#teenage! kathony

[kanthonyficrecs]

Collection: Childhood Friends AUs

a la mode by juniper5x5 Rating: E Status: Complete Summary: Anthony makes pies and wakes the dead.vHis life changes when his childhood sweetheart comes back into his life. (a very unserious Pushing Daisies AU)

All the Magic We Made by iwishyouwouldstop Rating: E Status: WIP Summary: Kate and Anthony grow up together, learn to harness their magic together and are certain nothing can tear them apart. Until something does. Now they are strangers who occasionally publicly humiliate each other in between finding means to survive in a world that is increasingly hostile to their kind. Then Anthony commits the ultimate betrayal and Kate’s retribution results in a life-threatening curse that forces them to work together.

dancing bears, painted wings by booksandrings Rating: T Status: WIP Summary: an anastasia inspired kathony au: in which kate has been missing for well over a decade and her family is desperate to have her back.

Hidden by ironsidee Rating: M Status: WIP Summary: Kate’s adept at hiding - in crevices, nooks and crannies, and even within herself. It’s only fitting that Anthony can always find her.

I Know A Place by wrendering Rating: NR Status: Complete Summary: As a young teenager, Kate Sharma meets Anthony Bridgerton. He is everything that is delightful to her: high-spirited, witty, genuinely kind despite his tendencies to tease. They form a lighthearted, easygoing friendship. But life goes on, and events draw them apart - until the 1814 season, where everything has changed, where they have important choices to make, ones that are impossible to hide from.

I’d Give All I Have, Honey (If You Could Stay Like That) by Moomin_94 Rating: T Status: Complete Summary: The one constant in Anthony Bridgerton’s life was Kate Sharma. They’d spent their entire childhoods together, she was as part of him that could never leave him. But the time to grow up came sooner than he thought it would. And he doesn’t know why the sight of men queueing outside the Sharma’s townhouse makes him sick to his stomach.

Mea Vita, Mea Lux by RosesAtDawn Rating: M Status: WIP Summary: An Ancient Rome AU of a lost childhood love fought for once more on the bloody stage of the Colosseum

my hand was the one you reached for by Moomin_94 Rating: M Status: Complete Summary: Anthony Bridgerton watched his mother after his father died and told himself he’d never put anyone through that. Which is why he kept Kate at arm’s length and told himself he was doing this so he never hurt her only himself

Save The Last Dance For Me by collectionoftulips Rating: M Status: WIP Summary: the one where Anthony assumes that his parents plan on marrying Kate off to Benedict

Wandering with you by Anonymous Rating: NR Status: WIP Summary: Anthony and Kate meet as children, and grow up knowing each other, loving each other, and supporting each other.

You belong with me by Stars_of_Kyber Rating: M Status: WIP Summary: Anthony Bridgerton returned home from his last semester at Eton to discover his best friend is no longer the lanky girl he left behind the previous summer.

[newtonsheffield]

“You can stay with me and Ant, we have the space.” Dear lord, and how does that go really? Josie forever unable to look them in the eye and trying to relay her experience to Edwina like "they were everywhere, I was afraid to touch the furniture".

Molly, Lavender Haze's Kathony's vibe is brilliant!

Oh Josie’s distressed that entire week.

Anthony is her high school nemesis let’s not forget, and Kate’s her hopefully one day sister in law.

From the beginning she eyes the bed sheets suspiciously in the spare room and at a minimum she knew the first thing she and Edwina did when they moved in together was have sex in every room: she doubts Kate and Anthony were much different.

And for the most part, they’re aware they have a guest but that makes it worse. Because instead of touching, instead of walking in on them going at it like horny teenagers she keeps walking in on them flirting nauseatingly. Anthony whispering in Kate’s ear and making her giggle and Kate watching Anthony from the doorway of his home gym with a hungry expression.

It’s obscene.

What’s more obscene though is that they clearly don’t know that the walls of their house aren’t super thick.

Either that or Anthony’s just fucking loud.

“I don’t know what Kate was doing to him,” Josie hissed to Edwina, “but I’m concerned! I also thought the mattress was about to give way at any minute!”

[apinchofm]

Okay, because I have to make this post, I will:

I DO NOT THINK KATE SHARMA IS AN AWFUL HUMAN BEING WHO HATES EDWINA!

Kate is a good person who fucks up - it makes her human; I love that about her. I love her protectiveness. What I don't like is people in this fandom who put more responsibility on Edwina, who was led half-blind into the situation when in fact, it is all Anthony's fault.

