#polin meta

[thekatebridgerton]

I am looking forward to seeing Penelope give Colin the cold shoulder. I'm also looking forward to Colin learning that she's Lady Whistledown?

I mean, the angst potential alone .

Like, I knew Eloise and Penelope were going to fight, I saw that a mile away but it still hurt. Their friendship breakup was the most cry inducing moment for me. So I'm wondering what will happen when Colin learns about it.

Show, give me pain.

Oh that's the only part I'm looking forward to in s3, not just the angst, but the whole Penelope getting angry pottential gives me life.

Because her best friend hurt her and the love of her life said pretty mean things about her and if the show doesn't let Penelope be angry about that. I will feel robbed. She shouldn't just be devastated, she should be pissed off.

When Colin learns that Eloise and Penelope fought the same day he said he'd never court her he's going to blame himself so bad, and I for one am here for that! yes. I love it.

But also is it wrong that I want Penelope to get angry? I mean one of my favorite parts of romacing Mr Bridgerton is that the moment Colin touched Pen's bottom line with Lady Whistledown, she was claws out.

Penelope in the books, even when she was angry at what Colin said about her, she never actually showed it. She never let Colin see her most vicious side....Until he pissed her off by ordering her to stop writing, and Penelope was like 'okay dude, kid gloves off, I'm this close to kicking you'

And Penelope who arguably has been swallowing up her anger and her mean girl bone all this time...lets him have it! and its glorious.

Just Penelope letting Colin see that she's pissed off at him, that he crossed the line by dismissing her life's work and there's a lot of insults she can take but not thins one! she's darn proud of Lady Whistledown and if he doesn't like it he can go to hell.

And Colin gets angry as well. Because he sees her point but also wants to protect her, so screw her, she can't keep doing this.

And it gets hot.

my point is that I love the fact that Colin and Penelope were at their hottest when they were both angry as hell and wanted to kill each other. Because as a couple they are always so friendly and kind and indulgent towards each other. Penelope gives Colin a pass for everything and Colin is always at the height of loving gentlemanly behavior with his Pen.

And then there's the scene in the carriage where they are both furious to the point of tearing their clothes off. I LOVE IT.

They're very good at pretending to be cute okay! Colin is super unhinged, but he doesn't show it, and Penelope can be terribly mean but she only lets it out in Lady Whistledown and its in this scene when they are both showing each other the dark side of who they really are. that it clicks how much they belong together.

I cannot stress enough how much I love angry Colin and angry Penelope. And that's the tea.

[dollypopup]

adaptations, relatability, and the internal landscape of the polin fandom

polin fandom is an interesting place to be in right about now. having been here for a good while, it's been fascinating to see it through the changes. and i think it's particularly interesting because we are currently on the knife's edge of a full split in fan thinking. why? well, i would say that it's because of the biggest change between the show and the books: age

we went from a story between a 28 year old woman established in her career and accepting the shape of her life and a 33 year old man untethered from his feelings and desires, attempting to be what society wants of him coming together after more than 10 years of little moments to a '2 years pining for him is too long' love story between a 19 year old woman still figuring out who she is and what she wants to say and how to say it and a 22 year old man who is ultimately isolated not necessarily from his own feelings but particularly from much of everyone else

that is to say, in particular with age: they are living a reflection of Violet and Edmund's early love story. not necessarily their own in the original source material. and that, of course, will have an impact

Polin's romance as it is now is vastly different and i see that echoed in the fandom, as well. there's been a massive change in how it was even just a year ago. if you look through the archives, this is very evident. namely, now it skews much more immature, mostly because the couple themselves are immature. I don't say immature as an insult, either. I say it in a much more objective way. See, Polin went from being the oldest pair to fall in love to the youngest. that will have a drastic impact on their narrative. as well as the fandom. fans of early material are more of the mind of 'i want them to pine for so long and so intensely that when he FINALLY tells her he loves her we collapse on the floor' whereas fans of current material are in the '2 years??? girl move on, there are plenty more fish in the sea'

and it causes a wide divide, though there is less discussion about it. the fandom has flattened into a few different tropes with much more tension between them because, ultimately, i think we are fans of different couples. or, at least, differing dynamics. and so we have differing, oftentimes completely opposing wants for their outcome

the Polin I first fell in love with took an entire decade to marinate and blend together. Penelope pined for years realizing that it was fruitless and eventually coming to recognize that her love was, ultimately, for her. and she accepted that. and she was content. she had accepted who she was and any changes she made were for herself. this appeals to an older demographic, a demographic who relates to that particular story. who loved and lost and realized that's a part of life. who love and lose and love, still. this Penelope follows a long, rich line of career women characters who come home to their pets and a to-do list and live meaningful lives through that. love comes around and catches them off guard, and they suddenly live the whirlwind romance of their dreams

