I KEEP THINKING ABOUT PEN AND COLIN AND AMY AND LAURIE AND THE PARALLELS ARE JDJDJDJFBDBDBFBFBF

"enemies to lovers this" "friends to lovers that" "slowburn that"

YOU KNOW WHAT I NEED?? more fanfictions with the "POV Outsider" tag, thank you.

"Colin had no trauma related to love and self worth like Anthony. Anthony watched his father die, watched his mum turn into a ghost of a person, and didn't want that for his wife"

Bestie. . .they have. . .the same dad???? They have the same mum???? Literally all of the Bridgerton children except Hyacinth watched Edmund die? They all experienced Violet's immense sorrow? He and Violet obviously have a very close connection and so of course he saw her wilting (plant pun, if you were wondering) or at least knew about it and has responded with being particularly gentle with her?

Trauma shaped all the Bridgertons. Colin was a young boy when his dad passed and everyone in the family experienced an immense grief and, unlike his brothers, Colin was twelve, he wasn't the heir, he wasn't the spare, and had no responsibility but to go to school (sent off elsewhere after his dad passed away, thus disconnected from his circle of support and family) and figure out how to be a man from strangers and rakes. Literally no one had space for his grief and sensitivity? He even cries alone in his bedroom in Season 1 and stops talking about his travels after he gets made fun of in Season 2 and claims that hardly anyone replied to his letters in Season 3 like what do you mean he has no trauma related to love?

Colin was right there on the steps watching his father cradled in his mother's arms as she wept over his sudden passing. Of course he has trauma related to love? Colin's entire arc was about how he only felt he could be cared about if he was pleasing the people around him or being useful in some way and putting on a mask and a persona so he wouldn't be hurt by how much no one else wanted the real, messy, authentic him around? His mum and dad lived a love story and Colin watched it fall to pieces just as all the Bridgertons did, he just internalized it differently. His entire family was grieving so he decided to be useful by offering levity where he could, especially as the brother raised predominately with his sisters, Eloise and Daphne.

And yet despite the fact that this was such a huge tragedy of his childhood, Colin still is incredibly emotionally available and as soon as he realized what he felt for Penelope was romantic, he takes initiative and he cuts into her dance with Debling and he chases after her carriage so he can confess that he can't stop thinking about her and he's not at all angry at her, she doesn't vex him, it isn't frustration at her- it's torture because he is so damn besotted with her that he dreams of her and the kiss they shared haunts him but it's torture he embraces because he's a romantic soul who is incredibly emotionally brave and he cares about Penelope more than he cares about his ego or image or past hurts.

Give my man his flowers.

google how to physically remove your brain and fix everything in it

lego batman is the best batman

argue with the wall tbh the lego batman solos

self fulfilling prophecy at it finest

I love going viral on tumblr.com. It’s like if you stood in a field and said some of the stupidest shit a human being is capable of and then like fifty thousand crows attacked you

Two separate times 😭

reblog if a relationship between a blonde and brunette has emotionally destroyed you

YESYESYES

yk what i would lowkey kill for?

ghostflower first kiss but one of them nearly dies before it happened. like that scene in the hunger games catching fire (fuck here i go again-) where katniss kisses peeta after his heart stopped for a minute and then it worked again.

I WOULD KILL-

I know I never watched the vampire diaries but that sounds like dude has a personality disorder

WHEN HE FEEDS HER HIS BLOOD, THREATENS TO SNAP HER NECK AND KILL HER AND MAKE HER INTO A VAMPIRE BUT HE ALSO KISSES HER HAIR AFTER ALL THAT>>>

i looked like I haven't slept in 3 days while doing heroine the whole time while also being like a crazy celebrity that is on their last straw

but it's okay cause thats the vibe

pathetic isn’t really a word I‘d use for colin bridgerton. simon rather dying than marrying daphne was pathetic. anthony going through with marrying edwina until SHE mustered the courage to call everything off was pathetic.

colin contemplating his feelings, calling out his male acquaintances for their chauvinism, seeking advice from his mother and then immediately taking action and putting himself out there without even knowing if his feelings are reciprocated is the complete opposite of pathetic. that requires a whole lot of bravery.