People get upset with her for what she said at the wedding, and it was awful, but like Kate, she's a good person who was angry and hurt, as we've all experienced that at some point in our lives. Even if she appeared calm, I don't think she magically stopped being as angry as when she first ran from the altar.

Criticising Kate's actions do not mean I hate her. Because honestly, I'm exactly like her; it's why I love her. I'm a control freak who is overprotective of those she loves, and it can lead to accidentally hurting people. Recognising Kate's flaws is not a bad thing; I just like to view her as I do with all characters as human and full characters.

Edwina is blind; she has a rose-tinted view of the world and a sharp tongue when pissed off. So, she's like most teenagers, and most teenagers are awful - I was one! Again, I don't think Edwina is a victim - there are no victims or villains, but people! Pointing out that Kate and Edwina hurt one another at various points is not a bad thing, but how sisterhood is.

Kate is not awful, she is a good person with good intentions whose actions happen to hurt Edwina. Anthony had terrible intentions and should have left Edwina alone way back in episode two when his own mother told him to.

I love Kathony; I just hate how it was executed in the show. Having Anthony punched for ruining a young lady's reputation because Regency England is still sexist and would blame Edwina for the failed wedding and not the adult man who was sniffing her sister is the nicest thing I could do, considering historically, people duelled for less.

[habibialkaysani]

3, 18 & 29 :)

3. what work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

I feel like the viscountess who vexes me will always be the fic I'm proudest of, even if it's not super polished, because it was my first long fic ever. it's my kathony engagement fic that is mostly canon compliant and was written after I watched bridgerton for the first time and couldn't get out of my head the amount of development needed between the garden proposal and the epilogue of season 2. even when I used to write in other fandoms, I never wrote a novel-length fic, not since I was a teenager. and perhaps I am also swayed by the fact that this is my most kudosed, read, bookmarked and commented on fic ever, as well as being my longest currently, so it's at the top of all my stats. I know the question said regardless of those two things, so I will also mention hunger which was totally my projection of horny panic onto one kathani sharma... that was also just really fun smut too, lol.

18. the character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

oh that's such a good question! I think it might have to be mary sharma. I remember in my engagement fic I wrote her as being harsher than on the show when she finds out that anthony compromised kate. it takes a lot of time for her to come around to the idea that anthony is to be her son-in-law, and I think it took a lot for me to write her as flawed but also justified in her concerns I suppose? it was very interesting. plus the way she is with kate, I find that whole dynamic fascinating esp when you contrast with edwina.

oh lmao speaking of which. I didn't find edwina hard to write in as much as I found she led the story (my engagement fic) more than I thought she would. I didn't expect her to attend kathony's wedding for obvious reasons, but she ended up being the one to do kate's mehndi and to swallow her hurt and pride and whatever else in being supportive of kate's decision. but unlike others in the fandom who completely vilify her for reacting the way she did to her sister being in love with her fiance... I feel like it's a lot more nuanced and complex than that. so I had a lot of trouble with the nasty comments on edwina heavy chapters - not so much in my engagement fic but in so you were eavesdropping which does feature edwina.

29. favourite line/passage you wrote this year?

oh gosh. hmm. maybe this one from first time which is a fic that explores kathony's firsts with each other - this part is set during their kiss in the church at the end of 2x07:

If tasting Kate Sharma is like heaven, watching Kate Sharma leave is Anthony's damnation. 

but just generally I absolutely love writing kate and anthony arguing (lbr that is a form of foreplay at this point lol), and also any of his siblings teasing him. basically I adore writing anthony, and specifically anthony being roasted to within an inch of his noble life by the people who love him.

ask meme

[alrightsnaps]

The beef you have with Anthony on twitter is very pathetic and also the fact that you PRETEND Violet has haters when all that happened is that maybe a couple of kanthony shippers have said she was a bit too harsh with him cause god forbids audience members feel more connected with the protagonist and not his mom. Also the fact you want Kate to share screentime with Mary and Edwina again when she was treated like crap by them is not it for someone who claims to love Kate. But I guess it's not surprising when you're buddy buddy with that selcouth account who not so secretly hates Kanthony and Kate and has polite convo with the bloggers who call Kate a homewrecking whore. You know your friend writes fic in which Anthony is beaten up and Kate continues to be miserable post wedding for the sake of poor innocent Edwina?And thinks Anthony should give a fuck about Edwina doesn't let him call her by her first name? Tell your friend he eyefucked Kate at the altar in front of her, let me assure you edwina lovers he doesn't give a fuck about her brattiness the majesty. Leave Kate and Kanthony out of your mouth.

