The forest whispers

(c) gif by riverwindphotography, July 2023

when actors of an OTP are adorable together in real life as well as on screen, you know it’s a real OTP worth shipping

#SamCait

Sam e Cait

“We love each other dearly. She’s a great friend as well as a great co-star. So I’m very lucky that’s what Outlander’s given me.” Sam Heughan, 2021

Caitriona Balfe, 2018 (can’t fit two videos on here otherwise I would have added it).

Thanks to @an-gaol-seo-ol for giving me the Cait quote pic 💞

@ashmarie1687 You’re welcome, my pretty 😘

Adding this little gem that has since been scrubbed from all known articles and search engines. Gee, I wonder why. 🤔

Margaret Gardiner S5 OL promo interview, January 2020. (If someone can actually find it in print, I will drive or fly to your house and kiss you.)

@an-gaol-seo-ol here you go 😘 from February 2, 2020 via Entertainment Inquirer.net

Also, “ask my partner”?! Not “husband”?! Well, I know who she calls her partner...everyday...

Partner, husband, toy boy...they are together and they do work together and things are pretty good. ❤️❤️

BTS pictures of Sam and Cait on the set of Outlander - June 2nd 2015 - Credit to Lee Niven

More BTS photos of the lovebirds…Sam and Caitriona 🥰❤️🥰

Last pic….How Serene Is She??? And the Kiss that made tptb lose their sh*t..😔

Love these pictures all together! ❤️❤️

And the made it “formal” a few months later.

and “they” made it formal…..

Banging!💙💋💋💚💚💋💋💙

These two are in love! TOGETHER! I rest my case.😏❤️❤️

For new believers (like myself) and this amazing never seen before photo which is an ode to tenderness… ♥️

Reblog… I LOVE THIS 😍💯

All of these wonderful BTS pictures together. Huge thank you! 

Always reblog!!! Yup! tptb reacted with 1. sending Sam to Monte Carlo with Abby 2. T showed up for the first time at EIFF! Damage control, Starz style!

This guy is a genius (via)

P A R I S

Great photo!

Holy mothership, Batman!

A one-off shippery post.

Though I plan to abide by Zen Shipping as my personal Tao of Fandom, I couldn’t resist one Comic Con #Outlander #SamCait induced madness of a post. The latest eonline video interview with Sam and Cait is entirely too delicious not to dissect.

1. Starting pose.

2. Boundary confusion. 

KDS: “Does Caitriona Balfe have a sister?” 

SH & CB in unison, “Yes.” 

Oops, Sam thinks. “What? I’m not Caitriona? That wasn’t my question to answer?”

3. Who is Caitriona Balfe married to?

Cait, a bit taken aback: “No one.”

Sam grins. Not yet. Nooooot yet.

4. Mirroring. And a whole script-worthy series of silent exchanges.

This was the look they shared right after Sam quips, “I might tell you some day.” 

KDS: “Without the cameras rolling?”

Sam, without taking his eyes off Cait: “Yes.”

(marvelandwhimsy gif’d this bit so perfectly, so go check out The Great Synchronized Neck Rotation Sequence in action over yonder.)

5. Kristin Dos Santos is the slyest of the sly. 

KDS: “You can see where people’s minds are at, right?” Gestures emphatically. “‘Caitriona Balfe’s sister and Sam Heughan’s brother must be also…’”

Sam enthusiastically (with a dash of faux naïveté?): “Yeah, they should get together! And then…”

Cait: Pivot, pivot! But can’t help but smile at the gesticulating goof next to her.

5A. ADDENDUM to Kristin Dos Santos is the slyest of the sly.

Oh, and I forgot to blog this bit.

After this exchange (“‘Caitriona Balfe’s sister and Sam Heughan’s brother must be also…’”) in which Sam enthusiastically agrees and Cait deflects, Kristin DS follows up innocently with,

“It’d make for an interesting family reunion every Christmas, right?”

(KDS: See what I did there.)

Reblog for the newbies……..

REBLOG

KDS is The Master.

