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When he is away, she moves and keeps moving.
She adjusts. She endures. She thrives.
She misses him, but the act of missing him becomes as intrinsic as the act of loving him, and yet another thing she carries with her.
But after—
Everything is different.
Wherein these two idiots have the worst possible timing, the best of intentions with the worst ideas, and spend far too much time talking without saying anything at all.
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- 47,187
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28 Apr 2025
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I'll Hold You, I'll Know You by SunburstsandSpearmint
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 Jun 2025
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Colin knows that touch has always been something he just does. Touching for touching’s sake, nothing more, for friendship, for comfort, to show affection - it's always been something he’s good at. Something he does and something he seeks out. Considering he knows this and does this, it takes him an embarrassingly long time to realize that Penelope, well, doesn’t.
Or,
Colin Bridgerton is what you might call a touchy person. And this makes Penelope Featherington’s brain short circuit with anxiety, all while trying to avoid the fact that she desperately wants to be touched.
A story in eighteen parts about how Colin and Penelope learn to hold each other, and fall in love in the process.
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- English
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- 316,273
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- 18/18
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25 Apr 2025
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All I know is we said 'hello' by Rachel_writes_plays
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
06 Apr 2026
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Colin Bridgerton is 33 years old and very sure of himself. At least, that is what any of his seven siblings would tell you. He's the lovable teddy bear with an ease about him that makes everyone feel comfortable in his presence. Never taking himself, or any situation all that seriously. And then he meets Penelope Featherington in a busy London pub and everything he thought he knew about himself changes.
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- English
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- 128,375
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- 22/22
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23 Apr 2025
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Stream of Consciousness by itsokayitsfine
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
08 May 2025
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Colin and Penelope have circled each other for two decades, playing a perpetual game of tug-of-war over who will have the courage to ask. The equally spellbinding and agonizing reality of being in love with your best friend offers a kind of delicious torture that the two creatives wield as both a weapon and a shield.
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Or, against the stunning backdrop of Ojai, California, where Pen is leading her first writer’s retreat, maybe, just maybe, someone will finally take the leap.
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- English
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- 51,428
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- 8/8
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08 Apr 2025
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have you ever tried this one? by colinbridgertons, onnewyearsday
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
14 Nov 2025
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“This is…a bingo board,” Colin said slowly. He enjoyed the colouring—blue and yellow, somewhat complimentary, with black and cursive writing—appreciative of Penelope for taking the time to create such a thing, despite not knowing what it was supposed to represent or make him feel better.
“A sex bingo board,” she corrected, her heart pounding out of her chest in anticipation of his reaction, and by the looks of it, he was utterly confused.
OR Penelope creates a sex bingo card to help Colin get over his ex
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- English
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- 93,861
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- 11/13
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07 Apr 2025
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where the light exists by nojamhands for uneventfulhouses
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Jun 2025
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“And it's all in how you mix the two
And it starts just where the light exists
It's a feeling that you cannot miss
It burns a hole through everyone that feels it.”
— The Used, Blue & Yellow
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Best friends Colin and Penelope fall in love as teenagers, then find themselves in a precarious situation that puts both of their futures in jeopardy and blows up both of their families. How will they deal with the fallout and carve their own paths, all while trying to balance normal adolescence and young adulthood?
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PLEASE READ THE TAGS!!Series
- Part 1 of The Willowverse
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- English
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- 87,589
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- 7/7
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04 Apr 2025
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“Mr Bridgerton? Colin?”
He almost did not recognise her. She looked very different — pretty red curls bobbed fashionably; cheeks and lips stained with a little rouge; a day dress in a lovely mauve colour that made her eyes seem bluer, somehow — but it was her scent that threw him off. Now that he thought about it, he could not quite recall what Penelope Featherington actually smelled like (he had not seen her in years, after all). She was so often at Bridgerton House that all he could summon was the same lilac smell that his mother and his siblings bore, but of course there must be other notes he was forgetting.
Still, he was fairly certain she had never smelled like this: vetiver and geranium, sharp and green and floral.
Not a bad smell by any means — just not Penelope’s. Even though he could not recall her scent, he knew certainly this was not it. She must be wearing perfume. It befuddled him so much that he realised he had been staring at her silently for a lot longer than was polite, especially for an old family friend he had not seen in ages.
OR: in 1920s paris, perfumer colin meets an old friend
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- English
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- 54,691
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- 8/8
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03 Apr 2025
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Love to see me from your point of view by Fifi2930, WrensSymphony
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Apr 2025
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After a chance meeting leads to a confrontation on the street the night before their wedding, Colin and Penelope experience a phenomenon that rips them even further apart, causing them to wake up in each other’s bodies two years prior.
As they try to find their way back to themselves, they may also need to find each other.
Polin Week 2025 Day 3 prompt: Body Swap
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- English
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- 4/4
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02 Apr 2025
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Where Our Shadows Come to the Shore by gildedruin, Sea_Dragonfly for applepuffsilver
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Feb 2026
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When Penelope Featherington is dragged from her bed in the middle of the night, she’s told that her nom-de-plume has been uncovered. Not by the Queen as she’d feared, but by the men who murdered her father. There are debts to be paid far beyond her Whistledown earnings. Fortunately for Penelope, a mysterious figure from her past is set on protecting her at all costs.
