#brianna randall mackenzie

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Outlander 7x16 "A Hundred Thousand Angels" Promo (Season Finale) - Check out the promo for Outlander Season 7 Episode 16 "A Hundred Thousand Angels" airing next week on Starz.

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||COUNTDOWN ||SEASON 7 EPISODE 02 || THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH ||

#83daysofoutlander☆

THE SKY WAS A FLAT, LEADEN COLOR, threatening rain, and the wind gusted through the palmettos, rattling the leaves like sabers. Down in the depths of the tidal forest, the four stones loomed beside the creek. “I am the wife of the laird of Balnain,” Brianna whispered, next to me. “The faeries have stolen me over again.” She was white to the lips, Amanda clutched close to her breast. We had made our farewells—we had been saying farewell, I thought, since the day I pressed the stethoscope to Mandy’s heart. But Brianna turned and flung herself—baby and all—at Jamie, who pressed her so tight against his heart, I thought one of them must break. Then she was flying at me, a cloud of cloak and loosened hair, and her face was cold against mine, her tears and mine mingling on my skin. “I love you, Mama! I love you!” she said in desperation, then turned and, without looking back, began to walk the pattern Donner had described, quietly chanting under her breath. A circle right, between two stones, a circle left, and back through the center—and then to the left of the largest stone. I had been expecting it; when she began to walk the pattern, I had run away from the stones, stopping at what I thought a safe distance. It wasn’t. The sound of them—a roar, this time, instead of a shriek—thundered through me, stopping my breath and nearly my heart. Pain froze in a band round my chest and I dropped to my knees, swaying and helpless. They were gone. I could see Jamie and Roger running to check—terrified of finding bodies, at once desolate and elated to find none. I couldn’t see well—my vision swam, flickering in and out—but didn’t need to. I knew they were gone, from the hole in my heart. “TWO DOWN,” Roger whispered. His voice was no more than a faint rasp, and he cleared his throat, hard. “Jeremiah.” He looked down at Jem, who blinked and sniffed, and drew himself up tall at the sound of his formal name. “Ye ken what we’re about now, aye?” Jemmy nodded, though he flicked a scared glance toward the towering stone where his mother and his baby sister had just vanished. He swallowed hard, and wiped the tears off his cheeks. “Well, then.” Roger reached out a hand and rested it gently on Jemmy’s head. “Know this, mo mac—I shall love ye all my life, and never forget ye. But this is a terrible thing we’re doing, and ye need not come with me. Ye can stay with your grandda and grannie Claire; it will be all right.” “Won’t I—won’t I see Mama again?” Jemmy’s eyes were huge, and he couldn’t keep from looking at the stone. “I don’t know,” Roger said, and I could see the tears he was fighting himself, and hear them in his thickened voice. He didn’t know whether he would ever see Brianna again himself, or baby Mandy. “Probably . . . probably not.” Jamie looked down at Jem, who was clinging to his hand, looking back and forth between father and grandfather, confusion, fright, and longing in his face. “If one day, a bhailach,” Jamie said conversationally, “ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael—ye’ll tell him your grandsire sends his regards.” He opened his hand, then, letting go, and nodded toward Roger. Jem stood staring for a moment, then dug in his feet and sprinted toward Roger, sand spurting from under his shoes. He leaped into his father’s arms, clutching him around the neck, and with a final glance backward, Roger turned and stepped behind the stone, and the inside of my head exploded in fire. Unimaginable time later, I came slowly back, coming down from the clouds in fragments, like hailstones. And found myself lying with my head in Jamie’s lap. And heard him saying softly, to himself or to me,

“For your sake, I will continue—though for mine alone . . . I would not.”

120 IF ONLY FOR MYSELF ~ A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES

[themusicsweetly]

Outlander 7x02 | Granny!Claire + Grandda!Jamie

[wardrobeoftime]

Outlander + Costumes

Brianna Fraser's creme, red, blue & grey dress and brown & blue cloak in Season 04, Episode 12.

// requested by @lulu-cat-princess

[mr-culper]

In general, the brothel scene was brilliantly film. I especially liked the shooting angle from above, because Aemond looks like death there.

I really like how they did it. Although for me this whole scene was, as it's said, too much, a bit thick. Well, I don't know, but it was hard for me, I felt uncomfortable watching the brothel scene from the beginning to the end. And yet milk. Oh, Christ.

