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always-outlander · 1 year ago

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Outlander 7x06 Thoughts & Easter Eggs

Spoilers below the cut!

I wasn’t sure if we’d be getting this scene, due to the pacing of Williams storyline and how trimmed down it’s become, but I was happy to see the episode open with William arriving at Ticonderoga from Crownpoint. He’s seeking Brigadier Simon Fraser whom we learned about last episode (and who is significant in upcoming plot), and meets him for the first time there (a change from the books, where he meets him prior to the siege of the fort). They discuss their plans to March South to meet Howe, which would isolate New England. Did they hire a non Scottish man to play Simon Fraser? Cause that’s not cool if so—his accent isn’t great.

The rebels flee by boat under Jamie’s command, and he encourages the people to travel inland to avoid being seen across the water by the British. Claire tells Jamie they will need to make camp soon due to the overall state of the people they are with, and they hear the sounds of Indians nearby. They head further into the woods to hide from the Indians and Ian goes ahead to find that it is actually Red Coats pretending to be Indians to scare them. I’m fairly certain this scene happens at night in the books, and the choice to have this all play out in broad daylight, then sudden darkness when Claire goes to find Mrs Raven was slightly off putting to me.

SIDENOTE, we hear Rachel say to Mrs Raven that she already trusts Ian completely 🥰 which is cute, so I’m thrilled.

There is another abrupt cut to a super short scene where Roger talks with Lionel Menzies (his school principal, who is the cousin of our friend Rob Cameron) about Jemmy speaking Galic in class. Last episode we saw him get in trouble for that and Roger wants to speak to Menzies about her grabbing Jemmy’s ears. While they both share a love of the highlands and appreciation for the language, Menzies explains that people wish to leave the Highlands and they want to speak good English in order to leave. I love that the show continues to show the results of the rising even in the 80’s and how impactful that was culturally. Menzies asks Roger to teach a class on the language and Roger excitedly agrees, happy to be back to teaching again.

Then we immediately change to darkness and Claire walking alone in the woods searching for the Mrs Raven. She cannot handle the situation and sadly we see her take her own life right as Claire arrives. Following the gunshot, Claire is taken hostage by a red coat. Denzel comes and finds Ian and jamie to tell them that Claire is missing, and suddenly it’s daylight again. Jamie finds Mrs Raven’s body and Ian can tell soldiers have taken Claire towards the fort.

Claire is brought to a pen with other rebels and immediately begins asking a younger soldier to get water for the sick and injured. She spots Walter Woodcock who had been taken prisoner during the siege. In the books he refers to jamie as Big Red as well, but Claire did not have as close of an established relationship to him prior to this scene. He’s having issues with his chest, which Claire can tell is an embolism following his surgery. She spends the day trying to aid the people who are hostage at the fort, and continuously asking for water and food. It’s slipped up that the food is 2 days behind them.

We meet Captain Richardson again, book readers know is important. William admits that he did not deliver the messages he was tasked to at Dismal Town after he falls off his horse. This was kind of unclear to me as he does have the letters in is possession after he falls and he later gains a horse from Ian, so I’m not sure why he abandons that mission entirely without a good explanation - where did the letters go? Richardson asked why he did not read the messages for himself, and William confronts Richardson about the recipients being rebels themselves. Richardson tells him that those men are spies, and William is eager for an opportunity of redemption to prove himself again. He is given his uniform back to join the rest of the men.

In a huge change from the books, Claire walks after another red coat in search of medical supplies and—you guessed it— water, and ends up confronting William. In the show, he recognizes her, realizing she’s a rebel and she confirms that Jamie is in the militia. William confirms again that supplies are 2 days behind them, but tells Claire that he will do his best to accommodate her. I really do love Charles as William, I think he’s doing an excellent job and while I wanted to skip William’s chapters in the books, I look forward to seeing him on screen in the show.

Bree and Roger finally start discussing the tunnel and what she encountered there, which I was hoping they’d copy from the books. Last episode when she went through the portal, Bree had next to no reaction to it, so this was satisfying to see. The two of them make the connection that the dam is on the east side towards Pitlochry and the tunnel runs downwards. Roger explains that they think there’s a leyline from the Achavanic standing stones at the top of northern Scotland down to the ones at Craigh na dun. He asks if the line continues down towards the dam, and they make an educated guess that the ley lines interact with the stone circles to create some type of portal.

We finally get confirmation that the book Rogers been writing is referred to as The Hitchhikers Guide to Time Travel, and before he leaves to go and teach his Gaelic class, Bree stacks a pile of papers and hymns from his desk to bring with him.

