists, Eisenstein envisioned the new society as one which would subsidize the artist totally, freeing them from the confines of bosses and budgets, thus leaving them absolutely free to create.

Eisenstein's popularity and influence in his own land waxed and waned with the success of his films and the passage of time. The Battleship Potemkin (1925) was acclaimed critically worldwide and popular in the Soviet Union. Acknowledged as his masterpiece, The Battleship Potemkin used editing and the rush of images to attain a greater emotional effect. Shot with the immediacy of a newsreel, this story of the naval revolt in Odessa in 1905 produced some of the most celebrated sequences in twentieth-century art: the Odessa steps scene must be the single most quoted, imitated, and parodied sequence in movie history.

The Odessa Steps sequence (7 mins 21 secs)

But it was mostly his international critical renown which enabled Eisenstein to direct The General Line (aka Old and New), and then Oktober (aka Ten Days That Shook The World) as part of a grand 10th anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1917. The critics of the outside world praised them, but at home, Eisenstein's focus in these films brought him under fire within the Soviet film community forcing him to issue public articles of self-criticism and commitments to reform his cinematic visions to conform to socialist realism's increasingly specific doctrines.

Chafing under the constraints of Stalinism, Eisenstein accepted offers to work abroad. Eisenstein returned to the Soviet Union in 1935, where he continued the spiral of falling out of and back into favor with the Stalinist regime. His remaining films - Bezhin Meadow [1937]; Alexander Nevsky [1939]; Ivan the Terrible, Part I [1942]; Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot [1946]; and the surviving fragment of Ivan the Terrible, Part III [1947] - were marked with the tensions of the political turmoil in which Eisenstein was embroiled.

Eisenstein's personal life was also chaotic. He married twice in response to political pressure, but his marriages were never consummated. His unexpurgated diaries, published as Immortal Memories, are filled with accounts of his infatuations with many young men, including his assistant, Grigori Alexandrov.

Often his infatuations (as in the case of Alexandrov) were with young heterosexual men, whom he would educate and assist in their careers. His drawings, exhibited during the centenary of his birth, include many illustrations of homosexual activity.

Despite his difficulties with censorship and other problems, Eisenstein created a remarkable legacy. His films reveal his continued commitment to experimentation in form. Alexander Nevsky, his first sound film, contains spectacular scenes, most notably the Battle on the Ice, as well as the incomparably thrilling film score of Sergei Prokofiev.

Ivan the Terrible, an intensely Expressionistic study of political power and corruption, with immense sets, voluminous costumes, and amazingly hyperbolic lighting, represents a contrast to this earlier work. It was not dynamically edited, but relied on extended long takes, in which dialogue, sound effects, and music were crucial. Ivan the Terrible pointed to new operatic possibilities in motion pictures.

From Strike to Ivan, Eisenstein's career always excited controversy - much of his work was either destroyed or confiscated - but he remains one of the most important filmmakers in history, the exemplar of the true intellectual artist.

Eisenstein suffered a hemorrhage and died at the age of 50. An unconfirmed legend in film history states that Russian scientists preserved his brain and it supposedly was much larger than a normal human brain, which the scientists took as a sign of genius.

1942 – Today was the birthday of Mexican director, screenwriter and editor Jaime Humberto Hermosillo (d.2020). Often compared to Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, Hermosillo's films often explored the hypocrisy of middle-class Mexican values.

He was also openly Gay and has explored such themes in his work. His films include Esmeralda Comes by Night, Forbidden Homework , El Misterio de Los Almendros, and the Gay classic Dona Herlinda and Her Son about a young bachelor doctor who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramon.

At the time of his death Hermosillo was teaching film-making at the University of Guadalajara and had recently collaborated with his students on several projects. On 13 January 2020, Hermosillo died at the age of 77, 9 days before his 78th birthday.

1969 – Gary Frisch (d.2007) was co-founder of the Gaydar website. He was one of the UK's leading gay businessmen.

Frisch was born in South Africa. He was educated at Boksburg High School and studied computer science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg while working for De Beers' industrial diamond division. After graduation, he set up a computer software company, Frisoft Software, which he sold to Q Data (now named Business Connection) in 1994. He was a technical director with Q Data until he left South Africa in 1997.

He moved to the UK in 1997 with his boyfriend, Henry Badenhorst, to set up QSoft Consulting, an information technology consultancy firm. After a friend complained that he was too busy to look for a new boyfriend, they launched the Gaydar internet dating website in November 1999 from their home in Twickenham.

The website rapidly became very popular. There had been gay dating sites before, but they were slow and laborious. Gary developed two features which speeded things up: Who's Online told participants who was actually there, and Instant Messaging made immediate contact and chat possible. After its first year, Gaydar had 78,000 registered members. By 2007, Gaydar had more than 3.5 million users in 23 countries. In the UK, it accounts for more than 72 per cent of gay and lesbian traffic on the internet, with more than 1 million members. The Gaydar brand expanded into other areas: Frisch was chairman of GaydarRadio, a digital radio station founded in 2002.

