#Francesca Kilmartin

[jackytaylor]

Hannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton — behind the scenes of Bridgerton S4

[deep-friend-love]

a lesbian in straight-dominated fields (the bridgerton fandom)

[vices-aand-virtues]

Bridgerton + Reductress Headlines (5/?)

[diamonds-of-the-first-water]

I Have Evolving Thoughts on Fran’s Sexuality

(god hannah dodd is so pretty)

First of all let’s thank GOD francesca is the queer sister and not…that other one.

Anyways upon my initial viewing of part 2 I definitely read Fran as bisexual and if you continue to read her as such I think that’s fine but my mind has changed on the matter.

I believe that Fran is actually a lesbian suffering from comphet.

The reason this actually started to seem likely to me is because of her wedding scene with John. The whole season I thought they seemed so taken with one another and I enjoyed their quiet dynamic. They were more than comfortable sitting in silence with one another and seemed to grow closer in that way.

I like many others assumed this meant their love was romantic, but that kiss

Would a woman who is attracted to men make this face after kissing the man she loves? I don’t think so. Some people seem to think it’s because she’s shy but it doesn’t seem like she’s even thinking about her family here. It seems like she has retreated into her own thoughts. It seems like she was disappointed. And after spending the whole season feeling nothing for any of the men she meets why wouldn’t she be. She met a man she loved and she kissed him and she didn’t feel those sparks.

Now Fran is also autistic coded so this initially affected the way I viewed her relationships as well, but all of that changes when you take into account Michaela.

Francesca immediately starts to stutter and is flustered when she sees Michaela. We have never seen Fran act this way with a man, even her husband. It wasn’t for no reason that Violet describes how she felt the first time she fell in love with Edmund and then almost immediately after Fran reacts the same way to Michaela. The butterflies, not being able to string a sentence together. This was foreshadowing.

Some people were upset because they said it erased everything Fran said about having a quiet love and that is somewhat true, but I disagree with people saying that it erases slowly built love when Polin’s whole story is about love not striking you like a bolt of lightning.

None of this is to say she can’t love John, I believe she does I just feel it is platonic, and the loss of John would hit hard even if he was her best friend. John is one of the great loves of her life but who is to say that love is romantic? Friendships are the foundation of our lives and they are equally as important as any romantic relationship. Fran met someone who understands her and is like her, that doesn’t mean she has to have romantic attraction for him.

Some of this is affected by personal bias as I am a late-blooming lesbian, but holy shit the way I relate to Fran wanting to get married just because it would mean she wouldn’t have to pursue any other relationships with men and the way she was willing to accept whoever the Queen deemed fit because she didn’t have any criteria except “is kind to me”. Fran does not seem to be searching for love as she has not felt it before. The closest she comes is with John because the two of them are so similar and I believe she thought that because she liked him so much that she must be in love with him which is just so…lesbian coded I don’t know how to explain it.

This isn’t to say bisexuality isn’t real or is “just a phase”. Ew. Gross. No. This is just the way I am interpreting the character with the information we have now. If it comes out definitely that she is bisexual then I will accept that, sapphic rep is so needed.

All in all they look so good and I can’t wait to see these queers kiss and have a romance.

Also I think that Michaela still could have fallen first. Fran just realized she was a dyke at that exact moment and her brain stopped working which is valid. But did you see the way Michaela looked at her. I KNOW A LESBIAN FALLING IN LOVE WHEN I SEE ONE.

[girlsdit]

bridgerton (2024)

[mot-hesbian]

The things I love most about the gender bend for franchaela is that there's no more miracle baby plot. I hate when books/shows/movies do that and it's why I enjoy the way Friends handled Monica and Chandler's struggles with it. I like that they're now going to have to explore other ways to cope with it.

I imagine part of Francesca's struggle about their relationship is that she will have to contend with never having the possibility for biological children. With a man it'd be unlikely but still possible, with Michaela it'd be an impossibility. They've actually given us extra angst on top of the pre-existing angst.

