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It’s the opening of season as Anthony, Kate, Benedict, Francesca, Hyacinth, Gregory, Violet, and an extremely disgruntled Eloise break their fast in the drawing room.

*Humboldt walks in with the latest copy of Lady Whistledown in hand making his way to Violet and Kate. The newly minted mother and daughter read the first pamphlet since the end of last season as their eyes widen in shock*

Violet: *trying and failing to sound calm* Anthony dear, might you know when your brother will be joining us?

Anthony: I haven’t the faintest idea Mother, he seemed quite tired after returning from his travels yesterday morning. Maybe he is sleeping.

Kate: *anxiously* Perhaps you should go and hasten him along.

Anthony: Oh for the love of——Colin is a grown man. I will not go to his bedroom to wake him up!

Finally looking up from his newspaper he sees a strained look on Violet’s face and a Whistledown pamphlet in Kate’s hand.

Anthony: God in heaven, what has he done now?

Kate: It seems … it’s seems that Colin may have said something, well he said something——

Anthony: *raising his eyebrows in annoyance* Spit it out Kate!

Kate: I … well, it appears Lady Whistledown may have heard him say that he would never dream of courting Penelope Featherington.

Violet: And he had apparently said so in the company of multiple, eligible bachelors, at last season’s Featherington Ball.

As the elder Bridgerton children hear the last of the details they begin to chime in.

Francesca: Now Anthony, calm down. I am sure that is not what Colin mean——

Benedict: Well whatever else could he have meant Fran?!?

Francesca: *shooting an annoyed look at her brother and speaking in a hushed yell* You are not helping!

Benedict: Eloise, you are uncharacteristically silent. Are you and Miss Featherington not friends? Have you nothing to say?

Just as Eloise opened her mouth to respond Colin walked into the drawing room.

Colin: Good morning family! Now Hyacinth before you ask, I do have your gift however it may take until the end of the day to find it in my luggage, but my valet is on the case!

Looking up from his already full plate Colin was welcomed to the sight of his older siblings staring at him with worried looks, Kate with her face in her hands, his mother with an anxious smile, and Anthony looking angrier than he had seen him in years.

Colin: Is something the matter?

Anthony: *now seething with noticeable anger* Why yes something is the matter. Lady Whistledown has just informed the entire ton of your comments from the end of last season.

Colin: Whatever do you mean?

Anthony: Well, ACCORDING TO LADY WHISTLEDOWN YOU TOLD A ENTIRE GROUP OF MEN THAT YOU WOULD NEVER DREAM OF COURTING PENELOPE FEATHERINGTON!! Have you no care for her reputation, FOR HER FEELINGS COLIN!

Violet: Colin, just tell us that you did not say this.

Colin: Well …

A chorus of groans and voices echoing out “oh no” and “Colin!” rang out in the drawing room.

Anthony: *whispering to Kate and his Mother* I am going to kill him.

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I need to know what Edmund and Violet were up to for their children to become so unhinged at just a sliver of affection from their spouses.

Like with the brothers. Anthony is yelled at by Kate and then he kisses her in retaliation one time but apparently that's all it takes for him to start having horny dreams about her. Sophie gets imprinted on by Benedict just because she's a decent human and makes sure he doesn't die when he's sick. One kiss was all it took for Colin to mentally start planning a wedding and calling for duels with Penelope's imaginary lovers. Then Gregory tops them all by kidnapping his then friend Lucy at her own wedding and having nine kids.

The sisters are no better either, they're basically brining home purebred strays with daddy issues. Daphne out here putting Anthony on his first high blood pressure medication by getting frisky with his best friend and causing a duel. Eloise risking it all after she rejects six marriage proposals by randomly showing up on her pen pal's doorsteps with no chaperon and revenge plans on his two menaces to society. Now Francesca did try to do it right the first time, second marriage broke her track record though when she brought the Merry Rake into the family. Then like the youngest brother, we got the youngest sister Hyacinth trying to top her sisters by not only marrying an illegitimate lord, but also Lady Danbury's grandson.

Maybe Edmund and Violet were too affectionate in front of their kids that they don't know how to act any other way.

Either way I just know Violet sits next to Edmund's grave mixing her tea with Anthony's good whiskey going, "You won't believe what scandalous things your child did this time."

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i have a demand to make of shondaland

this bitch right here

needs a fucking scene

not just any scene, mind

she needs this scene

DO YOU HEAR ME? SHE NEEDS IT

SHE NEEDS TO WALK INTO A ROOM AND BE FUCKING SALIVATED OVER

FERAL FUCKING MEN

GIVE IT TO ME

SHE NEEDS PEOPLE TO LOOK AT HER LIKE THIS

SHE NEEDS COLIN TO LOOK AT HER LIKE THIS

SHE NEEDS THAT BODYSHAMING TWAT TO BE DITCHED FOR HER LIKE THIS

I NEED TO SEE COLIN GET ABSOLUTELY MOWED DOWN BY SUITORS TRYING TO GET TO HER

GIVE IT TO ME SHONDALAND YOU FUCKING COWARDS

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Bridgerton Appreciation Week 2022

day 3 ◈ favorite romantic pairing

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Penelope: *Sees Colin wearing fancy clothes*

Penelope, sad: I see you have a date. Who's the lucky girl?

