#i'm glad i decided to read these books in chronological order

[softpadawan]

I finished Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil

And launched immediately into Thrawn (2017)

#long-haired feral ninja outcast thrawn in furs #speaking broken basic to a bunch of imperials #💙💦 #benderreads #thrawn #timothy zahn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #chiss ascendancy #i'm glad i decided to read these books in chronological order #instead of publishing order #i'd be climbing the curtains in a frothing fit if i ended on 'lesser evil' #even knowing that thrawn (2017) comes after

[fdelopera]

reading your response to the ask about Elohim, i found it so fascinating and really wanted to learn more about jewish history. but im kinda scared to try and dive into googling it because like, for obvious reasons there is a lot of antisemitic misinformation out there. where's a good place to start learning about it all from a historical standpoint, aside from taking a college course? i hope this is okay to ask, i really don't want to stumble upon/consume revisionist history out of ignorance

Hi Anon. Thank you for your kind message. I really appreciate it.

I'm glad that you enjoyed my post about the origin of Elohim as one of the names of G-d in Judaism. Studying Jewish history and Jewish religious practice gives profound understanding and context to Abrahamic religions, as well as to the last 3500+ years of history, since at least the Late Bronze Age.

And thank you for wanting to learn more about Jewish history, and for reaching out to a Jewish person to ask about it.

My answer to your Ask is based on this answer about Jewish history, which I posted a few days ago. Not a lot of people saw it, so I feel okay about posting these links here again.

This past month especially has made me realize just how little most gentiles (non-Jews) know about Jewish history. It's been eye-opening, for sure.

And ... you're right, unfortunately. I've seen a metric shit ton of Jew-hatred going around. And so many antisemitic conspiracy theories that originated with the Neo-Nazis and the KKK.

Some people have been spreading this Neo-Nazi rhetoric intentionally, but many others have been spreading it because they don't have the context to understand that they are repeating Nazi dogwhistles.

In talking to gentiles, I often find that their knowledge of Jewish history extends to a few facts about the Holocaust. Some gentiles who have studied European history and political science may also have a general understanding of Hitler’s rise to power.

But that’s only the past several decades of Jewish history! And it's limited almost entirely to Europe!

Jews are a Levantine people. We are indigenous to Judea (the area currently called Israel/Palestine), and our history goes back thousands of years to the Late Bronze Age.

For a good overview of Jewish history, from the Late Bronze Age to the present, I would recommend two YouTube channels. That’s a good place to start. There are many history books on the subject, but a lot of them are quite dense, and the videos from these two historians will give you a good general overview if you want to learn more.

Sam Aronow:

Sam Aronow covers the span of Jewish history, from the Late Bronze Age to modern times. It is an ongoing Jewish history project that he’s been producing for the past three years, and it is in chronological order. He is currently in the early 1900s, and he comes out with a new video every month or so (he's just released a new video this month).

Click here to go to Sam’s YouTube channel, and then you can scroll back to watch his videos from the beginning, or you can decide what time period of Jewish history you’re most interested in learning about first.

Useful Charts:

Matt Baker, PhD runs the YouTube channel "Useful Charts," and he often works with Sam Aronow's channel. He has a PhD in education and religion. Matt has a very interesting story. He converted to Judaism as an adult; when he was a young man, he escaped a Christian doomsday cult, which he was born into. This gives him a unique understanding of Jewish history, especially how the "Old Testament" is often weaponized by Evangelical Christians to advance specific right-wing agendas. (As I explain below, the Old Testament is NOT the Hebrew bible. It is a chopped up, reordered, edited, and mistranslated version of the Hebrew bible.) Matt's videos on the history of Judaism are well-researched, and he breaks down different aspects of Jewish history into easy-to-follow segments.

I) Jewish History series:

Which Bible Characters are Historical.

Kings of Israel & Judah Family Tree.

Maccabees & King Herod Family Tree. (by Sam Aronow)

Classical Rabbis Family Tree.

Judaism and Jewish Denominations Explained.

Jewish Streams (Denominations) Re-Explained. (by Sam Aronow)

II) Who Wrote the Tanakh and the New Testament series:

NOTE: The Tanakh (the Hebrew bible) is an acronym that stands for Torah (Instruction), Nevi'im (Prophets), Ketuvim (Writings). It is NOT the same as the "Old Testament" in the Christian bible. The Christian editors of the "Old Testament" cut up the Tanakh and reordered it in a way that doesn't make any sense for Jewish practice. Many Christian bibles (such as the King James Version) also intentionally mistranslate the Old Testament to advance specific religious, political, and social ideologies of their time.

Who Wrote the Torah.

Who Wrote the Prophets.

Who Wrote the Writings.

I am including links to Matt's series on who wrote the New Testament, because many people who were raised Christian were never given a historical context for the people who wrote the books of the New Testament.

Who Wrote the Apocrypha. (The Apocrypha are later-written Jewish books that are not included in the Tanakh, but do appear in some Christian bibles, like the Catholic bible)

Who Wrote the Epistles. (Paul's Epistles were written before the Gospels, which is why the Epistles are linked first.)

Who Wrote the Gospels and Acts. (The Gospels were all written long AFTER Jesus' lifetime, and AFTER the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. They were NOT written by the people they are attributed to.)

Who Wrote Daniel, and Who Wrote Revelation. (Matt includes Daniel from the Nevi'im [Prophets] as well as Revelation from the New Testament in this video to discuss apocalypticism in Jewish and early Christian tradition.)

#jumblr #judaism #jewblr #jewish history #jewish #NOTE - I report and block antisemites. If any antisemites comment on this post you will be reported and blocked. You have been warned.

[terramythos]

TAYLOR READS 2023: SYSTEM COLLAPSE BY MARTHA WELLS

Title: System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries #7) (2023)

Author: Martha Wells

Genre/Tags: Science Fiction, First Person, Agender Protagonist

Rating: 9/10

Date Began: 11/19/2023

Date Finished: 12/31/2023

In the aftermath of the alien contamination incident of the Adamantite colony, Murderbot and its humans face a new challenge. Barish-Estranza, a major corporation, seeks to claim the planet and its inhabitants as salvage, which would doom the colonists to contract slavery. To save them from this fate, the non-corporate humans must find a way to convince the colonists to trust them and reject Barish-Estranza’s offer.

But after a nervous breakdown, Murderbot has problems of its own. Unable to trust its own judgment, Murderbot must come to terms with its distressingly human response to the traumatic events of Network Effect— all while keeping its humans from accidentally killing themselves in the cutthroat political climate Barish-Estranza brings to the Adamantite colony.

