#polin fandom

[ladyolivia689]

Are we not Friends? 👀

[doomed2repeat]

Luke getting a shoutout 🥹

[polinsated]

i'm sorry for the wind and breathlessness, haha, but here it is, the voice of polinsated 😂

[girllookingoutwindow]

Why do some people still hate Colin like I was literally cussed out on Twitter cause I made a post about Colin being the best male lead in the show and I was literally dragged. Being a part of this fandom isn't for the weak 😭😭

I'm really sorry anon that happened to you. I don't have twitter. I'm only posting here, and living in a buble because everyone is very nice with me here. I think some places are more safe than others.

Maybe you can do things here.

I love this fandom so much. ❤️

[torchwood-99]

It's funny how Polin shippers will screech and howl when a Penelope critical fanfic will turn up in the tag, and yet see nothing wrong in fics that bash Eloise and Colin, exaggerate their flaws, disregard their feelings, turn them into either villainous fools who must be redeemed into mindless Penelope sycophants. It's particularly insulting for Colin, who is one half of their precious OTP.

There are hundreds on hundreds of Polin fics that treat Eloise and Colin like dirt. There about five that call Penelope out on the harm she's caused people, and that's enough to send Penelope fans spiralling.

[viscountessevie]

I wasn't going to say anything because Nicola had taken down the video and all I had to say on that was a summary of whatever has already been said about her on this blog.

And to be clear this isn't to talk about that video but the harassment I've been getting on Twitter just because I pointed out the contradictions NC said in her video with how she's been conducting herself online and in interviews. Nothing was false or misinformation. Simply stating things she's done and how as fan of colour they all have come across as micoraggressions.

Yet I've been labelled a liar, told to shove it up my ass and to kill myself. Apparently now I'm stupid and need to be reported dor "spreading hate" Also I'm "justifying the hate" against her. They really saw my very first tweet and went all:

Like please read the whole thread. I literally start the tweet acknowledging that Nicola DOES probably get hate from a gross minority of the fandom (no particular subfandom just general haters) about Pen's weight and what not. Besides, hate is very much different from the criticism that most of the fandom has against Pen's actions against Marina and Eloise.

I also say that Nicola had really fair points and shed light on the PR of it all which I have always blamed for the most part. I believe I gave Nicola points and agreed with her where it counts while also disagreeing with some of the false statements she has made. Then I literally end the thread on a note saying that there's a difference between criticism and hate. Guess who ends up getting hate against them anyway?

All I did was call out how her actions throughout her Bridgerton tenture is harmful. Turns out the worst thing you can call a white celebrity with intense stans a racist. And instead of listening to us, fans of colour who feel hurt by her actions, they send us death threats.

The Polin fandom can say it's not all of them. But where are you all telling your fellow stans to back off when you see vile tweets like this:

TW: Intense virtrol hate and suicide baiting

I don't know how I am "rewriting history" by sharing liked shady tweets against Regé and comments on Ruby and Newts' BTS vids that (indirectly) encouraged her stans to attack Ruby on her IG to the point of Ruby's hospitalization. But go off I guess

This is the main one I referring to when listing how I was attacked. I am okay right now but reminder that you never know what people may be going through and no matter what it IS NEVER OKAY to tell ANYONE to kill themselves.

Again pretty mild because also inaccurate. The difference between their fandom's reaction to attack and hate on Kathonys unprompted when it was a comment by an Eloise fan featured on Nicola's video and slut shaming Simone vs every other fandom calling them out on their bigotry. I don't think I'm the hater here.

[These ones below are pretty old but just more examples of how I've been verbally abused on Tumblr as well and they don't even specify what exactly got them so mad?? It feels like they just hate me for existing]:

It's always really classy to call someone the c word, ugly and a hag. Also the person who said I was ugly because they saw my picture wtf you creep where are you seeing them?

Again all I've ever done on this blog is call out racist actions that are harmful to those in direct line of it and it hurts us as fans to see our escapism show turn into something ugly and hateful that we already deal with on a real life basis and now we gotta deal with it in our safe space too. Didn't realise calling bigotry out made ME the hateful one and deserving of being sent stuff like these.

