What if Outlander’s Jamie Fraser Had an Online Dating Profile?
What would James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser’s online dating profile look like? We create an online dating profile to help him out.
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Ten Reasons Why JAMMF Could Never Be Your Real World Dream Guy
If you’ve watched or read Outlander, you might have thought to yourself once or twice that James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser is the perfect man. Maybe you even wished that you had a Jamie of your own or that your significant other was more like Jamie. I have to admit that, at times, Jamie does…
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Black Jack Randall Character Study: Why Outlander Needed Him — And Had To Let Him Go
Full spoilers for Outlander Seasons 1-3, including Wentworth, Faith, Culloden, and Black Jack Randall’s death. Content note: This episode discusses Black Jack Randall’s violence, sexual assault, abuse, and the trauma he causes Jamie and Claire. We discuss those events through the lens of story, character, and adaptation, not to excuse or romanticize them. In this…
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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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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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Fanwoman Without a Show: Living through Droughtlander AGAIN!
Without revealing one smidgen of partisan detail, I will simply say that these past few months in the U.S. have been supremely distracting. After getting sucked into the quicksand of current events, I needed a break and I needed it bad. I needed the kind of distraction that could literally…
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Claire Fraser In Outlander: Character Guide To Caitríona Balfe’s Time Traveling Badass
Claire Fraser is the central heroine of Outlander: a World War II combat nurse, later a doctor, time traveler, wife to Jamie Fraser, mother to Brianna, healer, survivor, and the woman whose choices pull the entire story across centuries. Played by Caitríona Balfe in the Starz series, Claire begins the story as Claire Beauchamp Randall,…
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Black Jack Randall Explained: Why Outlander’s Perfect Villain Had To Go
Full spoilers for Outlander Seasons 1-3, including Wentworth, Faith, Culloden, and Black Jack Randall’s death. Content note: This article discusses Black Jack Randall’s violence, abuse, sexual assault, and the lasting trauma he causes Jamie and Claire. We discuss those events through the lens of story, character, and adaptation, not to excuse or romanticize them. Black…
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Into the Darkness: Finding Personal Light through Outlander
I discovered Outlander this spring when my family moved to a new house. On the day of the move, I went to the house early to wait for the cable installer. My partner was coming later with the movers. After the cable was installed,…
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The Need to Belong: Outlander’s Jamie and Claire as Outsiders Looking In
The heart of Outlander is Claire and Jamie’s story, but it is also the stories of outsiders — those who find themselves through circumstance, birth, character or social position outside of society. The need and drive to belong — to a family, a home, a place — and to feel loved is a deep-rooted human imperative. We…
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