Colin:

Colin: I forgot to ask you, didn't I?

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Them: Of course I’m in a fandom. I’ve seen the gifs and edits.

Me who devours fanfics after getting a minor obsession:

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Colin: Ant, I need a marriage license

Anthony: *pulls one out of the drawer* Tell Penelope I said congratulations!

Colin: What the fuc—

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Penelope being the only exception to Eloise’s ‘I don’t share my food!” rule 😍 

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When Colin sees Penelope's glow up for the first time and he can't look away

Benedict: Colin? You need to pick it up.

Colin *turns the look at his brother*: Huh?

Benedict: Pick it up off the floor.

Colin *frowns*: Pick it up what?

Benedict *smirks*: Your jaw. I believe you just dropped it.

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Today on another episode of things that will never stop being funny:

Benedict who was totally planning to marry the Lady in silver while keeping Sophie as a mistress.

That's like Colin planning to marry Lady Whistledown and keep Penelope as a mistress.

Or like Anthony planning to marry the mystery rider in the park and keep Kate as a mistress.

At least Gregory had the pseudo right idea. He was totally planning on becoming Lucy's mistress if he couldn't stop the wedding and she did end up married to Haselby.

My point is that the Bridgerton boys are lucky they're pretty because there's no way their brains was the main attraction for their wives

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Colin: I think ... I think I'm in love with Penelope.

Anthony: Congratulations.

Benedict: You're officially the last to know.

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Anthony: Alright, Colin. Repeat after me: I'm-

Colin: I'm-

Anthony: -in love with-

Colin: -in love with-

Anthony: -Penelope.

Colin: -Penelope.

Anthony: Good! "I'm in love with Penelope."

Colin: I would never DREAM of courting Penelope Featherington.

Anthony: ...

Kate: (raises the Mallet of Death)

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OK I'm gonna throw you a curveball. My prompt is falling in love with someone's mind (their work) before realizing you're in love physically too and the couple is Benelope (Benedict and Penelope)

Huh, you know as much as the fandom loves using Penelope as the Bridgerton bicycle (I'm sorry Pen. I love you. You're my favorite but it's true.) I don't think I've really seen this one done as a serious couple. Which is saying something because I've read throuple Anthony/Kate/Penelope fanfiction before.

Alright let me give a crack at it.

Penelope was in love.

Not actual love per say. She wasn't in love with a person, more so she was in love with someone's work.

Their was a painter that the Bridgertons favored, so much so that he had at least one painting in almost every room in the house. It was his art that Penelope loved.

They were mostly landscapes but Penelope got a sense of longing, and searching from each one. Each stroke of paint brought life to the painting as a whole. Hidden object littered each painting this artist did, and there was one constant in each one.

Hidden among each painting was a red haired nymph. Often tiny and far away. If the viewer didn't look closely they would miss her red curls and curvy figure.

In a way these paintings reminded Penelope of her writing, every small piece fitting together to create a beautiful piece and in weird way they both made her feel seen.

"I take it you like the painting?"

Penelope jumped. "Oh Mr. Bridgerton, I'm sorry I didn't see you there."

Benedict Bridgerton gave a laugh. "It's alright Miss Featherington."

"And yes I do. The painter your family hired is quite talented. The paintings are beautiful."

Benedict fully faces her. "You think they're beautiful?"

Penelope nodded. "Yes. I especially love the little nymph in each one. It's too bad she's always so far away."

Benedict bit his lip, glancing back and forth between the painting and Penelope. "He has a painting of the nymph he's currently working on. I can show you."

Penelope's eyes widened. "I wouldn't want to intrude. And wouldn't it be rude if he hasn't finished yet?"

"He wouldn't mind."

Ten minutes later Penelope found herself in a studio in the Bridgerton home. Canvases of finished and unfinished paintings littered the room. In the middle was the unfinished painting of the nymph.

Penelope stared at painting of the nymph. The nymph herself was painted, all it needed was the background. But the thing that took her breath away was that it was her, or inspired by her at the very least. The nymph sensually laid out in a meadow of flowers with nothing more covering her than a scrap of green cloth. She looked peaceful, her red curls splayed around her head like a halo. The way Benedict painted the light around her gave the nymph an almost angelic glow.

"Benedict did you paint all of these?"

Penelope looked back at Benedict, who was shyly not looking at her. One arm, half exposed from him rolling up his sleeves, held her attention. To be honest she has never really thought of him like that before. Oh yes she knew he could be a rake, had heard the whispers in the ballrooms, and has written about it multiple times in her column, but to actually have those thoughts yourself -

Huh. Maybe Penelope was in love.

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Another thing to consider is Edmund has siblings. Violet was an only child. Edmund had a brother and sisters he had the Rokesbys who were basically next door and family.

Edmund's story would have been entirely different than Violet's simply because of his support system and that he is a man.

