#polin fics

[callingbridgerton]

Here's this thing I'm writing: "Don't Tell Him"

"She had way too much tonight. And he knew she would, she does this every time a guy breaks her heart. Or her ego, maybe. Her heart never really seems in it, which is confusing to him since Penelope does just about everything heart-first.

Except dating.

He wonders if that has something to do with her upbringing, her mother, a lack of love. Some sort of avoidance of it all, some sort of block.

But still, every time. With Henry she drank every single beer out of his fridge. She hates beer. He held her hair back as she hurled for hours in the early morning. With Phineas she showed up at his already plastered, mascara stains on her cheeks as she smiled weird and wide and asked to come inside. With George she was calmer, but she still called him after drinking a whole bottle of wine by herself and he could tell she had been crying. It's always clear in her voice. In her eyes.

Heart-first."

Based on this Twitter prompt:

[okaydays]

Woohoo 🎉 congrats Polin fic writers!! You’re all doing a great job ❤️

[insertshimselfwhere]

Recommending fics that made me cry like nothing has ever made me cry before - Part 2

Hi

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58428454

(obviously read the tags guys and see if you like it first, because sometimes when I write here that I read something and I then recommend it, I forget that I like to read smutty things and not everyone likes that)

I leave you one line that made me cry: “And as for the other…making love to you…I meant when I said earlier. It does not compare, Pen. No one has ever made me feel the way you do. My body, my heart, my soul—everything I am is yours"

(I'm sorry if there are things that don't make you cry like me, it's just that I'm a pisces, I cry at everything and everything moves me to tears.)

Bye

[yellowdressesandyearning]

do you have any polin fic recs?? 💕💕

Yes I have a lot!!

Starting with some of my favoirte authors: logogram, kbeets, Katie_500, LightLeadingMe, Fire_Lily89, StillPink, LilyWhiteflied, LizzieD, ArdentCastle, lixabiz, LeighAnne_Balsdon, and CVHSquill

Starlight- Lazy Tuesday Morning

Making It up As We go Along -Lazy Tuesday Morning

Caught- Allthatwehaveshared

Engagement- Katie_500

The Traveler Who Annoyed Me - tweetysrcclt9

A Bee and a Butterfly- Ash

Grown Up Love - Nevermore_red

gold - LightLeadingMe (a bunch of oneshots)

The Temptation of One Penelope Featherington- LadyTuesdayMorning

Fill of Love- logogram

The Storm- Lilyofthevolume

Bedding Mister Bridgerton- StillPink

Love Me Like You Do- georgialee06

Unexpected Suprise- Ayamos

My alltime favorites that I reread constantly are-

Fill of Love & Which one was it again? logogram

Tempting Scandal -StillPink

My Knight in Shining Armour - Fire_Lily8

The Storm to Weather - Nervemore_red

(Also will shamelessly plug myself: EM_with_A_Y)

[fifi2930]

Epilogue is up! 🥹✈️

My love and gratitude to everyone who's followed along on this journey 🫶

[lazy-whistledown]

As I was reading Polin fics last night until the wee hours of the morning, I couldn’t help but wonder that if Shondaland had properly researched the fandom & found there’s plenty of incredible writers within the fandom that could actually write an ensemble show we wouldn’t have the hot mess that is S3P2. Polin fic writers could host a masterclass on WRITING.

Specifically calling out these fics. There’s drama, intrigue & romance!

[for-ships-that-never-sail]

Someone PLEAAASEEEE write me a longer version of this 🦋 Polin 🐝 mini fic that I wrote because I have been hallucinating about this since the trailer dropped 🙏🏼

(expand to read the mini fic!)

"Mr. Colin Bridgerton, the completely unhinged and oblivious man that he is, casually reaches out 🤏🏼 and adjusts one Ms. Penelope Featherington’s necklace, to shift the teardrop 💧 pearl pendant that is askew.

He aligns the pearl with her cleavage, like this is a perfectly normal thing for him to do 🤷🏻‍♂️

In a daze of suddenly thinking about her other pearl 🙇🏻‍♂️💭👀, his index finger slowly traces down 👆🏼 from the adjusted pendant and over the beautiful line of her deep cleavage ( . Y . ) until suddenly his brain catches up 😳 because her breasts are now covered in goosebumps and rising and falling rapidly 📈 from all her heavy breathing 🫢

He pulls his hand back fast 🌩️ - mostly in shock of his own damn audacity to have done this so publicly 💀 - and definitely not because he wanted to stop touching her like this.