After Gaydar came the digital radio station GaydarRadio and GaydarGirls. Gary and Henry then bought one of their main rivals, Rainbow Network, held GaydarDays at Alton Towers and sponsored pride events, such as the Sydney Mardi Gras.

So successful has Gaydar been that it has been blamed for a downturn in the numbers of men visiting gay bars, clubs and cruising grounds. Some have also blamed it for a rise in unsafe sex. But its reach is so great that the Terrence Higgins Trust now hosts a chatroom, offering sexual health advice, and many police community safety officers have profiles enabling gay men to report homophobic crimes.

Badenhorst and Frisch's personal partnership broke up in 2006, although they remained business partners.

In 2007, Gary Frisch was found dead below the window of his eighth-floor flat in Wandsworth, South London. A verdict of misadventure was recorded by Dr Paul Knapman, the coroner at the inquest. A pathologist, Dr Peter Wilkins, said raised levels of ketamine were found in Mr Frisch's blood and liver.

2009 – On this date a sociologist at an Iranian university presented a study showing high levels of homosexual experiences among the country's population. Iran has strict laws against sex outside marriage and other sexual acts such as masturbation. Adultery and same-sex acts are punishable by death. Startling new research from sociologist Parvaneh Abdul Maleki found that 24% of Iranian women and 16% of Iranian men have had at least one homosexual experience. 73% of men and 26% of women surveyed said they had masturbated.

Ms. Maleki presented her findings at the Third Conference on Well-being in the Family and the story was reported in the Iranian press, albeit as a report on sexual deviance in need of treatment. The report also revealed that more than 75% of those who grew up in a conservative religious environment have watched pornography, 86% have had a heterosexual relationship outside of marriage and just over 4% have had Gay or Lesbian relationships.

Since Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, human rights groups claim that between 3,000 and 4,000 people have been executed under Sharia law for the crime of homosexuality. In September the President of Iran admitted in an interview that there may be "a few" Gay people in his country, but attacked homosexuality as destructive to society. In an interview with US current affairs TV program Democracy Now, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also rejected criticism of the execution of children in Iran.

During a visit to the US in 2007 he said in reply to a question posed about homosexuality during his speech at New York's Columbia University: "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon, I don't know who has told you that we have it." In his TV interview in September he condemned American acceptance of Gay people. "It should be of no pride to American society to say they defend something like this," President Ahmadinejad said. "Just because some people want to get votes, they are willing to overlook every morality."

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The Strength of a High and Noble Hill (Outlander)

Chapter 53: Snuffing Out the Messenger Bird

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Brian groans as he wakes up slowly. The back of his head is pulsing, throbbing in pain. Did something hit his head? He tries to reach to check his head but finds his hands restricted. Wha–

He has no idea where he is, or how he came to be here, but there are voices, lots of voices, but Brian can't decipher their words. For a moment, he feels as though the voices are inside his head. Brian opens his eyes, his vision blurry. He stares numbly for some minutes as men swarm before him in a sea of colours, swirling blues and reds and yellows, mixed with blobs of green and brown.

Is he sitting on the ground? Brian jerks hard at the rope round his wrists but only succeeds in digging the rough material farther into his flesh. He can feel the burn and a damp feeling that he thinks is oozing blood, but Brian can't be sure as his hands have gone numb and an ache courses through his body. He moves to stand or sit up, only then realising that he is bound.

The others are still talking, though, and now Brian is able to seize on a word here and there and try and decipher what is being said. Several pairs of legs swim into view.

"He's James MacQuiston." Says one voice. "From Hudgin's Ferry." 

"You are sure?" A second asks. Brian wonders, dimly, why he's asking this. Sure of what? Brian is sure of nothing, save that he is in a bad way. 

"Yessir." Says a third voice. "I saw him in Murtagh Fitzgibbons's camp, palavering with him. You ask amongst the prisoners, sir—they'll say so." 

"You saw him in the battle?" The second voice asks for confirmation.

James MacQuiston. He'd heard of MacQuiston... what...? 

"He killed a man in my company." The first voice says, his voice harsh with anger. "Shot him in cold blood as he lay wounded on the ground."

The first voice, he's heard it before.

Brian's vision clears as the faces swim into view. He gags around the fabric in his mouth, stopping him from speaking.

Two men are standing over him. One is unfamiliar, with dark hair and eyes. He is a soldierly-looking man in his late thirties, dressed in a red uniform. The second face swims into view alongside the first. This one seems familiar, face fringed with a thick black beard.

The third, however, looks very familiar. Dirty blond hair, broad-boned, handsome face with deep, striking green eyes. The green eyes looking down on him, dispassionate.

