#colin bridgerton crack ship

[fandoms-my-fandoms]

I DONT REMEMBER WHO ORIGINALLY POSTED THESE BUT THEY ARE THE FUNNIEST BRIDGERTON AND POLIN INCORRECT QUOTES AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A CRIME TO GATEKEEP THESE FROM ALL OF YOU.

I have wayyyyy more saved to my phone! Lemme know if I should make a part two of this, or if you want me to send them to you individually!

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colin should 'suffer' for penelope

aka: 5 short reasons why wanting colin to 'suffer' or 'grovel' or whatever other bullshit this fandom keeps pulling is stupid and makes no sense and should have been buried ages ago, how is this still a thing?

1: it sets a terrible and unhealthy dynamic between an endgame couple

especially considering Polin's motif is that of a mirror, if Colin is expected to grovel or suffer for Penelope's affection and forgiveness, it only stands to reason that Penelope then, too, would have to reciprocate. how Penelope treats Colin's ills is setting the precedent for how he's expected to handle her own against him, of which there are many. giving him the cold shoulder, holding what he said over his head and rubbing it in his face, potentially not even explaining why she's upset at him: these are not signs of a mature woman ready for a marriage to ANYONE

2: Colin's slights against Penelope are considerably less harmful than Penelope's against Colin's and it makes no narrative sense for her to be on her high horse about it

'he ruined her prospects' 'he talked about her behind her back' 'he laughed at her' (we don't even know if that one's true, frankly speaking)

but Penelope did the exact same to him and she did so first. Please remember that Penelope is the reason Colin and Marina broke up, and it was her express goal the entire time. Penelope humiliated Colin and Marina both by exposing them publicly (not to mention rubbed the salt into the wound for days afterward). Penelope didn't even think about Colin's feelings because she tried to confess her crush on him immediately after his engagement went poof. Penelope holding Colin accountable for what he said without herself recognizing the ways in which she's hurt him, too, makes her out to be a hella hypocrite

3: it's weirdly catholic on main?

love isn't about suffering points or penance or guilt and i'm tired of Christianity pervading every damn thing. sorry not sorry, some of us want an actually fulfilling love story

4: y'all are just mad Colin didn't love Penelope back from jump and it's a revenge fantasy

which, fine, that's what fanfic is for, but it's OOC, y'all are aware of that, right? because if he DID want her from the start, we all know that it wouldn't be Polin? why are you shipping a friends to lovers ship if you INSIST that the friends to lovers dynamic is less than? guess what? unreciprocated love is kind of part of the deal. you don't hold a grudge against your friend for not loving you back immediately. Colin shows he cares about Penelope in SO MANY WAYS that somehow are completely invalidated because it isn't meant to be romantic? imma say it: fuck you if you think that way. friendships are important and beautiful and deep and fulfilling with or without romance. Colin sticking his neck out for Penelope to help her family from Jack's scheme? an act of love. Colin sending Penelope letters after her father passed? act of love. Colin telling Penelope she's 'really very good' and holding her hand in appreciation of her coming to talk to him? act of love. if you think those acts of love mean nothing just because he isn't fucking her seven ways to sunday, maybe analyze your own viewpoint of relationships and ship Pen w/ some random stranger who makes heart eyes at her tits from jump

5: it makes Penelope an asshole to her own long term partner

dude, if a friend of mine insisted I crawl on hands and knees to determine whether they want me back in their lives, i don't want to be around that person? so many of these narratives make Penelope a straight up terrible person. if you want your partner to suffer? you probably don't actually like them very much, but Polin is narratively MEANT to be the couple that likes AND loves one another. be real, if your friend ghosted you for months, gave you the cold shoulder when you tried to talk again, treated you like shit (you can't argue that him 'suffering' isn't treating him like shit in some way shape or form) as you tried to apologize, and then you find out that she was the reason you and your ex broke up and she wrote straight up nasty things about your family for YEARS, you would want absolutely nothing to do with that friend. why should Colin be expected to be any different? do these two not deserve a lovely love story built on love and affection and trust and honesty? a healthy happy relationship in which they see one another and appreciate one another for all they are? no? so why do you ship them?

