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Got this comment today, and felt tickled enough to post it 🤭

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This hit hard because I've been a fan of mcr since I was 14, more than half my life. So to me Bob was always the My Chem drummer. Plus, reading the details of how he was found and that he was last seen alive November 4th was especially triggering. What an awful and lonely end.

People are complex beings. We all fuck up and make weird, regrettable choices. I love many people I don't always agree with. I've even love certain family members even though they were abusive to me and others (love, but I don't excuse or accept that abuse. Boundaries).

No one's life is black or white, and Bob was so painfully young. He had a lot of time yet to grow and change. I really wanted him to reach that point of bettering himself, and now he won't.

He will always be a member of a group that was so formative to me as a young person. I only knew him through a screen, through interviews and music videos and behind the scenes footage, giving tidbits to my friends as a kid like, hey did you know he lived with Patrick Stump once?? Or that he really got severely burned during FLW?

So I'm gonna take a minute and just be sad. Sad for another life unecessarily lost. Sad for Bob Bryar, and all that he was and could have been. It's okay to be upset about this, even if you feel conflicted. It's okay to be sad.

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The Hunger Games AU (complete) ♡

Book 1: The Hanging Tree

Book 2: Start a Craze

Book 3: Everything Will Burn

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From the ages of 12 to 18, two children are randomly selected from each of the twelve Districts, and taken to the Capitol - where they must fight to the death in an arena against twenty-two other tributes, and each other.

Penelope and Colin are selected as the tributes for District 10 in the 74th annual Hunger Games.

Only one can win and return home alive.

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Gonna start just throwing out some fic ideas I may never write (but I reserve the right to change my mind...)

Howl's Moving Castle AU: Obviously Pen is Sophie and Colin is Howl

Telepathy fic where one day Colin wakes up and is able to read everyone's thoughts but unable to discern which belongs to who... and he keeps hearing someone who's thoughts are all about how much they love him unrequitedly- but who could it be????

Edmund is alive and he is prepuscent Penelope's First Second Crush™️ and Colin realises it and gets pissy/jealous

Colin loses his memory, but when he sees Pen - even though he doesn't know her - it's love at first sight and he keeps trying to court her and she is flustered

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Chapter 10 of Everything Will Burn is up ❤️

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I may have been writing a lil A/B/O polin fic in my free time... 😳

Love to the Highest Bidder (ao3)

colin/penelope ● rated e ● 2k~ words ● (1/2)

The bi-annual Omega Auction is upon us and taking place in Mayfair this week, dear readers! All eligible debutants may enter once again for the chance at ensnaring an Alpha mate.

Perhaps this year, even a perpetual wallflower such as Miss Penelope Featherington will be able to secure a proposal...

❤️❤️❤️

ps. unrelated, but ya'll are not ready for tomorrow's chapter EDIT, I mean, you're not ready for chapter 10 of everything will burn ❤️‍🔥

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The Hanging Tree

(24/24) • rated M • 28k~ words

Penelope and Colin are selected as the tributes for District 10. At only 16 and only 17 years old, they are taken from the life they know and brought to the Capital - where they must fight to the death against twenty-two other tributes, and each other. Only one of them can win and return home.

(Anthony is their mentor, and Kate and Edwina are their Capital stylists)

OMG IT'S DONE!

This the longest wip I've ever managed to finish. Thank you so much to everyone that has read and supported this story! ♡ All the commenters and kudos givers really mean the world to me 💘

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I had a dream about Anthony walking Penelope down the aisle and presenting her to Colin 🥺❤️

"Lord Bridgerton, I would like to ask you something... As you know, my father is gone. I have no male relatives beside my brothers-by-law - and you can refuse, of course! But... I would be very honoured if you would walk me down the aisle..."

cue Anthony internally crying

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OK I'm not insane for this... or I might be... but did Pen and Colin’s first kiss not have this energy:

AND ALSO this energy:

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I have been cackling over this.

(credits in the video)

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The Hanging Tree (rate m, 7k~)

forgot to post about this here, but I've been writing this polin hunger games au (wip) because I've lost control of my life

The air suddenly felt tense, and everyone stopped eating. “So, if either of you have any hidden skills or talents, now would be the time to disclose them.”

For a moment, neither said anything. Colin didn't know if he could. It felt wrong to talk up his skills when he and Penelope would soon be in the arena trying to kill each other.

“Colin is excellent at fencing,” Penelope offered quietly after a moment. Anthony nodded, and Cressida and the two Sharma sisters leaned in as well. “He and his brothers are also good at hand-to-hand. I've seen it. He's fast. He's athletic.” She looked down at herself, blushing furiously. “And I…”

“Penelope is very clever,” Colin supplied quickly. “She's the smartest girl at our school, well, she as well as our sister Eloise are. She's good at botany, and making clothes –”

Penelope looked at him with a frown, scoffing. “My cleverness and skills with a sewing needle won't help me win the Games, Colin.”

