#michaela thompson

[youlooklikeabeeandilikebees]

series 4 being human out of context

[thebubblesoutlet]

How to scare the Bridgerton fandom:

I love them 🥰🥰🥰

[lily-s-world]

Obsessed with how the Bridgertons are this group of socially losers rich kids, and yet they manage to rizz up the hottest people of the ton.

[kat-rose-griffith]

Actually it was a genius move to wait until Polin’s season to reveal that (at least) 2 of the Bridgerton siblings are queer because Nicola, being our wee lesbian from Derry Girls, brings a sapphic audience, most of who were waiting for her season to start watching Bridgerton, which they needed to defend their queer characters and maintain their numbers long enough to tell their stories

[liminaltrickster]

"There is certainly a darker, racist side to the fandom. There is an idea that the aesthetics of black and brown characters are wonderful, with many fans who spew hatred praising the beauty of the show. It seems that characters of colour are to be visually enjoyed while wearing bright colours, outrageous wigs and dancing beautifully to orchestral versions of Alicia Keys – but if any depth and meaning is given to them, all hell breaks loose on the internet."

- Yup.

—

Bridgerton:

The contingent of this fandom that refuses to interrogate its internalized racism, homophobia and misogyny:

The rest of us:

[dollypopup]

It's not enough for me to defend Michaela Sterling and Eloise Bridgerton and Cressida Cowper and Marina Thompson and Edwina Sharma online

I need a gun

[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!

[existential-queeer]

Gender-swapping Michael Stirling gave me the happiest little heart attack I have ever had and the wlw season they will have is going to be BEAUTIFUL

But if they gender-swap Sophie which consequently leads to a mlm season....I may pass away

[ao3statistics]

I don't know your methodology so I don't know how hard it is to compile the data... but would it be possible to compile the top f/f and m/m ships for the Bridgerton show? I have trouble telling just by looking through because a) there are a lot of ships that are from the crossover media, not from Bridgerton, and b) a lot of them have MANY ships on one fic. However if this would be really hard I would love to see just the top ships for Eloise Bridgerton!

This is self-made. Date: 27.07.2024

@zorilleerrant Okay, so... it was a little bit of work but I hope this is what you wanted?

I assume no guarantee or liability for the completeness, correctness and accuracy of this chart despite my best efforts.

Includes fanfictions in all languages available, NOT English only.

The search was done in the Ao3 fandom "Bridgerton (TV)" only, NOT the fandoms "Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (TV)", "Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn" & "Bridgerton (TV) RPF". However stories might be in several of the mentioned fandoms because none of them were excluded specifically.

Percentages were rounded up or rounded down to natural numbers for easier comprehension.

Poly ships were not included.

Ships with OC's were also not included!

More charts will follow. :)

Want to have a chart for different pairings, headcanons etc. in your favourite fandom? Send me an ask!

[mariailoveyou-guerin]

He gets it the way no one asked for any of this from Jes Benedict we do not care especially on polin season but yeah I better get polin being cut to every 5s on Ben szn

Luke ( Colin Bridgerton ) and his future fav sister in law Sophie Beckett! So glad we have our Soph finally y’all

‪she’s definitely already his favorite and best sister in law unless they stick to Colin Micheal friendship from the books (which I know annoying Jess isn’t gonna do the way I could’ve had my fav girl be besties with Colin and lover of Frannie) and fav in law except for John I’m afraid!‬ Benedict Bridgerton underserved you lucky boy

[youlooklikeabeeandilikebees]

Hal's line in 4x03 when he's talking to Michaela about how it's "quite a thought" that he'd still be working at the cafe in a year is extra funny when you consider that since he's 500 years old, his perception of time is different so one year is like no time at all to him and yet he STILL finds it ridiculous to think that he'd be working at the cafe for a year.

[thebubblesoutlet]

The Bridgerton BOOK fandom is a-ok with a genderbent Sophie because they enjoy fetishizing white mlm ships. It makes no sense for Sophie to be genderbent considering that her main internal struggle has to do with her intersecting gender and class identities.

They're ok with making Eloise a lesbian because according to them all angry feminists must secretly be gay. They're also ok with it because they hate her (borderline emotionally abusive) storyline and have a hard time projecting onto her.

The push back against Fran and Michaela has been interesting to say the least. They're trying to justify their homophobia because of "Fran's fertility issues" as if its something exclusive to heterosexual relationships.

Just very eye opening. Anyways, I'm officially excited for Fran and Michaela, my 2 pretty ladies. I hope Netflix at least tries to protect the actresses, and Masali especially.

