#More Francesca for you

[asdro]

This a-hole who keeps harassing my other cat and pooping in my couch gets more notes that any of my art and i can't be angry because yeah, she cute, she deserves it

[gentlebeard]

If I could hold you for a minute, Darling, I’d go through it again

For @edsbacktattoo & @stedesearring 💕 Show: Our Flag Means Death - Season 1 & 2 Music: Francesca by Hozier YouTube

[hadesisqueer]

I like how Violet is so used to having dramatic ass children that Francesca marrying with no drama was too odd to her lmao. And thinking about how her story will unfold is actually kinda hilarious because it's gonna be like:

Violet: Well, that's it. John is a very good man and Francesca is comfortable and happy with her choice and if this is what she truly wants, it's all that matters����

Violet: Also, it's kinda refreshing to finally have a normal child that doesn't do any dramatic or scandalous shit.

Francesca a few seasons later after her husband passes: *fucks and falls in love with her husband's cousin -who is a woman-*

Violet:

Violet: Honestly, I should've seen this coming, none of my children will actually ever be normal.

[trashwithvariety]

Our art is so vilified.

That's life outside Nevarra. You'll win them over.

[yeehawknight]

KISS YOUR LOCAL KING NOW! ❤️👑

Hugs and kisses on the cheek are peak pda for me, both between friends and partners, so of course my ocs reflect it :)

[breakingstanding]

Me forcing myself to be grateful to be getting any queer rep at all when I know that getting one sapphic main character means we won’t get another

[sukibenders]

All of the Bridgerton siblings are queer in some way, the degrees vary between each of them respectively. No, I will not debate any further, that family is gay as hell and I'm here for it.

[francixoxoxo]

Having plenty of thoughts about Pirate Billy and Mermaid reader, involving a very sisterly ritual of talking about boys… ୨ৎ ⋆.˚ 𓇼

Imagining letting Pirate!Billy braid your hair!! Your back is to his chest, you’re laying between his bent legs with your lands cupping his knees. Your tail is in the surf, swaying and gently flipping with the tide, and Billy’s hands are twirling your hair. Now and then he drops tender kisses to your scalp, until he eventually just mutters, “Lemme braid your hair, baby.”

You look up at him, your brows drawing together and a smile curling your lips. “You? Braiding?” Your sisters and your mother were the only ones to ever touch your hair. And, well, their braids were plaits, were intricate artworks, designs that seemed a little too much for human fingers. Much less, you giggle, a man’s fingers.

Billy just snorts, twirling some of your dark locks around his fingers. “M’ a sailor! Know plenty of braids n’ knots, yanno.” You hum thoughtfully, and nod your head. “Okay. Show me.”

Billy diligently gets to work, parting your hair down the middle and getting to work on twin French braids. Your hair is like silk over his palms, slipping through his fingers like water. He’s so hesitant to tug or pull, not wanting to hurt you, no matter how many times you tell him that you’ve had worse hairdos from fingers with much less care for your scalp. Billy grins and chuckles, but he’s gentle nonetheless.

When he’s done, you run your fingertips over the braids to feel the shape of them, a sunny smile growing on your face. You push yourself up, pressing your soft lips to the underside of his jaw and feeling the scratch of his stubble as you kiss him. “Thank you. They’re beautiful.”

And you aren’t just humoring Billy. Your hair is very long even in braids, you hold up your neat-tresses to look at his handiwork. He just shrugs, ever humble, and smiles shyly. “I try. Only the best for you.”

When you leave him, swimming home for the day, you gush to all your sisters about Billy and his calloused fingers in your hair, his sailing and his lazy grin, every bit of your man that makes all of them, your baby sisters and your older ones alike, swoon. They’d all crowd around you to look at the unfamiliar braid, some of them even complaining in friendly-jealousy for a man to braid their own hair. You could only smile and shrug, saying, “He treats me well.”

Truly, he treated you better than well. Billy treated you like a princess. Billy was a treasure you got to keep all to yourself, something to be swooned and jealous over. Something for you, and nobody else. It was safe to say that Billy did your hair much more often after that.

