Cruel Irony

[iwishiwereapinkbutterfly]

I've got a new favourite fanfic. 😍 It's simply wonderfully written.. and has given me a new OTP.

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[itsacruelirony]

Rewatching Bridgerton S2: How is Penelope just sitting by and not feeling guilty while her mother has to sell the silver and books to stay afloat? She literally earned £10 that morning (the equivalent of £668 today)! She could at least buy them something other than potatoes to eat!

At least in the books she secretly donated her money to the family as a pretend inheritance.

[dollypopup]

the absolute unbearable cruelty that the writers foisted upon Cressida

a woman taught from the beginning in her home, by her own mother, that she cannot trust any other women, who finally, FINALLY felt she had a friend- who didn't care for her much at all. a woman who grew up in a house that is more akin to a mausoleum, a woman dressed up as a doll and made to masquerade and sing and dance for the attention of a half decent man, never to be considered seriously. a woman who is foisted onto a man old enough to be her grandfather, who wants 4 children from her, and intends to keep her locked up in his estate with at most 1 social outing a month, who didn't believe in listening to music, or art.

a woman who goes to the only person she ever considered a friend, saying 'I need to save myself. Run with me. Write with me. Help me.' only for that friend to turn her back on her, and talked ill of her for the rest of her time in her society. a woman who tried to claw her way out of a horrible circumstance, only to be told she's too stupid to do so. a woman who's mother wrote the article that insulted her friend's family, an article she still regretted. a woman who tried to save herself and was then sent off to an aunt even less warm than the circumstances she'd grown up in.

what was Cressida meant to do? she had no one to turn to, and when she tried, she was turned away. she had no options left to her, she exhausted all of them. yes, blackmailing Penelope was harsh, but I would have done almost anything to save myself from sexual assault at the hands of a husband old enough to be my father twice over who was clearly intending on mistreating me, especially if I was dropped by the only person I ever considered a friend.

Cressida's story is so fucking tragic. My heart cracked clean in half for her

[itsacruelirony]

Cressida's wedding dress, as featured in my fic The Candle Flame on AO3.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[itsacruelirony]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 10/? Fandom: Bridgerton (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cressida Cowper/Alfred Debling Characters: Cressida Cowper, Alfred Debling, Aunt Joanna (Bridgerton), Lord Cowper (Bridgerton), Lady Cowper (Bridgerton), Eloise Bridgerton, Penelope Featherington, Colin Bridgerton Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 03, Fix-It, Recovery, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Physical Abuse, Touch-Starved, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, POV Cressida Cowper, Cressida Cowper Redemption, Cressida Cowper Needs a Hug, Justice for Cressida Cowper, Self-Esteem Issues, Forced Marriage, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Selective Mutism, Panic Attacks, Queen Charlotte (Bridgerton) Lives, Historical Inaccuracy Summary:

Cressida has been exiled to Wales, to be re-educated while her father finds her a husband. It has been four years. Cressida resigns herself to wasting away in the Welsh countryside until a figure from her past returns and changes everything.

*

“Miss Cowper?” a man asks.

Cressida tears her eyes from her sketchbook and looks up, into the face of a man she never expected to see again.

“Lord Debling?”

[phoebette]

So I’m competing in Miss England, please vote for me

So I recently found out that I’ve made it through to the first photo heat of Miss England 2020 and I would love some support in getting through to the next round. To vote for me text MISS PHOTO15 to 63333 (from a UK mobile), texts cost 50p plus your standard network rate. If you aren’t in the UK or can’t afford to vote please just reblog this, it would actually mean the world to me

[happyjarryholidays]

Fanfic-Writers’ Appreciation Day!

I thought this would be a great excuse to celebrate everyone who has written fanfic for HJH and for the jarry fandom as a whole. YOU’RE ALL AWESOME!!

Special shout outs to: @hazelestelle @strangledavatar @itsacruelirony @scoopwells @yorkshirewench and @boomboxgeneration and an extra extra special shoutout to my co-mod, beta reader and most-awesome writer person @bambiesque <3 <3 <3

Check out the amazing fics they’ve written here!!

[saltoftheao3]

*bangs pots*

HELLO EVERYONE IT’S FANFIC WRITER APPRECIATION DAY!!!

GO SHOWER YOUR FAVORITE FANFIC AUTHORS WITH WELL-DESERVED LOVE!!!

(21.08.2018)

[happyjarryholidays]

This is the last week of Happy Jarry Holidays!!

The prompts for this week are: RAINBOW Pride, Togetherness, Community, Delight…

I’ve got a few things planned for this week - so stay tuned!

The whole plan for this week was to celebrate jarry on the same week as Chester pride. While I know that holding up Hollyoaks as a bastion of queer representation is a bit disingenuous at the moment, these prompts were planned before we even knew about Sadie, let alone everything else. But even though canon has destroyed the dreams we had for this pairing, this doesn’t take away from the joy we had - both from the amazing scenes we had on screen and all the fabulous fanworks that James and Harry/Parry and Greg inspired, and the community of people that loved them. 

So let’s celebrate that! 

[phoebette]

Love Island OC Tag Game

In honour of Amber and Greg’s recent Love Island win, and the fact that writing Ko4T has made some revelations about the sexual exploits of the main characters, I’ve decided to play this little game. Feel free to do it with your own OCs and tag other people. Basically it’s how they would act if they took part in the reality show Love Island:

Titaia: would comfortably couple up in the first couple of days and things would go well before her head gets turned making her realise she wants something/someone else

Cillian: horny devil would probably go for the fittest guy in there and try and shag them immediately, but he would still be loyal af

Laughlin: would couple up once and try to stay with them the whole time. His head would never get turned

Maiana: wouldn’t settle down with one person until Casa Amor, would probably cause a fair few love triangles

Idaios: would get his head turned in Casa Amor but then have it turned back when he’s back in the main villa

Elrin: would probably only turn up in Casa Amor and couple up with one person for the rest of the show

Iomene: literally would not even be here cuz she’s asexual af

Ariphron: Villa Snake

Mikos: Curtis from this year’s series

Nilissa: super sweet but would probably get pied quite early on, and it would probably be because of Ariphron

Tagging: @itsacruelirony, @thewritertiffany, @dreamywritingdragon, @tenacious-scripturient, @iamidentical

[alittlebitalaska]

“That’s your otp”?

“They’re just friends”

[reyairia]

“That’s your otp”?

“But they hate each other.”

[glorious-godofchaos-blog]

“That’s your otp?” 

“But they’re not gay.”

[lithefider]

“That’s your otp?”

“But they are like 2 feet apart in height.”

[gabriel-the-cryptid]

“That’s your otp?”

“But one of them is dead.”

[theprofoundslayer]

Reblogging again because this got even better

[eclipseofthoughts]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter two is up, guys! Thank you so much for all the support xxx

[happyjarryholidays]

Canon?

Happy Jarry Holidays is STILL running! 

This week the prompts are: INDIGO - serenity, obedience, selflessness… 

Check out the rest of the pride prompts here! 

Show some love to the creations here!

[jamesnightingales]

[harrythomqson]

Right now, this precise second, is the entirety of your life. It’s all that exists, it’s all that matters. Just enjoy being Harry Thompson, with all his glorious flaws.

[harrythompsondeservedbetter]

HARRY DESERVED BETTER

[romeoquinns]

literally cant fucking believe they had a gay character sleep with a woman all so he could get a kid out of it to then be murdered by the serial killer who goes after bad dads. only in hollyoaks