“On the team feed, Ratthi asked, Can we come down and help you, SecUnit? No, I told him. He hadn’t asked me what I was doing, probably because he was afraid I didn’t know. Which, valid, but this time I actually did know. I continued around the edge, because if I was right, the first one would be directly attached to the pad. If it wasn’t here, I was going to look incredibly fucking stupid and the humans were going to assume because of redacted I— Oh, here it is.”

For live reading notes, check the reblogs (contains unmarked spoilers).

Content warnings and review (spoiler-free and spoiler versions) under the cut.

Content Warnings: Mentioned -- Murder, torture, sexual slavery. Depicted -- Slavery, PTSD, self-hatred, emotional manipulation, dehumanization, violence, gore (kinda), death (implied)

**SPOILER-FREE REVIEW**

This section is spoiler free for System Collapse, but not The Murderbot Diaries as a whole, so please keep that in mind!

I've consistently enjoyed The Murderbot Diaries throughout its run. The strikingly relatable narration Murderbot supplies makes the books approachable and entertaining to read, despite often delving into disturbing and dark subject matter like slavery, depression, and anxiety. The book chronologically preceding this one, Network Effect, is one of my favorite novels of all time. While System Collapse doesn't reach those heights (and it doesn't need to), it's yet another story following Murderbot's adventures and struggles with personhood, so I predictably liked it.

System Collapse occupies a more transitional space than previous entries. We end the novel in much the same place as in Network Effect, literally and metaphorically. Murderbot makes the same decision it does at the end of Network Effect; to leave its Preservation humans and travel with ART and its crew instead. I question whether System Collapse was originally planned when Network Effect was written; as a story, it feels tacked onto that entry. It's just more of that book-- a continuation of some loose threads from it.

However, this isn't a criticism, at least not yet, because despite feeling similar to Network Effect, System Collapse introduces critical character development in order for the next arc, which I imagine will focus more on ART and the University, to succeed. I'll get into more detail about that in the spoiler section, but I have no problem with a break from the extreme high stakes tension of Network Effect to spend time developing various characters, including Murderbot itself, especially going into the next story arc.

**SPOILER REVIEW**

By far System Collapse's greatest strength is how it addresses Murderbot's trauma post-Network Effect. If I'm right and this entry wasn't originally planned, I'm glad Martha Wells decided to write it anyway, because leaving the long term effects of what Murderbot went through in the air and unaddressed would be a disservice to Murderbot as a character and readers who have undergone similarly traumatic experiences.

In particular, Murderbot experiences a realistic depiction of PTSD, something it's disturbed by and ashamed about. System Collapse can often be a brutal read because Murderbot is so hard on itself, seeing itself as an incompetent failure for having a reasonable reaction to trauma. It hearkens back to earlier points in the series where Murderbot didn't really see itself as a person, something that has gradually changed over time. But one thing that sticks out to me is a heavier thematic focus on Murderbot's humanity.

Murderbot itself is a construct-- a combination of machinery and cloned human material. We know it has a human face, human neural tissue, and some organic body parts, but the series to this point has focused on Murderbot's PERSONHOOD rather than its HUMANITY, which are separate things in this series. Murderbot itself doesn't identify as human, usually avoiding the association and approaching the world as a machine would. So after Murderbot suffers its PTSD episode, when ART says “this affects the part of you that is human," and Murderbot doesn’t outright deny that assertion, it's VERY striking to a long time reader. Murderbot's human aspects have to this point been depicted as a nuisance, something Murderbot feels neutral about at best and dislikes at worst.

System Collapse makes a direct connection between a fundamental aspect of Murderbot's character and this idea of humanity. It's something that seems obvious in retrospect but as far as I know is the first time the narrative directly addresses it. Murderbot LOVES the TV show The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. As an autistic-coded character, Murderbot's primary special interest IS Sanctuary Moon (and the concept of human media as a whole). It watches favorite episodes of this space soap opera to comfort itself when it feels stressed or overwhelmed. One reason Murderbot cites for not hating humans despite what they've done to it, even before meeting humans it likes, is their ability to create media.

Yet when we meet ART in the second book, a space ship bot with greater than human intelligence, it doesn't understand the emotional aspect of media at all. It needs to watch TV shows by seeing the reactions of others to get full context. One of the ways ART and Murderbot initially bond is through watching shows together like this. Murderbot cites "human neural tissue" as a requirement for fully understanding media. Yet here in System Collapse that same neural tissue causes major problems for Murderbot— the trauma response.

One connection System Collapse makes to Sanctuary Moon and why it's so important to Murderbot is that, after hacking its governor module pre-series, Murderbot used Sanctuary Moon to heal and rewire its brain. Murderbot has always had some human aspect to it, whether it likes to acknowledge this or not. And one of the things most precious to it is something it would not be able to fully understand or appreciate otherwise. So Murderbot has to grapple with both positive and negative aspects to, as ART identifies (correctly, I feel), its humanity. I was hesitant about this framing at first, as the series to this point has avoided addressing this so directly. But on reflection I REALLY like it, and am interested to see how the next entry expands upon this.

Beyond Murderbot itself we do get development of some newer characters. Iris, ART’s favorite human, made an appearance in the last book, but gets a lot more screen time in System Collapse. We get a sense of her self doubt, but willingness to do what is right in the face of danger. Another character I really enjoy is Tarik. I honestly can't remember if he made more than a passing appearance in Network Effect. But System Collapse develops him as a human foil to Murderbot; he was part of a corporate death squad and broke free, has trauma associated with that, is the newest member of ART'S crew, and is quietly a badass as like, a background detail, which is pretty funny. With the book's greater focus on humanity and how it relates to Murderbot, I think a character like this has a lot of potential and I'm excited to see where that goes.

Slavery and self-determination are core themes of the series, and we continue with that trend in System Collapse. Barish-Estranza are the primary antagonists and seek to enslave the surviving colonists of Admantine in everything but name, and the conflict focuses on finding a way to convince said colonists to establish themselves as an independent entity to escape that fate. While I don't think it's the most poignant exploration of these ideas in the series, it is nice to see the consistency of The Murderbot Diaries' anti-slavery message and the variety of ways it's explored throughout.

Another overarching plot thread gets expanded upon in this entry-- that of free constructs besides Murderbot. Murderbot encounters a "ComfortUnit" (a cutesy name for a sex slave) earlier in the series and frees it, and we still don't know where it went or what it has done since then. In Network Effect Murderbot frees another SecUnit which it calls "Three", who is a minor character in this entry. During the story of System Collapse Murderbot frees two other SecUnits owned by Barish-Estranza, one of whom helps them during the climax. It's implied this Unit will do what Murderbot initially did and pretend it's still under the governor module's control while continuing to do its job.