aww how sweet of you that you think y'all are the first people to dickride for anthony at the expense of female characters! i can assure you that i've been beefing with his stans since before kate's casting announcement. kathonies are not the first to drag violet to defend him, or even the first stans to demonise their male fave's mother while excusing his own behaviour. sienna/anthony shippers did the exact same thing long ago painting violet as the evil hag who wouldn't let poor little anthony run off into the sunset with sienna in s1.

also why the fuck wouldn't i want kate to fix her relationships with edwina and mary? i've criticised edwina repeatedly for never apologising to kate since day 1. that's something we never saw in s2 so yeah, i definitely want to see that and i consider necessary for them to rebuild their relationship on better terms after the wedding fiasco.

what i consider hypocritical as fuck is being totally ok with kate forgiving anthony when he hardly did enough to deserve her forgiveness after all the pain he put her through, but drawing the line at her stepmother and sister.

anthony literally ruined kate in 2x04 and not only didn't assume his responsibilities as he forced simon to do with daphne in s1, but had the nerve to propose to her sister the very next morning. so yeah, if i can support kate being with anthony in the s2 finale when he was calling her "the thorn easily removed" from his and edwina's lives just two episodes back, because that makes her happy, i can sure as hell root for her making up with the women that have been her entire world for the past 26 years as well.

as far as i'm concerned neither anthony nor edwina did right by kate in s2. edwina because she blamed her for anthony's actions and was ungrateful, when all kate had done was sacrifice after sacrifice for her to be happy. and anthony because he never showed kate the respect he demanded men to show to his sisters and chose to go after her baby sister only to publicly humiliate both sharma girls in front of anyone when they were at the altar.

i'm old enought to be able to form my own opinion about characters instead of joining fandom groupthink or liking/disliking them based on how their fanbase behaves. if that was my criterion i don't think there's a single ship i'd support in the bridgerton fandom, considering that i disagree with most kathony and benophie stans on twitter for always coddling anthony and benedict and excusing their misogyny.

and frankly, i'm extremely uncomfortable with the way you and many kathony stans talk about edwina. y'all are literally victim blaming an 18yo child for falling for a grownass man who went after her and ruined her in the eyes of society. you constanly infantilise anthony when he has more privilege than 99% of men in england, while spending your time talking shit about a teenage girl.

that's not holding edwina responsible for her behaviour towards kate, it's misogyny, plain and simple. she has every right to treat anthony like filth for the rest of her life after what he did to her and be protective of kate, like kate was of edwina when anthony was courting her, after his abhorrent treatment of both sisters.

a 30yo man not giving a fuck about a teenager he strung along and ruined isn't the gotcha that you think it is. except you clearly have such a sexist worldview that you consider him to be the "prize" edwina lost and kate won, rather than a man who hurt them both deeply and took advantage of his privilege over them.

if i should keep kate out of my mouth for wanting to see her have a healthy and wholesome relationship with her family, so should you people for being ok with anthony doing the bare minimum to win her after the hell he put her through.

[ao3feed-kathony]

Teenage Dirtbag

read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/49288756 by Stars_of_Kyber Miles Bridgerton had been introduced by some awesome pop-punk new bands recently and when Edmund and Belinda tell him about this festival that's coming up, it seems way too good an opportunity to miss it, but his parents would never let him go to a pop-punk concert alone with his brother and cousins. The solution? Sneaking out to the festival without the adults finding out. It should be easy enough. It's not like they had any risk of running into his parents there, right? Words: 3677, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/M Characters: Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Miles Bridgerton, Edmund Bridgerton II, Belinda Basset, Caroline Basset, Amanda Crane, David Basset, Oliver Crane, Eloise Bridgerton, Phillip Crane, Francesca Bridgerton, Michael Stirling Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma Additional Tags: Modern AU, Pop-punk Music, Green Day - Freeform, Teenagers are dumb, Music Festival, Wait my parents are COOL?!, Mostly Crack, Parents Kathony read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/49288756

[silverhallow]

25 canon era Kathony ❤️

i hope you don't mind but i've used this for my Teen AU Boulevard of Broken Dreams and used it to write the Story of Kate x Anthony in that AU.

Drop every pretence, Drown every sense you own, For the girl that you love Girl you loathe, Insistent pretext, so what does that make god, To the girl that you love

The story of how Kate and Anthony got their head out of their backsides, and got over their misunderstanding and got together.

[drywit-dimpledsmile]

BridgertonBabe Drabble/AU (in timeline order)

Literally no one asked for this, not even @bridgertonbabe​ but as someone who love Shinnie’s writing and for those who love to keep up with her non-official fics, I had some time to spare to get everything organized for her fics not on AO3:

Royals AU

Long Story Short (the entire summary of the Benophie love story)

RIP King Edmund May He Rest in Peace

ABCG Serves in the Military: a summary

It’s not a Bridgerton story without scandal!

