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  1. Public Bookmark 49

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    a character study of penelope featherington, patron saint of saying nothing and feeling everything. it's about mothers, invisibility, the magic of girlhood, and trying to unlearn the voice in your head that always says "not enough."

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    16 Jun 2025

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    My heart has been rendered devoid of feeling since your departure. I find myself utterly lost in your absence, bereft of the touch of your affectionate hands, left in desolation, consumed by a profound sense of longing, deeply enamored and yet so wretchedly unloved.

     

    What is to become of me now, without you at my side to give some meaning to this arduous existence?
    – excerpt from Mr. Colin Bridgerton’s personal journal, 20 of April, 1819

     

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    In an alternative universe in which Penelope never stopped Colin and Marina from eloping, after near a decade of repressed pain and a devastating loss, Colin is granted a second chance to start all over.

    (S1 Time Travel AU)

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    15 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    Venice isn’t their only first.

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    09 Jun 2025

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    "For god's sake, I cannot watch my wife dance with other men!"

    When the final ball of the season forces her family to take the next ship to America, Penelope finds herself in a marriage with the last man she can think of - the very man she loved since ten- Colin Bridgerton. With less than four weeks at hand, Penelope must find a way to escape before she loses not just her freedom, but her heart once more. And Colin must find a way not to be bothered when other men approach the lady he so boldly claimed to never court.

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    09 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 40

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    “You shall kneel before me,” Marina purred, eyes glowing faintly violet.

    Colin took a long sip of champagne and utterly unbothered by the crackling magic that surrounded him, replied, “I’d rather not.”

    Offended by both his rejection and the way he pronounced “rather” with a posh lilt, Marina cursed him on the spot. Her spell was oddly specific and oddly sticky.

    “You shall sleep until your True Omega arises,
    Her slick your only saviour, should she surprise us.
    No holy water, no spell, no sword nor flame,
    Only Omega nectar, directly from her nether lips shall restore thy name.”

    And then — poof. Colin collapsed into an aesthetically-pleasing heap, cravat askew, top two buttons of his waistcoat skillfully undone, jawline immaculate.

    The kingdom was plunged into mild panic.

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    07 Jun 2025

  6. Public Bookmark 22

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    Years after Venice, after everything ends with the Entity, the team untangles Ethan's secrets.

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    30 May 2025

  7. Public Bookmark 10

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    Before the Ducale, before everything had gone wrong, Ethan and Ilsa had made a plan, kept a secret; a secret he no longer seems to be able to remember.

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    28 May 2025

  8. Public Bookmark 21

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    He has to find a way to give a proper account of all his mistakes. He has to somehow make up for the fact that every person he loves is, at the end of the day, fucked because of him.

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    24 May 2025

  9. Public Bookmark 17

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    Ilsa pushes the front door open, arduously heavy, and finds Ethan wavering on the apartment steps outside.

    “Ilsa.” His ridiculous sunshine smile lights up his face, like he’s surprised to run into her here.

    She leans against the doorway, palm braced on the door to hold it open. “What do you want?”

    He doesn’t look good. If he were anyone else she’d assume he was drunk, but the exhausted, strung-out look on his face is a sober one. He’d been wandering around London for a while, too, judging by his wet hair and the soaked shoulders of his jacket.

    “I’m—is this a bad time?”

    “Extraordinarily.”

    Ethan’s problem is that he thinks he can just show up unannounced on her doorstep after disappearing for four months. Ilsa’s problem is that she invites him inside.

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    24 May 2025

  10. Public Bookmark 25

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    Ilsa reaches for the wine bottle. It’s a twist-off cap, and she unscrews it easily. “I’m just saying,” she continues, unstacking the paper coffee cups and pouring each of them a glass. “I have a shower.”

    “So you can look through my stuff while I’m vulnerable,” Benji finishes for her.

    She smiles, sliding a cup his way. “If I wanted to do that I would have already.”

    “Then why?”

    “You can’t just accept I’m being nice to you?”

    His eyes flick to Ethan. “Do you really think she’s ‘just being nice’ to us?”

    By complete coincidence, Ilsa spots Benji and Ethan in the streets of Marbella, hanging on by a thread. On purpose, she decides to run into them.

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    23 May 2025

  11. Public Bookmark 59

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    Veronica goes undercover at the Neptune Grand. Shenanigans ensue.
    Post-series. Second year at Hearst. Non movie-compliant.

    LONG OVERDUE prize ficlet for the April VM Headquarters Trivia Contest Winner, FatherJerusalem.

