extremely introverted

she/her | 20+ | the only ships i care about: benedict & sophie; clark & lois

[witheringwinter]

Updated: May 21, 2026

Note: The fic master posts already reached the link limit so I made a page instead for easier navigation (which I should've done in the first place 😅). You can now access it here and here. That is where I’ll update every time they post new updates.

No one asked for this, not even @wonderlandleighleigh, but as someone who loves all of their fics and has time to spare, I compiled every fic for easy access. I have to break it into parts because tumblr won't let me post with so many links. (Second part, prompts)

Where the Colors Go (regency)

AO3

Tumblr: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30: Epilogue

Anthony and Benedict after Edmund's death

Benedict dangling Anthony out a window

Benedict's eighteenth birthday (not sure if this is a part of this series but i'll just put it here)

Eloise's visit to My Cottage

Charlie Bridgerton's birth

Charlie Bridgerton's birth (pt. 2)

Benedict gets sick in the future

Benedict dies 25 years later

Benedict and Sophie’s art gallery date

Colourman (regency)

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15

Kate and Anthony at John's funeral (regency)

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Benedict and Sophie return to society (regency)

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11

Legit Sophie (regency)

AO3

Tumblr: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23: End

Follow-up: Part 1

[invisibleicewands]

[wonderlandleighleigh]

This is your monthly reminder that Benedict "I stand on business" Bridgerton told his stepmother-in-law that she had to sell her house and get the fuck out of Grosvenor Square. 🤣

[sophedicts]

EDVARD MUNCH — “The Kiss” (1895)

“Another important feature of the motif is the couple’s abstract conjoined form and the faces that shade into each other. This is Munch’s way of underlining that the couple are as one, and the picture is a beautiful expression of belongingness and togetherness between man and woman.” “It is quite something to spend your entire life feeling like you are somehow out of place, and then to meet someone who understands you before you even say a word. Someone whose singular qualities match your own. Whose kindness makes you feel warm. Who can read your mind from across a whole room.”

[folie-lex]

Find you a man (or simply partner, if you prefer) who looks at you the way Benedict looks at Sophie when she's ranting

[ohsocaleypsoeman]

... in the temple of Castor and Pollux at Ostia, a calm smoothed the sea, the wind changed to a gentle southern breeze, and the ships entered the harbour under full sail and again crammed the storehouses with grain. anthony and benedict bridgerton - who parents the parents?

[benophies-world]

Charm and sincerity ♥️

[sophedicts]

Bridgerton The Office 4x05 // "So it becomes suddenly like a...like a workplace romance." — Luke Thompson

Benedict "I'll date her so hard she becomes my wife" Bridgerton

“Do you want me to stop dating your maid? Is that how we’re gonna get past this? Because I will.”   “YES.”   “Well…that is not gonna happen!”   “Then why’d you even offer?”   “Because I assumed that you want me to be happy!”  

“Sophie and I are like Romeo and Juliet, and this society is like the dragon that kept them apart.”

[mydearthisbe]

Been doing a Bridgerton rewatch with the intent of recontextualizing myself for Benedict, and here's how I would summarize his experience in each season:

S1

Making friends with someone via insulting their art

Hanging out on a swing-set with Eloise and bonding over not enjoying societal norms

Going to the best party he's ever been to (gets to hang out with people who just want to do art and don't mind nudity) and then being accosted by his brother who's like, "We gotta go kill my bestie to defend our sister's honour." To which Benedict says, "What," and then Anthony's like, "If I die, you're head of the family. If I don't die, you're also head of the family. Good luck being Viscount!" And narrowly avoiding one or multiple of his siblings being shot in a duel that same morning

Seeing two men have sex and then immediately having to sleep with two women so as to not have this interaction awaken anything within him

Getting into a situationship with everyone's favourite modiste

Discovering the concept of a lavender marriage

S2

Getting dumped by his situationship in front of his family

Discovering at a bar that he, a second son, can in fact follow his dreams as an artist and applying to the Royal Academy Schools

Sharing a poem he wrote so his brother can plagiarize it for clout

Getting so anxious about his application that he shows up to a dinner party with his brother's future-in-laws high as a kite

Attending art school and immediately hooking up with the figure model on his first day

Being the Best Man in a wedding that get cancelled at the altar

Going to his mother's ball where only 4 people outside his family show up and finding out his sister's honour is under threat (notably, different sister than the last time)

Going out with his valet and seeing Anthony carry his lover Kate's unconscious body through a thunderstorm, and then popping up to her bedside to ask Anthony what's up, to which he just says, "It's all my fault," and then walks away

Quitting art school because he found out Anthony bought his spot and he'll never know if he had the merit to get in on his own outside of being a nepo baby

Hanging out on a swing-set with Eloise and bonding over feeling like misfits and imposters

S3

Asking a debutante to dance one (1) time and spending every subsequent event avoiding her gaze

Befriending a hot widow through hot air balloon feats and then immediately starting another situationship

Finding out his brother is engaged from the local gossip rag cause he was too busy philandering

Coming home periodically to bond with his new brother-in-law (as his sister is also engaged) and fight over macarons and cards with his youngest siblings

