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It's maybe not something he should be doing for his friend. It is maybe too much, not normal, but Colin likes how it makes him feel. For two months a year he gets to be a man who has a girl to buy flowers for. Sometimes when the florist says for your girlfriend? he will say yeah, and when they say lucky girl he will say yeah, yeah she is or I'm the lucky one and for a few moments he is another person entirely, a man with a purpose and a life and a warm flat with a pretty girl in it, waiting upside down on the sofa for her peonies with her hair trailing.
Better than the reality, that he is a thirty-two year old loser with no job (which is why he can afford to be loping around the city all day looking for flowers). No job no girlfriend no point.
It is the happiest he is all year.
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colin has a realisation during peony season
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04 Jun 2026
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Colin discovers Penelope using the stuffed bear he gifted her for more than just snuggling and it leads to a very unexpected Valentine's Day gift.
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02 Jun 2026
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office hours by lilacsandpoppys
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 May 2026
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colin bridgerton returns to university with unfinished coursework, terrible metaphors, and entirely too much unresolved tension with penelope featherington, his childhood best friend and current teaching assistant. penelope, against all better judgement, agrees to an editing session.
just one editing session. what could possibly go wrong?
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29 May 2026
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Colin insists on escorting Penelope to Aubrey Hall for Christmas, even though that's the last place she wants to be. She is determined to rid herself of the Bridgertons for good and find her happiness elsewhere. However, when a carriage accident and the nastiest snow storm in years finds them trapped at a roadside Inn unchaperoned more than one secret may be revealed.
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- Part 1 of Partners. Lovers. Friends.
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26 May 2026
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we are alone with our changing minds by uneventfulhouses
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 Apr 2026
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Shaking off the daze, he becomes aware that Anthony is staring at him through the mirror pensively, eyes bobbing up and down from his chest to his eyes. “You should probably tell her you have feelings for her before you show her that.”
“Feelings?” Colin turns to look at his brother.
“You cannot be this dense, Colin,” Anthony says, expression deadpan.
“Dense about what?” Colin says exasperatedly. “It’s just a tattoo. I already have a bunch of them. Besides, I think she’ll find it funny.”
“You wanna tell a joke? Send her a meme. You don’t get a tattoo of her name.” Anthony rolls his eyes and shakes his head, which, to be fair, is what he does at most of the things Colin says anyway.
or; the one where colin get's pen's name tattooed and realizes he's in love with her.
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15 May 2026
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she sighs, he gasps by malpal132 for pastaslut
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
20 Jun 2024
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“Penelope Anne Featherington,” he says, turning to her with hands on his hips, expression gleeful. “Did you break the bed?”
She does her best impression of a dog who’s ripped all the down from a pillow. He can’t prove anything.
“I did,” she says.
Damn. There’s always been a disconnect between her mouth and her brain.or
Penelope's bed breaks. Of course it's Colin who finds her.
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24 Apr 2026
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Colin Bridgerton’s dick was too big.
It had always been a problem. Until it wasn’t.
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23 Apr 2026
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"Oh!" she gasped.
Colin turned back around, eyebrows furrowed. "What? Shall I stay?"
"Turn around!" Penelope laughed, standing. She approached him, and Colin frowned, turning around. There, written in her handwriting upon his right buttcheek: yours, Penelope Bridgerton.
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23 Apr 2026
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the devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me by uneventfulhouses
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
12 Apr 2026
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“Can we be closer?”
“How much closer?” His eyes, blue and dark and watching her so intently, make her feel too vulnerable. But she might start crawling up the walls if she can’t get a handle on this, and that makes her braver than she ever thought she would be. She shifts, rocking her hips forward, watching his response, the way his mouth parts with a sigh and his fingers tighten against her hips. “You want me inside you?”
She knows she’s blushing; she wilts against him. Her tits press into his chest and his breath is hot along her jaw when she leans in and drags her nose along his temple. “I’ll be so still, so good,” she whispers, a barely-there plea for him to anchor her somehow. “Like maybe,” she explains, “if you fill me up, I won’t have any room to think about anything else.”
or; friends help friends
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16 Apr 2026
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Love Is Make-Believe by preferringsleep (mellarkey)
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
14 Mar 2026
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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.
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27 Mar 2026
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Let the bodies hit the floor by Mdilikewhoa
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Mar 2026
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“Do not move, Omega, not until your Alpha tells you to,” he said in his Alpha command, freezing her in her place.
“Please,” she whispered as he shushed her once more.
“I know, I know, needy girl, I’ll take care of you.”
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The one where Omega, Penelope Featherington, is fighting for her life in the zombie apocalypse, when suddenly it seems like the zombies are the least of her problems.
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17 Mar 2026
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Sir Colin was accustomed to difficult work, feats of physicality. He had climbed hills, built walls, and performed in jousts. He had triumphed in battle, and even saved a maiden or two. He had done everything a good knight should do.
But he had never climbed a mountain.
Or, Colin is a knight (but not really), and Penelope is the dragon he's sent to slay.
