Knitting has brought me a lot of peace and relaxation over the past year, and even when I’ve been too sore with fibro to knit, I’ve enjoyed adding to my ever expanding pattern collection. One of my favorite things is to combine interests, which for me, often means knitting and nerdery (or fandom patterns). In this post I’m going to share some of my favorite fandom related knitting patterns. Please share yours in the comments … Continue reading Knitting the Fandom
TW/CW: Discussions of rape. We open in what I’m guessing is the 1960’s or 1970’s. A woman sits on a park bench while two little boys, dressed as “cowboys and Indians” chase each other around. A man on the next bench over lowers his newspaper. He’s Native American and wearing the stone Claire found with the skull. He’s clearly annoyed. We cut back to the past. Jamie, Claire, and Ian have arrived at the Mohawk … Continue reading Outlander S4 E13: A Man of Worth
The title card for this episode is a Native man drinking what appears to be liquor out of large carved spoon. When we open Roger has just walked between two lines of Mohawk warriors where he is beaten with sticks, staffs and fists. He collapses and a man tells him that he will remain a captive. We cut to Fergus who is telling the other Regulators that Murtagh was captured and is likely to be … Continue reading Outlander S4 E12: Providence
Content warning for violent sexual assault. It’s at the very end of the recap. The title card is people sitting in an 18th century theater. Roger is in North Carolina, it is confirmed that it’s 1769, and he’s using the drawing of Brianna from the gathering to show to people and ask if they’ve seen her. He stops outside the printing office, and kind of glowers at the Wilmington Gazette. The proprietor sees him, and … Continue reading Outlander 4.08: Wilmington
Previously, Brianna went through the stones. I hope you can wait another week before following up on that. The title card is a hand pulling a (suspiciously clean) snake from the outhouse. It’s not a thing that happens in the episode, it’s a reference to an event in the book that was probably cut for time. Jamie is sawing wood at Fraser’s Ridge when Lord John Grey in a FABULOUS coat shows up. Seriously, it’s … Continue reading Outlander 4.06 “Blood of My Blood”
Content Warning for racial violence. The title card is a man buying a small doll, and it’s wrapped up in a checkered cloth. Claire and Adawehi sit by a creek, washing plants, and Adewahi teaches Claire some Cherokee. She also gives Claire a plant, and tells her it’s for “the mother.” You make a tea (from… the leaves? Stalk? Flowers? How much, how long do you let it steep? Look, I did not suffer through … Continue reading Outlander 4.05 Savages
The title card is a Cherokee man getting dressed in all his finery. It’s damn impressive. Jamie sits with the Governor (his name is Tryon) and signs the land grant. As someone who is adjacent to document nerds, I gotta say the props department KILLED IT with this one. There’s wax seals, and you see the uneven edge at the top? There are two copies of the document, and they were written on the same … Continue reading Outlander 4.04: Common Ground
ROGER AND BRIANNA Inverness, 1970. Roger is in his empty house, noodling around on his guitar when Fiona and her dude are there to take possession of the house. Roger gives them a traditional gift of salt, I guess (for flavor in your life) and champagne. He and Fiona’s dude make toasts, and Roger hands Fiona the keys, with a sense of due ceremony. It’s his childhood home, after all. Roger is headed to America … Continue reading Outlander 4.03 “The False Bride”
GUESS WHAT’S COMING BACK TOMORROW? OUTLANDER. OUTLANDER RETURNS. THE DROUGHTLANDER IS OVER. I might be a bit excited. So, I thought we’d make some Scottish bannocks! It’s a flat bread with no leavening, made with oats, or barley, or beremeal. Beremeal is a variety of barley that grows in Orkney and Shetland. It has a lower yield than regular barley, but apparently more flavor. I chose to go with oats because I already had Scottish … Continue reading RedHeadedGirl’s Historical Kitchen: Bannocks
Previously: a whole bunch of stuff. But Jamie got arrested. Again. AGAIN AGAIN. The title card is floating white fabric underwater, with the “Faith” theme playing over it. Claire voice overs that she was dead, and we see her, floating under the water: “I Felt peaceful, bodiless, free of terror, and free of rage.” Cut to Claire, in her suit (she changed out of her fancy clothes) in a carriage. They stop, and there’s a … Continue reading Outlander 3.13 Eye of the Storm
Previously: Team Salt Frog got hitched. They made it to Jamaica. Claire talked to a coconut. Pre-credits, we see Ian’s kidnapping from his point of view. The pirates were there for the box of jewels (“Is this what The Bakra seeks?”) and intended to kill Ian, but after he bites one of the pirates, they’re like, well then, The Bakra likes young boys, so let’s keep him. In Kingston, Ian is tossed into a cell … Continue reading Outlander 3.12 The Bakra
