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The video finds her at two AM when the algorithm has decided she's vulnerable enough for spiritual content.
Write thirteen wishes, the woman on the screen instructs. One for each month of the coming year, plus one extra. And then, starting on the winter solstice, pull one each night and burn it. Release it to the universe. Trust that it will unfold without you clinging to it.
On New Year's Day, you'll have one wish left. That one is the one thing you are not delegating to the cosmos. The one thing you are committing to actually work toward.
It sounds like nonsense, but when Penelope is twenty-one and overwhelmed by life, the idea of outsourcing some decisions to the universe feels less like magical thinking and more like a legitimate coping mechanism.
At twenty-nine, she writes a wish that makes her hands shake so badly she can barely fold the paper:
I tell Colin how I feel.
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02 Jan 2026
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i just want you for my own by kybridge26, WrensSymphony for skaketgirl
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
19 Dec 2025
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Penelope is celebrating the festive season at Aubrey Hall with her favorite family, but all she really wants for Christmas is to spend it with Colin, who is not meant to return from his tour until the start of the social season—or so she thinks.
After his unexpected arrival home, the two share a moment in front of his family and his meddlesome siblings take it upon themselves to convince their brother to make her a Bridgerton, once and for all.
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02 Jan 2026
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The Featheringtons have hit hard times, and Violet fears for Penelope's wellbeing at the hands of a cruel mother and unknown new Baron.
Colin has not been himself since Marina's betrayal and Anthony is worried that he is descending into a melancholy that he will never leave.
Concerned, Anthony and Violet make a decision that will change the path of both young people's lives.
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02 Jan 2026
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Ghosts of Christmas '47 by Mariequitecontrarie
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Dec 2025
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Christmas Eve 1947. London rests in the soft post-blackout glow, and war correspondent Colin Bridgerton is certain he’s already missed his chance with Penelope Featherington.
Then, in a Bloomsbury tree lot, he finds her again—reshaped by the war but the same old Pen, the dear friend he grew up with. Over the course of a single Christmas Eve spent together, misunderstandings unravel, old hopes spark back to life, and a quiet nudge from his father’s memory reminds him that some chances aren’t lost after all.
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02 Jan 2026
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Don't Worry, I'll Make You Worry by somethingfunnybubbly for CVHsQuill
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Dec 2025
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It's the annual Bridgerton Christmas Party and Colin has two objectives; stay long enough to get his sisters off his back, and avoid Penelope Featherington at all costs. So when Penelope finds HIM, drunk as a skunk and determined to hash everything between them out, Colin wonders what he did in a past life to warrant this kind of torture. Because he's going to look after her, isn't he? Going to make sure she gets home safe. Going to make sure she has everything she needs even as his heart gets more mangled with every worthless beat. Of course he is. And he's going to be very dramatic about it the whole time, too.
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- Part 3 of Christmas 2025 ❤️
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02 Jan 2026
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When Penelope is kidnapped on the road to London, she doesn’t expect a swift rescue, if one comes at all. Then Colin Bridgerton comes crashing through the door, windswept, heartbreakingly heroic, and entirely too handsome for his own good—especially when she starts praising him for saving her life.
Now they’re stranded for the night with only one bed and Colin rapidly discovers that nothing tests his gentlemanly restraint like sharing close quarters with the one woman whose opinion has always mattered to him—especially when she won’t stop giving him those maddening compliments.
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23 Dec 2025
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Pick A Card by Fifi2930 for ontheseashore, RemarkableIndigo, somethingfunnybubbly, Ishipthis
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
05 Dec 2025
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"Why did you invite me here?"
"Penelope."
"Don't Penelope me. What do you want from me?"
"Why have you been ignoring me for two weeks?"
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- Part 2 of Game On
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13 Dec 2025
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Hermione is a volunteer Healer who helps administer A-Class suppressant serums to Alphas over the holidays. When Draco Malfoy comes to receive his shot, things take a dangerous and escalating turn.
