#adhara112

Rules: Answer the questions and tag 5 blogs you’d like to get to know better

Nicknames: Slim, Monkey, Baby, Rob (only family ever use the first 3)

Star sign: Taurus

Height: 5'10″

Time right now: 711pm CST

Last thing I googled: it had to do with Hannah Arendt’s work on Totalitarianism 

Fave music artist: UGH! If you put a gun to my head and told me to pick my faves i couldn’t do it. :( However, here are some artist I’ve been listening to a lot lately: Christine and The Queens, One Direction (really just the FOUR album), Run River North, and The Decemberists (the Castaways & Cutouts album)

Song stuck in my head: Cleopatra by The Lumineers

Last movie I watched: currently watching the new Ghostbusters

Last TV show I watched: the second episode of Taboo

What I’m wearing now: Jeans, stripey socks, cream oversized sweater

Why I created this blog: it was the next step in my internet obsession...

The kind of stuff I post: whatever floats my boat...mostly art, food, cute animals, how much of an idiot Trump is, and appreciation of various tv shows  

Do I get asks regularly: not really, probably because I’m a lurker

Why did I choose my URL: I used to post photos of David Gandy and write dialog like we were having a conversation like we were dating...it was pretty ridiculous. My Facebook  people were highly entertained. Every once in a while they say they miss it.

Gender: female 

Hogwarts house: no idea

Pokemon team: I have never played Pokemon

Fave colors: shades of green and red (leaning towards the purples) and gray

Average hours of sleep: 7 ish

Lucky number: 17

Favorite Characters: Glenn Rhee, Tyrion Lannister, Phrynie Fisher, Bucky Barnes, Stiles Stilinski, Helena, Violet Crowley

Dream Job: I wish I knew

Number of blankets I sleep with: 2 sometimes 3

Following: 141blogs…I apologize to the Non Porn people that have recently followed me, for not following back....I’m awful about getting around to that. 

Name: Loav, for my internet friends

Nickname: Slim

Birth Month: April

Height: 5′9″

Ethnicity: American 

Orientation: straight-ish

Favorite Fruit: strawberries and apples

Favorite Season: fall

Favorite Book(s): I have no answer for this

Favorite Flowers: dahlias and orchids and calla lilys

Favorite Scent: flexible on this, I just don’t like spicy things...currently wearing D&G’s Light Blue

Favorite Animal: dogs and cats and sloths and pandas

Favorite Beverage: Water/coffee/coke

Average Hours of Sleep: 5/6

Favorite Fictional Characters: depends on the book/movie/tv show and the situation

Number of Blankets You Sleep With: 3 thin ones

Dream Trip: borneo, costa rica, iceland, scotland, new zealand

Blog Created: ‘12 I think

R U L E S;  Tell your followers 11 random facts about yourself and tag 11 people. Tag backs are allowed but if you do get tagged again you must not repeat any of the facts you mentioned in the previous round. The facts can be absolutely anything, whatever comes to mind first.

I have black hair.

I have brown eyes. 

I am 5'8.

I need lots of sleep otherwise I get cranky.

I'm the oldest child in my family.

6 is my favourite and lucky number.

 English is not my first language.

 My favourite colour is black.

 I like history.

I have never seen Star Wars or Star Trek .

I am socially awkward.

Sorry I didn’t get to your question sooner @adhara112 I’ve been a bit discombobulated lately.  I’m not sure how there would be a connection between Frank’s and BJR’s infertility, unless the “fates” in some way dictate parallel processes in the past and present.

It seems to me that Frank was likely sterile all along. There is an indication in the beginning of Outlander that that was indeed the case:

     “Well … only that there are a lot of children like that. Orphaned, you know.”

      He gave me a sharp look, and shook his head.

     “No, Claire. Really, I’d like to, but I’ve told you how I feel about adoption. It’s just … I couldn’t feel properly toward a child that’s not … well, not of my blood. No doubt that’s ridiculous and selfish of me, but there it is. Maybe I’ll change my mind in time, but now.…” We walked a few steps in a barbed silence. Suddenly he stopped and turned to me, gripping my hands.

      “Claire,” he said huskily, “I want our child. You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I want you to be happy, above all else, but I want … well, I want to keep you to myself. I’m afraid a child from outside, one we had no real relationship with, would seem an intruder, and I’d resent it. But to be able to give you a child, see it grow in you, see it born … then I’d feel as though it were more an … extension of you, perhaps. And me. A real part of the family.” His eyes were wide, pleading.

     “Yes, all right. I understand.” I was willing to abandon the topic— for now. I turned to go on walking, but he reached out and took me in his arms. 

     “Claire. I love you.” The tenderness in his voice was overwhelming, and I leaned my head against his jacket, feeling his warmth and the strength of his arms around me. 

     “I love you too.” We stood locked together for a moment, swaying slightly in the wind that swept down the road. Suddenly Frank drew back a bit, smiling down at me.

     “Besides,” he said softly, smoothing the wind-blown hair back from my face, “we haven’t given up yet, have we?” 

     I smiled back. “No.”

     He took my hand, tucking it snugly beneath his elbow, and we turned toward our lodgings.

     “Game for another try?”

     “Yes. Why not?” We strolled, hand in hand, back toward the Gereside Road...

     [emphasis added]

     --Diana Gabaldon (2004). Outlander (pp. 25-26). Kindle Edition.

As I recall Frank and Claire had been together for a couple of years before the war. It seems that they had tried back then to get pregnant and failed. This is apparently a discussion they have had a number of times over the years.

I live in Charlotte and that’s the Duke Energy building.