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the people's couple

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dragging along, following your form hung like the pelt of some prey you had worn remember me, love, when i'm reborn as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn

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#there's nothing quite like truly feeling seen <3

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Bonus Polin Week 2024

DAY TWO: Favourite Kiss

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Bonus Polin Week 2024

DAY SEVEN:  Favourite Kink - Colin "obsessed with my wife's cleavage" Bridgerton

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I have spent so long trying to feel less, trying to be the kind of man society expects me to be. And for a moment, I thought I had succeeded. But these past few weeks have been full of confounding feelings. Feelings like a total inability to stop thinking about you. About that kiss. Feelings like dreaming of you when I'm asleep, and in fact, preferring sleep because that is where I might find you. A feeling that is like torture, but one which I cannot, will not, do not want to give up.

–Colin Bridgerton, "Old Friends," Bridgerton

So the fact that I just typed all of that out by memory means that this is the best romantic declaration. As tender as Colin and Penelope's speeches to each other are at the Dankworth-Finch Ball and the Bridgerton study respectively, Colin's desperate plea quoted above is the passionate sound bite of the season.

And it is so in line with Colin's character. For anyone that had any doubts about how he was playing a role earlier this season, he explains it plainly. He said, I've done everything unnatural within me to finally try and fit in, and wouldn't you know, it worked! God, the fact that he was aware that he was forcing himself to feel less??

He says, you may have forgotten about that kiss, but I sure haven't. You've asked me to stay away to avoid more scandal, but you've never escaped my thoughts.

I think the line about seeking sleep because he can always find Penelope in his dreams is probably the most romantic thing I've ever heard. To me, it harkens back to what Colin said about Leander to Daphne when he was desperately wanting to talk to Marina:

"Leander swam Abydos to Sestos every single night in complete darkness just to see his love."

He believed himself in love with Marina then, but he was merely posturing about it. His pride was wounded and his savior complex was ignited.

But saying that he welcomed the darkness of sleep because he knew every single time he'd see Penelope in his dreams? That is some next-level yearning. And we're privy to one of those dreams, so we know his words are true.

Then he concludes with, these feelings are driving me mad and making me sick, but you'll have to pry them from my cold dead hands because they are now a part of me. I may have been trying to feel less before, but I refuse to feel less in this. Because as painful as they are, they are also real, and for the first time in my life, I have found that sense of meaning that I had been feverishly searching for.

He says this all to simply share how he feels. He's hoping that she at least somewhat reciprocates, but it's been tearing him apart to keep his feelings for her hidden. He knows that he could love her so ardently and worship her so reverently if she'd just let him. He is on his knees, begging for her to listen to him. It's high time that they're finally honest with each other, and he takes the first step with this perfect speech.

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🐝 POLIN WEEK → DAY SEVEN — Love Confessions 🐝 “I think, in truth, I have been envious of you. Of your success. Of your bravery. And now I simply cannot believe that a woman with such bravery loves me. How lucky I am to stand by your side and soak up even a little bit of your light. If my only purpose in life is to love a woman as great as you then I will be a very fulfilled man, indeed.”

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BONUS Polin Week 2024 Day 6 ↝ Luke Appreciation Day (the way he speaks with his eyes and face expressions is marvelous.)

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★·.·´¯·.·★ joining of hands ★·.·´¯·.·★

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polin week day two: Favourite Kiss ♡ Height Difference

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polin week day four: Favourite Show Quote ♡ Mirror

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Polin Week Day 3: Favorite Dance(s)

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Kinda obsessed with the way they look at each other

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Colin and Pen + wide shots

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polin week day one: Favourite Season 3 Scene ♡ Polin Songs

It took me a moment to pick my favorite scene of the season, I loved so many of them for so many different reasons but seeing them put everything aside and decide that they want to be husband and wife despite everything, I just lose it every time. There is not one time that I didn't cry watching that scene, and I watched it a lot.