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[indiaalphawhiskey]

hey Gina,

I don't mean for this to sound snarky so I'm genuinely sorry if it does.

until a few hours ago you were pretty convinced that it was olma not Olivia, but now that it lines up with the civita pet idea, you seem convinced that it's Olivia.

isn't that a little...idk I can't find any other word for it other than fickle. there's a specific logical fallacy I'm thinking of I think, something between post hoc ergo propter hoc and cherry picking.

none of this to say that I think holivia was real or that Harry actually got a tattoo for her but the post hoc rationalization is something I'm struggling with

I mean yes, only idiots don't change their mind after being presented with new information but I'm curious as to why you think you were denying that it was Olivia before. just in general curious about your thought process

(again because I don't want to come across as snarky, I think it is very Harry to get the names of pets tattooed and I truly value your opinion that's why I'm asking what your thought process is from olma to Olivia)

thank you!

I generally don’t feel any need to explain my thought process to anyone. But I’m going to take you at your word that you’re not intending to be snarky and are genuinely curious.

I originally thought it was Olivia, but it made no sense to me that he would get that woman’s name on his thigh.

Then someone suggested it was the dog in Civita and that made sense because of the colazione tattoo, but it didn’t completely explain it because why tattoo two of the pets and not the third?

Then I saw the Olma explanation and it made more sense than tattooing Olivia Wilde’s name. And it did kind of look like Olma. But it still didn’t fully satisfy me because there’s nothing to connect him to the town of Olma.

But now that he most likely has Olivia (the dog) and Ortensia (the dog) and Colazione (the cat), it all fits into place. It’s very much the kind of quirky thing Harry would do. We know he has a connection to the hotel and to Colazione in particular. The Olivia tattoo being done separately makes sense given the nightmare of a stunt. And now the third tattoo wraps it all up.

It has nothing to do with being fickle or cherry picking. It’s just what makes the most sense given all the details I now know.

If it turns out not to say Ortensia, I’ll likely go back to the drawing board.

I hope that satisfies your “curiosity.”

[indiaalphawhiskey]

Feels like a really good time to reblog this because of this.

I cropped out the rest of your ask because I didn’t know if it was okay to post the entire thing, I hope you don’t mind.

I also know I said I wouldn’t respond to anything more regarding this, but I really appreciated the tone you came with and the respect for my boundaries, and I also had some thoughts that were belated so I’m taking this opportunity to add them.

I, unfortunately, don't have any answers for you, except to say that the hurt you feel is valid, as are the questions you're asking yourself.

But, the simplest way I can put things, without going too much further into the discussion, is that there are:

- things that are objectively wrong,

- things we think are right because of the information we have, and

- things Harry thinks are right because of the information he has.

There's a very huge - possibility infinite - gap in the complexity and nuance between those last two things, and it's a gap that can only really be filled by two things: faith and trust.

And in times like these, we have to ask ourselves: is who he's shown himself to be over the course of his career worth our faith and trust?

Again, I don't have an answer for you, because that's something everyone has to decide for themselves. It's also something which is fluid and can change. But so far, it's been the best way for me to approach situations where I feel he's disappointed me — to ask myself, do I actually know, truthfully and holistically, what's best for him better than he does?

(Answer: No, I really don't, and I never will.)

[indiaalphawhiskey]

I know you are one of those who refuse to believe H’s new-not that new tattoo has anything to do with that woman because it’s just ridiculous - for me it’s the same as how everyone related Cinema to her because it’s just 1st thing what come to everyone’s mind. And then we slowly we found out it’s indeed about….gay sex 😂. After finding out H’s finsta is following that hotel in Civita and they have cat named Colazione and dog named…Olivia. It still feels but odd to me that he would randomly tattoo names of dog and cat (or 2 cats if we mention Gemma’s cat) but he’s Harry and his sense of humour is still unknown for us.

Plus, add in that he follows that hotel from his finsta… I’m honestly howling.

