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Penelope out here saying ' Benedict you're getting so predictable even I can read what's going on with you, do yourself a favor and go find yourself a Sophie '

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If bridgerton was some kind of cartoonish universe where everyone is rather superhero or a villain Pen would be a hero turned villain turned hero and it would confuse the heck out of everyone. She's the final boss, she's a princess in tower. She will ruin Colin's hero career, but next second shiver before the kiss.

But the real plot twist, that she technically she's not the final boss. Lady D is. Oh no, she doesn't have an evil agenda, she's just bored and manipulate everyone like puppets.

You and I can be friends. This is exactly the type of cartoon that I would watch.

Penelope is just in this villain business because she can. She's having fun being the bad guy, but also sometimes she does good things for people and her henchmen make fun of her.

.Give me a villain Lady Danbury who's just a bad guy because she's bored, no tragic backstory no need for redemption this woman just wanted to cause some chaos and she went to became a super villain. She recruited Penelope with some idealistic propaganda about getting away from under Portia's thumb and since Penelope turned out to be good at villainy she's the face of the operation.

I would watch a whole cartoon that's like in the Phineas and Ferb format, that's just the Bridgertons trying to take down Penelope and sometimes getting into shenanigans where they need Penelope's help, or where they need to help Penelope it would be hilarious.

#bridgerton #things I like #polin #penelope fetherington

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My favorite quote from Eloise’s book

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Look at her, she's so sweet and cute and kind, but she can be vicious, she can be cunning, she can be a bad enemy but also.... She's done no wrong ever! How could someone this cute bully people with her writing? LW what LW? you have the wrong person

PEN | Bridgerton.

#penelope featherington #i support Penelope's rights #and Penelope's wrongs

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Lady Danbury does it on purpose: she has these little shrubberies and out of the way spots that she calls the ' tear him a new one ' sites, for any lady who's ever felt the need to call out a man's BS without causing a scandal for herself (all done in memory of her late husband)

If I had a nickel for every time a Bridgerton brother was called out by his future wife at a Danbury ball, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's still weird it happened twice.

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Penelope be like

Mr. Colin "This sentence is about to bite me in the ass on at least three different occasions this season" Bridgerton

I can't wait to see that.

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I just would love to see what Colin is thinking while the rest of his brothers are beating up Phillip

" I left my sexy wife for this"

" how would Eloise feel if I got myself kidnapped on her honeymoon? Why she so rude to me??"

" this is the most time alone I've had with Penelope in ages and Eloise can't even let me honeymoon in peace"

"wait a minute... Dots connected... Kidnapped Eloise = more Penelope for me"

" if Phillip keeps Eloise, then I won't have to share my wife with her"

" New plan, befriend this Phillip guy, convince him Eloise isn't annoying, bribe him to extend Eloise stay at his house, possibly forever, no, no, Anthony's way is better, force them to marry"

"Argh Pen would have better ideas, Pen is so smart, and witty...and sexy"

" I MISS MY WIFE"

#colin bridgerton #polin #penelope fetherington #eloise bridgerton #philip crane #philoise

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BRIDGERTON SEASON 3 (2024) TRAILER

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Elliot Bridgerton AU: Another reason why Penelope had a lack of suitors is also because Elliot and Colin’s constant referral to her as “MY Pen”. … Even the point will the brothers argue over her that “No, she’s MY Pen!” “I had her first!” “I’ve known her longer!”

Thus, many gentleman slowly walking away not wanting to get caught in the crossfire… Lord Debling was the first to take that risk.

You know what, I love this take, because in my Elliot Au, all gentleman stay away from Pen because they are afraid of Elliot, or think she's already spoken for. But in comes Debling, sees that there's nothing going on with Penelope and the anti marriage Bridgerton and decides to shoot his shot with Penelope.

Cue Elliot and Colin both turning away from each other and going like "did you see the audacity? Debling needs to go down"

For me it would be even funnier if Elliot eventually comes around to respecting Debling and gives him his blessing to court his Pen, on the condition that he doesn't get in between their friendship or try to keep Pen from hanging out with bestie boy Elliot. Which Debling doesn't mind.

And Colin feels so betrayed, his brother backstabbing him, over and over, like Brutus and Ceasar! whatever happened to their alliance against Debling? whatever happened to brotherhood? why is Pen not giving him any attention!!

PEEEEN!!!!!!

#genderbent eloise au #polin #colin bridgerton

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dating your enemy sibling with gregory and lucy? i guess it fits perfectly both ways

made it a mafia au. Because I wanted the real mortal enemies feel to it.

"Lucy how could you!!" Richard looked on the verge of an apoplexy at the sight before him, his sister and his worst enemy! in his own home! doing...doing... unspeakable things in his bed

"Oh brother I was going to tell you" Lucy said in that oh so musical accent that made her sound like an actress from an old movie "I'm so inlove with Gregory you see" she raised the covers to cover herself, giving a smirking Gregory a soft kiss.

