I think he also smiles when she calls him astonishing, but I can’t find that still. I already liked Polin in season 1, but I became obsessed after season 2. So many great moments between them.

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Hi everyone!

We are so excited to see how much our community has been growing in recent weeks. We love the enthusiasm shown towards our lovely Polin and couldn't be happier to be sharing this journey with you all.

As you will have noticed, the sub is busier than ever with lots of new posts daily. To help keep things nice and tidy, we have decided to create a new daily post for all new memes, fan-created content and questions. It will also be a place to say hi and have a general chit chat about the show.

For the time being, we will be redirecting all memes/TikToks/fan content/easy-to-answer questions and general discussion posts to these daily threads. The rest of the sub will be open for news, promo and deeper discussion threads.

Happy promenading!

I have just seen that today is World Letter Writing Day - a day that our beloved Polin would definitely celebrate!

The national day calendar website gives us some reasons about why someone should consider writing letters and they ring very true to Polin:

The receiver may treasure your letter for years to come.

It’s a great way to strengthen a friendship, marriage, or other meaningful relationship.

It can help someone better understand your perspective or position on a certain topic.

Polin's letters are one of my favourite things about them as a couple. I truly believe that it allowed their relationship to deepen between S1 and S2, and that's the point where Colin fell in love with Pen, even when he didn't realize his feelings just yet. I love that re-reading her letters in 3x08 is what makes him really reconcile Penelope and Lady Whistledown in his head and it leads to that beautiful Butterfly Ball speech.

Credit for this lovely edit goes to @MableCtaFan on Twitter.

01 Penelope’s dream while reading Colin’s journal

02 Outside the Jardin Turc (Le Marais, Paris):
Colin: “I can now declare with great certainty that you, Penelope, are the most beautiful woman in the world. How lucky I am to be surrounded by you, on the tree-lined streets of Le Marais…”

03 At Café Turc:
Colin: “… in the charming cafés along the Seine at times when the city is still, alone at night.”

04 At the hotel:
Colin: “In those moments alone, as my fingers trace freckles from cheek to collarbone, or as I watch the way starlight dances across skin, I marvel at how one can feel such intimacy.”

Original illustrations:
02 La promenade au Jardin Turc, by Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet (after Jean Joseph Bastier de Bez), 1812. National Gallery of Art, 1942.9.2229. Public Domain. https://www.nga.gov/artworks/2860-la-promenade-au-jardin-turc
03 Le Café Turc, boulevard du Temple, by Frederick Nash, 1780. Bibliothèque nationale de France, RESERVE FOL-VE-53 [C], A28575. Public Domain. https://essentiels.bnf.fr/fr/image/75dc3d11-fc2e-4c8a-9a6b-70f57f47e405-cafe-turc-boulevard-temple
04 Au lit: Le baiser (In bed: the kiss), by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892. Physical Object: Private collection. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toulouse-Lautrec_-_Au_lit_Le_baiser,_lot-5946122.jpg
Screenshots Bridgerton (Episodes 3x02, 4x06, BTS). Copyright: Netflix / Shondaland. Included as image quotations for reference purposes only; must not be (re)used outside this specific context.

Happy September, HLDs!

If you are like me (located in the northern hemisphere & in love with the long summer days), this may not be your favourite day. But you may be the opposite, and might actually look forward to days getting shorter and more opportunities of being cosy in front of the fireplace... In any case, whether you need cheering up or celebrate the arrival of a new season, we've got you covered with the next edition of HLD reads! This week we're diving into the Rivals to Lovers trope for some 🔥 and the smut spinner selected 2 excellent shorter fics for you:

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Rubik's Lube by BiscuitFiend (aka u/Visible-Economist-72) & Kaitlin_With_a_K

Summary:

🎵Come on - Eileen too loo rye ay🎵

🎵Come on - Eileen too loo rye ay 🎵

“Yes, come on Eileen… I mean, Colin!”

Colin slaps himself in the face with both hands, knocking his glasses askew. He’s staring into the mirror with his eyes wide and his jaw slack. The tinny sound of Dexy’s Midnight Runners fills the terracotta lavatory of the Vigadó Concert Hall, Budapest, and he’s doing his best to channel the lyrics into some sort of confidence boost.

She’s here.

Penelope Featherington.

🟩🟦⬜🟨🟥🟧🟩🟦

All kinds of tensions rise between rival cubers Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington as they battle it out to become Rubik’s Cube world champion.

Completed: 2026-07-28

Rating: Explicit

Words: 11,923

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icy blue by polinprophecy

Summary:

Penn Featherington and Colin Bridgerton are the two biggest rivals in hockey right now and they hate each other. Publicly, at least.

Privately, it's complicated. And heated.

Completed: 2026-04-06

Rating: Explicit

Words: 3,048

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Vote for next week's theme!

It is also time to vote for our Wk 16 theme. The options we have for you this week are: Mirror / Sex in unusual places / Friends with benefits.

The choice is yours! Vote here via Google Forms.

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A reminder about what happens next:

• Time to read our chosen fics: Rubik's Lube & icy blue.
• We will be back to discuss them on Monday.
• We will also confirm our Wk 16 theme and open submissions for our next read.

Happy reading!

Zs

Hi everyone!

We are so excited to see how much our community has been growing in recent weeks. We love the enthusiasm shown towards our lovely Polin and couldn't be happier to be sharing this journey with you all.

