CAN WE FINALLY AGREE THAT MIGUEL IS JUST AS MUCH OF A VILLAN AS SPOT IS?

"Colin had no trauma related to love and self worth like Anthony. Anthony watched his father die, watched his mum turn into a ghost of a person, and didn't want that for his wife"

Bestie. . .they have. . .the same dad???? They have the same mum???? Literally all of the Bridgerton children except Hyacinth watched Edmund die? They all experienced Violet's immense sorrow? He and Violet obviously have a very close connection and so of course he saw her wilting (plant pun, if you were wondering) or at least knew about it and has responded with being particularly gentle with her?

Trauma shaped all the Bridgertons. Colin was a young boy when his dad passed and everyone in the family experienced an immense grief and, unlike his brothers, Colin was twelve, he wasn't the heir, he wasn't the spare, and had no responsibility but to go to school (sent off elsewhere after his dad passed away, thus disconnected from his circle of support and family) and figure out how to be a man from strangers and rakes. Literally no one had space for his grief and sensitivity? He even cries alone in his bedroom in Season 1 and stops talking about his travels after he gets made fun of in Season 2 and claims that hardly anyone replied to his letters in Season 3 like what do you mean he has no trauma related to love?

Colin was right there on the steps watching his father cradled in his mother's arms as she wept over his sudden passing. Of course he has trauma related to love? Colin's entire arc was about how he only felt he could be cared about if he was pleasing the people around him or being useful in some way and putting on a mask and a persona so he wouldn't be hurt by how much no one else wanted the real, messy, authentic him around? His mum and dad lived a love story and Colin watched it fall to pieces just as all the Bridgertons did, he just internalized it differently. His entire family was grieving so he decided to be useful by offering levity where he could, especially as the brother raised predominately with his sisters, Eloise and Daphne.

And yet despite the fact that this was such a huge tragedy of his childhood, Colin still is incredibly emotionally available and as soon as he realized what he felt for Penelope was romantic, he takes initiative and he cuts into her dance with Debling and he chases after her carriage so he can confess that he can't stop thinking about her and he's not at all angry at her, she doesn't vex him, it isn't frustration at her- it's torture because he is so damn besotted with her that he dreams of her and the kiss they shared haunts him but it's torture he embraces because he's a romantic soul who is incredibly emotionally brave and he cares about Penelope more than he cares about his ego or image or past hurts.

Give my man his flowers.

If there's one thing I need from part 2 is Colin and Penelope having the time of their lives at a ball.

I want them to dance, whisper gossip to each other, giggle in front of everyone.

I want every single person in that room to realise how in love they are.

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN !!!!

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

YESYESYES

yk what i would lowkey kill for?

ghostflower first kiss but one of them nearly dies before it happened. like that scene in the hunger games catching fire (fuck here i go again-) where katniss kisses peeta after his heart stopped for a minute and then it worked again.

I WOULD KILL-

chloe or sam or sophia or marcus - taylor swift

The Letters

People seem to be misinterpreting this scene and thinking that the bigger bundle of tightly bound letters are those that Colin received from his family while traveling. But if you look closely:

These letters are addressed to London, the top one says “Miss — Bridgerton”: they’re letters from Colin to his family. Letters he never sent.

It’s made clear in S3E1 that the Bridgertons didn’t hear much from him that summer, and even less when he came back - and who could blame him, when last year they remarked that he wouldn’t shut up about his travels.

But Penelope… she let him be the excited boy who just wanted to talk about his adventures, and I know that must have felt great. When he didn’t have a lot, he still had her. She let him be who he wanted to be.

And I think he realized, seeing the letters he never sent - the parts of himself he hid away - and the freedom Penelope gave him through the simple act of writing back, that he needed to do the same for her, and let her be whoever she wanted to be.

He was going to love her anyway.

Israel targeted his house specifically. 42 members of his family. Note that people in gaza have been gathering and staying at one place after most houses have been destroyed, which means Israel is wiping families and entire bloodlines.

And then he started thinking about her and boom, another drawing but 10x more detailed (cause he has photographic memory)... And then it became a whole sketchbook

Miles has definitely drawn Gwen by mistake. Like, he was just following a normal reference or something, mindlessly doodling and then boom, Gwen

It's done so well to the point it could be treated as another hunger games book imo

i've been reading a lot of fanfics about hunger games lately, but my most favourite one is about Annie's games and her relationship with Finnick. i beg everyone to read it, i need someone to talk about it with, because my heart is gonna burst.

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