I like the idea of things not magically working out and being perfect for a Bridgerton because it's more realistic (also why I love that they've established LW consequences for Penelope in s4: realistic. Benophie leaving London to live in the country after getting married because of the fact the Ton likely won't accept them: realistic. (But also if I don't have at least Sophie in every single season until the end of the show I will combust I want my bbg so bad rn.))

Anyway, gender bend has already gifted us with so much without their story having even started.

[liminalnucleus]

If Eloise isn't gonna be gay (((hear me out))) then why did she and Benedict have that brother-and-sister moment where he (((a bisexual))) said something along the lines of, "let's hide out here on our swings and be *confused* together."

I'm happy about Francesca, but that language felt deliberate between Eloise and Benedict. As well as when Cressida essentially asked Eloise to run away with her and be Whistledown together.

[cowboylikeghost]

This is the kind of face people go to war for

[lereadinggrinch]

Francesca is definitely one of those people who look at their mum expectantly every time the doctor asks a question lol

[kor-ee-an-door]

WHEN SHE WAS WICKED LET'S GOOOOOOOO

Some personal thoughts on the ending of Bridgerton Season 3 and the introduction of Michaela Stirling:

Changing the gender of a character is always risky, especially when gender and how that interacts with their respective societies. Sophie's storyline, for example, is so intrinsically connected to her gender and the impositions that forces on her character and storyline. Her stepmother could not abuse nor control Sophie so intimately were she a man, simply because he would have more rights and opportunities even as a bastard, by the merit of being a man.

In the case of Michael, however, I think it is less about him being a man, and more about his deviance from society that made his story with Francesca interesting in the books. Yes, he was John's heir, and later takes on the title when John dies without any children, but the issue with their relationship is less about the title and more about the nature of their relationship. The fact that they desire each other and it is seen as wrong because of their shared past, because of their love for John, because there is a level of shame there on Michael's part that he desired Fran when he wasn't. While I don't want the Stirling/Kilmartin family to have any financial issues when John dies, the key points of the story could be studied elegantly, and perhaps even more delicately by the change to Michaela, due to the added stakes and conflicts.

Now that being said, did we all see the slight disappointment Francesca had when she kissed John? And her looking at Michaela when they first met, totally transfixed?! Franny, baby, would would love the Comphet Masterdoc

[brynnsasha191]

I don't think I'll have the strength to listen to John, earl of Kilmartin, utter the words "I have a headache" to his wife when that day comes. There will be no strength or happiness in that moment.

[deep-friend-love]

love love love bridgerton fanfics where the queen is just like “fuck it society is being boring gay marriage is legal now” and creloise / benedict and some guy/ francesca and micheala get married it’s so funny

[diamonds-of-the-first-water]

franchaela as ✨disney fairies ✨

(i referenced tinkerbell and fawn)

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Pen and Colins vows: I love you I'll love you forever!!!

Fran and Johns vows:I'll love you until you die, no I'll love you until YOU die, and the officiant goes you are married until one of you dies

[mot-hesbian]

Bridgerton as things I've been listening to a lot lately (literally just The Crane Wives and Taylor Swift)

Polin:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2hy98hcDGMI&si=cOTm2Y7pAr8YE3p9

Sophie:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8ICDl23QZFs&si=kMaYkJPi_d1qwS_X

Early Benophie:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vgNbqp8VB1E&si=yepB_MnwRfETBN6o

Daphmon:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIvGvIY7LbI&si=bKZ2Z9paQMfZmY5D

Grucy:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QDVpj6V8KRQ&si=X70ZD49XBvwsN6jv

Franny:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KWMGKItxHH0&si=F3361YzXQax96KHb

Lucy:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qRQitkn2hqc&si=QToYsNG58q8h8fzE

[milliondollarhoe]

Random 12am thought that Eloise's role of "changing the world" has to do w fran and Michaela. Like a parasite in me is saying she gonna be the biggest ally for her sis and that's why she is otw to Scotland with em.