How Sophie Met Her Teenage Crush

How Benedict Met The Love of His Life

Prince Benedict and Sophie’s First Date

Sophie and Benedict Learn to Compromise

House Bridgerton Finds Out

Benedict and Sophie Find Out that Everyone Else Found Out

Princess Sophie and her GNO

Popping the Question

Teenage Dream

Prince Benedict and Miss Sophie Beckett’s Engagement Announcement

Royals fight off the Media

Sophie’s First Royal Engagement

Sophie Sees My Cottage For the First Time

Queen Violet Gives Sophie a Wedding Present

An Interrupted Honeymoon Surprise

The Princess-ification of Sophie Beckett

House Bridgerton tries to take a Family Photo

Prince Charlie Gets Baptized and of course his cousins are up to no good

Princess Sophie and Queen Lucy and their no good, terrible relatives

Queen Kate and Princess Sophie Get Lady Boners for their husbands at a polo match

Baby Violet is Born

Prince Benedict is a Girl Dad (pt. 1)

Prince Benedict is a Girl Dad (pt. 2)

2 Little Girls and their Merry Rake Uncle

House Bridgerton Shenanigans

King Anthony is Tired of his Family

The Benophie (Royal) Babies are Ranked by their Parents

Long Live The Queen!

Harry Potter AU:

Violet Has a Vision 

Edmund Figures It Out

ABC Rescue Sophie

Ember’s Origin Story (Ember the Owl Adventures - in timeline order)

Ember Adopts Benedict as her surrogate father

Hyacinth’s obsession with Sophie continues in every universe and Ember is stuck in the middle

Ember Gets Attacked by Gnomes

The Gnome at Dinner incident

Professor Danbury Meets Ember

Edmund bonds with his first “grandchild” (*the grandchild is an owl)

The Benophie Babies with Ember

Pre-Yule Ball Bliss

Summary of Benedict F*&KING up (Pt. 1) :-) 

*BONUS: Summary of Benedict NOT F*&KING up (AN AU OF AN AU)

Benedict and Sophie’s Yule Ball First Kiss

Benedict finds out about Fletcher

The Menace Called Fletcher

Screaming the wrong name in bed (Benedict’s Version)

Benedict F*&KING up (Pt. 2) :-)

Screaming the wrong name in bed (Sophie’s Version)

Michael’s 23rd Birthday

The Panic Attack Saved In True HP fashion: with Love

Sophie and Benedict Struggle to Conjure their Patronuses

Anthony Fails at Being a Wingman

Best Man and Bridesmaid duties (ft. Kathony)

FINALLY!

Sophie’s First Time That In Retrospect She’s Glad it didn’t happen in a Greek Beach

Protecting their Love Bubble

Sophie Gets Moved In (and other stuff)

Colin attempts to Crucio Ben

The Lingerie Everyone Needs in Life

Benedict Thinks Sophie Beckett is the most perfect human on the planet (VALID)

Colin and Philip Reconcile after Baby Mama Drama and Sophie and Benedict Get Engaged

Sophie Has a Tumble (tw//miscarriage)

Little Charlie is Born

Colin the Cat crawls his way into the My Cottage Family

The Benophie Babies Get Sorted!

William Turns his Brothers into Weasels

William Gets a Howler 

Irwins AU

Long Story Short

Sophie is the Bridgerton’s Biggest Fan Girl

Edmund Becomes Sophie’s Dad

Benophie Loves Elephants 

The Benophie Babies are Introduced (LION KING STYLE)

The Umbrella Academy AU

Umbrella Academy Assemble?

Benedict Becomes the Man of Sophie’s Dreams...Literally

Bridgertons Assemble?

Sophie Forgets

All Hell Breaks Loose

Benedict and Sophie Finally Reunite....Then Time Travel Splits Them Up :( 

If I missed anything let me know! 

UPDATED (10/26/22): with the Ember the Owl Adventures

UPDATED (4/5/23): with 5 months worth of new drabbles and new fics!

