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You find a tiny Polin family of bugs living in your home, and your kind gesture becomes complicated. Few biscuits start such radical change in a person's life.
With a fond nod to "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff and inspired by the Valentine's Day art by rottentiger: https://www.tumblr.com/rottentiger-art/808822559898484736/people-taking-me-to-court-over-this-despite-this?source=share
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- Part 10 of Nonhuman Polin AUs
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Anthony was leaning a hand on his wife’s chair, looking down at Kate. He shook his head. “If it’s to do with food, you won’t get over it,” he said. “Tell us.”
Kate sighed. “Whatever is making you unhappy, Penelope would want to know. The cook is a professional. I am sure it can be addressed kindly. You are not a difficult person.”
Colin put his plate of failed biscuits on the desk. “The biscuits are cut smaller,” he said. “They are just the same, but tiny. I feel I can put them in my purse with my coins and they would rattle around in there. I feel it is much the same eating them. One of them is nothing. I have to eat for ages and even I get bored after a while. I could balance one on my thumb. I thought it might be some fashionable thing people are doing?”
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- Part 25 of Decidedly Married
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Papa Versus Birdman: The Collected Plays of Elliot Bridgerton by nonky
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
18 Feb 2026
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The puppets were a favourite toy soon, for both Colin and Elliot. Her curiosity made it hard not to listen at the door, but she trusted them to be as lovely without her supervision as they were in the room. So it was not out of hand to welcome Violet into the house and walk her to the nursery to see both of the men of the house. Penelope truly did not want to interrupt a good game, but she knew Elliot loved his grandmother.
“No! OH NO! Mama will be crushed! She has nowhere to run! There is only the lake, and her skirts are in the way,” Colin cried out, his faked panic rather shrill.
Penelope paused with her hand on the door, wrinkling her nose. She was certain she had requested adventures that would not upset her little boy. She didn’t think he would enjoy any game where he watched a little doll of her get crushed. She waited to hear a little more, because the puppet games took hours some days. Colin was a talented storyteller.
“The puppets are acting out a little world for Elliot,” she whispered. “I am not sure what my puppet has done to deserve being the victim of a horrible accident.”
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- Part 24 of Decidedly Married
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On a season 3 rewatch, it's obvious Lord Holley is skulking around looking for gossip. We know Colin's position on Lady Whistledown, but what would he make of another expert gossip weighing in on his romance? Set in a non-canon season 4-5 time frame.
It was possible the man was not familiar with children. Some men simply did not take an interest. Perhaps he looked at Elliot and had no idea he was bigger than a newborn. Colin knew every date of importance in his son’s life, but he did not expect others to recall his birthday.
Holley looked baffled, and tapped at his lips with a handkerchief. “Ah, but have you not been married these past two years, sir?”
They had invited this man to their engagement party. He had been at the wedding. Colin didn’t want to be unkind to a man clearly showing signs his memory was failing him, but it smacked of disrespect to include him and have him not even know what he was doing there. It felt rather abusive to bring this poor man out of his comforts and away from the caregivers who protected him in his infirmity. He had been old when Colin had first met him, but he didn’t think this concern had been mentioned directly.
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- Part 23 of Decidedly Married
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Simon chuckled, and rubbed her neck under her hair. “I think Colin grew up in a house run by a strong woman raising strong women. He’s terrified of disappointing any woman. Now connect that to the way Penelope looks at him when he’s freshly back from his work trips. He’s trying to be a level of sure that might not exist outside a wedding,” he said. “Though he might have skipped to the wedding. Is she wearing the incredibly expensive necklace that normally doesn’t leave the bank?”
Daphne gasped and zoomed in on the image. “He always says he wants her to have the best of everything,” she said. “He used to hate her building until he ended up living there for a month, and now he has Anthony plotting to buy it for renovations.”
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- Part 19 of In the Throes Modern Polin (Pink Sunglasses)
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A modern AU in London, where friends Colin and Penelope find themselves almost living together more often then they do apart. Recently updated to only include the canon of one specific AU that started with "Truth in the Throws." Since this one grew a plot unexpectedly, I'll list the stories in chronological order, with the caveat that some chapters do have flashbacks framed within the 'now' of the story.