When Roger arrives to Jemmy’s school we see him explain the cultural significance of the language and why it’s so important to hold onto it. He also tells the kids that there’s no swear words in the Gaelic, and the entire scene serves as a great reminder of the Scottish history that grabbed us back in season 1. Roger really shines in this scene, and Richard Rankin does a great job here. There’s a call back to the waulking songs which Claire partook in back in season 1 when traveling to collect the rents. He also talks about line singing, and leads a song with the students. He involves Bobby (Rob Cameron’s nephew) and Jemmy by having them pass out some hymns from Reverend Wakefield to the class. And he sings again, which we know is a big deal to him after he was hanged in season 5.

Lionel asks him to come back again and you can see Rob in the background being shady, waiting around to talk to Roger. He introduces himself to Roger and you can tell Roger isn’t thrilled after the stunt he pulled with Bree at the tunnel. Rob admits he read the hitchhikers guide to travel during the class, which is another change from the books. In the books, he only reads one page that was mixed in with the Hymns. You’d think Roger would have recognized that the book was in there, or that Jemmy wouldn’t have handed Rob a whole damn book. In the books he asks Roger if he can swing by Lallybroch to read a hymn sometime because he didn’t get to, but in the show they have him ask to come have dinner which I find weirder. Roger seems to just forgive him for locking Bree in the tunnel, and I can’t imagine she’d want him over for dinner after that.

Jamie and Ian arrive to Ticonderoga to find Claire and Ian insists he go after Claire. The Mohawk allied with the British so Ian knows they won’t bother him. They come up with a plan to lure the British away from where she’s being held. William has another soldier bring Claire her supplies and we get a great callback to the books where she asks the solider how he knew who she was. He tells her that William described her as the one with the curly wig, barking orders like a sergeant general.

Claire can just walk around and out of the gates which I find interesting, and poor Walter is faring worse now. She gives him a tea and the brandy from the flask William gave her. Walter knows he’s going to die and Claire does her best to comfort him. She asks him to think of his wife dancing and sadly she loses another patient. In the books, Claire escapes without saying goodbye to any of the people in the fort.

Ian finds her Claire in the books by sneaking up behind where she’s being held, but again there’s an change in the show and Claire spots Ian in the courtyard. Soon after, William spots Ian. Ian pretends to be a scout for Joseph Brant, and William thanks Ian for the money and care of the Hunters. William confronts him about his relationship to Claire, knowing full well he’s here to release her. At this point Jamie starts firing bows into the fort and Ian and Claire tell William the reality of his army. Claire is safest if she escapes, so Ian and William admit a life for a life. William asks to not see him again or he may not have a way to protect him. Jamie and Claire reunite and Claire has a hard time leaving the prisoners there. Claire tells Jamie she saw William and he was kind to her there. We get the line from the books “tell me of him, later when there’s time.”

They travel for a few days and rejoin the continental army and get the narration that Jamie’s term of service is almost over and they will be leaving soon for Scotland. Ian finds Rachel who had been watching Rollo. He pretends he’s come for Rollo but it’s clear he simply wanted to see her. These two falling in love is so damn cute. They have a classic meet cute hand touch and I’m really hoping we get a longer scene with the two of them soon.

We meet Daniel Morgan (look him up if you can, an absolutely fascinating man and important historical figure) who asks Jamie to come with him and tries to recruit him to join his group of rifleman. Jamie later tells Claire that he’s decided to stay and continue to fight, as he cannot leave now while the British move south. They discuss the battle of Saratoga and how it draws the French into the war and is a turning point for the American’s. She’s happy he will be fighting from a distance as a sniper. Fun fact, Daniel Morgan’s men are the ones credited for killing Simon Fraser, which book readers know is Claire and Jamie’s ticket home to Scotland.

We get the scene from the books which I love where Claire tells Jamie than women don’t make wars. Jamie explains they aren’t made for it, and Claire argues that they are just as capable for fighting for what they believe in. Jamie says women take more with them when they go, but when a man goes it’s only them when they go. A woman takes life with her when she goes, and a woman is possibility. She insists Jamie is not one man just like another but admits that it is likely the ability to create life which would make it that much harder to end it. Jamie tells Claire he’s not afraid of dying now that the kids are grown, and his grandchildren are thriving. Or rather that he’s less afraid to die, and less inclined to kill men who have not yet lived yet. In the books, this conversation happens after Denny has snuck into a camp for intelligence in the books. Claire cannot understand why he would be so wreckless and Jamie tries to explain how a young man would do anything for a cause he believes in. Even if that means getting killed in the process.

Claire tells jamie about William and I love this scene, it’s the highlight of the whole episode for me.

Then the episode ends with Roger confronting Buck after he seems him peering in through the window. Clearly this is a younger version of him. And we end with a knock out punch. I wished we got the actual confrontation in this episode but it appears we will have to wait one more to finally get that moment.

Overall another strong episode! I enjoyed it, and am looking forward to the next one, particularly Roger and Bucks storyline.