Gregory didn't even pretend to be embarrassed " Do you mind Richard? we were in the middle of something"

" I could kill you!!!" Richard howled looking for his gun "I could kill you both!"

"he'd have to find his gun first" Lucy whispered into Gregory's ear, as they both watched an irate Richard leave the room, slamming doors and calling henchmen to get rid of Gregory (henchmen who were honestly more afraid of Greg than they could ever be of Richard, even if Lucy wasn't holding the purse strings of their payroll)

"Well that was fun wasn't it?" Lucy said getting up from bed wrapped in the bedsheet and leaving Gregory smirking at her in all his naked glory "Nice endurance by the way, your bedroom skills are top notch"

"Well, my mama taught me that when one meets a special lady, one should treat her right, and my sisters in law hammered the lesson down" Gregory shrugged watching Lucy get dressed with every intention of leaving him there to find his way out

"My compliments to the Madams Bridgerton" Lucy smiled "you were an absolute gentleman"

Gregory laughed, he hadn't been a gentleman when he'd been making every effort to desecrate her brother's bedroom with her "Hey Lucy? does this mean you're my girlfriend now?" he asked nonchalantly, giving Lucy his biggest puppy dog eyes.

The thing is that Gregory Bridgerton knew that Lucinda Abernathy had only slept with him to spite her brother. Richard was a pain in his ass most days, always competing with Gregory for everything, ever since Greg ratted his uncle out for human trafficking, Richard had had it out for him, always aiming for everything Gregory wanted and trying to kill him. The man just couldn't accept that Greg was superior than him in every way, so Gregory liked to remind him of it. With a few shots to his sternum if necessary. Honestly, Richard was alive because Bridgertons enjoyed toying with their enemies, not because Greg didn't have the motivation or the capacity to put a bullet in his head.

So when Lucy Abernathy approached him in one of Kate's parties, Greg was intrigued, he'd never paid attention to Lucy, mostly because Richard was Richard and he couldn't imagine the sibling to that particular dingbat being particularly keen on his acquaintance . Still, Lucy was a welcome surprise, perfectly pragmatic, well adjusted and intelligent (despite being the sister of a nutcase like Richard) They'd spent all night talking and he found himself absolutely enamored with her practical and unsentimental approach to life. Lucy Abernathy wouldn't know romanticism if it hit her with Kate's mallet of death and Gregory LOVED IT.

So when Lucy said "wanna get out of here?" Gregory followed. He let her use him. And when she was done, he went for the kill. Mostly because, from what he knew of his worst enemy's little sister, Lucy wouldn't have touched him with a ten foot pole unless Richard had crossed her and crossed her he did. To Gregory's good fortune.

Lucy looked at Gregory's earnest smile, for a guy who had a tendency to shoot Richard every month or so, he was surprisingly sentimental, he even bought her dinner before she took him home with her. Those Bridgerton puppy eyes were already making her feel bad, so what if Gregory Bridgerton was the type of guy who believed in happily ever after and also ran a side business of contraband armament on the weekends. Nobody had ever told her that the Bridgerton baby boy had a sentimental side, heck Lucy didn't know it was possible to BE sentimental when one was that deeply involved with the Mayfair crime underworld and yet here he was, Gregory Bridgerton, asking her if they were an item.

Lucy sighed, she was so going to regret this "Yes Gregory, I'm your girlfriend now"

Gregory smiled like all his birthdays had come at once "I have got to take you to meet my family then"

"Take it easy Bridgerton" Lucy warned, darned the guy moved fast "don't blow it" besides what's the worst that could happen? dating him for a while would be fine, she liked Gregory well enough and it's not like she was going to marry the guy just to spite Richard. With a uncle like hers Lucy had never had a normal boyfriend before, maybe Gregory was her one chance to experience how the normal side of relationships.

Meanwhile Gregory was already plotting how to make Lucy his for the rest of his life.

What's the worst that could happen indeed.

#gregory b #lucy abernathy #drabbles #bridgerton #bridgerton drabbles

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These are WAY TOO funny, omg

The idiot Bridgertons strike again (I love them anyway)

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More Penelope discourse

On the topic of female rage. Here’s something you may not want to hear: Penelope can be vicious. And I personally love her for it.

What I love about show Penelope is that she is a good person, she had a wonderful friendship with Eloise in s1 and trough most of s2, she cares about her family even when they are so dismissive of her, she likes dogs, she is is sweet and intuitive and funny and so terribly cute.

But she’s vicious. 

And I’m sorry if that intimidates the crowd who likes their female characters to fit into the Mother, Witch, Harlot stereotype. But the truth is that women can be quite vicious creatures when we want to be, no matter how nice, no matter how good hearted, we are. If you push the wrong button we are willing to ruin lives, without remorse and without apology. 

I find it really funny how so many people are intimidated by that aspect of show Penelope under the guise of ‘oh she’s not a good person’.  Oh please what intimidates that crowd is that show Penelope IS a good person, that she does have good intentions. That she still has the capacity to be the villain of someone else’s story when she’s 100% the protagonist of her own.

