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A real family...

Tommy Flanagan, with wife Dina and daughter Aunjanue, at the New York City Tartan Week parade...

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/853683/tommy-flanagan-oban-scotland-pipe-band-new-york-tartan-week-parade-sons-of-anarchy/

(Not a man pretending to be drunk and making his girlfriend carry a child by herself the whole time).

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Sam has a secret.

Sam has a secret so big that he doesn’t even seem to care if people think he’s a terrible person. Childish. Player. Narcissist. Full of himself. The kind of man who dates twenty-year-old assistants and escorts. The kind of man who treats a girlfriend who flew out to support him in New York horribly, and doesn’t blink while she and her child get exposed to the darker sides of the fandom.

Sam’s secret is so big that he needs beards that very obviously function as beards, some louder than others, and some apparently hired for nothing more than a single photo on Just Jared.

Sam’s secret matters so much to him that he doesn’t even mind his most devoted fans looking at him with disgust, refusing to spend any more money on his expensive business ventures.

Sam has a secret. Every corner of the fandom has its own theory about what it is, but one thing is clear: to him, it’s worth all of this. The hassle, the games, the gossip, the losses, the cruelty toward other people involved, and losing the respect of those who once loved him most.

Sam has a secret, and it’s a big one.

#TBT or not… Sure, it’s all just the invention of a tiny group of shippers… Totally delusional, obviously…

And...

#outlander #outlander starz #outlander fandom #shitshow

Sure… it was always just the shippers’ imagination. Totally delusional...

"We should give him privacy..."

" ... Not the rest and stuff... Just the drunk Caitríona"

"Yeah... Of course"

Victims of the shippers… obviously!!!

#outlander #outlander starz #outlander fandom

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Once upon a time on a red carpet

The events change, the person accompanying him changes, but what doesn't change is: everything is performative, his face freezes, and his body movements are those of someone who needs to carry heavy luggage and the airport doesn't have baggage carts.

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Lucas Pinheiro of Team Brazil wins the gold medal in the Men's Giant Slalom Run 2 on day eight of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at Stelvio Alpine Skiing Centre on February 14, 2026 in Bormio, Italy. This is South America's and Brazil's first ever medal in the history of the Winter Olympics.

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This is somewhat of a personal post.

This blog may be new, but I’ve been around this fandom for many years. I’ve seen the highs, the lows, the droughts, the drama, all of it. And the one thing that always brought me back was the same thing that brought most of us back: the core chemistry. That connection felt real, it felt rare, and it carried the entire experience even when everything else around it got messy.

Which is why I’m genuinely upset right now, because the last few months have managed to drain the excitement out of the one stretch of time that should have felt electric.

The circus and the constant noise have been exhausting on their own. Sam’s aggressive marketing. The endless selling. The way every week there’s another push, another angle, another attempt to steer the conversation away from the actual show. I can handle a PR narrative, I’m not naive. But there’s a difference between smart strategy and sloppy overcorrection, and what we’ve been watching lately has felt more like the latter. It doesn’t build credibility. It burns trust. It makes everything feel cheap.

Still, I showed up. I waited. I watched the trailer live. Because this is the final season. This is supposed to be the moment where the show takes a victory lap, where the promotion finally feels like an event, where you get that rush of “okay, here we go.”

And I got nothing. Not excitement, not emotion, not even curiosity. Just anger.

Because that trailer should have made people want to watch. It should have had heart. It should have had that gut-punch feeling that makes you immediately start counting down the days. Instead it felt flat, like a collection of “this is happening” moments with no real emotional pull. The final season trailer is not the place to play it safe or generic. The final season trailer is where you remind everyone why they care. This one didn’t.

And then the “sex scene” tease.

If you’re going to tease a love scene in a trailer, the point is to make the audience lean in. This made me brace myself. It doesn’t read as sexy to me, it reads as staged. It looks choreographed in a way that kills the heat, and it honestly made me dread the scene instead of wanting to see it. Because it feels like confirmation that we’re going to get the same kind of fake, awkward intimate scenes we’ve been getting for four seasons now.

And this is where I need to say something that should be obvious to anyone who has ever worked in entertainment marketing.

