ClanCat

"When I first touched those stones, it wasn't a choice. And I don't know if it was fate or destiny. But what I do know is that I am meant to be here."

Firstly, Steph is seen by those who know her as a genuinely kind person. She moved in with Eoin only after his diagnosis, and took care of him the entire time (10 months) he was sick. I know for a fact she never left his side while he was in hospice, and was also working two jobs while also putting herself through her masters. 

Secondly, Steph is definitely still working now, and also volunteering. I won’t say where (but it’s not Sam’s charity, lol).

Thirdly, I also know that the music for the trailer was a completely serendipitous thing- (you can see Olafur’s comment on the show’s post). I know that’s hard to believe, but Steph made a post about how it was a complete coincidence and how it felt “surreal and divine”. I don’t know whether she gets royalties from it but I know that it meant a lot to them both (Olafur and her) in any case.

Lastly, I also know that Steph is still extremely close to all of Eoin’s friends and family. They all love her and seem to be really happy for her. I believe Eoin would be happy too. She’s a caring person and a good mum.

I’m sending this to you and a couple other sites I found that said some things that I interpret as just wrong. Maybe this isn’t the narrative you want to hear, and maybe you’ll choose to not share this, but I thought I’d shed some light on the truth (or at least what I’ve observed to be the truth). Take care. 

Me parece muy bién tu punto de vista pero bajo el mio LA MUJER DEL CESAR NO SOLO DEBE SERLO SINO PARECERLO y la percepción del fandom, alimentado por una bloguera de dudosa reputación y por algunas de las acciones de Steph en IG mayormente, hace que esa percepción sea mayormente negativa, no porque sea o no la pareja real de Sam sino por como ha intentado jugar con el fandom. Cuando sus intentos de vender la realidad de esa relación, por otra parte nunca confirmada por Sam, ha puesto de acuerdo a dos de las facciones mas importantes del fandom, shippers y antis, en que es una verdadera porquería y una manipulación descarada algo ha echo mal porque la confianza pública se sostiene tanto en los hechos como en la percepción de los mismos y en el ojo del fandom, la percepción pesa tanto como la realidad y recuerda, el fandom no olvida, no perdona y nunca cierra pestañas...

I think your point of view is perfectly valid, but from mine: THE WIFE OF CAESAR MUST NOT ONLY BE, SHE MUST ALSO APPEAR TO BE. And the fandom’s perception, largely fueled by a blogger of questionable reputation and by some of Steph’s actions on Instagram, has made that perception mostly negative. Not because she is or isn’t Sam’s real-life partner, but because of how she has tried to play with the fandom. When her attempts to sell the reality of that relationship, never actually confirmed by Sam, have managed to unite two of the most important factions in the fandom, shippers and antis alike, in agreeing that it’s absolute trash and blatant manipulation, then something has clearly gone wrong. Because public trust rests not only on facts, but on how those facts are perceived, and in the eye of the fandom, perception weighs just as much as reality. And remember: the fandom doesn’t forget, doesn’t forgive, and never blinks...

Being the partner of a celebrity, if you're not famous yourself, requires a great deal of skill to hold your own with dignity. The moment you try to shift the spotlight onto yourself, you lose all credibility regarding your relationship with that person.

Transactional is a word that's been used a lot in this space; however, the only approach it's taken has been economic. I'm here to bring the emotional perspective, because in that area of ​​life, there are also transactions, when it comes to the relationships we establish. When fame is involved, you need a truly ethical person so that these emotional transactions are transparent, honest, deep, and meaningful, especially for the famous person, who, although it may not seem like it, is quite vulnerable, losing the certainty of what motivates people to approach them. It's terrible, because for a celebrity, the emotional transaction can mean that they always have to be the bargaining chip when those around them aren't famous. Therein lies the dilemma, and therein lies the importance of honesty in those who approach them.

For the person you're defending, it would have been better to remain completely unnoticed; no one would be talking about her, and all these insinuations wouldn't be circulating here. However, she chose to expose her daughter, and herself, by making her account public, precisely to reveal the biggest and only insinuation that came from her. The rest of the shared information has been disseminated through an account with dubious credentials, an account that has been spreading supposed private information from a no-longer-public account. You can go to that account and tell your acquaintance that supposed photos of her and her daughter are circulating online after she made her account public, posted photos that seemingly linked her to the celebrity you haven't even met (and whom she certainly should have protected), and allowed people completely unfamiliar with her life to follow her for quite some time and share private information. In these cases, throwing the stone and hiding your hand can be very costly, because the spotlights turned towards you require composure and the ability to handle them without letting them blind you.

Whether or not you know this person, the reason for being here, telling us things that don't match the image we had of her, remains unclear. It's quite likely that what's being said won't affect you at all; in fact, it's quite likely that it won't affect her either, so your contact will be relegated to the memory of: the efforts made to repair the irreparable. We owe this person nothing, and she owes us nothing. Her connection to the celebrity in question is entirely their own business, so your effort to show us the unknown side of someone we have no interest in knowing won't make any difference.

sassenachspirits

Anyone who isn't comfortable with their social media content, or the way they handle their own issues, should stop exposing themselves to it; it's a breath of fresh air for your mental health. Personally, I laughed a lot because the name of that sauce is unpronounceable 🤭🤭🤭🤭, to the point that around here we call it "English sauce." I really like Sam Heughan! 😁

Yo espero, y aspiro, que se entienda claramente que: (1) no es un vídeo acrual (look Macbeth); (2) está preparando un trago que por excelencia, se toma para las resacas; (3) es un bromista consumado, y en pleno desempeño de sus habilidades actorales, está actuando como la persona que se levanta con resaca a preparar algo para su malestar (oportuno recordar su actuación de resaca en el capítulo Lallybroch de la T1); (4) él no es JAMMF, para todos aquellos que sufren de disonancia cognitiva y se alarman porque el tipo no es "el Rey de los Hombres", aunque sí que es una persona excelente, porque 13 años de personas random, hablando de su amabilidad, carisma y compromiso, no creo que sean publicidad pagada por Starz o RRPP.