+1: it's oversaturated in this fandom

polin is a fantastic ship. how is THIS their main trope?

find a new fucking idea, PLEASE

[sea-owl]

I always liked the idea of Colin/Michael and Francesca/Penelope. I think Colin/Pen and Michael/Fran could enter a lavender marriage and then move to Schottland and live happily ever after.

I can see it. It's also kinda funny because from certain stand points Colin and Michael are similar to each other as are Penelope and Francesca.

I can also see these four being poly with obviously Colin and Francesca being platonic.

[fandoms-my-fandoms]

The pictures from the show just add so much depth to the tweets. I’m quite literally obsessed.

colin bridgerton incorrect quotes

his wife incorrect quotes

[bccksmarts]

opens my notes apps on my phone,,, no I’m not writing my weird HP x Sherlock x Bridgerton crossover shush I need to get this ideas written down SOMEWHERE

Imma sneak back on soon, I got dragged to bed and I’m not sleepy™️

[easybrainrot34]

🖼️Lil Benedict Bridgerton Headcanons Pt 2🖼️

Woohoo part 2 baby!! Part 1 is right here! Some of these are modern!AU some of these are Regency era. As I said before I am truly a ✨slut✨ for this man. Hope y’all enjoy 😊

All r fluff and crack. Bonus Polin Headcanon ❤️

🎨= modern!AU

🎻= Renaissance era

🎨🎻= either

Also mentioned : Colin, Anthony, Kathony, Queer!Eloise, Gregory, and Polin

Ps, my ask and request r open :)

🎨 He went on a gap year before college to travel the world. He went kinda everywhere but he’s not one of those people that’s pretentious and has to talk about it all the time (no shade Colin, he’s more of an excited puppy about where he’s been anyway)

🎨 During cov!d he really honed in on his skills as an artist but also got really into skincare and hair care. Now he does a whole curly hair care routine because even though I can see him keeping his hair on the shorter side, he still likes it to have a little body.

🎨🎻 He would never admit it to Anthony (at least sober) but he wants the love that Kate and Anthony have for each other. He is such a hopeless romantic and I think he wants nothing more in this world than to find someone he feels he truly can’t live without.

🎻 Now we all know Benedict goes to balls more out of family obligation than actually wanting to, but I truly feel like once he’s married, he wants you to throw balls every season. He loves being able to show you off and what better setting them a ball with you as the person of honor. I also feel like he would enjoy throwing balls/parties for his more artistic, not part of the ton friends.

🎨 Now let’s say this is a modern AU where Eloise is a lesbian and our dear Ben is bisexual. I feel like when Eloise came out to him and said “I’m gay” he said, with no hesitation “you too?” I feel like the next day this man would just barge into her place with a gift bag full of Girl in Red, Chappell Roan, and Raneé Rapp albums, a pride flag, and a Carabiner. She would give him the “these are all stereotypes” lecture, but truly she appreciates it.

🎨🎻 I feel like he is very weak willed when it comes to his nieces and nephews. Like he is the favorite uncle, yes it took him bribing the kiddos, and yes he has no shame about it. He would stay firm with them (respecting the majority of set rules) but he will let them get away with small things. It will take him having his own kiddos to understand where everyone is coming from. (trust & believe that the siblings take their revenge)

🎨 He’s weak for a sundress. Weather it’s a cute little flower print, or a simple solid color, he just loves a little flowy sundress. I can’t explain it. It’s just this man’s weakness. (Btw this is what I mean when I say sundress, because apparently the Internet is having a debate about this right now lol)

🎻 Y’all remember when people were painting on each other’s bodies during Covid? Yeah he would do that. I feel like he would very much use u as a canvas during yall’s honeymoon. I feel like it would also end in a little ✨spicy time✨

🎨 While I can really see this man not giving a fck about whether he is fit or not I feel like as he starts to get a little bit older (late 30s early 40s) he would sign up for the gym. I feel like this will be a combination of him wanting to, but also Anthony, Colin, and Gregory would tease him about getting a “dad bod”. He knows though that you love it so he wouldn’t try to get too fit, just enough to be a little toned.