likewise with Colin, he'd been running for years, looking and exploring and trying to find who he, ultimately, was. and he failed. failed the way so many of us will and do. he failed for a decade. he wanted to live up to the shadow his father left, the shadow his older brother casts, and he couldn't. he looked for meaning in other places and didn't find it. he didn't find it at 21. or 25. or 29. or 31. he was purposeless and confused, he had no direction and he was 33 going 34. no job, no future, just a rut he kept walking in hoping eventually the depth of routine would provide meaning and it didn't. ultimately, he realizes that the person who can push him and knock him off his axis is the person who has been there all along, and he falls fast and hard, making up for lost time in the euphoria of that

in this universe: their romance is them clicking together like two parts of a model railroad. Colin feeling jealous that Penelope found *her* purpose, right there in Mayfair, and he couldn't. that she became brave because she accepted who she was internally, and that he was afraid to show who HE was because he was so accustomed to being what other people wanted him to be. that they learned from one another in that aspect. Penelope learning to flourish externally and Colin learning to be content internally. like a hand hold where the fingers fill the spaces.

but Colin in the show has no reason to feel any pressure about not having found his purpose because he's twenty-two. Who amongst us found our purpose at TWENTY-TWO? I sure as shit didn't. And this lowers the stakes for him and the emotional impact of that. He's meant to be aimless and making mistakes. It's more than acceptable. In his early to mid thirties? That carries different weight. And same for Penelope. a 28 year old woman content with who she is and her choices in life is relatable to different people than a 19 year old throwing anything at the wall and seeing if it will stick whenever something goes wrong. and that also carried different weight for her because like. . . when i was 19 i was still sniffing scented markers until i was dizzy. of COURSE she's bumbling and fucking up.

Penelope in the show is young and confused, she's trying her best and she's fucking up in it. She's attached so much of her existence to WHAT she does as opposed to WHO she is. This is relatable to many, many people. People early in their careers, particularly. People fresh in school. People trying to 'make it'. She's made mistakes she now has to learn how to bounce back from because they're some of her early messes, as opposed to her counterpart who has already done that work. Instead of coming to an internal understanding of herself, she looks for external validation through her work. Penelope in the show is more akin to a tea-channel as opposed to a 'Ask Miss Manners' column. she cares about what her viewership says, as though she is checking the comments. she obsessed over the criticism, as an early start influencer would. her story is coming to a contentment internally. this is work that book Penelope has already done in her own love story

Colin, likewise, is similarly young and confused, but interestingly, more aware of who he is. When he tells Penelope that he came to understand himself on his travels, if he's being honest, then he is already farther ahead in his maturity than *his* counterpart. He is more introspective, vs. being able to read a room. His charm is different. Whereas in the book, Colin was traveling to find external validation, in the show, Colin travels to find internal validation. And he finds it. It is not a lack of understanding of *himself* that has him unable to see what is in front of him, but rather time. Colin has mostly known Penelope from when she was a minor. It makes sense he doesn't see her in a romantic light. Colin is still lost in the sauce, but in a different way. He's lost in the goings-on of his family and the world around him. He is trying to bridge what he knows of himself with what he is told being a Man is and coming to terms with the fact that he doesn't have to subscribe to someone else's ideal of manhood to be, himself, well established. Colin, in the show, has done the work that Colin in the books is actively engaged in for his story.

we, as a result, are trying to bridge what the book and show are, and that causes tension. there has been a LOT of tension in this fandom because all these changes, ultimately, flip Polin's dynamic. This is where the 'she should have multiple suitors' vs. 'no, that makes no sense for her narrative' comes from. This is where 'it's a much better story if he's jealous of her finding her purpose' vs. 'what? nah, he should be the green eyed monster when she dances w/ someone else' comes from. This is the 'she would never ignore him like that, they're meant to be friends' vs. 'boi fucked up, she has every right to ghost him' comes from. we ship, essentially, two different couples.

well, two different dynamics, at the very least.

add in how they changed LW and you have a perfect storm. book readers and fans are relatively horrified by how Penelope uses LW to punch down repeatedly, whereas show fans see LW as a means of empowerment. this is also a case of age. s!Penelope does not have the time under her belt to recognize that she has other options. LW is *a* option, but s!Penelope makes it *the* option. VS in the book, LW is very much more of a 'this happened today' type of situation. She doesn't publish about her friends, she doesn't agonize, she doesn't commit harms. LW is her triumph because it is a decade-long publication that occupied her time and gave her days meaning. LW in the show is a two years long scandal sheet that has actively pushed away her close connections.

i'm fascinated for how the show is also going to bridge the source material with the current love story they're depicting and how that will change the fandom once more. it feels like we're somewhere between the before and the after of it all, standing in the middle of the rope bridge

it makes sense to me that it's a bit rickety, then, all things considered

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

If they're going to turn Francesca into a martyr wallflower so Penelope could rescue her as Whistledown and score brownie points, I won't be surprised. I'll be angry, I'll be disappointed, but not surprised. I mean, what would it be if not another attempt at throwing other characters under the bus just so they could make certain favourites look better?