[sunoodilocks]

I can't believe this topic even needs a post but here you go anyways *drumroll*

WHY ANTHONY AND EDWINA WOULDN'T HAVE WORKED OUT

AGE GAP

i'm assuming edwina is about 17-18y while anthony is 29-30y, which makes them have a 11-12 year age difference - aka, a huge generation gap

i don't know what else to say except that it's like shipping the current kate(26y) with gregory(14y), considering they have the same age gap as edwina and anthony

(y'all really be shipping a teenager with a grown ass middle aged man huh 🤨 insisting that he found her body hot 🤨👏 jesus)

MATURITY GAP

one of the prime reasons why kathony connected was because both of them were forced to mature themselves too early, as a result they understood and found peace with one another

edwina on the other hand is still a teenage, and would likely go through maturing as a normal person, without the positionboth kate and anthony were thrust into - this in turn, will unfortunately make her unable to connect to anthony for most of her life (if they were to get married)

HEIGHT DIFFERENCE

this is just a personal opinion, but like daphne said, anthony somehow felt like he would suit a person who was more his equal

besides the obvious maturity and age range, one of the other reason why kathony suited each other so much was bcoz of how close in height kate sharma was with anthony

edwina on the other hand, when she stood besides anthony, felt more like a daughter he was about to debut into high society (her soft facial features as compared to kathony further prove this take)

SEXUAL OR ROMANTIC ATTRACTION TOWARDS EACH OTHER

"anthony found edwina hot enough to consider her as a wife"

respectfully please stop

i'm convinced every attempt edwants take to mention how anthony probably found edwina hot is just to convince themselves to stay rooted in their delusions

the only reason anthony 'choose to court' edwina was because she was named the diamond; imo he would have courted anyone in that 💎 position, provided it wasn't eloise, pen or cressida

the closest thing to 'hot' that he thought about edwina is probably that she has a pleasant face - in other words, you can find someone to be good looking but that necessarily doesn't mean you are attracted to them, which is exactly the case for anthony

edwina too, I believe wasn't really interested in anthony beyond him being handsome and being a viscount (pay attention to the proposal scene she says "I'll be your viscountess" instead of just "yes ill marry you" - maybe I'm looking too much into this but it felt like she was primarily more interested at the life a viscountess had to offer than in anthony)

moreover, you can see in all their scenes together (which again, was always chaperoned), there is never really any sexual tension or romantic feelings in the air - wherever they talked, the most it felt like it was an amiable friendship or I dare say, acquaintance

DIFFERENT TEMPERAMENTS

if you haven't already noticed, anthony and edwina are quite different in their temperaments

let's take for eg. anthony has a natural inclination to be competitive, on the other hand, edwina rather be in a environment which is cooperative

anthony is a bit brazen, once he puts his mind to something no one can stop him from acting towards it, even if the ton deems it to be scandalous - as long as he knows his cause to be right, he could care less about what the ton of him

edwina, on the other hand schools her behavior to fit the ton - she is calculated in the way that she knows she has to put on pretenses to fit in and survive within the tons judgement - you can see in various scenes whenever she is uncomfortable or upset, she hardly ever let's it show in her tone, chooses instead to be polite in all her interactions with the society

now one can say opposites attract, however in real life such marriages or relationships do not really last long - all healthy relationships need both partners to have something in common, be it their personality or their interests - for edwina and anthony, one of the only legit thing they had in common from the start was the death of their fathers at a young age

this is why I think, their marriage would have been doomed from the start - things would have been a bit different if they had even a bit of spark between them, but they didn't - if married, anthony would have been distant and miserable and edwina would have been lonely and miserable

the only saving garce would have been a child between them, but knowing anthony, he would have either not touched her (and put his brothers children as the inheritors of the viscountcy) or even if he did, he would have done it quickly while imagining someone else, wishing that when the child was born it shared the blood of someone else (and honestly yall have to be too cruel to wish this upon someone)

FAMILY BONDING

all throughout the show we have seen that, despite his sometimes dickish behavior, he cares about his family quite deeply, sacrificing most of his youth to take care of the viscountcy so that none of his family members feel loss of their father, atleast in financial terms

in the mere age of 18, he made sure that none felt the need to give up the life they previously had just because their father was not there anymore - he made sure all of them lived comfortably while still maintaining the level of influence they had while the 9th viscount was still alive - he did that all because he wanted the others to suffer just a little less than him

so it isn't surprising that he would want someone who would get along with his family and match the sort of wild spirit they seemed to have - I can give you my word, diamond or not he wouldn't have married someone who didn't care or his family didn't approve of (imo kate was the only unique case, if he would have to marry, it would be kate or no one else)

edwina, while everyone did treat her with respect and care - the bridgerton siblings were awkward with her, simply bcoz their vibes didn't match, they were somewhat too competitive even for trivial things than what she would have expected or been comfortable with - and honestly no can can blame her for this; people are complex, you either hit it off or you don't, there's no in between - if you don't have the spark now, chances are you won't have it even if you have known or met them a whole lot of times

so yes, if they did marry, edwina would have been a bit lonely since she was unable to connect with the family well as she would have liked - the only companion she might have had from the bton siblings would have been francesca, who seemed to be somewhat quiet, a little less competitive and bold unlike her brothers and sisters