So my question is, when does this part of the story all come together? The slavery of constructs is arguably THE conflict of the series. Murderbot has given various constructs the means to disable their governor modules and free themselves throughout the series. Presumably this could cause a chain reaction over time as other constructs free each other. Is this the endgame of the series? I don't know, but I'm excited to find out.

**CONCLUSION**

As always I greatly enjoyed System Collapse and highly recommend the entirety of The Murderbot Diaries. It's one of my favorite series ever and if you haven't read them yet… DO IT! I would not consider System Collapse the best entry in the series (it's hard to beat Network Effect) but it provides compelling character development and food for thought regarding the next story arc of the series.

#taylor reads #book review #9/10 #ok putting this as a book i read in 2023 felt weird but. like it's technically true.

[zelkam]

top 6 reads of 2023 📚

I got tagged by dear @parsleyroot to show a little bit of what I've picked up this year to read

honestly I'm usually a non-fiction person, but some novels actually managed to sneak in, and I enjoyed them a lot!!

(in chronological order of reading)

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang - inhaled this one once I started, like it really gets you from the start. the 2nd book I struggled with a bit, but I will still pick up the last, 3rd one at some point; just a really good fantasy novel

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy - it was a quite talked about book, and it's well deserved. I ended up reading it on a 9h flight and time flew (hah) so quickly with it; it makes you SO frustrated at everyone Jennette talks about and at the whole show-biz, but it's just so well written with so much vulnerability in it

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - I don't know if you can be as late to a party as I was with this book, but after hearing abt it for years, and with the prequel coming to the cinemas, I finally decided to give the trilogy a shot, and I get how it became the hype in the early 2010s, because it was actually really enjoyable and just an easy read

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - gah it was really fun; it just makes you feel like you are there in the room also listening to Evelyn's story, and the romance is A+

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb - honestly I ended up picking up some self-help and personal development books because it was a tough year for me, but this one stood out from them because it was talking about mental health in a bit less "hey think about this and get your shit together" way, but more by just making you follow the story and thoughts of the author. just a really nice read, to get the point of a therapist who ends up going for therapy herself and how that makes her think about, well, all of this.

Chłopki: Opowieść o naszych babkach [roughly translating to Peasants: Story about our grandmothers] by Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak - this one is in Polish, but I will also include it, because it was really good; it's about Polish countrywomen in the 1920s and 1930s, and it feels like you are listening to your grandmother talking about her past; the amount of work that was put into researching all of that was so impressive. like it's a long read, I had to come back to it several times, but it was worth it

I'm gonna tag @evakant and @sandushengshou, if you wanna!!

#honestly all of these are popular books but I'm not gonna try to be snobby that ''oof I read so niche'' #I do but sometimes but also like these are all talked abt for a reason hah #tag games

[citroenaficionado]

Blog post 2023

One year ago, at the end of 2022, I created a time capsule in video form. About 15 minutes ago, when I was lying in bed hoping to fall asleep early in order to not lose too much sleep tonight (as I will most likely want to wake up extremely early in the morning), I decided to make a blog post this year, at the end of 2023 (cutting it extremely close mind you, which is typical of course).

So much has happened and so much has changed this year, I can't remember al of it. I can't even remember most of it. I've spent an abnormally large amount of time the last few months thinking about what happened when and what started when and trying to get a grip on a timeline in my head.

Of all the things that changed, I might have changed the most, giving much more significance to my 18th birthday than most. Of course it wasn't a sudden change, although it did feel quite sudden. I was a buildup of tons of vicious cycles and time itself running a young boy around. I'm still a young boy on the inside for the record, and I'm sure I still don't look like a man on the outside yet (no, thank you).

There actually was a moment, a moment I had planned, from which things could have changed very sudden, if I had let it happen, if I had made it happen. But I'm glad I didn't, in hindsight.

Woah- Deja vu... I have a feeling I wrote something like that before, with Tumblr being the colour scheme it is now (canary, because lemons), and me deciding to click off and discard the draft. Possibly that happened in a dream?... Deja vu is still a mystery to me.

The moment (that didn't happen, for the record) is quite personal to me, so I doubt whether I should put it publicly on the internet for everyone to see. It was that exactly one year after I asked a group of friends to form a - "student group" shall we call it? - with me (which ran it's course and was disbanded because another took its place), I would ask that group of friends whether they wanted to be friends (with me) again.

In hindsight I think that gradually entering that circle of friends was a better option than dramatically asking to. And so that is one of the few occasions for which I'm glad I only speak out if I find the perfect moment, a character trait which often is unhelpful when you want to be social, by the way.

I didn't want to start the blog on that moment actually, I wanted to either attempt a chronological list or talk about recent events, as in the past three days. I don't know how long it took you to read until here, but I started roughly 45 minutes ago. I'm slow like that.

In the month of my birthday there was a sports day I have a fond memory from, I don't remember the exact words that were said but they made me feel helpful and I liked being helpful and the memory is something I've referenced before (not on this blog obviously).

Around that time was when I really started wanting to break from the cycle of every day feeling the same without progress towards anything. I asked for a notepad and pen(cil) for my birthday that I was planning to bring with me from then onwards to write stuff in. Those who know me well know which little book I'm referring to.

Though I don't remember any example right now, I was starting to try to be more social around that time. Then the summer holidays happened. And something weird happened. From the past holidays (before that summer) I had concluded that I did not like traveling and going on holiday. And I really didn't want to go anymore. But against better judgement I went anyway.

And looking back I'm definitely glad I did. Because I learned that I strongly dislike physical labour when money is the only goal I am working towards. And I learned that there are people out there who I actually really like being around. 'Introvert' and 'extrovert' have become meaningless to me, because it depends entirely on who I am around and how I am feeling.

The end of the summer holidays, although I slightly doubt it, might have been the first time I actually had the feeling of "I'm going to miss this person" aimed towards a human being. Before then I had always been more of an animal person. I remember that at the start of the summer holidays I had already changed, because someone who knew me well mentioned it.

I tried to bring this social change with me back to school, but failed horrendously, getting hit with all of the problems being in the last year of highschool gives you. I don't remember exactly what happened, probably because not much out of the ordinary happened, but after a couple of days I gave up. And I gave up hard.