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nmnomad · 2 months ago

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CrownPoint, New Mexico

#drone #travel #nature #landscape #New Mexico #new mexico travel #aerial view #road trip #day trip #American West #Youtube

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sicklyseraphnsuch · 1 year ago

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if nothing else, Marcy's Scrapbook shows that she did want Simon to stick around with her and her Dad

cut to: Simon holding Hunson at gunpoint (crownpoint) threatening him to behave or else

#simon petrikov #marceline the vampire queen #hunson abadeer #my other thoughts regarding this fucked up found family is censored #they are extremely censored #hunson is a horse wearing pants #also if you read marcys scrapbook #she was really desperate not to be alone #her attachment to hunson was half her forcing herself to give him a chance

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primetimetruecrime · 1 year ago

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MISSING: Pepita Redhair (Prime Time True Crime)

MISSING: Pepita Redhair (Prime Time True Crime) March 27, 2020, was the last time 27-year-old Pepita Redhair was last seen alive. She was in the 1000 block of Clemente Street in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and hasn't been seen since. Pepita had traveled from her mother's home in Crownpoint to Albuquerque to stay with her boyfriend, Nicholas Kaye. Her mother, Anita King, said she received multiple text messages in the days leading up to her daughter's disappearance. Then, on March 27, she texted Pepita but got no response. A few days later, King texted her daughter again, but this time a man responded and said he had recently purchased the phone. Anita then reported Pepita missing. Kaye filed his own missing persons report on April 19. He told police that he and Pepita went out for drinks on March 26, had an argument, and she left. Nicholas said the following day he got a text from Pepita that said she was with another man. Anita told investigators that Kaye was often violent with her daughter. The Albuquerque Police Department said it was aware of the domestic issues between the couple, but told her there was no indication of foul play in this case. Pepita Redhair remains missing.

#true crime #prime time crime #truecrime #prime crime #murder #true crime community #primetimecrime #true story #primecrime #truecrimecommunity

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bisexualvalve · 2 years ago

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Rita Capitan has been worrying about her water since 1994. It was that autumn she read a local newspaper article about anotheruranium mine, the Crownpoint Uranium Project, getting under way near her home.

Capitan has spent her entire life in Crownpoint, New Mexico, a small town on the eastern Navajo Nation, and is no stranger to the uranium mining that has persisted in the region for decades. But it was around the time the article was published that she began learning about the many risks associated with uranium mining.

“We as community members couldn’t just sit back and watch another company come in and just take what is very precious to us. And that is water – our water,” Capitan said.

To this effect, Capitan and her husband, Mitchell, founded Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (Endaum). The group’s fight against uranium mining on their homeland has continued for nearly three decades, despite the industry’s disastrous health and environmental impacts being public knowledge for years.

Capitan’s newest concerns are over the Canadian mining company Laramide Resources, which, through its US subsidiary NuFuels, holds a federal mining license for Crownpoint and nearby Church Rock. Due to the snail’s pace at which operations like this can move, Laramide hasn’t begun extraction in these areas, but is getting closer by the day.

While the US legal system hasn’t given them much recourse to fight the mining, Capitan and other community members see new hope in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Endaum and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center made a substantial evidence filing last week with the commission, alleging that the US government and its Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have violated their human rights by licensing uranium mines in their communities.

The petition with the commission won’t necessarily offer Endaum legal recourse. However, a favorable recommendation could help them in future legal proceedings against uranium mine projects while also guiding future advocacy on mining policy, said Eric Jantz, senior staff attorney at the New Mexico Environmental Law Center.

He said it would also be a form of vindication: “There is moral value in having an international human rights body lay bare the abuses of the nuclear industry and the US government’s complicity in those abuses.”

Indigenous tribes tried to block a car battery mine. But the courts stood in the way

While these mines haven’t begun operation yet, the impending threat hangs over local residents’ heads – especially considering the deadly history of mining for the radioactive metal on the Navajo Nation beginning during the cold war.

“There are four generations of Navajo folks who had to deal with existing contamination and who live essentially in the middle of or next door to radioactive waste dumps,” Jantz said. “And the federal government has ignored those communities for the last 70 years.”

The type of mine in question uses in situ leach technology (ISL), also known as in situ reach (ISR), the most common form of uranium extraction. It involves drilling holes into the earth to reach the mineral deposit. A chemical solution is pumped underground, often into the aquifer, to dissolve the uranium deposit. This solution is then pumped back to the surface with the mineral in tow for processing.

“The mineralization at Crownpoint has been previously shown to be amenable to ISR techniques,” Laramide says on its website.

Residents, however, are deeply concerned about the risks of pollution. On the Navajo Nation, most uranium deposits sit in aquifers. Drilling into these aquifers can cause radioactive uranium to leach into the water, contaminating both the underground supply and the water absorbed from the surface.

Laramide did not respond to a request for comment. On its website it says it has an “aquifer exemption on the property” from the Environmental Protection Agency.