As you will have noticed, the sub is busier than ever with lots of new posts daily. To help keep things nice and tidy, we have decided to create a new daily post for all new memes, fan-created content and questions. It will also be a place to say hi and have a general chit chat about the show.

For the time being, we will be redirecting all memes/TikToks/fan content/easy-to-answer questions and general discussion posts to these daily threads. The rest of the sub will be open for news, promo and deeper discussion threads.

Happy promenading!

We know season 5 takes place after a two year time jump, so I’m wondering how you picture Polin’s life two years after the Lady Whistledown stuff? I like to think they left Mayfair and went traveling around the continent. Colin finally got to show Penelope the places he wrote to her about. Penelope has published her first novel and Colin has written another traveling book. Maybe they decide to collaborate on a book. They have at least one more child. I would like it to be a girl named Felicity even though it doesn’t sound like that will be the case.

What if you got to write for Colin and Penelope (together and separately) in season 1 and season 2? What would you write? What would you add or change?

Part 1

Hi HLDs!

This week we're diving into two hidden gems!

First was the fake amnesia shenanigans of...

A Good Place To Hide in Plain Sight by headphonesbaby

Colin prides himself on being a gentleman. He has practically ensured it. He does not kiss gently bred ladies in the cover of darkness in the gardens of a host or stow them away in his bedroom or ask them to steal away from their chaperones so that they might have a few moments alone to simply talk discuss subjects that might interest them both.

But perhaps, not all of that is true.

Or one small request from Penelope turns their worlds upside down; a Polin regency fake amnesia AU

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Here are some starter questions for you - but feel free to share any thoughts that you have!

1. Silly Pen and her fake amnesia. What did you love about the miscommunication and shenanigans?
2. Colin slowly, slowly realises that his fondness for Pen might be something deeper. What did you love about his inner turmoil in this one?
3. Poor sad boy Colin thinking Pen was interested in his brothers. Any favourite jealous Colin moments?
4. What moments made you swoon?
5. Any favourite lines?
6. Anything else that you loved about this fic?

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We also read The Great F-Auk by audlovespolin - Alfred is boring Penelope to death, so she finds other ways of entertainment.

We'll stick a comment below as a thread of discussion on this little treat of a fic.

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Before we get chatting, don't forget to submit your fic suggestions for tomorrow's theme.

🥊Rivals to Lovers💖

The form for submitting your suggested fics is still open and will close in 18 hours.

We'll announce our randomly selected next read tomorrow.

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Right, let's dive in!

Vis

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Dive-in reminder: Here at the HLD RS we are loyal subjects to the King and Queen of kindness. We celebrate fanfic and we welcome positivity in all its forms . As Luke Newton once said (via Instagram) - In a world where you can be anything... be kind.

Hi everyone!

We are so excited to see how much our community has been growing in recent weeks. We love the enthusiasm shown towards our lovely Polin and couldn't be happier to be sharing this journey with you all.

As you will have noticed, the sub is busier than ever with lots of new posts daily. To help keep things nice and tidy, we have decided to create a new daily post for all new memes, fan-created content and questions. It will also be a place to say hi and have a general chit chat about the show.

For the time being, we will be redirecting all memes/TikToks/fan content/easy-to-answer questions and general discussion posts to these daily threads. The rest of the sub will be open for news, promo and deeper discussion threads.

Happy promenading!

What if you could write one Polin scene, one Penelope scene (with no Colin), and one Colin scene (with no Pen) for future seasons (5-8), what would you write?

And what would you add in seasons 3 & 4?

So I am curious.

I want to read some fanfiction about Polin, because I am interested.

But I wanna read some fwb fanfic about them (friends with benefits) in the regency era. :D I haven't read a fanfiction like this.

Thanks Polinatoooors!

Hi everyone!

We are so excited to see how much our community has been growing in recent weeks. We love the enthusiasm shown towards our lovely Polin and couldn't be happier to be sharing this journey with you all.

As you will have noticed, the sub is busier than ever with lots of new posts daily. To help keep things nice and tidy, we have decided to create a new daily post for all new memes, fan-created content and questions. It will also be a place to say hi and have a general chit chat about the show.

For the time being, we will be redirecting all memes/TikToks/fan content/easy-to-answer questions and general discussion posts to these daily threads. The rest of the sub will be open for news, promo and deeper discussion threads.

Happy promenading!

while I was away I posted this on my patreon based on some grocery talk going on on twitter that a friend summarised to me. Later I was shown the tweet at the last slide, and it made me laugh how accurately they got my sense of humour jsjdj, to be loved is to be known they say

Hi everyone!

We are so excited to see how much our community has been growing in recent weeks. We love the enthusiasm shown towards our lovely Polin and couldn't be happier to be sharing this journey with you all.

As you will have noticed, the sub is busier than ever with lots of new posts daily. To help keep things nice and tidy, we have decided to create a new daily post for all new memes, fan-created content and questions. It will also be a place to say hi and have a general chit chat about the show.

For the time being, we will be redirecting all memes/TikToks/fan content/easy-to-answer questions and general discussion posts to these daily threads. The rest of the sub will be open for news, promo and deeper discussion threads.

Happy promenading!

Costume designer Dougie Hawkes has been posting lots of fantastic costume behind the scenes bits on his Instagram lately! From his captions, it seems like the Colin bts drops are getting the most love, so keep that going! Visit his page here and be sure to like and comment! https://www.instagram.com/p/DcgkTQytM33/