#props to ms ridge and her knowing literally everyone ever

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You should read Euphoria Kids by Alison Evans

It’s a book about trans people written by a trans person

The three main characters are a trans boy who is trying to find his name (refered to as ‘the boy’ on the left) a non binary person who is made of plants and has two mums named Iris (middle) and a trans girl named Babs who’s made of fire and who’s mum does magic (on the right)

It has beautiful cover art and a ‘to the reader’ page that never fails to make me cry (pictures below)

And so, so many more brilliant reasons

#this post is very different to my usual posts but I don’t care this is the single best book I’ve ever read #I read this book earlier last year when I found it in my school library and fell I love to the point my friend generously got it for me #seriously this book is amazing #there’s a bunch of fae stuff in it too so if you’re into magic and stuff you’ll like it #it was only released in early 2020 so it is VERY new #idk if you can get it elsewhere yet but I got it in Australia and the Author is also Aussie #you should be able to #I literally found this book because I saw the title and was like ‘hehe that’s a queer word’ #went to look at the book and the blurb and it used they/them to refer to someone and I nearly cried them and there #and did my usual ‘open to a random page how does this look’ #and opened to a page where they said that the moon is a trans lesbian #borrowed it and then cried halfway through English when I read the ‘to the reader’ #apparently my English teacher Knows the Author too??? #my English teacher knows everyone it’s crazy #props to ms ridge and her knowing literally everyone ever #I did some art of the book because I love it so much and this was the result #euphoria kids #Alison Evans #trans writers #trans books #Aussie authors #loveozya

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Season 4 Ep 5

Claire gets remedial herbs education from Cherokee elder

A pig tries to eat a hat. I try not to draw any parallels with Claire’s attempt to learn Cherokee

Jamie dreams of Brianna’s birthmark. She’s coming y’all!

Roger looks for Brianna in Scotland. I love that an innkeeper can tell inside of three minutes if you are a broken hearted sap or not. She pegs Roger as one and hopes he finds a nice Scottish lass instead, even though he is wearing the stupidest hat you have ever seen in your life. Please have some standards for Scottish lasses, Ms. Innkeeper. She gives Roger Brianna’s goodbye letter a year ahead of schedule. Goodbye, don’t follow me she says, so, you know...

Very headsctratching standoff. Why water horses directly in front of some white peoples cabin??? The guns come out and not the fun kind.

Claire is busy homesteading her eventual funeral pyre. How does she get a carrot? And she feeds it to a donkey. Now I am thinking about whether carrots would have been very plentiful or scarce in the Americas. I wish I could have retained literally anything from my slog through guns germs and steel.

Of all the bit repairing joints in all the world, you had to walk into mine. Murtagh fitzgibbons! We have found you. Please don’t die! Young Ian needs to get this bit repaired and he is willing to pay a premium for expedited service. Again, my old grievance. You have exactly 21 shillings in this purse? The exact amount of the agreed upon price is in the pouch no more, no less. No need to count it? Can the props department really not replicate coins?

It’s been 6 episodes since we have had a good bromance. Welcome home Murtagh! Ya ken this old coot? Says Clueless Ian. AYE says Jamie

Good, death-crazed germans to contend with now? They are convinced they have a mortal hex on them.

Come to Fraser’s ridge. Don’t worry about the taxes! Hey!

What a fucking dirty trick, show! You think herr mueller is giving Claire a little doll but instead it is a scalp, which is awful and disgusting. At first I thought it was a dead rat. Oh, how I wish!

Claire puts the scalp in a little casket and burns it in her hearth. Hair, scalp, lacquered wood. The smell must have been horrendous. Maybe this ritual was best performed outdoors.

Retribution for the scalping comes quickly for the Mueller’s. How fast do human bodies burn? These Germans must have been formed from dryer lint.

Murtagh arrives at Fraser’s ridge. He remembers the tune to boogie Woogie bugle boy after all these years? How often did Claire subject him to this? Poor man

Brianna going through the stones in an outfit that looks like it was purchased at TJ Maxx. You know the effort Claire went through for historical accuracy! Not even a butt puff to be seen!

She is going to turn up with an American accent that doesn’t exist yet. What’s your plan there Brianna? Everyone is going to think you speak very strangely

#outlander season 4 #outlander #outlander savages #s4e5 #4x05 #Murtagh #episode recap