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Listen, I fully support Polin with Eloise being BFFs with Penelope again. 100%. I want more stories with strong friendships, friendships that are as strong or stronger than romances, friendship soulmates. I will die on the hill of needing more of those.
But I am HAUNTED by the way Eloise looked at Pen all through season 3.
I cannot get it out of my head how much it looked like a woman in love with her best friend and having to cope with the fact that what she thought were platonic feelings are actually romantic ones. And realizing that the main reason she wanted them to be spinsters together was because she was in love with Pen and couldn’t bear to see her marry another.
HAUNTED, I tell you.
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Bridgerton S03E08 'Into The Light'
#bridgerton#bridgertonedit#dailybridgerton#penelope featherington#colin bridgerton#colin x penelope#polin#bridgerton spoilers#perioddramaedit#dailyflicks#idek but this made the crazy#she said brother ily not for what you can do for me but for who you are!!!! wife!!!#favorite scene for sure so here i am attempting at being a bridgerton gifmaker lol#gif*
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I'm pretty sure that this:
Is in the same thought process as this:
The tone and the eyes were the same 😢 the same embarrassment and the pain of feeling pitied and the despair of unrequited love (not knowing that he's going through the same thing).
I'm happy for her confidence in putting herself out there but the sacrifice of letting go of your first love after finally experiencing a kiss from him just breaks my heart. She was truly doing her best to move on.
#I made myself cry#i'm sorry for the bad gif#it's my 1st time#what is Polin doing to me#polin#bridgerton#netflix#nicola coughlan#luke newton#bridgerton seaosn 3#bridgerton season three#netflix bridgerton#bridgerton s3#bridgerton season 3#penelope x colin#colin bridgerton#colin x penelope#penelope featherington#bridgerton 3x02#Polin first kiss#how bright the moon#bridgerton 3x03#Polin under the willow tree#forces of nature#i'm riding this wave to oblivion
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The way some of y'all talk about Luke Newton is just. . .I need this fandom to check itself with a swiftness, because the very thinly veiled ableism is ENOUGH. Like it is WILD to see, in the year of our lord 2024, people either actively infantalizing or talking down this grown man.
Calling Luke Newton stupid for behaviors that are just him displaying his Neurodivergence? Ableism. Saying it because it takes him longer to answer a question is ableism. Saying it because he said something 'incorrectly' or not as eloquently on the fly as his neurotypical costars? Ableism.
Saying he's boring because he's quiet or he doesn't talk as much (because he often needs more processing time and/or has anxiety to surmount) is ableism. Knitpicking his social media and how he doesn't interact as much with a fandom that has actively been cruel to him is ableism.
Assuming Luke is out here like some helpless little lamb clinging to Nicola because 'oh, she's his comfort person!' instead of recognizing that they both lean on and like each other? Is ableism. Saying he has a one sided infatuation with her BECAUSE he needs her as said comfort person is ableism. Essentially being all 'awwww, poor wee baby, he has anxiety so thankfully his neurotypical costar is there to pick up the slack!' is. ableism. You cannot in one breath say that Nicola's love language is touch but also that Luke is the only one ever reaching to hold her hand because he needs her to ground him. That's ableism.
They both like each other. They have a very close relationship and they both clearly admire the other and like to be around one another. To frame it as him being some inept toddler and her as his more capable caretaker and 'thank God he has her to give him the save' is ableism! That's ableism, babes!! And in many cases people don't recognize that's what they're taking part in, but that's what it is.
He is a grown man and a hell of an actor. Yes, he's quieter than some of his costars. Yes, he contemplates what he says in his mind before he says it, and it takes him some time to do so. Yes, he doesn't behave the way his neurotypical peers do. He doesn't have to. He won't- because he has a neurodivergent brain. And he shouldn't have to behave as a neurotypical person or an 'acceptable' neurodivergent person to have respect from people who claim to be his fans.
He's been outspoken and unapologetic about being a neurodivergent actor with ADHD and dyslexia and how that can contribute to difficulties in the current media machine. He has discussed his coping mechanisms. He has specifically done so because he knows how difficult it can be to be a neurodivergent person in the limelight, and he uses that spotlight to show other neurodivergent actors they can be successful, too. And people saw this openly neurodivergent man and said some mad out of pocket nonsense about him.
As the tour comes to a close, I just really need people to look back on their beliefs and viewpoints during it and do some reflection, because I am side-eying a LOT of takes that have gone largely uncontested.
