#i miss s1 basically

[thebluemallet]

What Colin Calls Penelope In Bridgerton

Between Part 1 and 2 of season 3, I made a post about wanting to see the numbers on what Colin calls Penelope throughout the show because I thought there was a significant increase in the use of "Penelope" over "Pen" as their relationship matured.

Well, I did a very quick rewatch of seasons 1 and 2 (basically fast-forwarding to the parts I knew Colin and Pen would either interact or Colin would mention Penelope) and a rewatch of season 3. AND I HAVE THE NUMBERS!

So here's a breakdown on what Colin calls Penelope through all three seasons of Bridgerton. I'll give the total as well as if it was said directly to Penelope or to other people.

(If someone wants to make a chart or something with all of this data, I would not hate that)

Pen

Season 1- 8 (directly)

Season 2- 10 (directly)

Season 3- 23 (directly); 1 (indirectly); 1 (unclear. He said it to Dream Penelope); 25 total.

Total number of times Colin has called Penelope "Pen"- 43

The rest is below the cut because this post got long!!

Miss Featherington

Season 1- 1 (indirectly)

Season 2- none

Season 3- 1 (directly); 2 (indirectly); 3 total

Total number of times Colin has called Penlope "Miss Featherington"- 4

Penelope

Season 1- 1 (directly)

Season 2- 1 (directly); 1 (indirectly); 1 (unclear. He was talking to Penelope but quoting himself--"I said to myself, 'If Penelope can see me this way...'"); 3 total

Season 3- 5 (directly); 22 (indirectly); 27 total

Total number of times Colin has called Penelope "Penelope"- 31

Miss Penelope

Season 2- 1 (indirectly)

Total number of times Colin has called Penelope "Miss Penelope"- 1

Penelope Featherington

Season 1- none

Season 2- 2 (indirectly)

Season 3- 3 (directly)

Total number of times Colin has called Penelope "Penelope Featherington"- 5

Auntie Penelope

Season 3- 1 (indirectly)

Total number of time Colin has called Penelope "Auntie Penelope"- 1

If I lumped "Miss Penelope," "Penelope Featherington," and "Auntie Penelope," into the same group with "Penelope," then Colin has called her Penelope a total of 38 times throughout the series. Which means "Pen" is still the winner.

And if any of you were curious, he called her "my bride-to-be" 1 time (directly), his "future wife" 2 times (directly and indirectly), "my wife" 2 times (both indirectly), and of course, as we all know, he called her "Mrs. Bridgerton" 1 time in the final episode.

[baeshijima]

as much as i love and adore my silly goofy bratty bastard cheongmyeong, i also love and adore my super serious number one martial artsist, master of the blossoming blade cheongmyeong…

genuinely so in love with him both in his first life and second life like yes that is the same 100+ probably year old man but thats MY protagonist who makes me giggle twirl my hair bust out laughing burst into tears and turn into an emotional wreck over :D

also have a silly cute adorable baekcheon bc i also adore him sm :((

anyway read return of the blossoming blade. like. right now. novel or manhwa/webtoon. pls. it really is one of my all time favourites and i have never been able to get over it for the past few years. sob sob.

[littlespoonevan]

i know s7 is effectively a chess board in which tim minear is moving all of his pieces right where he wants them so he can get Back To Business™ in s8 but oh what i would give right now for an episode a la stuck or pinned or future tense with 3-4 low stakes calls that all somehow tie in with the name of the ep and link thematically with the main characters' individual plot lines

[1nt3rnalpu7ref4ct10n]

s2e8

[spearxwind]

so does anyone actually know what happened exactly with subnautica below zero? I feel like ive asked this before but i dont recall

all i know is i remember reading developer blogs where they mentioned that the lead writer changed midway through development and there was some sort of situation where the dev team rewrote absolutely everything that the original writer had done to the point where it was unrecognizeable

cause the early access iterations of SBZ had a drastically different story and plot thread, so playing through it on full release was just... not good

[psychopomp-namine]

I actually have a fic idea but lc is a show that's like. you will never ever have all the information and context until the end. and I am a writer who writes best and more confidently when I have all the info and context at my fingertips. so now I'm just like 🧍‍♂️

anyway. ramble in the tags

[girlbob-boypants]

Of course they do my girl Orianna dirty as a fucking 'this happened offscreen btw' 2 second clip.

[bitter-goodbyes]

OMG HELLO?????

[milkovichrules]

Keys to the Heart by milkovichrules

Chapter 3: It's Just a Little Crush

“Don’t ask. He’s got a boyfriend.” “He does? I did not get that vibe. Did he tell you that?” “Not exactly. But there is the whole aforementioned loud, frequent sex issue.” “Wait, Mickey is the guy getting railed next door to you?” “Do you have to say it like that?”

Read here | Playlist

[oneguardian15]

jesus christ almighty. i watch like an episode and a half of good omens two nights ago on a whim bc, despite starting out as a good omens fan blog back in 2019 and staying solely as such for an entire year and a half, i haven’t actually watched the show since i first watched it in july 2019 (almost FIVE years ago), and all the feelings just flooded back to me, like i never ever left. now i’m reading-reading my good omens fics that i have bookmarked on ao3 in the reverse order that i read them before and i can’t stop. it’s like a craving and a need to consume them. it’s honestly so surreal though, feeling this way again. it’s like a science experiment and i’m the subject.

