Sometimes I can't tell as S would give us some crumbs but then I feel like c would want this to protect her privacy ...

Sometimes I feel like they aren't on the same page...

Sorry I don't know how to put it into words well so I hope you understand what I mean ...

Dear Narrative Anon,

Make no mistake, These Two are on the same page, always. The division of roles and team-tagging between them are very visible, if you have the patience to look for patterns.

But talking about this particular topic always makes me nervous.

The last thing I would wish to happen is for me to contribute in ANY way to the constant writing and re-writing of that damn script. That being said, my views are no different from those of the entire shipper community. Yes, I know that the idiot savants on the other side explained to us, like we were fools, that NDAs can never be illegal and that these are not the 50s. I will say but one thing (planning a more extensive analysis on NDAs) on this particular point:

An agreement can look absolutely perfect on paper. It all depends on the discussions that led to it being signed by the parties and on its concrete, day-to-day interpretation by the above parties.

But Dorothy Parker says it better:

“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.”

This splendid, witty, sexy Queen of ours. She made history for a country which wasn't even hers, to start with, because she was born at Eastwell Park (Kent) in 1875, as the granddaughter of both Queen Victoria and the Russian Czar, Alexander II:

She died in this room, at Pelișor Castle (rather an oversized hunting lodge, if you ask me), in 1938. The walls are covered in gold leaf and the Art Nouveau pattern is Scottish thistles:

Funnily enough, S knows this place very well, since that ahem...forgettable Hallmark movie was shot exactly there (and in the bigger Peleș Castle, the real royal summer retreat - looks more like a Bavarian manor, but hey, it was very daring to build it smack on the border of its times).

I loved this post, @sgiandubh, thank you.

Dear More Than Enough Anon,

I will answer with a sibylline smile and a very appropriate song:

Whoever it might be (the Hare Krishna, Sendero Luminoso, 'Ndrangheta), I think it's just petty to treat Marple with innuendoes and leftovers from Press.

HAHAHA... this is déjà vu, déjà connu for me, I mean the part with doesn't want us to share or show the proof.

People used this before her, Miss Marple probably doesn't know that these are old practices in this fandom...

Sam is a 43 year old man. He is not a naive, inexperienced jobbing actor, hasn’t been for 10 years now.

He reads contracts for his job/career, real estate acquisitions, book deals, negotiating contracts for the distribution of SS. On and on.

He has legal advice, so he would absolutely know you read and understand the content and context of any document before you sign. It’s a basic rule.

Only he knows what promoted him to enter the political firestorm that is the horror of the Middle East.

I never liked funerals - who does? - and I have always tried to avoid them, under different pretexts. This is one of the moments we meet the Great Beyond and we are at our most vulnerable. It's only fair and it is not something to be taken lightly, ever.

August 10, 2022 happened a few days before I decided to give OL a try and by the time I landed in here, that YouTube live has already been taken offline, perhaps with good reason.

That people watched it should come as no surprise to anybody: it happens in all cultures and societies - Death fascinates us and makes us curious, even if it's a questionable, voyeuristic kind of curiosity. It was posted for everyone to see, on the biggest content streaming platform on planet Earth. It was posted in consideration of the ending peak moment of the COVID pandemic, to allow for more people to attend, with the family's prior consent. It was most probably shot from the organ balcony, at a respectful distance and I am being told the streaming was blurry: a good thing, if you ask me. People screeching for "more clarity" of those screenshots should, in my humble opinion, think twice: context and taboo and all that.

That people saw something bizarre in the front pew was unavoidable. That the said detail (Occam's Razor would help us conclude that ambiguous things are usually anything but...) was screenshot, edited and made its way in here and elsewhere - impossible to control. However, I have not read any disrespectful comments about the event. Nobody snarked. Nobody grinned. A hole in the plot was pointed out, adding to the whole array of inconsistencies and if I remember well, it was almost missed out entirely (a taboo is a taboo, after all) and started its career online only days after.

Was it shared ad nauseam? Maybe - but who the hell am I to judge? Again, not something you can control, unless you set yourself up as the Torquemadas of this fandom and slap everybody on the wrist with your twisted righteousness. When your people discuss the Data Lounge findings in great, lewd detail, that is called having fun and (I love that one, don't you?) gossiping, as if you were just talking about Miss Scarlett's new petticoat, not a man's reputation. When our people dare to post pictures from a public event, or published for public consumption, that is immediately taxed as being insane or snooping.

