#edwina best

[lesbian-tsumugi]

the founder of my nightmare legacy challenge just aged up into an elder and I'm sad- I'm gonna miss her when she dies

[sejanuspiinth]

MISS EDWINA HAS MADE A EXPLENDID MATCH ABROAD

is this how fredwina is made canon

[bitchypuppystarlight]

I genuinely do not understand how anyone could feel that Kate was the villain. Did she mess up? Yeah, she did, but she was trying to do what she thought would bring her sister the most happiness. She was willing to sacrifice everything for Edwina. She should have been honest with Edwina. She should have trusted in the love Edwina & Lady Mary had for her. But no one can possibly deny that her heart was in the right place and she had the best of intentions.

[maevelin]

Why did we not get a bridesmaid and a best man?

I did like the combination of yellow and lilac flowers for the Polin wedding in the church.

I have a question though...why didn't we get a best man for Colin and a bridesmaid for Penelope?

[snapewives-supremacy]

my friend likes to make memes based on my posts so have fun with these lol

[sunny-sun-flowers]

I leave this drawing about Eddie the nun 🏃🏽‍♀️

I still love the shadows I'm giving to my drawings!!!!!

[mariailoveyou-guerin]

I love the fact that Violet favorite children are colin because he is most like Edmund and Violet he’s a combination of them the romantic side of Edmund and the good kind giving side of violet seeing the best in everyone and always being forgiving, Eloise because she’s most like younger her and Benedict because he looks the most like Edmund which gives her so much comfort. Colin being everyone favourite why wouldn’t he be Daphne book Eloise Benedict all say or show he’s their favorite especially his mother as he should be!

Show Eloise fav is Benedict the fact not a single one of the siblings has Anthony as favorite not bit surprising really he’s always been cruel trying to sell his sister off talking down on belting Benedict about his love for art

I get why Violet who clearly loves him but still not as much as the other older boys because he just got a title after his father di*ed and was gonna decide to k1ll her unborn child the last thing she has connecting her to Edmund, she’s a mother duh ofc she loves him but that’s just to evil also the fact he has the personality that only a mother can love don’t help him not being his siblings favourite always forcing them to do things they don’t want or feel like it really is just heychint that likes him and that’s only because she doesn’t know her beloved big brother tried to end her life before she was even born I know she wouldn’t feel the same if she ever found out about that so kinda wish she finds out in her season that would be a scandal so good for the ton/us!

Love how Colin was the only child to seek out his mom advice on love romance and life anythin really and how she always seeks him out for comfort and for someone to talk too they have such beautiful relationships 🥹🥹

this is Colin talking about love and friendship at their family ball in public when all her children especially the oldest are always running away from her even at home let alone talking to her in public wanting her advice on love that’s on best boy that’s on mama favorite baby!!

I’m sure there’s a study on mothers and their love for their youngest baby boys and Colin violet fit that study

didn’t she tell Anthony to let Colin travel exactly queen tell that money hungry egotistical mogul how her man money is spent just like he would’ve wanted seeing his kids do whatever they want and seeing the world if that is what they wanna spend the money on, like how is he always questioning Colin whenever he wanna travel plz as if he didn’t spend half the fortune on being the town rake I’m need that man to be serious for a minute in his life it’s not even his money but their money her money and his 💀 fathers money at least Colin getting to learn languages cultures and getting life time of knowledge!

[writtenbygracewilliams]

Me posting another one shot instead of editing my finished multi chap? More likely than you think.

Bittersweet

FRANWINA SUPERIORITY HAPPY GAY WEEK.

Summary:

Edwina’s life after the 1814 season isn’t what she expected, but it changes even more after another letter from her sister.

or

Edwina wants be something for Francesca after John dies.