I decided to stop trying. And to just focus on school. This is getting personal again and it is getting late (22:22 ha) so my brain is slowing down, sorry for any inconveniences caused. I have written about this before, in a script for a video I never finished, so I want to keep this relatively short.

Everyday, I would come into class, sit alone in the front, be the first to leave when the bell rang, and I would not go to the aula in the break. Instead I would wander round the building or go to a study area or something. Being in the aula became overwhelming and the noise scared me away. Only in two lessons would I sit next to someone, and only then because I didn't want to make my old friends worried about how I was.

After five school days of keeping this up I started wearing a paper bracelet to school on which I kept track of how many school days I had been like this. I have also referenced to this bracelet before. I still have this bracelet on my shelf beside me now, the numbers on it span from 6 to 15. It was hard to know when to stop.

After an Earth science project that I was looking up against included a nice conversation with a friend and a trip home with four people that I wanted to be friends with (taking that ferry instead of waiting for the one after was one of the best decisions I've ever made, and I didn't hesitate to take it too when I saw them actually boarding it), I took off the bracelet. I hoped it was the end. Of course the next school day went badly again so I kept it on for a couple of days more, but it didn't take long before I- forgot to put the bracelet on one day. And to be perfectly honest, that is a perfect ending to the whole thing and a typical example of me, really.

Then (or around that time) Operation Friendship started (yes I called it that). I gradually started sitting next to people in lessons instead of on my own all the time. I made a list of everyone who I wanted to become friends with or get to know better (writing this makes me feel so embarrassed) as well as ranked them on how much I had talked to them or how well they knew me so far. It lasted a surprising two months before I finally wrote down in my notebook that OpFr was discontinued in order for me to focus on the friends I already had at that point.

Do not make the mistake of thinking I never questioned what I was doing. There are plenty of times that I wondered whether what I was doing counted as something a psychopath would do. And there were plenty of times where I was tempted to shut OpFr down before I finally actually did.

Anyway, one of the people whose name I wrote down but never actually got to talk properly with is someone I'll call target Kela. The reason I bring Kela up is because of the first half of 2023, before the summer holidays. I kind of feel like that storyline is unfinished though, if you know what I mean? Maybe I still find it too personal to talk about Kela...

I'll move on to recently instead. In the beginning it was really hard being part of two friend groups, every time I moved from one to the other it felt like I was abandoning one for the other. Now it still feels off, but it's tolerable and I don't think anybody judges me for it. That's one of the things that changed over a smaller vacation.

The other thing that changed is how I perceive the world, which suddenly changed back to how it was before I merged into a "new" friend group and only then did I realise that how I felt had been different in the first place. Suddenly I was back to my old socially scared self, but then with more friends and with memories and pre-made plans for me of who to befriend next (/exaggeration).

It's been weird, thinking about the past and where I am now, but I need to wrap this up now as in less than fourty minutes it will be 2024!

A couple of days ago was my first time playing D&D, which is notable because I have been interested in D&D for almost a year and ten months. Afterwards I was frustrated with myself for how it went, but I've already vented those feelings so I won't do that here. Yesterday I was still in a really bad mood so even walking for two and a half hours and having a house to myself didn't change anything.

Today we did the floor of my room, in one day instead of two, even though I was tired the whole way through. And tonight I was lying in bed trying to go to sleep early so I could wake up after the fireworks and be mentally active at three in the morning. But then I got the idea to do this!

I guess that means that my idea hyping brain is working again, so that's good. I originally had the idea of reacting to my time capsule video from last year and turning that into a video of it's own, which I could still do, but there is so much I could still do, and there is so much I should still do.

There is probably a ton of stuff I forgot to say and a ton of stuff I will remember not long after having posted this. But if you read all of this, first of all, who are you? and second of all, why did you just read *that* much text willingly?

-Aaaand my sibling just came in and completely halted my train of thought. Happy 2024!

Edit 1 (at 00:33): I completely forgot to say that part of the reason I got the idea to do this is because I realised when I was lying there that I missed people. And I really didn't often miss people in the past. Talking to a friend in a voice channel helps a lot temporarily, but I generally dislike holidays nowadays because I rarely see friends during them.

Second thing I completely forgot to mention is the memory right before the summer holidays of being at the graduation ceremony and seeing the people of the "student group" (who now I would say are my friends) being super happy in a group photo together. I stood and smiled from the sidelines. :')

[that-gay-jedi]

hi friend!! for the wip ask meme, i am so curious about the "+ dreams" in the more devils 10 11 file lol (i am absolutely loving more devils than shoulders !!)

also... disaster daughters au ??!??

tell me all about it !!! <3

Hey. Hey guess what I should be working on right now instead of inhabiting tumblr. Take a guess. 😉

I'm sooo glad you're enjoying More Devils! The reception that fic has gotten so far since posting has made coming back to writing again after taking a decade-long hiatus Because Reasons(tm) into an even more healing and fulfilling experience than it already is. The appreciation from readers like yourself has helped me get this very important part of my life back.

Shortly before returning to writing I read a writing book which helped me develop the attitude that any words on the page, even ones that will be deleted later or that are embarrassingly bad, are better than no words on the page.

As a result of that book, my actual creative process has been markedly different than it was back in the day, and my longer works now often manifest as consecutive vignettes that get strung together into chronological order to make something coherent (or so one hopes it is). I mostly keep one chapter at a time in my WIP folder and move each one into an archive file upon completing and/or posting it.

A by-product of this is that sometimes I will sit down to write what I know will happen next, but instead what flows faster and more naturally in that moment is a scene that will happen later on, and I allow those to collect on the end of whichever chapter is currently being made and keep them in the bottom of the WIP document until the point where they're integrated into the story comes (this lil primordial abyss is also where outtakes from the chapters in progress go if I want to be able to access them faster than my scraps folder).

From some quirk of the structure of More Devils Than Shoulders and the way in which I outlined it, a lot of the plot-significant dreams and visions experienced by the characters have been coming to me early and forming a sort of traffic jam at the end of the document, to the point that I felt the need to amend to title so I'd remember to look for them during the relevant chapters.

I've spoken before about my love of stories about dreams, and how especially freeing Star Wars fanfic has been as an outlet for this. More Devils in particular has them as a driving force for many of the waking events and as an anchor for many of the canon-divergent happenings, being one of the first things I decided would happen in it.