William Buccleigh "Buck" Mackenzie! Green-eyes is Buck! Roger's own great-grandfather – the bastard son of Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie. His sense of relief at remembering the name is succeeded instantly by shock as he realises that Buck had told them he is MacQuiston. Why—

Brian hears a groan next to him. He turns to see Roger next to him. Face beaten bloody, mouth gagged with cloth and wrists and ankles tied with rope. He blinks blearily at Brian. It clicks then. He remembers.

There had been a fight between Roger and Brian, and Buck's group. After having tried and failed to convince Murtagh to abandon this fight, they had come across a group of women washing clothes with one of them being Morag Mackenzie. She was a woman Roger had met and saved aboard the Gloriana on his voyage from Scotland to the colonies and also Roger's ancestor. It was absolutely great to meet Morag and to see Roger be reunited with his four-times great-grandmother. A sweet scene, until it wasn't...

Brian forgets that certain gestures from a 20th century time traveller's point of view are not perfectly innocent from the point of view of 18th century husbands. If he had, he wouldn't have hugged Morag like he did, and Roger would have stopped him, but Brian had been so excited to meet the woman who is Roger's ancestor that things went wrong. Then they were approached by the enraged Buck.

The rustle that occurred with Buck and his followers led to Brian and Roger being exposed as being on the militia side when their cockades fell from their pocket, a traitor in the men's eyes. They had then knocked Roger and Brian out with the butt of their guns.

As the memories flood his mind and Brian tries to stand, but his wrists and ankles are tied. He manages to get to his knees, hunched like an inch-worm, but lifts his head to see Buck, with a faint smile and his eyes on Brian, put his hand in his pouch and draw out a yellow piece of cloth folded to look like a flower. With a small shock, Brian recognised his own militia badge. Oh God.

Brian shivers as he looks at Buck in horror. His clothes feel damp due to Buck and his friends having thrown him and Roger into the river after he and Roger had first woken up, pressing their heads underwater. Recalling how shots were still being fired nearby; not in volleys, but a ragged popcorn rattle. The air reeked with black powder smoke, and every so often, something came whistling through the trees.

Then they'd gagged him with the flag of truce, Roger with another cloth, and stuffed the kerchief so deep into his throat that he was close to choking, and knotting his own stock round his mouth. Brian gags with reaction at the memory, feeling bile rise up the back of his throat.

He remembers not much else after being knocked out once more until he woke up.

"And which one is—" The soldier asks.

Buccleigh points at Brian. "That'll be him, Colonel Chadwick." Then points at Roger. "And he is his accomplice."

"Very well. Take MacQuiston, too, then." The soldier, Colonel Chadwick, says and turns away. "Leave his accomplice. Three will be enough for Governor Tryon for now." 

Hands grip Brian's arms and jerk him upright, pulling him so that he stumbles, his weight supported by two men dressed in uniform. He pulls against them, wanting to turn and find Roger and Buck, but they yank him round, compelling him to stumble toward a small rise, topped with a huge white oak and surrounded by a sea of men, but they fall back, making way for Brian and his escorts. He sees the horses beneath the tree, the looped nooses hanging above the empty saddles from its branches.

The three chosen ones are quickly prepared for execution and forced to stand on a horse. Brian throws himself to the side, trying to fall off the horse, but hands catch him and push him back, one strikes him hard across the face. He shakes his head, eyes watering, and through the blur of tears sees who he thinks is Roger, fighting against the captors to save him. To save Brian.

The sack is placed over his head, the rope is placed around his neck, drawn tight about his throat, and Brian screams behind the gag. He continues to struggle with a strength beyond what he had ever imagined he possessed, desperate to survive. His highs clench so hard about the horse's body that it jerks under him in protest.

A voice is speaking, but Brian hears nothing for the roar of blood in his ears. Then he feels his bottom slide back over the horse's rump. Now, without the animal's support, Brian's legs dangle helplessly. He hears a wrenching jerk, and then he is spinning, choking, fighting for air. His hands have come loose, and he tries to tear at the rope, but it is too late.

He dangles, kicking, and hears a far-off rumble from the crowd. He kicks and bucks, feet pawing empty air, hands clawing at his throat. His chest strains, his back arches, and his sight goes black, small lights flickering in the corners of his eyes. And then the stubborn impulse leaves him and he feels his body stretch and loosen, reaching, reaching for the earth.

"Brian!" Ellen's cry breaks through as he falls into unconsciousness. 

——

A/N: Sorry to those who thought Murtagh was going to change his mind. He is never going to do that because it would be too out of character.

For those who don't remember, the name Buck MacKenzie gives when he turns over Brian is, James MacQuiston – (1736–1804), was a native of Pennsylvania. He was a spy on the western frontier of the colonies; he was affiliated with the Regulators, and his two brothers were present at the Battle of Alamance. 

Please leave comments on how you're enjoying this story and what you think.