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Luke wished Colin Bridgerton a HBD

Happy 234th Birthday Colin Bridgerton

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I have to say Colin looks great for his age. 234 today🎁🎉

He really does though!

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Fans don’t really like the mustache. It’s too dark

fans need to get some taste, then

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Mustache-Harry is your, weird, fun, queer uncle that you never see, because Mustache-Harry is always out there in the world doing fun, incredible things. Living their best life. But they are sending you a bunch of postcards. And there's always a weird little souvenir waiting for you when you finally see each other.

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Harry running the Tokyo Marathon! (2 March 2025)

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https://x.com/blueblrdhoneyy/status/1896076931092922400?s=46

Hs4 i guess he will start wearing speedo/briefs!!!

Short shorts and long sleeves is the fashion statement of the moment. HE IS THE MOMENT.

More importantly, I fucking love that he trained for the Tokyo Marathon (and then completed it in under 4 hours)! He literally could sit on his ass for the rest of his life and not worry about anything, but he’s always doing something, always learning, always curious, always improving… I don’t know. I’ve said it a million times, but I’m endlessly inspired by him.

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My Gold Standard List for Polin FanFiction:

My Dearest, Penelope: Although Colin sends letters like clockwork, he receives no reply from his friend, Penelope Featherington. Is this what it feels like to lose one's mind?

The Gentlemen's Wager: After his careless words ruined Penelope's prospects on the marriage mart, Colin is determined to do everything he can to restore her reputation and to find her a good match, even if it means pretending to court his best friend. However, outside forces with a grudge against the Bridgertons inadvertently transforms a wallflower into the most coveted prize of the London Season of 1815.

An Agreement: Every Monday (and on special occasions) Penelope took her husband to bed. It was an agreement, after a year of marriage, that they would finally explore each other for the sake of having a child. It did not mean anything, not at all.

Making It Up As We Go Along: Penelope swears that she will make it Aubrey Hall if it kills her. The universe takes up her challenge. Sans carriage and caught in the worst storm that has struck England in living memory, Penelope bumps into a familiar face on the road (what a mystery who could it possibly be!). Their only hope of a shelter in the storm requires a degree of... creative... application of the truth and Penelope finds herself wondering how a young lady is to comport herself when the bounds of propriety have been all but swept away. Enter Colin, who has a suggestion or two.

Cruel & Unusual: A Tale of Personal Growth: Penelope Featherington is officially over Colin Bridgerton. Deservedly so. She’d worked tirelessly over the last twelve months to move on from him. She’d listened to Lizzo on repeat, read every self-help book under the sun, been to therapy, and even changed the plot of her novel from a coming-of-age romance to a zombie thriller in a world devoid of men. In fact, she was seeing someone, not exclusively, but it was certainly heading in that direction. She’d done everything in her power to move on from her stupid, heart-wrenching, soul-destroying crush. Everything short of having a lobotomy. Which was why it was a tad concerning that she’d just shagged him.

Dr Bridgerton; or With his educated eyes, and his hand between my thighs: There lay in Penelope a sickness, or so she had been told. A very specific kind that only this physician, as he called himself, could potentially be willing to alleviate for her, if there were any hope at all. At least that was what the flyer had said. A gentleman by the name of Mr Bridgerton had developed a technique of stimulatory effect to relieve the sufferings of women. Of sharp tongues and short tempers gone in a few months or less, within three sessions with his special apparatus.

Dance Card: Penelope never expected to spend her first season with the Bridgertons. And Colin never expected that the young debutant would capture his heart, one dance at a time.

i'll use you as a warning sign: The words on his body sound like Lady Whistledown. His soulmate - the person meant to capture his body and heart, his partner and love of his life - ruins lives. Perhaps it makes sense that she’s already ruined his.