Actually, he suddenly realizes that he never wants to stop touching her like this 🤯"

And then BAM 💥 they are both just staring at each other’s eyes 👁️ 👁️ and lips 🫦 being insanely horny 🥵 and feral™️ on main 🫣

Extra points for just going straight to…

🗣️😈😩☄️🐎🚋🥵⏳🔥🐱⛲️👅💥🫴🏼🐱🫦💦💥🏡🕯️🤤🪞🫂😍✨💞🔏✍🏻🤯💌📚🔓🗝️👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨🛏️🪞🫂❤️‍🔥🫴🏼💦🍆🐱🌹🍾🍒🧨🍆🍑‼️🫦🌋💥🤤✊🏼🍆👅🥛💦🛏️🪞♋️‼️🌋💥😌🛁🧖🏻🧼🧖🏻‍♀️🥰👫🛌💤

with or without the cute parts… 😉

And even more points if you just wanna keep those cute parts in, and even add in some…

🌅💓💍🤗🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️⛪️💐👰🏻‍♀️🥹🙋🏻‍♂️🙌🏼💃🏻🕺🏻⏳🤰🏻👨🏻‍🍼😇♾️

Please tag me if you do write something like this.

All major credits to the gif makers, fic writers, and Pen’s cleavage 👀💯🫣🫢

Ok thank you bye🙏🏼 😳👋🏼

[entertaining-two]

Hey this is gonna be so random but I read this polin fanfic and Colin was a dad to twins and their mum was marina and she passed away and Penelope has a son who had a small crush on one of Colin’s kids, I can’t find it anywhere anymore and I was wondering if you know the name of it

Unfortunately I don’t know of this fic but if anyone who sees this post knows what fic this is please let me know or leave it in the comments!

[pensmoon]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington Characters: Colin Bridgerton, Penelope Featherington, Genevieve Delacroix Additional Tags: Anxiety, Body Image, dating apps, Author Penelope, poet colin, lightest of dirty talk, not proofread so like, ignore my mistakes, Mirror Scene, because of course, polin week 2023, polin week 2023: pen pals, Penelope centric Summary:

There was not one interesting thing about her. She was not witty, she was not quirky, she was not sexy. She was just there. She might as well be furniture.

Which was why, she suspected, she was currently being gently let down in a coffee shop by a man she’d been dating for the last two months.

 Or Penelope and Colin meet on a dating app.

(for Polin Week Day 3: Pen Pals)

[longlivedelusion]

Saving for later ✨✨✨

see the problem with reading amazing polin fic is the fic is always ALWAYS better than the show. I’m obsessed.

so here are some of my recent favs if you all wanna read them:

Ruin by Sea_Dragonfly (Penelope gets caught with a suitor and Colin comes to save her from her ruin. 10/10)

Attachment by lixabiz (A take in the season synopsis, Colin helps Penelope with finding a husband. 11/10 DO REC!)

Affection by lixabiz (post Season 2, Colin grovels for Penelope’s forgiveness after she never responds to his many letters. 11/10)

Making It Up As We Go Along by LazyTuesdayMorning (Penelope gets stuck in a rainstorm on the way to Aubrey Hall and Colin finds her.)

The Temptation of one Penelope Featherington... by LazyTuesdayMorning (Penelope is staying at Aubrey Hall with the Bridgertons in the off season. Passion ensues. 11/10)

edit: new ones below from original post

Discovering Duty by annasometimeswrites (post season 2, Colin comes back from abroad to a sadder and angrier Penelope. Scandal ensues when Colin follows a drunk Penelope back to her room and someone sees. 10/10)

among the wildflowers by talkfast (short marriage of convenience with no mention of whistledown, 10/10)

Call Off Your Ghost by Trisky107 (Another post Season 2 fic, where Pen asks Colin to let go of her so she can move on. Beautiful! 11/10!)

These were all fantastic, all are regency era. Please go and read and leave comments!

[callingbridgerton]

[okaydays]

Colin was out with friends for the evening, so Penelope reheated some leftovers for dinner, and then assembled all the things she needed for a quiet night in - lit candles, soft music echoing from their new bluetooth speakers, a cup of tea that was still hot on the coffee table, a comfortable blanket. 

She’s sitting on the couch with said blanket and her carefully chosen book (Love in the Time of Cholera), and she should be having a great time. Back when Penelope was at her mother’s house, with all the commotion and whining, this was the kind of evening she’d dreamt about. Just her, quiet and cosy. No one to bother her.

But she lives with Colin, now. And while he is, occasionally, a bother, it’s never really unwelcome. Not when he could bat those blue eyes, shoot her a winsome grin and spin her around to the music like they’re ballroom dancing.

A quiet evening to herself seems boring in comparison. 

What Penelope wants, in truth, is exactly what she has now - a little comfortable moment, but with Colin’s arms around her instead of a blanket. Leaning against him, maybe with his own book, instead of just the sofa arm.