[spartazia-blog]

Listening vs Obeying

Something I’ve been mulling over since seeing another round of discussion about Penelope and her choices specifically around the Marina and her children and Eloise LW publications is the notion of listening to someone vs obeying them. When we talk to people or provide advice, what is our expectation and goal in doing so? Are we helping and being a sounding board or are we trying to give marching orders? And, at the end of it, do we respect that ultimate decision maker in someone’s life is and should be them?

I ask because a common theme I see pop up is the idea that Pen “had” to resort to Whistledown because “no one listens to her.” But is that true? Did they really just close their ears and go “lalala” when she spoke to them? Or, is it that she was heard but she just wasn’t *obeyed*? And why do so many Penelope stans seem to have this absolute conviction that if she expresses something to someone or gives them advice, she is entitled to unquestioning compliance?

Colin listened to her about Marina loving someone else before him, he just didn’t go along with what she wanted him to do which was be horrified and cast Marina aside. In fact, he quite maturely expresses that it would hypocritical of him to do so given that he also has a past with other women. That’s really cool of him! It shows that he’s a solid and reasonable man who doesn’t judge others against a bar he wouldn’t use for himself.

Eloise listened to Penelope about she concerns (which Penelope was mostly lying about to outright gaslighting Eloise with to keep from getting caught as LW. Not to mention the hypocrisy over lecturing Eloise about going to ‘bad parts of town unchaperoned’ while Penelope was doing the exact same thing), Eloise just decided that her conversations and friendship with Theo along with expanding her mind at the rallies she was attending were worth the risk. Which, again, very cool. No matter how people try to spin Eloise as some selfish asshole, her pushing back against the box the patriarchal society she exists in and wanting to reach beyond the arbitrary barriers of class and gender placed on her is very brave and admirable.

Even Marina listened to Penelope about her objections to the Colin plan but was in desperate straits after Portia (whom the fandom never seems to want to blame for her part in that whole debacle or who does get to be applauded for doing whatever she needs for her children…hmmm…qWHITE interesting that point) locked her away, put the fear of God into her, and tried to sell her to a man who INSPECTED MARINA’S TEETH, so forged ahead. Marina’s choices are definitely murky and unfair to Colin but the idea that she was doing anything for some sort of diabolical and cruel reason and not out of desperation and fear driven by the terrible way society would treat her and, more importantly, her innocent children, is just not borne out by the narrative. And anyone trying to claim otherwise is not someone I can take seriously. Marina’s first choice being her children should be more admired than Portia’s choices but somehow, Marina is a villain while Portia is “complicated and flawed.” I cannot talk about Marina without wanting to wrap her in blankets and protect her from both the fandom and what I fear the show has in store for her. I admit this bias freely.

Penelope is never fully honest with people and then, when they don’t follow her marching orders on how she thinks they should operate, she goes nuclear and takes their choices away from them. Penelope is not the god of the people in her life’s lives. She is not *entitled* to being obeyed (even if you think she is 100% in the right when giving advice, this is still the case). People have their own minds, their own free will, and the right to make their own decisions and mistakes. Penelope needs to learn both to fully be honest and speak up as herself AND to accept that she is not the boss of the people in her life. There is no way she can be a healthy partner in her relationship with Colin (or anyone!) if she operates under the theory that if someone won’t take her advice willingly, she will just force their hand. And her stans need to learn the difference between being listened to and being obeyed.

I think she can. And I think, if her arc is done well, that will be a big point of growth for her. She will learn to use her words and her voice, as herself. She’ll learn to trust the people in her life - because she doesn’t really trust anyone right now - and she’ll learn to see the people in her life are entitled to autonomy. I just hope the fandom can learn the same.

P. S. This is all coming from someone who is a Polin fan desperately hoping their season gives me the growth and story I desire while dreading what I think is actually in store for them so miss me with the “hater” bs I can already sense coming.

[browneyesandhair]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Bridgerton (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington Characters: Colin Bridgerton, Penelope Featherington, Eloise Bridgerton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, no beta we die like all the dads in canon Summary: Technically, the movie was right up Penelope’s alley. But at the same time, it was not at all what she would usually do. On the one hand, it was a comedy, and it was challenging. On the other hand, it was an animation (which was not exactly her thing), she literally only had a week to record it (and add a song on top of it). Ugh - this was going to be a whole thing.