The Temptation of one Penelope Featherington...: Colin would like nothing more than to teach his dearest friend the true art that could be found in a game of pall mall, although he only wished he could do so without the help of the peanut gallery and all their meaningful 'looks'. Penelope, for her part, is determined that a slight against Lady Whistledown will not go unchallenged setting her thoughts upon a most dangerous path. Pall mall, rain, and midnight trips to the library. What could possibly go wrong?!

All We Left Unsaid: In which Penelope resolves to keep her friendship with Colin perfectly proper, Colin attempts to truly know Penelope, and Eloise knows everything.

Ruin: “Perhaps you should take a seat,” said Violet. Colin wouldn't remember the details of what his mother told him next. He would remember her hand warm on his knee, her eyes wide with concern, her voice gentle as velvet. All of it in stark contrast to the devastating news she shared. Penelope was ruined.

one man's bungled nuptials are another man's dot dot dot: The Queen's plan to host the wedding of the season goes disastrously astray when her chosen Diamond flees from her Viscount husband-to-be at the alter and disappears from the Palace entirely. The Queen is incensed and more than a little desperate to save face, when an alternative match falls right into her lap. One misconstrued gesture and Colin and Penelope's lives are changed forever. But perhaps, in this one particular case, the Queen's matchmaking instincts cannot be faulted.

with the flutter of butterfly wings: Penelope woke up alone. Alone and in her childhood bedroom. For the third day in a row. Her hand slid down to her lower abdomen. The life that was supposed to be fluttering there did not exist yet and neither did the beautiful children that she had already given birth to. She had three days to accept that something had happened that had sent her back to just before her first season. She wished she had more time, but with having to wake up every day in the wrong house, the wrong bed, without her husband and children—Penelope had to accept that her current present was her new reality. No matter how often she cried every morning, hours before Rae came to get her ready for the day.

Only You: After a heated argument leaves their friendship in tatters, Penelope and Colin wake to find the entirety of London abandoned. What follows is a journey of survival and self-discovery, each of them forced to confront their greatest fears, insecurities and grief in order to find their way back to each other and discover all the beauty this new world has to offer.

Love You With My Past & for My Future: Happily married Colin time travels back to Season 1, Episode 2.

For God's sake, Penelope!: For the first time at a ball, free from the strict gaze of her mother, Penelope indulges in a bit more drink than usual. It doesn't take long for her to realize that as the liquor goes in, the truth comes out. Colin, concerned for his friend's reputation, does everything in his power to prevent her from getting involved in scandals. Yet, it seems that Penelope is determined to experience a chaotic night, filled with liquors.

a father's son: 12 yo colin choosing to immediately leave the family for eton after edmund's death & preferring staying there over the holidays bc everyone always told him he looked exactly like his dad & colin couldnt bear the pained look violet gave him whenever he reminded her of her husband

Odd Encounter: What if book! Polin and series! Polin got to have a nice little chat over some tea?

Secret Love Song: The night before Penelope marries Lord Debling, Colin leaves Mayfair, shutting his family and the world out. Five long and silent years later, Violet's sudden illness brings him home... back to London and the woman who never stopped loving him.

A Little More Convincing: What if Penelope refused Colin's proposal after the carriage incident? What if Penelope stood firm in her refusal and Colin had to work a little bit harder for that "yes" (An alternate take going from the end of Chapter 13 of Romancing Mr. Bridgerton. Book Canon with a few show shout-outs.)

(Lack) Luster: Everyone knew that the spinster lady of the Featherington barony had no intentions of marrying and similarly, no man had any intention of marrying her. So why, pray tell, was the newest Bridgerton bachelor chasing after her skirts like she was some pretty little chit?