[werewolfetone]

EVIL late 18th century Irish politics would be like. Henry DEPRESSION McCracken. James PESSIMISM. DIVORCE Ann McCracken. Henry DROUGHT. Theobald Wolfe TINT. Lord Fitzgibbon. Works of Jonathan SLOW. Lord NORMALHOUSEreagh

[adamwatchesmovies]

Blood Beat (1983)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

I have the nagging suspicion that Blood Beat writer/director Fabrice-Ange Zaphiratos either has a thing for samurai or just had samurai armor lying around when they started making this film. This is a hodge-podge of a horror movie. Random things happen consistently enough to keep you thinking this might become “so bad it’s good” but not consistently enough to actually make it worth seeing.

During the Christmas season, Cathy (Helen Benton) and her longtime partner Gary (Terry Brown) welcome Cathy’s son Ted (James Fitzgibbons) and daughter Dolly (Dana Day) to their home. Along to visit is Ted’s girlfriend, Sarah (Claudia Peyton). Immediately, Cathy’s psychic senses detect something strange within Sarah. After a hunting trip gone bad, she has a dream about a samurai armor (and matching sword) and soon after, the armor appears, with a mind of its own and a craving for blood.

I can appreciate a supernatural horror film wanting to keep its cards close to its chest but Blood Beat - whose title is as arbitrary as the rest of the film - takes it too far. Cathy’s can read minds and fend off psychic attacks, which makes her a great painter? Are the two supposed to be related? Her family is aware of her visions but if there’s a link between them and Sarah, we’re never told where it came from or what it means. There’s got to be a link. Otherwise, why would the girl who previously showed no supernatural abilities dream about a samurai armor and later find this magic wooden trunk that contains it? Speaking of which, when the samurai finally confronts Cathy, we're shown shots of old black-and-white WWII footage. Does this imply that Cathy is way older than she seems, that she somehow met the samurai during the global conflict? Your guess is as good as mine and keep in mind, I’ve actually sat down and watched the film.

There are many weird decisions throughout Blood Beat (sometimes titled Bloodbeat). Whenever the samurai attacks, Sarah gyrates like she’s having a wild orgasm. At first, I thought it was just some weird quirk but it's established later that there’s some sort of erotic link between it killing and her feeling pleasure. Why? Who knows. Equally perplexing is the film’s tendency to slap special effects onto the screen willy-nilly. A few times throughout, we see things from the samurai’s point of view. Sometimes, it’s normal. Other times, it’s the worst monster vision you’ve ever seen. It’s a wonder the thing can navigate through the woods without bumping into trees, much less sneak up on people and eviscerate them. Whenever we see it from other people’s perspectives, the armor is surrounded by a blue glow - a cheap special effect whose edges you can sometimes see and that consistently makes it near impossible to tell what’s going on. Combined with the bizarre musical choices (many classical pieces play throughout), you’re likely to develop a headache while watching.

The most frustrating thing about Blood Beat is that it should be hilariously bad. The movie is so random it consistently keeps you guessing. The special effects are dreadful and distracting. The jokes practically make themselves. As mesmerizing as this mess becomes, it's never the movie you want it to be. There are simply too many boring scenes, the action takes too long to kick in and when it’s bad, it isn’t bad enough to be memorable. (January 2, 2023)

[comicbookclub]

Michael Rooker’s 'Creature Commandos' Character's Name Is A Deep Cut James Gunn Easter Egg

Michael Rooker's character on this week's episode of Creature Commandos is a sneaky Easter egg for a friend of James Gunn.

On this week’s episode of Creature Commandos, frequent James Gunn collaborator Michael Rooker shows up in the role of Sam Fitzgibbon. If that last name sounds familiar? Well, it probably doesn’t. But it is shared by not one, but two other characters from previous properties tied to the DCU. And in fact, it’s a deep cut James Gunn Easter egg… Not any sort of secret connection in the burgeoning DCU…

[theperfectpints]

Chissà cosa racconterebbe ora James Joyce. Come rappresenterebbe la sua Irlanda, come userebbe i suoi flussi di coscienza, come descriverebbe i suoi personaggi alla continua ricerca di un sussulto liberatorio. Una cosa è certa. È ancora possibile ascoltare le parole dello scrittore irlandese in pieno centro a Dublino. A due passi da ‘The Spire’, all’incrocio tra O'Connell Street e North Earl Street. Grazie al progetto ‘Talking Statues’ finanziato da ‘Fàilte Ireland’ e promosso tra gli altri dal Comune di Dublino, dall’Abbey Theatre e dal Trinity College, è stata data nuova vita ad alcuni personaggi storici legati alla capitale irlandese, immortalati in alcune statue dislocate in alcune parti della città. Quella in ottone raffigurante James Joyce è stata realizzata nel 1990 dalla scultrice statunitense Marjorie Fitzgibbon. Rinominata dai dublinesi, non troppo affettuosamente, “prick with the stick”, l’opera lo ritrae in una condizione di apparente riposo, intento a scrutare le vie della sua città natale, magari infastidito dalla moltitudine di turisti di passaggio. Insomma, scannerizzando il codice posto ai piedi della statua è possibile ancora sentire la voce dello scrittore. Parole che raccontano scenari forse ancora attuali e personaggi ancora alla ricerca di quel sussulto liberatorio. 🇮🇪 ✍️ 🗿 🤓 © Irish tales from Rome

[renee-writer]

Love Comes First Chapter 1

AO3

“How did we end up with all these children?” They hear Faith and Tabitha arguing in their room, James playing his music, way to loud in his, and the babies, Peter and Leah playing, nicely for now, in theirs.

