#macaroni man

More of this baby kitten please!

Oh shit locusts

This is a very elaborate staging for Jocasta’s wedding. Any excuse to get John Grey to accept the invitation and make him dance

Roger must become a locust strategist. He wishes Jamie were here. So do we, so do we.

Some ridiculous macaroni man enters the drama, eager to ingratiate himself with every lady like Virginia’s horniest lap dog. This man is an absolute joke. Mr Wiley: “You wound me!” He is easily played though. Claire wants to hear more about his nefarious acquaintances and some alone time will do the trick. He wants to show Claire “his” but it is a horse...at first. Then it’s his syphilitic mouth on her neck. Jamie, to his absolute credit, hugs Claire after he finds this gross, powdered fop trying to jump into his wife’s skin. Roger, take some notes.

This is an impressive locust storm

Claire gets extremely sentimental about Frank’s ring, which seems a tad overblown. She throws Jamie’s ring in his face and is very perturbed. I know the two wedding rings thing is very much Claire’s brand, but I always get a sense that Claire’s attachment to a Frank is mostly rational ( she recites the mantra: he was a good man, a good father, repeat) and it is not emotional. Anyways, the jilted and embarrassed macaroni man is willing to gamble with Jamie if he puts Claire’s other husband wedding ring in the pot and the Fraser gang needs leverage over him to get that Stephen Bonnet intel.

Murtagh shows up on the eve of Jocasta’s wedding in true rapscallion fashion. Jocasta turns him down though. She must. She is too canny and practical a woman to throw in her lot with a fugitive. Also she cannot see how sleek Murtagh’s silver pony tail is, which could very well have tipped the scales. Jocasta lets unravel her tragic life story by way of explanation. She can’t wed someone willing to let the world burn for his ideals

Claire is extremely angry this episode. Luckily her anger transitions to horniness quite easily. A literal roll in the hay ensues.

Old Pippin has coffee with Bonnet. Not sure how old Pippin knows this whole plot arc, but he believes Bonnet to be the father of Brianna’s child and lets Bonnet know this child now owns Jocasta’s plantation. The wheels in Bonnet’s head start whirling with such a frenzy that his ears could steam the milk for his latte.

Technically the first half of my third feel-better drawing! One point five more, then personal ideas free up.