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Today I wrote a message of support to a long term blogger, but when I went to DM I found that I must be blocked there too, so this is what I would have said privately, but heck, why not:

I read your post this morning with great interest, it is the first time I’ve seen both the mc and the 2015 ‘wedding’ dealt with calmly and logically, it resonated with my own views and ideas which up to now I have shared completely with only one blogger.

You know from experience how evidence collected can be dismissed as fake, contrived, useless, worthless bc people don’t want to believe it, can’t or won’t, bc it doesn’t go along with their personal narrative.

I have a theory, (not ready to share further just yet) the possibility of which is well within the borders of reality, it just needs people to suspend any personal moral code and think laterally about what they might do in unthinkable situations (would you drink urine if you were dying of thirst kind of scenario) (would you firmly say ‘shut up’ to the person you love bc they are about to blow all of your joint dreams out of the water?) (would you sport a ring bought by your loved one and let people think it was given by someone else?) (Would you pretend to be with someone else, engaged, married, even if there are other options, bc you know that neither you nor the person you love can cope with those options?).

What would you do for love? Cui bono? Do you think ruining your life chances would be better for your relationship than hiding behind a false narrative, especially if it meant you could live a private life without fear of angry, powerful, employers or demanding, aggressive stalkers? You honour your contract bc bad faith is punished in the industry in which you work, doors would slam in you face forever; you can ignore the loud demands of ‘fans’ to come clean, it’s your life, not theirs.

Can you stay true to yourself? While this is your life you will undoubtably be accused by some of lying, being dishonest; but being true to one’s self means staying faithful to core values and principles. It means living with integrity rather than as an affectatious poser. That we wear many masks over the course of our lives, in adapting to what our circumstances might require of us, is to be expected. But being true to one's self is to not mistake the mask for what is real beneath it.

#an original piece #Kahlil Gibran — 'Travel and tell no one’#Taiters rhymes with haters #23.09.21

outlanderskin

"A power couple is two people who are pretty impressive separately, but together they're a true force to be reckoned with, and that takes a special kind of magic"

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harriethattie

Intertwined fingers can signal the couple is comfortable and ready to be vulnerable when they are grabbing each other’s hand like that it can speak to the level of attachment they share and need for one another.

Learn the different ways of holding hands and what each gesture reveals about your relationship.

samheughanswife

It never ceases to surprise me when blogs here use my information and then blatantly change said information to suit themselves.

It then moves through the DM’s here and as well as the chat Apps. Again getting distorted and adapted to that particular group think.

First Glasgow Easter 2019. Then sharing Sam living in Battersea. And most recently Caitriona in SW7, South Kensington. A suburb of central London.

Not anywhere did I say she’s moved had to South Kensington. But @harriethattie extrapolated anyway suggesting she had sources sharing this information 🙄🤥. Right. Sure Jan.

There are a number of reasons why I have not shared conclusive and definitive information here recently. The main reason and most importantly it always gets corrupted. ALL THE TIME, case in 👆🏻

Add in the betrayal of confidential information, used exclusively to aggrandize the bloggers status and gravitas, it’s a big no from me.

Let’s see what the whisky soaked kilt summer brings to the dash. It’s gonna be…

scshipper

I don’t blame you. When I was new here I definitely had bloggers slip me information that was confidential that was linked to you. Using you for information to make themselves look like they are privy to private information about S and C seems to be the common theme.

harriethattie

It would help if people take more care, that they read what is written not what they think is written; what I said was “I had DMs asking whether I knew anything about Caitríona moving to SW7, and the answer was no I hadn’t [sic]” . At no point did I say I had received information, neither had I. Being asked if I knew anything indicated that there was something giving people ideas; I couldn’t help then nor now. I didn’t extrapolate, I don’t have sources. Fin.

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This will never get old!

audramh

I love this one. Not the least because "in the altogether" was a new expression for me.