#luke newton#nicola coughlan#lukola#bridgerton#polin#like i am neurodivergent and sure i'm a bubbly person who gabs a lot but that doesn't mean my neurodivergent bestie#who is more quiet and manifests her identity in a way that's different to mine is less capable or fun#it just means we're two different flavours of neurodivergence#and if anyone EVER spoke about her the way some of y'all are speaking about LN? we'd be throwing down#not every ND person is the same but ALL ND people deserve a life free of ableist rhetoric and viewpoints#the way this fandom has minimized his accomplishments and cooed over their forced helplessness of him has made me sick#some of y'all should straight up do some soul searching#if you are neurotypical and you want to come on this post with some nonsense- i am telling you now: don't
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help, not colin praising penelope after the lady whistledown fight 😭
link to interview
well, there was a link before they took it down
#polin#bridgerton#bridgerton spoilers#colin x penelope#i feel like i should not know what ep this is#and yet i do#and i have made it my mission to know all the spoilers don't judge me#i'm just a girl standing in front of a show asking it to love her#rip to the other bridgerton men but colin just hits different
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POLIN WEEK 2024 DAY 7, POLIN SONGS
She's the rope that holds me Yes, I know she knows me well enough, oh She's the fire that blinds me Leaves my fears behind me for a while, oh
In Need by Gert Taberner
#polinweek2024#bridgertonedit#polin#polinedit#penelopefeatheringtonedit#colinbridgertonedit#uservivaldi#useralison#uservalentina#userleahrose#userbanana#userhann#userrin#userjessica#userzaynab#usershreyu#giffing their glances actually made me quITE unwell#bc luke newton does know what he's doing with the oblivious but clearly quite affectionate thing#i love them#*bridgerton#emstuff#emgifs
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HOLD ON HOLD ON HOLD ON I DIDN'T CATCH COLIN'S CONCERENED LITTLE "penelope?" 🥺 JUST SECONDS BEFORE SHE COLLAPSES TO THE FLOOR IN THE TEASER FOR PART 2. O.M.GGGGG!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT FOR HIM TO GO STRAIGHT INTO PANIC MODE OVER HIS PRECIOUS PEN. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
#*carly catalogs#i hope it parallels w/ the stydia scene at the animal clinic after they rescued lydia from eichen#with colin hovering over pen pleading for her to wake up like stiles was hovering over lydia#i also wonder if her and eloise will have made up by then or if this incident will be what restores their friendship??????#ik realistically june 13th isn't really THAT far away but COME. OOONNNN!!!!!!!#I NEED MORE OF THEM!!!!!!!!!#I NEED ANOTHER FULL SEASON CENTERED AROND THEM AFTER THIS I'M NOT EVER GONNA MOVE ON#HO HO HO HOLY SHIT WHAT THESE TWO DO TO ME IS IN SANE!!!!!!!#bridgerton#bridgerton s3#colin bridgerton#penelope featherington#polin#otp: you are special to me
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Just finished the third season of Bridgerton (it was an incredibly frustrating watch)...People have said that Penelope is named as such because of her nickname Pen and her being a writer... but has anyone thought of the reference to the Odyssey and Penelope being the wife of Odysseus? You know, she had to be loyal for 20 years while Odysseus gallivanted across the globe and was distracted/cheating on her Circe? I feel like it goes with the whole Polin narrative too. She's the one who had to wait for him to get a clue. And if you've read the Penguin version of the Odyssey, you know everyone is like omg! Odysseus, so amazing, the sacker of cities etc. Which parallels Colin's "glow up". Totally think it's more of a literary reference since the two of them are writers...
#bridgerton#bridgerton season 3#colin bridgerton#penelope featherington#polin#don't know how much this works for the book#didn't read the books#I ranted at my sister for an hour straight about this season (behated)#wtf was the character arcs for any of the characters this season? a whole lot of nothing..#the writers literally set everything up and then did everything in their power to make the arcs pointless#soooo many crimes of telling instead of showing#bridgerton was never high art but season 1 and 2 landed character and the audience buying into the relationships and cheering for the coupl#disappointed#literally feel like I hated polin in what was supposed to be their season#colin vascilates wildly... and there are like two scenes where i recognize the character he was is season 1 and 2#literally hated him for soooo much#really hate how the season wasn't about the couple but whistledown#and yet they couldn't show us WHY Penelope wants to keep being Whistledown besides telling us why so I just don't get why#they could not decide if whistledown is good or bad and settled on girlboss power!#but here i am like girl... you're ruining lives... you've ruined lives... it's just gossip#they literally screwed over all their characters for nothing#their scenes of intimacy don't land because they feel incredibly paint by numbers and often occur after intense confrontations#confrontations that do not logically make sense for sexy times#the mirror scene exists purely as plot so colin can later accuse Penelope of trapping him in marriage#like that's suuuuper ick#they made colin so incredibly ick i don't recognize him or want him with Penelope#even Penelope making the choice to be whistledown over her new family was insane and illogical based on how the plot developed#i watched the seaon twice to really pin down how I feel and ended up rewatching season 1 and 2 because season 3 part 2 pissed me off so muc#and it's sooo night and day#i just feel sad because i wanted to root for this couple too... but they made it unrootable
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Written by Cohan, Look What You Made Me Do follows the ex-wives of an emotionally abusive and absolutely untouchable billionaire. They band together to wreak revenge.
