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Halo, are you going to continue the Atonement story anytime soon? I'm really looking forward to it. Thank you.

The short answer is yes, but the long answer is here: https://www.tumblr.com/smashing-teacups/814346255778119680/life-and-atonement-update

💬 17 🔁 7 ❤️ 82 · Life and Atonement Update · I know, you guys have been exceedingly patient -- you always are. I've fallen very much in lo

intothestacks

Hey, remember that time Diana Gabaldon (author of the Outlander series) claimed fanfiction is illegal?

It made me so mad and upset at the time that it turned me off her series altogether.

For the record:

Fanfiction is actually a legally protected art form that's as old as fiction itself.

The way it works is that writers take aspects of a story or universe and then tweak it to explore how those changes would affect the plot and/or characters.

This process of storytelling is so common and so old that it's basically how fairytales survive for thousands of years; the versions you know are basically fanfics of older versions.

smashing-teacups

She was on record, often and loudly, as one of the staunchest anti fic authors, right up there with Anne Rice — until one of my friends called her on her fic stance on Twitter back in… I think 2019? And DG completely shifted on a dime, said she isn’t opposed to it. Friend pointed out it even still says she opposes it ON HER WEBSITE. DG said oh… well, that needs to be updated.

Jaws hit the floor. Not sure what inspired the change of heart, but she’s laid off coming after fic writers ever since. 🤷‍♀️

(Of course that means she could absolutely flip again and go back to saying it’s immoral/illegal — both incorrect, see transformative works laws — but that’s neither here nor there lol)

sdreamersc82

I just wanted to say big thank you to all the fanfic writers who continue to write Jamie and Claire fanfics after Outlander has ended ❤️

smashing-teacups

You can pry Jamie and Claire out of my cold, dead hands. 😘

#outlander fanfic

incorrect-outlander

Outlander S06E08, “Sticks and Stones”

jimbenton

cajon-desastre

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games

mollybeenoel

Fox siblings playing together.

Photographed by annastelloophotography on instagram

smashing-teacups

Looks just like my two boys wrestling 😂

phil-the-stone-art

a dumb wind down before bed

dg never let jamie be a dad bc she knew hed be too powerful

transparentdreamruins

"My soul aches for his...I only know one thing I am not done loving him." N. R. Hart

jemscorner

Outlander | Jamie & Claire

there is nothing in this world or the next that can take ye from me - or me from you

cajon-desastre

Sometimes, home has a heartbeat.

Beau Taplin

cykelops

chatgpt is a threat to the symbiotic relationship between fanfic writers and their betas. we are losing our traditions. eradicate the soulless machine and ask your friend who has a full time job and 3 kids to annotate your omegaverse fanfiction like any other responsible adult.

solgasart

Jamie Fraser from Outlander Season 1.

dagnylilytable

New fic from me! A short AU from 7x12’s “Carnal Knowledge.”

What if Claire realized much sooner The John Problem is The Wentworth Problem? What if Claire and Jamie spent a lot of time having recuperative sex?

Chapter 1 is up now, all the spicy sexcapades are in Chapter 2, which will be up in about a week.

Memories You Bury Or Live By

smashing-teacups

In the Bee-Loud Glade, Ch 3

It was Buck Mackenzie who finally summoned the courage to address the proverbial elephant in the room. Breakfast, to that point, had been spent in a collective, stunned silence, punctuated only by the occasional clink of spoons.

“Aye, well. S’pose I’ll be the one to ask, then, shall I?” he offered abruptly. All eyes around the campfire moved in unison from his face to mine, and I nodded, humming earnest approval around a mouthful of parritch.

Much like his father before him, he wasn’t one to mince words. “What… are ye, exactly?”

I managed, with no small effort, to move the glob of paste to the back of my mouth and swallow. “How do you mean?”

Buck’s blue eyes darted about in search of aid. Finding none, he expounded with a bit more reluctance, “Beggin’ yer pardon, mistress, but t’isnae a mere mortal can raise a man from the dead.”

“Nor walk through solid stone,” Jamie warned, his glare lethal, “yet here ye are.”

Even as Buck raised a palm in concession, Young Ian chimed in to his left. “He’s right, Uncle. We’ve a fair number of time travelers among us, and none of them can do what Auntie did.”

I took a moment to study the faces of each of the three men sitting with us before meeting my husband’s gaze. An entire conversation passed unspoken between us as we tried to decide who should speak and what we should share. Jamie was afraid, and that fear made him want to keep his cards close to his chest until we had more answers. While I understood his reservations, I also recognized that we might never know more — and our loved ones deserved honesty, particularly if we were asking for their help.

He didn’t like it, but he dropped his gaze to his parritch nonetheless, two fingers tapping restlessly on the side of the bowl.

“I’m not sure if there is a name for a person with my… ability,” I began slowly and carefully, shifting my focus back to Ian. “But you’re right that it’s something separate from the time travel, or… well, at least it’s not necessarily part of the trait. I’ve only ever known one other person who could do this, and I’m not even sure if he was a traveler.”

All three sets of eyebrows raised at that, though it was Roger who clarified this time: “You’ve known someone else who could raise the dead?”

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