"Little stiff one" 😏

harriethattie

A little stiff one has two meanings and Sam very cleverly used it so it could be taken either way.

dagnylilytable

Happy #Wednesday100! One of the things I wish we’d seen in S8 is William trying to make sense of Jamie and Claire now that he has full context.

What’s In a Name

Even though he and Da spend more time together now, William still comes to Brianna with questions. His curiosity reminds her of Mandy’s, although his volume is much more socially appropriate. Usually.

“Is there some rhyme or reason to when he calls her ‘Sassenach?’” William’s watching her parents carefully. Da only smiles like that for Mama. It’s a shame Brianna left her sketchbook inside.

William has clearly inherited Da’s impatience with puzzles he can’t immediately solve. He’s even tapping his fingers against one leg.

She shrugs.

“It’s a perfectly good way to tell her he’ll never ask her to change.”

Sam Heughan is Very Heavy -from the ‘Horse’s mouth’.

Caitriona Balfe Says Sam Heughan is VERY HEAVY. Who else to confirm the weight than Cait herself. This is Her Statement 😍💖

lallybroch-pr-watch

Thought you were one of the light shippers around but boy did you just come to the surface as the opposite.

C doesn't live anywhere near Battersea, S doesn't own an apt. in London and the woman who the Spanish fan saw S with was SB. The fact that you even contemplate the idea that was C and the fan didn't bother to ask for both S and her in the photo is inane. It was 2026 not 2015.

The fan photo at a restaurant in Glasgow was an early birthday drink for S, with both of them coming from work. Their apartments were close enough at the time to make it a quit stop. The next day he was planting trees with MPC crowd and C was away with T.

The same for the plays in Glasgow and restaurant with the Nics in SA, after work during filming.

In case it escaped you, Tobias saw her baby right after he was born while it took S 6 months to finally see him while C was in LA promoting Belfast & OL S7A.

Useless to go through all your points still trying to link them together beyond their working time. Waste of time still trying to make fetch happen.

Wow, I'm honored. It seems like Sam or Caitriona sent me an anon, because only one of them could speak that confidently about all of the events above.

But assuming it’s more likely just an anon who’s extremely sure of themselves, I honestly don’t have the energy or the desire to respond to all of this. Just two small things for the sake of my readers:

First, the Battersea pub sighting happened in 2025, not 2026. So if you’re implying that was Steph, you’re basically saying she was already visiting him in London in May 2025. Fast worker.

Second, your attempt to dismiss those meetups because they happened “after work” doesn’t really help your argument. That’s the point. Those were not work obligations. They were choices, on their own time.

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harriethattie

We all heard the conversation on BBC TV with S agreeing he has a place in Battersea, and if reports are correct and C has moved to SW7 she’s now even closer to Battersea than she was when she was in Marylebone.

mariaae

Hi Everyone! Late to the party today. I offer another thought about Battersea and SW7 (thank you @harriethattie and @samheughanswife) My geography is limited to google in this case. I've only been to London 3x (2 for stays of a few days each as pre-events to a tour and a cruise and once as a stopover on the way to Southampton for another cruise) Since Caitriona was doing pilates and physio in SW7 which google says is only 2 miles from Battersea, perhaps she's only there for those activities and resides in Battersea with Sam. JMHO.

harriethattie

@mariaae I lived in Hyde Park Gate for a while, north end of SW7, between 2 and 3 miles give or take is about right; I think I read that S is following the IG of the gym across the river (ONE LDN) he used a while back. Other than that I have no more information.

lallybroch-pr-watch

Thought you were one of the light shippers around but boy did you just come to the surface as the opposite.

The same for the plays in Glasgow and restaurant with the Nics in SA, after work during filming.

In case it escaped you, Tobias saw her baby right after he was born while it took S 6 months to finally see him while C was in LA promoting Belfast & OL S7A.

Useless to go through all your points still trying to link them together beyond their working time. Waste of time still trying to make fetch happen.