Cohan will executive with Fricke and Laura Terry via their Pursued by a Bear Prods. CBS Studios, where Fricke has been under a deal, is the studio.
This is a rare CBS Studios sale at NBC where the studio aligned with rival broadcast network CBS had a hit with the 2005 Medium.
Anna Fricke (Walker) and Laura Terry (Walker: Independence) are co-producing with Leila Cohan from Bridgerton? Talk about an awesome mashup of talent!
#anna fricke#laura terry#leila cohan#walker#walker: independence#bridgerton#look what you made me do#cbs studios#nbc
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A while ago I commissioned the wonderful @yoshitsuno for this regency/Bridgerton inspired piece of Sharp and MC & I received the final piece today! Safe to say this exceed all my expectations & I am so so happy with how this turned out!
Merci, Micah! Your work is absolutely stunning & I am beyond impressed with your skill, talent and dedication. I love this so much & I am so thankful you made all my wishes come true 💗💗
✨ To anyone looking for an artist to commission, I can highly recommend @yoshitsuno ! Her work is absolutely incredible and she’s a wonderful person all around 💗 This was a 10/10 experience - 100% will do it again!! ✨
#catch me not shutting up about this for months now#made all my Bridgerton/regency dreams come true and more#obsessed is an understatement tbh#10/10 would do it again#so so worth it!#can you tell I am obsessed with regency? because fuck#it’s my favourite historical era EVER#the tenderness??#the looks??#the overall vibe??#PERFECTION#hogwarts legacy#aesop sharp#professor sharp#professor aesop sharp#aesop sharp x mc
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Queer Bridgerton Headcanons Part 2
Benedict has known Anthony's gay for years and often covered for him at school when Anthony slipped out for any rendezvous with another guy.
Colin, dear sweet oblivious Colin, has no clue.
Eloise knows, of course. She and Benedict have discussed how bad Anthony is at hiding it.
Daphne knows, but she thinks she's the only one in the family who knows. She assumes Benedict probably knows, but she doesn't have the highest opinion of Benedict's intelligence (unfairly so, but that's how siblings are).
Initially Daphne covers for Anthony and Simon (hence the Fake Dating thing with her and Simon) because she thinks they'll get themselves sorted out but when they DON'T because they're idiots, she decides she Must do More about it. That's why she starts flirting with the Prince.
#bridgerton headcanon#bridgerton made me do it#bridgerton but make it gay#bridgerton#bridgerton netflix#bridgerton but make it make sense#bridgerton but make it better#anthony bridgerton#simon basset#daphne bridgerton#benedict bridgerton#eloise bridgerton
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okay so I just finished reading romancing mister bridgerton and all I want for S3 part 2 is to see Colin being completely obsessed with Penelope, like okay yes he needs to have his "oh my" moment about whistledown but then he needs to be like so fiercely protective and I hope the conflict doesn't centre on him questioning whether he wants to be with her after finding out, because that man is feral for Penelope, they are the definition of "she fell first, he fell harder" and I need it because that man fell so damn hard he's permanently concussed, I need obsessed, feral, Colin "my wife" Bridgerton right now immediately
#colin bridgerton#penelope featherington#colin x penelope#polin#bridgerton#that trailer made ME feral#i need them immediately what do you mean i have to wait 10 days??
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eloise and cressida dancing at a ball in secret as a parallel to grimsby and reynolds
#that scene made me SOB#bridgerton#and the queen seeing them like she did with grimsby and reynolds years ago#eloise bridgerton#cressida cowper#do they have a shipname yet?