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16 Mar 2026
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"You — you bind other people?" Penelope blurts out, forgetting herself. Then her cheeks redden. "Sir," she adds, her heart pounding.
Mr Bridgerton's brow creases and he looks down at his leg, at the rope wound about his large fingers.
"Yes, Penelope. The feeling is like none other. I am able to… well." He clears his throat and his back straightens. He has never said so many words to her all at once, Penelope realises. "The rope allows one to forget one's troubles for a few moments."
Penelope does not think before she says:
"I am yours to command, sir."
OR maid penelope suggests to her widowed master that he ties her up. for his mental health of course
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16 Mar 2026
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Colin was pacing the front hall. He had never been so jittery in his life. All his anxiety, anticipation, and excitement compelled his feet back and forth across the hall.
Ever since Mama had told him that Penelope would be joining them for the holiday via the girls’ carriage, he had been even more fidgety than usual. He had not been able to be normal around her since he had been home from Eton, and that was six months ago. When Eloise had called after her in the park and she had turned, her hair swirling around her, her face pink and her mouth laughing, a feeling Colin could only describe as blazing hot calm had washed over him. She was so perfectly beautiful, so perfectly kind and charming, so perfectly clever and sparkling.
Perfect.
It wasn’t fair.
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Colin's friendship with Penelope means everything to him, but when he falls for her before she has even debuted, he despairs. When she joins the Bridgertons at Aubrey Hall for Christmas, things spiral.
A little angst, a lot of feelings, and some happy holiday smut!
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- Part 1 of Prevernal
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31 Jan 2026
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Blind Man's Bluff by LizzieeeeeeeeeD
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
17 Jul 2025
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After spending a year abroad, Colin Bridgerton returned during summer break and joined his family at Aubrey Hall. Whilst away, Colin realized his heart belonged to his best friend, Penelope Featherington through the many letters they exchanged during his travels. His grand plans to romance her and win her affections was going better than he could have ever imagined; that was until a summer soiree hosted by his brother brought an unwelcomed guest who threatened his family and any future happiness he had hoped for.
“What has happened?” Anthony pressed.
“I did what I had to,” it was all Colin could think to say. Anthony took Colin’s hands in his, turning them over noting the wounds spackled across his knuckles and smatters of blood that covered his skin and clothes.
“Who?” His eyes were wide and intense. It was his protective nature; Colin knew his brother would do anything for his family. He could see Anthony was already anticipating his response without even knowing the occurrence.
“Lord Anderson,” Colin breathed out, rage returning to his voice, “he had Pen…he was hurting her, I had to stop him.”
“Where?” Anthony demanded.
“The conservatory.”
“Take me,” he said sternly.
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30 Jan 2026
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His mother was convinced he’d only moved to Notting Hill to have his own great love story. And while, yes, he may have the floppy hair and bumbling Britishness required of a Richard Curtis character, the current state of his love life (nonexistent) has Colin convinced his Hugh Grant moment is still a long way off.
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30 Jan 2026
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Natural Selection by mousehound
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
01 Jun 2024
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Balloon race sexy pirate Colin with an Omegaverse flare. Basically I just wanted to write a smutty version of events. Colin's obsessed, Penelope's meant to be a Beta, but he just can't leave her alone.
“Pen…” Colin stared down at her, his expression strange and intense and focused very much on her mouth.
“I’m sorry, that was not very ladylike of me,” Penelope whispered, her fingers still pressed to her lips. She was so hot everywhere again, even her thighs seemed to grow damp.
“No, I–” Colin, already far nearer than proprietary allowed, stepped closer. The warmth of his body mingled with her own and drove it higher, burning across her chest and cheeks. A scent rose from him, the light musk carried by the rising breeze that drifted through the tent. Penelope instantly wanted more of it, wanted to fill her lungs with great gasps of something so distinctively Colin. “Have I told you how lovely you look today?”
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01 Dec 2025
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Smaug's daughter by Nervousmilkshaketrash
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Feb 2026
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‘A modern girl falls asleep while creating her perfect smutty daydream about herself and Thranduil, and wakes up to living it. Includes the quest starting at Beorn’s, Modern-Girl is Smaug’s daughter and a shapeshifter, includes Kili/Tauriel and Thorin/Bilbo and smut.’Not just sex, I'm just bad at writing summaries. This is a very self-insert fix-it fic with lots of funny, sad, and romantic moments too. Give it a try!
Kisses xxx
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10 Oct 2025
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wanna make you fall in love by applepuffsilver, writergirl8
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 Dec 2024
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“We’re friends. I’m happy to do you a favour.”
She really does mean it. There is nothing Penelope wouldn’t do for Colin Bridgerton.
But then he raises his eyebrows, clears his throat, and says, “I was wondering if you might consider letting me fuck you and pretend that I am trying to get you pregnant.” He pauses, pondering before he adds: “Please.”
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Or, after a series of increasingly unhinged sex dreams, Colin asks Penelope if he can roleplay getting her pregnant. Platonically, of course. That should get it out of his system.
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09 Oct 2025