ANTHONY'S PRIORITY

it seemed incredibly clear by the end of the season that kate to anthony was as much important to him as his family, if not more

his family was in the brink of ruin, with not one but two big scandals threatening to forever change the social footing they had in the ton - but for the first time anthony didn't care, he danced with kate in front of the entire tons judgement - he knew just how scandalous that was but he was ready to do it all for kate

so it is a good thing, I assure you, that kate was a good person who cared and got along with his family as much as anthony did

now let me ask you

would he have given up this much for edwina? unfortunately no - he would have ofcourse provided and cared for her if he had been his wife, but! he would have never put her needs above his family (if you still think he would have done so - sorry, he wouldn't have, yall are just in denial at this point)

That's it for now - go ahead and add more points if anyone wants ���

[triviareads]

could we get some more kathony high school headcanons? the image of anthony being interrogated by indian aunties is now imprinted into my mind

Not a headcanon but here's how I imagine Anthony's dinner/interrogation by Mary going down:

Mary was hovering again. They were ostensibly meant to be eating dinner together, but she'd yet to sit down, instead puttering around the kitchen when she wasn't serving Kate and Anthony.

"Are you done applying to colleges, Anthony?" she asked, dropping two more idlis in Anthony's plate.

"Yeah," Anthony said, to his credit, unfazed as she spooned some ghee on top. He was learning, Kate thought, amused. Spice-management strategies were a must in the Sharma household; generally for Anthony, that meant some combination of ghee, homemade yogurt, and cold glasses of water. "Most of them were due the first, but I did apply to a few early."

"And where do you want to go?" Mary glanced at Anthony's plate, adding tangentially, "Have some more sambar."

Anthony obliged just as Kate reached for the ladle too, and their hands brushed against each other. Anthony promptly blushed and Kate dropped the ladle against the pot with a clang. She prayed her mother did not witness this bit of teenage infatuation.

Anthony cleared his throat loudly before responding. "Somewhere close by so I can be there for my family. Maybe Princeton, or NYU, but my dad went to Columbia and it meant a lot to him that I go I might just go there."

"That's nice," Mary commented. "And what will you major in?"

"Amma," Kate interrupted in a bid to spare her boyfriend, "you sound like an admissions counselor. I'm sure Anthony gets asked this all the time." She muttered under her breath, "God knows I do."

"No, it's okay," Anthony said hastily at the mildly indignant look Mary threw her daughter. "Actually, no one's ever asked me what I want to major in. I guess they all just... assume, because of the company."

Mary was extremely gratified at this assurance. "See?" she told Kate. "He likes it when I ask him."

Kate's mouthed 'suck up' at Anthony when her mom wasn't looking. Anthony merely made a kissy face in response. Kate narrowed her eyes at him. Oh it was on.

"Actually," Kate proceeded to say loudly, "Amma, Anthony was just telling me about his plans for grad school."

"Oh?" Mary said, turning back to Anthony. "What plans?"

Anthony, in lieu of an actual response, shoveled some more idli into his mouth.

[kepnerandavery]

My life is a constant cycle of being burned by shondaland. First it was literally being traumatized by Grey's Anatomy in my teenage years and now it's Bridgerton.

Shondaland makes great shows but they really do know how to ruin a good thing.

I hate when creators of shows fixate on a few characters and literally give them all the love in the world while ignoring and sidelining characters with just as much potential. Not to mention, characters played by actors who are able to bring in the ratings. This happened in Grey's and it's happening again.

When I hear the word ensemble, I literally get war flashbacks from Grey's.

I understand the concept of adaptations, I really do. But who in their right mind would mess with something as good as the Bridgerton books this much? Changing timelines is okay, switching things around is acceptable but literally changing the core of these characters and sidelining them in the season that's supposed to be about them is just horrible.

It's no lie that Kanthony got half the screen time they deserved in season 2. It's why the fundamentals of the ship and the two characters changed so much. If they spent more time on Kate and Anthony as two individuals and as a couple, the essence of the book could've remained even after all the changes they made to it. The pacing of the story was ruined for the sake of drama. They got burried behind all of the subplots.

Some of those subplots were truly great and even neccesary but they failed to manage the screen time given to those diligently.

I really hope that this won't continue to happen. Kathony, which is one of my top favourite ships suffered this season because of it. I'd hate to see it happen to the other ships as well.

