#orianecongosts

[balfecaitriona]

april your sidebarrrrr, i can't stop staring damn it!!!

Omg I know, same. Look at that damn slow bubble gum burst, stop it please I can’t breathe, I need a moment to collect myself.

[morganapendragon]

lessaofpern replied to your post: orianecongosts replied to your post: l...

i don’t disagree with that arthur would try so hard to be the Good Uncle or the Good Parent but “it’s just ONE cookie it can’t HURT right right where are my cookies merlin morgana gwen huh huh HUH now i want cookies”

ahaha yeah true Uncle Arthur would deff be like here get on a sugar high and drive my manservant and sister insane please do it its fun to watch

[morganapendragon]

orianecongosts replied to your post: lessaofpern said:are you kidding ...

let’s be real, we all know that no matter whose kid it is— arthur is the one sneaking it cookies lol

one day Nicole and I are gonna get you to ship Mergana Jacquelyn seriously its gonna happen

[morganapendragon]

i love that you tag me in outlander things ;) also i approve of your answer to that anon, it bothers me when people stop liking jamie/claire because of that scene-- because they are so much more than that, and jamie learns from it. like, we can't apply modern day ideas to jamie's actions, he lived in a completely different time, and he's actually way more advanced than the majority of men in the book.

yeah seriously i agree. like so many of the men are so like brutish in the book and just like at least Jamie has a set of morals. i mean some are questionable for us reading it in 2014 but like for him in 1743 he was raised a certain way to go by specific things which he tries to explain to Claire and us as readers as well.

[morganapendragon]

what did you think of the scene when Jamie beats Claire? I find it deeply troubling. More than that, he said that he enjoyed beating her "within an inch of her life" and rapes her more than once--I do consider it rape, because she says more than once that she doesn't want to do it and he does it anyway. I'm not trying to bash it, I LOVED the show and I loved the book until this point, and now everything is ruined. :(

putting this in a read more

erm this is a good question. I chalk part of it up to it was part of the time period (this DOES NOT MAKE IT BETTER) but yeah like that scene disturbed me as well and i was not comfortable with it and i’m sure i won’t be comfortable watching it either. that being said the scene i’m really scared to watch is THE randall/jamie one and if you’ve read the book you KNOW which scene i’m talking about i’m basically gonna see that scene and go “lalalalalalalalalalalala not watching lalalalala” 

but back to the original question it is really disturbing and i put the book down for awhile and thought about it and like tried to see it from Jamie’s mind set and his upbringing and the Scottish mindset because we are modern readers reading something from a time period that we aren’t familiar with and yes its wrong and inhumane to us but he does come around in the end too once he knows why she ran in the first place and he does apologize and feel incredibly guilty (he shoulda felt guilty before obviously but i feel like their relationship is so like different in the sense that theyre these two strong characters who have to learn how to be married to one another so yeah it made me uncomfortable what he did to her there and yes he does “rape her” and sadly women were NOT as lucky in that time period but like i donno these two things definitely bug me but there are so many different things too like they save each other’s asses more than once and just theyre equals (most of the time) so i donno if you get to the end of the book he gains SO MUCH RESPECT FOR HER like he grows and grows to be more aware of who Claire is and accepts her 100% and protects her but yeah if you get to the end he really sees her differently and depends on her even so yeah these are troubling factors in their relationship but they really do grow from that.

[morganapendragon]

watching outlander and am really excited about it. because yeah jamie/clarie is an otp of mine yeah basically

[metadefumaca]

orianecongosts replied to your post:

ew rude eva stop that

[morganapendragon]

lol geena i have literally never heard anyone else call a water fountain that :P

seriously?? its normal in massachusetts lololol