RDM looks pissed, DG knowing smirk, Sam and Cait looking all lovey dovey … KDS all knowing but still wants to tease SC to see what they will spill… Sam and Cait blushing the whole damn time…totes obvious that SC were a couple here if not already married!!😍❤️🥰

🥰 I miss KDS. Believe What You Want! 🥰

🧾 ✔️

KDS still has Cait and Sam as a header on her Twitter page…she’s one of us y’all!!!

KDS is not shipper….she an insider who knows the truth of it all who is willing to keep their secret.  Rare for a journalist.  And a very classy lady.

Reblog!

ACTing??

ACTing????  When pigs fly.

Now this deserves a reblog! I made a similar post a while back…

Love KDS! She knows things for sure. ❤️❤️❤️

Although I’m still a bit angry with her for doing IFH, but I guess she didn’t have much of a choice, she’s probably just following orders from the bosses…

Sam’s smile gave his emotions away, I love love love this moment.

I would give anything to sit down with KDS for a drink or two I’m sure she has a lot of tea to spill…

The ‘Civilian’ Boyfriend

So, I’ve only been shipping SC ‘with’ you all since August sometime.  And I don’t have the timelines of Caitriona’s schedule as dialed in as some of you.  But one thing that keeps nagging me about her having a ‘civilian’ boyfriend that SHE apparently didn’t have before Outlander began and only happened after she started filming OL, is this:

So she gets cast late August, early September 2013.  Is in Scotland by mid September, is working, which includes learning script, meetings, horseback riding lessons, other lessons?, costume fittings, annndd then filming.  She is in every scene, filming 12 + hours a day with weekends off, which more than likely a good part of that is spent learning lines and sleeping/resting I would imagine, with occasional munro bagging with some guy she met on OL, “magical evening walks” with some guy she met on OL (according to him), visits from across the globe friends – Donal, etc.  This is more than likely her schedule for SEVERAL months.  I believe I read somewhere that they were filming for 9 or 10 months originally, even if it were 6 months, then some time off, then promoting, then back to filming for 3 more months – that’s pretty much more than one year of her life devoted to OL.  During her time off she was in California (not the UK), going to Big Sur, hiking the LA Canyons with her sister and some guy she met while filming OL, hanging with her cat and friends, etc., just being HOME.  Then her and her costar are doing some heavy promoting during the summer, then back to filming in August (I believe?).

Okay, stay with me – Now we’re into the fall/end of year of 2014.  They wrap in October.  She’s in LA (@home) for Thanksgiving with her good friends – Simon, Karolina and others (have you seen the Thanksgiving photos on IG – she’s either exhausted, a bit drunk or not entirely happy or all three).  In December according to accounts she does a whirlwind trip to NY, Paris, Ireland (I do believe that’s all very doable btw).  Then in January 2015 her and her costar from OL are at People’s Choice Awards – in LA .  Also at this time she knows her ‘flat’ is on the market so she realizes she’s going to have to move, so does she stay in LA even though she’s rarely there anymore or uproot and move to Glasgow where she WORKS many months out of the year for OL?  Well, yeah.  

Now we’re moving into spring of 2015, she’s filming Money Monster for 3+ months I believe, has been doing photoshoots all over the place, quoted in some rag tag as having a cilivian bf.  This is where I go WTF?  How in God’s name does she have a BF, let alone a ‘civilian’ BF with the crazy ass schedule she has had now for the last 2 years, where in the hell would she have found TIME to find and nurture a relationship with someone who has nothing to do with the industry?  Unless of course she has a twin, oohh that could explain SOO much… I’m going with that, yep, yep, I like that theory.

Rebloging as this has always been my biggest receipt. I wrote this fall of 2015 I believe. And not much has changed as far as this goes - how would she even have time for a civilian BF especially with the amount of time she spends offset with her costar?

@c2bend girl, what a amazing post!! 😄👏👏👏

Old,but…gold

Fantastic post!