[koriginaladdict]

Am i the only Polin fan who

Does NOT want

Bridgerton season 3 to be their season?

The books have a set logic to them, each one teasing the next relationship, and of all ships polin are the ones who depend on previous events /books/seasons the most, because their story is about growth and developpment through 12 years / 3 books

First let's discuss: what changed?

Books:

Colin is more formal with Penelope (doesn't use pen)

he's pushed to dance with her by his mother, and he did it out of pity

*although colin is an extremely unreliable narrator when it comes to his feelings towards pen*

No marina issue (that I'm aware of) Pen did less damage as LWD

Speaking of which it is colin who discovers her secret on book 4

and most importantly the "I won't marry penelope" happened during Benedict's book 5 years after the series start

But what lead to it? Well during the mascarade ball violet asked benedict to dance with pen, but after the latter saw sophie he went straight to her...

Guess who danced with penelope ? Starts with C and ends with olin

And since then violet kept pushing the idea of marrying penelope to colin for months, even him travelling during that time (to the wales) hasn't stopped her

And once he complained about that to his brothers and they started teasing him, we got the infamous "i will not marry penelope"

Romancing Mr Bridgerton happens 7 years after that

Show:

their relationship is much closer, the directing/acting is VERY warm on colin's side and I do not think it is a coincidence...

remember the "colin was in denial"? We can't exactly transfer words/thoughts into video, just like books didn't focus on his expressions all through their 12 years, at least not without giving away his side of things too early,

and so the showrunners chose to do just that... colin may say one thing but his demanour says another entirely

The context of the "not in your wildest fantacies" is much different, it's less safe, less intimate, within family that means well and genuinely respect penelope , more mocking and although i do not think colin realised at the moment how awful the situation was, like he says a lot of things without realising how they hurt pen...

it can be the exact reason it's done, to push colin to actually think of how others feel and how his words/actions , to be considerate and give back to penelope

Pen did a lot of damage as LWD to the Bridgertons, to Marina (that backfiring against her own family), even though she didn't mean to hurt them or did so to protect those she loved most: colin and eloise

Eloise knows the secret 2 seasons ahead of the book's timeline

Conclusion

So even though the mascarade ball / benedict's story as an indirect catalyst for the Polin conflict/resolution is no longer needed...

we still have too much conflict to resolve and more importantly too much character development to be done to fully delve into the polin season

And unlike polin/colin, Benedict's storyline is well developped and is in a very good path for sophie's entrance and the influence she'd have on benedict's art pursuits

I, as a polin stan, am very eager for their season, however, it would be a complete disservice to them if it happened too soon

Let's not forget how other shows *cough* Game of Thrones *cough* ended up by rushing storylines that could have spanned through 13 seasons into 8 , and how that ended...

So... bottom line is, the Polin storyline needs way more than just 8 episodes to have a fulfilling pay off

And to the people claiming "pOlIn DoNt HaVe EnOuGh MatErIaL for 2 seasons" let me remind you that polin is the only relationship that was built up and hinted at for 3 books before the 4th was the conclusion... there is more than enough to tell

And actually polin/peneloise as secondary conflict within Benedict's romance is more logical, let's not forget sophie disappears for 2 years and that absence needs to be felt

What better way than to cut a bit of screen time in that period just enough to resolve penelope's story

So in conclusion

Polin is the slowest of slow burns (12 years) we can wait for another 2-3 years

Bridgerton season 3 should be about Benedict's story

[constitutionalweasleymonarchy]

Emerging from my hibernation to make a post connecting Bridgerton meta with HP meta that absolutely nobody asked for.

There’s a quote going around Twitter attributed to one of the Bridgerton execs from an interview about S3, suggesting that Colin might not be the right person for Penelope because he might not be a match for her intelligence.

I realize the point is to hype up the drama and “will they/ won’t they?” for what we know already is an endgame ship. But it’s so messed up and the same horrible attitude that we know all too well from anti-Romione discourse.

“He’s not clever enough for her” is, in both scenarios, a total misreading and bad adaptation of the canon character, obviously, and to say either Ron or Colin are lacking in wits is just frankly incorrect.

…But let’s assume for a moment that it were true.

This attitude is so revealing of the fact that we as a society still do NOT like women to be more intelligent, ambitious, or successful than their male romantic partners. We like strong women but get squirmy when they’re perceived as *more*, somehow, than the man they love. At least when it comes to traits that we equate to some kind of power.

She can be clever or successful, but he’s got to be her equal (or better?) He can’t be less. And that isn’t exactly a feminist take, imo. And I don’t see these arguments being made when the dynamic is reversed.