Additional Tags:

Canon divergence, canon compliant, post canon fix-it, sapphics, rare pair, not historically accurate acceptance of queers, because I want the girlies happy, I wrote this instead of sleeping, no beta we die like Edmund

–Grace Williams xo

P.S. vote Franwina in the LGBridgertonQA poll and I’ll give you a cookie

[aspoonfuloffiction]

Rereading (well re-listening to) A Rogue by Any Other Name cause I’m bored and I am once again wishing Netflix was brave enough to give Edwina the Penelope Marbury treatment.

[apinchofm]

I've seen you use Tom Sturridge as a faceclaim for Mr Bagwell a few times and I know it's just a gif of him as Dream that you're using but at the same time I can't help but imagine Dream himself becoming infatuated with Edwina. Who knows how that would happen but lmao just imagine Edwina trying to explain that to her family.

I feel like Dream would definitely be interested in Edwina. She would probably remind him of some gentle deity or fae with her pink dresses and bright outlook on life. Starts going into her dreams because they are so pure and she instantly befriends him. He goes with her from India to Britain. Wants to protect her from the English lol

Meanwhile, Edwina sees him at a ball after weeks of seeing him in her subconscious. Is very confused but

"I believe I met that man?"

"Where?" Kate asked

"In my dreams."

"How sweet, Ed."

"No, as in he was literally in my dream!"

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

The Princess of Wales & 3 uplifting events

[msfangirlgonewild]

Hell yesh ♥️

BRIDGERTON CAST READING THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME

[woahjo]

i have to say something... please don't be mad.... i... really don't like edwina...

[wr1tten]

𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚  𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗧  𝗛𝗘𝗥  𝗘𝗗𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗔  𝗪𝗔𝗦  𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗗.      though  she  woke  up  𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒚  beside  her  husband;      being  a  𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚜  meant  no  longer  spending  her  mornings  having  tea  with  her  sister.      the  rare  𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐞  between  just  the  two  of  them  was  a  moment  much  ᴄʜᴇʀɪꜱʜᴇᴅ,            ❝    𝒃𝒐𝒏,    you  are  positively  ᴿᴬᴰᴵᴬᴺᵀ  this  afternoon.      could  that  𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙬  be  coming  from  a  𝑛𝑒𝑤  𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟?    ❞            just  because  her  𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚍𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜  with  edwina’s  season  prior  were  unsuccessful            (    𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩  𝘸𝘢𝘴  𝘢  𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦  𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮,    𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨  𝘪𝘵  𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵  𝘵𝘩𝘦  𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯  𝘰𝘧  𝘢  𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦    )             did  not  mean  kate  intended  to  𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥  𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠  this  season.            ❝    make  sure  it  is  a  ʟᴏᴠᴇ  ᴍᴀᴛᴄʜ,    my  dear  sister.      𝑛𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔  𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒  𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠,    ❞            it  was  once  that  kate  thought  love  would  be  hard  to  find    —    but  if  she,    𝘵𝘩𝘦  𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘯  𝘪𝘯  𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺  𝘢  𝘮𝘢𝘯’𝘴  𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦,    could  find  her  match,    there  was  𝚗𝚘  𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗  edwina  would.      her  gloved  palm  slipped  into  that  of  her  sister’s,            ❝    i  suppose  that  is  not  𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚  true.      if  you  fall  in  love  with  a  complete  𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐞,    𝑖  𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙  𝘩𝑎𝑣𝑒  𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔  𝑡𝑜  𝑠𝑎𝑦  𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡  𝑖𝑡.    ❞

closed starter for @divnties

[aeternallis]

Colin's "entrapment" line was hard to listen to, but it was most definitely a sign of how unhinged he really is for Penelope.

Ok but for reals, I'm not sure how everyone else reacted when Colin said his now infamous "entrapment" line, but I just love how if one looks at this line a little more closely, it was definitely some semblance of an underhanded (and also a bit silly, lol) attempt to actually keep Penelope entrapped. Haha, the irony of it all. Idk, at least that was my read on it!