And equally safe to say that your sisters begged for more stories and details of the handsome, sweet, “knightly” human man that doted on their brave sister.

[thirdwifeofriversong]

I can’t wait to see Francesca and Michaela’s story, but while we’re waiting? I can’t wait to see Michaela queer mentor Eloise and show her that lesbianism exists.

[winters-rose-daughterofcain]

I've been trying to phrase things eloquently and I really can't so here you go. Part two really felt like it was trying have its cake and eat it as well in a lot of ways, and it really didn't work.

You give Cressida a whole redemption arc and friendship and put her in an impossible situation and humanise and make you sympathise with her, then want me to hate her again?

You show how Pen uses LW as a coping mechanism and how it's not good for her or those around her and not have her drop it?

You want LW revealed to the ton but no real consequences?

You double down on how Pens family treat her only to have them all come together and be forgiven at the end?

You sideline Colin in his own damn season and butcher Penelope so badly I almost wanted less of her as well?

You can't have everything. Not in such a short time span at least, and it really suffer from it. If you wanted to give Cressida more depth and expend on her role why was she tossed away like nothing at the end? Why did Eloise abandon her? Why was she treated as awful in part two after being put in an actual horror show of a situation? I know they needed the blackmail plot but you can't just give her depth, make her the antagonist and then drop her storyline in the drain that's not how that works. That's not complexity that's laziness, and laziness they created mind you.

They didn't have to write Cressida the way they did this season, if they wanted to make it easy they could have had her marry off screen between seasons to a rich man, they could have had Eloise befriending her be a mistake and had a different arc there, they could have had her LW claim be for any number of reasons, and her blackmail because she still has it out for Penelope. They added this to the story, and as much as I was sceptical at first (I have seen far too many botched bully redemptions) I was glad they did it aded a lot of depth and character interaction, it created some interesting parallels between Cressida and Penelope and seeing Eloise in a different, less intimate friendship with someone who, ironically, is a lot more open with her was interesting. Incomplete, but interesting. It was good, or it could have been. But you can't just turn like that and have it still work. You can't just have Eloise abandon her and have it treated as the right thing to do. You can't leave her with that ending and consider it a happy one. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You didn't create a complex antagonist, you created a scared lost girl who was cruel because she was taught to be and you left her to burn.

You could have had Penelope and Cressida talk to each other, could have explored the ways the mirror and the ways they differ. You could have had Penelope struggle, but untimely empathise with Cressida and help her out, she could have forgiven her for her years of torment because she of all people understands why she did it. You could have had her forgiveness mirror Colin and Eloise forgiving her for LW. You could have looked at how Cressida's openness helped her friendship with Eloise and how Penelope might start to incorporate it. About how by nature of Cressida's openness Eloise is learning to see other perspectives and listen more even if she still has work. You could have done so much with female friendship and camaraderie and empathy and you just... didn't.

The Lady Whistledown this season was just... I think I have a thesis which is most of my thoughts on Polin.

Whistledown was meant to be the subplot to the Polin storyline, not the other way around.

Putting aside my own wishes to have her end Whistledown for her character and for her and Colins relationship, and her love of Colin, her continuing it isn't unexpected I was afraid of this and thought it might happen even if it's lazy. If that was it and if it was handled better I think I could begrudgingly live with it. But it's not. Not only was it handled so so poorly it was the whole second part and for what? Part one was Polin. Part two was Lady Whistledown drama with some cute Polin moments sprinkled in-between with some mandatory angst. Tell me the resolution to Colins arc now. Quickly. You can't he didn't have one, we barley even saw him through Episode seven and eight. There is so much romance in your purpose being the person you love, IF and only IF, it's reciprocal. Penelope literally says in season two, when she has been Whistledown for over a bloody year that she hasn't found her purpose yet. They were meant to find each other. To both have their writing as their passion and creativity and fulfilment, not Whistledown, but her manuscripts, his stories from around the word their joint and secret words. But their centre, their purpose, their guiding light was always meant to be each other. It's what kept Penelope sitting at that window, it's what draw Colin to her at every ball. They had all the potential and set up to be the most beautiful, genuine, heartfelt relationship. But no.