But then I thought maybe it should be uncomfortable.

We had grown accustomed to watching someone being killed, tortured, maimed in TV series. Game of Thrones has rape scenes. Outlander has rape scenes, and they are filmed in remarkable way. Several women were raped there, at least one child, – on top of that then his hand was cut off after some time, – and one man. And the scene with the male character, oddly enough, is the worst of all: he was in prison at that time, he was tortured, abused and raped. The scene is truly monstrous, awful and nightmarish, but I watched it, and you know what, it didn't really scratch me. I mean, I was like: well, ahh, that was terrifyingly, what next? let's continue to watch next. And my gut tells me that I wasn't the only one who thought so.

That is, now, for some reason, we – humanity – take a calmly view of very scary things. Or very indecent ones. In TV series, there are explicit scenes of torture, explicit scenes of sexual content, which are also generally inappropriate to show, yes, some other 'too much' moments... and that passes for normal. However, as soon as one shows a scene where a character is just lying on someone's soft lap, trying to abstract their mind, and all this is so vulnerable, tender and fragile, that people say: we feel uncomfortable!

So, watching someone being raped or murdered, or how captain Flint struck Singleton across the face with a cannonball and beat him to a bloody mess – this is normal for us, but watching a person who is vulnerable, open and seeks solace – is no.

We, the audience, are so unprepared to face our own vulnerability that we feel uncomfortable seeing it in someone else.

We are ready to meet with any expressions of violence against other people, against ourselves, because life is dark and full of terrors. One reads the news items every morning, there is an endless chain of murders, explosions, riots, arson attacks, terroristic acts, and some other villainies happen all the time. It has even start to wear thin! We have become so accustomed to it that at some point one sits and says: ah, someone was blown up here again, something fell there, something was burned out, someone was shot, those built a trebuchet and bomb their neighbors across the border, someone was flayed alive. In general, nothing new. You just sit and think: okay, things are getting worse every minute, but overall, it's possible to live, just live on, we are constantly faced with all this, so, darling, just keep yourself alive, please...

And then they show us Aemond in a brothel, and we are not ready for it. We feel uncomfortable, because we begin to feel vulnerable ourselves.

In Black Sails, in Season 3, John Silver says an absolutely wonderful phrase: I cannot look weak, I cannot feel weak, I cannot be weak.

I totally agree.

We are all obsessed with... well, not all of us, but many of us, I know people like that, I am that person myself... with not being weak, not looking or feeling weak, with being strong in any situation. I'm obsessed with self-control as well. Maybe that is why Aemond is so like-minded for me, not only because of fierce embitterment contained in both of us, but also because of the idea of controlling our own feelings.

I used to be very wishy-washy in my previous life. Now I'm a kind of reasonable person, but before... I'm very ashamed of who I had once been, because I complained about my life, I was spineless, weak, neither fish nor fowl. It really pissed me off, I hated and despised myself for it. At some point, I realized: I must to grab myself by the balls (figuratively speaking), clench my fists and jaw, stand out the cords of my neck and become a strong person or do something of that kind to stop despising myself. So yes, I'm obsessed with the idea of ​​self-control, with being someone who solves problems, neither creates ones nor suffers from them.

And maybe for me, and maybe for many others, it was uncomfortable to watch the scene with Aemond and Sylvi for this very reason, because all of that is such an exposure of the human soul that you just unable to bear it.

I really like the House of the Dragon screenwriter's innovation in this regard. The brothel scene hit us where it hurts the most. Well done. I'm delighted. They did this scene so great. I love it showed Aemond from his vulnerable side, from the side of a person who is also worried, being emotional over, but is trying to somehow solve all this in other ways. It doesn't mean Aemond does nothing. He does what no one else does – he thinks. He takes a break and reflects.

That's an excerpt from the new episode of the Tea & Rum podcast about Aemond's first brothel scene.

To find more episodes go to Boosty.

[silverflameataraxia]

[imdonnalynn]

Outlander Season 7 Episode Guide

Season 7

Claire Beauchamp Randall, a nurse in World War II, mysteriously goes back in time to Scotland in 1743. There, she meets a dashing Highland warrior and gets drawn into an epic rebellion.

