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Do you remember when we first met?

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BRIDGERTON (2020-)

PEN AND COLIN

3.05

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OKAY BUT LIKE IMAGINE YOUR OTP

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BRIDGERTON (2020-)

PEN AND COLIN

3.06

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Colin Bridgerton & Penelope Featherington Bridgerton | 3.03

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one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts

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wild thing about all those "why are people over 30 still in fandom" posts is that the idea of fandom (in the sense of writing fic etc) being a youth subculture or even a hobby that was particularly accepting of young people is insanely recent, like, last 20 years at most. prior to that not only was fandom overwhelmingly both driven and populated by people well into adulthood, but if you were a teen trying to write or discuss fic on livejournal or usenet you almost certainly avoided telling people your age, not only because that was general best practice for minors on the internet at the time but because you'd have felt very out of place if all those grownups had known you were a kid, and in fact there's a good chance they would have banned you from whatever community you were trying to participate in. the way that state of affairs managed to get memory-holed so completely we've transitioned to one where a lot of people think fanfiction is and has always been a hobby for teenagers that some unusually childish adults just never grow out of is genuinely bizarre

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Colin Bridgerton, At Your Service

By: GleefullyPolin

Chapter 5 Update:

Eloise and Penelope prepare for their spa day, but when Eloise stumbles upon their secret it leads to a revelation that has Penelope questioning everything. Colin and Penelope head out of town for their getaway which could change everything for them.

Summary:

After a string of bad dates and a distrust in love, Penelope Featherington believes that the words of Lady Whistledown are true! There are no viable men left in the city to date and some people are simply incapable of being loved.

Her best friend Colin Bridgerton disagrees, he believes that love is the most important thing that can happen to you. He happens to know that there is a special person out there for everyone, even if he's never had the courage to tell them.

Now, Colin has 2 weeks to convince Penelope that Lady Whistledown is wrong, in a bet that just might be the most desperate thing he's ever done to try and win her heart. But is Penelope playing a fair game or will a secret come out that destroys everything they've ever known about each other.

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This headline about Luke!!!

“Bridgerton Heartthrob”

Yeah, I know that’s right!!!

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BRIDGERTON (2020 -) 3.03 - Forces of Nature

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BRIDGERTON (2020-)

PEN AND COLIN

3.07

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Penelope Featherington & Colin Bridgerton Bridgerton | 3.01

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don't leave this in the tags😩

For no nuance November, have this little hot take: Colin tends to get the Female Lead treatment from fans.

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Bridgerton | 3.06 'Romancing Mister Bridgerton'

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sometimes I'll see a post about some discourse and just think "who the actual fuck is getting into fights about that"