Waiting for the day

that the Heughans step out...

[jamesandclairefraser-deactivate]

i had no idea this is what it said and now i’m emotional bye 

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[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

North Berwick 🥰🥰

[its-moopoint]

are you trying to say something @dillon7fan ?? 😜

[s-and-c-forever]

Well I can say that these two were falling in love and that is obvious. Then the IFH and all that does is take that love underground and they live their lives in private.

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

SAM DELETED THIS

JUST WOKE UP SELFIE

SHOWER TOGETHER. WRAP PARTY

THANKS DIANNA

SAM LIKES THIS PICTURE FROM FAN SAYING THEY WOULD MAKE PRETTY BABIES TOGETHER. ALL FROM 2014🥰🥰

[lullaby333]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

SAM POSTED POEM WHEN THEY WENT BACK TO SCOTLAND FOR PHOTO SHOOT AND VALENTINES VIDEO

LOVE IS IN THE AIR 😍😍2014

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

2014 - 2020……6 years !!!

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

“It was the beginning of myself and Caitriona relationship “ wedding night episode was Last week in March 2014. Special Day for them. 2014 - 2020…..6 YEARS 😍😍

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

Calling “SAM” name 2014

Kissed by the window and before first interview wiping off lipstick Sam “it’s off?” Cait “Yes”

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

Happened in 2015 but later tweeted about the trip to Ibiza

Cait corrected Sam when he actually got up

Partner

Birthday wishes from a Rosie to treat her like a queen 👑……2016

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2016

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[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

2018

2020. Together since 2014 - 2020…6 years 😍😍

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Taboo 🙊🙉🙈 2020 . Very close by Cait/their place with glass top table Sam has mentioned 😜

[diggsydogsquee-deactivated20250]

@dillon7fan 🤓

[pizbernina-79]

Good to keep these facts 👍

[langy60]

The evidence is plain to see just open your eyes and it’s there 🥰🥰🥰

[malu1997]

2020,Together

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

JULY 2020 HEUGHAN- BALFE

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

THE BALFE-HEUGHAN. CAIT “HE BRINGS ME COFFEE EVERY MORNING “ 2020……..

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

I MUST ADD THIS FOR 2015😍😍

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

IBIZA AND VALENCIA TRIP WAS 2015 ALSO

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

2014 - 2020 Valentines On SM

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

“I’M VERY LUCKY TO BE WITH HER” SOMETIMES SAM SLIPPED UP, MARCH 2021

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

But he lived with Cait at her/their place where glass top table was.

This interview was April 2021 @mckeiko ❤️

[diggsydogsquee-deactivated20250]

Reblog Gold @dillon7fan 🤓👏👏👏

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

I know. Thanks Graham and Sam confirmed. I think they were unaware next interviewer has sounds on before she puts on ear buds

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

SAM AND GRAHAM INTERVIEW WAS APRIL 2021

BALFE HEUGHAN SHOW SINCE 2014……🙈🙉🙊

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

2014…….2020….6 years

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

Cait as photographer video them in Las Vegas 2020, still hiding

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[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

Update on Cait makeup guy and hair lady back in December 2015 and February 2016 for Saks catalog photoshoot and Departure magazine photoshoot May 2021 ig story.

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

Spill the beans on Wedding or Children ?😘

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

Interview 2021

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

So, I would like to add this about SC liking baby/pregnant stuffs since 2015……

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

In the past SAM only post himself on Valentine’s Day but 2021 first time reposted this beautiful picture ❤️❤️

[mariaae]

Thank you @dillon7fan for posting their long and solid history of a beautiful love story that had to go underground but nevertheless still produces blips on the radar every now snd then. God bless them!

[lovelycat74]

Hanging out together in London , 2020

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

@lovelycat74 yes, at Dean street bar alone together in London 2020

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

2014-2015 thanks @jemscorner ❤️

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Reserve magazine believe editor to be Cait friends Likes Outlander banter comment in May 2021❤️

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You and Yours 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻😎…September 1, 2021

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

The wink emoji is everything 😏

[diggsydogsquee-deactivated20250]

Thanks again @dillon7fan 🙌🏻. Reblog. The universe has spoken and wants an end to the Fantasy Man. 2021 UK birth of Boo4. #truthmatters

[auburncurlslass]

This post is the almost complete history of Sam and Caitriona Balfe-Heughan! Thank you @dillon7fan for all this historical evidence….Priceless!

[polarity-disturbed]

This is a comment I got on a post about my students getting flagged for false AI detection.

This comment caught me off guard for a few reasons. And while it's probably just rage bait, it's a useful jumping-off point for some thoughts I've had regardless.

First, I find the assumption that I would performatively do anything on this site kind of funny.

