I'm not a fan of Anya Taylor-Joy. And frankly, I don't want to delve into the marital history of this quirky individual. But a cursory search on the internet already leads to some astonishing conclusions.
I will spoil any suspense that may have been built up around 'old/new' Anya's wedding photos.
Well, the conclusion is one.
The media (and apparently the fans) don’t care at all, the consistency of dates or facts doesn't matter.
The public has a short memory.
The audience doesn't remember anything, like Dory the fish from the 'Finding Nemo' series.
Any kind of story can be sold to the public.
How much I relate that to our two lovebirds.
The news of Anya Taylor-Joy's 'secret wedding' photos from two years ago appeared everywhere yesterday. This included the niche Polish websites I happen to read.
It didn't concern me too much, as I'm not a fan of eating people's hearts (literally).
But now, in the context of @bat-cat-reader 's post, I've typed "Anya Taylor-Joy" and "wedding" into the browser.
And what did I find?
A wedding at the beginning of October 2023 in Venice.
In other words, not two years ago, and not in New Orleans.
Almost immediately, on 2 October 2023, the first photos of this wedding were shared on fan profiles on IG.
I am much more interested in the context of this story.
I am particularly interested in the fact that the story of our prima ballerina allegedly 'married' to a vampire is not the only strange and obscure 'marriage' story in the film industry.
Having said that, Anya Taylor-Joy does indeed seem to be emotionally attached to her 'musician' (at least in photographs), much more so than our prima ballerina is to her 'music producer'.
[What the hell is this music analogy? What a strange world].
[4 April, 2024]
Anon curious...
Si quieres que sea un secreto puede serlo perfectamente 😉
If you want it to be a secret it can be perfectly 😉
I recognise the expression on Sam's face.
I am familiar with this kind of eye roll.
It's the face that says 'your mother is crazy!'
He acts as if it's a difficult task, but it's not.
Carrying her was supposed to be difficult for him, yet it's his most cherished burden.
I am aware of that teasing.
Location: A family hiking trip.
Participants: Two parents and several children under 10.
The weather is sunny with a light breeze, but the mood is no longer cheerful. The children's legs are already aching, even though they have only just started walking.
'Daddy, are we there yet?'
Occasionally, one or all of them request to be lifted onto their father's shoulders.
Another child repeatedly complains:
'Mum, my legs are hurting. Mum, my legs are hurting. Mum, my legs are hurting. Can we stop?'
To lighten the mood, the parents start to exchange playful remarks.
Dad carries Mum on his shoulders, or at least pretends to.
I recognise that look and smile from under their noses; it's a
large family on a mountain trip.
Their bond is unmistakable, they are such a close-knit family.
I am certain that you have noticed it too, but I cannot resist writing about it.
A gif 'borrowed' from @themusicsweetly , TY!
You know, I appreciate details, I believe that small details often reveal more about a relationship between two people than grand gestures and declarations, although these are, of course, very nice.
Did you notice Sam's fingers tightening on Cait's shoulder?
The squeeze lasts for less than a second and appears to be a deliberate pounding out of a secret rhythm, like Morse code.
I find it endearing.
They have their own bubble.
They have always had it.
Now I can die in peace because I'm already in heaven.
🛣️“So it’s been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.” 🛣️
Sidney L. Poitier
Not just singing, not just jumping,
I was dancing with joy.
[I may be exaggerating a bit, but the scale was similar]
When I saw it last night, I didn't believe it at first sight.
Sam and Caitríona, free, happy and more in love than ever.
And with the blessing of Starz.
You know, life is an untraveled road, it has twists and turns, it has potholes and bumps. But in the end you get somewhere.
Or at least you hope to get through it somehow.
The important thing is to do it in good company.
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In celebration of the Shippers' Festival of Love, Spring, 8th Season, and Freedom, enjoy a virtual trip through time with Caitríona as she searches for love and 'friendship' around the world.
hello! i’m a newbie and am overwhelmed with all the info. is there a timeline or explanation to this so called shit show? i need to know everything.. sam and cait forever 🫡
Unfortunately, dear Anon, as far as I know, we don't have anyone like Herodotus here in the fandom.
But I can imagine this bestseller: The Brief History of Narrative. A Synthetic Theory of Decay. A Complex Study of Decline.
Well, that story has yet to be written.
Each newcomer must piece together his own chronology of events from the available records.
In a word, make yourself at home in my archive!
It's accessible.
My tendency to count is probably a symptom of mild autism.
But I can't help it.
I count like a madman.
On 21 July 2021, I published a post here about Sam's 'daddy bracelets'.
Note that this was over three weeks before the 'Baby Balfe Reveal Day' on the striped sheet and with Sam's hand.
