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It’s Not About the Vase and Other Outlander Life Lessons

 Outlander is more than a wonderful read and/or fantastic TV series. It’s also full of important life lessons.

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My Journey Through Time: the Outlander-inspired Hartwood Highlander Happening

  I’d never been to an Outlander-inspired event. I mean, sitting at home texting your friend about the show while watching it simultaneously for the second…tenth time….um who’s counting anyway…IS social and COULD be considered an event, but an actual outing? That had never been in my cards. That changed when my local Outlander group…

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Walking the Way of Outlander: The Great Glencoe Challenge

People have many ways of dealing with Droughtlander. Some obsessively rewatch episodes, others re-read the books for the nth time, others have tiny forays into the world outside Outlander. Some decide to walk. Walk, trudge, march (caper about?) and just generally get moving in a forward direction. It gets the endorphins flowing and relieves some of…

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“I Have to Go Back” – The Scotland Diaries: Part 2

“I have to go back.” – the haunting last line of Episode 13 of Outlander  Season 2, uttered by Claire Randall Fraser when she realized that her 18th century soul mate, love of her life, and father of her only child survived the Battle of Culloden. It’s also EXACTLY how I felt shortly after returning…

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Droughtlander TV/Movie Recommendations: What’s on Our Screens?

Earlier this month, the Outlander Cast Blog writers shared their favorite books with you to help ease those terrible symptoms of Droughtlander. We now turn our focus to television shows. Between the reading list and the show recommendations, we hope that this will keep your spirits high until the return of Outlander  in September. If…

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Outlander’s Opening Images

Long lost Outlander title sequences that were never chosen by Ron D. Moore? A never-before-seen Outlander mood board used to inspire the Season One title design ultimately chosen by Moore? A new Season 3 Outlander title sequence envisioned by fan video creator Julia LeBlanc? We’ve got all this and more in this post. It’s the…

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Outlandish Locations: Discover the Bloody History & Haunted Towers of Blackness Castle

Take a walk with us through the history of Blackness Castle, aka Fort William, in this installment of Outlandish Locations.

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What does Starz Season 3 Outlander Teaser Tell Us? Get ready for Jamie tragedy.

Starz released its official Outlander  teaser (not to be confused with a trailer, which would be longer and perhaps really tell us something) right before its new show, The White Princess.  What did we learn in those 40 seconds about the upcoming Season 3? That we’re going to need a lot of patience and hankies before…

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Outlander Cast Blog Exclusive: An Interview with Diana Gabaldon in South Africa

When I made plans to visit Cape Town for my vacation, I was so hopeful I’d be able to meet some of the Outlander  cast or crew, as well as area Outlander fans for a South African Outlander Cast Blog meet-up. Sure, Cape Town is a large city, but I was going to go to the…

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In Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, It’s a Matter of Trust

Diana Gabaldon makes reference to “trust” more than 60 times in the first two books of the Outlander series alone. (Trust me, I used Kindle Search to count.) It appears in all manner of references, like this simple-yet-powerful declaration Jamie makes to Claire in Outlander:“I decided to trust you instead.” Considering that trust is defined…

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