 

She lifts her eyes. “Well Pastor Fraser, when a man and woman really love each other…”

 

He laughs, drawing her into his arms. “We may just get one for each spoon.”

 

“The heck you say!” She turns towards where the female shrieks are coming from, “Faith, Tabby, enough,” towards James’s room, “turn the music down son.”

 

A moment later, silence reigns. It won’t last.

 

They  meet in university. He was studying theology, she home economics. He wants to be a minister, she a homemaker. It was love at first sight.

 

They marry in her second and his third year. Two years of seminary follow.

 

James is born the year his daddy graduates. Faith follows two years later. Tabitha arrives three years after, Peter two, and Leah four years later. They are done, despite his joke about the twelve apostles spoons.

 

“Mama, Tabby has my new jumper and won’t give it back!”

 

“It isn’t fair. It matches my eyes better and I have to look good today.”

 

“Why do you have to look so good today?” Jamie asks. His twelve year old sighs dramatically.

 

“Da, it is the first day I can go to the youth group. I must make a good first impression.”

 

“Please no. Don’t tell me she is going to youth group?”

 

“Faith, she is twelve now. That is when you started.” Her da reminds her.

 

“Aye, and I thought my life was over,” James comes out and joins the conversation, “I adjusted. You will too.”

 

“It isn’t the same. I’m not a brat.”

 

“Da! Mama!”

 

“Enough!” Claire silences them all, including Peter and Leah still playing in their room, “Faith we do not call names in this family, do we?”

 

“No mama.”

 

“Tabitha, we also do not borrow clothes without the owners permission.”

 

“Right, sorry Faith.” She hands her back her jumper.

 

“Me too. Your not a brat.”

 

“Now Tabby, the green jumper of yours will be beautiful with your black skirt.”

 

She smiles and hugs her mama. They walk back into their room, now laughing and discussing outfit choices.

 

“Now that is solved, can I borrow the car?”

 

“Where would you be driving too?”

 

“Da, I am seventeen,” Jamie raises his eyes, “alright. I am going to the library to study,” now his mama raises hers. Their eldest isn’t known for his attention to his studies, “really. I have a midterm in biology coming up. The library is quieter.”

 

“Alright. You may. Drop your sisters off at church and pick them up after youth group. That will give you two hours to study. If you need more you can return after dropping them at home.”

 

“Thanks da. You’re not going tonight?”

 

“No, Mr. Fitzgibbons is in hospital and I will be visiting with him.”

 

“Man, is it serious?”

 

“He had a knee replacement. Nothing to bad.”

 

“Good. I like that old man.”

 

“I will pass on your good wishes.” He kisses his wife, steps in to the littles room, saying goodbye to them, before heading out.

 

“Jamie, how good of you to come.” He has known Murtagh Fitzgibbons since before he took his post at church, twenty years previous. He has been a neighbor of his.

 

“When my favorite parishioner gets his knee replaced  I wouldn’t be anywhere else. Fergus can handle youth group.”

 

“Aye but can he handle Faith ‘s reaction to Tabby joining?”

 

The two men laugh together.

 

“Claire had a talk with them. It may just go okay.”

 

“Eh, she has a way with the bairns. You are a blessed man.”

 

“Aye, I know it. How are you? How is your pain?”

 

“Tolerable. I am brawl. The medicine is working not that I wish to be on it longer than I have too.”

 

“Just don’t force it. You do as the doctor says.”

 

“What are you doing?”

 

Faith jumps as her sister comes up beside her.

 

“Tabitha Ann, what are you doing sneaking up on me?”

 

Tabby rolls her eyes. “I wasn’t sneaking. I called your name twice.”

 

Faith flushes. “Sorry. I must have been daydreaming.”

 

“Aye about Fergus.”

Her eyes narrow as she turns to her sister. “You don’t know what you are talking about.”

 

“I saw you mooning over him. Da won’t…”

 

She jerks her sister into a more private part of the large youth room. “You won’t be telling him.”

 

“Why not?”

 

“Because we are sisters and have a bond. It isn’t like I know I can have him. A youth minister twelve years older than me. He is just…”

 

“Gorgeous.” Tabby says.

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Faith, Tabitha, will you be joining the group.” The man himself asks.

 

Both are blushing as they do.