Colin deserved to be angry. The woman he loves has lied, has hurt him, has his from him after all the times he was venerable with her and so, so much more. They deserved to argue. Penelope deserved to be more upset over this than crying in the moment and walking past him later. That's the man she loves, who she thinks hates her, who she know if he did hate her she would deserve it and she wouldn't blame him for a second. They deserved time and space and Colin deserved explanations and apologies. They deserved a later, happier wedding, they both deserved to have their feelings heard and said and listened too. Is that not the core of their relationship? Listening to and seeing each other? Would that not lay the groundwork for some really good well earned conflict and a really rewording resolution? The groundwork was all there that's what's killing me. The set up was all there for something so good which is why I was excited. I know screen time is limited, I know there is only so many emotional conversations you can have on screen, but Bridgerton primarily just people talking on conversations, when it's there bloody season surely they can space out the conversations that need to happen in a way that works with pacing. And to be honest, the screen time defence only works when the screen time that they did have was allocated well. And I'm not taking subplots. Even if I think a few could have been trimmed, the screen time Polin did get was just used so so badly. Colin got dust and that didn't even feel like Penelope had the time, just a mouth piece for the writers.

Rapid fire stuff because I need to expand on the above in more detail later lol.

The acting was flawless give everyone on that set their flowers.

I really like the Mondrich's and seem to be the only one who likes seeing them lol, their sweet and always a good time they just need a better storyline, or you know, one that actually has a resolution.

Not what I would have done for Benedict and I still want to see him look at art again but let's hope season 4 is better lol.

Don't like the way Penelope's family stuff was done, specifically Portia but it is what I thought would happen. Disappointed but not surprised. I'm biased tho so I won't speak on it too much. I lose too much objectivity.

Hate hate hate the baby thing tho, it was fine as a subplot with her sisters but her having the boy was predictable and also dear god the girls nineteen for fucks sake. No. Hated that.

Francesca the absolute love of my life. I adore her and John, I liked the conflicted with Violet, loved everything about her storyline this season she was perfect, my favourite part honestly lol. Also Michaela Stirling get behind me NOW. Sapphic Bridgerton fans truly are the bravest soldiers cause istg. Also I don't trust this fandom with any actor or actresses period but especially not a Black actress who's "ruining" your favourite storyline. So I will be greatly enjoying everything I see of all three of them Francesca John and Michaela, while watching with a sharp eye for any bullshit.

Kate, also the love of my life it was so lovely to have her back even if just for a bit. Wish they did more with Anthony especially him and Colin tho, but again, wasn't expecting much more. I do wish they would write them out with a bit more subtly tho it's getting almost funny how obvious it is.

The Violet, Marcus, Lady Danbury plot I didn't actually mind. Could have been trimmed a bit but it was good seeing the adults in more depth, I haven't watched queen Charlotte tho so I kinda feel like I missed some things.

Overall, I liked certain parts of this season I really did, especially if I fully ignore the context, and I'm happy for everyone who enjoyed it truly, but it was have an entirely different ending in my head. I'll definitely write about at some point but who knows if anyone wants to see that lol.

[asdro]

Valentina ♡

Francesca ♡

[xxplastic-cubexx]

🧙‍♀️🐈‍⬛

[thewhizzyhead]

I don't usually go here on the bridgerton side of tumblr but MICHAELA STIRLING??? THEY GENDERBENT THE MICHAEL??? THEY'RE MAKING MY FAVORITE BRIDGERTON GIRL BI?????

[buddhamethods]

if you're going to queerbait,do it like bridgerton: create two extremely queer coded characters and then give the actual queer romance storyline to a completely left field third character because guess WHAT??? gayness knows no bounds and has no face,anyone can be a homo!!

[thorinlandscaping]

waaaaa they took away my male lead in the Only Straights Show from 2-3 seasons from now and made him a girl for some sort of WOKE AGENDA they're changing my badly written misogynist book series woe is me we need more straight rep!!! this is because i like their story not for any other reason!!! i'm bi as well!!! more straight romance!!!! no nonconformity!!!! the books!!!!!!!

[faceglitchsworld]

Keonhee playing with his new little son plushie because he loves him so so much