This is Tumblr.

The numbers here have less value than the arcade tickets you trade in for a plastic slide whistle. We are screaming into a kaleidoscope of fandoms, inside jokes, and posts about Victorian sewer systems. The idea that I would carefully construct a public performance here feels absurd.

But the bigger point is the claim that there's no meaningful difference between using AI to help write a paper and using the internet or a computer in general.

Because there is a difference.

If I had to put it poetically, it's the difference between writing your thoughts in a notebook and releasing a parrot into a crowded dinner party, letting it listen to six hundred conversations at once, and then treating the resulting word salad as though it possesses intention.

The internet is a library.

A tool.

A search engine helps you locate information.

None of those things are attempting to generate the answer for you.

You still have to read.

You still have to evaluate.

You still have to decide whether a source is trustworthy, whether an argument makes sense, whether a claim can be substantiated.

You still have to do the thinking.

A large language model does something fundamentally different.

It takes an input and generates an output based on patterns found in its training data. It does not know whether the answer is true. It does not understand the argument it is making. It cannot distinguish between a correct statement and an incorrect one in the way a reasoning mind can.

What it does is predict what a convincing answer would probably look like.

Fact checking matters.

Source verification matters.

Understanding where information comes from matters.

Knowing how an argument was constructed matters.

Because if your process for writing becomes "generate paragraph, accept paragraph," then you've skipped the very thing writing is supposed to cultivate.

And that's the part that concerns me.

Not because I hate the concept of machine learning.

I don't.

What people commonly call AI is, at its core, a method of processing and generating information through pattern recognition. As a concept, it's morally neutral. It's also not particularly new.

The problem is that a lot of the public conversation around it treats these systems as though they are intelligent in the way people are intelligent, and many companies are more than happy to encourage that perception through the way they're marketed and sold.

But the systems currently available are not reasoning minds. They do not understand what they're saying. They do not possess intent, beliefs, or comprehension. They do not think through problems the way humans do. They generate outputs based on patterns found in data.

My issue isn't with the existence of the technology.

My issue is with the way large language models are currently marketed, presented, and trained.

They're sold as tools that can help you write, help you think, help you learn.

But those are three very different things.

Helping someone write should mean supporting the writing process.

Helping someone think should mean encouraging critical engagement.

Helping someone learn should mean deepening understanding.

What these systems often do instead is produce something that resembles those outcomes from the outside.

Without necessarily requiring the process that creates them.

Writing is not merely the act of producing words.

Writing is thinking made visible.

"AI", and by that I mean large language models using machine learning, are not performing independent thought. They are not reasoning in the way people do. They are taking the data they have been trained on, remixing patterns from that dataset, and generating a response that statistically resembles the kinds of answers that would fit the input.

THAT is the difference.

Writing the process of wrestling with an idea long enough to discover what you actually believe about it.

If you outsource that process entirely, you end up with text, but you've skipped the part where the writing was supposed to happen.

There's also the question of the source of the training data.

These systems are built on a staggering amount of stolen human work.

Entire lifetimes of creative and intellectual labor compressed into datasets, gathered without consent from the people who created them.

And even if someone doesn't find that ethically troubling, and I would argue there's very good reason to, it still creates an enormous tangle of copyright, ownership, attribution, and compensation issues that society is currently scrambling to understand in real time.

The technology arrived before the rules.

And we're all now living in the consequences of that.

In the original post I ended by saying:

"I spent so much of my life learning how to write. I shouldn't have to unlearn that because some computer algorithm learned from me."

I stand by that.

Because at the end of the day, my issue isn't that a machine can generate sentences.

It's that somewhere along the line we've started treating the generation of sentences as interchangeable with the act of having something to say.

And those are not the same thing.

[sdreamersc82]

😍😍

[i-ship]

And I’m supposed to believe she was in a serious relationship with another man while shooting that?

[mariaae]

Good morning Sassenachs and Highlanders! Mega thanks to sdreamersc82 for all the beautiful gifs from the Bloopers! Just noticing some very telling details👀😍. gif #1

She’s not just parking her hand on his knee but squeezing it. Ok Mrs H. I get your drift! JMHO!

#4 OMG! He's giving her the air kiss puckering his lips like a guppie! Captain, please give a warning. I'm dying here!

#5 She loves holding his thigh and knee! Who does that? You guys know the answer. It's not just Sam leaving crumbs, Wifey is too!

Two hands, no less! Look at her! Her right thumb rubbing his knee. Come on Caitriona. you were about to kiss that face!

#7 His eyes are on her lips. He so wants to kiss her!🔥!

[margareth-lv]

What a marvelous description, @mariaae ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

On another note, the Main Heroine, supposedly a „married woman”, seems remarkably comfortable with the Main Character’s body, even when they’re not filming scenes for the show.

