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.

It’s almost as if part of their problem is that they both believe they’re unlovable for distinctly different reasons, only to realize that the other loves them 💯 for all the things they felt embarrassed by or kept secret or felt like they had to suppress.

AND I JUST THINK THATS NEAT 🥺

"But how did Colin not know Penelope had a crush on him?"

Babes, how did Penelope not know Colin had a crush on her?

He literally bought and ate the same cake she did as he stared longingly at her? He sprinted for that balloon rope, fully ready to haul 800 pounds on his lonesome so she wouldn't be hurt? He bribed her maid so they could have alone time and then scurried off after her every moment of every event they're in together? He is always in her garden? He cuts into her dance? He glared daggers through Debling's face? He rushes up to her to say he's been meaning to ask her something and stares so deep into her eyes I swear boy was looking into her soul? He loses track of his sentences because he just starts pining mid-syllable? He looks at her lips all the time? He chugs lemonade after she compliments how his eyes shine when he's kind? He runs off after her carriage, panting, cravatless, asking if she accepted a proposal and to please please please let him in, and she's still like "I can't believe he'd think you have feelings for me!" When my boy has been out here getting a phd in down baderism?

They're both idiots in love, your honor

Colin, obviously. Penelope has her freedom, it’s Colin who’s on a leash.

Penelope: I want freedom.

Deblin: marry me, you would have freedom, and obvious have to care of my business and heirs.

Colin: marry me, I would follow you like a puppy for ever and ever and ever.

Eloise: be a spinster with me and you would have to hear everything I want to say to the end of the world.

Portia: don't marry and take care of me when I get old and piss myself.

Penelope: ? ? ?

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.

This is the ep 4 moment is the one that lives rent free in my head.

My take-I don't think this is the moment Colin decides to marry Penelope. I think that was on the table as soon as he heard that Debling was going to propose. In my mind, this moment is when it starts to sink in that he is getting both a lover and best friend in Penelope. There's still the absolutely been kindled and it's not gonna go out passion in his eyes. But there also appears to be this sureness and I feel like he is just imagining going from ravishing her to laughing with her for the rest of their lives in this moment.

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