“You'll be able to identify poisonous plants,” Colin argued, and felt frustrated when she shook her head. He didn't know why, but he just couldn't stand her doubting herself. “You can use your sewing skills to create shelter and clothes, and survive –”

She set her glass down heavily, her cutlery clattering. “Survive? To what end?” She was angry, her eyes holding his gaze. “Why should I survive to live and hide in that hellscape for weeks, only to be butchered off near the end?” Anthony looked shrewdly between the two of them.

“You could survive,” Colin said, his jaw clenched, “and win.”

Penelope outright laughed at that. “Me? Win the Games? That is never going to happen, that – Colin, everyone here,” she gestured to Anthony and Kate and Edwina and Cressida, “All of them know that I have no chance of winning. None.”

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Polin Hunger Games AU

drabble • my brain wouldn't let the idea go...

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The lights on her face were bright. Colin watched on the screen as Penelope wrung her hands. Her firey, fitted dress cascaded beautifully as she sat down, sparkling in the lights. Her curls were carefully styled and framed her face. She looked stunning, and her easy, deprecating humour with Caesar was quickly making her a crowd favourite. Even so, in her eyes Colin could see that Penelope felt just as uncomfortable and out of place as he did.

"Now, Penelope," Caesar said, leaning forward. "Tell me, is there someone special waiting for you back home? A certain beau, perhaps?"

Penelope blinked at him, flustered. "Oh, n-no..." She laughed awkwardly. Her eyes darted toward the screen and to the side of the stage. "I mean, not... not really..."

"No?" Caesar looked amused and grinned, like a shark circling his prey. "I don't believe it for a second! Look at that face, huh!" The crowd cheered and wooed. "A gorgeous girl like you, Penelope. Come now, you can tell me!"

"Well, um." She bit her lip and her lashes fluttered. A curl fell into Penelope's face and she tucked it behind her ear. She looked so soft and beautiful, and Colin was sure the audience had already fallen in love with her. When Penelope looked up she stared straight into the camera, and Colin could almost pretend as though Penelope were looking at him directly. "I suppose... there is someone."

"Oh?"

"This boy who I've..." She ducked her head again, trying to hide her blushing face. "Well. I've had feelings for him for quite some time..." She smiled wryly to herself. "But I don't think he's ever really noticed me. Not until the day of the reaping..."

The crowd awwed and Caesar shook his head. "Oh, now that's a shame." He set his cards aside and reached for her hand. "But I'll tell you what, Penelope. If you go into the arena, and you win this whole thing? Once you get home, he'd be crazy not to go out with you! Right everyone?"

The crowd cheered uproariously.

"Thank you, but... I don't think winning would help me at all."

"And why is that?"

"Because," she paused and swallowed, then lifted her chin as her eyes cut to the side of the stage. "He came here with me."

The audience fell into a horrified hush. Colin’s eyes widened in shock, his heart thudded painfully in his chest. He felt the stares of the other tributes around him, watching for his reaction. Anthony narrowed his eyes at him and the screen as he pulled out his flask and took a swig.

His mind raced, why would Penelope say that? Why would she lie?

"Well..." Caesae squeezed her hand, his grip looked almost bruising. "That certainly is a shame."

Penelope looked down. "Yes. It is."

"In any case, we here wish you all the best. Penelope Featherington, everybody!"

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haha here ya go:

Penelope... I don't know what you see in this "Colin".

But to break your heart? He is no man.

You don't deserve such a toxic relationship, but a romance like a story.

Like the one I can offer you.

You deserve a real man. One that dedicates every episode to every season of your life.

¡PENELOPEEEEEEEE!

Someone like me.

What do you say to that, Penelope? Will you be with me?

I am your Colin.

https://x.com/tamannuhh/status/1788661163640631502

This is so funny and I can only understand part of what he's saying bc I'm not fluent in Spanish 😭🤣

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I keep thinking, while Eloise and Cressida hang and Eloise tries to joke with her on her level - what if Cressida says something mean about Pen. Eloise might awkwardly laugh along at first but feel uncomfortable.

Like yeah, on the one hand she's still pissed, but on the other, Penelope has been her best friend for years. I think Eloise would have a knee-jerk reaction to defend her, and if Cressida says something particularly nasty Eloise might really snap at her...

idk just musing!

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debling to colin:

people been fighting for their life over debling being good for penelope and that man just wants a bangmaid

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made somethin silly after watching mulan the 50 billionth time

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PENELOPE FEATHERINGTON and COLIN BRIDGERTON — 3x02: How Bright the Moon