After all, being a shipper means knowing how to read and interpret The Signs 😉
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I then came to the conclusion that the likely number of little Hoooohans (as of July 2021) is 4.
As a numbers geek, I just don't believe that exactly four 'x's kissess and exactly four 'oooo's in 'Hoooohan' are a coincidence.
But for Anits and Taits I'm deluded and blind.
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So, including the baby that was most likely born in January 2022 and sold to the public as the "post-partum belly" of First Mother Caitríona, the current number of little Hooooohans is 5.
Now let's count the flowers in the bottle of gin Sam shared on Mother's Day 2024:
Two narcissi (for two parents). Five daffodils for five...
...quod erat demonstrandum.
I know, my tendency to count is probably a symptom of mild autism.
But in all my insanity I have a full and legal right to believe what I want, that's my prerogative, which I will defend with every ounce of cunning I can muster.
Sorry if I'm a little late to the game. I would like to make an addition to @luhafraser wonderfully accurate post about Anons comparing SH-SH to Henry Carvill & his 'girlfriend' & to @auburncurlslass for an equally accurate response to same post.
It is of course, Total BULLSHIT & lest we forget the other "B" word: BRAINWASHING, because the two go hand in hand.
It's all a game, afterall, nothing to take too seriously. It is of course masterfully & purposefully done to decieve & eaten up like a Hot fudge Sundae on a warm summer day! EXACTLY what THEY want. To please & decieve at the same time. 👏💰👏💰👏💰
Sam & (Cait) are ringmaster extraordinaire's. True Pro's at hosting this decade long #game show
We are merely the audience to their #Circus Shitshow farce & they both love to yank our chain!
So without further ado, let's welcome our Ringmaster, shall we? 🤡
Mr. Sam Heughan
Admittedly, a clown in his own right. A 44 y/o man whose sense of humor is akin to a 5 year old. (🧒) with the attention span of a goldfish 🐠 A man that has niether a girlfriend, a wife or children. An man that travels the globe, (a lot) playing games & loving life. He clearly is master of his audience as seen in his recent Australian performance! Hey, let's give credit where credit is due, right?🤷♀️🙃
Bravo 👏👏👏 Mr. H
📢 So, step right up folks, get your tickets here $$$
£££ 📢
🎟🎟🎟🎟🎟
🤡💩🤡💩🤡💩🤡Grab your popcorn🍿& take a seat🎪
You'll see the 'bearded' ladies 🧔♀️
And Horrific, Ghastly ATROCITIES, Never Before Seen. 😯🙈🤢
(No worries folks, your popcorn box is also a puke receptacle) 😃👍🤮🍿
We have games like, [Guess who's behind Sign #1👶or Sign #2]
Hi daddy Sam 📢👋😆
Do you like mysteries folks? How about, [who's the Masked man?] 🤔
bonus: 😃
free popcorn refills if you guess correctly😏 🍿🍿🍿
That's right folks, & of course, the fat lady may come out & sing. We hear she's quite good too, but she hasn't sung yet! 🎶🪗
Yes, Ladies & Gents it will be
for the entire family 🍿🍨🥤🦁🎠🐘🍿
👱♀️👧👱🧒👶🍼🍭🎡🎪👨👩👧👧
Don't forget folks, the ice cream man is just outside the tent 🎪👀 for your lil' boo's delight🍦👀
🍨mmm Leopold's
The Heughan Family Circus has come to town 🤡😜🤣💙💚😜
Mean Girl? Who, me? 🤷♀️ Nah, just playing the #game folks!!! 🤪
#fandom #Ringmaster's #Circus #Shitshow #player #fucking fun as shit
🧠 Cognition Today/Cognitive Dissonance: How We Make Sense Of The World And Interpret Everything In Ways We Can Accept Or Believe 🧠
Yes, I know, as usual I'm late to the party as everyone has long since stopped discussing Sam's spectacular conquest of Australia.
The only explanation (for my lateness) is that I have been very busy lately.
And also very bored. Like most of us are.
Too bored to deal with the feeling of being bored by the Narrative.
So I apologise for returning to a subject that is long overdue.
It's as exciting as watching paint dry, I know.
But I have an inner need to speak out.
And to give a sign of life.
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Photos shared by displaceintime on Twitter (aka X) and by bella_sam_heughan_fan on IG inspired my sad reflection.
That is, not so much the photos (so lovely!), but the comments underneath.
Where we saw an extremely skilled and experienced hold, supporting the child's back almost reflexively, others saw the following:
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All comments are from the two sources quoted above. I have made them anonymous as a gesture of kindness.
Or mercy.
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Why do people have such different perceptions of the same situation? Simple, trivial question.
