#Colin/Marina

[klaramarieleblochova]

Penelope Featherington receiving compliments

BRIDGERTON | Season 1, Episode 6, "Swish"

BRIDGERTON | Season 2, Episode 2, "Off To The Races"

BRIDGERTON | Season 3, Episode 1, "Out Of The Shadows"

Everyone always made fun of her, she doesn't think any compliment is genuine💔

[katherine40598583-blog]

Marina: I need you to kiss me

Colin: I can hardly believe I’m saying this, but we cannot go further

Penelope: I need you to kiss me

Colin: What’s a little kissing between friends, am I right?

[butyouaremymess]

“I simply cannot believe that a woman with such bravery loves me. How lucky I am to stand by your side and soak up even a little bit of your light. If my only purpose in life is to love a woman as great as you, then I will be a very fulfilled man indeed.”

[teiasviago]

#nerds (affectionate)

[letsplayeternity]

Honest question, I've been rethinking the whole "Colin has done the same with Penelope Featherington" speech Anthony gave to Daphne and his mother in season 1 and the fact that when Colin talked to his brothers in 3x05 both Ben and Anthony were like "I didn't have a clue" and like... do we think Anthony spent the evening rethinking every single interaction he has ever witnessed between Colin and Pen and every single instance where he let things slide because "oh that's just eloise's friend?" and just banging his head against a wall as Kate laughs her ass off??

[lady-whistledowns]

1.02 "Shock and Delight" // 3.03 "Forces of Nature"

[clairesbeauchamp]

BRIDGERTON (2020 -)

1.04 | 3.02

[vices-aand-virtues]

Bridgerton + Reductress Headlines (1/?)

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

Marina receiving the Whistledown sheet where Penelope reveals herself

[polin-ista]

I'm sorry but I'm almost in awe of Penelope in season 1, to me just top tier badass bitch shit right there. She's 18 people! Not only did she start a successful gossip column before her debut but she also managed to save Daphne from a disgusting engagement and Colin from a naive and disingenuous one but she did all of it by herself. Also while avoiding discovery from bowstreet runners, the Ton AND The Queen.

The woman is a mogul and you cannot convince me otherwise. She is not perfect, no. But my god is she fkn impressive! It's the 1800's y'all! She's in the highest level of society and one of the most sheltered creatures in that time and she is THE rich husband. I am deadass.

Unpopular opinion but honestly? if I was Colin I'd be grateful for what Pen did, sure it was humiliating to have everyone know like that but she tried to tell him. He dismissed her worries like she was a child and honestly I don't blame her after what Marina said.

It's not so much the brutal way Marina said Pen's love was a fantasy, no. What pissed me with Marina is that she also treated Pen like a child. Someone who was supposed to be her friend and she immediately assumes that Pen is doing what she is doing out of pettiness, when honestly, to me Pen didn't look all that surprised when Marina said that Pen's love was a fantasy. In fact she looked irritated, like that was a given. And I don't think it was Pen's deciding factor but the fact that she knew Marina couldn't love him back is what pushed Pen to write the column.

Pen from the books is well aware that her love is unrequited but it doesn't stop her loving him and wishing him happiness with his future wife. She resigned herself long ago to watch him fall in love with someone else. She believes herself born for him but he was born for another, I think in that scene if you listen to the questions Pen asks, it's never about her, it's always about Colin.

[dailybridgerton]

BRIDGERTON (2020—) 1x06 'Swish' // 2x02 'Off to the Races'

[dollypopup]

I get why people would think it but

Colin is NOT a rake. Colin is a young man trying to figure out his identity and what he likes sexually and trying to understand what the men of his society talk about and do. He's not out here messing around with women just to string them along and then leave them. He's trying to fit in and has been made fun of for being a virgin so yeah, he rectifies that by having sex, but just because he slept with a few women, that doesn't make him a rake? You wanna know who an actual rake in the series is?

Fife.

Because what the fuck happened to Miss Goring? I think about her sometimes and my heart aches for her. Her first season out, she's an 18 year old woman, and an older, titled man of her society who she assumes to be a proper gentleman makes her believe their relationship can actually be something, messes around with her the entire season, and then fucks her in a linen closet at a ball only to....what? Come back the next year with absolutely no mention of her whatsoever. Did she get pregnant? Was sent off in disgrace? Have to marry someone else?

Fife is a 30 year old man who has a bad habit of hounding after young, vulnerable women in his society. He fucks them and leaves them. He's a rake. Colin? Colin is not even close to that. Say what you will about the brothel scenes, but that IS the responsible place for a man of his time to go to for sex. Please stop demonizing sex work. Yes, many of these women are in that line of work because of less than savory reasons, but Colin is not taking advantage of them. He is paying for a service and they are providing that service. It is transactional, and he is the LEAST of their concerns in terms of clientele. A kind, handsome man who pays well and is discrete? Yeah, they're fine with him.