[meta-morphases]

“Why not Lumley, or Stirling, or hell, even Benedict! Is it just that you must save her? Is Portia right, are you only interested in being a hero? Why, Colin? If I’m going to help you make this happen against all odds, I need to know why you must marry her, or why she has to marry you.” PFFFFTTT 💀💀

This line was fucking AMAZING LMAOOOOOO. And I love how it was Anthony giving him hell out of all people (he did it for us 😭).

YOU’RE AN INSANELY GOOD WRITER. If I could just frame this chapter and have it on my wall I would. Cause holy crap that was perfect. I need this kind of desperation from Colin in S3 or I will riot.

But I wonder how Benedict would have reacted hearing Anthony say that? Or how he would react to Colin being so disgusted at the mention of Penelope mention him? Hahah the thought kills me. What do you think?

- @productofbridgerton

You are so sweet, thank you for this lovely message!

When I wrote that scene, and especially that little speech from Anthony, I essentially wanted Ant to be pestering him so hardcore with question after question after question that Colin finally explodes with the truth. And this whole story has Colin’s desperation as a theme. I imagine in S3 he’ll get damn close to losing her (not Grucy levels of close, but I imagine there will at least be a proposal Colin has to contend with) and that’s when the desperation will kick in, as well as some if not all of Bridgertons being like “!!!!!!?!??? GO GET HER DUMMY”

As far as how Ben would react? I kind of see one of a few options. Either he would react much like in the book and be polite but clear that he has no intentions towards Penelope.

Or he would actually be Good-Big-Brother Ben and nudge Colin as gently as possible towards the Vegas-style huge fucking neon sign that says COLIN LOVES PEN and be like, “Gee, Colin, what’s that sign say?”

OR, if he really feels like taking the piss, he’d be all, “Well, actually, Ant, now that you mention it… why not Benedict? 👀” just to see Colin fly even further off the handle.

I’m glad you’re enjoying my little story! It makes me so happy to see people engaging with it.

- Meta. 💜

[liminalminds]

Okay gang, i know i haven’t been posting for a while but i am OBSESSED with how well Easy on Me by Adele works for Show!Polin, but also Penelope’s arc as a whole and even her relationship with El. So much i’mma break it down;

There ain't no gold in this river

That I've been washin' my hands in forever

I know there is hope in these waters

But I can't bring myself to swim

When I am drowning in this silence

Baby, let me in

Okay so first things first- LITERALLY no gold, like the Featheringtons are always struggling to stay part of the Ton, but Pen is like…extremely alone. She doesn’t have Felicity, she seems to have nobody but El and LBR that friendship was a little wonky from the beginning, and she certainly doesn’t have El at the end of season 2. I think this one is pretty self-explanatory tbh but like when Pen isn’t being picked on, how often do people actually talk to her? Not at her, but with her? I don’t actually know tbh, I’m willing to bet not a whole lot.

Go easy on me, baby

I was still a child

Didn't get the chance to

Feel the world around me

I had no time to choose

What I chose to do

So go easy on me

I MEAN COME ON DOESN’T THIS READ LIKE PEN BEGGING FORGIVENESS FOR THE MARINA SITUATION OR WHAT. I mean whatever you think of her actions she joined the Ton as a sheltered CHILD, and I don’t want to hear that she didn’t try because she did what she knew how and teenagers make mistakes and she’s already been punished enough- but that aside, she’s literally begging for him (or El, or Ton as a whole) to go easy on her, to recognise that she felt backed into a corner and that she was a stupid kid and kids make mistakes.

There ain't no room for things to change

When we are both so deeply stuck in our ways

You can't deny how hard I have tried

I changed who I was to put you both first

But now I give up

I think Col, Pen and El are some of the most stubborn creatures I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching lol I love them. Col and El are Bridgertons so of course they’re stubborn as mules, but it feels to me like Pen needs to be stubborn because that’s how she sticks up for herself, and she knows that she has to stand by the choices she makes for better or worse because nobody else will stand by her. Obviously not a healthy mindset, but hey that’s what GROWTH is for, baby.

And you can’t convince me that Pen has tried so hard for both Col and El- she tries her hardest to impress Colin constantly, to catch his eye, and the second El mentioned she disagreed with Whistledown she changed her whole style just to get El to like her again. TELL ME THAT ISNT TRYING- YOU CAN’T.

And whether her actions were right or not she definitely put them both first several times, ahead of herself and her own family. And Pen has to stop doing that, both for her own sake and because, well, it’s clearly not working in her favour lol. It’s like every time she tries she messes it up further and she’s beginning to accept that.

Go easy on me, baby

I was still a child

Didn't get the chance to

Feel the world around me

Had no time to choose

What I chose to do

So go easy on me

This is the same as the last chorus, but I think the tone changes because of the verses it’s sandwiched between. It’s less of a plea and more a request, it feels less desperate as she’s reaching peak honesty.