The Gentleman: “Read it again Pen,” Colin said softly. She looked back at him, eyes wide and blinking, biting her lower lip, drawing in his attention. Until today, not an impure thought had passed through his mind of Penelope. He suddenly felt like the wind was knocked out of him. His eyes snapped up to hers, her blue eyes wide and blinking rapidly. He wasn’t sure what to say. It felt like the air had changed around them. All he could think about was her in that moment. Touching her hair, caressing her cheeks, kissing her lips. He took a deep breath. He could not make sense of the impulses he was having, “please, read it again.” She swallowed, turned back to the page, and started reading it again. He listened to her sweet voice recite the words of Byron. Did she pick this poem on purpose? ‘How could she’ he reasoned, ‘she’s never seen this book, how would she know’. He was so lost in thought; he didn’t realize she had finished. He wasn’t ready for her to stop reading, what was the last part? She looked over at him again. Had she moved closer to him? Or was he leaning into her? “Again,” He said, wondering if she could hear him as it came out almost as a whisper.

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Tribute to Liam at the BRITs

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I Scream at You in Poetry by: indiaalphawhiskey

Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington | Explicit | 47.4k | Chapters: 14/14 | Complete | 🔒 Needs AO3 login

Tags: Regency, Alternate Universe - Regency, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Chaotic Colin Bridgerton, Jealous Colin Bridgerton, Possessive Colin Bridgerton, Oblivious Colin Bridgerton, Colin "My Wife" Bridgerton, Colin Bridgerton Being an Idiot, Angry Penelope Featherington, Confident Penelope Featherington, Entrapment, Chaotic Bridgerton Siblings (Bridgerton), First Kiss, First Time, Angry Sex, Vaginal Fingering, Cunnilingus, Dirty Talk, Felching

Colin maintained that his recent bout of lunacy was, in its entirety, all Penelope Featherington’s fault. For, had she not been so very resolute in her refusal to speak to him after an off-season's worth of unanswered letters, it was wholly possible that – after having overheard his mother lamenting both the state of the Featherington baronry and the effects of Lady Featherington’s now rather indiscreet baby race on Penelope’s chances at a felicitous (if practical) match – Colin would have acted far more rationally than to orchestrate a not-so-clandestine, not-so-very-appropriate, and also not-at-all-truthful midnight tryst between them in the orangery at Vauxhall Gardens. (Maybe.) After all, if it was simply time Penelope needed to work her way towards forgiving him and restoring their once warm friendship, as his mother had suggested… Well, then a lifetime together would certainly suit that, with change to spare, wouldn’t it? — or, Penelope is a storm Colin is determined to weather. A different take on the entrapment of it all.

[indiaalphawhiskey]

But in the song he's saying a girl asks him to choke her sounds very straight in this song

I really think looking at Harry’s lyrics in such a literal way is a mistake. First of all, I think he sometimes refers to a “she” when he’s speaking about an aspect of himself. Second, when I hear a lyric about choking again my thoughts go to the idea of being silenced, being stifled, not being able to speak.

That particular lyric is so sad to me. She asks me to choke her, I play along. To me, that’s someone doing something they don’t really want to be doing. Someone doing something to appease someone else. I don’t even really see it as being sexual. My thoughts go to him playing along with not speaking his truth.

And when I add this to the lyric about “Cocaine, side boob, choke her with a sea view” I wonder if “choke her with a sea view” is more about shutting someone up by giving them something enticing.

I think the absolute last thing Harry means when he sings “she asks me to choke her, I play along” is a sexy line about kinky sex with a female partner.

In reference to this

[indiaalphawhiskey]

do people have no shame anymore?

[indiaalphawhiskey]

'Di pinapansin, ingay sa tabi

Magulong kapaligiran, sa 'yo lang ang tingin

'Di pinapansin, ika'y paiikutin

Nang dahan-dahan lang

Sa gitna man ng daan

~ Tingin by Cup of Joe, Janine

// I don’t notice the noise around us,

the chaos, I’m only looking at you

I don’t care, I’d still twirl you around

Ever-so-slowly

In the middle of it all //

📷 photographed by Katie Jones

[indiaalphawhiskey]

🥹🥹😭😭🥰♥️

😭😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️

Release it we need it I beg

[indiaalphawhiskey]

If you only had ten seconds to explain any of Larry���s complementary tattoos, which pair would you pick as the most damning evidence?