Wow, I'm honored. It seems like Sam or Caitriona sent me an anon, because only one of them could speak that confidently about all of the events above.

First, the Battersea pub sighting happened in 2025, not 2026. So if you’re implying that was Steph, you’re basically saying she was already visiting him in London in May 2025. Fast worker.

bat-cat-reader

harriethattie

SAM, SONY & STARZ

Starz served as the exclusive first-run pay-TV home for Sony Pictures' theatrical films for over 15 years. This long-running output deal, which was renewed in 2013, officially concluded in 2021. Even though their previous multi-year licensing deal for theatrical movie releases ended, Sony Pictures Television and Starz maintain a long-standing creative partnership. It serves as the primary production studio behind the Starz flagship historical drama Outlander and its prequel series, Outlander: Blood of My Blood; they continue to collaborate on high-profile television projects.

Caledonian-Outlander-Sleeper introduced by Sam Heughan

Sony Pictures Television became the first third-party brand to take over the exterior of the Caledonian Sleeper, with the design celebrating “Outlander’s” global appeal and its deep-rooted connection to Scotland. Sony Pictures Television collaborated with VisitScotland and the Caledonian Sleeper to wrap four carriages in a Starz Outlander-themed exterior.

Passengers can order an exclusive Outlander-inspired menu, which includes Sam Heughan's own brand, The Sassenach whisky.

Sony and Composer Bear McCreary unveiled ‘Outlander in Concert’ Global Tour, also attended by Starz Outlander show runners Matthew B. Roberts and Maril Davis, and Starz actors Sam Heughan, John Bell, Jamie Roy and Harriet Slater.

bat-cat-reader

In this whole circus, the person who has truly turned out to be a disappointment to me is Cait. As a mother, seeing her support this entire mess is troubling. We can all be inconsistent at times, but it's worth asking ourselves whether we're acting according to our values or simply according to what benefits us most in a given moment. If it's the latter, then her image comes out no better than that of the two main clowns at the center of all this :(

En todo este desastre ha demostrado que no es precisamente un ejemplo de coherencia con esos principios que ha defendido acerca de la infancia sino un tutorial de excepciones vista su involucración en apoyar repetitivamente la exposición de un menor. Viendo el desarrollo de este espectáculo circense, resulta muy curioso cómo lo que condena en unos lo aplaude en otros.

Throughout this whole debacle, he has shown that he is not exactly a shining example of consistency with the principles he has championed regarding children, but rather a textbook case of double standards, given his repeated involvement in supporting the public exposure of a minor. Watching this circus act unfold, it is quite curious how he condemns certain behaviour in some people whilst applauding it in others.

harriethattie

I’m assuming anon gives credit to Cait for keeping her child away from the cameras; but shouldn’t every mother and father have autonomy over their child, decide what is best for them, otherwise we wouldn’t have all these talented children acting in OL, and all the children on FB, IG etc. The mother in question had photos of her child on IG years ago, and if the mother and father are ok with it why would anyone else interfere.

There is plenty of talk on the internet about ‘sharenting’ and its affect on children; for some children it has had a positive effect, and as far as I can tell no child has been harmed in the making of this story; it’s all too easy to project our own feelings on to other people.

sassenach77yle

Good morning Sassenachs!

HAPPY WORLD OUTLANDER DAY

Every year on June 1st we celebrate WORLD OUTLANDER DAY, the day the first Outlander novel was published in 1991!📚 Today we celebrate together a passionate community, a wonderful universe, and so many bonds that were formed and transcend space and time!✨

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Outlander, un viaje sin retorno.