Au! Where everything is the same except Violet died after giving birth to Hyacinth from a difficult delivery and Edmund became a widower and had to look after his eight children.

Oh. Oh I don't know if I have the skills for this AU.

Let me take a crack at it.

To start as sad as it is I believe the family would be more prepared to lose Violet than losing Edmund. The risk of childbirth was always there and it was more common to lose the mother than the father. Childbirth was and still is dangerous. We didn't make the strides we did until I believe the 1950's.

Don't get me wrong it would hurt like hell to lose their mother but there has always been that held breath that this child would take Violet's life, at least with the oldest four. Unlike the complete accident that was Edmund's bee sting. Anthony even comments in his book that he thought his mother was too old to be having any more kids. So they'll probably be slightly more adjusted, very slight though.

The real question is how would Edmund react? Because Violet's reaction to losing her husband added on to the trauma of the family.

Edmund is also in a different position than Violet was. Violet was determined to see all eight if her children married, I think Edmund would want them happy, and in a man's pov that probably doesn't equal marriage, at least for his sons. He would probably be butting heads with Anthony more. A power struggle would definitely happen. As head of the family final decisions would be left to Edmund, and I don't think he would stand aside and hand Anthony the position. But I can see Anthony becoming Viscount in everything but name especially if Edmund falls into the depression Violet did. And this would probably need to happen for us to get Anthony's story rolling.

Poor Daphne is going into her marriage completely blind about sex, more so than with her talk with Violet. That or someone is going to tell her early so she'll have to be the female relative giving the younger ones the talk.

Maybe we'll Colin realizing his feelings sooner, or take fucking forever without Violet's meddling. Violet's insistence on hinting that Penelope being a bride for Colin is kind of what jump started them. Or at least started Colin's intrest, no matter how oblivious he could be. Without that meddling Colin wouldn't have been teases by his brother's and never said the famous words of never marrying Penelope. Then we wouldn't have gotten a glimps of confident Pen telling Colin off. It's also been noted that Colin is the most like Edmund out of his sons if not all his children. So maybe Edmund would notice and start his own meddling or start bashing his head against a wall at his third son's obviousness.

Poor Phillip, now he's got to deal with daddy Bridgerton too when they come looking for Eloise. Let's hope he joins Colin with eating the food. But onto Eloise her trauma was being with her father when he got stung. We could potentially switch that with Violet not dying right away and then complications happened while Eloise was sitting with her mother after the birth.

I haven't gotten to the details of the other four books yet (haven't had the money to get them yet) so I'm going to let others who have fill in the rest

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Hi if you're still doing promts I was wondering if you could do something in your rare pair Benelope Artist Eye AU because that was freaking adorable but I'd give my left arm to see the angst of Colin realizing his brother "got the girl"

You know at the rate y'all are going I'm going to run out of anger at Colin long before season 3 hits. This poor boy. I'm starting to pity him.

Here's the first post.

Colin was away in Spain when he had a realization. He was in love with Penelope.

He was on his way home to tell her so when he got the invitation to his brother's wedding.

Anthony had been waiting in his study when Colin came bursting in. The wedding invitation clutched in his hand.

"Tell me this is a joke!" Colin demanded, waving around the invitation. "Tell me this this is some elaborate prank Benedict is playing!"

"Colin-"

"Tell me Penelope isn't going to marry him!"

Anthony sighed. He knew for years one of his brothers was going to be hurt. That one day Penelope would choose, even if she didn't know there was a choice. Two brothers in love with the same woman never ended without heartbreak. Anthony always imagined it would Benedict crying in his arms though.

Anthony poured Colin a drink. "It is real. Benedict has been courting Ms. Featherington for a few months now."

Colin glanced down at the invitation and then tossed it like it burnt him. "He is a rake! He'll get bored like he always does and then what will happen to Penelope? She deserves better than-"

Colin stopped his ranting as he stared up above the fireplace. Anthony followed his brother's gaze.

It landed on Benedict's painting that Anthony kept in his office. It was of Aubrey Hall and the gardens there. Scattered throughout the painting was various members of the family. Benedict liked to add to it whenever one of his siblings got married.

"Has Benedict added to this recently?" Colin asked.

Anthony shook his head. "No, he's been too busy with the wedding preparations."

Colin let out a chocked sob. "He loves her."

Anthony studied the painting closer. His eyes widened when he saw what Colin did.

Standing next to Benedict in the painting was a red head, a very familiar looking red head.

Anthony wrapped his arms around Colin.

"He loves her," Colin sobbed. "And I love her. But she loves him."

"You both love her, and she has chosen him," Anthony agreed. He will not say how Penelope has loved both of them as well. "Things will change, but Penelope can still be your friend, and Benedict is still your brother."

Colin sobbed again.

A month later Colin had his charming smile plastered on his face as he congratulated the married couple. If the hug he gave to Penelope was a second longer than what was deemed normal than no one said a thing.

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yo not to be dramatic but i would happily watch like ten more enola holmes movies they are just so fun and mbb is delightful