Like, it was definitely said in anger as well; he's hurting, and he’s hurting badly, so of course he wants to hit back in some way, however he can. Luke Newton absolutely meant it when he said that Colin reacts to the reveal in the worst way possible, alas.

My very first reaction to that scene: //pauses the screen to yell at Colin at 4am in the morning, “Entrapment????! If you feel trapped, then why the hell are you still going along with it, ya dumb ass!!!

Because really, think about it: Colin was definitely within his rights to call off the wedding, especially when he'd mentioned that Violet had noticed that he and Penelope had not seen each other for some time. It would have been the perfect time to reveal Penelope's secret to his mother, if indeed he felt entrapped by the LW of it all. Violet is family; if he wanted to still protect Penelope but no longer wanted to marry her, he would have been able to count on Violet's discretion. I'm sure she and Lady Danbury would have come up with some sort of plan to deal with the aftermath regarding the Bridgertons’ reputation, as we'd seen with Anthony and Edwina's botched wedding.

Furthermore, it would have probably been the better option to reveal it to her, since the existence of LW does put his family in danger; Penelope herself knows this. Every decision she makes post-LW reveal to Colin is due to the Bridgertons being in danger. Lady Danbury makes a point of this when she said in the last episode, “There is only one other person who loves the Bridgertons more than I.”

Eloise was able to keep the secret with no real consequences because although Penelope was her ex-bff, El still loves her, and besides that, nothing legal binds them as Colin's marriage to Penelope would.

Even when he was getting ready to talk to Benedict about getting funds to fulfill Cressida’s demands, he insisted on making up a lie to shield Penelope’s identity as LW. He knows more than anything that fulfilling a demand like this, all for the sake of his wife and at the cost of using a substantial amount of Bridgertons’ financial assets, may not put his marriage in the best light within his family. He doesn’t want to be forced to have to choose between his wife and his family, so he’s keen on keeping the lie going.

So for all intents and purposes, he doesn't tell his mother, or any of his other siblings (besides Eloise, who already knew); this in and of itself is hella fucking risky. The fact that Colin is willing to take this risk of withholding Penelope's secret identity from his family, the fact that he doesn't think to jeopardize this potentially risky betrothal—already goes to show the measure in regards to how much he wants Pen for his wife. We the audience know this because he waits until the very last minute to tell Violet, and even then, it's not Colin who chose to reveal it to her, but Penelope herself.

Another point: arguably, we can also say that Colin has a lot more wiggle room with his engagement to Penelope to call off the wedding, much more than he ever did with his engagement to Marina.

"A man of honor"? Exactly what "honor" are we talking about here? Colin claimed that he would have married Marina had she just told him the truth, yet when push came to shove and the truth of her pregnancy was revealed for all the world to know, he still chose to take the out Penelope gave him through LW. It’s easier to make a declaration like that when it’s all said and done. Lol Sure, he regretted it and apologized for his behavior later on, but he had made his choice regardless. Y’all can just feel Marina and Lady Danbury judging this dumb ass (affectionate) for dwelling in the past. Silly young man! XD What's stopping him this time around?

"We had been...intimate." Are you talking about the mirror scene, sir? Because let me assure you, you and Penelope have long been "intimate" way before you decided to buy a love nest and take her V-card the very next day you proposed to her. In fact, this is where the significance of their first kiss in 3.02 rings so, SO importantly and WHY it was vital that it was Penelope who asked and said that it would not have to mean anything. Colin knows Penelope would never use their first time together and/or the heated moment in the carriage as a way to entrap him. That first kiss alone should have already warranted that they get married, but Penelope makes it clear that it’s simply a favor, nothing more.

Oddly enough, I’m surprised Colin doesn’t bring up the idea of a long engagement (yknow, as he initially wanted with Marina, but who’s keeping track at this point), considering that would have potentially benefitted their situation. 🤔 His dumb ass (affectionate) was more than willing to stick to the wedding schedule…huh.