🎨🎻BONUS🎻🎨

He has such a fondness for Pen. This man is in her corner, if her and Colin get into a fight he automatically is taking her side. If he sees Cressida doing some shady sh!t he’s calling her out right then and there. I also feel once Colin and Pen announce their engagement, he would go to her and say “I’m sorry it took him so long to realize what we all knew” AHHH I JUST KNOW HE SHIPS POLIN!!!

[lgbridgertonqa]

The Great Queer Bridgerton Ship Poll: THE RESULTS!!!

First off, we’d just like to thank everyone for taking part in this silliness. We clocked in at 204,232 votes when we closed the poll with votes still coming in. Deeply unserious, we’re very touched.

That being said this is also VERY serious. Lives are at stake.

Onto the numbers for places (under the cut - cos it's LONG!)

Or read the results thread here on our twitter.

31. Daphne Bridgerton/Alice Mondrich - 0 votes (0.00%)

Sorry girls!

29 =. Colin Bridgerton/Harry Dankworth - 1 vote (0.0005%)

The Danklin nation were not assembled for this fight. One noble voter stood proud!

29 =. Harry Dankworth/Lord Fife - 1 vote (0.0005%)

The vote is entirely anonymous so we will never know who this one brave soul was that swung for the only Fife ship in the poll. It will ever remain a mystery…

23 = . Siena Rosso/Mme Delacroix - 2 votes (0.0010%)

Maybe next time, ladies.

23 = . Violet Bridgerton/Portia Featherington - 2 votes (0.0010%)

The Mama’s did not do it for the voters.

23 = . Mary Sharma/Queen Charlotte - 2 votes (0.0010%)

Not enough follow through on this tension to capture more votes.

23 = . Mme Delacroix/Lucy Granville - 2 votes (0.0010%)

The girls are taking a hit in the polls.

23 = . Gregory Bridgerton/Richard Abernathy - 2 votes (0.0010%)

Our first book character on the list! He fought valiantly.

23 = . Lord Haselby/Neville Berbrooke - 2 votes (0.0010%)

This niche book only fanon couple did this against all odds. Respect!

20 =. Kate Sharma/Sophie Beckett - 4 votes (0.0020%)

A previous fan favourite has slipped down the rankings in this poll!

20 = . Eloise Bridgerton/Edwina Sharma - 4 votes (0.0020%)

A similarly previously popular ship has fallen on hard times this year!

20 =. Will Mondrich/Simon Basset - 4 votes (0.0020%)

MIA since season 1, but sorely missed.

19. Hyacinth Bridgerton/Felicity Featherington - 5 votes (0.0024%)

The show may have forgotten you Felicity, but voters haven’t

18 =. Queen Charlotte/Lady Danbury - 6 votes (0.0029%)

Too many people afraid of the power of these two women kissing.

18 =. Anthony Bridgerton/Thomas Dorset - 6 votes (0.0029%)

Apparently two men holding each other and falling into a lake isn’t homoerotic enough for some.

16. Lucy Abernathy/Hermione Watson - 9 votes (0.0044%)

Another book ship taking on show giants.

15. Eloise Bridgerton/Marina Thompson - 11 votes (0.0054%)

Some people hate to see lesbians winning!

14. Brimsley/Reynolds - 38 votes (0.0186%)

Our first canon queer ship taking a hit! Only scraping top 15!

13. Francesca Bridgerton/Edwina Sharma - 96 votes (0.047%)

The votes are starting to pick up now with this outside contender!

12. Daphne Bridgerton/Cressida Cowper - 211 votes (0.1033%)

A very respectable 12th place for Daphida!

11. Eloise Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington - 236 votes (0.1156%)

A perhaps shock result to not crack the top ten!

10. Gregory Bridgerton/Gareth St. Clair - 403 votes (0.1973%)

Huge result for a book character not yet in the show! Top ten!

9. Colin Bridgerton/Michael Stirling - 636 votes (0.3114%)

A now book based pair on the shortlist from last year, coming into the top ten as an underdog!

8. Francesca Bridgerton/Michaela Stirling - 677 votes (0.3315%)

Michaela Stirling didn’t throw the first brick at Stonewall for 8th place.

