#written in my own heart blood

[beasanfi1997]

Outlander will end with season eight based in Written in My Own Heart's Blood but Diana Gabaldon had Just wrote go tell the bees that i am gone and now She Is going to write the tenth book and It means that they will transform in the movies the Last two books as they did It with Downtown Abbey

#outlander #diana gabaldon #written in my own heart blood #go tell the bees that i am gone #outlander book ten

[shortnotsweet]

In a Week by Hozier ft. Karen Cowley

“The raven is death, obviously. When I die, I want a good tombstone—something right spooky. LT’s got something against the underground, though you’d think that would be just his kind of place. That’s alright. He needs to, he can cremate me. It’s not exactly Catholic, and Mam would turn in her grave, but God is a unicorn and no one is pure anymore, so. What’s all that got to do with me?”

Johnny “Soap” McTavish has a journal. Had. It is his no longer.

Simon “Ghost” Riley had dreams—awful ones, the kind that sank claws into his lungs, dragged him into sleep, and then sent him careening out of it. He still has dreams, but they’re different, now. Better. Johnny’s pages have folded themselves under his eyes and gotten into his head, brighter and more infectious than anything else has ever been. It’s more than the past, that rotting carcass behind him, and more than now. Now is nothing. Now is ash. It’s like, it’s like—blinding, is what it is. He’s a blind man.

It is biblical now. Ghost has read it backward and forward and sideways and inside out. When he runs out of things to read, he reads them again, and when that is not enough, he reads between the lines.

#ghostsoap #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #soapghost #soap x ghost #ghoap #call of duty #cod mw3 #my art #ghost is obsessed with soaps journal bc it breaks his heart at first like really tears it apart but soon focuses on what soap has written #about him. words of admiration and envy and love and fondness. real fondness. jokes made for him thoughts about him musings etc. #and johnnys snippets about his family and how he wants to settle down eventually #then all simon can think about is what life they could’ve lived together after the ‘war’ #nevermind that there will always be war be death be blood and love is there and it matters but it changes nothing #for simon there will always be johnny #who even knows if thats what soap wanted if he loved him back if ghost even remembers him as he was instead of what he wishes he could have #become to ghost if things had gone as they should. who knows. the dead dont sing dont speak. all thats left is what they wrote #the cigarettes refer to soaps smoking habit and how ghost disapproves like a nagging wife. the ash smudges and burns in the paper allude to #ghost deciding to have soap cremated as a spouse decides post mortem due to his own aversion to being underground bc he doesn’t want soap #to be nothing but a decomposing body. he couldn’t bear that. he couldn’t bury him alive or dead so burning it is

[gotham-ruaidh]

there is hope...

"I‘m sorry," he said, very softly. "It‘s not—don‘t worry, I‘m … He‘s only a cat," I said, and a small fresh grief tightened like a band round my chest. -- An Echo In The Bone

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Jamie took my hand and squeezed it hard. He was flushed from the walk, and even more from excitement; the color ran right down into the open neck of his shirt, turning his skin a beautiful rosy bronze. “I’ve brought ye home, Sassenach,” he said, his voice a little husky. “It willna be the same—and I canna say how things will be now—but I’ve kept my word.” My throat was so choked that I could barely whisper “Thank you.” We stood for a long moment, clasped tight together, summoning up the strength to go around that last corner and look at what had been, and what might be. Something brushed the hem of my skirt, and I looked down, expecting that a late cone from the big spruce we were standing by had fallen. A large gray cat looked up at me with big, calm eyes of celadon green and dropped a fat, hairy, very dead wood rat at my feet. “Oh, God!” I said, and burst into tears.

-- Written In My Own Heart's Blood

#outlander #outlander 07x03 #an echo in the bone #written in my own heart's blood #adso fraser #jamie and claire

[cookie-de-baunilha]

Tbh the more I think about how Diana handled Percy in Bees, the more I wonder why she decided to write him into the main series in the first place. What was the point, really?