.

.

.

Nothing odd about that at all, right?

🤭😉🤭

[5 June, 2026]

[odessa-2]

I just can't help myself 😋

I love it when we get brand new back of head shots to compare to Sam's head at the funeral. Mainly because it sends the Antis into all sorts of fits

I can almost hear the sound of the froth collecting on the sides of mouths and of heads exploding 🤯

It's an addiction I tell ya 🤪

[auburncurlslass]

Reblog for the deaf and blind in the peanut gallery!

[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?

[sgiandubh]

It would seem this improbable, paltry explanation of their relationship suddenly 'widening and deepening' after OL perfectly goes along with the rewriting of OL's early days. The main objective apparently being to persuade everyone nothing ever happened between Those Two. Not to mention today.

There is no perfect crime and the metaphorical murderer often revisits the crime scene.

[sdreamersc82]

The way he looks at her with lust, love, and adoration, it hasn't changed. ❤️

[sgiandubh]

Just so stories:"any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental"

Leaving this here, for the sake of science. Sidenote and later edit: I had to re-upload the clip, thanks to a prescient friend. I obviously do not own any copyright to this material, who went suddenly incommunicado after being shared on this blog:

Circa 2022.

Your Two Cents #advertisement campaign is not my initial find, and I must give credit to Marple. But this clip is even more monumental than the one she posted. Somewhat.

PS: Is it me, or Daisy-Anne is giving strong Flukenzie vibes? Oh, the irony.

[sgiandubh]

I almost never reblog my own posts, but this time I am doing it for the updated, re-uploaded content.

And because many people complained they could not see the -now private - videos.

Ask and you shall receive.

[margareth-lv]

❤️‍🩹Abandoning Cynology In Favor Of Relational Studies❤️‍🩹

All right. Enough with the applied dog studies. Let us move on to something nicer. Or rather, let us allow “Honey” to speak.

Have you watched that interview?

. . . Because the message basically boils down to this: “Back in high school we were inseparable best friends, constantly together, emotionally fused at the molecular level — and now that we all have completely separate adult lives, careers, partners, children, and responsibilities, our relationships are somehow even stronger".

Which is, of course, complete nonsense.

Anyone who possesses at least minimal social experience — and more than two brain cells — understands perfectly well that this is not how human relationships work.

Same situation here, I would argue.

And another question for the ladies: how many of you, while having a long-term partner and children (child...), spend substantial amounts of time hanging out with single, childless bachelors?

Exactly. . . .

And watching the Main Heroine stare at the Main Character with visible tension while he constructs these rather implausible narratives produces some extremely specific visual associations in my head.

. . . To be fair, though: after ten years, she does look at him more affectionately than before. But the tension remains. She still looks like someone anxiously monitoring every word in fear that he accidentally reveals too much.

. . .

And finally: that hotel bed with the messy pillows. Does it not evoke certain associations for anyone else?

😉

[25 May, 2026]

[lallybroch-pr-watch]

I’m combining a few anons who asked for my take on the couples therapy bloopers.

Honestly? I was surprised. Not because of the chemistry, that’s always there. What surprised me was the level of intimacy, and how instinctively, quickly, and naturally they sank into it, when as far as we know they haven’t been touching like that in over a year and a half. Even stable couples who haven’t been physically close in a while usually have a second of hesitation, a beat of finding the rhythm again. Here, it looked like they didn’t miss a step.

And it wasn’t casual contact, either. Caitriona acted like it was the most natural thing in the world to press her thigh to his, to squeeze his knee (we’ll get back to that), to run her fingers through his hair, touch his cheek, hook her leg around him. And on his end, he was acting like her lips were the most fascinating thing he’s seen in the last year.

When it’s inside the sketch, you can still argue “fine,” they’re actors, they’re performing, it’s for the bit. But we’re talking about the bloopers. The out of character moments. The breaks. And even then they kept their faces close, kept hands on legs, kept that gentle thumb movement on his knee.

And the moment that, for me, told the whole story in two seconds was when they were reading the script and Caitriona, without even noticing, squeezed his knee in a way you can’t explain away as part of the sketch, not as “siblings,” and not even as “best friends.” Honestly, especially not as best friends. The casualness of it, and the fact that he didn’t flinch, didn’t shift, like it’s completely normal for them, said everything.

And then in promo we’re being sold “home,” loving spouses, Instagram stories. How many partners, even partners of actors, would be fine seeing their partner behave like this with their “best friend”? Especially when it’s just a comedy sketch, where boundaries could easily have been set if they wanted to.

It felt like we saw them in their natural environment, with a host they like and feel comfortable with, and “being themselves” seems to mean a level of ease and physical intimacy that doesn’t really make sense for friends. Everything else is the story they tell around it.