A regency bodyguard AU.
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- English
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- 59,871
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- 17/?
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01 Apr 2025
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During his travels Penelope and Colin talk. A lot. They text and exchange emails and the occasional phone or video call if the time zone allows it. But now, face to face, Colin can feel that Penelope seems distant, like she’s putting some kind of wall between them. He tries to rationalise it as a result of her having trouble coexisting with so many Bridgertons, so he gives her time. But as days go by, Colin can’t help but feel like he doesn’t truly know Penelope now.
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Confined at Aubrey Hall during the pandemic, Colin has to confront the fact that he doesn't seem to know Penelope as well as he thought when he discovers that she has been the Bridgertons' official hairdresser for years.
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- English
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- 12,478
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- 1/1
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01 Apr 2025
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Colin Bridgerton met his wife when he was 10 years old. When they ran to meet his mother, she was too slow and fell behind.
Ten years later, on her passing, he feels he is the one who has fallen behind. This leads him through the cave, between worlds, and back where he begun.
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Or a Polin Orpheus and Eurydice AU
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- English
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- 1/1
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01 Apr 2025
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A Pound to a Penelope by FirstLadyJane
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
15 May 2024
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Having spent the off-season licking her wounds, Penelope comes back to Mayfair a pragmatic woman determined to take control of her fate. She's on a mission to cement her spinsterhood and accept a standing job offer in Ireland. Colin isn't having it, of course. Wagers are placed, and deals are made, complicating Penelope's struggle for independence. With Colin's motivations unclear, agency and romance go to war with each other. What will it take to call a truce?
(A romcom of epic proportions, now with an epilogue!)
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- English
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- 81,878
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- 19/19
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31 Mar 2025
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Never Really Over by cathypancake
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
31 Mar 2025
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Penelope finds out her boyfriend has been cheating on her, and instead of Eloise, Colin shows up at her door - after not speaking with her for two years.
Polin Week 2025 Day 1- Angst or Hurt/Comfort
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- English
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31 Mar 2025
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but the wreckage of you, i no longer reside in by headphonesbaby
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
10 Jun 2025
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He shook his head and groaned. The last thing he needed was to think about his ex with another man, being all happy and lovey dovey and downright disgustingly in love.
Because that used to be them.
For a year and a half, it was them. They were so, so, very disgustingly in love as pointed out multiple times by his siblings any chance they got. Not that Colin had ever minded. He was pleased to show off how much he loved her, cherished her. That was until it all ended one night with four words that still haunted him in his nightmares.
“We want different things.”
Or Colin and Penelope break up because of a misunderstanding and they try to deal with the aftermath.
(It’s also them figuring things out and inching back together.)
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- Part 2 of halloween
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 74,442
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 260
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31 Mar 2025
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06 Mar 2025
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Sink or Swim by Fifi2930 for Ishipthis, RemarkableIndigo, ontheseashore
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
11 Jun 2025
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“Forever is a long time to promise, Col.”
“Planning on getting rid of me before then?”
“I don’t know, you’re a lot to take on for that long.”
“I think you're up to the task.”
“You know if I agree, then I’ll take it fucking seriously.”
“That’s kind of the point, Pen.”
“I don’t forgive and forget.”
“Okay, Don Corelone.”
“Colin–”
“Hey, two words, six letters for ‘kindly close your mouth.’ Starts with S.”
“Shut up.”
“Precisely. You are not ringing in any more birthdays at midnight alone. Now shut up and finish your pie.”Series
- Part 4 of Travellers in Love
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- English
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- 149,800
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- 13/13
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- 1,875
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16 Feb 2025
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Echoes of Eternal Mysteries by ffygresw
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
20 Sep 2025
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A story about vampires, witches, and the difficulty of choosing between feelings and what seems to be the right thing. Small towns always have their charming mysteries, don't they?
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- English
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- 240,552
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- 19/21
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- 300
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14 Feb 2025
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Colin Bridgerton's days of being an aimless wanderer come to an abrupt end when he's arrested for accidentally bringing a tiny, minuscule, hardly-noticeable-but-definitely-illegal amount of drugs into the country on a flight back to London. When Penelope Featherington bails him out and offers him a place to stay, he begins to see her - and himself - in an entirely new light.
With his passport seized and nowhere else to go, he can't run from his feelings when he's forced to stay still.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 65,480
- Chapters:
- 18/18
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12 Feb 2025
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Mystery Work
Part of Patry's editing fics
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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09 Feb 2025
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His mother was convinced he’d only moved to Notting Hill to have his own great love story. And while, yes, he may have the floppy hair and bumbling Britishness required of a Richard Curtis character, the current state of his love life (nonexistent) has Colin convinced his Hugh Grant moment is still a long way off.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 146,189
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Comments:
- 1,290
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- 1,728
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08 Feb 2025