Si no les gusta lo dejan de seguir y de compartir sus fotos, asi dejan de sufrir chicas. ( claro que si les gusta sufrir e indignarse por nada pueden hacerlo 😘)

Desconocido

Google translate ⬇

Bah! All this fuss over Sam’s fake flings, and here comes Starz losing it, publishing a classic shipper among the harmless photos. At this rate, the only thing they’ll have left in the back pocket is the audition kiss. If they post it, Houston has a problem and a big one 🤣

La desesperación es su plan de contingencia. Siempre resuelven con prisa lo que ignoraron con calma porque cuanto más grande el problema, más torpe es la solución.

Desperation is their contingency plan. They always hastily resolve what they calmly ignored because the bigger the problem, the more clumsy the solution.

Búsquense un problema honesto y vayan a seguir a series y actores que les gusten.

Sin pasado, el presente cojea. La base de sus posibles compradores viene de su etapa en OL, la gente sigue a un actor no a un empresario de bebidas alcohólicas, de esos hay muchos. Una lástima que borre de esa manera 10 años de su vida, incluidos los meses de su actuación como Macbeth pero quienes somos nosotras para cuestionar sus decisiones. 45 años ya es un pasaporte lo bastante abultado como para que viaje a donde quiera y vuele sin permiso de nadie.

Without a past, the present limps. His potential customer base comes from his time in Hollywood; people follow an actor, not a liquor entrepreneur there are plenty of those. It's a shame he's erasing 10 years of his life like that, including the months he spent playing Macbeth, but who are we to question his decisions? Forty-five years is a passport fat enough for him to travel wherever he wants and fly without anyone's permission.

There's no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard

No song that I could sing, but I can try for your heart

Our dreams, and they are made out of real things

Like a shoe box of photographs

With sepia-toned loving

Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart

Like why are we here? And where do we go?

And how come it's so hard?

It's not always easy and

Sometimes life can be deceiving

I'll tell you one thing, it's always better when we're together

Mmm, it's always better when we're together

Yeah, we'll look at the stars when we're together ✨

Well, it's always better when we're together

Yeah, it's always better when we're together

And all of these moments

Just might find their way into my dreams tonight

But I know that they'll be gone

When the morning light sings

Or brings new things

For tomorrow night you see

That they'll be gone too

Too many things I have to do

But if all of these dreams might find their way

Into my day to day scene

I'd be under the impression

I was somewhere in between

With only two

Just me and you

Not so many things we got to do

Or places we got to be

We'll sit beneath the mango tree now

Yeah, it's always better when we're together

Mmm, we're somewhere in between together

Well, it's always better when we're together

Yeah, it's always better when we're together

🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

I believe in memories

They look so, so pretty when I sleep

Hey now and, and when I wake up

You look so pretty sleeping next to me

But there is not enough time

And there is no, no song I could sing

And there is no combination of words I could say

But I will still tell you one thing

We're better together

🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

🎸🎸🎸🎸…

Songwriters: Jack Hody Johnson

There’s one theory that makes a lot of this mess suddenly click: that what we’re seeing publicly is not a failed narrative, but a deliberately loud smoke screen meant to protect a higher value private truth. If our belief that Sam and Caitriona have been together for years is true, then the current chaos does not read like a badly executed image building. It reads like diversion and defense.

In that version, Steph is not the main story. She’s the lightning rod. The point is to attract the attention, the outrage, the timeline wars, the “PROOF” obsession, and all the fandom heat. The weirder and more staged it feels, the better it works, because everyone is busy arguing about screenshots and sightings instead of looking at who is actually where, with whom, and when.

The more amateur and staged this whole circus looks, the more effective it is as a distraction. Because it is not really meant to convince anyone who pays attention. It is meant to generate noise. Weird timing, blurry photos, “sources” that appear and disappear, little details that do not quite add up. That is exactly what fuels endless discourse and keeps everyone busy arguing about the mess, instead of looking at what might be happening quietly off camera. A loud, messy story is always better camouflage than a real relationship that stays low key.

Just as an example, we were sold this story that Sam and Steph spent the holiday together with her daughter at his place in Glasgow, without a single photo that actually proves it, other than a picture of a tree. In reality, it is entirely possible that the street photo was taken earlier in the month. Same goes for Sam's running story. And it is very possible he did not even go straight back to Scotland from the US at all.

If that sounds cynical, it is. But it also explains why so much of this feels unnatural. In this theory, the fandom’s disgust and exhaustion is not a failure. It’s the point. Because the perfect place to hide a real, steady private life is behind a public narrative that everyone finds embarrassing enough to stop looking at too closely.

The appearances, the clothing swap, the tattoos, the child, the sightings where a yellow hat points us at a just visible couple, dropping photos to the most gullible-seeming blogger on the planet.

It is the first time that I can remember that so many new faces have come here and helped to draw a picture, deliberately or not, turning us into tumbleweed blown hither and yon, from the Tattoo, the wedding, the motorbike display, the monument, all distractions away from what is really going on,

The tree doesn’t prove anything, nobody was in the house bar its owner, this is where we should be looking