Outlander is a one-way trip

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Outlander | And the World Was All Around Us | 8x10

YOU KNOW THAT SOMETHING is coming. Something—a specific, dire, and awful something—will happen. You envision it, you push it away. It rolls slowly, inexorably, back into your mind. You make what preparation you can. Or you think you do, though your bones know the truth—there isn’t any way to sidestep, accommodate, lessen the impact. It will come, and you will be helpless before it. — You know these things. —

harriethattie

The title of this episode comes from the last sentence in Outlander Book 1, when Claire and Jamie are at the monastery. Jamie is recovering from his ordeal at the hands of Black Jack Randall, and she tells him she is pregnant.

The moon above was a January moon, so large as almost to fill the empty window. It seemed no wonder that the tides of sea and woman should be subject to the pull of that stately orb, so close and so commanding. But my own tides moved no longer to that chaste and sterile summons, and the knowledge of my freedom raced like danger through my blood. ‘I have a gift for you too,’ I said suddenly to Jamie. He turned towards me and his hand slid, large and sure, over the plane of my still-flat stomach. ‘Have you now?’ he said. And the world was all around us, new with possibility. DG

Traveling from Belfast to Dumfries and Galloway is a straightforward cross-sea journey. The fastest and most common way to make the trip is by taking a ferry across the Irish Sea and driving, which takes about 4 hours in total.

Step 1 (Ferry): Drive your car onto the Stena Line from Belfast to Cairnryan, Scotland. The crossing takes roughly 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Step 2 (Drive): Once you disembark at Cairnryan, you can easily drive into the Dumfries and Galloway region. For example, Stranraer is only a 10-minute drive, while areas like Castle Douglas or Dumfries are about a 1.5 to 2-hour drive away.

Step 1 (Foot Passenger Ferry): Walk on the Stena Line or P&O Ferries from Belfast to Cairnryan.

Step 2 (Bus): From the port in Cairnryan, local buses (like the 357 route or Stagecoach services) can take you to nearby transport hubs like Stranraer, Newton Stewart, or Dumfries

Pro-Tip: If you plan to explore tourist spots like the Galloway Forest Park or the Mull of Galloway, having a vehicle or utilizing pre-booked taxis from Stranraer is highly recommended to reach your final destination.

Galloway Distillery, founded by Sam Hueghan and Alex Norouzi in 2025, was a personal dream of Sam’s, inspired by the unbreakable connection

lallybroch-pr-watch

“We’re closer now because we choose to see each other.”

The first time I heard that line, I raised an eyebrow.

By the eighth time, or honestly I’ve lost count by now, it became very clear this was not some spontaneous, heartfelt answer. This is a talking point.

And since we’ve already talked about the obvious PR talking points in this promo cycle, especially around Caitriona suddenly being very open about her husband, her child, her family life, evil shippers, and her carefully labelled “working relationship” with Sam, I think it’s time we talk about this specific one.

Because it keeps coming back.

Again and again.

The line is basically this:

Now that they no longer work together every day, they are closer than before, because now they have to choose to see each other.

Sounds lovely, right?

Very mature. Very polished. Very safe.

But let’s actually unpack it.

They are asking us to believe that during eleven years of filming, when they spent months together, hours every day, in one of the most intimate working environments imaginable, there was somehow pressure that got in the way of the relationship. And now, when they no longer see each other daily, when Sam has an extremely busy schedule, when they presumably only meet every now and then, the relationship has deepened.

A bit strange, no?

Even stranger when you remember they were never just two co-workers who met from nine to five and then went home to separate lives.

From the very beginning, they were spending time together outside work. A lot.

And we only know the tip of the iceberg.

Pubs, both in groups and alone.

Hikes, alone and even with her sister.

At least three theatre outings that we know of, one with his mother.

Coffee shops.

A London meet-up with Graham.

Beach picnics.

Tennis.

Games.

Restaurants, including the double date with the Nicks.

A cocktail night during Covid.

And I’m not even including all the trips and overlaps we only discovered in hindsight.

So let me understand this.

All those times they spent together outside filming, they weren’t “choosing” each other?

Because that’s what this talking point seems designed to imply.