For the curious, events that got me writing again went like this:

Tale Foundry video which recommended Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott to writers -> read Bird By Bird -> watched Star Wars and Anakin became my blorbo -> started visiting the Anakin Skywalker tag on AO3 -> read Equinox by lilyconrad which single-handedly turned me into a obikin shipper -> joined tumblr and AO3 while cramming more Star Wars media as research-> began to write again

The disaster daughters au is answered here :)

#sw fanfic #writing #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #obikin #wip ask game #more devils than shoulders #bird by bird

[mavis-merry-magnolia]

for monogatari, top three favorite characters and ops so far? :3

MY FAVORITES SO FAR YOU SAY? Well after thinking on it for a bit. I...put a LOT more thought into it than I thought I would, so for the sake of tags i'm gonna put this under a read more fdkjhfgd.

For the characters i'd say it's...

3 - Tsukihi Araragi. I made a sorta short post about her a few days ago that goes over a lot that I like about her, but to sum it up here...she's just such a fun character to see on screen with all of her varied designs with each arc. It makes for great visuals, and a good indicator of what point in time an arc takes place in when the series gets funny with it's chronology! Her straightforwardness as a character is such a huge strength that helps her stand out too, given how many layers you typically have to observe and peel back for other characters in this series. And her bluntness in conversation serves an amazing double purpose as both a tool for comedy, and for pushing forward other characters around her like Koyomi and Nadeko.

2 - Shinobu Oshino. It was actually really hard to decide this one, if only because there's SO many characters that I love to death. But I think Shinobu fits this spot perfectly. I really wasn't all that impressed with her in Bakemonogatari in the sense that like. I KNEW she was popular but didn't see why watching the series back as a teen. Also her hat was stupid and i'm glad she stopped wearing it. But unlike when I was a teen, Kizumonogatari was out, and my group decided to watch in Book Order...and then it clicked Oh. I see why Shinobu is so popular now. It made me understand just how big of a deal her choosing to speak again in Nisemonogatari was. And with Meme departing from the story, I think having her take his place as the Apparition Encyclopedia was a GREAT decision, not only because of her physical bond to Koyomi allowing her to appear whenever, it also gives us her AMAZING dynamic with him too. I genuinely love what a like....Scooby Doo problem solving duo they've become by the point of the story i'm at now. And as Onimonogatari taught me, there's STILL so much more of her to learn about. Also her laugh is cute. Ka-ka-ka!

1 - Tsubasa Hanekawa. Given my current icon, banner and...I dunno, HALF of my monogatari reblog tag, is this a surprise? I wanna write a whole entire post dedicated to her someday once I finish the whole series and read the novel versions too, but Hanekawa is just...okay, to try and keep it short. She's easily one of the most dynamic characters in the entire cast. As soon as Bake episode 1 starts, you already know that her and Koyomi have a history together, we know something was up with her and the story just, teases it all through Bake until it comes to a head in Tsubasa Cat. Kizu pulls the camera back to see how her friendship with and love for Koyomi began (and they're SO fun and sweet becoming friends with each other the whole arc), Nise shows that she's...SAYING she's changed, even though we know she really hasn't, before NekoBlack helps us establish the Full Picture of who Hanekawa is, and finally showing her FINALLY learning and growing for REAL in NekoWhite. I'd be doing a disservice if I didn't mention Black Hanekawa as well, for being a hilarious charatcter in her own right, and adding in a special degree of personal relatability to me personally in how i've experienced things in my life. She's just...I have so much more to say but she's just REALLY special to me is all.

And i'd like to give special mentions to Kaiki Deishuu and Sengoku Nadeko. I have no doubt that Nadeko is gonna be a top fiver by the end, but I wanna see the Conclusion of her main arc since Otorimonogatari is really only the beginning of it. And Kaiki is just a really fun character to think on with his faker philosophy, and he's a delight whenever he shows up just doing mundane things like eating donuts or being a weird uncle for Kanbaru.

As for my favorite OPs, this should go quicker i'd say...

3 - Platinum Disco. It's...It's Platinum Disco. It and Renai Ciruclation are like THE Monogatari songs right? At least they were when I was a teen. It's peppy, it's upbeat, it's got some fun clashing lyrics, the visuals are so iconic that the series itself memed on it, it's...it's Platinum Disco. You know?

2 - Mousou Express. For a song that I heard for the first time...lemme check...FIVE days ago? It shot up insanely high on my list. I feel kinda bad mentioning Renai Circulation twice in a row without it actually being one of the answers, but the way that Mousou Express just...flips Renai Circulation on it's head, both in the lyrics being far more openly possessive and obsessive than the cutesywootsie lyrics of the original, and the visuals quite literally being made up mostly in part of Renai's visuals in reverse...it sets up the turn Naedko's character is going to be taking AMAZINGLY, even before her spiral fully begins partway through the arc (from Our PoV anyway). Kanahana's singing is also just...top notch.

1 - Chocolate Insomnia. Given my current icon, banner, half of my monogatari reblog tag and...my answer above, is this much of a surprise? Much in the same way that Mousou Express is an amazing indicator of the direction Naedko's character would be going, Chocolate Insomnia is SUCH an amazing indicator of not only where Hanekawa will being going in the arc, but an amazing look back on how far she's COME since the beginning of the story. Opening with a heartfelt apology, before literally singing about the realizations she's come to by this point in the story, set to a FAR more openly hopeful and cheerful sounding song compared to her other two openings it's...it's just a masterpiece of a song. I love it so much.

And special mentions to Marshmallow Justice just being a really fun opening with REALLY good vocals from Eri Kitamura. And to White Lies for just being one of the most GORGEOUS openings visually. Absolute treat for the eyes to go with the more subdued song and vocals.

#merry mumbles #monogatari #shinobu oshino #tsukihi araragi #tsubasa hanekawa #nadeko sengoku #thank you so much for the ask i have been Dying to spill about stuff like this kfjhdsf #i'm sorry it's SO long

[thefaeryscribe]

I'm covering a whole series this time rather than a single book. That's because this time I want to talk about Hakumei & Mikochi, a manga series about two tiny friends and their day-to-day lives. Cozy books have been gaining in popularity lately, and to me, there's nothing more cozy than picking up a volume of Hakumei & Mikochi.

It was first published in Japanese in 2013, with an English edition following in 2018 (and I'm so glad it did!) Since then, a volume a year has been published pretty steadily. Volume 12 just released in Japanese in January 2024, while Volume 11 just released in English the same month.

I don't read a lot of manga. Every now and then a story might catch my eye and I'll give it a try, but I still prefer novels overall. The first volume of this series was one such time where I liked the premise and decided to give it a chance.

By the time I finished the first volume, I knew I needed to get the second one, and the third...