Other productions would kill for what Outlander has. Real lead chemistry that reads on and off camera, in interviews, in press. Most shows have to manufacture it. They schedule “accidental” moments. They craft flirty interview beats. They coach playful banter. They build entire promo campaigns around two people sitting close, touching casually, sharing a look, because chemistry sells. It sells tickets, it sells viewership, it sells emotional investment. Even when it’s fake, they squeeze every last drop out of it because it works.

Here, they are doing the opposite.

They have genuine chemistry and they keep burying it under awkward narrative noise. They keep distancing the leads visually and emotionally in the marketing. They even chose to open the final trailer rollout with the two of them sitting apart and high-fiving like two best buds. That is a choice. And it communicates distance, not legacy, not intimacy, not “this is the final chapter of an epic love story.” It feels like they are actively trying to downplay the one thing that the audience actually trusts.

Which brings me to the part that actually tipped me over the edge: the song choice, and everything around it.

Using her late husband’s song in the trailer created a clash that never should have existed. That should have been a clean, exciting moment focused on the show, on Jamie and Claire, on the final chapter. Instead, the song instantly yanked attention into the circus and made the trailer feel like it had been pulled into a completely different narrative.

And then, because Sam has been publicly tagging and following the late husband, it doesn’t read like a respectful tribute. It reads distasteful. It reads like performative signaling meant to connect the dots for people. It reads like something designed to feed a storyline rather than honor someone’s memory. And yes, it also creates the optics that the song choice serves that narrative in a very convenient way, shifting attention away from the show and onto Sam and the widow dynamic, with people wondering who benefits from the exposure and the royalties. Even if that’s not the intention, that is the perception it creates. Any competent PR person would avoid that, because you don’t trade in grief adjacent optics for engagement. You just don’t.

This was supposed to be sacred territory. A moment that belongs to the story and the audience. And they managed to contaminate it with the circus anyway.

If you want to separate an actor’s identity from a character long-term, that’s a legitimate goal. But you do not do it by undermining the flagship product at the exact moment it needs to shine. You do not distract from a finale with messy side narratives. You do not bury your strongest asset. You do not turn the last season rollout into a brand ecosystem extension. That is how you lose fans, not because fans are entitled, but because they feel like the work they supported is not being respected.

I don’t say any of this lightly. I wanted to be excited. I wanted to feel that rush again. I wanted to be counting down the days and dissecting every frame with joy. Instead I’m sitting here feeling annoyed, disappointed, and weirdly detached, because it feels like the rollout is actively stripping the magic out of this ending right when it should be at its peak.

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12+ years…..I’ve waited…I’ve helped raise money for BloodwiseUK, bid and won the fedora that Sam wore in Emulsion. Attended the Season 2 premiere in NYC. Attended the Voyager Gala event, met both Sam and Caitriona. Visited Scotland 5 times since 2016, last being October 2025. Went to a Landcon event in Paris. I found a home here, met and cultivated deep friendships that will remain for a lifetime. We all knew this Outlander bubble would eventually end. Everything has a shelf life. STARZ has IMO used their subscribers like pawns on a chess board…strategically moving us all over the board, just to get more money. Now, instead of happy anticipation, I feel nothing except bitter and empty. I have zero desire to watch Season 8, no matter the outcome of the characters fate. The overtones of this public circus finally crushed what was left of my love of the series.

Was it worth 12 years of my life? Yes, but never again will I enter a fandom…once is enough. What I will take away is meeting so many kind, exceptional and smart women. Many from countries apart from my own. For this alone, I am blessed. There’s one woman I met in 2016. We slowly became friends, I earned her trust. I watched her struggle after losing her long time partner and she, through it all, pulled her out self out of the depression fire. I’m so proud of her tenacity and perseverance. We’re still good friends and I hope it will continue for years to come.

Finding Outlander wasn’t just watching a television series, it became an outlet for something new, something to challenge me and enriched my life.

luhafraser

This circus has driven countless fans away over the years and now has just killed the last bit of desire many fans still had to watch S8. It’s not a feeling exclusive to shippers... many see how low and vile they were — and still are. 💔

#rip #outlander starz

Best promo for Love Again served on a silver platter.