7. Simon Basset/Anthony Bridgerton - 737 votes (0.3609%)

Homoerotic tension legendary enough that it brought this show into infamy. You’ve served proudly, kings

6. Francesca Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington - 970 votes (0.475%)

Another outsider in the top 10! The Fran/Pen shooters were not messing around!

5. Colin Bridgerton/Phillip Crane - 1,052 votes (0.5151%)

One olive oil joke and discussions about Ancient Greece, next thing you know -

4. Benedict Bridgerton/Paul Suarez - 1,713 votes (0.8388%)

Congrats on all the sex you had boys! It translated into votes!

3. Kate Sharma/Daphne Bridgerton - 15,911 votes (7.7906%)

Kaphne were leading the way for 5 days this week, only to be pipped to the post in the last few days. Well done on bronze!

2. Benedict Bridgerton/Henry Granville - 84,285 votes (41.2692%)

Voters gave it their all in the last 24 hours, but ultimately couldn’t take the win. A very worthy silver!

1. Eloise Bridgerton/Cressida Cowper - 97,204 votes (47.5949%)

Unreal rush at the end, nearly breaking the poll. The sapphics take the crown of Best Queer Bridgerton Ship!

[aster-petrichor]

Bridgerton S3 - brainrot rant

EVERYTHING

IT WAS EVERYTHING

SO YEAH

I'm struggling to find words so lets just get right into it. Ep5 itself was wow. and did they have to end every episode on basically a cliffhanger (i loved the tension, delicious).

It was. steamy. that scene with the yk mirror and the sofa and they talking and giggling.

'The firmness of your lips parted just so.. and then there are other parts I've been.. dreaming about' - Colin Bridgeron (a total fucking simp)

and then the cut to Anthony and Kate to Franchesca totally infodumping on this dude in the cutest fucking way <3<3<3

not to mention Benerdicts whole entire arc of s1 bicoded to s2 cishet to s3 bi-poly vibes in a very slay girlypop way and I genuinly think the show in this season has managed to do queer representation correctly and I'm just so happy about that.

Also I'm all over the place rn cuz I just finished watching but like for people who know book stuff. I was NOT expecting that for Francesca WOW YES (did anyone else notice the mirroring between that meeting and the one her mother had with her father?).

Also in the final ball the way Pen's dress looks green and then looks blue when she gets on the stage is !!!!! so yes wow pretty yes.

Did anyone else notice the way Violet fixated on the guys mouth when he was eating. The Bridgerton's really do all be like that. I appreciate the attention to detail from the showmakers there wow.

On the note of Francesca's upcoming arc. I somehow expected El and Ben to be it. But there are NO complaints from my end about this development.

more colin quote: "If my only purpose in life is to love a woman as great as you. Then I will be a very lucky man indeed."

Also Pen and her mother and that entire dynamic was a Moment and a half and I could try and write essays on it when I'm more awake.

Yk what lets talk Cressida. And her evil to good to sad evil arc she had going on. Because wow she has me feeling so many emotions both for and against her. Did they really end her arc the way they did were her being shipped off with evil aunt because I really was hoping she would either get away or marry debling (who seems to have vansihed) and that really sad. Like the blackmail was so wrong of her and I do think Pen may have just helped her if she had asked in a nice person way but she was desparate and alone and young and like she knew her actions were bad, but she was trying to save herself from worse and that sucks. She is giving August from YR but less intense and more tragic. I do wish she had a better outcome but also penance? Idk unsatifying end.

Tilly. Wow. She is kinda awesome and like. yeah. slay.

Danbury as always just ate. She walked in and slayed the floor down. I did like that little reference to the spin off Queen Charlotte they did there with the scene with Violet refering to the paper crowns and friendship. That felt like cracking a knuckle.

I think I'll go and reblog other s3 posts now and lose my mind elsewhere. Farewell and happy watching!!

