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The shippers and losers continue screaming nonsense into the void and Luke and Antonia continue just living life and being hot.

you know, I really do have to commend Antonia and Luke. so many people have treated them terribly online with all the rumors and insults and hatred and then had the audacity to get upset that 'he didn't even defend her (from us)!' but actually? i think he did something better

he ignored them. SHE ignored them. not one post defending themselves or their relationship. not one response to a nasty comment. not one story about how the bullying was bad or for fans to knock it off. not a single ounce of attention

not

a

crumb

and that, more than anything, has made their haters furious. luke and antonia just decided to live their lives without any care for anyone's input. they live the closest to a 'normal life' outside of the public eye that they can. they spend time together, go on dates, are hot on main. they run domestic errands and go to concerts and get dressed up for work events and hold hands. they take pictures of each other and hang out on vacations and watch love island and eat pasta in bed. they tuned out the noise and decided to thrive whether people approved of it or not, and that's. . .idk, there's something about it that just makes me happy. i'm not a shipper, i don't know them, but i'm a fan of his work and a fan of him in general, and i'm glad he's a dedicated partner to her and she's a dedicated partner to him. there's something beautiful about them just quietly being in it together

genuinely and honestly: good for them. kudos.

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Doomed, you said this perfectly. I appreciate the optimism, but the upset over him not being in the video is because of what that represents as a symptom of a larger disregard for Luke as an actor and Colin as a character.

Michelle is honestly the sweetest. I won’t be watching but I’m excited to see clips of her getting to play a bitchy character when she herself seems like a total doll!

Sharing this from reddit so that folks can breathe a little bit🥰🥰

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This is both hilarious and painful in its accuracy.

It’s only Polin if it comes from the Penelope and Colin region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling Penelope.

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the way you couldn't even pay me to care about Bridgerton if Colin isn't in it

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I respect and understand that he loves the cast and the stability of Bridgerton so I would never want him to leave if it would make him unhappy, but HOLY SHIT, can someone please free Luke Newton from this terrible show and let him go somewhere that actually appreciates his talent and dedication?

They already shoved him as far off stage as they felt they could get away with in what was allegedly his season and now they are just completely erasing him from anything in S4. They could not be more clear that he is not a priority or even, frankly, an after thought for them. He’s just…not a thought. They care about N/P and N/P only. Season 3 drove that home extremely well.

Luke, you deserve better.

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Lukola shippers stop talking about Luke Newton and fuck off already 2k25. I am ao fucking sick of this fandom diminishing Luke’s talent and just making him some kind of sexy mop they project all their self-insert fantasies onto.

He is an amazing actor and the fact that he was so ignored and overlooked in his own season should be a source of ire in this fandom. But since these people are incapable of actually existing in reality, they instead insult his talent to uplift their shipping delusions.

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Bridgerton making a post and once again excluding Luke Newton. They really couldn’t wait to not have to keep pretending like they cared about him at all and not just their precious Nicola, eh?

Luke was allegedly also the lead of season 3 but genuinely do we think Shonda remembers his name? Or does she just call him “that guy with Nicola sometimes?”

Also, this is going in Nicola’s tag just as a fuck you to the person who felt the need to tag Luke in their post making Nicola and Nicola fans the victims of Luke Newton fans’ rightful ire over this latest slight.

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I cannot believe we went all the way through season 3 just to end up as a fandom exactly where we were at the start.

The fandom remains incapable of accepting Penelope as being in the wrong for how she handled LW with regards to Colin and continues to make Colin out to be some kind of villain for having an emotion that isn’t “worshipping Penelope.” Your girl is a liar and she got called out for it. Colin is allowed to be angry. And say hurtful things. Especially considering his own trauma. You all excuse every cruel choice Pen makes because her family can be mean but Colin having previously been in a relationship where someone pretended to love him in order to get him to marry them can’t at all impact how he might process learning that the next woman he loves and plans to marry has *also been lying to him?* Just say you hate Colin and only ship Polin because they are canon and you think you “have to”

Oh, Penelope should have thrown the entrapment line back in his face and called off the wedding? Cool, Colin should have told her to go fuck herself when she told him to his face that she was mad that her years of friendship didn’t pay off into him wanting to fuck her. And he should absolutely accept her calling off the wedding and find someone who will love him without using cheap manipulation and guilt-trips to get out of admitting their are in the wrong.

But neither of did that. BECAUSE THAT IS NOT ACTUALLY POLIN. I don’t know who this fandom ships but it sure as shit isn’t Polin. Polin is about owning your flaws and loving each other *because* of those flaws. It’s holding space and being each other’s soft place to land. It’s not Penelope having all the power and living out your petty revenge fantasies on your high school crush who didn’t like you back.

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Pen stans being incapable of empathy for anyone but her and making Colin a villain for doing anything but grovel at her feet, grateful for whatever scraps she throws his way? Wow. Revolutionary.

This fandom self-inserts onto Pen and has made themselves and her such a Mary Sue as a result. Not like Colin has VERY SPECIFIC TRAUMA ABOUT A WOMAN SAYING SHE LOVES HIM WHILE ACTUALLY JUST TRYING TO TRAP HIM OR ANYTHING. But Colin is the bad guy for being angry about lied to, rather than Penelope, you know, the fucking LIAR.