What a shame. Missed 😜🤣

He’s come to terms with it just fine. Never really been private anyway—everything feels calculated to stir the fandom and cash in.

🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

All these years, why is it always the women on the front line? Why doesn’t S publicly own these relationships? Why are these women the ones pushed into generating all the speculation?And now... Why did this woman make her account public, then private again, just to pull in followers who’ll spread whatever she posts? Like… what’s she even getting out of that? She knows people are leaking her posts and she’s just blocking them one by one? Oi?? What’s the logic there? Who, with even the tiniest bit of self-respect, would choose to be a target for the fans of a guy who won’t even admit the relationship in public? And worse, with her kid getting dragged into those fans’ speculation?

Why can’t S, after all these years and even now, act like other actors who actually stand up for their partners? Why can’t he take a page from Henry Cavill, Rudy Pankow, Christopher Briney, Ian Somerhalder…?

I can’t deal with this nonsense. S apparently knows Steph since 2019, and they’re probably friends, since he followed one of her family members back in early 2021… Publicly, S and his PR team went with this whole setup with another woman — basically pulled out of the freezer after years — just to spark buzz on Deuxmoi. Then they kept hyping up his love life on that blog, and then Steph’s name shows up in the comments (as expected). And then those same comments pointing people toward P’s account, his stalker. But… Do the Deuxmoi's readers even realize Steph kind of helped set that up? Making her account public, then private again, just to keep certain followers watching — that part’s not gonna get mentioned on Deuxmoi, right?! It’s always the same old story... And they’ll still be able to keep up the whole ‘we have stalkers and we’re the victims in all of this’ thing. Oh, please… 🤬

Anyway, when are S and C going to stop with these behaviors that just inflame this fandom and fuel more and more speculation? When are the “loved ones” gonna stop getting dragged into all of this?

We’ve already had a dad stuttering and unable to even say T’s name... We’ve already had a sister basically spark a witch hunt just to validate Cait’s whole “I have stalkers” narrative... And others... Why are all these people involved — and even worse, why do they let themselves get involved in this mess? Simon was the smart one... Why can’t S and C act like other co-stars if they’re “just friends” like they claim — like the main actors of Virgin River, for example?

It’s impossible to be a fan of two actors who seem to allow and even fuel all of this. Please, S… You’re letting a child get dragged into this whole mess — a kid who lost the father figure in her life just a little over a year ago. How can a guy who says he’s traumatized by his own father’s absence not have the sensitivity to protect this child? 😞

After all these years, we’ve had way more questions than answers. S and C could’ve shut all this crap down ages ago — why don’t they act like other actors? Why let people they care about get dragged into all of this? To me, it seems pretty obvious they don’t actually want to end the speculation… so now the main question is: why? ❓️❓️❓️

Sobre a mais nova velha piada...

Se antes você “não podia” postar, mas agora pode — e de quebra isso ainda te rende uns benefícios — por que não, né? No meio de amigos, família e o atual namorado, nada como jogar um “ex” nos stories, sendo ele minimamente famoso. Engajamento grátis! E claro, marcar a conta de um dos negócios dele, aquele que combina perfeitamente com o seu objetivo. Estratégia é tudo.

Sobre ele...

Curioso para alguém que vivia dizendo que “não tinha tempo para relacionamentos”, não?! Pois é… tempo até tinha. O que nunca existiu, de fato, foi consideração pelas mulheres envolvidas, fossem relacionamentos "reais ou apenas de fachada". No fim, sempre sobra para elas fazerem o trabalho sujo: da “atual namorada” abrindo conta para entreter o fandom até a “irmã-amiga-co-star” aparecendo religiosamente para salvar o “irmão” quando o teatro dele começa a desabar.

E ainda sobre eles e este circo...

Ano após ano, o padrão é o mesmo: contas parecidas (aqui e "lá fora"), narrativas recicladas, e um homem que se esconde atrás do personagem que lhe convém, quando lhe convém. Desculpa, mas é impossível passar pano para alguém assim. E onde estava o homem que carrega as feridas de um pai ausente quando permitiu que uma criança — que recente viveu a dor de perder uma figura paterna — fosse exposta da forma como essa menina, filha da "atual", foi por aqui?

