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    She blinked. Maybe he was some hallucination because of the martini she had. She blinked again. He was still there with that same shit eating grin she’s seen countless times. He was certainly a Bridgerton. He had the same chestnut colored hair as the rest of them, the same distinguished nose, that air of nobility. She recalled how they were supposedly descended from a viscount or something. She mentally tried to count them, going from eldest to youngest. This one had green eyes so it had to be -

    “Colin.”

    He smirked at her.

    “Thought for a second you forgot who I was.”

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    22 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 86

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    09 Jun 2025

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    What if, one day, a princess did not fall for a fearless knight or a charming prince? What if, instead, she gave her heart to a dragon—no less mesmerizing, yet far more untamed?

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    06 Apr 2025

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    Colin Bridgerton has always been a playboy. Jumping from one girl to the next. He swore he would never settle down. Thus, finding himself in a dilemma when a wealthy relative leaves him a large sum of money and only one stipulation, he has to marry.

    Everyone laughs at the thought of Colin settling down, so he plans the ultimate scam. Pay a stranger to marry him, get a quick divorce and live out the rest of his days bathing in his riches. He has the plan but now he needs the girl, which he soon finds to be more difficult than he expected. But what happens when he meets the perfect girl to do the job, but she's just a little too perfect?

    Can they pull off the sham wedding without getting caught? Or worse...actually falling in love? The task proves more challenging than anyone expected but Colin is determined to pull it off. No matter the cost.

    "You are supposed to get married because you are in love. But for Colin, marriage is just a means to an end."

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    20 Feb 2025

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    Penelope refuses to put her fate in the hands of others anymore. When her younger sister weds she leaves to create a life for herself away from the the man she cannot have and the place she never fit in.

    Yet as she settles into her new world and learns to love herself her dearest friend disappears, which brings one Colin Bridgerton straight to Penelope’s door.

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    10 Jul 2024

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    just a bunch of polin prompts

    13. Colin simply looks at Penelope one day and it just clicks. He loves her.

    14. "Your letters kept me sane during my travels.” (sequel to prompt 13)

    15. "Why don't we try it again?" (slightly suggestive)

    16. "I know, baby, I know. I'm here. Just breathe."

    17. "Friends don't look at friends the way you two look at each other."

    18. "Can I just... Can you hold my hand? I'm feeling really anxious."

    19. "I wish you could see yourself the way I see you."

    20. "hey I know it’s late but I need a ride. can you pick me up?"

    21. "It hurts me, just how much I ache for you."

    22. "You are everything. Everything."

    23. "I dream of you. All I do is dream of you."

    24. "You like him more?"

    25. “Whatever we have right now is not enough. I can’t have you looking at someone the way you look at me. I need you to make this official. Right now.”

    26. "It's you. It's always been you."

    27. "Would it be alright if we cuddled?" (tw: references to self harm, please read with caution)

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    09 Jul 2024

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    The kiss would awaken them: reveal their soulmate and seal their bond.

    When love is not so simple, when the search for their soulmates leads to betrayal and disillusionment, Penelope and Colin turn to one another.

    But they continue to dream.

    Soulmarks AU

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    09 Jul 2024

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    Penelope is grieving the loss of her father.

    Colin is lost after his broken engagement.

    When they offer one another forbidden comfort, they must face the consequences together.

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    09 Jul 2024

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    When Portia Featherington discovers that Penelope and Colin Bridgerton have been secretly corresponding, she insists they marry immediately. Despite their friendship and the innocent nature of their letters, there is no alternative.

    Arranged marriage fic where they start as friends.

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    09 Jul 2024

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    Colin laughed, “C’mon Pen, its no big deal. They sell these things in in every shop now. I went to pick up painkillers at the pharmacy and they had butt plugs there. In the aisle. On sale. With matching lube called ‘Tooshie’”

    “Did you buy it?”

    “No, and lucky for me, because it sounds like we are about to get a bunch of free stuff.”

    Penelope held her head in her hands. The package was already shipped. The pipeline was already built. She may as well buy her coffin now.

    “My mum’s gonna see my name on an article about dildos,” she whimpered, softly.

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    Penelope Featherington and she published a book. It only cost her her best friendship with Eloise. And she knows how people look at her, she never expected to be the love interest in any story. She just didn't expect Colin to mock her like everyone else.

    What's a city girl to do, when he's come crawling back to apologize and she's drowning in magazine articles to write?
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    Modern AU picking after season 2 and following some of the arc of season 3, until it doesn't because it was too sad and not sexy enough imho

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    08 Jul 2024

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    When Colin learns that Pen's lack of time for a relationship hasn't dimmed her need for sex, he offers up his cock to spare her from the purported dangers of booty calls. Who knows, maybe he can convince her to want more. Specifically, with him. He'll at least have a grand time trying.

    Pen has missed out on too much in life because of her blasted unrequited love for Colin. Realising that the only way to be rid of him is to let him break her heart, she decides to stop holding back and freefall into love. And onto his cock. A few orgasms will help hasten her towards her goal, after all.

