Behind blue skies

How long has it been since Jamie has worn his kilt? Since he has donned his Fraser colors proudly for all to see? Since he has been fully himself?

It has been over two decades.

Twenty years of slowly, but surely, resigning himself to hide away the most singular part of his identity. He is James Fraser. A Scotsman. A laird. A warrior.

A rebel.

It was not merely his life with Claire that seemingly died brutally that day on Culloden Moor. No. It was also his heritage, his family, his brethren, his clan, his culture, his identity. 

It all wasted away, rotting with the blood and mud.

For years out of necessity, Jamie played the game. Through gritted teeth albeit, but if not for his own neck, for the life of his men and Murtagh. He curtsied to the redcoats, but he never bowed. 

And now Jamie has reached a crossroads where he can no longer plaster the smile. It is time for real James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser to rise up.

Donning his armour, he welcomes it as an old friend. Kilt. Dirk. Sword. Crest. 

Je suis prest, indeed. 

Claire hears him coming. As she lifts her gaze, she is stunned into silence. Unmoving. She cannot even drawn breath. She simply stares at him. She is enraptured by this man. 

This is the man who tenderly carried her heart all those years ago and holds it to this day. 

And there they are: a scot and a sassenach. 

She rises to approach him. With this depth of love, no words are needed. Merely nodding, she blesses his conquest and charges herself right beside him where she belongs. 

Blood of my blood 

I won’t lie - THIS is the plot I am waiting for with high hopes in Outlander Season 5… 

“He’s not your son,” said Sirius quietly.

Finally, a sane celebrity who doesn’t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.

When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. I’ve you’ve ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a “look”.

Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesn’t last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a “look”.

The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood and Sand were eating pretty much chicken and veggies for every meal to maintain a “look”.

Yeah, he is ripped, isn’t he?

Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of “water weight”. 

Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular.

As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, “If You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout ‘Roll it!”

It’s the same with professional bodybuilders who get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a bit better.

According to experts, healthy body fat percentage for a healthy male ranges from 8% to 20%, depending on height, lifestyle and numerous other variables. 

Fitness model and professional bodybuilder Helmut Strebl also known as “World’s Most Shredded Man” as he supposedly managed to get his body fat percentage below 5%…

… But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of one’s body for longer periods of time.

I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human then…

There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydration…

And let’s not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known as “Megarexia” or “Bigarexia”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia

Yeah, it’s a thing, but it’s barely talked about, since it’s apparently not manly to admit to having problems like that, which also creates problems with researching this particular disorder…

one of the reasons producers get away with this in men and no one criticizes it is because we are fed the lie that this body type is 1) attainable and 2) healthy.

Geillis: Well…you don’t have to.

Also me when someone tells me they haven't read Harry Potter and have only watched the movies: