#read this sweet summer child

[cathreaux]

This was so beautiful and painful and the instant yearning, uff... I loved it 🖤

Overthinking Colin Bridgerton’s thoughts while kissing Penelope:

Their lips touch and Colin experienced what he could only describe as the perfect kiss, and it was with Penelope Featherington.

Penelope, his friend since they were children, who was always warm, kind, witty and clever.

Penelope, who was like part of his family for years and who tried to spare his heart from her own family because she believed in love and knew he did too.

Penelope, who while she was mourning the loss of her father, wrote to him so faithfully and encouraged and made him feel seen in ways he’d never been seen before… who appreciated him so genuinely that she made him want to be the man she saw when she looked at him.

Penelope, who was certain he would find his sense of purpose in the world, because she believed in him so deeply that in her estimation, he was already astonishing and special.

He’d missed her terribly during his latest travels and the thought that she had moved on with her life and didn’t need him effected him so deeply that he needed to blaze through 17 cities seeking constant distraction in women and drinking, always pretending he was just like all those other rakishly cavalier gentlemen who didn’t want or need anyone. Then he found out Penelope had heard him disparaging her and he realized he was the reason she’d abandoned him.

Penelope would never have forsaken him if he hadn’t taken her for granted and now because she’d forgiven him and trusted him to help her, everything had gone wrong. Now she was convinced nobody would ever love her.

Penelope was the best person he knew and the best friend he had ever had, she deserved to be loved deeply and truly. She deserved to feel important and special every day. He wished he could tell her that. He would gladly tell her every day if that made her happy.

Because he wanted, no, he needed her to be happy. Because he cared about her. He always had and he knew that he always would. He had friendly affection for her since they were children, and his mother had always said friendship was the best foundation for love after all. Perhaps in a way, he’d always loved her.

But it was different now… stronger, deeper, and she was so beautiful to him. She Everything about Penelope was beautiful. Her smile, her hair, her laugh.

Even now, when he could tell she’d been crying she was undeniably lovely to him and her lips were so soft. He couldn’t have pulled away from her if his life depended on it. He never wanted to stop kissing her. Ever. He’d happily touch her cheek and have her in his arms for the rest of his life.

He would be so lucky to have her by his side. He would love her the way she deserved and she would be such a good wife, a devoted companion and they would laugh and kiss and life would be good. His children would have an excellent mother.

Building a life with Penelope suddenly felt like a dream. Because if he could belong to her and give her his heart and if she gave him even a little bit of her love, Colin knew it would guarantee his happiness forever.

But he could never expect her to return his feelings now. Not when she’d heard him say he’d never court her. Not after he’d so callously humiliated and hurt her. Even in trying to make things right, he’d made things worse and now she was despondent and felt hopeless and alone. He had caused her pain. He didn’t deserve her and he had no one to blame for that but himself.

Their kiss ended and Colin spent the rest of the night and the entire following week looking back on his relationship with Penelope, thinking himself a fool, and hoping that when he closed his eyes at night he’d be lucky enough to have her love him in his dreams.

[stealingpotatoes]

I miss Trilla

i was gonna draw smthn for this but i was just looking thru my old sketchbooks and found a trilla from late 2019 before i even knew who trilla was LOL

[duohensheng]

things have escalated. not sure how much longer i can do this for, lads. they’re wearing matching safety-connection wedding rings. they’re wearing. they

[chamiryokuroi]

Tiktok hyping this fic as the most awful traumatizing thing and to check the tags before reading and it is literally just cannibalism 😬

[grimark]

just saw somebody in this current month of october 2024 making a vintage tumblr style informative post about american political bullshit where they address their audience as "my sweet summer child". went to their tumblr out of morbid curiosity and they do indeed have "ravenclaw" in their bio. endangered species.

[incorrect-losers]

Ummmmm

UMMMMMM

@tht0nesimp

[phaedraismyusername]

I've been slowly rereading the Song of Ice and Fire books and I've just started a Dance with Dragons and woof I forgot just how much I hate the timeline reset

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

Oh no 😨people think that fictional character is queer 😱I must make a YouTube video on all the reasons why they CANNOT EVER be queer 😭

STRAIGHT GUYS CAN HAVE EMOTIONS TOOOOO obviously that's why people think that there's no reason to do any research because there's like no possible other reasons why people might think he's gay it's not like he's a queercoded character from a queercoded book series from a time period when you weren't allowed to be gay.😡

Obviously, he can't be because he’s not human and can't do the unholy hokey pokey (I'm trying to avoid inappropriate language bear with me here) so he totally can't be queer because relationships always have to revolve around that.😤

[thesoftestmess]

maybe if vash and nai combined the singular trauma-riddled braincell they each have left and met somewhere in the middle between "religious cult working towards the genocide of humanity" and "absolute submission to our oppressors and the colonisers of our people's land" we would've gotten somewhere

[avourel]

a friend - who doesn't know i'm in fandom - was complaining to me about some bad, absolutely awful het porn book and its terrible writing and its awful sex scenes, so i asked to read it

...the way I did not scoff and link them the latest filthy thing i read on AO3 was so brave of me, i think i deserve a gold star

[fur-claws-and-eyeballs]

Oh buddy, have I got some news for you...

[wurm-food]

oh god oh my god oh fuck oh ahhhh

[anxiteyandsleep]

Sick and tired of people infantizing non book readers in really any fandom that gets a movie/show adaptation

Like y'all be treating them like toddlers or just bullying them for it.

"Oh you sweet innocent baby you don't know the book lore"

That's so gross and dehumanizing imo like why are you talking about other human beings like that because they didn't read a book and are just trying to enjoy their show/movie. You could idk talk to them like normal and see if they wanna learn about the books instead of acting like they're stupid or less than you

[ephemeralzenith]

imagine crafting a character like altan trengsin and expecting me NOT to be obsessed.

[sharkneto]

Finally reading Nona the Ninth and it's a crime that I don't have this one on audiobook as I have to work today so I can't just sit and read all day 😔

[ljsmiths-thenightworld]

This meme was on an old abandon Night World facebook page. From 2012.

Oh , you sweet summer child.