Besides all that, I don’t think it’s the showrunners’ intent to “taint” those special moments between them by changing the context through Colin’s (very biased) POV; to believe that to be the case would be, imo, just a bad faith argument. The genre is romance, y’all; these intimacy scenes are on an entirely different pedestal.

Because remember, that “entrapment” line of Colin’s only came about due to Penelope starting the conversation with, “Are you going to call off the wedding?”

Didn’t it almost seem like an afterthought, that he just came up with it on the spot? Hahaha.

I can bet y’all Cressida’s fake ass €20,000 blackmail money that before they’d met up to discuss wedding breakfast plans with their mamas, it had probably never even occurred to Colin to cancel their wedding. Angry and furious as he was, it was never a question of whether or not he still wanted Penelope for a wife.

The fact that it’s Penelope who begins that conversation and opens that Pandora’s box possibility is so, so damn important. Because not only does it show how much Penelope truly loves him in that she would never trap him, it also shows her maturity, in that she’s willing to face the consequences of her actions. She’s willing to give Colin the choice to back out, heartbreaking as it would be to face it, even if she herself would not be the one to pursue that choice.

She gives him the choice a good number of times: the wedding breakfast plan scene, the wedding day itself when she hesitates on the aisle, and the annulment offer after the butterfly scene.

Penelope defends herself softly, but truthfully: she never meant to entrap him, because she really didn’t. And Colin knows this; he would not still love her and want her if he honestly believed she wanted to entrap him. Hell, even if she did, the audience knows it’s a desire that comes from a good place: she loves him, so of course she doesn’t want to lose him. She wants to marry him, because she loves him. That’s all there is to it.

But despite knowing this (imo, anyway), we can also say that this conversation may have contributed to Colin’s downward spiral during the majority of episode 7 and 8, and why he becomes hella fucking desperate to be “useful” to her.

Because unlike himself, Penelope has now begun to entertain the idea of living a life that doesn’t include him—at least, not as her husband. Penelope is brave and strong enough to let him go due to the pain she caused him for her lies and her actions as LW, and as for Colin…well…

(I love it, it’s the same conundrum that Anthony faced in S2: Kate is strong enough to leave him behind and return to India, but Anthony…well…)

TL;DR, Colin’s entrapment line was literally an excuse he gave himself to keep his betrothal to Penelope intact. It’s a line that works in two ways simultaneously: it’s a painful, childish, underhanded thing to say in order to hurt Penelope’s feelings, to get back at her for the anguish he’s suffered. Yet at the same time, it’s also another excuse he gives himself in order to push through with the marriage, to tie Penelope to himself forever.

Because unlike Penelope, the very idea of living without her as his wife, of not having her in his life, is and always will be an impossible notion for Colin to ever entertain.

[andmineisyellow]

I've seen some criticism of Colin for not giving Penelope as much grace as he did Marina. That him being upset with Pen for as long as he was, was unfair and inconsistent with his character. I disagree.

As Charithra correctly pointed out about the love triangle last season, Edwina was more upset with Kate because she loved Kate more. When Anthony betrayed her, he became irrelevant. Just some asshole guy she knew for a few months who was no longer worth her time. But Kate is her sister, a pillar in her life. Someone she has never had to question before that point.

Colin was infatuated with Marina, but he loves Pen. She's his best friend who he's been open and vulnerabe with in a way he's never been with anyone else. He layed his heart and his truth out on the line for her thinking she was doing the same. And she lied to him about one of the most important parts of her life. For two and a half years. When Marina lied to Colin, he was heartbroken and guilt-ridden but the rest of his life went unchanged. When Penelope lied, his entire reality was turned inside out. That is why Colin is harder on her. Because the pain cuts him so much deeper then it did with Marina.

Colin had the right to be upset. But even when he was upset, he still chose to love her. And that's what's important.