Together Forever

Their facial expressions 🤣

Explain this one.

Love,

About her bewbs:

Not even trying to pretend:

BONUS:

Their facial expressions 🤣

Sam & Caitriona → Hmmm, that sounds familiar …

“They’re both very strong minded people. They both have an opinion. Unfortunately, sometimes, it’s just the opposite opinion which I think causes a lot of conflict between the two of them.”  

~ Richard Rankin on Brianna & Roger

For years, it always seemed like SH was the one completely captivated, the one whose admiration was impossible to miss, who looked at CB as if she hung the moon. That was such a familiar part of their story that I almost took it for granted.

Now, though, I find myself noticing the opposite. The lingering glances, the little touches, the way she gravitates toward him... and for the first time, it feels like CB might be the one wearing her heart a little more openly.

Maybe I'm completely wrong, and of course none of us really knows what goes on behind the scenes. But sometimes I wonder if something changed along the way. If after so many years of waiting, hoping, and living in the in-between, SH simply found a different kind of peace with it all. Not because he stopped caring, but because eventually even the deepest feelings learn how to quiet themselves when they have nowhere to go.

That's what makes it feel bittersweet to me. I've been around since the Jess's blog days, and I remember how utterly enchanted he seemed by her. Seeing that spark look softer now, while she appears more openly drawn to him than ever, gives me this strange sense of nostalgia, like watching the tide turn after years of flowing in the same direction.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it. But lately that's the feeling I can't quite shake.

Hey Anon.

Finally a fun topic to discuss, and I’d really love to hear everyone else’s thoughts on it too.

I’ll start by saying I completely agree. I just don’t think this is new. If anything, it was even more noticeable during the 7B promo than it is now.

For anyone who’s forgotten, in 7B Sam did everything short of sitting on his own hands just to make sure he wouldn’t, God forbid, touch Caitriona. He also made a real effort to avoid any eye contact with her.

Honestly, if we hadn’t gotten the red dress shoot, that entire promo run might have ended on a much more sour note.

And she was the exact opposite extreme. She looked at him like he was the sun. She touched him constantly. Squeezed his bicep more than once. Rested her head on him. Used his thigh as an eraser. And again, the red dress shoot… have we already mentioned how understanding Tony is?

So to me, what we’ve seen in this current promo is actually a softer version of what was happening back then. The difference now is that Sam also has this layer of stress, the blinking, and the general sense that he might not be in a great emotional or mental place.

But the truth always lives in the way they look at each other. It’s a look they don’t give anyone else. It lives in how comfortable they are with each other’s bodies, in the way her hand disappears into his hair like it’s the most natural thing in the world, in the way he watches her when she speaks and the way she bites her lip when he speaks. The truth is in the small things: the little knee squeeze, the way he stares at her lips like they’re the most interesting thing in the universe, the way his hand automatically finds her back, the way he looks back and waits for her. The truth is in the million tiny, authentic moments, not the big picture and not the talking points.

Sure. So did I ;)

Moaning and arching her back or something and you kind of look at it and you just know, this isn’t how I have sex and I kinda doubt that anybody else does either. 

So if this show was going to have a strong sexual component to it I just said, let’s just try to be honest about it. Let’s try to present it in a way how human beings actually behave.  

It’s not about trying to film the sexy image. It’s just human sexuality.  Let’s just try to be as honest about it as we can.

Very telling indeed …

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.

So done with all the negative shit!! I’m in need of these two in love, sweetness, kisses, hot stuff, smoldering looks and sexy times!! Jamie and Claire, Sam and Cait, Sam, Cait, whatever. Let’s make this place fun again! Let’s do this, @outlandish-blog!!

What the ladies didn't know was that The Reckoning was filmed first...The Wedding episode, second. What does that tell ya??? OMG, stiff one's were 'plentiful' indeed!!!

I love this interview 😍😍 and not just for Sam's cheakyness (which is pure gold) but for the fact the he did it solely to get a reaction out of her. His eyebrows and smile in anticipation to see the look on her face is everything.

The new clips that hit Tumblr in the last few hours reveal another layer we didn’t have before, and for me it’s basically the final nail in the coffin.

What they initially tried to sell us was a very specific character: a private woman, age-appropriate, educated, a single mother, a tragic young widow. A compassionate, wholesome animal-therapy girl. Horse reiki. Soft-focus goodness. Someone who doesn’t seek the spotlight and only ended up in this situation “for love.”

And now it turns out… not really.

We all have skeletons in the closet, and I’m sure it’s not fun when people dig through yours and suddenly find an anti snoring ad. But it turns out our Steph didn’t just dabble in the model/singer/jewelry/designer/animal-therapy lanes. She also took a swing at acting, and not even in the distant past. If anything, it looks like it’s still an ambition she’s holding onto.

And that changes the entire question of what does she get out of this business arrangement with Sam.

Until now the benefit was vague. Attention, sure, but toward what? Now it’s obvious. This isn’t someone who accidentally wandered into a camera lens. This is someone who actively chased the lens. For her, this is a career opportunity.

Even if being “the wife of” wasn’t new to her, the truth is that hardly anyone actually knew who she was until last September. And suddenly she’s being searched, analyzed, praised, attacked, followed, and discussed across fandom spaces. And not only does it not scare her off, she seems to lean into it.

You don’t get that from horse therapy in Cork.

And this is why Tumblr matters in a way the other platforms don’t. Tumblr is her Simon Cowell. Tumblr is the one place that judges the performance instead of applauding on cue. If she wants the role to land, the criticism here is what she can’t ignore. That’s why it keeps getting answered.

So a sincere thank you to everyone who found those videos. They add a huge piece of context.

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?

😉