[ao3feed-kathony]

A drop of something more

read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/50863633 by The_crackhead4 Basically season 3 just Henry and Benedict centric cause these two need it and I live for this ship. Plus I hate to see this ship sink and if it does I'm the captain that drowns on it. Words: 3297, Chapters: 1/8, Language: English Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, M/M Characters: Violet Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton, Daphne Bridgerton, Benedict Bridgerton, Colin Bridgerton, Eloise Bridgerton, Francesca Bridgerton, Gregory Bridgerton, Hyacinth Bridgerton, Henry Granville, Lucy Granville, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Simon Basset Relationships: Benedict Bridgerton/Henry Granville, Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Simon Basset/Daphne Bridgerton, Edmund Bridgerton/Violet Bridgerton, Anthony & Benedict & Colin & Daphne & Eloise & Francesca & Gregory & Hyacinth Bridgerton, Henry Granville & Lucy Granville, Benedict Bridgerton & Lucy Granville Additional Tags: Mild Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Smut, Crack Treated Seriously, Attempt at Humor, How Do I Tag, I'm Bad At Tagging, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Drinking read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/50863633

[pettybookreviews]

https://hautebeautyguide.com/unboxing-the-new-once-upon-a-bookclub-bridgerton-box/

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I have committed the most grievous of sins and have judged a book by its cover, more accurately judged a story by its special edition release.

Perhaps I am partially to blame. I had high expectations for this book and the Netflix series lulled me into a false sense of security. But when I came across Once Upon A Book, (a really interesting book subscription service that not only sends you a new book, but marks certain pages and wraps little gifts for you to open as you read). They posted about their new collaboration with Julia Quinn and the special edition of the Bridgerton series was breathtakingly beautiful, and I had to have it. However, the universe had other plans for me, or should I say Brexit. After setting multiple alarms and calculating the time difference and stopping everything to make sure I was free when this copy was released, only for them to not ship to the UK. I worked so hard to get my hand on his edition. It had a holiday in rural Spain, suffering slight damages in transit, but I was still excited to crack it open and become immersed in a sexy, rich fantasy. However, I found it lackluster. The characters are barely two dimensional. The show made me fall in love with the Bridgerton siblings but they rarely appear and when they do; they are flat and rude *cough cough* (Colin sucks). Perhaps this will change in the corresponding sibling novels, but I am not invested enough to read the rest. My petty review, and the one thing I cannot overlook is, near the end of my copy, Julia decides to use the word ‘fanny’ for Hastings falling on his butt. After reading the English rich people fantasy, it jarred me from the narrative and I feel like everyone who writes about the intricacies of English society should know that fanny means something completely different here. In my opinion, this is one of the times where the TV adaptation is much better than the original, and if like me you are a fan of the show, I would keep it to that.

[fandoms-my-fandoms]

Babe…babe wake up!!!

It’s part seven of incorrect Bridgerton quotes that I have saved to my phone!!! I still have no recollection as to who posted these first, but as a member of the Bridgerton/Polin fandom, I thank you for taking the time out of your lives to make these!! Love you! Xx

Lemme know if you want part 8! There’s still plenty to get through!

[dollypopup]

if the end of episode 4 / part 1 of season 3 isn't the lady whistledown reveal and colin's blowup/meltdown about it. . .what are we even doing here? i saw someone go 'ooooh what if debling proposes and penelope says yes and that's the cliffhanger?'

my sister in christ, that literally holds ZERO weight and tension in polin's story. debling is an afterthought. a nothingburger to create extra drama. he is literally disposable as a character because we KNOW penelope and colin are endgame. that relationship will fall apart and the how of it. . .doesn't matter.

but lady whistledown? lady whistledown is the guillotine of their relationship and it has been hanging above their heads on a fraying string for YEARS now. it affects EVERYTHING that comes after. she is penelope's mask that has to be peeled off. she will flay colin's gentlemanly exterior clean to the bone.

just like. . .idk, think about the narrative structure for a second. it's being framed as a romcom, right? what does every romcom need?

a meetcute, a growing closeness, some external drama, a big relationship stresser / test, an *oh* moment, a reconciliation, a happy ending

debling is the external drama, not the stresser. debling cannot threaten polin's ship as endgame, or polin in general, because he literally does. not. matter. he was created by shonda to drive home the point that penelope is now post-glow-up (which also doesn't matter, because their relationship (debling and pen's) goes against the very heart of bridgerton as a concept, which is to fall in love in unconventional ways. oh how did the two of you meet? at a ball? dancing together? HOW riveting (not)), he is not meant to be the stress or fracture in polin as a pairing