Vamos todos fingir demência por mais um dia e seguir venerando atores que tratam seus “melhores fãs” desse jeitinho? Porque, claro, nada mais normal do que um homem que deixa a “namorada” para trás no tapete vermelho, mas que, cuidadosamente, observa cada movimento da sua co-star — quase uma coreografia — em todos os eventos. [E da atriz, então? Aquela que mal nota o próprio marido ao lado, mas praticamente se teletransporta para seguir o co-star e checar onde ele está. Super natural]. Mas claro: com esse comportamento jamais surgiriam shippers, né?

E o que será que o pessoal do outro lado imagina ao ver todos esses vislumbres de mulheres insinuando possíveis envolvimentos com esse ator — o mesmo que, publicamente, tratou a maioria delas como se fossem invisíveis neste planeta? Mulherengo? Gay? Os dois? Nenhum? Nunca, imagina. Só coincidências, claro.

Lá e cá... Somos todas gado e palhaças, não?! Fazendo somente o esperado.

Eu nem vou estender o desabafo, porque basta eu soltar um “hm…” e imediatamente surge um exército pronto para me chamar de hater e proteger o querido. Mas olha… estou ficando bem cansada dessa novela toda — e o pior é ver como eles fingem que não têm nada a ver com o caos que alimentam: fandom tóxico, tretas intermináveis, caça às bruxas e até gente largando de acompanhar a série porque o circo simplesmente não acaba.

Vamos ser honestos: se eles nunca quiseram especulações, por que deixaram tantas brechas perfeitas para elas acontecerem?! Tenho um ou dois palpites sobre.

Obs.: Escrevi em português, minha língua nativa. Se tiver mesmo PR vasculhando este Tumblr, que eles gastem o tempo traduzindo — não eu.

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THE WHY OF IT - Observer Sharp Edition

You can watch this fandom split into a dozen factions, argue over freckles, decode PR drops, or hunt for clues hidden in a Ducati windscreen … but beneath every debate, every theory, every meltdown, there’s only ever been one real question: Why do they do it like this?

Because let’s be honest: If clarity had ever been the goal, we would’ve all moved on years ago. Instead, we got twelve years of curated ambiguity — public hints, private disappearances, carefully timed posts, and a level of emotional whiplash that surely qualifies as aerobic exercise.

And the fandom? It didn’t cling because it believed a particular storyline. It clung because the logic never added up. Humans hate narrative gaps. We’ll tolerate bad news, we’ll tolerate good news — what we won’t tolerate is confusion.

So we start analysing the timing. And the silence. And the edits. And the sudden enthusiasm for whatever brand partnership happens to land that week. Not because we’re conspiracy theorists, but because ambiguity is a vacuum — and vacuums get filled.

The actors change, the rumours change, the theories mutate like a Victorian fever dream. But the WHY remains constant.

Why the secrecy? Why the selective visibility? Why the patterns that repeat every few months with surgical precision? Why the emotional choreography — just enough access to keep people hooked, never enough clarity to walk away?

Someone in the comments put it perfectly: “It’s the why of it for me.” Exactly. That’s the engine of this entire ecosystem. People don’t stay because the stories make sense. They stay because they don’t.

And until the performance changes — until the rhythm shifts, the patterns break, the ambiguity evaporates the WHY will always be stronger than any photo, rumour, or denial.

So the real question isn’t whether any of this is true. It’s whether you’ve figured out your reason for still watching. Because everyone has one.

What’s yours?

what else is left to happen in this shitshow?

😅😅😅

How the true King of Men publicly showed his beloved to his fans...

Regardless of the harassment, because this same man defended her, without needing any friend for that...

And, truly, he keeps his personal life private!

But, publicly, he doesn't stop being who he is...

👏👏👏👏👏👏

#henry cavill

A new project... A new girlfriend... The same script, the same fandom...

Ahhh, let's not forget the old bait... Bond!

Sam was more natural and acting like a real couple with Alex and his daughters in that game than he was with "his new girlfriend" and her supposed daughter! Just saying... 😜😅