Im A Writer Colin Truther Because Colin Spent His First Summer Abroad Writing Letters To His Whole Big

I’m a writer Colin truther because Colin spent his first summer abroad writing letters to his whole big ass family (plus Penelope) and Penelope was the only one to respond to all of his letters.

And then he goes away for a SECOND summer abroad and writes to his whole big ass family (plus Penelope) and even fewer people respond the second summer away???

And he just…still keeps writing them letters???? Yeah that’s a man that misses Penelope but that’s also a man who just likes writing. Wasting time and ink going “surely my family will write back if I can create really evocative descriptions of sunsets” like the NERD he is.

one thing that REALLY bothers me about people shitting on penelope's character is that people are consistently asking for nuanced and interesting women characters, more depth, more complexity. and here she is! penelope is at once sweet, innocent, shy but also can be selfish, impulsive, judging. she is literally just a girl, growing up and trying to find her place and somehow people hate her for it.

I'm amused that Penelope speaks in a higher pitched, more innocent like voice at ton events and to Colin because that's what she's been taught will attract a man. (Also possibly, even unconsciously, a way to distance a resemblance between her and Portia) She might have even been trained to do this at one point or another. Society dictates that innocence and beauty go hand in hand. So since society deemed her, wrongly in my opinion, less than when it comes to her physical beauty, she tries harder to seem innocent even though that's not who she is.

The part that really amuses me about this is the moment Penelope let's her voice drop back to it's natural pitch and she let's her cuntieness show Colin is heart eyes and instant hard on.

Colin Bridgerton is a messy drama king and LIKES when his wife's bitchy side comes out.

“No one will beat this…”

Why is Bridgerton of all shows a freaking ship competition? I don’t know if you know this, but all of the ships can coexist. In fact, they all do coexist because they are a family.

This idea that going into season three that Polin has to somehow top the previous love confessions is the most ridiculous notion I’ve ever seen. The entire idea of this show is to show different tropes. Every love story is going to be different and they are going to experiment with different types of romantic love.

I personally think this insecurity comes from the fact that they’re terrified that the casuals will love Polin. People have spent the past two years since the hiatus convincing everyone who will listen that season three will fail and somehow it hasn’t. Everyone is super excited to see what’s in store for Penelope and Colin. Now all of a sudden I’ve seen so many post on so many different platforms, making this love confession competition.

I have complete faith that Luke & Nicola will deliver but I really wish this fandom could just enjoy all the ships and stop shitting on things people are excited about just to prop their faves.

He also has a more wry sense of humor vs goofy. Colin has a snarkier sense of humor than anyone else in his family, in both seasons. “Perhaps he is still waiting at the altar for Miss Edwina” is just dry humor. Probably why he can appreciate Penelope’s “barbs” so much, they share the same taste in jokes.

Book Polin fans… coming from someone who started the show without reading any of the books and only read them during this long wait for S3… I kinda think people are taking the complaints that the show gave Benedict Colin’s personality as an excuse to say Colin has no personality, when the two things are NOT the same.

Colin has a personality. In fact he has his same personality FROM THE BOOK. The problem is that Benedict has some (and I mean only SOME) of it too when they should’ve either kept Benedict the same as his book counterpart OR given him a fresh personality that fit a niche in the show that wasn’t filled yet.

And some of the stuff that’s given to Benedict in the Colin/Benedict personality tug of war we gotta gatekeep for Colin, I’m sorry. The amount of times I see people credit the “have you ever been to a farm” scene to Benedict is wild.

Fingers crossed for a day we can freak out about Polin without ✨discourse✨