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Loved this! 😃

Drummers Drumming — or thoughts on how best to commit fratricide

Merry Christmas, and may your siblings have the decency not to gift your children anything that makes you question your life choices 🥁🎄✨

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Your Polin Advent calendar has arrived: 13 Polin fics by 13 authors!

🎄12 Days of Polin Christmas🎄

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Another reason why the #mirrorscene hits differently for me compared to other intimacy scenes in previous seasons (no shade to those either, they all worked really well within their seasons and stories):

There's this moment when Colin gets her permission to touch her, and then his eyes close when his hand moves across her skin. Kudos to the acting by Luke and the way the scene was shot, but the man looks like he is lost in awe and reverence. Like he can't believe he gets to touch her after dreaming of her, like he has to savor every second of it.

And consider it from Pen's perspective. She has been brought up and treated to feel unworthy of love, attraction, taught that she should settle for the first man who'll have her. She was ready to accept a loveless practical match with Debling because she believed true love was a foolish fantasy for someone like her. And then she finds herself with this man who physically aches for her, who is visibly revering her body, who is making sure she knows what an object of sexual and emotional desire she is is.

This is why one kiss from her and sex will never be casual for him anymore. This is why, despite knowing nothing of sex, Pen trusts him completely and lets him guide her through this first time with complete abandon.

Individually, love is a forsaken fantasy for him and an unattainable goal for her. Together, it is worship.

#off for my millionth rewatch

#this sex scene beats all others, fight me

#when he said Lie Down I became pregnant

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I know we were robbed of the aftermath of Colin accepting ALL of Penelope (seems to be the trend for every season though) but this is how Colin looked at Penelope after they got engaged. Like imagine how besotted he will now be for the rest of their fictional lives now they are fully accepting of each other? He is so down bad for his wife! Completely head over heels. There's no more wondering or uncertainty, just pure love.

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LUKE NEWTON IS BAAAAAAAAACK!!! OMG!!!!!

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pure

perfection

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Everybody needs somebody to smile at them the way Colin Bridgerton smiles at his fiancée.

I can't with these two... ❤️

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this nose sliding + eye-fucking? INSANE 🫦

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My favorite love scene. My favorite love song. Together, they make perfect sense. At least in my head... Polin making out to Coldplay's "Always in my head". ❤️ Call me obsessed, I don't care.

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Carriage scene: the other route

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If anyone's interested in reading a modern AU about Daddy Colin taking care of their baby while Pen is out of town... Some manly madness ensues!

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It's been 118 days and I'm still here...sobbing because their eye contact is so fucking beautiful... I'm weeping but in a cathartic kind of way..., reading fanfics like a madwoman..., writing them myself like I know what I'm doing...

Not that I'm complaining though.

Guess I will be here for the next year and a half until we get to see them again. Is it 2026 yet? I feel like a child waiting all year for Christmas. But tenfold.

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I love how they are talking to the bishop like they haven’t already consummated their match and (unknowingly) conceived their first child

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SHE BETTA FUCKING WORK

I understand that we all love Nicola but these intense deep dive posts into everything she says, does, or puts on social media are extremely troubling, and it’s exactly the type of behavior that makes celebrities pull back from public life. Her personal life and personal time are not for our consumption, who she is or is not dating is none of our business, and—please repeat after me on this one—SHE DOES NOT OWE US ANYTHING.

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flashback edit for 3x04

It's all about Colin getting confirmation in his head that Pen may also have feelings for him.

Now, go get your girl, you lovesick puppy dog... 🥺

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Pen being the luckiest woman on planet earth for having a man who looks at her LIKE THAT. All teary-eyed, exuding nothing but love and worship for his wife. I'm jealous.

(if only somebody would explain to me, logically, why the fuck they didn't get to kiss after this? Who messed this up? Tom Verica? Also, I'm salty.)