[lonely-night]

imagine dahj, soji, naomi and mezoti team up it would be glorious

[gaysheep]

I MISS SKIPPER PAVILION

I MISS SHELLENDORF INSTITUTE

AND I MISS STARFISH MAINSTAGE

[kazu-naito]

Omg I can't believe I found someone else who isn't into the WTC LIs I swear if it wasn't for Renato I wouldn't be reading this story at all

Give me my pretty boys and nothing else 💗

LMAO HELLO!!!

i'm usually very fast to choose a li but this book got me STUCK i didn't like any of them enough in any aspects and the very slow pacing isn't doing anything to make them grow on me

[osomatsusan2015]

I havent watched ososan in a while but why do I feel like doctor t is the first like actual skit they've done in a while

[failchild]

i can write so much more about why i think severance S2 isn't as strong or enjoyable as S1, but i could truly go on forever so i've organized my thoughts into three categories: lack of inter/departmental connection, dropped storylines, and how the world feels much smaller (1.2k words under the cut)

lack of inter/departmental connection

a significant theme of the S2 finale is the solidarity between different severed departments. MDR, mammalians nurturable, and the marching band department become impromptu allies against lumon management. innie mark is hesitant to save gemma not just because he might cease to exist, but so might the entire severed department. so why wasn't this a theme throughout the whole season?

episode 3 was building up to this: mark and "helly" made contact with mammalians nurturable, and irving visited O&D to share a nice moment with felicia. but that interdepartmental connection is completely dropped until the the finale, seven episodes later.

innie mark's concern for all severed workers rings a bit hollow when he doesn't seem to care about the three innies he got terminated in episode 1, and hasn't thought about irving at all. (i know ignoring grief is mark's whole thing, but he's known irving his whole life! there's not even a single moment of him acknowledging irving after his firing.) like, okay, mark said innie rights! does he really demonstrate that throughout the season, though?

EDIT: oh my god, miss casey—innie mark willingly killed miss casey. if he was truly so concerned about every innie, shouldn't he have been conflicted about leading her to her death? the person he said "we're people, not parts of people" to? the person he said "no one gets to just turn you off" to? (mark! you just turned her off!)

what stands out more is the lack of connection within MDR itself: once irving's gone, MDR just doesn't seem to care about each other. their tight-knit friendship and "we're in this together" dynamic is supplanted by romance. sure, mark and helly love each other now—why does that have to come at the cost of their friendship with dylan? do they just not care that he's been disappearing for half the work day? in the S2 finale, it's a great character moment for dylan when he comes to the rescue, but would helly and mark do the same for him? they didn't seem to notice or care that he was gone for mark's completion of cold harbor.

dropped storylines and dramatic twists that lead nowhere

(i know how television works, i know that plotlines that begin in one season can get resolved in another. okay. now that's out of the way)

remember how bold of a decision it was to have mark reintegrate in episode 3? the building of tension, reghabi asking an increasingly confused mark basic questions ("what season is it?" "you mean, what quarter?"), mark waking up on the severed floor table, and the triumphant soundtrack that follows? none of that seems to matter now: reghabi is out of the picture and mark doesn't get reintegration sickness or hallucinations anymore. reghabi kept warning mark to not move his head—then he fell to the ground and slammed his head, and was beaten in the head by drummond. is his brain okay? did the reintegration process even happen? did i dream this plotline? where am i?

what did the undercover helena plot accomplish? okay, so it was crazy when irving revealed that helena was impersonating helly. what exactly were the consequences of this? besides irving getting fired, there were barely any ripple effects for this seemingly momentous betrayal—mark was uncomfortable for two episodes, and helly was upset for, like, ten minutes tops. it's a fun plot twist for sure, but it doesn't seem to truly affect the character it should matter most to, and helly isn't given the time to wrestle with the fact that she's an eagan (royalty! a god!) and found out mere hours ago. we get to know helena a bit, i guess, but she was already compelling when she was just a face on a TV screen, telling helly that she wasn't a person.

speaking of irving's firing, this was the perfect setup for learning more about his outie, but we learn nothing. we have the same questions as we did in S1: who's he working with? what's his motivation to infiltrate lumon? why does he know about the elevator to the testing floor? irving is just as much of a mystery as he was in S1—and now we don't know if we'll ever see him again and get answers to those crucial character questions.

milchick has undoubtedly the best character arc this season. in episode 9 he finally snaps at upper management and can barely process what it means when outie mark tells him, "work's just work". i don't think milchick would turn his back on lumon entirely, that wouldn't be realistic, but all his character moments throughout the season seemed to be culminating to him realizing that, yeah, work is just work, it's not that serious. it makes sense that he would try his hardest to escape the bathroom, then get greeted by an innie uprising—but that would have also happened to a S1 milchick. after the kier animatronic microaggressions and all the shit he has to do to prepare for cold harbor's completion, would he really try to escape the bathroom that hard? or would he be having a midlife crisis, staring himself down in a mirror? i'm genuinely not sure.