More than 500 abandoned uranium mines sit on Navajo Nation land today, each one a potential vector for unleashing more radioactive particles into the air and water, on top of the damage that’s already been done. Uranium mining operations have caused higher rates of cancer, respiratory diseases and kidney conditions among Navajos. From the 1970s to the 1990s, cancer rates on the reservation have doubled, according to its government.

To this day, no mining company has fully cleaned an aquifer it polluted with in situ leach mining, according to the non-profit group Earthworks.

Laramide’s proposed uranium mining operation would involve drilling in the Westwater Canyon Aquifer – which supplies water to about 15,000 Navajo people. For many Church Rock and Crownpoint residents, more uranium mining is simply a nonstarter.

Larry King, a Church Rock resident who used to work on a uranium site, has problems breathing and a heart condition, according to testimony filed with the commission. He’s been advocating against Laramide and other uranium projects for more than two decades and says those fights have robbed him of any normalcy.

“Those 24 years, those should have been the best years, when I could have been enjoying my life. I did not,” King testified.

#navajo nation #diné #america #indigenous issues #mining #pollution #canada #nuclear waste #in situ leach technology

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supjbg · 5 months ago

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Naples Island morning paddle. Just did the inner part but what a morning.

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nicolecon-industryandenterprise · 9 months ago

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PLACEMENT DAY 1

20/2/24 - 11am-4pm (5hrs)

today was my first day off official placement with Kirsty from Punts Pots, so here’s how it went!

I set off about 9.30am to make sure I’d be at Crownpoint Studios early. Just as before, it took me about an hour to travel to the studio.

Giffnock > Glasgow Central > Bridgeton

I arrived at the studio just before 11 and waited for Kirsty as she was running slightly late with posting parcels and picking up plants.

Once in the studio, Kirsty got me started with my first task. With Kirsty moving premises soon, she has to take stock to make sure when moving, all of her pots make it safely and in one piece.

Kirsty asked me to count how many pots she had in each size and create an excel document for her so that’s what I done!

here’s the document I created and emailed over to Kirsty:

This task took me about an hour and a half then placing the pots back on their designated place took an additional 30mins.

After I was done Kirsty had to head out to grab some supplies for a task she had in mind for me so, she suggested I took the time she was gone for lunch, which is exactly what I done.

After eating Kirsty still wasn’t back so I took some time to explore the space.

Punts Pots shares a space with two other artists, none of which were there today so I had a peak around. It seems like one artist is mainly sculptural and the other works on large scale paintings that can be found scattered around the space.

After lunch Kirsty had another organisation task for me.

With her main business being painting custom pots for people, there is a lot of paint living in the studio but they aren’t all organised in the easiest way to access so I was set the task of cleaning out some drawers and reorganising her paint pots.

Most of the paint Kirsty uses is sample pots of wall paint so it was rather easy to organise.

Kirsty also gave me the tip to store the pots upside down so the colour is visible as soon as she opens the drawer which was really interesting!

So here’s how that turned out:

For the rest of the day Kirsty had some phone calls to make and a pot to work on so she apologised for the tedious tasks but she asked me to clean the handles of the collection of paintbrushes she uses for events. She needed them clean for the upcoming event on March 1st.

While sitting cleaning the brushes I got to be a fly on the wall for some important calls Kirsty was taking.

I got to listen to her discuss and plan Easter events with two other small businesses as well as listen in on her helping someone with their financial situation going into a large job as a small business.

All of this was really interesting to hear.

After she was done, she started working on the base coat for the commission she needed to paint and we just chatted about her struggles as a small business but also as a one woman ran small business. We spoke about the sexism she’s currently experiencing when trying to haggle with the landlord of her new space she’ll be moving into soon.

While disappointing, it was really interesting to hear from someone who’s been doing this for years and still isn’t taken seriously.

Venturing into the art world as a female artist is exciting but it’s really useful to hear these kinds of experiences to remind myself that the world isn’t as progressive as it seems.

We also took this time to discuss a potential rotation moving forward for placement.

Before we knew it, 4pm hit and it was time to head home.

Kirsty thanked me for today and we both shared excitement for the continuation of this placement.

So, I set off back to the station and made my way home in the rush hour busyness.

Bridgeton > Glasgow Central > Giffnock.

So, how am I feeling after my first official day at placement?

This placement was definitely a long time coming and while the organisation of the placement and being rejected a few times was disheartening, I definitely left today feeling like everything happened for a reason I ended up in the exact right placement for me.

While the tasks were all organisational and cleaning, I still really enjoyed helping Kirsty out and getting things done that would improve her quality of life in her studio space.

We get on well and she’s very straight forward which is something I like.

Overall, I’m really happy with the placement I chose and where it might take me!

It feels like I’m finally getting my foot in the door of the Glasgow creative scene.

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