#alas! for he cannot do subtitles or keep track of names if they aren't English | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

watertightvines · 1 month ago

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I have not watched or read Outlander (not my thing), and will not watch or read Outlander (because my introduction to the author was the time she made Fandom Wank for some super out-of-pocket rants against fanfic, and so many people IRL insisted I totally should watch it anyway even after I explained why it wasn't my thing that now I SUPER won't do it out of SPITE), but you know who HAS watched all of Outlander?

MY FATHER

who really likes historical fiction, but is 100% offline and therefore clicks blindly on shows based on the setting alone

and has not only watched every episode of Outlander available on Netflix, but remembers character names and plot points, and is very frustrated that Netflix only goes up through Season 6 (but not frustrated enough to figure out where else to watch it)

#this is extra funny to me because meanwhile his siblings are scandalized by anything beyond the most austere PG-13 #this is also not the funniest show he watched all of bc he recognized the setting #the funniest show he watched all of bc he recognized the setting was the CW's Reign bc he had just read a Mary Stuart biography #'it really wasn't very accurate' YES FATHER IT'S ON THE CW #alas! for he cannot do subtitles or keep track of names if they aren't English #(as in: he keeps trying to get into Ancient Rome and Napoleon out of a sense of obligation but he loses the narrative too quickly)#(he feels bad about Rome but he honestly does not give a shit about Napoleon and that's so valid)

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