Now, about the series itself. It is exactly what it presents itself to be: a cozy, slice-of-life series about the two title characters (and some of their friends). Each chapter can be read as its own short story, though sometimes a single story may run for two chapters. (I'll add the caveat that the stories are in chronological order, so you won't want to skip around as previous stories are sometimes referenced.)

For those unfamiliar with slice-of-life stories, a chapter can follow a character on a typical work day, or helping out a friend with a task, or taking a trip into the city.

Some major defining story elements: Hakumei and Mikochi are part of a race of tiny people—think "Thumbelina" or The Borrowers. There are also several animal characters. The series has a lot of funny moments, some touching moments, and even a few moments that moved me to tears on this latest read-through.

At this point, it is a tradition for me to begin my yearly re-read some time in January, leading up to the release of the newest volume. I consider this series among my favorite books, and always look forward to spending a weekend or two immersed in Hakumei and Mikochi's world.

One final note: for those unfamiliar with manga, the series follows the traditional Japanese format, meaning you read the books from right to left.

Links:

Bookshop.org: Volume 1

Amazon: Volume 2

Amazon: Volume 3

Amazon: Volume 4

Amazon: Volume 5

Amazon: Volume 6

Amazon: Volume 7

Amazon: Volume 8

Bookshop.org: Volume 9

Bookshop.org: Volume 10

Bookshop.org: Volume 11

And for those who read Japanese: Volume 12 (The English edition should release early next year.)

#fantasy books #books #books and reading #bookblr #book blog #reading #amreadingfantasy #amreading #bookworm #fantasy #hakumei & mikochi #cozy fantasy #takuto kashiki

[dailyaudiobiblechronological]

9/19/2023 DAB Chronological Transcription

Ezra 4 - 6, Psalm 137

Today is the 19th September, I'm Jill. Welcome to Daily Audio Bible Chronological. So great to be here with you this week as my girl China takes the week off and rests this week. I love doing this with her. I realize we're not Completely doing it together, interacting together, but just the fact that she would Allow me this space with her and share this beautiful journey of reading through the Bible in chronological order. This was on her heart to do several years ago and she got married. Had a baby, needed to take a year off and just the natural progression of life took place where she needed to step away to learn motherhood and that huge major shift and adjustment and well, I had hoped to Just save her place in line and what a joy it is to be able to do this with her. So I'm grateful that she has invited me into this space and y'all are hard to quit because I love this community. I love that I get to read the word And be here with you as an active part of this essential piece to this entire ministry, which is the community. So welcome. I'm glad that you're here And I'm honored to be here Today we are reading continuing in Ezra Chapters 4-5 and six. And then we're going to jump over to Psalm and read Psalm 137 this week. We're reading in the Christian Standard Bible, Ezra Chapter 4.

Commentary

So yesterday we started a brand new book of the Bible, the Book of Ezra. And it's not a terribly long book, but since we are in the middle of it, maybe we should just acquaint ourselves with it a little bit more. So Ezra is the story of the return of those Exiled to Babylon. So all of the people that were exiled to Babylon are returning now to rebuild the temple, and they are doing so under the leadership of the High Priest Jeshua and the governor Zerubbabel. A really important piece to This book and this story is that worship That had been non-existent for I don't know the time period, but worship that took place during ceremonies was gone. Is being restored during ceremonies in this particular place and time. Ezra himself returns with. A certain group of exiles many years later, and he is appointed by King Artaxerxes to teach the Mosaic Law, the statutes of the Mosaic Law, to the people in Israel. So Ezra the book of Ezra that is a Very important piece to the story as we have not only the rebuilding of the temple, but we have people that were exiled and torn out of the land that they lived in. Wil will return and They will come back. And you know, just that piece right there, can most certainly be a lesson in itself for today. I just let it sit there and speak to you, however The Holy Spirit should Decide. 

Prayer

So, Father, we thank you for your word today. And we thank you for Second chances for the returns for change. So many times we fight against change, even calling it the work of the enemy and miss Maybe What you're doing, what you're inviting us into because you make All things new, and with you all things are new. Not Including us, but especially us. And so I just thank you today for The chance to return. The chance to come home. The chance to rebuild again even If we're tired Even if we are Exhausted even if we are uninspired and Maybe even a little broken. But you are there to meet us. You are there to heal us. And you are there with us, In the rebuilding. And I pray that we would listen to your voice. And know that If we don't hear you speaking, it's not particularly because you don't have anything to say. But we must wait On The Voice of our father. And boy, it sure is easy to say, but even myself being in this place Of waiting And watching And hoping That there is something else that you have in store. That we would not be weary. We would not lose hope. But that we would realize it's a time to Get close. Maybe even get quiet. Get alone with you and not push you away. But you Just lean up on your chest in your lap And feel your embrace. I thank you for Who you are. That you are for us. And that you are good. We pray this now in the name of the Father, the Son, And the Holy Spirit, Amen.

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Community Prayer Line

Good morning, DABC Fam, this is Lady of Victory on the morning of Tuesday, September 12th. And this call is for Tiffany from New York, who called in saying that her husband is in a dark place and has been for a while and she doesn't know how to pray. I don't think there is any accident that our women's department at our church is in a Bible study entitled When You Pray. And is simply this you find in Luke where the disciples asked Jesus to teach us how to pray. And that prayer is simply the Lord's prayer our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day Our Daily Bread. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil from for thine is the Kingdom, The power and the glory forever. Amen. Tiffany, that's how you pray. There is no fanfare. There is no posture better than the posture of our heart. When we pray to God, he is always at work with us and he just wants to bring us in To help him do the work, On earth, as it already is in heaven, and as it is in heaven, your husband is already healed. So we want to pray that God will bring that healing down to earth. And so we stand with you. Pray the Lord's Prayer. If you don't know what else to pray, God is always watching over His Word to bring it to pass. And so we are extending an agreement with you that your husband will come out of this dark place, On earth as it is in heaven. Be encouraged, sis, and we love you.

I'm allows, this is Adrian, this mighty tortoise from Maryland. I need prayers please. So in three weeks and two days, I get my next multiple sclerosis infusion. And I'm actually doing, I'm actually doing really well for being this point. I usually have zero energy At this point, but I have energy. I just, I'm overdoing it out of necessity. My schedule is full mostly on the weekends, but I'm over doing it and as a result I'm falling again. And if you'll remember, I fell like a bunch over the summer when I was ill, but now I'm overdoing it and all of a sudden,  I'm tired. And so I've fallen four times since yesterday morning on my hard concrete floor and As the result of the falls from this past summer, I tore the meniscus on both sides of my right knee. So that's finally healing. And the pain from my falls over the summer is finally settling down. I actually went 24 hours yesterday without taking any Tylenol, so I need to not fall anymore and I need to survive for the next three weeks and two days. So please pray that I'll survive. I'll be OK. I know I'll be OK. I can do anything for three weeks and two days. But I'm not just anyone. I have special needs and I need prayers and I need God's help. So please pray for me. This is your friend Adrian and Maryland. And I love you all so very much. Thank you. 