Because we have different life experiences that affect how we see things, of course we have different insights.
But try giving my husband (a father of three with 20 years of experience) a child he doesn't know to hold.
And look at the face he makes.
What kind of world is it where these women think, firstly, that this man (not my husband, but Sam Heughan 😜) doesn't have the children he has and, secondly, that he can't cope with holding a child?
And to end on a positive note, while it's true that everyone perceives reality differently, reality couldn't care less about our perceptions.
Reality does not change to adapt to our viewpoints; reality is what it is: Reality is fact.
Reality is truth.
Having been led by the hand of @sgiandubh into the safe confines of the public registers of commercial companies, I can't resist the pleasure of writing a postscript to what I wrote a few weeks ago about the surprising choice of church where the 'Remarkable' Wedding was supposed to take place.
Here we go with the head office address of Numb Music Productions Ltd, a dynamically developing company owned by Mr McNobody and his family:
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Of course, we've all seen this address before, though not on Sam Heughan's 'redacted for privacy', but on another copy of the so-called 'Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage', available on Tumblr.
I admire the level of denial on the part of all those who still insist that the so-called 'marriage' with Mr McNobody is a legal one.
PS. I'm afraid I can't identify where this particular 'Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage' came from.
I honestly can't remember where I found it.
It was a long time ago.
My apologies.
I'm in awe of the new/old photos of Sam and Caítriona.
(… at the BAFTA Television Awards at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 13 May 2018)
Of course, as a fan of conspiracy theories, I wonder why exactly now, why exactly yesterday, these new/old photos have appeared. Why were they kept in the freezer for almost six years?
But when I'm not wondering about the conspiracy (and about the Narrative), it's the photo below that I like best.
They are so much in their own happy, intimate bubble in this photo that I feel like a voyeur looking at them.
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And yet it was on this very evening that Caítriona arrived in the car with Mr McNobody, and Sam gave him a 'brotherly' hug.
Yuk! Yuk!
🤮🤢🤮
And it was the same night of those photos of Sam's hand on Caítriona's bottom, in public, on stage.
I looked for that shot.
And I burst into tears when I saw how scared Sam was of what he was about to do.
How he immediately jumped away like a scalded man and fled the stage.
It makes me very sad and very angry.
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I think I will have a look at that image again for a while.
The anatomy of falling in love instead of the anatomy of fear, control and violence.
🪄 📚When is Your Kid Ready for Harry Potter? A Guide for Getting Started 📚🪄
What a pleasure it was to hit Sam's IG story two minutes after it had been shared.
And what a pleasant surprise to find out what books are currently being read in the Balfe-Heughan household.
Harry Potter, a middle-grade book typically read by those aged 9 to 12.
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I have no doubt that the believers in the theory that Sam is a childless bachelor will insist on the version that Sam is exactly that.
Such a child.
He likes reading Harry Potter, collecting LEGO bricks and building snowmen.
The 'child' nice guy.
First of all, I want to make an important disclaimer.
There is not a shred of body shaming in what I am writing about in today's post. Nor is there any mockery of cosmetic surgery procedures.
I myself am a great admirer of facial treatments, effective wrinkle reduction and in not letting time take its toll.
In fact, I think (using my own example) that Botox is not a killer, and that it can beautifully smooth out features. And make you feel better.
So - stop shaming women for having Botox.
But let's look at something else.
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I think everything has been said about Caitríona Mary Balfe's infamous performance last weekend. So what I'd like to add is pretty much a reiteration of what you've already written about, Sisters in Arms… in Fandom….
But I just cannot help myself.
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The photos below are taken almost a year apart (left - Grilled by The Staff Canteen on 8 March 2023 in Glasgow, right - JW Anderson's catwalk show on 18 February 2024 in London).
Well, nobody gets younger over time (well, unless you're Dorian Grey or, even better, Benjamin Button).
And it's not just a matter of good (or bad) lighting on your face.
If your eyebrows are sagging, they're not going to lift themselves. Unless you have Botox in your temples. Then you get an effect like the one in the photo on the right.
I bet she also had a suture suspension facelift (also known as a thread lift). This improves the contour of the face.
So admiring Cait's undying beauty (which I don't question, she's really gorgeous!) must include the surgical factor.
And there is no shame or disgust about it.
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Although the most important factor affecting Caitríon's face is obviously Sam.
Even with the wrinkles around her eyes, doesn't she look younger when she's close to Sam?
(on the left, Glasgow, 29 April 2022)
And then there's the left, nervously squinted eye, an unmistakable sign that Mr McNobody is hovering nearby.
This eye is not the result of failed facial surgery.
It's born out of the Hopeless Narrative, that seems to have no end.
What a sad, tragic story this is.
An unmitigated disaster.