meetcute? flashback of polin as kids growing closeness? the lessons, reveals he's a writer, the kiss external drama? she's dancing with other peeps big relationship stressor? LADY WHISTLEDOWN *oh* moment? AFTER LADY WHISTLEDOWN REVEAL. when he sees who Penelope is as a FULL person and falls for her anyway reconciliation? AFTER LADY WHISTLEDOWN REVEAL!! at their engagement ball when she publishes about Cressida not being LW even though she said she'd stop and he realizes he loves her even if she's upset him, the same way Penelope realizes *she* loves *him* even if he's upset her happy ending? you guessed it. AFTER. THE. LADY. WHISTLEDOWN. REVEAL (and honestly, probably the death of Lady Whistledown. because it depresses me to think that Penelope's ultimate happy ending is to continue writing petty gossip for the rest of her days when she could be fucking her hot husband on various beautiful beaches around the world and they write novels together)

lady whistledown is. the unearthing of her as another side of penelope. the secret cracking open, colin's facade fulling fading, his fury and humanity made tangible, penelope's nuance, her strengths and weaknesses and fears and hopes now barefaced. the harms she committed, the triumphs she accomplished. the strain it has on them as a pairing, the dynamic shift it introduces

i will eat my SHOES if part 1 doesn't end on the lady whistledown reveal because if it doesn't. . .what are we even doing here?

[sea-owl]

So this is gonna sound majorly angsty but imagine in the Into the Colinverse, the group finally notices another Colin that they hadn't before. He looks a bit older than Show Colin but younger than book Colin. And when they finally ask about what his world is like he just smiles sadly.

It turns out was the one who made the wish to meet the other Colins because he wanted to know that there was at least one universe out there where he ended up with Penelope. Because in his universe, she is now forever beyond his reach (death,married happily to someone else, etc.) before he ever spoke of his feelings to her or realized them. But at least it seems like in every other universe they are destined to be together which brings him some comfort.

I could probably make it more angsty. Who remembers some of my earlier crack shipping posts, partically this one. Link

Well to sum it up in that post Daphne and Penelope fell in love before Penelope's first season. They come up with an idea for a lavender marriage for Daphne to a husband who wants an heir and after that does not care what Daphne does. When the season starts the girls start hunting for a sperm donor.

Taking into account that by the books Colin was gone for roughly a year before the Duke and I, I can easily see it sliding into place in the No Pen Colin's world. Because wouldn't that be something, not only do you lose the love of your life to someone else but that someone else is your favorite sister. Then you can't discuss with anyone because that would put two people you love in danger and No Pen Colin would never risk either of their lives like that.

So, No Pen Colin stays silent after he figures it out. He stays silent as Penelope takes employment as Daphne's companion, as their children's governess. He stays silent as he watches the two women raise their children under a lord who has no care what his wife does so long as the heir to his estate is alive and able to take over. He stays silent as at their hidden joy when Daphne's husband dies so they no longer have to hide in their own home.

No Pen Colin stays silent, becoming their silent protector because despite his personal heartbreak he loves these two women, and they love him. Their happiness is enough for him. If he has to travel sometimes to tend to his heartbreak so he can continue he self-assigned duty, he thinks nobody could fault him.

It's during one of these trips that he learns about concepts like reincarnation, and how one choice can completely change your life path. No Pen Colin wonders if at least one of these worlds have him married to Penelope.

When wakes up in a house in Bloomsbury with so many different versions of himself, all of them married or together with Penelope, No Pen Colin finds himself given a comfort he didn't have before, and maybe his heart heals just a little.

[writtenbygracewilliams]

This ask was me 🤭. Something about the idea of Polin fleeing to Bowral was too good to pass up. It was supposed to be crack, but then I was crying by the end because apparently the only thing I can write is angst. Also this is the first Polin I’ve written??? Aight.

My asks and requests are always open lovely people ily, and thanks for the inspo Molly

–Grace Williams xo

It was something neither Penelope nor Colin realised to consider. Colin could have, given Penelope told him about her alter ego during their engagement. Eloise wouldn’t have allowed the marriage to proceed otherwise.

Colin was slow to wrap his head around it, but he didn’t see another choice. This was still the same Penelope he fell in love with, and no part of him could stomach existing without being able to freely love her.