I had good intentions

And the highest hopes

But I know right now

That probably doesn't even show

And WHOOMP, HERE IT IS. The acknowledgment that even if her intentions were purely golden (or even mostly), that intention doesn’t equal impact. This would be Pen at the moment she realises that actually she has done a lot wrong, even if she believes it’s for the right reasons the impact it has had isn’t up to her, and she leads into the last chorus with this understanding.

Go easy on me, baby

I was still a child

I didn't get the chance to

Feel the world around me

I had no time to choose

What I chose to do

So go easy on me

And this final chorus isn’t about forgiveness, it’s about acceptance. Be angry with her, rage at her, but go easy on her. Don’t assume she’s a heartless villain or insipid wallflower, because it’s not just black and white. If you want to be upset with her, if you want to hate her, then fine- Pen accepts the good and bad parts of herself, and all the things she’s insecure about, and is saying to HERSELF to “go easy on me.”

Anyway if u want me I'm crying abt Stranger Things atm lol luv u all xoxo

[themysteriousphoenix]

Ten First Lines

Rules: Share the first lines of ten of your fanfics and tag ten people. If you’ve written fewer than 10 fics, don’t be shy and share anyway. If you’re an artist or meta-writer, feel free to find a way to participate if you’d like. :)

Thank you to @uefb and @scamanderishredmayniac for the tags!

1. Touch, pt. 2 (Newtina)

“You’re so excited about this, aren’t you?”

2. Touch, pt. 1 (Newtina)

“What– Tina?”

3. What Love Is... (Newtina)

Newt Scamander wasn’t a man who had a lot of experience with love.

4. Love is Blind (Polin WIP)

Melody Palmer was a good friend, a wonderful co-worker, and entertaining to follow on social media.

5. A Little Drop of Blood (Polin)

Anger.

6. The Letter (Polin)

Penelope opened the door to Colin’s bedroom, their bedroom, closing it with a soft click behind her.

7. More Than Enough (Newtina WIP)

“What is that?”

8. Satisfaction (Strellacott) - Rated E

Robin hunched down further under her nondescript black umbrella and twisted the handle of the painted black door, shoving it open with her shoulder.

9. Dawn Breaks (Polin)

The first rays of morning light began to light the room and, unused to the dawn breaking through the curtains that she must have forgotten to close last night, Penelope blinked awake.

10. Letters From the Past (Newtina)

Newt climbed the ladder of his old, beaten case, a stack of yellowed correspondence in hand.

I tag... @hidetheteaspoons @silvertonedwords @bluelikeajay @albinokittens300 @blahdiblahdiblah1987 @elisha-am @kemara24 @eveneechan @katisfania @mythrielofsolitude @ravenish-huffnpuff

[sithrya]

I wonder if Br/dgerton book fans are going to say that Eloise is selfish if she runs away from the Polin wedding for Phillip. 

Don’t bother, we already know the answer to that lol. 

Instead of writing asinine meta that is just thinly veiled anti-eloise, anti-theloise bs, just admit that you hate that Eloise isn’t submitting to the idea of being a stay-at-home housewife, and that you desperately want to paint her as cruel so that r4pist Phillip is the one to settle her. 

[dollypopup]

colin should 'suffer' for penelope

aka: 5 short reasons why wanting colin to 'suffer' or 'grovel' or whatever other bullshit this fandom keeps pulling is stupid and makes no sense and should have been buried ages ago, how is this still a thing?

1: it sets a terrible and unhealthy dynamic between an endgame couple

especially considering Polin's motif is that of a mirror, if Colin is expected to grovel or suffer for Penelope's affection and forgiveness, it only stands to reason that Penelope then, too, would have to reciprocate. how Penelope treats Colin's ills is setting the precedent for how he's expected to handle her own against him, of which there are many. giving him the cold shoulder, holding what he said over his head and rubbing it in his face, potentially not even explaining why she's upset at him: these are not signs of a mature woman ready for a marriage to ANYONE

2: Colin's slights against Penelope are considerably less harmful than Penelope's against Colin's and it makes no narrative sense for her to be on her high horse about it

'he ruined her prospects' 'he talked about her behind her back' 'he laughed at her' (we don't even know if that one's true, frankly speaking)

but Penelope did the exact same to him and she did so first. Please remember that Penelope is the reason Colin and Marina broke up, and it was her express goal the entire time. Penelope humiliated Colin and Marina both by exposing them publicly (not to mention rubbed the salt into the wound for days afterward). Penelope didn't even think about Colin's feelings because she tried to confess her crush on him immediately after his engagement went poof. Penelope holding Colin accountable for what he said without herself recognizing the ways in which she's hurt him, too, makes her out to be a hella hypocrite