[margareth-lv]

🎯🎯🎯 @lallybroch-pr-watch 🎯🎯🎯

[i-ship]

Can we talk about this gif for a second?

They weren’t in character here. They were reading the lines from pages on the floor.

Credit to @sdreamersc82 for the gif ♥️

[sdreamersc82]

Nothing to see here, it was perfectly normal for her co-star to sleep in her ( and her "boyfriend's) bed 🤭

[mojo106]

I usually don’t go into the bedroom of another person. And laying down there in a strangers bed is another level of intimacy. JMHO

[poughkeepsielass]

And, you wouldn’t climb into her bed and make yourself cozy under her comforter with her cat unless that was maybe your bed too?😎

[auburncurlslass]

To those that were here during this presentation, we were elated to see this post. Believing full well that they were indeed a couple, this just solidified many of our valuable receipts. What co-star, friend would make themselves comfortable in the other person's bed, under the covers, no less....UNLESS the were in that same bed the night before? Use your brain...this is not a man, 'cat sitting' his co-star's feline companion.

[margareth-lv]

🌞Choosing Optimism🌞

In an unexpected burst of optimism, I’m choosing to believe that our lovebirds will thrive offline - happy, in love, and on the same page.

I’ll stick with that.

Photos courtesy of elle.bee.12 on Instagram.

[14 May, 2026]

[uniqueninjallama]

🙌Sam & Caitriona everywhere

[laflordelacanela]

ALWAYS ❤️❤️

[sdreamersc82]

Wake me up when Sam looks at MW like this until then 😴

[scwicks]

🎶

"Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"

[mariaae]

Things have not changed:

[samcait-love]

Lil Heughan makin’ some noise in da house???

Thank you @bat-cat-reader for the link to this interview and @langy60 for pointing out the sound of a child crying during Sam’s interview. I heard it too!! 😄

Listen for yourself. IMO there is obviously a child crying in the next room during Sam’s interview. I think it’s hilarious that said child starts crying when Sam is talking about about how his OL character Jamie was hotheaded when he was younger! 😂🤣😂

Caitriona, are you “babysitting”while Sam is doing his interview? You and Sam sure do “babysit” a lot. 😂

[samcait-love]

This zoom interview aired on May 19, 2021 and a baby was heard crying in the background. When was this newest addition to the family born? 🤔

[sleepwakerepeat3]

Definite baby in the background as soon as Sam says “hot headed” you can hear a baby cry “whaaaa” 👶🍼👩‍🍼

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

LOOK DADDY SEAT😜

[lullaby333]

My GOD, I HEARD. I'M DYING HERE. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 FUCK SAM .. LOL DAD

[mariaae]

It sounds like an infant crying his heart out because it’s time for his feeding and Mama has to change his nappy first! Impatient wee Heughan there! Can’t blame him! He wants his Mum’s breasts STAT! JMHO.

[samcait-love]

Reblog for the newbies!

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

@samcait-love definitely not the “August “ baby 😂

[samcait-love]

@dillon7fan That’s correct. No baby born in August. I believe there was a baby born sometime early 2021 and before this May 19, 2021 Daddy Sam interview. Then Cait had an unexpected pregnancy during the Belfast filming/promo in the fall 2021 and tried to cover by making people think she was PP. Here she is on the Late Late Show with James Corden that aired November 24, 2021. That’s not a PP belly. She was so pregnant!🤰🏻

[lovehimloveherstuff]

So happy to remember & reblog these important, beautiful memories

😁🤰👶🍼

Thank you @samcait-love @mariaae & @dillon7fan 😍❤

[samcait-love]

@lovehimloveherstuff You’re most welcome! 😊

[lovejustlove]

Mummy Caitriona and Daddy Sam ❤️

[samcait-love]

Mummy and Daddy to at least 2 or 3 kiddos ❤️

[sassytoonlass]

Always a reblog

[legendarydreamercollectorfan]

Someone smack me if this is not a woman who is quite clearly pregnant. The elephant in the room !!

[bat-cat-reader]

Pause...

barranco.mary

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

SAM AND CAITRIONA BTS S5💕💕

BTS S4💕💕

BTS S3💕💕

[dillon7fan-deactivated20250108]

BTS S2💕💕

BTS S1💕💕

[accardi1921]

[tithora]

[sdreamersc82]

So many 🧾🥰

[laflordelacanela]

Talking to people, talking to each other, reading their script, whatever, but this intimacy of touch is only between lovers 💋❤️

[mariaae]

Will always reblog whenever this post graces my dash!

💙💚💍

[michezsstuff]

💕yup💕

[lovejustlove]

Always