She misses him, really. And it’s only been an hour or so. 

Oh well. Penelope nestles back further into the couch. He won’t be back for a while, so the book will have to keep her company for now.

“Tell him yes,” She reads. “Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”

Around fifteen minutes later, the front door opens. Penelope almost knocks over her mug of tea with how violently she jumps. And then - oh, it’s just Colin. And then - oh, it’s Colin!

‘Colin!’ she exclaims, interrupting her internal monologue by just stating it out loud. ‘What are you doing back so early?’ 

He’s leaning against the doorframe, flashing her that grin she adores. ‘Got all cosy, did you?’ he asks, looking around at the lit candles and bluetooth speaker and the blanket they got from his mother as a housewarming present. ‘Mind if I join in?’ 

Penelope moves along the sofa and lifts up the corner of the blanket in invitation. Colin slides right in, and they adjust - he’s now sitting where she’s just vacated, arm slung around her shoulders, and she’s leaning into him with one leg over his and one on the coffee table. 

It’s even better than she imagined.

‘Missed you,’ Colin says after a minute. She’d gone back to her book and he was on his phone, reading an article, but she looks up at that. 

‘They were talking about sports or something, and I thought, ‘I’d rather be home with my girl,’ so now I’m here,’ he says, looking right back at her. 

Something warm unfurls in Penelope’s chest at that. At the pet name, at the fact that he’d preferred her boring evening to a fun night out, at the fact that he was now here and that it was exactly where he’d wanted to be. 

Colin kisses her once, gently, and when she leans in again, he moves over to kiss her forehead instead. 

‘We can do that later. You were prepared for a quiet night, right? Don’t let me get in the way of that,’ he says, equally as gently, and Penelope shakes her head.

‘You don’t get in the way. You make it better,’ she admits, and he smiles. Pulls her in closer. 

‘Glad we moved in together,’ he says, and puts his phone on his thigh so he can reach over and carefully open her book back up, from where she’d been keeping track of her page with her thumb.

So Penelope goes back to her book, and Colin goes back to the article, and the track switches to a new piano piece. And then when her tea gets cold, he goes and makes her a new one, just the way she likes it. 

Tell him yes, the book said. She’s so glad she did.

(Also on ao3)

[entertaining-two]

Love a good fic Rec 🥰🥰🥰

Polin Fic Recs - Cute Comfort Rereads

Sunshine, sugar sweet, cuteness captured in words. My beloveds.

1. Dance Card by Katie_500, Stillpink

Mature. Regency. Complete. 36,712 words. I believe this was written with the specific intent of exploring a world in which S1 Penelope is a guest in Bridgerton House for the London marriage mart season while the rest of the Featheringtons are occupied in another town. Pen feels loved, supported and listened to by the Bridgertons. Lots of unchaperoned time with Colin is the cherry on top. Polin are sweet, innocent and no touchy, but that doesn't mean they aren't thinking thoughts. Puppy love Colin is oblivious and insecure, but it is a HEA.

2. where art thou? why not uponeth me? by maxmayfield

Mature. Modern setting. Complete. 5,001 words. Under 1 hour read. Colin meets Penelope during their first creative writing class at university. They are friends for months before dating. Aware Colin Bridgerton. Sabrina Carpenter's song Bed Chem was on a loop in my head while reading this.

3. My Fairy Lady by rottentiger

Teen and up (rating may change). Regency. Work in progress. +10,000 words. Penelope is a tiny fairy and Colin accidentally traps her in his bag while in a forest in Ireland. When he returns to London he discovers her. Unable to immediately return her to her homeland, Colin promises to care for her until the end of the season. Penelope is a ray of sunshine. They are both so tender and kind to each other it feels like I am being sprinkled with fairy dust.

4. Dancing Around the Truth by WeepingFromACedarTree

Explicit. Regency. Complete. 60,167 words. Set post-S2. Penelope's family leave town and Pen is alone at Featherington House. Pen falls ill with a potentially deadly fever. Colin throws the propriety rule book out the window and stays by Pen's side caring for her.

5. U Up? by DollyPop, Stillpink

Mature. Regency. Complete. 36,709 words. Set post-S1. Sexting Regency style with racy letters exchanged between Colin and Pen. I was giggling and kicking my feet the entire time.

[yellowdressesandyearning]

Here’s a fic if you love Polin as parents and the baby race!!!

[lazy-whistledown]

Almost 6000 Polin fics! You guys are crazy talented! 👏🙌🏼 Seriously! There needs to be a tumblr account for Polin fics/fic writers.

I used to have a spreadsheet but couldn’t keep up 🤣

[memoldy]

Violets excitement at their engagement has me SOBBING 😭💕