I Need More Of This Duo

I need more of this duo

I’d just like to say that this:

is a look of such intense and boundless love that is has brought me to my knees and I haven’t been able to get up since.

Can he look at me like that next?

More fan casts of leading ladies I’d love to see Luke Newton act alongside:

Luke and Aimee Lou Wood (every British actor employed by Netflix must interact at least once)

Project: They’re bringing back the frazzled Englishwoman romance, obviously

Luke and Charithra Chandran (the two most under-appreciated Bridgerton actors, they would break the internet, you have to have the vision!!!)

Project: Modern romantic drama, something glamorous, chic, and sexy OR something light and fun because they’re both so cute. But they both are such talented actors I’d want to see them in something that really lets them go for it.

Luke and Victoria Pedretti

Project: Something dark and tragic. They’re both pretty criers. Based on these photos I’m making up a thriller where two actors are on a project and one gets way too into method acting, and takes their role to far and starts terrorizing their costar.

Luke and Crystal Clarke (I watched Sanditon for HER)

Project: They’re both period piece pretty, so I’d love to put them in something in the past. Also I could see them in a fantasy setting where she’s a Princess and he really has to win her over.

Luke and Chinenye Ezeudu (Sex Education fumbled the friends to lovers potential she had with Jackson it’s time to pair her up with the FtoL KING)

Project: Modern romance, something steamy. I get bad boy/good girl vibes with this pairing, idk.

I need people to hear me out:

Colin Bridgerton is NOT this type of male lead:

He is this type of male lead:

And I love that.

Very unpopular Polin opinion in this fandom but every time I see that picture of Penelope getting ready for the wedding in her corset with someone saying Colin didn’t get to see her like that because he was sulking and how he missed out because he was being dramatic it annoys me so much. I know it’s just a joke but it encapsulates so much of what is wrong with how some people look at Polin and Colin.

Not letting Colin have agency and a proper reaction to things because Penelope is the only one allowed to have negative feelings. Everything he feels must be in service to Penelope or it’s belittled and treated like an overreaction or being dramatic.

And at the very least we should’ve gotten an equivalent thirst trap of Colin getting ready for the wedding so we can use that to meme how Penelope fucked up her chance at a fun wedding night with him because of how SHE acted. They both didn’t get what they wanted that night, but let’s be clear on who was asking who for a wedding night, and who’s fault it was that they were having this problem in the first place. Penelope stood ten toes down on messing up her own chance for a sexy wedding night, and if she’s prioritizing herself in that moment over sex that’s fine, but Colin should also be given the grace to do the same.

Penelope wanted Whistledown more than she wanted THAT on her wedding night, and I think people just don’t want to own up to that, or what it means. It’s easier to put all the work back on Colin rather than hold Pen accountable for what she contributed to the dynamic at play and for why that wedding night did not happen.

And this is an audience issue, NOT a Penelope issue, because within the show Penelope shows more understanding and patience for Colin than Penelope-centric Polin fans do at every turn.

Anyway, yeah, I know it’s a meme but the meaning behind it is irksome.

Luke posting his own vacation pics and people calling it “Colin Bridgerton coded” and enjoying the view. Nature is healing.