Regardless of whether Benophie gets season 3, gets pushed to season 4, or starts off in season 3 and resumes in season 4, they need to be the focal point in one of those seasons. And that goes for every other couple after that.

Every single couple deserves the treatment that Saphne got in season one.

They literally have an amazing cast, great source materials and a devoted fanbase. All they need to do is treat everyone equally. Is that really so hard? 😭

[bridgertonbabe]

i imagine once kathony also get married in the teachers au-verse kate will be mrs. sharma-bridgerton to differentiate her and sophie with the student body, since she loves being a sharma as equally as she loves being a bridgerton while soph has a more complicated relationship with her family so shes more than happy to be 100% bridgerton all the way.

Kate would definitely opt for Sharma-Bridgerton, at the very least to lessen the confusion for the students already having 3 teachers with the Bridgerton surname. As for Sophie, during the early days of her crushing hard on Benedict she liked to picture going on dates with him, living with him, even marrying him, and she'd make herself giddy with excitement and blush at the thought of becoming Mrs Sophie Bridgerton. At times she feels silly for crushing on him with the intensity of one of their teenage students, but she can't help but entertain herself with those thoughts when she's trying to get to sleep at night.

[newtonsheffield]

Here is an idea for Good Girls (inspired by the pictures of the lake):

Kate Sharma is showing the new student, Mr. Dorset, around the school, and Anthony is acting like the jealous clown he is... at least Kate thinks he's adorable 😏

Surprise me with the rest of the story, you're my favourite AU Kathony writer 💜

I love this!

Because imagine Kate trying to show this kid around School and Anthony's just standing behind her like a bloody shadow, her hand constantly connected to his after he saw Jamie Dorset leaning a little too close to his girl.

Anthony cursed to himself as his tyres skidded across the school lot, he really hadn't meant to be late today, but Hyacinth had been having a meltdown and Gregory had refused to put his shoes on and Eloise had flatly refused to accept that she was going to have to go to Piano with Frankie this afternoon and it had all just spiralled.

"You're Late." Sophie had quipped standing against the back door of the bakery, bag already in hand. "She's not going to be happy."

"She'll understand." He'd shrugged getting back on his bike "You coming to dinner tonight? Mum's making Lasagne."

Sophie had smiled "Of course. Now get to school, before Kate strangles you."

Anthony could see Kate standing by the front door, leaning against the frame, just like she used to be every morning her arms crossed over her chest, as he took off his helmet. "You're Late Bridgerton." A small smirk tugging at the corner of her lips.

"Oooo Princess, if you let me off, I'll get you off in those toilets upstairs at lunch." Anthony said, unable to keep the grin off his face.

Kate rolled her eyes, though he noticed the way her eyes flicked over him as he tugged his jacket off, tugging his blazer on instead, she opened her mouth to respond as Anthony stepped closer, crowding her against the doorframe.

"Kate! I'm all done signing in and the office said you were probably down here dealing with a perpetually tardy Bridgerton. Whatever that is?" A male voice said as a dark haired boy appeared through the door, startling Kate a little, a grin on his face. His shoes were polished, his tie neat, everything about him perfect. Apart from the way his eyes were raking over Kate.

Anthony felt his face twitch in irritation, his fingers itching to close possessively around Kate's waist.

Kate pushed against Anthony's chest making him step backwards, a sharp twinkle in her eye as she said. "This is a tardy Bridgerton." Taking the bakery bag from his hand, their fingers brushing, as she passed him a detention slip.

"Tardy Bridgerton, this is Jamie Dorset. He's new."

Anthony nodded briskly at the other boy, who paid him no attention, just continued staring at Kate. Anthony bristled a little as Katie sighed, a small wink.

"Now get to class, Bridgerton." Kate smirked over her shoulder at him.

Anthony stared down at the slip in his hands Check your phone if you want to see what you're not getting at lunch today. And let out a very frustrated groan when she hesitantly checked his phone to see a picture of Kate's open shirt, her school tie dangling over her chest.

And Anthony watched all day as Jamie Dorset stayed glued to Kate's side. Anthony knew it was ridiculous, it was Kate's roll to show new students around, she'd done it heaps of times before but this kid seemed a little too interested. Stood a little too close.

"Will you just go over there!" Benedict signed irritatedly, tossing one of his crisps at him.

"No! She's working, it would be rude!" Anthony signed sighing, his head resting on the table as he watched her across the room, her eyes flashing brightly as she spoke to Dorset, even as she winked at Anthony. He watched as Dorset reached up and brushed something from Kate's hair.

