#Bridgertone

[lolli-lily-pops]

Cry me a river - Multifandom

[animentality]

[singing-not-sleeping-beauty]

Not really a fan of Bridgerton, but I am a fan of Nicola Coughlan's response to everyone shitting on her for being "too big" to play a love interest

[stupidnpoetic]

[drsarcasticraspberry]

truly the wildest thing about all the Bridgerton discourse about "is Nicola Coughlan too FAT to be a convincing love interest???" is that in many ways she actually looks better in the period costumes than her thinner counterparts because she has the figure to really fill them out. those dresses are incredibly flattering on larger bodies because they emphasise the bust and cleavage whilst creating a very elegant silhouette. there's something unintentionally hilarious about hearing pearl-clutching in the distance over "idk is this FAT WOMAN sexy enough to be believable as an object of lust??" whilst Penelope Featherington's majestic heaving bosoms are almost spilling out of her dress in a category 5 titty event. if anything she's too sexy. they had to spend the first two seasons putting her in ugly dresses in a desperate attempt to conceal the fact that she's serving more cunt than the entire itty bitty titty committee combined

[softestaries]

Violet Bridgerton is truly gods strongest soldier. Every season she tells one of her children they're in love and every season they scoff in her face before causing seven different scandals to reach the same conclusion.

[thelaurenshippen]

watching bridgerton and obviously there were a lot of things wrong with the way socializing has worked in the past, but honestly the idea of a "calling hour" is so appealing. office hours for friendship. you can show up unannounced at my home between 1 and 3pm. you must leave by 3pm. I may give you a pastry. lets bring that back

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

say what you want about bridgerton I know it's not a Good Show or whatever but nicola coughlan insisting on being 'as naked as possible' in this series as a 'fuck you' to everyone saying she's too fat to be a romantic lead and because 'when I'm 60 I wanna watch it and remember how fucking hot I was' is ICONIC BEHAVIOR

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[whitelilynh]

After a day and a half with the nose stuck to my Kindle, I finished reading 'The Duke and I'.

I find myself with mixed feelings, in all honesty. First, Simon. Oh, Simon, so lovely, and vulnerable and painfully and dangerously attractive. But, admittedly, he seems a bit unrealistic even for a man written by women. I mean, he's not as dangerously attractive once all he can muster are cheesy and, to me, even cringe-worthy phrases, and that happens soon in the story. If not by the punctual descriptions of his cold aura and the image I had already figured in my head of him, (partially mixed with the live auction's actor because, I swear, he nailed the sweet and tortured eyes of Simon; and partially mixed with one of my fav anime men because his appearance is text book Simon), I'd probably not like Simon that much at the end of the story. Perhaps, he's too much to me, too sweet, too subservient, to an extreme I often find in "men written by women" when I think things have gone too far.

Daphne is... I have not finished to come up with a word for her. I'm a bit fed up with the cliché of "incredibly handsome man falls in love with not-so-impressively looking but nice girl". And there's nothing wrong about that, of course, but I think it is quite overused. And Daphne is, for the nth time, described as "not ugly, not beautiful", yet somehow Simon sees her as the most beautiful creature on earth, challenging all beauty standards. Well, I'm sure that might happen, but not as often as it happens in fiction and I'm a bit sick of it. I'd prefer it to be like the live action and have Daphne as the beauty of the town, so it makes a bit more sense. Because, honestly, Simon is already fixed on her before her, here I'm being honest, funny and lovely personality, even makes its debut. Anyways, past that, Daphne is a rather plain character I think. I must say I liked series Daphne quite much more, because this Daphne is not as maternal, not as polite (this is the only part of her I loved), not as caring and very much... Not as enjoyable, just that.

The romance, well, if the author doesn't say they are madly in love, I might not guess it. It's all so fast, and perhaps that was the way back then, and so lacking of a real stance that I truly don't see a reason why they'd be so deeply and madly in love with each other. Attracted towards each other? Sure. But in love? Mmm no, I don't think so.

The SA scene... Is much worse in the books. And though, I don't consider Daphne to be the monster I've read some people call her, nor I think she was aware, given her ignorance, of the possibility of being SAing Simon, I still mean it. First thing first, is because she might not have been aware of Simon's consent not being exactly valid, but she still was very aware of his desire not to finish inside her, yet she makes sure he does. And that is, also, sexual violence. But what really makes this scene awful, is the fact Simon had just allowed himself to open a tiny bit with Daphne, drunk or not. We had just witnessed one of Simon's most vulnerable moments, and Daphne was painfully aware of that. We read Simon begging her not to abandon him, since everyone has before, and Daphne recognising his hurt inner child... And then, a very unnecessary sexual scene, and SA moreover. I was truly not expecting that, and very much was left with a sick stomach.

The story, in general, seems too easy. It's nice, of course, and entertaining, but the way the events unfold and how the conflict is solved, seems ridiculously easy to me. After years of Simon hating on his father that much and refusing to become a father himself, I would've expected him to actually take his time before he jumps in "breeding mode". And even Daphne says so. As romantic the author might have thought it would be for him to do it, I think it's terribly unhealthy, unrealistic and forced.

Reading this it might have seemed I hated the book, but I truly didn't. I liked it, and had an enjoyable time reading it. But if I must be honest, I'd say I've read fanfiction with more substance. The book is good, but I don't think as much as the hype.

[skyrigel]

me: feels unloved *searches x reader tag*

[supernovaodessa]

[nicolacoughlan]

#RIP Penelope Featherington you would’ve loved Regina George

[natti-ice]

18+ mdni

that reality check hitting after reading smut

[your-mums-nuts]

Absolutely hilarious to me that the ton is gonna be speculating on why and how Penelope and Colin ended up engaged and there’s definitely gonna be some entrapment/pity rumours going around but the actual truth of it is that Colin chased a carriage down, fell to his knees and went “please please please please please please please”