Everything he did could be achieved through a brand new character. Let’s say, Claude Beauchamp himself. Claude could be the one looking for Fergus. He could be the French spy that was once John’s opposite in the Black Chamber. John wouldn’t trust him anyway.

It just makes no sense to me, from a narrative standpoint, to bring a character from the LJG series, who shares a complicated history with John, and not have their relationship further developed/dealt with in any meaningful way to the characters.

Percy is connected to the main series through John, mostly, but they never had a single conversation about them that actually did something to further develop their dynamic (no, that brief conversation they had in the end of Bees added nothing new to their dynamic).

And this is not me saying that they necessarily had to get back together, mind you (even though I’d like that very much), just that they needed… to talk. About them. About what happened 20 years before. Unresolved things. And from there Diana could’ve gone anywhere really, writing them getting back together or not.

The thing is, the ending of BOTB — sad and tragic as it is — could pass as a satisfying closure to their relationship. So one could assume that bringing Percy back meant dealing with unfinished business between them, right? But Diana doesn’t even make an effort to do that.

So what was the point of Percy specifically? If we could easily have a different character doing the exact same things (with some adjustments)? It just screams bad writing to me, and, if I had to bet, that’s also part of the reason why so many readers struggle to care about Percy’s storyline in the main series.

Because, yeah, most of them haven’t read the spin-off series, so they get pretty confused when they hit the first chapters of Echo. And what Percy brings to the table is essentially a political side plot with some mystery surrounding Fergus — so, unless you get really interested in Fergus’ parentage storyline, Percy’s plot and overall presence becomes a big “ok… so what?” (add that to the fact that 2 huge books later and the Fergus storyline still hasn’t gone anywhere, so even if you like that plot, which I do btw, you are gonna be frustrated by the lack of development).

What about Percy’s relationship with John? Well, that is not dealt with in any way, shape or form besides “something happened between them in the past, John doesn’t trust him”. So much so that the readers who haven’t read the LJG series have to either accept the vague informations that are given to them or search more about it online. There’s no emotional investment by the readers whatsoever because Diana doesn’t make them care at all.

Actually, that’s a problem that also exists within John’s plot as a whole in the main series and the reason why so many readers struggle with his storyline in the later books (something something *John not having a character development in the main series* something something)… but I’m gonna leave that conversation for another post because this one is already too long.

#outlander #an echo in the bone #written in my own heart’s blood #go tell the bees that i am gone #anti diana gabaldon #john grey #lord john grey #percy wainwright #percy beauchamp #john x percy

[transparentdreamruins]

"...you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands, and you know that." ~ Written in My Own Heart's Blood

#jamie and claire #jamie x claire #jamie fraser #claire fraser #outlander #evolution of love #heartandsoulofoutlander #a timeless love #forever and always #love and devotion #written in my own heart's blood #book qoute

[littlecrabbs]

Like Father Like Son

William finally learns the truth, and Jamie has to deal with the consequences.

#classic Fraser behavior #outlander #outlander series #outlander fanart #written in my own hearts blood #jamie fraser #William Grey #william ransom #john grey #outlanderedit #lord john grey #mine #fanart #littlecrabbs #art #my art #littlecrabbs art #Jamie’s hair is down cuz I said so lol #ljg fandom #lord john grey series

[harryforvogue]

He laid me down on his kilt, and came back into me, strongly enough that I gave a small, high-pitched cry of relief.

"Ask me to your bed,” he said. “I shall come to ye. For that matter—I shall come, whether ye ask it or no. But I am your man; I serve ye as I will.”

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#people are out here writing this fucking good #this is from outlander written in my own heart's blood btw

[widowshill]

reminder to myself to find and upload the article about the gendered enlightenment/scientific reason vs superstitious persecution in Carmilla and it’s resulting ambiguously supernatural narrative because. it’s so formative to the way I think and write about ds lmao it needs to be on some kind of blog syllabus.