i know i'm in the minority here but i loved ricken in S1—he and his strange followers bring an earnestness and sense of humor that made the show feel unique in how it juggled wildly different tones. ricken was also crucial to the innie story, and helped innie mark realize his potential as a human being. but besides appearing in a single flashback during the gemma episode, ricken's been completely absent since episode 3. what happened to his lumon sellout arc? what does he think his wife, who he has a newborn baby with, is doing? did he die in a private yacht explosion?

we still don't know what cold harbor is, right? we know that each file MDR completes is another room for gemma, but what's cold harbor specifically, and why would it kill her? she starts to disassemble a crib without feeling negative emotions—how is that any different from any other innie? is the point to sever away specific trauma? is that really it? and again, why would that kill her?

the world feels much smaller

the world outside of lumon is absent in S2. S1 had ricken and his weird friends, mark going on dates, back alley concerts, anti-severance protests, snippets of the news—there was life outside of lumon! S2 leaves that all behind to tighten focus on lumon and the people directly involved in the company, which makes the story very insular.

characters are so vitally important now: helly is an eagan, mark is the only one who can finish cold harbor and cold harbor is The Most Important Thing In The World We Have To Complete It Now, everything MDR does is because of gemma, and cobel invented severance. everyone else feels supplemental—people like irving and ricken can be easily discarded. the science fiction aspects, which were bizarre and unknowable in S1, are now directly personal to everyone. it's like milchick lying about the tallest waterfall in the world: it just makes everything seem smaller.

this also muddies S1's central themes and satire of the corporate world. mark isn't just another cog in the machine anymore, he's the most important guy (they fired and rehired a bunch of people, just for him!). the work isn't mysterious anymore, we know exactly what they're doing. mark being an ordinary guy who goes to an office job he doesn't really understand was the point of the corporate satire. severance just isn't interested in that anymore, which i guess is understandable; the show can grow into something different. but using a sci-fi concept to comment on office culture and the different personas we inhabit for work was so clever and special, and now they're just exploring well-trodden ground like identity and what it means to be human. sci-fi has already done that one, guys! many times!

again, i can say a lot more but i think this sums up my main thoughts. and i generally liked each episode individually, but when i look at the season as a whole it just doesn't cohere nearly as well as S1 did.

[k1mbe3rly]

Haii pooks I'm back with another request 😼 I didnt know if you write headcanons or squid game s1 characters the hc would be fem!reader relieving her stress/fear by sucking her partner's tits (so female characters)

The characters included : Sae Byeok (067) , ji yeong (240) , jun-hee (222) , young-mi (095) , Se-mi (380) , No eul (guard 011)

🔥🔥🔥

bet😩😩 lowkey bad since i barely do heacannons 💔

Sucking squid game women’s tits head cannons

featuring: Saebyeok (067), Ji yeong (240), Jun hee (222) but not pregnant, Young mi (095), Se-mi (380), No eul (guard 011)

warnings: smut, titty sucking.

Sae byeok:

- She’s the type of person to refuse at first since she wants to ‘focus’ on the games

- eventually she does give in and ask you too after tug of war

- She praises you when your sucking them

- After maybeee she’ll eat you out

Ji yeong:

- Most likely to ask you first after the game tug of war as well

- praises you as well, and strokes your hair while your sucking on them

- Would wanna feel your tongue in her boobs many times, probably even after lights out

- “Hey, after this game do you maybe..wanna.. like have some fun? as in sucking my boobs??” she asked with a cheeky smile

Jun hee:

- You were the first one to ask, She doesn’t miss the opportunity and quickly takes action, Especially after that mingle game? yeaaa she definitely needs it

- Probably doesn’t gaf is Myung gi sees yall..again

- Throws her head back with soft moans, maybe even grips on your hair a bit

- Maybe you suck on them one or two more times

Young mi:

- Gets very flustered when you asked her, you asked her after the six legs game, freezes for a whole minute before answering

- Is the type to hesitate, afraid yall are gonna get caught so she wants to wait till lights out

- Once lights out she covers her mouth to not make any sounds or to wake anyone up

- Poor baby would most likely cum and apologize for it

Se-mi:

- After Min-su basically betrayed her, you stayed with her and even after the mingle game asked to suck on her tits to make her feel better

- She might be a little rough like shoving you into them or even degrades you

- She groans out as she watches you, she lovesss feeling your tongue sucking and licking on them

- “Ah..you little slut. You’ve been wanting this huh?” “Fuckk you whore..you’ve done this before right? i could fucking tell”

No eul:

- Probably asks her after those guys cut her face a bit, your a guard as well btw

- She’ll let you but keeps her mask on, you kept your mask on as well put pulled it up enough to show your mouth

- She’ll probably even get more turned on by the way your tongue slides over her nipples and how well you suck ok them

- fingers you right after as an award for doing so well and for helping her, But after she kinda ignores you