Feeling like a #boyfailure about the whole art school debacle

Being invited to a dinner party by his situationship, flirting with a man for the first time, and being invited to a threesome with her situationship shortly thereafter and then, running away as fast as he can

Taking three (3) business days to figure out he is bisexual and leaving his brother's wedding party to go sleep with man and a woman

Being so busy with sex that he misses his family being blackmailed

Breaking up with his situationship because he's too likable and husband-worthy to remain in a casual throuple

Hanging out on a swing-set with Eloise and bonding over plans for self-discovery whilst coming out to her in the vaguest way possible

[mydearthisbe]

S4

Getting caught with two half-dressed women in his bachelor lodging in the morning, then hooking up with a man in the evening, before strolling into his family's masquerade ball two hours late to then meet the love of his life

Getting his sister-in-law to write an anonymous advert that he's single and ready to mingle in her gossip rag

Enlisting his sister (under mild duress) to attend like eight parties in a row with him to search for his meetcute

Finally figuring out the right house and getting Sophie fired for indirectly revealing she wore her own family heirlooms

Hanging out on a swing-set with Eloise and bonding over not being suited to marriage

Coming out of a multi-day drunken stupor to fistfight a guy for preying on women, thereby getting Sophie fired again

Trying to help Sophie back to Mayfair, and instead needing to be nursed back to health at his cottage while his fever induces him to ask her to kiss him better

Getting Sophie hired as a maid in his family home and somehow being in a love triangle with her and... herself but in a ball gown

Asking Sophie to start a situationship and then chastizing his mother for scolding him while she too, is in a situationship

Moving out of his family home bc he's so hot it messes up Sophie's workflow, before messing up her workflow more with premarital relations

Inviting Sophie to move in with him and coming out as bi to her in a single two-minute span

Causing his brother Anthony come all the way from India, and then from the countryside, in 1817, for an intervention

Being dumped because he has a great relationship with his family

Getting permission from his mummy to become estranged

Leaving his brother-in-law's wake to propose, finding out Sophie's going to America so he needs to charter a boat, finding out she's not going to America because she's been arrested, and instead crashing into a courtroom to save his lover from being charged with theft and impersonation, mummy in tow

Realizing his lover is also his meetcute so it was more of a love line

Working with his mother to blackmail his stepmother-in-law to legitimize his lover and lying to the Queen's face about it, and somehow getting away with both of those things so they can marry (slay)

[benophieweek]

Dearest Gentle Reader,

The chandeliers have been polished to a gleam, the kite laid carefully beside silk gloves and ribbons, and the final invitations sealed with wax and ribbon. At long last, the prompts for Benophie Week 2026 are ready to be revealed.

Over eight enchanting days, we invite you to step into a celebration of the hidden identities, stolen dances, lingering glances across crowded rooms, and the kind of love that transported us all. Inspired by the romance of our beloved Sophie Baek and Benedict Bridgerton, each prompt has been chosen by you, our honoured guests, to capture the magic, mystery, and devotion at the heart of their story.

So consider this your invitation to the festivities.

The ballroom awaits. The orchestra is poised to begin. The wedding march is about to begin.

We cannot wait to witness the dazzling creations that emerge once the festivities commence.

Yours in joyful anticipation,

The Benophie Week Team 🏡

[ohsocaleypsoeman]

benedict bridgerton and violet bridgerton - who is the mother and who is the mirror?

[sophedicts]

FREDERIC LEIGHTON — “Wedded” (1882)

“The composition features a couple standing beneath an archway, symbolizing the threshold of their new life together. The figures are depicted in a tender embrace, with the man’s protective gesture and the woman’s serene expression conveying mutual affection and commitment.” “But when do you stop to think about me?” “Every moment of every day. There is not a single moment you do not fill my mind…The thought of spending a single day without you torments my soul.”

[folie-lex]

What resonates about Benophie, the thing that seperates them from every other couple in the Bridegerton universe, is that these two knew they wanted to be together from the get go. And more than that, they weren't in denial about that to themselves nor did they lie to each other with respect to that fact.

It isn't their pride, or their egos, or their lies keeping them apart. It wasn't something contrived they brought onto themselves and into their dynamic on their own. It was something much bigger and out of their control.

And THAT is what sets them apart.

[witheringwinter]

the way i’m so obsessed with benophie that i’m thinking of getting tattoos on my fingers with the kite (the one on ben’s pin) and sophie’s bows as the designs

[spontaneousellipsis]

benophie + forehead touches

SOPHIE BAEK and BENEDICT BRIDGERTON BRIDGERTON | season four

[sophedicts]

looking forward vs. looking back

“It is time now to look toward the future, whatever it may bring.” [3.08 “Into the Light”] "I could not look twice at anyone else…You’re the person I’ve been searching for all my life. I love you. I love you. I love you." [4.05 “Yes or No”]

BENOPHIE + Orpheus & Eurydice pt. 1

[invisibleicewands]

Bridgerton's Luke Thompson on 'White Nights' by Dostoevsky - Inklings Book Club - #1