P.S i totally get being queer and feeling like eloise is a lesbian. I personally shipped Creloise and I'm still hoping that that relationship will come to fruition. I am in no way referring to the accepting, inclusive show fans. I'm instead SPECIFICALLY referring to a section of white straight women on Instagram and Twitter who don't like outspoken eloise as much as their sweet docile little Fran. Its layers of homophobia and internalised misogyny all wrapped up together tbh. The instances I've discussed in this post are all things I've observed/ seen people who are overly invested in those ridiculously mediocre books discuss these last few days. The only straight bridgerton IMO is daphne😭😭😭😭

[swiftiesbuddie]

Luke Thompson has confirmed Benedict to be pansexual:

So, still a win for the multisexuals 🩷💛💙

(Multisexual flag colors): 💜🤍🩵🩷

damn, this year is a complete win for the bisexuals 🩷💜💙

[dailybridgerton]

So far, the announced Bridgerton Season 4 cast is: 

Luke Thompson (Benedict Bridgerton)

Yerin Ha (Sophie Baek) 

Jonathan Bailey (Anthony Bridgerton) 

Victor Alli (John Stirling)

Adjoa Andoh (Lady Danbury)

Julie Andrews (Lady Whistledown)

Lorraine Ashbourne (Mrs. Varley)

Masali Baduza (Michaela Stirling)

Nicola Coughlan (Penelope Bridgerton)

Hannah Dodd (Francesca Stirling)

Daniel Francis (Lord Marcus Anderson)

Ruth Gemmell (Violet Bridgerton)

Florence Hunt (Hyacinth Bridgerton)

Martins Imhangbe (Will Mondrich)

Claudia Jessie (Eloise Bridgerton)

Katie Leung (Lady Araminta Gun)

Luke Newton (Colin Bridgerton)

Michelle Mao (Rosamund Li)

Emma Naomi (Alice Mondrich)

Golda Rosheuvel (Queen Charlotte)

Hugh Sachs (Brimsley)

Will Tilston (Gregory Bridgerton) 

Polly Walker (Portia Featherington) 

Isabella Wei (Posy Li)

— via Netflix Tudum

[saintdollyparton]

while i’m happy to be getting a lead wlw character, i’m actually devastated that it’s not eloise. I truly cannot fathom why they’d give that storyline to Francesca when they’ve been clearly setting it up for eloise and benedict since season 1… if we somehow get both eloise and franny as queer, i’ll be ecstatic. but I just can’t see them making 3 of them queer. :( i feel like i’m more disappointed with this than not having any of them be gay because it’s like… ugh we were so close! we could’ve had it all!

I've had all the same feelings as you, but after a week to think about it and read all of the statements from the showrunner/cast, I'm more optimistic than anything.

Shondaland is known for having multiple queer storylines over the course of multiple seasons, which is something Bridgerton is set up to have. They've confirmed that each Bridgerton should get their own season.

Jess Brownell, the showrunner, is a queer woman and is very passionate about representation. She's very aware of the fandom's attachment to queer Eloise, and has said that isn't off the table, but also feels like Eloise isn't in that headspace right now. She wants to see more of the world and try and make a difference. Fingers crossed that Eloise's time spent with Michaela and Francesca will open up her eyes to her options.

Luke Thompson has confirmed that Benedict is pansexual, and we are all assuming that Sophie is still going to be his love interest. (I can't see them changing such a popular pairing.)

I'm unsure if they're going for a bisexual storyline with Frannie, or if she's meant to be a lesbian with comphet. In the books, she very much loved John and they had a happy marriage. She appears to genuinely love him in the show, too, but multiple people have pointed out that her reaction to their wedding kiss was... unenthused. She looked disappointed. So whether she's bi or a lesbian, she's sapphic because she will end up with Michaela.

That leaves Eloise, who, at the end of the day, I do believe actually felt something real for Theo. But I also think she connects with people more on an intellectual/emotional level, then starts to develop romantic and sexual feelings for them. In that way, I'd place money on Eloise being like bi demisexual, with probably a preference for women because men who would live up to her standards are hella rare. (A lot of bisexual women feel this way lol.)

All this to say, I don't think it's unrealistic for all three of them to be canon LGBT. Especially when you spread it out over several seasons and there are FIVE other Bridgertons in straight relationships.

I do agree that Frannie was a bit out of left field, but it was a pleasant surprise, to be sure. Holding out hope for Creloise, though.

[lands-of-fantasy]

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