A neutral person venturing in here would call out the bias immediately. I call out your hypocrisy and have no problem doing it in writing. And I never peddled neutrality, in here: I simply peddled decency and I remind everyone I have probably never posted any pictures from August 10, 2022 (I will triple check later, but I am pretty sure I didn't). It is a personal choice and, as you know very well, I am not alone in the Shipper community. Far from it.

That you chose August 10 to post the largest, most consistent amount of content I have read on your blogs during the last six months, shows me once more what I already knew: you simply can't help yourself, can you? It's all about slap-a-shipper day, even if this community remained remarkably silent and collected, yesterday. Extremes exist, they are a fact of life: silencing them is useless and unproductive, at least as far as I am concerned.

You have once again showed me your true colors, Mordor. At the end of the day, you do not really have a problem with the pictures floating out there. What you do have a BIG problem with, is the person sitting in the front pew and you would go to great lengths - to any lengths, for that matter - to disguise it under a thick sanctimonious cloak of civic disgust. Your shrieks backfire: if anything, they confirm, not deny. And for the sake of politics, anything goes. It is, therefore, ironic, that in order to post your reasoning, you did look, in great detail and for a consistent amount of time, at the same exact screenshots and pictures you send to hell so gleefully.

Spare me the dramatics.

They will all read this the "Prezel logic" (the poster and the rebloggers) and I sincerely hope that at least they will take on their hypocrisy, at least the smart and relatively balanced ones...

I grew up longing for everything that Western Europe means (to name just a few: Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK - for blogger reasons), for everything we lacked at home, I grew up believing that everything is perfect there from everyday life to the degree of culture and education (and mainly they were).. but I realize now that the experiences and education I received where I was are perhaps more valuable and made me be more attentive and cautious, to question the information I receive and to analyze things from various points of view.

No, ademas creo que fue Cait quien dijo que su hijo cantaba la cancion que tambien le gusta mucho a Sam 😎En cuanto a que el bebe rubio se llame Leo 🤔

No, I also think it was Cait who said that her son sang the song that Sam also likes a lot 😎As for the blonde baby being called Leo 🤔

This wasn't supposed to happen like that, of course. It was supposed to happen with an ”allow me to introduce myself”, at the least. But hey, I am playing the cards I've been dealt, and since an anonymous ask on Tumblr does not allow pictures or links, this will have to do. We'll have plenty of time later.

Yesterday, I said that reading that Single Report reaped benefits. I have screen capped and summed up all the things that made me rise an eyebrow, to make things easier. Hopefully, this is going to be short: who would wax lyrical about a septic tank, after all?

I did not use my superpowers to do this, but simply the link provided by a very active Anon on several shipper blogs, in order to properly stir shite, I presume: https://corumproperty.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/HomeReport-31.pdf

Armed with my wits and a virtual highlighter, I started to carefully read the whole document. Ownership details aside - this, I discussed yesterday -, I remind you that it should give any prospective buyer a good, detailed idea of the available fittings and current condition of the house put on sale.

In Europe and elsewhere, I guess, inspections of this type are rather a dull and thorough affair. And these people did an excellent job: they checked every single nook & cranny, used binoculars to have a closer look at the roof tiles and listed it all on these papers a good researcher should read, before dropping to conclusions.

This is how we know, for example, that the inspection happened on a rainy day:

.. and that the guttering was overflowing. Does that sound like a well loved, lived-in house to you?

Thought so.

This brought a smile. And the image of a Christmas tree left near a London dustbin in June. Home, sweet home?

Like all properties, this also comes with burglar and fire alarm systems. However, apparently not much has been done, in this respect. Or at least, not recently. Not since February 2022, to be accurate: otherwise, they would have been upgraded. Yet, no such thing: it's up to the buyer to do and pay for the upgrade.

Lived-in? Certainly not after February 2022 and probably even earlier, would be my best guess. But lived-in at some point in time, most certainly.