The reality, of course, is neither of them is the “bad guy” but the one who caused the harm in the LW situation sure as FUCK wasn’t COLIN.

"I am a man of honor, and we were...intimate. Perhaps that was another part of your planned entrapment."

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And you’re telling me some people hate this pookie? Couldn’t be me.

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I guess what I find most funny about the 'She should call off the wedding because of Colin's entrapement line!' crowd is like. . .y'all really don't get Penelope at all, do you?

She has loved this man for YEARS. She's loved him through his engagement to someone else, she's loved him through him saying he wouldn't court her, she's loved him through multiple countries, through her family mocking their closeness, through a potential marriage to a Lord. She loved him so much she couldn't even DENY having feelings for him to save what she thought was her only chance of getting married. Do you know how easy it would have been for her to go 'No, we're just friends, I don't like him like that, you're proposing to me and that's what matters'? She couldn't denounce her feelings for him even THEN. Even when she doesn't think he reciprocates them and she's made peace with a life with Debling and is expecting his proposal. Colin was *always* first in her heart, through all those hurdles.

Because Colin has been kind in a cruel world, and he's made her laugh, and he encourages her confidence and he's warm and he's gorgeous and he centers her and he values her and he listens and makes her feel desired and beautiful. He's a good man, and her love for him makes her feel good, she treasures it. Even in the books she says it feels good to love a good person, whether he loved her back or not. And now she knows that he does and you think one line that Colin says in obvious hurt after finding out she's been hiding a secret persona for him is enough to shake that love? She spent what? Half a decade looking out her window pining for him and now on the eve of getting to live a life with him as husband and wife, she's going to chuck that away because of one sentence? How lowly do you think of her? How *stupid* do you think she is? To throw away the love of her life over what? Her pride? This fandom's OOC Fanon Pen is a disservice to Penelope's actual character.

Her love for Colin is steadfast. It's made of tougher stuff than all that. It has survived everything that has been thrown at it. Distance, other people, Portia. And y'all really, truly believe that a singular statement will make her go 'Naw, I don't want it anymore!' PUHLEASE. Even when she offers him that annulment, you KNOW she knows it's not on the table.

Stop playing. OF COURSE she didn't call off the wedding. Of COURSE she chose to understand where he was coming from and went 'I didn't mean to trap you, Colin, I love you'. Of course she asks what the marriage will be and is comforted by the fact that he still wants to go through with it.

Penelope Featherington has loved Colin most of her life. It has been one of the few constants in her existence. He has been good to her in said existence, consistently. He's listened, he's cared, he's apologized to her, he's taken ownership of his actions, he's invited her to be more open, he's joked with her, he's supported her, he saw her when she was invisible. She. Loves. Him. And for good reason.

It's not going away because of one line. Or two. Or three. Come back next time when you actually understand her.

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We’re the OGs and we will be gatekeeping. Hard.

anyway i can't wait to watch colin fall in love and be happy and by god i don't care what anyone else says that is my sweet gentle crumpet and i will always be on his side

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Sometimes I wonder why anyone who actually ships Pen and Debling even bothers to watch the show at all.

Like, if you don’t want her to be with Colin then maybe just…don’t watch? Because I hate to break it to you but…

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Cannot wait for all these weird pro Debling posts to age like milk

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Asking the real questions.

The way this fandom cares more about seeing Colin jealous than actually see Colin & Pen falling in love is insane. Like why are yall even here?

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I'm confused with a few people saying they now want Pen to be with Debling because he sees her as a woman, compliments her etc when Colin didn't, but I feel like it's a really unfair comparison. Luke said the reason Colin can't see that Pen is his true love match is because they met when they were so young. Debling is just meeting her now for the first time. I completely get this from Pen's perspective though, and I think the misunderstanding after their first kiss is going to be so heartbreaking on both their ends. For Pen, she might think it's pity/being nice because Colin would never see her that way. She's gotten her hopes up about him before only to be crushed so shes not going to let herself even go there. And for Colin, I dont think he knows that Pen ever had romantic feelings for him, so when hes struggling when seeing her with Debling he might think his feelings are unrequited and the kiss that meant so much to him didn't matter to her.

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Another banger. This fandom’s obvious desire for Colin’s entire purpose to just be him being ground beneath Penelope’s shoe is so transparent.

I think I have seen it all.

Apparently experimenting with drugs & sex in your 20s means you are a red flag who will never be able to be in a loving committed relationship.

All of this pearl clutching hysteria over things we’ve seen the other Bridgerton brothers do. Why don’t you just say the real reason you’re upset and that’s bc Colin is getting his own arc about his own demons & issues that he’s not spending 4 episodes begging Pen to forgive him.

I legit just saw someone complaining about them giving us the first kiss from the book. I’m sorry if you’re complaining about us getting book scenes then what are you even doing here? Like if you don’t get the whole point of that scene is for Pen to vocalize her wants & for Colin to more affected by a kiss with her then his other experience then you clearly are missing the point