Colin has a history of respecting women. He respected Marina all throughout their courtship, and even after. I know some people sneer at him coming to see Marina, but please keep in mind she is a woman on her own who married a stranger far away from ANYONE who knew her. Colin was worried about Daphne when she came to him, asking if anything happened when she was away and clearly ready to fight for her, so of course he's worried about Marina. Partly he visits her for his own closure, but also like....y'all that's a WELLNESS visit. He's concerned that she's unhappy, but ultimately leaves because she's not hurt and that she tells him to. Colin listens to 'no' from the women around him. He asks for permission from them. He waited for Penelope's consent sexually, but he also didn't even get into the carriage until she allowed him. He even asks "Please, let me in".

Colin lives in a time when women do not have many rights, and he listens to the women around him even more than the men. He is the only one of his siblings to ask for his mum's advice and immediately takes it and takes action. He brings Eloise back a feminist text from his travels, even after she's besmirched as a radical, because he supports her pursuits. In season 2, he also knew of her going to the printers and didn't say anything. He has always respected and cared for Penelope. He hasn't insulted a single woman in his vicinity. He doesn't make the women he flirts with feel bad about themselves, or feel less, but compliments them, all whilst keeping respectable distance so as not to make them think he's interested in marrying them. He doesn't dance with any woman but Penelope in that season.

Colin isn't a rake. He's not a fuckboy. He's trying to act like he is, emulating the circle of his society, but that doesn't mean he is. I swear people just WANT to misinterpret him because that's the easiest way, but Colin is a character who doesn't lend well to surface level readings. He's a nuanced, gentle hearted character who has been looked down on for his sensitivity. He's a deeply relatable person because who of us haven't pretended to be accepted? Especially if we've been bullied or excluded. I know I have. Put on a persona for the sake of survival. And he does so for what? A few weeks? That does not a fuckboy make.

Just say you don't want to understand him and move along because those of us who get him GET HIM. And I'm grateful for a character like Colin.

He's the best man in the series by an entire mile and you can't change my mind about that.

[katherine40598583-blog]

I’m rewatching season 1 and I honestly have no words. I haven’t watched the not Daphne/Duke parts since Lady Whistledown reveal so I’ve never noticed before how everyone treated Penelope like this little girl who knows nothing, understands nothing, is awkward, and whose opinion could never be right over theirs.

And she is not angry at anyone for that. She takes it all in stride and only genuinely wants to help people. She puts off exposing Marina for so. damn. long. She tries to fix this and while on my first watch I, as many of us, was convinced she did it out of jealousy, but now I can see she saw it as a wrong thing to do and she couldn’t let this happen on a human level.

If you haven’t rewatched in a while, the night before Marina and Colin plan to elope, Penelope talks to Marina, can’t talk her out of it, Marina asks if Penelope loves Colin, says it’s an unrequited love and Colin treats her no different than Eloise or Hyacinth, etc.

And we are led to believe Penelope is heartbroken over that, she runs to Eloise and cries and we assume it’s because of that, but knowing who she is and seeing that everything she’s been doing so far was not desperation but a KINDNESS - she was pulling her punches when we thought all she could do is run around helplessly grasping at straws, - we understand that Penelope cries because she just wrote the Lady Whistledown paper and she is destroyed that she had to go against her morals and reveal Marina’s secret, not because she’s so heartbroken over Colin.

When Whistledown talks about could the ends justify such wretched means, it’s not just about Marina, or Daphne, it’s also about herself.

No one took her word for it so she had to put her Whistledown cap on to pry their eyes open.

We were all but fools.

[annabelle--cane]

I fucking love women so much. thank you magnus protocol for giving me three new absolute weirdgirls at once.

[teiasviago]

#will never recover from how cute he is with babies tbh

[your-mums-nuts]

Ok but I am not understanding the Penelope hate regarding the Marina baby-trapping situation?

(Not a Marina hate post, my girl was in a tough spot to be fair)

So first of all, if some cousin I just met tried to trick a dear friend, a family friend, my best friends brother and the love of my life! Into raising children that weren’t his, trust I’d be doing much worse.

Second of all, enough of this ‘why didn’t she just tell him!’ She tried. And something I don’t see anyone pointing out, is that Penelope had no idea how babies were made. Marina said it came from love and cake, and that’s it. My baby was struggling so hard trying to explain what Marina’s situation was, and that sweet dumbass Colin had this glazed-over expression the entire time, he was barely registering what she was trying to say.

Thirdly, and most importantly, can we picture a Bridgerton cousin coming in and trying to baby-trap Penelope for a second here? because I know Colin ‘my wife’ Bridgerton would not be allowing that under any circumstances either. He would’ve been worse, I fear.