#carmilla ... but written by dr hoffman instead of dr hesselius. when she eventually writes that book she was supposed to be doing. #more than anything anything else carolyn's death scene in hods is a PERFECT echo of carmilla's slaughter. #framed in that perfect condemnatory v of the male head of household figure surrounded by militant police – where carolyn's overall sin is #not lesbian transgressive female desire but incestuous (even though she's still a lesbian in my heart) #like ! i don't know. vampires real true they are both metaphorical AND literally going to suck ur blood. same with phoenixes. #but there's a lot there to .. consider. many fractured reflections of cut crystal rather than a pane of glass? you hear me? #➤ ooc. ┊ she’s nauseous，she’s hysterical，and she’s exhausted. #i think... this is true particularly at the end of arcs where the threat is vanquished. things are always rather abrupt in a way #that leaves me reeling a tiny bit and not always in a conclusion that's ... certain beyond all doubt? there's often some little qualifier. #or you hear it relayed back to the family. collinses noted always for their truth telling to their own clan! esp when making their own myth #and i always ALWAYS think the obfuscating that goes on between 1795 and the 60's. joshua concealing the nature of his son and #of his wife's death. barnabas choosing to retell the josette myth in a way that favors him and his desire. #the way institutions like the hospital or windcliff or laura's sanitarium in phoenix are resting on an uneasy boundary between #straight medicine and superstitious practice –– often as a tool to suppress supernatural wrongdoing or a bandaid to fix it. #and what makes the link to carmilla so compelling to me is that the Studied Experts are the ones with the supernatural knowledge that #makes them so certain in their course. characters like julia ; stokes ; even dr. guthrie –– all accredited ! all very bright ! #and in a similar vein the endless quest for the Logical Explanation is seen as (somewhat rightfully) silly – i.e. roger's stubbornness #in refusing to buy into the time travel – witches – laura as reincarnated phoenix – etc etc #when We Know the monstrous truth and he's clinging to a silly fancy of logic – of reason. #anyways am i making sense. i fear not. #compels me though

[trans-leek-cookie]

can someone teleport me to the poolrooms and shoot me so my blood is staining the pristine tiles and water. Nothing should be alive there

#Jesus Christ I just realized that ur cells might temporarily live on after You The Person die. Like i guess it depends on what counts as #Alive but even when ur heart stops I'm guessing ur red blood cells might stay active???? Not to mention the bacteria in your gut #Me: wouldn't it be so cool if there was blood in the poolrooms bc they're so surreal and pristine and the blood would both break that #And yet be perfectly fitting moreso than any living being? Wouldn't that be cool? #(realizes that even after ur brain shuts off your cells probably won't die in perfect sync and some might survive even briefly after YOU di #And that's what causes some sort of existential anxiety attack) what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck #Seriously though sorry if I sound like an edge lord but i want to put blood in the poolrooms bc it sounds so beautiful. The red blue #Contrast and the staining of the tiles itches my brain just right. It's not something you could make a story about it's something you have #Take on it's own. Like you have to let it be an image whether written or drawn it can't be (primarily) a story. Like there's an implied #Story (who took a gun into the poolrooms) but you have to prioritize the spectacle rather than the series of events #Does this make sense? Writing about someone being teleported to and murdered in the poolrooms is fine but #The simple... It's not shock but the way a dead body with deep red blood either laying on the tile or floating in the pool #There's a story but the story pales in comparison to the single snapshot of the moment. I should've been a fish #Like a pufferfish with a beak so I could eat clams I saw a pufferfish eat clams in person one time and it was fuckin incredible literally #Life-changing. It's just like ok. Yeah ok thats right that's how it's supposed to be. I understand now

[catmint1]

Thee is my wolf,” she’d said to him. “And if thee hunts at night, thee will come home.” “And sleep at thy feet,” he’d replied.

—Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

#quotes #diana gabaldon #Written in My Own Heart's Blood #wolf #text

[inlovewithquotes]

"I know what it felt....like when I.... thought you were dead, and--" A small gasp for breath, and her eyes locked on his. "And I wouldn't do that to you."