OR:A wintry, forced proximity, medical thriller-esque A/B/O ❄️😈
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09 Dec 2025
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Penelope Featherington, 32, is successful and living what most would call a good life. Yet her world still seems to orbit around her longtime neighbors—the Bridgertons—and her dearest friends, Eloise and Colin. After a revealing family dinner, Penelope begins to question the life she’s built. Has she spent too long defining herself by the people around her? Maybe it’s time to step out of their shadow and finally become her own person. This is a story of growth, self-discovery, redemption—and, of course, finding love along the way.
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08 Dec 2025
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A Practical Romance by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
15 Jan 2026
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Penelope is quiet for a long while after he nodded his head and confirmed he was inquiring about whether or not she has changed her mind about having a baby with him.
"I…" she starts before swallowing once. "Well, I suppose as the years have gone on… I have imagined it a time or two, yes."
Colin knows she is telling the truth, and for the first time in a long time, he is also able to read her and surmise there is more still she is holding back.
"Is that something you wish for?" he asks cautiously. "A babe? One of your own?"
Pen's big, pale blue eyes blink at him twice slowly before she starts nibbling on her lip in a decidedly nervous gesture. "That is… We did not… We married for other purposes. I do not expect—"
"I am not asking what you expect," he interrupts, keeping his tone gentle, though, so as not to scare her out of this spell of vulnerability he's found her in tonight. "I am asking simply what you desire for yourself. Do you want a baby, Pen?"
"Yes."
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Or, regency era Penelope and Colin have been in marriage of convenience for five years and decide to have a child together—platonically of course.
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07 Dec 2025
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"You — you bind other people?" Penelope blurts out, forgetting herself. Then her cheeks redden. "Sir," she adds, her heart pounding.
Mr Bridgerton's brow creases and he looks down at his leg, at the rope wound about his large fingers.
"Yes, Penelope. The feeling is like none other. I am able to… well." He clears his throat and his back straightens. He has never said so many words to her all at once, Penelope realises. "The rope allows one to forget one's troubles for a few moments."
Penelope does not think before she says:
"I am yours to command, sir."
OR maid penelope suggests to her widowed master that he ties her up. for his mental health of course
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03 Dec 2025
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Inexorable Current by Elizzybeth
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 May 2024
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“All is well now.” She could not help but assure him.
“It is not,” he objected. “All is not well between us at all. I can feel it.”
She could formulate no rebuttal. He was right and it would be dishonest to deny it. She watched him grow more aggravated from her silence.
“You are not at ease with me anymore,” he continued. “Openness once marked our relationship, allowing it to take shape so naturally over the years, but now you rebuke me at the slightest expression of it.”
He was speaking circles around her, failing to make sense. She could not deny things had changed, but his logic dizzied her. Or perhaps that was the warmth of his palm that had shifted down, cupping her neck, as his fingers wove softly into her hair.
Or, they finally confront each other.
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- Part 3 of Out of the Shadows
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29 Nov 2025
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“Colin?"
“Yeah, sweeth– Pen?"
She laughs at his slip of tongue, wanting to make a crack at how she's not so sweet after how she asked him to pound into her until she was sore—but she knows her laugh is masking how she truly feels. The rules are to protect her, because Penelope knows this will never last, not in the long run. Colin's never resented them, or if he does, he hides it well.
“Have you heard of subspace?” Penelope finally blurts out.
Penelope and Colin are friends with increasingly frequent benefits. One day, she asks him if he'll get her to subspace.
As a friend.
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29 Nov 2025
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An Escape to The Country (or, The Aggravation of One Penelope Featherington). by HorseSad
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
09 Nov 2025
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Violet Bridgerton has had enough of her three eldest sons refusing to engage with the marriage mart. She has seen her daughters Daphne and Francesca married in the last four seasons but she wants more grandchildren and she wants them now.