3: it's weirdly catholic on main?

love isn't about suffering points or penance or guilt and i'm tired of Christianity pervading every damn thing. sorry not sorry, some of us want an actually fulfilling love story

4: y'all are just mad Colin didn't love Penelope back from jump and it's a revenge fantasy

which, fine, that's what fanfic is for, but it's OOC, y'all are aware of that, right? because if he DID want her from the start, we all know that it wouldn't be Polin? why are you shipping a friends to lovers ship if you INSIST that the friends to lovers dynamic is less than? guess what? unreciprocated love is kind of part of the deal. you don't hold a grudge against your friend for not loving you back immediately. Colin shows he cares about Penelope in SO MANY WAYS that somehow are completely invalidated because it isn't meant to be romantic? imma say it: fuck you if you think that way. friendships are important and beautiful and deep and fulfilling with or without romance. Colin sticking his neck out for Penelope to help her family from Jack's scheme? an act of love. Colin sending Penelope letters after her father passed? act of love. Colin telling Penelope she's 'really very good' and holding her hand in appreciation of her coming to talk to him? act of love. if you think those acts of love mean nothing just because he isn't fucking her seven ways to sunday, maybe analyze your own viewpoint of relationships and ship Pen w/ some random stranger who makes heart eyes at her tits from jump

5: it makes Penelope an asshole to her own long term partner

dude, if a friend of mine insisted I crawl on hands and knees to determine whether they want me back in their lives, i don't want to be around that person? so many of these narratives make Penelope a straight up terrible person. if you want your partner to suffer? you probably don't actually like them very much, but Polin is narratively MEANT to be the couple that likes AND loves one another. be real, if your friend ghosted you for months, gave you the cold shoulder when you tried to talk again, treated you like shit (you can't argue that him 'suffering' isn't treating him like shit in some way shape or form) as you tried to apologize, and then you find out that she was the reason you and your ex broke up and she wrote straight up nasty things about your family for YEARS, you would want absolutely nothing to do with that friend. why should Colin be expected to be any different? do these two not deserve a lovely love story built on love and affection and trust and honesty? a healthy happy relationship in which they see one another and appreciate one another for all they are? no? so why do you ship them?

+1: it's oversaturated in this fandom

polin is a fantastic ship. how is THIS their main trope?

find a new fucking idea, PLEASE

[entrepalabrasmx]

Apuesta Guanajuato por eventos sostenibles

La sostenibilidad turística busca el fortalecimiento del sector turismo de Guanajuato a nivel nacional e internacional, con la integración de criterios ambientales, sociales, económicos y tecnológicos

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Para ello se creó el “Distintivo Guanajuato Turismo Sostenible” que se conforma de 4 Insignias de Turismo Sostenible, tomando en cuenta el “Evento Acción”, “Evento Transformación”, “Evento Impacto Sostenible” y “Evento Carbono Neutral.

Esta herramienta tiene el objetivo de transformar los eventos convencionales (MICE, Empresariales, Deportivos, Gastronómicos y Culturales) en eventos responsables de alta calidad, generando beneficios ambientales, sociales y económicos a sus clientes, al destino y a la comunidad receptora.

Esta acción fue presentada durante el “Programa de Desarrollo, Competitividad y Sustentabilidad”, replanteamiento de la estrategia turística que reconstruirá un turismo que sepa aprovechar los recursos, hacer uso de la innovación y la inteligencia turística, valiéndose del renovado interés en la sostenibilidad para forjar un sector actualizado inclusivo y resiliente.

Dicho Distintivo será operado por un Comité Evaluador integrado por Juan José Álvarez Brunel, secretario de Turismo del Estado de Guanajuato, en función de presidente; Miriam Cecilia Adame Alcaraz, directora de Inteligencia Turística de la SECTUR, en función de coordinadora ejecutiva; Karla Thalía Méndez Álvarez, gestora del Modelo de Sustentabilidad, en función de secretaria técnica.

Dicho comité cuenta con la participación de actores del sector, entre los que se encuentran Guadalupe Robles León, Subsecretaria de Promoción Turística; Javier Valverde Polin, Director General de Desarrollo Turístico; y 6 representantes de la industria turística privada: Juan Manuel Rendón López, Denis Rizo Enríquez, Yuriko López Macías, Salvador de Anda Guzmán, Lilian Sánchez Romero y Susana Ojeda Orranti; el comité también contará con un representante del Consejo Consultivo Turístico del estado de Guanajuato (COTUEG) en calidad de invitado especial.

Este comité otorgará transparencia y solidez al proceso de obtención del Distintivo Guanajuato Turismo Sostenible para Eventos, será el responsable del proceso de evaluación para acreditar implementación de buenas prácticas en eventos candidatos, y dará concordancia a los estándares del Distintivo.