You see, since I was on the real estate agent's webpage, I also took the virtual tour of the house. It is available to everyone, here: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=AFKibrk8QiD

Now, I don't know about you, but when I visit somebody's house for the first time, I always check the bookshelves: yes, I am a shameless nerd. I am also well aware that the rest of the furniture was staged, it looked that sad, clinical way it does all over the world. Did not expect to find any books in there, to be honest. And yet, there they were.

I didn't bother with the fashion coffee table books, although I thought they were a nice nod to Ms. B's past, and totally the kind of things she might have on her credenza.

A built-in bookshelf in the basement caught my eye. That did not look staged. It looked as she might have left some of her own books in there, like an afterthought, if you want. And people's choices of books are always speaking volumes to me, about who they really are.

It did not disappoint.

More fash-un. And yeah, Tiffany & Co! I knew it!

A Tina Turner bio or memoir. Awww:

Bette Davis and some feminist literature. Her books, I am pretty sure of that:

And, to save the best for last, lo and behold, what do we have here?

Bear Grylls?

That Bear Grylls?

Hahahaha. Of course. I have all the reasons in the world to believe the music producer/PA/whatever is into masculine thrillers written by a world-renowned survivalist, haven't I?

Not a chance in hell, to be honest. I grinned like the Cheshire cat because, ladies, we do know WHOSE book is this, don't we?

Judging by its jacket, well-read. Not a prop.

Belonging to someone with a dry, wicked sense of humor who apparently also left this gem:

A Captain's Duty. At this point in time, I wasn't grinning anymore. I was laughing like an idiot, of course.

He still owns a bar in London 😅

You know Anon... I'll laugh about it, like I always do 🤣

It's ridiculous to pay for an article to remind this fandom that Caitríona is married... 🤦🏻‍♀️

But it's time for them to promote the same old issues for this fandom to discuss about... And for them to reinforce the image of the woman married to the successful man (cough cough) with a happy family. It's the kind of thing that only pops up during the off-season/vacation and promo.

Wouldn't it be easier to act like a normal person (yet secretive about her personal life like these actresses)?!

And what's the logic of saying that C doesn't post about Tony on her personal Instagram account because he's "shy" and "reserved" and she respects him, when she allows several articles to be published talking about him?

The worst part is knowing that "this circus" has been going on for a long time, not just to hide something, but more to keep us trapped here... Shippers, non-shippers and curious people discussing theories and beliefs, making fun of each other, and even fighting over two actors. Because if there wasn't all this madness, who would be talking about Caitríona (and Sam)?! Who would be "buying" everything about them and making their names pop up constantly on social media?

And in "this circus" Caitríona and Sam are partners in crime again! 😉

What I think?

The fact that this article did not appear earlier has nothing to do with conspiracy!!!

This didn't show up before because Caitríona is not Sam!!! She doesn't get the same attention that Sam does in this fandom.

There aren't as many people concerned with searching things through Google, or other people's videos/IG stories/posts and whatever it is looking for something about Cait. No matter how much Cait wants to demonstrate otherwise (like "sold" to VF).

Though I have some questions...

1) From the day her father's death was announced to the day of the funeral, a week passed knowing there could be curious people ("OL crazies"/"the small vocal group" or whatever 😜) or a press watching (although doubtful or not?!), why would Cait bring this baby to the funeral? She said on a interview she wants to protect him from the Outlander "crazies". Even though she was devastated by her father's death, there's the baby's father and her PR team to think it through for her.

... As usual, many of Cait's actions don't fit with her speech 🤷🏻‍♀️...

2) Is there any paparazzi/photographer who would take the trouble to go to Monaghan, wait in front of a church for Caitríona, a B-List actress and not so well known in Ireland itself, to take a photo that didn't cover even half a page of the tabloid? Really?

Everyone saw this child's face, because someone found the article online, probably the information leaked from the private/inbox and spread!!! That's it!!!

What a pity for this guy who never showed a corner of his house, that friends Nic&Nic never exposed anything about this house on Instagram (not even the location) ...

... who doesn't have fans who already knew before even going out about it in "a prominent Scottish newspaper", which is not even a purchased media by PRs team...

What a pity... Let's respect this poor guy's privacy!!!

Is this the love of your life, Caitríona??