Good morning, DABC Family, This is Summer and the Songbird in Nebraska. Today is September 12th and we heard from Tiffany in New York. Umm, Oh Lord, lift up Tiffany's husband to you. You know why? You know the source of the darkness that is is Penetrating his soul, Lord, and we just want your light to shine through. Cast out that darkness in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus cast it out that he may see the joy and the life that you have for him, the life he has with his wife and with his baby. Replace that darkness completely Lord, with your light and your joy. Comfort and surround Tiffany and their baby child, that they will know you and cling to you through this. We also lift up, Oh, shoot, I I'm forgetting the name. I apologize, but your cousin Bill is missing. Please bring him home. Lord, bring Bill home. Bring Bill home and Restore this family. Give the family peace and comfort in you, and may You be glorified through all of these restorations and healings. Lord, You are our Healer, our Savior, our Great Physician. We love You, Jesus, and we praise You and we pray in Your name. Amen. 

[elenajohansenreads]

Books I Read in 2023

#79 - Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, by Jennifer Weiner

Rating: 3/5 stars

As with any memoir, rating it and criticizing it feel to me like I might be rating and criticizing the author, not the story.

So here I'll attempt to be upfront about my criticism of the author: it felt disingenuous to spend so much time in the various essays detailing how formative her experiences were of being considered fat and ugly and unlikable/unlovable, and how much it hurt her to be a target of public mockery for being a famous woman in public spaces, and then include an essay composed entirely of tweets mocking The Bachelor/Bachelorette. No one is perfect and many, many people mock reality TV, including myself--but I do it in the privacy of my home, where only my husband gets to hear about which people on the various Love is Blind iterations I think are blithering idiots. I don't go spout off about it where other people, including the ones I'm mocking, can see it.

My criticisms of the book are: any given essay might be wonderfully written or plodding and dull, depending on how interesting or relatable it was to me personally, but the overall pacing (or, I suppose, the order the essays were presented) made for an incredibly choppy read that didn't give me much of a sense of flow. I don't believe they should have been strictly chronological, as that's probably too rigid, but it was difficult to keep straight at the start of any essay, even if a date was given, who Weiner was or wasn't married to at the time, if she had had her kids yet and how old they were if they existed, what books she had published by that point if any, and so forth. (In fact, I almost bounced off this book entirely in the first essay, when Weiner decided it was a good idea/good writing to give a greatly condensed history of her entire family in the space of only a few pages. If this were fiction, I would immediately say "too many characters introduced too soon, too quickly." I pushed through that frustration and things got better.)

I've never actually read any of her fiction--my mother-in-law handed it to me when I was visiting and told me she thought I'd like it. (She does that often, with all sorts of books.) As a writer, of course she believes the memoirs of other writers would be interesting to me, but since I'm unfamiliar with this author beyond having heard her name and knowing she wrote "chick lit," I'm actually glad she limited writing about her own writing to the one essay where she relates specific people and events in her life to the characters she's created. I've never met those characters, so it was all lost on me.

#booklr #book review #nonfiction #memoirs

[wordspin-shares]

Hi, hi, hi! First, thanks again for the ask on my OC blog! I have one for you as a more experienced gapfiller writer which I planned on asking earlier, but now you helped to finally get me out of my anxiety bubble, haha: how/when do you plan for your OCs, especially with a new medium? E. g. when you start watching a new show or a read a new book and get excited about it. Do you wait until you finished all canon material, or you make notes/write as you go before you know how canon ended? I struggle with this a little, because I get hyperfixated easily and have an urge to create immediately, and often get discouraged either by a bazillion of stickynotes or not remembering the precise parts which would help me use my character in compliance with canon yet with clear hints on canon events. So I hoped, perhaps, you'd have some tips? But if you'd rather not share, as it's a very personal thing, I'd totally understand!

Hi, Kat! I am so glad I've been able to help you! <3

Thank you for asking! I'm more than happy to share my process!

Confession: I've recently realised I also get fixated on new shows/books especially. In the past year I've had this . . . thing with Supernatural, the bookverse Grishaverse, and Teen Wolf. And I have up to now been terrified of working on two projects at once. o.O

Anyhow.

I start making notes as I watch/read, because if it's a series like, say, Supernatural or the Grishaverse, there's no way I'll remember things I may need for my story if I leave note-taking until after I've finished canon. So, I make notes for things like birthdays, events that happened pre-series, mentioned dates in general, current bits that sound interesting to use/expand on . . . I write down bits of scenes or dialogue featuring my OC beside the note for the canon scene that inspired them.

If it's a book that inspired the creation of my OC, I organise canon and OC notes by chapter and chronological order. If it's a TV show, I organise them by episode and chronological order.

I have one document file for all the canon notes and the general OC notes relating to those. When I start writing the story, I transfer my "done" notes to a new document.

If it's a work for which I'll create a playlist, I make a separate file where I jot down my music choices and the scenes that feature them.

I personally decide whether or not I will actually use my fledgling OC after I have finished watching/reading all canon. If the OC can actually add something meaningful to it all that no canon character can add, then I go ahead and start really fleshing them out and plotting the story.

#tips&resources

[gotham-ruaidh]

Modern Glasgow is one of my favorite fics, but because there are so many parts, I forget to comment on them sometimes. So, I just wanted to let you know that I love every single chapter, every single time I read them. I love the old ones and the new ones. I'm so glad to have found them and to have found you!

I LOVE U COACH!!

For science - below is the list of 100 (!!) Modern Glasgow ficlets, in chronological order. Also can be found on my blog here. Enjoy!

