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SAM HEUGHAN AND CAITRIONA BALFE

Can I have your attention, please! HELP!! I have been down the rabbit hole once again looking for ONE particular photo. The last time I went down this kind of search, I saw it. I don't remember exactly where, but it's there. A photo of ... a little girl running in a beautiful backyard, a place in Ireland. This was a possible location that S/C had been for holiday. Anyone remember this? May or May not show the ocean on the background? Someone out there has this photo and post about it. Could you please share again?!! If not, at least point me in the right direction. It's driving me nuts not being able to find it again!

I don't know any details about it. Where it came from or anything.

The magic spell you cast

This is la vie en rose

When you kiss me, heaven sighs

And though I close my eyes

I see la vie en rose

When you press me to your heart

I'm in a world apart

A world where roses bloom

And when you speak

Angels sing from above

Everyday words seems

To turn into love songs

Give your heart and soul to me

And life will always be

Just setting some things straight about what goes on this blog. Read it, ignore it, do what you want—but these are my boundaries:

🔄 What I Reblog

* **Sam & Caitriona TOGETHER.** That is it.

* **Early season throwbacks** of the two of them (glad to see people are posting these again!).

* **I DO NOT** reblog individual photos of Sam or Caitriona. I haven't done it since her wedding was fabricated, and I’m not starting now.

⚔️ Outlander / Jamie & Claire

* **I do not care about Jamie and Claire.** For me, that's completely over.

* I processed my *Outlander* grief about 7 years ago (and yes, I read the books). I don't feel bad about any of it; the story ended exactly how I always figured it would.

🤖 AI Edits & Content Creation

* **I will use their individual photos to make AI content.**

* I do this because *I* like it.

* If you don't like it, simply **do not reblog it**. Don't waste your breath or energy commenting "it's fake" or crying about it in my mentions. **I truly do not care about your opinion.**

**TL;DR:** My blog, my rules. Enjoy the joint content and the AI edits, or keep scrolling! ✌️

Perhaps a teaser of a new installment of this local podcast, Talking Galloway:

Not exactly a major media outlet (69 subscribers), but I suppose that is better than no echoes at all:

[Source: Talking Galloway Podcast YT page]

For those who still think he bought her that motorbike, the clip clearly shows the local motorbike dealership's promo/exhibition tent. With the dealer inside:

Anyways. Aside the confirmation the mom & daughter duo flew in and were probably brought in there the morning of the event by car, this other phrase is something I am taking stock of:

'We've got some other local businesses here represented. We'd love to encourage more of the local businesses to get involved'. [02:53 - 03:12]

I think the event definitely lacked proper planning. There are not that many local businesses in the area and his distillery business partners could probably have done a better scouting and co-opting job.

No trace of Madam Mao. Not even on that semi-obscure local press outlet.

I need to circle back to something I wanted to write about earlier, before I got distracted by... well, everything else.

As we know, the 'Creator to Creator' podcast featuring Karolina Wydra and the Main Heroine was heavily edited before it was released. As I pointed out back in June, the Name-That-Must-Not-Be-Spoken isn't uttered a single time during the entire fifty-something-minute conversation.

After watching the additional footage that was released later, I'm now convinced that the Name-That-Must-Not-Be-Spoken was mentioned. It was simply... Snip. Snip. Snip. The name that survived the edit? Tobias. Let's listen together.

But it was such a learning curve. I remember, you know, I'm so grateful I had the first two weeks were with Tobias. And Tobias was such a seasoned actor and had so much experience. And I remember just watching how he conducted himself in the meetings and watching the sort of questions he asked and all of those things. And I was like okay right it's okay to ask that, it's okay to do that. And just sort of he set such a great bar. Also he's such an incredible actor that it sort of just set a really good bar for everything and for what he was striving for.

. . . My first reaction to this rather lavish praise of Tobias was that it fits a narrative the Main Heroine has been presenting publicly for quite some time now: that filming Season 1 with Tobias was this beautiful, enlightening, sun-drenched experience, complete with scenic drives through the Highlands in vintage cars. Then came filming with Sam. Cue the biblical rainfall.

After weeks of beautiful, sunny weather during filming with Tobias, the first day of shooting with Sam was a real downpour. And it just kept on raining, a real deluge. It just didn’t stop bloody raining.

I don't think this story is really about the weather. I don't question Scotland's rain. Or Tobias's professionalism. Or the charm of vintage cars.

What I question is the ongoing insistence that nothing life-changing happened during those months once filming shifted from Tobias to Sam. Because I believe something did. She hopelessly in love. Not with Tobias. With Sam.

That's why I find the whole Tobias anecdote genuinely sad.

The Main Character wears his metaphorical chains around his neck, on his wrists, and on his fingers (and occasionally slung over his shoulder whenever the #PurseHolder function kicks in). The Main Heroine wears hers in her mind. I don't see two villains here. I see two people imprisoned in different ways by the same (love)story. Perhaps that's why I can't help but feel for both of them.

Yesterday's Instagram Story from SRH turned out to be more interesting than it first appeared:

. . . The collage — showing the Protagonists in one of their last fleeting moments of happiness before their world comes crashing down, with Karolina Wydra quietly lurking in the background — links to an article by Reshma Gopaldas published yesterday (July 7, 2026).

Here's the full article, and here's the section about the Protagonists:

. . . I have to admit, I'm struggling to understand exactly what Reshma is trying to argue. On the one hand, she points out that both CMB and SRH have been consistently overlooked by Emmy voters throughout Outlander's run. On the other, the article devotes considerably more attention to CMB's body of work, ultimately presenting her as the performer most deserving of long-overdue Emmy recognition.

Then there's this line:

"And Balfe’s performance in the series finale will take your breath away. (It literally took Heughan’s breath away. His character was dead for most of the last 20 minutes of the episode). "

I'm sorry, but that's not wit. It's an attempt at cleverness that comes across as unnecessarily dismissive. I've had the impression for quite some time that Reshma doesn't simply dislike SRH — she seems almost allergic to acknowledging his contribution. What she also fails to acknowledge is, in my view, one of the defining strengths of Outlander: CMB is as extraordinary as she is because she's acting opposite SRH. That may not be the most popular opinion, but it's one I've held for years. To me, every other performance CMB has given — from Ford v Ferrari to Belfast — feels like an echo of Claire rather than a reinvention of herself. Nowhere else does she shine quite as brilliantly, because nowhere else does she have a scene partner who draws out the very best in her. I suspect Reshma understands that perfectly well. She simply chooses not to write about it.

And perhaps the greatest irony is this: the article that celebrates the Main Heroine while taking an unnecessary swipe at the Main Character wasn't shared by CMB. It was shared by SRH.

Somehow... it all stayed in the family. A little sad, if you ask me.

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