I Am SO Happy To See Everyone Is Defending Nicola Coughlan After That Terrible Fatphobic Article Came

I am SO happy to see everyone is defending Nicola Coughlan after that terrible fatphobic article came out, but I also can’t help but feel sad that this same level of support is not extended to Luke Newton.

Some people on Twitter were insulting Luke in order to defend Nicola. The article kept saying how Nicola “wasn’t hot enough” for Luke (obviously untrue and blatantly fatphobic), and people saw that as a green light to start calling Luke too ugly/boring for Nicola instead. Luke didn’t write the damn article, why the hell are you attacking him?!

This same lady claims she promotes body positivity btw:

The botox thing has been disproven multiple times. That’s just what his face looks like (and even if he did get botox, this level of cruel bullying would still be unwarranted).

Tweets and tiktoks go viral EVERY DAY making fun of Luke’s face, and yet nobody is rushing to his defense or pointing out how messed up that is. Just today I came across a tiktok posted 1 day ago that had 700,000+ likes comparing him to a character I won’t even say because it was just very mean. And the comments in the video were SO dehumanizing, talking about him like he’s not a real person with feelings, it genuinely left me in shock (“i knew he reminded me of something” “this explains why im scared of him”). Some people in the replies to the video were saying that it made their day/made them laugh super hard, and some were even tagging Nicola and asking her to show Luke as if the video wasn’t literally making fun of his appearance.

I know literally every actor/celebrity gets made fun of and bullied, especially on Tiktok and Twitter, but this all feels like too much. Luke Newton seems like such a kind person, so it’s hurting my heart to see this level of bullying directed toward him. If you can understand that bodyshaming Nicola is wrong, you can understand that bodyshaming Luke (and anyone else) is wrong too.

And yknow I wish positive videos got as much attention as negative ones, because I’ve seen plenty of tiktoks and tweets praising Luke, but of course those don’t blow up nearly as much as the bad ones.

The fandom’s constant reaction to ANYTHING being dropped summarised in two sentences

I’m a Penelope defender, not a Whistledown defender, like girl GIVE IT UP.

She self-sabotages with Whistledown so bad. It always causes her to make decisions that devastate her and the people around her. Keeping it up would also rely on her continuing to be secretive and invisible. I want to see her do better, and she can. She doesn’t need to continue with Whistledown just to be a writer. To me, a happy ending for her would be a book published openly under the name Penelope Bridgerton, not hiding her light under Lady Whistledown.

listen, the girlies who get it get it

because colin is not for the people who desperately wanted another 'oooh so broody, so sexy and angsty and dark' male protagonist, okay? he's not for y'all. he's for *me*. he's for the dweebs. he's got a soft heart and a gentle soul, he makes silly puns, his sexy wet dream is him showing up from the fog to tell Penelope in her garden that he can't stop thinking of her and is so damn down bad so she can be like 'omg bb, saaaame, ilu2' and he gets to eat her titties. he makes olive jokes and horse jokes and he raised his voice at his mum for .2 milliseconds and then immediately is there going 'i'm sowwy' with his big, wet eyes. he got all his sisters the most thoughtful gifts and then with his brothers went 'lol, uh, cards?' he's gorgeous, but also he's cute. he makes the sweetest squishy face when he's genuinely happy and you just KNOW he went up to his room after that engagement went through writing in his journal on his tummy in his bed kicking his feet all 'and then she said yes!'

he is my perfect man forreal

Colin's very hot head tilt.

The people who stuck around the Bridgerton fandom just to hate watch are kind of aggressively transparently obvious.