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your attitude towards Black queer women is nasty and there's nothing stereotypical about a Black (possibly) lesbian character. on top of that, yall was on here the other day talm bout some "taking stuff from black men" but who woulda been seated for a yet another Black man chasing after a yt woman anyway and tryna use sex to control her??? franchaela are going to have a happy ending even if a little bit unconventional (we literally don't know how bridgerton's societal landscape will change by then) but what's the difference between them already living out quiet lives away from the ton and.....continuing to do that? it wouldn't be out of shame but out of what they want while it just so happens to protect them? what exactly would be different than what benophie woulda had to do??? who also had to go to the country to limit the risk of folks inquiring about sophie. it's the same thing and yet your issue seems to be that it's not a Black woman with a white man who harassed her to be his mistress and refused to see her as anything but that. i have no doubt the show will change that part of their dynamic but that seems to be something you want to stay in tact and you need to unpack that cause it's pathetic. you should want better.
They aren’t going to change shit because their MO isn’t to uplift Black women of any kind. So what you really want me to do is cheer on what will be a promiscuous Black woman chasing after or romancing a married white woman(her cousin-in-law) who will have to end up hiding out in the country for the rest of her life to escape persecution. You want me to pretend like it’s somehow the same/a better story than a Black woman being chased after, who gets the marriage, the adoring spouse, the children, doesn’t have to live in hiding or else she’ll be jailed, etc.
You don't care that they also ruined a Black man’s image too? Fine, but this isn't being done for us. We keep getting handed the “unconventional” which is why our image is always a fucking mess in the media.
If you want to play stupid play stupid, but I'm not playing dumb with you.
I’m not happy that they made Marina half-Black when they know she has to die to give Eloise a happily ever after. I’m not happy that they had Lady Danbury get raped every five seconds in Queen Charlotte and tried to play it off for laughs. Or that she remained alone with her children hating her. I wont even mention Guinevere, who is only there either to be a sexual experimentation or a side kick to the non-Blacks. Not to mention she like Lady Danbury is just another iteration of the strong independent woman who doesn’t need a man.
Alice is another side character so I'm not happy that the best we’ll get in terms of a Black-ish main character is Queen Charlotte who unlike the Bridgertons doesn't exactly have a fully functioning marriage. Lastly I’m not happy that they pulled this stunt after pulling the other fifty eleven stunts when it comes to their Blackish female characters. They do the bar minimum and give us the worst shit so no I’m not going to pretend like it’s all hunky dory.
I’m absolutely disgusted by the treatment we have received by this show. I’m tired of the disrespect. It’s one thing to add drama it’s another to add unnecessary trauma which is all they have given us.
I’m sorry, but it should tell you everything that they refuse to show a Black woman in a loving relationship with a man where shes desired and wanted. Every woman is afforded that but us? No ma’am I’m not falling for this bs.
Sophie should've been Black and this character they've created should’ve stayed in the rough drafts. No ifs ands or buts about it.
Actually read the books and pay attention to this show rather than listening to a bunch of psychotic racist ass non-Black women who are trying to sell you shit on a platter cause they don’t really give a damn since they have and will continue to get theirs.
#yes queer rep is important but this show isn’t going to deliver anything but pure garbage#black women deserved better than this and you’ll never get me to agree that this is actually good rep or that it will be okay#if they were going to do this the show should’ve made sophie black as well and set up that queer marriage wasn’t a problem back in s1#instead they are trying to give us scraps on all accounts cause they don’t give a damn about black women#Y'all aren’t going to bully me into accepting this shit#Find some simpleton who cant see the forest from the trees. I’m done#anti bridgerton#fandom misogynoir
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Forgive the rant, but it's been weighing heavy on my heart. So much of the speculation of the Lady Whistledown reveal is the nail biting of 'Oh, I hope it's not too bad for Pen!' or justifying how her actions as LW actually weren't that bad in hopes to minimize the fallout
But there seems to be so little care to the fact that Penelope hiding it from him is going to break Colin's heart.
He is so elated to be with Penelope because he feels like this is the one person he can truly unmask with, that he can reveal all his cards to, and be accepted, and he is going to realize that is a one sided feeling in his relationship. Not only did Penelope feel she couldn't unmask in the past, but she feels she cannot do so even after their engagement. Even after he has reassured her of how much he cares for her and how much he trusts her.
I know everyone wants to skip over the angst of it and get to the 'oh look, they're so happy in love!' but y'all
Penelope is going to hurt him. He put his heart in her hands and she's going to crush it. He's going to have to look in the eye the fact that she didn't trust him enough to inform him of this very large part of her life, and he's going to understand that she kept it from him purposefully. Yes, she has her reasons, but like. . .that's painful. It's a slap in the face. Is it fully understandable her not telling him right after he asks? Or before? Of course! A lot happened! She had the most intimate experience of her life in the back of that carriage, and she'd gone through a lot of ups and downs that night, but after that excitement simmered and she had a chance to breathe, she should have told him.