#7.1 - "A Life Well Lost" (60m) (Season Premiere) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Jun 16, 2023 Jamie races towards Wilmington to rescue Claire from the gallows, only to discover that the American Revolution has well and truly reached North Carolina.

#7.2 - "The Happiest Place on Earth" (60m) ★★★★★★★★★✰ Fri, Jun 23, 2023 Claire makes a startling discovery about Roger and Brianna's newborn daughter. A familiar face returns to the Ridge with explosive consequences.

#7.3 - "Death Be Not Proud" (60m) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Jun 30, 2023 Jamie discovers Arch Bug has been keeping a dangerous secret. In the 20th century, Roger and Brianna find a link to Jamie and Claire.

#7.4 - "A Most Uncomfortable Woman" (60m) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Jul 7, 2023 On the way to Scotland, Jamie is pulled back into the Revolutionary War. William is sent on a covert mission. Roger and Brianna struggle to adapt to life in the 1980s

#7.5 - "Singapore" (60m) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Jul 14, 2023 At Ticonderoga, Jamie and Claire prepare for an imminent British assault. Roger compiles information about time travel while Brianna earns the respect of her coworkers.

#7.6 - "Where the Waters Meet" (53m) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Jul 21, 2023 Jamie and Claire help civilians flee Ticonderoga after the fort falls into British hands; Roger discovers the identity of the mysterious "Nuckelavee."

#7.7 - "A Practical Guide for Time-Travelers" (55m) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Jul 28, 2023 Jamie prepares to face British forces in battle. Roger and Brianna question Buck MacKenzie's intentions in the 20th century; William fights in the First Battle of Saratoga.

#7.8 - "Turning Points" (59m) ★★★★★★★★★✰ Fri, Aug 11, 2023 Jamie fights in the pivotal Second Battle of Saratoga. Roger and Brianna search for Jemmy.

#7.9 - "Unfinished Business" (60m) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Nov 22, 2024 During her honeymoon in 1945 Scotland, a combat nurse unexpectedly travels through time to the 1700s.

#7.10 - "Brotherly Love" (60m) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Nov 29, 2024 Claire and Ian arrive in Philadelphia to help the ailing Henry Grey. Roger and Buck receive an unexpected clue in their search for Jeremy.

#7.11 - "A Hundredweight of Stones" (60m) ★★★★★★★★★✰ Fri, Dec 6, 2024 Claire turns to John Grey for comfort as they process difficult news. Ian and Rachel discuss their love and their future. Brianna confronts an intruder at Lallybroch.

#7.12 - "Carnal Knowledge" (59m) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Dec 13, 2024 After a heated meeting, Lord John's circumstances take a turn. An extraordinary deed merits an offer from Gen. George Washington.

#7.13 - "Hello, Goodbye" (59m) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Dec 20, 2024 Brianna works thwart a treacherous plan that endangers her family. Ian and Rachel take a huge step in their relationship. A surprise encounter for Roger brings a new understanding.

#7.14 - "Ye Dinna Get Used to It" (1h) ★★★★★★★★✰✰ Fri, Dec 27, 2024 The truth about Lord John Grey's mysterious disappearance is revealed; Brianna faces off with the foes threatening her family.

#7.15 - "Written in My Own Heart's Blood" ★★★★★★★★★✰ The American Revolution reaches the pivotal Battle of Monmouth; Lord John Grey and Ian race to save William; Brianna makes an important decision. Fri, Jan 3, 2025

#7.16 - "A Hundred Thousand Angels" ★★★★★★★★★✰ Denzell must perform a dangerous operation with the skills he's learned from Claire; William asks for help from an unexpected source in his mission to save Jane. Fri, Jan 17, 2025

[beefsteakclub]

So glad the show cut Rob Cameron attacking Bree to the point he got her pants off. Finally they are cutting some of the trauma.

I'm more relieved that Roger didn't meet Black Jack tho. That whole scene in the book had me Panicking. That serial killer makes my skin crawl in the worst way.

I'll take the weird time traveling letter gladly if it means not seeing that.

[opheliapenning]

In these pages, I first understood what it meant to be another person. True empathy. Even if I was just a fledgling being constantly adapting, I could always dip my toes into the lives of others. It wasn’t imagination, as such, because I was there. These characters sunk their teeth somewhere inside my soul, and I was glad of it. No greater teacher existed. 