And I understand that you can't call out everything - hell even sometimes I can't keep up in the Kathony fandom cos I just keep to my small circle but even then when I'm told shit is going to down, I evalaute the situation and act accordingly.

But I just can't respect you all for STILL staying a part of that group and by being silent, you're being implicit in this hate and abuse against fellow fans of the show. Yes, we may dislike each other but the least you can do is not send threats and hate. It's common decency and Internet etiquette.

I only know one or two Polins and they are mostly Book Polins who have called this shit out. They're in the minority so they can only do so much and I am thankful for them for doing so. But the rest of yall are just happy to sit by while a large majority of the fandom (not only Polins but mostly from you guys) sends racist, homophobic and now sexist and slut shaming insults and death threats to every other subfandom until we shut and just take it.

I can have easily taken all the shit thrown at me yesterday in stride and I really thought I did. And I was only ever going to make a post telling yall to stop slutshaming Simone (definitely still making that post) but I am my rope's end. I never let this shit get to me because I know better than to believe these lies so you must understand how intense it is and how upset I must be feeling to make this post. Again I don't want to indulge more but you never fucking know what anyone is going through.

This is the last thing I'm saying on this issue (alongside the post about Polins slutshaming Simone) and honestly on Bridgerton.

I was going to make a separate and most likely will for anyone who missed it but this alongside that Nicola interview where she puts down S2 for not having enough sex while propping up her own season was the final push for me to put this fandom behind me. This blog will still be active but it is no longer going to be a Bton blog after I clear my asks. This shit is just not worth my mental health or risking my life.

Anyways with that I'm logging off. Thank you in advance to everyone who will inevitability check up on me - I love you my moots and lovely anons/followers and I'll check in tomorrow!

If this prompts hate, Imma just assume yall didn't read the whole thing, just not going to read any of it and will report, block and delete! So don't bother you're not getting any attention.

[doomed2repeat]

Seriously what compels S2 fans to comment on Polin fan edits on TikTok. TikTok fan etiquette is so bad, in a way that people are generally in agreement that commenting negatively on a fanfic is bad form, or commenting on fan art, somehow TikTok does not have that same fan culture and it’s beyond obnoxious.

A) you can EASILY scroll past it.

B) the platform gives you a not interested option where you could filter out specific hashtags even, and it will stop showing you that content.

B) when you interact, even to be a hater, the algorithm will keep feeding you that content. You comment hate on a Polin edit, you get rewarded for your efforts with more Polin content.

And the Tiktok algorithm is notoriously specific. I’ve been looking at Polin content on there since before the season came out and it rarely (to the point of pretty much never) shows me a KA, A or B edit. I’ll get an ABC brothers post every once in a while, and official Bridgerton account stuff, but otherwise I never have to see their fandom’s stuff, as it should be since it doesn’t interest me. We can all be blissfully in our own spaces. Don’t interact, it’s not that hard!!!! Why does seeing happy S3 fans bother them so much that they feel compelled to comment???

Polin tiktokers are so talented and make such great content with their edits, I hope it isn’t discouraging that fans of other ships camp out in their comments section. I will never understand the compulsion people have to see a fan edit that someone did out of love for their ship and then think that’s the perfect time to complain about that ship. Make your own content!!! Stay in the bubble of your own ship!!! It is SO easy to not be an ass!

[doomed2repeat]

I think the Polin fandom and people who are fans of Luke and Nicola separately are going to have to come to terms with what it means to share space in a fandom where one of the actors is the center of attention and the other is not. Because the discourse I’m seeing today is deliberately obtuse. Our fandom has a lot of overlap, and often it seemed like the only people who had our backs was each other, but it’s bigger than that now.

Nicola has her own fans. Luke has his own fans. Some people are fans of both. Some people hype both up to the same degree, some people like both but tend to talk about one or the other more for any number of reasons that don’t involve hating the other. But y’all have got to stop acting like we can’t acknowledge the disparity!!!