I can’t find the gif, but there’s also that time when Caitriona thanked Outlander for meeting the love of her life?? Who did she meet thanks to Outlander?? Her co-star,

Mr Sam Heughan aka her husband.

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door." From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else. When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career. Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have … not made it. What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne. She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end. Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame." In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life." He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm. Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Credit: Will Stenberg

A couple that can laugh at one another, about each other, will be a happily married couple. ❤️

People: Why do you ship them???

Me :

EXACTLY

Fact

I’m done with shipping. I’ve upgraded myself to being a BELIEVER!!! 

SAMCAIT=MARRIED WITH CHILDREN

JMHO

Anonymous

I’ve mentioned this once before several months ago when these same photos showed up but with different labelings. Referencing the first photo which at this time is labeled Sam y Cait, it looks to me that Sam has a blond haired wee person on his lap.

This is GOLD!! Wow. Thank you Jess! 

Reblogging this because pieces taken in parts might not convince you, but when you put them altoghether… IT’S GOLD!! Pretty sure there are things since this that could be added but just sharing again because it’s so brilliant.  Compare and contrast this banter to Sophie and Rik… nay contest. 

Thank you Jess.

Thanks, Jess, for this goldmine!

Bringing this one back !

#bettertogether

All these clues paint a beautiful picture!

Traveling on old receipts during the drought we are living on these two…

I’m loving all of this! Truly have seen bits and pieces of these many beautiful receipts but to have so many lately is delightful!! Thanks everyone 💙💚

Holy mothership, Batman!

A one-off shippery post.

Though I plan to abide by Zen Shipping as my personal Tao of Fandom, I couldn’t resist one Comic Con #Outlander #SamCait induced madness of a post. The latest eonline video interview with Sam and Cait is entirely too delicious not to dissect.

1. Starting pose.

2. Boundary confusion. 

KDS: “Does Caitriona Balfe have a sister?” 

SH & CB in unison, “Yes.” 

Oops, Sam thinks. “What? I’m not Caitriona? That wasn’t my question to answer?”

3. Who is Caitriona Balfe married to?

Cait, a bit taken aback: “No one.”

Sam grins. Not yet. Nooooot yet.

4. Mirroring. And a whole script-worthy series of silent exchanges.

This was the look they shared right after Sam quips, “I might tell you some day.” 

KDS: “Without the cameras rolling?”

Sam, without taking his eyes off Cait: “Yes.”

(marvelandwhimsy gif’d this bit so perfectly, so go check out The Great Synchronized Neck Rotation Sequence in action over yonder.)

5. Kristin Dos Santos is the slyest of the sly. 

KDS: “You can see where people’s minds are at, right?” Gestures emphatically. “‘Caitriona Balfe’s sister and Sam Heughan’s brother must be also…’”

Sam enthusiastically (with a dash of faux naïveté?): “Yeah, they should get together! And then…”

Cait: Pivot, pivot! But can’t help but smile at the gesticulating goof next to her.

5A. ADDENDUM to Kristin Dos Santos is the slyest of the sly.

Oh, and I forgot to blog this bit.

After this exchange (“‘Caitriona Balfe’s sister and Sam Heughan’s brother must be also…’”) in which Sam enthusiastically agrees and Cait deflects, Kristin DS follows up innocently with,

“It’d make for an interesting family reunion every Christmas, right?”

(KDS: See what I did there.)

Reblog for the newbies……..

REBLOG

KDS is The Master.

RDM looks pissed, DG knowing smirk, Sam and Cait looking all lovey dovey … KDS all knowing but still wants to tease SC to see what they will spill… Sam and Cait blushing the whole damn time…totes obvious that SC were a couple here if not already married!!😍❤️🥰

🥰 I miss KDS. Believe What You Want! 🥰

🧾 ✔️

KDS still has Cait and Sam as a header on her Twitter page…she’s one of us y’all!!!

KDS is not shipper….she an insider who knows the truth of it all who is willing to keep their secret.  Rare for a journalist.  And a very classy lady.

Reblog!

ACTing??

ACTing????  When pigs fly.