 

 

“I am hear to study.” He firmly tells himself. Even so, his eyes keep lifting from his biology book and notes to the lass sitting at the table beside his.

 

Beautiful dark black air, falls in ringlets around her face. Her eyes are framed by the largest lashes he has ever seen.

 

He forces his eyes back down.

 

“Have you been watching me?”  He looks up at her with a blush.

 

“Pardon me lass. I never meant to…”

 

“Sophie.” She offers her hand. He takes it.

 

“James Fraser.”

 

“I love your hair.” They say together before bursting out laughing.

 

“Would you like to help me with dinner?” She sticks her head into their room.

 

Peter lays on the top bunk, reading a comic. Leah sits her little table, having a tea party with her dolls and stuffies.

 

“Aye mama. Coming Peter?”

 

“Aye,” He jumps down, “mama I have been thinking, what this family needs is a dog.”

[firegoddess96]

Bean duine briste

(Wife of a Broken Man)

Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser x Female OC

*I own only the OC, all other characters belong to the creators of Outlander*

18+ to Read!! (There will be smut down the road!)

Summary:

Having served with Claire as a nurse in WWII, Isla went with Claire and Frank to Scotland to see her mother’s home country. Her aunt Mrs.Baird told her stories of the stones and both Isla and Claire went to see for themselves the magic of the place. Neither expected to be transported 200 years into the past, nor did they expect to fall for rough and ruggedly handsome highlanders.

Will the women get back to their time and the loved ones they left behind, or will they fall too deeply into the strong arms of our favorite Fraser men?

Prologue: A summary of the altered story before chapter 1

Having fallen through the stones Claire and Isla wonder through the Forrest in search of the road to Inverness, only to be cornered by a man who looks like Frank Randall. As Claire is pinned to a tree about to be assaulted, Isla raises a jagged rock to strike Black Jack over the head, only to have a large bearded man beat her to it.

With Black Jack unconscious the women are whisked away by the bearded Scott to a cabin not far away. The room is full of more rugged Scotts, one of whom is injured, Claire steps forward to relocate the young red headed man’s shoulder while she swears like a sailor. The women then introduce themselves, Claire by her maiden name and Isla by her own name.

After the man is bandaged up, the women then are forced on horseback, Claire with the redhead named Jamie and Isla with Murtagh, the bearded man who found them. The ride is long, cold and wet, forcing them to share the tartan with their riding partners. In the middle of the night Claire recognizes the ambush location and warns the men, who dislodge the women form their saddle and tell them to hide. The men fight and find the women, continuing their journey to the castle.

When they arrive the next morning Claire and Isla are introduced to Mrs. Fitz, Murtagh’s aunt, who shows Isla her room and helps Clair clean Jamie’s wounds. Once dressed properly, the women are taken to meet the Laird, Colum Mackenzie, and are interrogated. Claire tells a tale of a widowed woman on her way to relatives in France, while Isla told a version of the truth, that she is a friend simply traveling with Claire on her journey. Colum still having doubts interrogates them at dinner and then holds them as “guests” for an undecided amount of time.

While held hostage, of a sort, Claire is made healer of the clan and keeps busy with herbs and tonics. Isla spends her time looking after Colum himself, having some experience with disfigured limbs and a decent understanding of his, not yet diagnosed, condition. Colum being very grateful, due to his decreased pain, allows Isla more room to explore the castle and spend time with Mrs.Fitz and her family.

When the time comes for the rent party to leave, Dougal, Colum’s brother, requests both women to accompany the party as insurance that Claire wouldn’t run away while on the road.

This is where our story begins…..

Chapter 1- June 2nd

Chapter 2-

[suekreandtheidiots]

Two more sticker designs. Calling this my "Lovely Idiots" series! 💖

Avery and Daryl, as well as Cal and Jett. There's no shortage of loving and smooching (annnnd other stuff 👀) in the idiotverse, I can assure that. 😂

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.22

217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War. 813 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian. 910 – The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine). 1527 – Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta. 1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans. 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy. 1774 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America. 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France. 1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake. 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a thirty kilometres (19 mi) journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon. 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears. 1870 – The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress. 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. 1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged. 1898 – Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26 km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings. 1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1911 – Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana. 1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana. 1940 – World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918. 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. 1942 – World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk. 1942 – The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress. 1944 – World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre. 1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill. 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end. 1948 – The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom. 1948 – King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India. 1962 – Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, killing 112 people. 1965 – The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed. 1966 – Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Buddhist Uprising. 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1978 – Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy. 1979 – Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him. 1984 – Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark. 1986 – The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup. 1990 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin. 2000 – Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people. 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response. 2009 – A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured. 2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco. 2012 – A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria. 2015 – The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured. 2022 – An earthquake occurs in eastern Afghanistan resulting in over 1,000 deaths.