Her bosom fell and her eyes closed. It was a long moment before he could speak.

"Thank ye, Sassenach," he whispered, and held her small, cold hand between his own and watched her breathe until the moon rose.

-Written In My Own Heart's Blood

#quotes #book quotes #literature #books & libraries #life quotes #relationship quotes #love quotes #diana gabaldon #written in my hearts own blood #claire fraser #jamie fraser #claire x jamie #jamie x claire

[beasanfi1997]

Willie in Outlander Book 7 realize that Jamie Fraser Is his father but i really Hope that if Jemmy will learn that Stephen Bonnet Is his biological father in the Last two books of Outlander because Rob Cameron, the true villain in Outlander franchise, tried to warn him in Outlander Book 7 and 8

#outlander #echoes in the bones #written in my own heart blood #william ellesmere #jamie fraser #jeremiah wakefield #go tell the bees that i am gone #outlander book ten

[brxveascended]

tagdump ♥

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#{ დ flayn;; this song is written with the tears & blood of saints } #{ დ arval;; i shall grow wings of my own; fly away from your lies } #{ დ byleth;; they call me a demon but i shall become their god } #{ დ rhea;; there’s a fine line between gods & monsters } #{ დ shez;; my home is the road; the moon is my lullaby } #{ დ monica;; a head full of thoughts with a heart full of love } #{ დ catherine;; the savage song of thunder in a storm } #{ დ rodrigue;; a shield forged in the kingdom of blood and ice and death } #{ დ ingrid;; and if my blood soaks the land i call home i will consider it my greatest honour } #{ დ mercedes;; no matter how harsh the world; she shall always be its guardian angel } #{ დ ooc;; world’s okayest bard... again } #{ FIIIINALLY im done setting up this blog. } #{ my google pages suck but honestly idgaf at least the blog looks good. }

[gotham-ruaidh]

Gotham, you must know. How is it that Rob Cameron can go through the stones?

Do we know for a fact that he (and Jem) did?

😶

#outlander #written in my own heart's blood

[cookie-de-baunilha]

Ok so this scene always confused me:

"Where I come into it doesn't matter”, he said. "And there isn't time. You need to find your son quickly. As to why I tell you…”

John saw it coming and didn't pull away. Percy smelled of bergamot and petitgrain and the red wine on his breath. John's grip on Percy's arm loosened.

"Pour vos beaux yeux," Percy had whispered against his lips and laughed, damn him.

(Written In My Own Heart’s Blood, ch. 73)

Did Percy actually kiss John here? Or did he just come really close to John’s face like he was going to kiss him but instead just whispered against his lips?

I want it to be a kiss (even though I find the 2nd option sexy af tbh 👀), but idk. If it was an actual kiss wouldn’t the scene describe his mouth tasting like wine rather than his breath smelling like wine?

#as taylor swift once said #put your lips close to mine as long as they don't touch out of focus eye to eye 'til the gravity's too much #outlander #written in my own heart’s blood #lord john grey #john grey #percy wainwright #percy beauchamp #john x percy

[obstinate-as-an-allegory]

Outlander the TV show is celebrated for its slow pace and earnestness and its sex positivity, but it ignores the main appeal of the Outlander novels, which is scenes of truly outrageous melodrama. The scene early on in WIMOHB featuring the inappropriately dressed duke of wherever, a very angry Scottish lady with a grudge against him, the Quaker doctor who wants to marry his daughter, his disapproving housekeeper, and a frazzled Jamie, all of them trying to beat each other up with a brandy decanter, is comic gold. See also, the later scene with Claire, Fergus, Germain, a thief, a bitey mule, and a shady aristocrat who is for some reason pretending to be French. Hilarious, I have no notes. The TV show needs more scenes where all its plots crash into one another and cause absolute chaos

#outlander #books #written in my own heart’s blood #the tv series is not ridiculous enough and I know how this sounds