- Ophelia Penning

[viking-raider]

So, I'm doing my traditional pre-new Outlander season rewatch, where I watch from Season One to the Season before the new one is going to air.

Just finished Episode Seven of Season Three and something has deeply bothered me. -- When Claire gives Jamie issue for not telling Elder Ian that Young Ian is with him in Edinburgh. That he didn't understand what it was like to be a worried parent.

Now, I understand Claire's point, he should have told Ian. But, in truth, I find a bit cruel of her to say.

Jamie does understand what it's like to be a worried parent. Perhaps not like she does, getting to raise Brianna. But Jamie was a parent worried about a daughter, and a son in William, that can't have a hand in helping or watching his children's lives be shaped. He was a worried parent not knowing what happened to his and Claire's child once she vanished through the stones.

Did she and the baby make it through the stones safely?

Did she get back to her own time, and not some other random time?

Did Frank take her back and was he good to a barn that was conceived with his wife's, other husband 200yrs before?

Did Claire have the baby, or did she miscarry again, like she had with Faith?

It annoys me further, his own sister, Jenny, rubs something of the same in Jamie's face in the next episode, after he suggests a different punishment for Young Ian running off. Asking if Jamie is "an expert on raising barns now?"

I'd say, out of all of them, James Alexander Malcom MacKenzie Fraser, has the most experience and is the expert at being a worried parent for his children.

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Outlander 7x11 "A Hundredweight Of Stones" Promo - Claire turns to John Grey for comfort as they process difficult news; Ian and Rachel discuss their love and their future; Brianna confronts an intruder at Lallybroch.

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||COUNTDOWN ||SEASON 5 EPISODE 10|| MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME||

#83daysofoutlander☆

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Behind-the-scenes of Outlander 7x02 "The Happiest Place on Earth"

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Outlander + Costumes

Brianna Randall's brown & grey-blue dress in Season 04, Episode 07.

// requested by @lulu-cat-princess

[brotherhoodoftheblade]

Ah, I see! I've been paying zero attention to what's been going on with S7 thus far - other than the gifsets featuring John that end up on my dash periodically, I've been contentedly clueless. lol Although...if they're already nearly five episodes into book 7 and Percy still hasn't shown up (and I think he'd been in the very first chapter of Echo) then he mostly likely won't make an appearance (for S7 at least). :/

Haha, well, I hadn't even heard of the Outlander books until the show came out, and then John became my new favourite character in S3 so when I found out he had his own books series I just excitedly jumped straight into reading them. And then after I'd finished them I went through the OL books just to read John's parts and find out what happened with him afterwards -- which largely proved a disappointing experience, unfortunately.

Though I was gasp-worthy excited when I first started Echo and Percy was unexpectedly introduced! And yeah, having read BotB before he shows up in the OL books makes a huge difference to how readers perceive him. People who haven't read it just take John's assessment of Percy at face value without realizing what an unreliable narrator he is when it comes to him; his perception of Percy is far too strongly coloured by his own personal biases to be taken straightforwardly.

Haha, good, if the Jamie/John ship rests on the bottom of the ocean for you then you'll be far less likely to be offended by my sometimes blunt AF opinions of it. lmao So there was a brief period where I could still see the appeal (or more the interest) of J/J - when I first watched S3, during the years before Claire returned - but then I read the books and THAT experience put SO many nails in that coffin that I doubt I could ever resurrect it, even if I wanted to. And I DON'T. It fundamentally irritates me on so many frigging levels (which I will kindly spare you an essay on lol), so should you ever post your meta on the subject I will be all eyes (although John & Jamie are still estranged throughout Bees so there's no interaction between them). 😂

But YES, the ever perpetual pining on John's part just makes me want to smack him for being a goddamned idiot lacking in self-respect and common sense at this point. smh 😐

My feelings about the situation are pretty succinctly summed up by John in these two scenes. In the first one I still had a great deal of sympathy for John (despite thinking it highly unethical of him to fucking proposition a prisoner of a gaol he's the bloody warden of). But fast-forward 20 years of the same nonsense (and yes perpetuating the done to death stereotype of the gay man in love with his straight best friend - internalized homophobia/bisexually coded elements of the narrative notwithstanding - for literal decades is complete and utter regressive nonsense, and John deserves so much better!) and my initial visceral reaction to John in the second scene was not sympathy but, "Omg, please just get out of my face with your woe-begotten needy cow eyes already!" 🙄

I mean, how exactly am I meant to maintain my sense of empathy for someone who's spent well over TWENTY BLOODY YEARS OF HIS LIFE behaving like a dumbass who's glutton for punishment by building his whole life around a man he knows perfectly well can't/won't ever love him back??? At a certain point I've found myself asking whether someone who's made himself such a martyr to love, rather than actually making a real effort to FIGHT for his own happiness, is in fact truly deserving of happiness.