[immobiliter]

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐓 ――   Repost, don’t reblog;

𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒 ――

FULL NAME:  James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser NICKNAME: Jamie ALIASES: Jamie Mactavish, Laird Broch Tuarach, Red Jamie, Dunbonnet, Alex Mackenzie, Jamie Roy / Alexander Malcolm, Colonel Fraser. SEX: male. SIZE:  6'2". AGE: I write him between the age of 22 and his late 50s. ZODIAC: Taurus (May 1st) SPOKEN LANGUAGES: Gaelic, English, French

𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒 ――

HAIR:  a red/auburn colour, long and worn loose in his youth, but tied up more frequently later in life. FACIAL HAIR: he normally has some light stubble. EYES: blue. SKIN TONE: he's a pale scot. BODY TYPE:  well built, muscular. VOICE:  enjoy. DOMINANT HAND:  right. POSTURE:  he carries himself like any soldier would, tall and broad, often towering over everyone else. SCARS: Jamie has many scars, but most notable are the lash marks across his back, and the healed gash on his inner thigh from Culloden. TATTOOS: none. PIERCINGS: none. BIRTHMARKS:  none. MOST NOTABLE FEATURES:  his mop of auburn hair, the scars on his back, his broad shoulders.

𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐃 ――

PLACE OF BIRTH: Lallybroch, Scotland. HOMETOWN: Lallybroch, Scotland. SIBLINGS: William Fraser, Jenny Fraser, Robert Fraser. PARENTS:  Brian & Ellen Fraser.

𝐀𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 ――

OCCUPATION:  Scottish Laird, Jacobite rebel, Prisoner, Printer, Smuggler and Landowner. Not all at the same time, mind you lmao. CURRENT RESIDENCE: Fraser's Ridge, North Carolina. CLOSE FRIENDS: Lord John Grey, Murtagh Fitzgibbons, Anora Theirin, Elizabeth Swann. FINANCIAL STATUS:  verse dependent, but mostly comfortable. DRIVER'S LICENSE: n/a. CRIMINAL RECORD: a reformed (maybe) enemy of the British Crown and former Jacobite.  VICES: his anger and pride for sure, his tendency to act first, think later, the fact that he is a violent man, as well as his somewhat traditionalist views.

𝐒𝐄𝐗 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 ――

SEXUAL ORIENTATION:  heterosexual. PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE: switch. PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE:  switch. TURN OFFS:  this is pretty tricky to define aside from "anyone who is not Claire" lmao. but I think, talking about an AU during the twenty years without Claire, Jamie would struggle to go for anyone who wasn't strong-willed and stubborn. LOVE LANGUAGE: physical touch, words of affirmation, acts of service, gift giving, quality time. all of it, basically. he loves to love. RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES: completely and utterly devoted ? he's the most romantic bastard ever.

𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐒 ――

CHARACTER'S THEME TUNE: moch sa mhadainn HOBBIES TO PASS THE TIME: Jamie enjoys reading, playing chess, hunting, fishing and busying himself with his hands around Fraser's Ridge. He built the main house in Fraser's Ridge mostly by himself and enjoyed every second of it. LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED: left brained. SELF-CONFIDENCE LEVEL: he is pretty confident in himself, his moral compass, and the love he holds for those around him.

TAGGED BY: @goldenngore   TAGGING: anyone who would like to do this!

[legends-of-time]

The Strength of a High and Noble Hill (Outlander Story) Timeline - 17th and 18th Centuries

Thought I would a timeline here as my timeline is a mix of my own stuff and the show/books. This will be getting updated as I go along. This is also for our own sanity to look back at. Advice is not to read if not up to date with current story as spoilers. Been split into two.

Masterlist

(19th and 20th Centuries)

23 December 1688 - James VII and II is deposed in the Glorious Revolution and is succeeded by his daughter Mary II as Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland along with her husband and co-ruler King William III and II

March 1689 to February 1692 - First Jacobite rising

1691 - Brian Robert David Fraser is born (Lovat/Davina)

1695 - Ellen Catriona Sileas Mackenzie is born (Jacob/Anne)

8 March 1702 - Anne becomes Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland then Queen of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 May 1707

1 August 1714 - Queen Anne I dies and is succeeded by George I, King of Great Britain and Ireland

September 1715 to February 1716 - Second Jacobite rising

1716 - Brian and Ellen marry and William Simon Murtagh Mackenzie Fraser is born (Brian/Ellen)

1719 - Janet (Jenny) Flora Arabella Fraser is born (Brian/Ellen)

5 June 1719 - Battle of Glen Shiel (third Jacobite attempt)

May 1720 - Ian Murray is born

1 May 1721 - James (Jamie) Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser is born (Brian/Ellen)

1726 - Laoghaire MacKenzie is born

1727 - King George I dies and his son succeeds him as George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Jamie’s brother William dies of smallpox

1729 - Lord John Grey is born and Ellen Fraser dies giving birth to Robert Brian Gordon Mackenzie Fraser (Brian/Ellen) who dies as well

