Feeding The Ducks

[krystalx89]

[quotergirl19]

Is it too much to ask that we find out Alice Mondrich’s maiden name was Smythe-Smith and have the ton attend their family’s musicale?

[darlingpeasant]

I am so sorry

[fullofconfoundingfeelings]

[summerpearlpen]

[thebluemallet]

Colin, to Pen, at the masquerade: Nobody is going to recognize you. Sister Michael: Clare Devlin, is that you?! Penelope, under her breath: Jesus Christ!

[albxtrcss]

bridgerton + text post (polin edition, part 2)

[loveforlukeynewts]

🤭 😒

[fallevs]

[boomdafunk]

Penelope and Colin

[boomdafunk]

Thank the cupcake :)

[seraphicghost]

mermaid polin au that no one asked for

[peonysummers-deactivated2025081]

[asmilinghopelessromantic]

Colin, smugly sitting backwards on his son's future study's chair: so you fell in love with two people who are actually the same person?

Benedict, deadpan: you hated Lady Whistle-

Colin: MOVING ON

Colin: as I was saying, I do have some experience with this type of situation

Benedict: you moped and brooded so much that I thought Anthony came back early

Colin: AS I WAS SAYING

Penelope, writing in the corner: nice one, Benedict

Colin, glared at his wife with no real heat behind his eyes: while I didn't react well-

Penelope: understatement of the century

Colin: DAMNIT, PEN, DO HAVE ADVICE FOR HIM

Penelope: in fact, I do, because you spent too long rubbing into your brother's face, I'll be happy to get the point as time is a bit of the essence

Penelope: Benedict, you feel betrayed but imagine your life without her

Benedict: I can't. She is engrained in my soul.

Penelope: then I suggest you hightail out of here to go get your wife. Talk with her, listen to her, and she'll listen to you.

*Benedict scrambles to the study door*

Penelope: wait, one last thing. She doesn't need someone to save her, just love and support her

Benedict, giving Penelope a kiss on her cheek: thank you, sister

Benedict after Colin clears his throat: thank you, Penelope's husband

[satyriconmp3]

[anolivejoke]

My reaction when Colin asked for the handshake🫠

[kat-rose-griffith]

I know that next season and all the seasons after are not about them anymore, but if they don’t make Polin a shenanigans/partners in crime couple now that they’re together I’m honestly going to be a bit pissed

[shadywhistleup]

P: I could sure stand to do something stupid. C: C: C: I'm something stupid, do me.

[ellynneversweet]

Darcy’s introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really ‘what if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dad’s life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where he’d just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl he’d just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger she’d clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out she’s really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.’

[indiaalphawhiskey]

Someone has probably already said this, but I realized that Colin never dances in Season 3 until it’s with Penelope. And we even get two hints as to the gravity of that symbolism through Benedict:

one, when Miss Stowell corners Benedict into a dance but Colin can’t be convinced by any of the other ladies to get on the floor (even when they overtly try after the balloon rescue), and

two, when Will Mondrich makes that comment about “one dance and you’ve signaled you are available”.

Colin was completely genuine in his disinterest in the marriage mart this season and stood on business by explicitly refusing to dance with anyone outright. Which means, in the previous seasons, he totally understood what dancing with Penelope would look like, and he did it anyway. (Because he loved her already and didn’t mind the insinuation, obvs.)

In fact, the only time he gets on the dance floor before getting engaged is to interrupt Penelope and Debling — another subtle signal that he was thrusting himself into the marriage mart, but only if it was going to be with Penelope. Not to mention, man couldn’t stop dancing the very second he was engaged to her.

Anyway, my point is, Colin’s been in love with Pen forever and to them, dancing is a far more intimate an act than it has been to any other couple and I love them for it.