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A slow-burn canon twist starting from the first time Colin notices Debling noticing Penelope, setting off a lot of feelings he realizes were always trying to dig their way out of his denial. Pen is courting with the eye to marry well and keep her career, Colin is in love so big it is only dwarfed by the accompanying trouble, and Debling is not the only rival suitor. Lots of inclusion of Featherington and Bridgerton family members as the spectacle becomes a debacle with the goal of a wedding. WIP, not always that serious, and sometimes smutty/angsty.
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Love Is Make Believe by preferringsleep (mellarkey)
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Jan 2025
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Penelope isn’t a high-priced escort like her friend, Genevieve. But when presented with an opportunity to earn some money just to keep a client’s friend entertained, she thought, “Why not live a little?” Genevieve promised Penelope that it was just dinner and drinks for her, no sex.
So what happens when she meets her date and discovers that he is sweet, gorgeous, and wants her for the night? How could she say no? Emboldened by this new persona of hers and his attraction to her, Penelope doesn’t want to.
Bookmarked by nonky
22 Feb 2026
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A Request for a Gentleman by kat2050
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 Feb 2026
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At Penelope's 30th Birthday celebration at Aubrey Hall, some unexpected news throws her for a loop. This causes her to divulge her greatest wish to the man she trusts most, leading to a conversation that ends up changing both of their lives.
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“And you are going to start a fire on the carpet with your frantic pacing. What is wrong?”
There was a plan, she had a plan, exact, nice words that were carefully chosen to save embarrassment if it came to it. Such a pity it was when they were completely abandoned when she looked up and straight into his stormy blue eyes, blurting out exactly the thing that had been swirling around her mind all night.
“I wish to be a mother, and I wish for you to help me”
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22 Feb 2026
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Twenty-one years of marriage and four children later, Colin and Penelope Bridgerton thought they’d seen it all. But when a mysterious receipt leads Colin to George’s bedroom, he discovers a world he doesn't understand: streaming. Behind the closed door of the "quiet" youngest child lies a secret digital empire.
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19 Feb 2026
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Press Release Pending by Anonymous
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Feb 2026
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It started six months ago, that fateful check-up where Dr. Blandforth, with his kindly spectacles and zero bedside flirtation, dropped the bomb.
“Penelope,” he said, peering at my chart like it was a death warrant, “your ovaries are on the fritz. Not catastrophic, but if motherhood's on the cards, we'd best shuffle the deck now. Shop’s closing early!”
Me? A mum? The woman who once set her kitchen ablaze trying to microwave a ready meal? But oh, the ache for it hits harder than a hangover after too many G&Ts at a book launch. I want the tiny socks, the midnight feeds, the chaos of finger paints on the walls. Sod the rom-com ending.
__Or Peneleope is done waiting for her fairy tale ending so she embarks on motherhood alone just as two men from her past come back into the picture.
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Bookmarked by nonky
19 Feb 2026
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"Will you two — can you behave tonight?" Eloise says, exasperation in her voice and her nose scrunched up.
Colin wears an innocent face. "I can't think what you mean. Penis and I always behave."
"I swear to God —" Penelope hisses, plonking the wine down hard on the counter. "You both have to stop with that —"
"I mean it!" Eloise exclaims as she goes over to the large bowl of salad on the side and begins to toss it aggressively. "None of your usual Pen-and-Colin shit, please. Edwina's bringing someone new, and I want him to think we're… normal." She sighs, shoulders sagging. "Normal-ish. Normal enough that he doesn't run screaming." Her eyes narrow. "And if I'm honest I'd rather avoid another evening of you two bitching at each other."
"We don't bitch," Colin insists, though they do, in fact, bitch. "Penelope is my dearest friend."
OR: Eloise throws a dinner party. Penelope and Colin cannot behave themselves
Bookmarked by nonky
18 Feb 2026