Oh come on! You guys had to know I was going to tackle this one! It’s got everything us weirdos are supposed to love: mist filled Victorian settings, semi-obscure literary references, blood and guts! But I’m trying to play it straight on this blog, so we’re going to focus on what I, as a feminist eclectic witch, find most important: strong female characters! Since the second season finishes up this coming Sunday, now’s as good a time as any…
I am the wife of the laird of Balnainn
The faeries have stolen me over again…
I promised this part of this blog was going to be about modern mythology, or at least how mythology is viewed by modern people. Outlander is a show based on a series of books by Diana Gabaldon about a woman, Claire, who travels back in time from post WWII to the mid 18th century. It’s been billed around the interwebs as a kind of Game of Thrones for chicks (more on THAT in a minute), but once you scrape off a bit of the prestige cable drama schmutz there’s a lot going on here.
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Lucina's Cauldron 