"Sophie's coming to dinner tonight." Ben signed, a bright smile on his face.

But Anthony was barely paying attention, Signing back "Cool!" as frustration ached his chest.

And he knew what the problem was, this is exactly the kind of guy Kate should be dating. Not wasting her time on a guy who never could show her quite enough attention, who was going to get a trade next year and spend the rest of his life working with his hands.

By the end of the day, Anthony was in a foul mood, sitting on his motorbike, Kate's helmet behind him staring at her by the door, wondering if he should just take off as Dorset leaned towards her, unable to stop himself, jealousy burning whit hot in his chest.

And then Kate stepped back, gesturing in Anthony's direction, shrugged, and left Dorset standing by the door, a little dumbstruck as she ran towards Anthony, launching herself at him as he stood from the bike, catching her and crushing her against his chest. Kate's hands caught his tie, tugging him down until ther lips met her tongue tangling with his a little filthily given her 13 year old sister was likely twenty feet away getting into their mum's car.

"I missed you today, Honey." Kate said as she pulled back, tapping against his chest to get him to release her before she straddled his bike. Anthony stepped back a little dazed unable to help meeting Dorset's surprised gaze, waving a little smugly.

"Now, if you take me to my house before we go to yours for dinner there'll be no one home." Kate hummed, sliding to press herself tightly against his back, her hand brushing purposefully over his thighs.

And Honestly, Anthony ha never driven so fast.

[apinchofm]

Fic Rec Friday

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i could be your heron blue sky aka the widow fic by @alicuntisms

Just one of my favourite fics, with tons of sharma family fluff, dowager!kate, granny mary, adorable edwina and anthony being the father who stepped up lol. WIP, M, AU, kathony

What We Have Together by DellaTrue (@justlaurabee)

It has What a Girl Wants vibes, just so much fun. Not only are Kate and Anthony so great to read in this but all the supporting characters are well developed. M, Modern AU, Lifelong One Night Stands

See, What Had Happened Was... by Daylander (@daylander1000)

One of the best fics ever! Why no one in King's Landing thinks Vhagar killed Luke 'on accident' with so much teenage angst, nobility beef and appearance from the phantom that is Daeron! Rhaemond, M, Canon AU

an ode to eaters by parlamante (@hysteries)

leaves change, so I need some good gothic fics and this is so up my street! E, Rhaemond, Granny Vhagar being a matchmaker

for somebody i thought was my savior by Anonymous & the making of a viscountess by @thefudge

Some good gothic Bridgerton fics I've read recently. Dark!Anthony, Giving Wuthering Heights.

[onetimetwotimesthreetimess]

we’re getting a malec heartstopper au and a malec kathony au

When is this happening land How are we supposed to survive.

you and @magnus-the-maqnificent are doing gods work

Dylan obrien as Alec fuck me

hello!!!

I was so obsessed with Dylan O’brien as a teenager lmaoo. He was my first choice because goofy Alec>>>>>>>

I’ll write it after I’m finished with the soldier alec au so somewhere around mid June.

And yes, I do believe that Laks and I are superior. Idk how I’ll survive the Kathony au either sksksjsha

[alrightsnaps]

I like how you keep ignoring the simple suggestion of looking under her tag "kate sharma" where you can find a whole new world of awful bad takes about Kate. The post about kate being a manipulative and controlling sister comes from a blogger called Edwinadaily. But I literally don't care, do as you want, just stop calling me a liar please and thank you :)

the “whole new world of awful bad takes about kate” under her kate sharma tag being....posts about edwina, bridgertonverse fanfics and headcanons and calling out the misogyny and racism in the fandom's treatment of woc characters.

clearly she's a monster who hates kate and trashtalks her all day long!

or should i have scrolled further down and meticulously researched her every post since she started her blog to find these anti kate posts that you and your friends claim she's making all the time but i can't find anywhere nor can you lot give receipts of?

sorry to disappoint but tumblr has a limit of 10 when it comes to the screenshots i could post.

and your other proof that she's an awful person person who hates kate is that *checks notes* she reblogs edwina-centric posts and gifs from what looks like a big content creator about said character (shocking! whyever would someone who stans edwina reblog posts about her!)

i wonder if you people act as paranoid and unhinged when it comes to kathony stans who spend their time spewing misogyny towards other female characters. do you also harass random accounts because a mutual their mutual’s mutual reblogged a post from someone who's been misogynistic towards edwina to defend anthony's ass?

at least be honest with yourselves and stop using kate as a shield, when your real issue here is that she doesn't excuse anthony for his treatment of edwina and kate, instead of vilifying a teenage girl to make him look good like y'all do.