They got married, went on a honeymoon to Paris, and that was how the problem started. Lady Whistledown stopped writing, suddenly, in the middle of the social season, and it coincided with Colin and Penelope’s wedding then honeymoon.

Eloise and Madame Delacroix were still the only others who knew, and Eloise briefly considered giving it a go and trying to write for her friend. [Where exactly they stood remained complicated, but they were also family now.] Delacroix took one look at Eloise’s writing and said that, despite its reasonable quality, it was not able to pass as Lady Whistledown.

The mid season absence might have been okay, able to be glossed over, but that was until Lady Whistledown published again—two days after the newlywed’s return from Paris.

Gossip, the ton’s greatest fuel source, was copious. Anthony was absolutely livid, probably moments from bursting a blood vessel. Colin couldn’t work out if Anthony was more enraged about the fact his younger brother married the most prolific gossip columnist, or that a one month honeymoon unravelled the entire thing. Kate told him to relax, somewhat helpfully pointing out that what’s done is done.

Even if the Bridgerton’s came around, convinced largely by Kate and Eloise, and the Featherington’s reluctantly accepted the matter, the ton didn’t need it to be confirmed for their attitude to sour.

Lady Danbury was the catalyst for change. She quietly told Penelope of her admiration, though would of course deny it if ever asked. Still a member of The Queen’s court, she used such privilege to protect Penelope and Colin. She told them they had to leave now. The Queen was going to send for them the following morning, and it would not be a friendly conversation.

It was late in the evening, the sun well and truly set, when they stared at the ship in the docks. Violet, Anthony, Kate, Benedict, Eloise and Portia had come to wish them a solemn bon voyage.

“Must you travel so far?” Anthony asked gruffly.

“New South Wales will make a nice home. I hear it is always sunny,” Colin replied, set in his decision. They didn’t have a lot of choices, and one eight months away by boat seemed a safe one.

On the tail end of her goodbyes, Penelope hugged Eloise tightly. “I know I did not make our friendship easy, but I will miss you greatly.”

“Nor did I,” Eloise snorted, “and I will miss your company immensely. It will be slow, but we must write. I will get my own personal Lady Whistledown, for a ton on the other side of the world.”

“Of course,” Penelope giggled, “I have written a goodbye. In one week, when we are safely on our journey, you must give it to Madame Delacroix.”

“Pen—“

“You must.”

Penelope insisted, and pushed a folded wad of papers into her best friend’s hand. Colin took his wife’s hand as the farewells begun to waver, the two of them traipsing onto the ship forlornly. Penelope didn’t expect this to be the result of Lady Whistledown when she started it, but she would choose her husband and future children everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.

Dearest Gentle Reader,

The ton has long been fuelled by gnatterings of scandal throughout the social season.

A well guarded secret, this author’s identity has long been cause for speculation. The royal household, so it is said, is most intrigued. It is a grave disappointment that an unsubstantiated rumour may dim the light of any newlyweds. Indeed, the latest scandal is so speculative that it may ruin the name of not one but two Mayfair families.

There is no doubt of the frantic haste at which you may be reading, in hope of clues or confirmation. As written in the first publication of 1813, ‘you do not know me, and rest assured, you never shall.’

–Yours truly, Lady Whistledown

Would like to say, not only are you one of my absolute fave Bridgerton accs, it brings me so much joy that you are also Australian and I’m not gonna wake up to 76 missed posts.

Also no one else realises how insane a Bowral premiere was???? Like there are lots of pretty places in places bigger than a town with only 10k people we were literally colonised during the Georgian/regency period??? Idk I still haven’t recovered from Netflix trekking a pile of media, influencers and then two huge actors to BOWRAL of all places 😭 what was that thought process

Just needed to get that off my chest to someone who would understand

Someone commented on my prediction video and said they didn’t realise I was Australian until I started talking which is crazy because I feel like I talk about it all the time.

Literally… insane to have it in Bowral? Like… why? It’s a tiny town. Tiny. The town I live in has the same population. I’m still confused. Still no answers. Like… is there a tie in we don’t know yet? Are Colin and Penelope fleeing to Australia at the end of the season?? Wild.