But she doesn't.
Worse, she decides he simply doesn't have to know.
The fact that Eloise has to put an ultimatum on it at all is proof of that. Colin is falling in love with half of Penelope, and she's making it so that he does so on purpose. She is actively hiding half of herself from his eyes, and regardless of reason, when one party of the relationship is open and vulnerable, and the other is secretive, the secretive party is doing their partner a disservice.
Right now the person who has poured the work into the relationship is Colin. He has confessed his feelings first, he made all the big moves, he openly declared his interest in her, he proposed, he proved to her that he finds her desirable, he has hit every single love language in the BOOK. He's said repeatedly how wonderful she is, he's given her an engagement ring, bought them a house, he's chased down her carriage, he asked for those lessons to spend more time with her, he's had physical touch aplenty.
But I feel like so much of us as an audience are riding on the fact that we know Penelope has pined for Colin for a long time, and not understanding that Colin does not know that. And even if he does, she has not shown him that she loves him.
And I need to see Penelope pour into him an equitable amount as he's poured into her. They're both two people who embody 'I want to be so full of love, I forget what it's like to be hungry', and we forget that both of them have been denied affection. This fandom sympathizes the most with Penelope to the point where we don't want to see that Colin has also been pushed to the wayside. This man is starving for love and romance. Not just to love, but also to be loved.
People forget that Colin has been denied affection from his family, from his sexual experiences, even from Penelope. She didn't write back to him the same way his siblings didn't. Colin has been disparaged in his household, too. He's been made to feel like a burden, like he has no right to family funds, hell, he was all but called a pathetic virgin in Season 1 by his own brother, the head of his household, and his mum and Daphne and Anthony all assumed that he needed his messes cleaned up for him and he says aloud no one takes him seriously.
I want to see Colin be loved. I need to see it.
It's not a scorecard, I get that, but if you look at it objectively, Colin has done so much in his relationship with Pen, and she's lying to him. She's keeping from him a secret that reinforces what others have said of him: that he's gullible, naive, too trusting, someone that needs his muck ups solved for him, just a foolish boy caught up in his fantasies. And when the truth of Penelope's deception comes out, and he's going to question if all those people were right all along, and questioning his trust in himself (because, mind, this is the second woman who has said she loves him and has been keeping a huge secret from him, if that happened to me, I'd be closing my heart off for a very long time), he's going to need her to mend the wound that she'll pry open.
Colin said a hurtful thing about Penelope in Season 2, and then spent Part 1 of Season 3 soothing the pain that caused her. Now, Penelope is doing a hurtful thing to Colin, and she will have to heal that hurt, too. He is a tender, soft-hearted person who trusts her completely, and is falling arse over elbow for her, only to then get tripped up on her own web of wires and do a barrel roll in the dirt. And I know they'll choose each other, I know.
But after she helps him up, I need to see Penelope romance Mr. Bridgerton, assuredly, fervently, loudly.
Because he deserves to be.
#colin bridgerton#polin#bridgerton#penelope featherington#lady whistledown#i just love colin and i want the world for him#i adore him so much#he is so relatable to me in a way so few characters are and it is important for him to have a beautiful love story#right now he's a prince in penelope's tale but why shouldn't HE be wooed too? why can't we acknowledge that she has the power to hurt him?#and hurt him deeply?#and that if she hurts him deeply she needs to make it right?#the same way he did?#and frankly his harm was considerably less painful than hers#idk i just want more for him than one episode of 'you made me feel bad' and then kiss about it#if you don't come to sweep this man off his feet penelope i will do it MYSELF
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alright as much as everyone (including me) has been nitpicking and critiquing season three of bridgerton i have to hand them one thing and that's no other season has made me this insane
#queen charlotte was beautiful wonderful gorgeous fantastic well written made me cry etc#and yes it did make me insane i won't deny it#but the thing about it is i'm satisfied with where the story ended up it feels finished to me im not clamoring for more#season two i wanted more kanthony and i got it season three i loved what we got from them#but season three polin? im rewatching a thousand times im dissecting the acting choices im wanting to bap the editors on the head#im watching every reaction i physically can stand to watch im watching the interviews im making edits im writing fanfic etc etc#like. i think it truly walks such a lovely horrible little line of being SO CLOSE to perfect so close to everything i ever wanted and it is#just SLIGHTLY imperfect enough that im yelling NO NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CHARACTERS LIKE I DO#where i'm defensive and saying no please look colin has liked penelope this whole time it didn't START at the kiss you have to understand#anyway. how are you guys? im normal. im normal#bridgerton#bridgerton spoilers#txtly
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