1 May 1733 - Gillian Edgars/Geillis Duncan arrives through the stones from 1968

1735 - Fergus Claudel Fraser is born

1739 - Geneva Dunsany Ransom is born

October 1740 - Jamie is captured by Captain Jack Randall, Brian Fraser dies of a stroke and Jamie flees to France

1740 - Jenny marries Ian Murray

1741 - James (Young Jamie) Alexander Gordon Fraser Murray is born (Jenny/Ian)

May 1743 - Claire arrives through the stones at Craigh na Dun and meets Jamie who's returned to Scotland

June 1743 - Claire and Jamie get married

November 1743 - Margaret (Maggie) Ellen Fraser Murray is born (Jenny/Ian)

January 1744 - William Buccleigh Mackenzie is born (Dougal/Geillis)

February 1744 - Claire and Jamie leave for France

12 May 1744 - Brian Ian Fraser is born in Paris

August 1744 - Jamie returns from the Bastille

September 1744 - Arrive at Lallybroch

February 1745 - Katherine (Kitty) Mary Fraser Murray is born (Jenny/Ian)

July 1745 - Battles begin (fourth and final Jacobite rising)

17 September 1745 - The Jacobites take Edinburgh

September 1745 - Lord John and Brian meet

21 September 1745 - Jacobite victory at Prestonpans

December 1745 - The Jacobites take Derby few hundred miles from London then retreat north

17 January 1746 - Last Jacobite victory at Falkirk

March 1746 - Mary Hawkins marries Jack Randall

16 April 1746 - The Culloden near Inverness defeat and Brian to future through the stones at Craigh na Dun with a pregnant Claire and appear mid April 1948

1748 - Michael Brian and Janet Ellen Fraser Murray are born (Jenny/Ian)

December 1749 - Caitlin Maisri Fraser Murray is born and dies (Jenny/Ian)

1751 - Marsali Jane MacKimmie is born (Simon/Loaghaire)

15 November 1752 - Young Ian James Fitzgibbons Fraser Murray born (Jenny/Ian)

February 1753 - Fergus loses his hand to a British soldier

16 May 1753 - Jamie enters Ardsmuir Prison

1755 - Lizzie Wemyss is born (Joseph)

1756 - Josiah Beardsley and Keziah Beardsley are born

September 1756 - Jamie arrives at Helwater

9 January 1758 - William (Willie) Clarence Henry George Ransom is born (Geneva/Jamie) and Geneva Dunsany Ransom dies

1760 - Rachel Hunter is born

25 October 1760 - King George II dies and his grandson succeeds him as George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland

26 April 1764 - William Tryon becomes Governor of North Carolina

July 1764 - Jamie leaves Helwater

Early 1765 - Jamie marries Laoghaire but soon moves to Edinburgh

1766 - Rollo is born

November 1766 - Claire comes through stones at Craigh na Dun from 1968 leading to Jamie’s annulment to Laoghaire

Spring 1767 - Fergus and Marsali marry in Jamaica

September 1767 - Jamie and Claire settling on newly established Fraser's Ridge

December 1767 - Germain Alexander Claudel Mackenzie Fraser is born (Fergus/Marsali)

May 1769 - Brian and Ellen come through the stones at Craigh na Dun

June 1769 - Meet the Murray's

July 1769 - Brian and Ellen meet Lizzie Wemyss and travel to the US

September 1769 - Meet with Roger in US, Bonnet’s attack then find reunite with family

November 1769 - It’s revealed Ellen is pregnant and Roger is sold to the Mohawks

December 1769 - Move to River Run as Claire, Jamie and Ian look for Roger

5 March 1770 - Boston Massacre

March 1770 - Re-meet Lord John

April 1770 - Fergus and Marsali arrive at River Run on their way to Frasers’ Ridge

May 1770 - Claire and Jamie return (Ian has been adopted by Kanyen’kehaka) and Jeremiah (Jem or Jemmy) Alexander Ian Fraser MacKenzie is born (Ellen/Roger)

June 1770 - Roger returns to Fraser’s Ridge

September 1770 - Joan Laoghaire Claire Fraser is born (Fergus/Marsali) and Hillsborough Riot

October 1770 - The Gathering at Mount Helicon and Ellen and Roger marry

December 1770 - Building a Militia to hunt regulators (Beardsley's and Brownsville), orders to dismantle and Lieutenant Knox’s death

March 1771 - Jocasta's wedding to Duncan Innes at River Run

May 1771 - Battle of Alamance - Murtagh’s death and Brian nearly dies by hanging

30 June-8 July 1771 - Tryon leaves North Carolina and becomes Governor of New York and on 1 July James Hasell becomes the new Governor of North Carolina

12 August 1771 - Josiah Martin becomes the new Governor of North Carolina

[amanita-the-spore-druid]

I HATE James Fitzgibbon for very specific reasons unrelated in any sense to his life or who he is