From a PR standpoint, it does two things.

First, it minimizes the relationship they had during filming. It gently reframes it as professional proximity, something created by work, pressure, and circumstance.

Which is absurd, considering everything listed above.

Second, it prepares the ground for any future sightings. If they are seen together now, it can be explained away very neatly:

“They’re just very close friends who choose to spend time together now.”

Convenient.

Now let’s go back about a year.

Around Sam’s birthday, he started being spotted in Battersea. Later, we find out he lives there. Conveniently, in the same area as his co-star.

Then there was that sighting by a Spanish fan outside a pub in the neighborhood, where someone sitting across from him looked very much like that same co-star.

Not long after, in at least two interviews, Sam mentioned that he had seen Caitriona in London for “one lovely lunch.”

Caitriona, meanwhile, framed their relationship as mostly texting.

So which is it?

Are they so close post show that Sam feels like she has brought him into her family?

Or are they mostly texting and meeting once in a while for a lovely lunch?

As they say, the math ain’t mathing.

And then, a couple of months after that sighting, the husband reappeared publicly after nearly a year of absence, alongside a new player that entered the game.

Timing is everything.

You’d think that if this is truly just a close friendship, and nothing more, they wouldn’t mind taking a quick selfie during one of those meetups and making millions of fans happy during a very long Droughtlander.

After all, that’s what close friends from pretty much every other show do.

And yet, for some reason, they haven’t posted a photo of themselves together outside of set in years.

Lastly, just because whoever is advising them apparently thinks none of us have actual social lives, I’d genuinely love to know: have you ever felt that a friendship in your life became deeper because you only saw that person once every few months?

And more than that, have you ever spoken about that “deepening” so openly, not just to each other, but to millions of strangers?

mariaae

I just let their talking points go in one ear and out the other bc it’s all bullshit! They are the microphone for the PR machine. It’s part of their job. What they spew during promo interviews is scripted. I rely more on body language which is more revealing.

harriethattie

@mariaae yes, bc it’s clear given the news of the sleeper-train promo that Sony are still involved; it’s surely no surprise after all these years of the narrative that it is still alive and well and living in Hollywood.

From the beginning two actors were tossed into the deep end, left to figure it out, then given an ultimatum. Who was going to give up the big break that by this stage in their lives they thought would never come their way?

Offered a big deal if they played the game or an alternative of not having their contracts renewed it was a no-brainer. It’s ok sitting on the sidelines saying what we’d do, but the truth is we don’t know unless we’re in the same situation.

mariaae

@harriethattie Thank you for your thoughts. Just wondering why there is still need for the narrative now that OL is over.

harriethattie

@mariaae I think (and I know no more than the next person) either Sam and Caitríona are protecting their privacy and they are continuing to use the method that started way back in 2015 with Abbie Salt, which imo was expected of them under their contract, or Starz still have a contract that was worth renewing, that it is giving them a dividend in return bc it keep the viewing figures turning the cash machine. It was interesting to see the ‘suits’ at the premiere along with Jennifer Allan & Louisa Ratcliffe-Starz employee-, hanging around Sam. Louisa Ratcliffe (officially a publicist) has been a constant shadow since before the 2018 Stirling marathon, possibly a ‘nanny’ replacement for Marina Campbell.

Or, and that is #three, it’s a combination of the first two; it’s no coincidence that it’s mainly aspiring actresses is it, or photographers are always in the right place, and if they’re at a private function, someone drops a photo or two?

Why don’t S&C take all the advice offered on IG and Tumblr? I’m sure I’d wouldn’t take any notice of interference from strangers either; they’re doing ok imo.

Whatever it is I don’t feel I’m owed anything from either S or C, my choice to watch the series, I’ve had good value from OL, exchanged money for merchandise without being held at gunpoint or expecting to be singled out for notice, and don’t hold up any hope for a change in the narrative anytime soon.

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