#colin in black & white

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Polin + Kisses - Season 3

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Or you’re gonna be a puddle of water tomorrow

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The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)

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behind the scenes - polin (wedding version)

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Coline Aulagnier

by Arthur Hubert Legrand

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Lukey Newts 🖤🤍

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Colin Jones. Scotswood Road. Newcastle, England. 1963

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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Luke Newton 💜💜

Handsome Bridgerton Star Leading Season Three as Colin Bridgerton 💜💜💜

Seen here in a superb photoshoot for WWD 💜

Photo Credits: Jenna Greene 💜

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Quick Merlin sketch i did at work.. (I know he only has one eye, I hate doing the other eye, shut up!!)

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DOLORES DEL RIO AND COLIN CLIVE IN THE WIDOW FROM MONTE CARLO (1935)

image from vogue

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#the eyebrows!!

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How could anyone say this wasn't the right music for Pen and Colin? 😭 juss binged again and lordt, it's so perfect for them 😪

Because they love out loud. So why shouldn't their special scene be out loud as well?

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I'm honestly no big book fan, and for Eloise I'm like "as different to the book as they can make it, the better." (Not here to see her shuffled off into marriage to a guy who just wants her to keep house and look after his babies for him, her worst nightmare), but after this season there is one book moment I'm ready for, and that's Colin (and Anthony and Benedict obvs) beating the shit out of someone he thinks hurt his little sister. Repaying the favour for this season.

yessssss the way I NEED to see Colin step up for Eloise the same way Eloise stepped up for him. Like that's his little sister, your honor, he would kill for her. (but would also drink soup at the table when he found out she was fine, because okay El, I respect your choices)

I keep thinking about Season 2, when Colin knew about Eloise going off to the printer shop to study feminism and politics, and how he kept quiet. I keep thinking about Colin coming back from his travels with a feminist text for Eloise, which was very much not in wide circulation at the time. I think about how Colin tries to understand her in a way not many do. I think about Eloise telling him she wanted to spare him heartbreak. I think about Eloise telling Penelope she must be honest with her brother, because otherwise it is a disservice. I think about how she hugged him at the start of the season, and at the end, so so tight. I think about Colin and Eloise, and how young the two of them are, and how close in age, and how they had their differences, but also had appreciation for each other.

I don't know. I love them both so dearly. I want their relationship to keep being a highlight.

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The Polin fandom (over)reaction and discussion around the Marina plot always blows me away because people are so over the top about it. Like, I also didn’t love it, but I sense for incredibly different reasons.

For me, the issue is more that it doesn’t treat Colin as his own character and rather just as the plot device that exists to develop Marina and mostly Pen. Colin gets basically zero POV and *that* bugs me. It could be a great story for his development but he’s essentially forgotten. He’s betrayed by the first woman he believes himself in love with and is exposed to that truth along with everyone else in highly public and humiliating fashion. That would rattle a person’s confidence in their ability to trust their own instincts to the core! And now it’s going to happen again! He’s going to fall in love with someone who is keeping a massive and potentially life-altering secret from him. How would he not see and have to grapple with that parallel? But none of that matters to the majority of the Polin fandom.

For a lot of people, it seems to be more about the fact that Colin is supposed to “belong” to Pen and him having any interest in someone else makes him lesser. Him and how he was impacted matters way less than that it made Pen sad to watch it.

Hence why so many want Colin to have to “watch Pen with someone else like she had to do” Which completely ignores the actual story that played out with Marina and how, while I understand and empathize with her, she was not an actual LI for him?

Side note: That also kind of reflects in how the fandom casts Marina so often as the villain/punching bag but rarely is that focus on her impact on Colin. It’s almost always about Pen and how *she* felt. People care more about one unkind moment, done out of fear and desperation, of Marina towards Pen than they do about the totality of Colin.

I also think, and this is the most controversial part, that people do know deep down that how Pen handled things with LW wasn’t great but, despite complaining that no one accepts her complexity, they don’t want to grapple with her choices or actually allow her that complexity. Hence, Marina bad but also somehow Colin bad so they must suffer for causing Pen pain (however indirectly) while we must brush past the impact that LW and Pen’s choices had on Marina and will continue to have on Colin. It’s also why Colin’s pain and how he was impacted only really seems to come up when people want to make Marina look like a villain so they can argue that Pen did nothing wrong. All initial discussions about the Marina storyline centre Pen and how it made her feel.

It’s why, again, people are so ready for Colin to “suffer” and uplifting some random plot device character (I have not and will not bother to learn his name.) Because, at the end of the day, even though the person actually most hurt and impacted by Marina *and* Penelope’s choices was Colin, he committed the ultimate sin of liking someone before Pen and that matters more to most of this fandom. Because, if most of us are truly honest, Colin doesn’t matter to this fandom other than as an extension of Pen. He is her prize and not his own worthy of development and complexity character.

P. S. If you don’t believe me, spend 2 minutes perusing the Ao3 page for Polin. How many stories are about Colin truly grappling with everything vs him being ‘punished’? And how often does that ‘punishment’ feature Marina cheating on/mistreating/abusing him but still focus mostly on Pen? Spoiler: it’s a huge chunk.