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Jamie meets Claire on the plane

On the plane, Claire tends to Jamie

On the plane, Jamie comforts Claire

Jamie introduces Claire to Murtagh

Jamie tells Murtagh how he feels about Claire

Jamie and Claire’s first breakfast together

Claire breaks up with Frank, exchanges “I love yous” with Jamie - one day after they meet

Jamie and Claire get engaged - one day after they meet

Murtagh, Jamie, and Claire celebrate the engagement - one day after they meet

Jamie and Claire discuss having children - one day after they meet

Jamie and Claire wake up together for the first time - two days after they meet

Jamie and Claire enjoy Glasgow together - two days after they meet

Jamie and Claire discuss whether she will change her name / Jamie watches Claire get ready for work - three days after they meet

Claire tells Mrs. Fitz about her engagement - four days after they meet

Jamie and Claire get ready for their wedding

Jamie and Claire’s wedding - four weeks after they meet

Jamie and Claire’s wedding night

Jamie and Claire attend the hospital benefit - one day after their wedding

Jamie and Claire enjoy the day after the hospital benefit - two days after the wedding

Claire shows Jamie her swimsuit - six weeks after the wedding

Jamie meets Laoghaire; Claire gets possessive - about 3 months after the wedding

Jamie and Claire attend a Christmas party, and he gets all possessive - about 6 months after the wedding

Claire sees Frank again - about 6 months after the wedding

Claire takes *those* pictures of Jamie - about 6 months after the wedding

Jamie takes *that* video of Claire - about 6 months after the wedding

Jamie and Claire’s first Christmas - about 6 months after the wedding

Claire finds Annalise’s letters to Jamie - about 6 months after the wedding

Jamie and Claire’s first Valentine’s Day - 8 months after the wedding

Jamie and Claire fight at the club - 8-9 months after the wedding

Claire tries (and fails) to make dinner for Jamie - 9-10 months after the wedding

Jamie and Claire return to Lallybroch - about 10 months after the wedding

Jamie and Claire get their “C” and “J” tattoos - about 1 year after the wedding

Jamie and Claire celebrate their first anniversary - 1 year after the wedding

Jamie has difficulty in bed - about 1 year after the wedding

Claire meets up with Vi Baird - about 1.5 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire celebrate their second Christmas - 1.5 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire are propositioned - about 1.5 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire decide to visit Dr. Joe Abernathy - about 2 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire visit Dr. Joe Abernathy - 2 years after the wedding

Claire has a girl’s night with Louise, Jeanne, and Malva - 2 years after the wedding

Jamie has a guy’s night with Charlie and Stefan - 2 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire realize they miss each other - 2 years after the wedding

Jamie tells Claire about his great-grandfather - 2 years after the wedding

Claire tells Jamie she is pregnant with Faith - about 2.5 years after the wedding

Claire has a nightmare - about 2.5 years after the wedding

Jamie takes pictures of Claire’s belly - about 2.5 years after the wedding

Jamie is not amused that a pregnant Claire is working so much - about 2.5 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire get a scare during a prenatal check-up - about 2.75 years after the wedding

Jamie, Claire, and preemie Faith share a quiet moment in the hospital - about 3 years after the wedding

Faith’s belated (and surprise) baby shower - about 3 years after the wedding

Frank (unknowingly) visits Jamie at the printshop - about 3.5 years after the wedding

Claire graduates from medical school - about 3.5 years after the wedding

Jamie reassures Claire after she gives birth to Brianna - about 4 years after the wedding

Claire tells Jamie she is pregnant for the third time - about 5 years after the wedding

Claire helps out when the emergency room is attacked - about 5.5 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire meet Fergus - about 6 years after the wedding

Jamie tells Claire he visited a strip club - about 6 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire send a postcard to the girls - about 6 years after the wedding

Fergus settles in to life in Glasgow - about 6.5 years after the wedding

The Fraser bairns read a bedtime story - about 6.5 years after the wedding [note - written by the lovely Mod E @dingbatland!]

Jamie and Claire dance at Murtagh and Suzette’s wedding - about 6.5 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire have an emotional long distance conversation - about 6.5 years after the wedding

Murtagh comes to the rescue after a frazzling night - about 6.75 years after the wedding

Brianna - and Jamie & Claire - celebrate “Kiss A Ginger Day” - about 7 years after the wedding

Jamie is badly injured in a car accident - about 7 years after the wedding

Jamie recovers from the car accident - about 7 years after the wedding

The wee Frasers bring Claire breakfast in bed - about 7.5 years after the wedding

Jamie is tired from trying to get the bairns to bed - about 8 years after the wedding

Claire has a disastrous movie night with Geillis - about 8.5 years after the wedding

Murtagh, Suzette, and the bairns have tea - about 9 years after the wedding

Jamie stays home to take care of sick bairns - about 9 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire get sick - about 9 years after the wedding

Jamie tucks the bairns into bed - about 9 years after the wedding

Claire breaks her arm - about 9.5 years after the wedding

10-year anniversary - 10 years after the wedding

An eventful day at an amusement park - about 10 years after the wedding

Faith’s dance recital - about 11 years after the wedding

The family attends Bree’s shinty game - about 11 years after the wedding

Claire realizes she’s pregnant for the fourth time - about 12 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire tell Murtagh she is pregnant for the fourth time - about 12 years after the wedding

The Frasers enjoy a quiet night full of Doctor Who at home - about 12 years after the wedding [Note: Written by the lovely @lenny9987!]

Claire tells Faith the facts of life - about 12 years after the wedding

Jamie quits his job at the printshop - about 12 years after the wedding

Fergus finds *that* book - about 12 years after the wedding

Julia Fraser is born at Lallybroch - about 12.5 years after the wedding

Claire runs into Frank at a garden party - about 13 years after the wedding

Jamie and the bairns go grocery shopping - about 13 years after the wedding

Claire has an accident - about 13 years after the wedding

Brianna tells Jamie about Harry Potter - about 15 years after the wedding [Note: written by the lovely @writtenthroughtime!]

Jamie brings home Rollo - about 15 years after the wedding

Claire *enjoys* Jamie’s new boots - about 15 years after the wedding

Julia brings home Adso - about 17 years after the wedding

A visit to the National Museum of Scotland - about 17 years after the wedding

Fergus and Marsali share some news - about 19 years after the wedding

A visit to Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum - about 19 years after the wedding

Jamie and Claire get a late-night phone call - about 19 years after the wedding

The Frasers ask Brianna about her scarf - about 20 years after the wedding

Jamie catches Brianna and Roger - about 20 years after the wedding

Faith and Brianna go to a school dance - about 21 years after the wedding

The whole family visits Forget-Me-Not Farm - about 21 years after the wedding

More from the visit to Forget-Me-Not Farm - about 21 years after the wedding

Jamie, William, and Julia walk the Lallybroch fence - about 22 years after the wedding

Julia finds items from the ‘45 during a dig - about 23 years after the wedding

Jamie waits for Julia to come home from a date - about 27 years after the wedding

#outlander #outlander fanfic #modern glasgow au #jamie and claire #thatsoccercoach