And so, in the week before the whole family and ton are due to descend on Aubrey Hall for the annual Hearts and Flowers Ball, Lady Violet has invited a select group of eligible ladies to the Hall to participate in a series of challenges where the ultimate prize is up for grabs: marriage to one of the three oldest Bridgerton brothers. Penelope Featherington is on her fourth year on the mart with no prospects.
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multichap fic I will correct the chapter count on update.
Whistledown exists, Colin didn’t make any foolish declarations in the Featherington gardens, Penelope and Eloise are grand. Prudence is still unmarried. This started out as a purely crack fic but I accidentally kept adding plot and making myself cry. There is still quite a lot of crack though. If you crave period accuracy, sorry. I researched some bits with fervour and then hugged an anachronism or two for the giggles.
I’m trying to be consistent, but I make the rules and my brain is wonky).Bookmarked by lucyappleton
29 Nov 2025
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We Never Said It With Words by Bridgertonia
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Aug 2025
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Photographer Colin is delighted when he bumps into Penelope in Reykjavik - the first time he's seen her in ten years. And when she accepts his offer of a lift across Iceland, he's excited to rekindle their friendship along the scenic road.
He feels a connection to her and starts to yearn for more than friendship. But she’s like a yoyo: allowing herself to get close to him then reeling herself back in.
Will she ever fully warm up to him? And will she tell him the real reason she ghosted him years ago?
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- Part 2 of Iceland Road Trip AU
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24 Nov 2025
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The Calm In His Arms by Bridgertonia
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
29 Mar 2025
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Penelope Featherington is trapped in Iceland when a volcanic eruption closes the airport.
There's one way home, by ferry, from the other side of the island. But the only way she can get there in time is by catching a lift with Colin Bridgerton - the first man she fell in love with; the only man to break her heart. And someone she has avoided for the last ten years.
OR: A road trip during which Penelope discovers she hates vanlife, but her feelings about Colin are far more troublesome.
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- Part 1 of Iceland Road Trip AU
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23 Nov 2025
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Were you ever punished as a child? by fullysplendid, Indifly for Polinfickipedia
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 Nov 2025
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“She was transforming, beautiful, sexy – because when he looked at her like he was now, that's how she felt.”
Penelope would follow Colin anywhere. No matter how risky the idea. If he looks at her like that, touches her like that, she’ll do anything for him.
Fuck everybody else.
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21 Nov 2025
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And then, suddenly, he pulled away from her – no! – and raised his gaze to hers, pulling on her hair firmly. “I need to hear it, Pen. Do not say ‘perhaps' again, I need you to say it.”
Although he had told her not to say perhaps again, she knew that Colin desperately, keenly wanted her to do just that. She saw his open permissiveness, giving her the space to join him in this new web of meaning, and she felt the strength of his grip in her hair, a signal of his part to play.
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Kink oneshot. Light con non-con with a bit of a bratty Pen.Bookmarked by lucyappleton
21 Nov 2025
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Of all the things that could have driven Colin to madness, he would have never guessed it would be Penelope’s mouth.
It all began as she sat in his passenger seat, slowly lining her lips with lip liner, carefully tracing the edges with delicate precision. After, she filled them in with lip oil, the light floral scent wafting over to him. As she pressed her lips together, pulling them in and pushing them back out, Colin realized one undeniable fact.
His best friend had the most perfect mouth he had ever seen.
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Colin realizes he has a lipstick fetish.
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21 Nov 2025
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we could do it if we tried by missparker
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
08 Dec 2025
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When Eloise announces she wants to move again, it coincides with Colin's desire to purchase a London flat. It makes sense for them to move in with him financially, but Eloise takes some convincing and as Colin and Penelope work together to persuade her, they fall back into a closer friendship. Meanwhile, Penelope's casual work hook-up starts pushing for something more but her dormant teenage crush on Colin has come back in full force. Still, she has to be realistic, right?
But when Colin makes her an interesting offer, it has the potential to change everything. It also might burn everything down. She won't know until she tries.
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08 Nov 2025