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    12 May 2025

  12. Public Bookmark 88

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    It's not a fancy ball, okay? Just a stupid 09er New Year's Party. And he sure as hell is no prince.

    Season One. Spoilers through 1x10 - An Echolls Family Christmas.

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    11 May 2025

  13. Public Bookmark 50

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    aka: The Wet Henley Chronicles

    Six stories in which we probably give Logan Echolls pneumonia, inspired by the movie's infamous wet henley. Set variously across the series and post-MKAT.

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    10 May 2025

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    Interactive chapter fic. Early S2. Plays nice with canon up through Ahoy Mateys, so expect canon V/D and lots of self-denial at first. Definitely an L/V fic, though. Gift fic for my beloved, lilamadison11. Somewhere near the middle of the fluff to angst scale. Can I call it flangst?

    Logan presses the box into my palm and curls my fingers around it. I run my thumb over the nap of the velvet. "What's this?"

    "Birthday present. I had it custom-made, so it can't be returned." He shrugs. Ducks his head again. "Toss it if you want. Or keep it. Whatever."

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    10 May 2025

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    “This is my fault,” the Viscount said. “I should have taken him to a brothel long ago.” He gulped down his drink. “I should take him now.”

     

    “What use would it have?” Benedict asked. “He’s already engaged, he’d reject the offer in favour of his beloved fiancé.”

     

    “Beloved?” Anthony laughed humorlessly. “He’s too green. I bet you all it’d take for him to abandon this nonsense is to find a willing girl to wet his wick with.”

     

    “What does that mean?” Penelope asked. She did not mean to, but the prospect of Colin saving himself from entrapment prompted her to blurt the question out.

     

    After accidently hearing a rather crude declaration from Colin's older brother, Penelope decides to put the put it to the test.

     

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    or, instead of exposing Marina on LW, Penelope decides to use a different approach

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    10 May 2025

  16. Public Bookmark *

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    Penelope Featherington is not sick.
    It doesn’t matter if her throat feels scratchy; she can email if she loses her voice.
    It doesn’t matter if her head aches; she keeps a bottle of pain relievers in her purse.
    It doesn’t matter if the world looks a little blurry; nobody else is in the office today, so nobody would know if she passed out! It would be like a– like a power nap!

    Or: Penelope Featherington is sick. Colin Bridgerton takes care of her.
    Modern AU.

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    05 May 2025

  17. Public Bookmark 3

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    A story of love and sacrifice, where they face chaos to find hope.

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    05 May 2025

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    Penelope was born as a Featherington, but she was always meant to be a Bridgerton. Her journey was never simple, never ordinary; it was a path carved by love and loss, by choices that defied expectations, and by a heart that refused to be bound by convention.

    Through heartbreak and healing, through moments of despair and overwhelming joy, she discovered what it truly meant to live—for love, for family, for herself.

    This is the story of Penelope Bridgerton—a woman who made vows, kept them, and found strength in the ones that kept her thriving.

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    04 May 2025

  19. Public Bookmark 23

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    Little prequel to The Flipside that fills in the backstory on Logan's struggle with addiction.

    Set a few years down the road from high school. Logan hits rock bottom. Keith and Veronica help him back up.

    Weevil cuts to the chase. “Logan’s in trouble.”

    Veronica half laughs. “What else is new? I thought something was actually wrong.” She doesn’t have to work too hard to affect her uncaring tone. Logan and Veronica have broken up and made up many times. The last parting wasn’t particularly pleasant. Keith didn’t ask for details, but he could guess.

    “He got into a fight at the In-N-Out.”

    Veronica rolls her eyes. “Must be a day that ends in ‘y’.”

    Weevil sighs. “You don’t know, do you?”

    Veronica asks what they don’t know, and Keith’s gut clenches. It's always something.

    “They found what’s left of his mother’s body.”

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    30 Apr 2025

  20. Public Bookmark 22

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    Years after Duncan leaves Neptune, he and Logan get the chance to say goodbye.

    Even from far away, Logan recognizes him immediately — the set of his shoulders, the way he leans on his right leg and cocks his hand on his hip. It’s so familiar, and suddenly they are in the hallway at school, or playing video games, or giggling in the pool, splashing Lilly on her deck chair and making her curse like a sailor. Logan blinks, half-expecting him to disappear, but instead Duncan throws his head back and laughs. Just like he used to.

    Logan smiles. He’d know his best friend anywhere.

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    30 Apr 2025

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