Daphne sort of glossed over the concept of how women are expected to fit themselves into a box to survive in this world where they are punished for everything, but Penelope is a better example of what happens when a woman in Daphne’s situation of ‘sit still, be smart, and never get angry’ situation, has power.

Power to hurt back, if someone hurts her. And I personally think this makes Penelope’s character more interesting. The concept that good women can be monsters and still be the absolute most wonderful people you will ever meet, that’s just something you don’t see in media a lot. It may feel contradicting, but it is appealing to me. 

It’s usually more understandable if the character starts out as a bad guy and then does does something unexpectedly good. But the whole “ how can a person be so good and yet....do something bad?”. Well that, that is what I call good writing. 

That’s an aspect of Penelope I look forward to seeing in S3. I want to see Penelope show that just as she is good, she can be vicious and unapologetic if you cross her.

 And that’s the tea.

#Penelope Featherington #bridgerton season 3 #penelope featherington meta

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There's something so beautiful about Benedict wanting to be more than a Bridgerton...

Then voicing these feelings for the first time and only to Sophie, and Sophie being the first person who truly sees him for who he is...

To then Sophie getting angry because the family jokes about him and they don't seem to know him...

To finally the family understanding how unique Benedict is...

It's his love for Sophie that stood him apart 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

It even became THE love story of the Bridgerton family!!!

Excuse me while I cry 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Sophie Beckett Aesthetic

#FC: Ana De Armas #bridgerton #Sophie Beckett

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I’m wondering if Eloise will get a talk with Kate, since Kate was able to tell her the difficulties of being a spinster, even though I don’t think Eloise actually listened.

Of course, she become friends with Alice Mondrich, or even meet Sophie.

This is all speculation.

Kate and Alice have so much potential to be a force for good in s3 and I hope the show utilizes it to their full capacity. Eloise needs to hear more female voices from the fringes of society. But i guess we'll have to wait and see

#bridgerton #Bridgerton s3 #good speculation

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You know what, I think Eloise’s reaction to Penelope being LW through season 2 and to season 3 is taken from the anger Colin had in the book. She is angry and also jealous because Penelope is right from their argument, because unlike Eloise who is all talk about doing something but she never does. Penelope on the other hand DID something, she has A LIFE’S WORK, and Eloise can’t stand that.

Okay I agree and disagree with this Anon

I agree that Penelope was right and what she said to Eloise had been a long time coming, Eloise has a lot of advantages that other young women don't have and yet bemoans the oppression of a society in which she's oppressed the least. As tough her problems were the only ones that mattered. She's got very little self awareness and Penelope said what everyone else didn't have the guts to: that the world doesn't revolve around Eloise and her little mermaid ' part of your world ' problems

I disagree because I personally don't think Eloise is jealous. But rather that she had the wake up call all fake fans with a parasocial relationship have with celebrities when they meet and realize their idols are human... And flawed.

She's the audience throwing tomatoes at a performance when it's not up to her standards. The reviewer who leaves a 1 star review because their chef didn't change the menu, the Taylor Swift fan who signed a petition to 'save' Taylor from her relationship with Matty Healy. You get the point. Shes the type of fan and dare I say the type of friend who only likes something as long as Lady Whistledown and Penelope keep up the performance and conform to her idea of who they should be.

Lady Whistledown being that perfect celebrity writer and Penelope being the friend who never actively disagreed with her. So Eloise felt the betrayal in two fronts:

With LW it was very straightforward. The moment she found out that Lady Whistledown was actually an angry teenage girl and not a wise woman of the world, well of course she became an anti fan. I mean I know people in this fandom who send death threats to actors because uhh * puts on reading glasses * 'they didn't come back to the show ' well guess what, Eloise is exactly like that, just regency. I mean she's not the death threat kind of anti fan but as you can see shes definitely the ' this celebrity is dead to me ' kind of anti fan. (Although yeah, when we put it like that, jealousy is usually a big motivation in an anti fan hatred of whichever celebrity ' betrayed them' )

And I think that's the bulk of why Eloise reacted the way she did

The part that will probably go unnadressed in the show because its more messy is that with Penelope as a friend it was more personal because her friend had been lying to her, to her face, for a long time and worse, she was such a self absorbed friend that she believed the lie. Eloise thought she was close to Penelope but not as close as to see the Lady Whistledown in her. There's this whole side to Penelope, heck this whole career that Eloise doesn't know about. If Penelope lied about that then what else did she lie about? How many times did she agree with Eloise just to placate her (or redirect her away from the truth)

Note that I don't think Penelope is blameless in their fight, if Penelope felt she had to keep up a performance and pretend to be someone else even with Eloise, then her side of the friendship had its huge unnadressed trust issues too. But that's a post for another day

And that's the tea

#bridgerton #Peneloise #it's complicated #even i admit that #eloise bridgerton #penelope fetherington

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This man wants to be a father so bad.

Look at him in the background here. I don’t know if you can tell, but he’s bouncing. HE’S BOUNCING.

Bonus:

😭 🤗🫠

Pen, you’re needed.