Certainly he has little to no business whining about his own loneliness and heartache when all he's done is keep digging the hole deeper rather than trying to climb out of it. Sure, you can't control who you love, but you CAN control your own actions, and at a certain point you just have to shake yourself and refuse to keep feeding the fire of an unrequited love and make yourself bloody well move on with your life.

This kind of prolonged fixation isn't remotely romantic to me anymore (if indeed it ever was), it's just ridiculous and tedious. Such high levels of stupidity are just plain beneath John's intelligence, and it's a poor and toxic excuse for gay representation to boot. (Full offense meant, Gabaldon.💀)

(I did give you fair warning that I can be blunt AF about my opinions, did I not? 😂)

So Brianna...yeah, I find her quite easy to like, given what I know of her so far. She's far more my type than Claire, actually. I mean, she's very intelligent (I LOVE that she's an engineer! <3) and passionate, but at the same time she's also much more reserved and tactful. She doesn't just wear all her thoughts and feelings on her face/sleeve, which I personally quite appreciate. I find characters that are so overt as to be easily understood kind of boring. I like characters who make me work to understand what makes them tick, I like a mystery.

Plus, I love red hair on women (just not really on men, sorry not sorry, Jamie :P) and Bree just makes the bi part of my brain pleasantly tingle. lol And 60s!Bree in particular is just...😍

Although, 18th century!Bree isn't without her charm...💕

Sorry. *coughs* What was I saying? Got distracted. lol

Also, I'm probably very much in the minority of liking Brianna more than Claire, if only for the reason that she doesn't viscerally get on my nerves the way Claire does. Don't get me wrong, I actually do really like Claire a good part of the time, but just in terms of personality, she can grate on my nerves. She has an abrasive personality (to me), and people like her always instinctively rub me the wrong way. (Behold the personal bias. lol)

(If I had to psychoanalyze myself, I'd say it stems from self-hatred. I can't stand anyone who seems to share the qualities I dislike most in myself, and I know just being around them brings out the worst in me. I've always been drawn to people who are gentle and sweet in temperament (probably why I love Percy so much, and why he brings out my protective nature), and I feel like I'm the kind of person I most want to be around them, too.

(Another part of the reason I'm drawn to John/Percy over Jamie/John - the latter are far too much alike for my taste, sharing a lot of the same negative qualities, thus ending up locking horns half the time as a result, whereas John and Percy's opposite personalities both challenge the other while balancing each other out and providing much greater scope for personal growth over time.

Contrastingly, what do John and Jamie truly have to learn from each other? They've known each other for over 20 years and Jamie has yet to really learn how to NOT be a homophobe - and, NO, him treating John as the lone honourable exception to his perception of gays generally being depraved, pedophilic perverts does not count as him truly having unlearned his prejudice against them - really the thing Jamie needs most to have learned from his friendship with John.

And as for John...there's honestly nothing he has to learn from Jamie that he didn't already know himself (they already share the same ideals and sense of honour, after all). He's convinced himself that he needs Jamie far more than he actually does, while in reality he's just been using the idealized version he holds of him (as a talisman and as his "North Star") as an unnecessary crutch to lean against rather than take responsibility for leading his own life. At this point, he's long been using Jamie as an excuse to keep his heart on a shelf and away from the risk of further grief and loss...that abyss within himself he so deeply fears.))

But yeah, Brianna generally has a much gentler mien than Claire, but she's no less strong, and possesses greater self-control to boot. <3

(Got carried away there - again xd - but I'm done now, I swear. LOL)

john/percy making me come back to tumblr in 2023 lmao

[vavuska]

Can we talk about how unlucky is Roger in Outlander? Beaten up, sold and enslaved, beaten up again and hanged... Falling in love with Brianna caused a lot of trouble in his life...