“El Distintivo Guanajuato Turismo Sostenible para Eventos es una herramienta que permitirá transformar los eventos turísticos que se realizan en nuestro estado, orientando al personal responsable su organización sobre el proceso de integración de la sustentabilidad en los eventos, de modo que puedan identificar los posibles impactos y las medidas a aplicar para minimizarlos o evitarlos”, subrayó Juan José Álvarez Brunel.

“Además, establecerá una comunicación efectiva de estas acciones con los asistentes; todo esto sin descuidar la calidad y el objetivo esencial del evento, lo cual suma a la maximización de oportunidades y beneficios para los organizadores, participantes, proveedores, patrocinadores y la comunidad local”, añadió el secretario de Turismo.

El primer evento en participar en el Distintivo fue VINUM, el cual se encuentra en proceso de obtención del Distintivo.

El proceso para obtener el distintivo es el siguiente: Registro en plataforma https://aulavirtualsectur.guanajuato.gob.mx/login/?lang=es_mx, envío de la ficha técnica del evento, capacitación online, descarga de estándares, selección de buenas prácticas a ejecutar mediante un “checklist”, evaluación del Mystery, envío de testigos de las prácticas implementadas, evaluación del comité y dictamen del comité en insignia de acuerdo con el nivel de certificación.

En el estado de Guanajuato “tenemos la meta de transformar al turismo en el pilar del crecimiento económico, el desarrollo inclusivo y la sostenibilidad del patrimonio cultural y ambiental del estado”, apuntó el secretario de Turismo.

La sostenibilidad turística busca el fortalecimiento del sector turismo de Guanajuato a nivel nacional e internacional con la integración de criterios ambientales, sociales, económicos y tecnológicos, y eso es precisamente lo que el Distintivo Guanajuato Turismo Sostenible ayudará a lograr, en este caso, en los eventos de manera específica.

[irlcaosdemon]

Hey I just wanted to come say that I loved your thoughts on Polin and what they need to grow as characters! Quite a lovely meta!

Thank you ☺️ I had fun and I will probably write much more analysis when S3 eventually comes out

[jackpotgirl]

I feel like we are all sleeping on this...

Gif by @daily-polin​ - please find the original post here.

“If Penelope can see me this way, then surely I can too.”

This is such an important quote, I think. Colin has spent his time away generating his self-worth from the way Pen sees him, from how she encourages him. He sees himself because she sees him.

Now yes, at this point in the story this is deeply cynical because:

Colin only takes from Penelope in this scenario. While he tries (in his way) to give back and tell her that she means a lot to him too, however stupidly he puts it (”You do not count”), he appreciates her for what she can do for him (loyal, constant, encouraging, “You care for me, you won’t forsake me”). He is self-centered in the way he regards her. This is also not to say he doesn’t care about her or her thoughts at all - he does make constant efforts to ask about her as well and he is very in tune with her moods and perceptive when they change.

But the point remains: Penelope’s impact in his own life has more to do with what she can do for him, rather than who she is as a person.

But then this quote holds the world when we are looking into the future. Because it shows that Colin not only generates his own worth from what he means to her, he also DEFINES himself through what she gives him. Going forward, knowing what Pen now knows after overhearing him at the ball, her opinion of him will likely sour. She will withhold the admiration and the encouragement. She WILL forsake him in some way and that will shake Colin to his core.

Because the moment this constant re-affirmation of his own (unsteady) self-worth and even to an extent his entire sense of self will be called into question now that the one person who ever really treated him like a full, promising human (not the eternal little brother, who is green and romantic and annoying about his travels, which meant a lot to him, and altogether aimless in life) will not look at him or treat him like that anymore, he will spiral. 

Through this (and maybe, as I predict the addition of another suitor for Penelope in whatever shape or form), he will recognise what Penelope really means to him. And while she won’t celebrate him in all his facets but will explore herself more, stand up for herself, do her own thing, he will come to see her separate from himself. He will finally have to SEE her as her own person. And I do believe that’s when everything will click into place for him.

He will realise what her wits meant, her steadfastness, her resilience and hope and ambitions, her humour, everything that makes Pen Pen that has nothing to do with him. And he will understand that he built way more of himself on and around her than he previously realised. He will understand that he 1) has to build himself up too and mature enough to be his own person and 2) that he needs to work to be worthy of her. He can’t take her for granted anymore.

“You don’t know what you got till it’s gone” will be Colin’s thing next season (wether it is theirs or not, though I do not see how the writers wouldn’t take this exact dynamic right now as the perfect starting point for their season because conflict = story). Penelope will be learning how to be herself because she doesn’t revolve around Colin anymore but Colin will realise that so much of him was already her. 

And I personally can not wait to see that unfold!