    Swirling sex into friendship poses complications; and between assumptions, equivocations, and a complete inability to ask for what they want, Colin and Penelope find that there is nothing little about 'a little sex between friends.'
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    Or Author tried to write a PWP, but both Pen and Colin had too much to say.

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    07 Jul 2024

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    Four months after Colin and Penelope’s three year relationship came to a very icy end, the holiday in Greece that had been booked prior, has finally come around.

    Not wanting to dampen the mood on Benedict and Sophie’s engagement, Colin and Penelope decide to pretend they’re still very much in love for the three weeks they’re stuck abroad.

    With no one apart from Eloise in the know, the pair will have to face some feelings, obstacles and situations they never thought they would have to when they broke up all those weeks before.

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    05 Jul 2024

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    Two years ago, Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton broke up. Two years later, they are reunited for a party at Aubrey Hall. Amidst insecurities, meddling siblings, and two years of longing, can they find their ways back to each other? Modern Polin story that combines tropes of friends-to-lovers and second chances.

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    05 Jul 2024

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    Penelope Featherington is in love with Colin Bridgerton. She's as sure of that as she's sure that her name is Penelope.

    Penelope Featherington plans to visit Colin on his trip to India.

    Penelope Featherington plans to tell Colin she's in love with him.

    The universe has other plans though.

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    02 Jul 2024

  15. Public Bookmark 39

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    Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton are the best of friends.

    Just friends.

    It doesn’t matter that they walk home together everyday and split every meal. It doesn’t matter that her heart skips a beat when their hands brush and his cheeks redden when she smiles at him. It doesn’t matter that they share all of their deepest darkest secrets with each other—

    Well, all except the secrets that seem to matter the most, anyway.

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    02 Jul 2024

  16. Public Bookmark 91

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    A modern retelling of RMB + Bridgerton S3.
    Despite being a romance author, Penelope Featherington has no real romantic experience. She’s spent half her life secretly in love with the same man, without a hint of reciprocation, and it’s taking a toll on her writing. Now that her books are suddenly in the spotlight, she desperately needs to figure out how to craft the perfect happily-ever-after. Maybe it’s time to finally let go of her unrequited love and find her own happy ending—even if said unrequited love volunteering to help her complicates things.

    Colin Bridgerton has returned home after months of traveling, intending to stay for a while. But as his siblings chase dreams, start families, and find their purpose, Colin feels adrift. Penelope has always been his safe harbor, but now that she’s charting a course for change herself, he feels the ground shifting beneath him. As he steps in to help her find her happy ending, he begins to realize that perhaps hers isn’t the only story that needs rewriting.

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    01 Jul 2024

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    Penelope Featherington has a chance at working on the architectural project of her dreams, The newest, biggest museum in Mayfair. She's hot, she's rich, she's successful.

    The only catch? She has to work with the one man she hates most - Colin Motherfucking Bridgerton.

    Will the project be successful? Or will it rip a whole through the past, opening up Pandora's box of memories. After all, no one can really seem to figure out why the once best friends now despise each other.

    And, as the greats always say, there's a very thin line between Love and Hate.

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    Friends to Enemies to Lovers, with a pinch of Fake Dating, where coincidentally there only happens to be One Bed.

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    01 Jul 2024

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    "When Penelope Featherington accepted to be one of Francesca Bridgerton’s bridesmaids, the last thing she expected was for Colin Bridgerton to kiss her."
    Penelope is invited to spend the weekend of Francesca's wedding at the Bridgertons. She is really looking forward to it, except for one thing, she will be sharing a roof with Colin whose messages she has been ignoring for months. It's time to face the music.

    In summary, Polin friends in close proximity + wedding fun + sexual tension, all sprinkled with some sibling banter and a bit of angst for good measure.

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    26 Jun 2024

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    then—

    “See you later, Pen,” Colin calls out to her one last time before making his exit. The nickname rolls off his tongue like it’s nothing, like she’s always been Pen to him.

    Pen.

    (She is done for.)

     

    now—

    “Penelope,” he says her name with breathless wonder as if he can’t believe she’s right in front of him.

    “Colin,” she repeats back to him, and there’s a long pause that follows. There was a time, a very long time, when they would have hugged without a second thought. But things are different now.

    A modern AU lightly inspired by the book People We Meet on Vacation and also every slow burn friends to lovers rom-com to ever exist.

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    26 Jun 2024

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    After Colin accuses Penelope of entrapping him, while they are still planning their wedding, Penelope decides she has had enough of his accusations and cold shoulder. She decides to end their engagement and books passage for a ship to Montreal, in hopes that Colin will never find her again and she can live free from him and her Whistledown identity.

    Colin refuses to accept that Penelope has ended their engagement and attempts to follow her once he hears that she has decided to flee London...

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    61,123

    26 Jun 2024

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