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viscountess-sharma · 2 years
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THE BEST THING EVER
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vvalliu · 2 years
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sea-owl · 1 year
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Y'all imagine if Portia was into that gothic aesthetic.
"Black is such a happy color," Portia would say.
All four Featherington sisters are dressed in darker hues. Their lips tinted with a dark red while their faces have white powder with a hint of rouge. Portia would sigh happily saying their hair reminded her of fire from hell.
Imagine Penelope rocking up to a ball with a dark green dress and black lace. Silver jewlery glittering.
Lowkey this would still fit the Featheringtons being oddly dressed since the regency era had a preference for white and pastel colors.
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crazychicke · 2 years
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Hiiiii we once again got into the same show and same ship(s) !!! I hope you're doing well 💓
hi! nice to hear from you! how are you? oh which show? haha i have so many, and the same ships! that's hilarious! we must have good taste. I am up late watching movies and writing, so far, so good!
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spiderastro · 9 months
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spiderdads actor au!
miguel o'hara is riding the peak of his acting career - he's just starred in the latest installment of a certain superhero franchise, rose to fame for his intense acting style and deep commitment to his craft
very off-the-grid. he hates going on social media because any post related to him will be scattered with comments about his daughter who passed away years ago and god don't people have other things to talk about?
on a lighter note, since he has no social media presence, fans of his have to scrape by on google search getty images of him and screenshots of story posts from other actors where he's in the background
peter b parker is a slightly older well-established actor who used to do more serious roles, but has settled comfortably into playing smaller pseudo-father-figure roles in quirky indie coming-of-age movies and leading men in buddy cop movies and similar shows/movies
he's got quite the fanbase - he gets along with all his co-stars, he's got loads of those stan account compilations like "peter being a himbo for 12 minutes," and he has a tiktok account he absolutely should NOT be self-managing
he doesn't get taken seriously by the press and honestly he's okay with that!
they get cast opposite one another in one of those obvious cash-grab all-star-cast romcoms together and their personalities immediately clash
"yeah, of course he's hot. but god, what an asshole!" -peter
"i'm going to strangle him if he continues to refuse to take this seriously." -miguel (it's literally a romcom)
but pr forces them to be in proximity, since it's bad press if the two co-stars hate each other. they get asked to "play up the chemistry a little bit" to promote the movie
and of course, they each eventually find out the other isn't so bad. peter falls first, miguel falls harder, and soon tabloids are obsessed with figuring out if all the paparazzi photos of them (fighting? flirting?) are just a pr stunt or if they're genuine
and honestly, both peter and miguel are asking themselves the same thing.
BONUS: lyla is miguel's personal assistant (she becomes bffs with peter which miguel HATES), jess and miguel co-starred in a bridgerton-esque romance/drama a few years back and became good friends, and miles played peter's found family son a la the last of us
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eleanor-bradstreet · 1 year
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Masterlist of Fictional Fancies
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Bridgerton x Reader Series/Multichapter
Love to Spare (Anthony & Benedict, regency, romance) Touch (Benedict, regency, romance)
Young At Heart (Benedict, regency, fluff & romance)
The Field (Benedict, modern, lifelong romance)
Chiaroscuro (Benedict, vampire AU, angst & romance)
Standalone fics
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (Benedict, modern, romance)
I'll Be Seeing You (Benedict, zombie AU, angst)
Almost Home (Benedict, modern, fluff & feels)
Two Lines (Benedict, modern, domestic fluff)
Locked Out (Anthony, modern, smut & humor)
Gala (Anthony, modern, suggestive humor)
Slide (Benedict, modern, whump & romance)
Still Going (Anthony, regency, feels and romance)
Earned (Benedict, modern, smut)
Take Me Instead (Anthony, modern, angst)
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Benedict Bridgerton and family Series/Multichapter
A Brother's Love (regency, fluff & angst)
Willow Bark (regency, whump & angst)
Let Me Be Your Anchor - AOFAG reimagined
Chapter 15: The Drawing Room
Standalone fics
Number Ten (regency, whump & angst)
Waking (ficlet, regency, Benophie)
The Night We Met (ficlet, regency, Benophie)
The Hunting Party (regency, action)
Emerald (ficlet, modern, angst)
Fever. Dream. (regency, romance, hurt/comfort, Benophie)
Marzipan (regency, fluff, Anthony)
New Crowns (regency, fluff and feels)
Priceless (regency, family feels, Anthony)
Through the Storm (ficlet, regency, A&B angst)
Blessed (regency, family feels, Benedict, Anthony)
A Special Day (ficlet, modern, Anthony, fluff)
A Bridgerton Carol (regency, Anthony & Benedict, Christmas, feels)
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Magic in Our Bones - Benedict Bridgerton x Sophie Beckett smut
The Fireside
The Balcony
The Palace
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Video Edits
The Bridgerton Brothers Detective Agency
Second Son - inspired
Double Bind - inspired
Succour - inspired
(Be)Longing - inspired
Benedict & Queen Charlotte
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People finding out Ruby Marina actress is in s3 and they are overjoyed because it means she’s gonna kill herself and they are happy about her ending herself for some reason weirdo pen stans as pen girly first and for most I’m beyond disgusted but not suprised and the people who ship Eloise and Philip girlies again white nasty woman like who’s shocked because this means to them Philiose introduction or met or season is near and them interacting I’m not one bit suprised it’s ugly yt woman who gonna use Pen and Eloise as self insert to be with their desired yt man character wanting to play out their deserted tropes, to see a black female character kill herself so they can get their self insert girl to be with the yt boy they wanna fcvk over tropes yeah
they such nasty humans and that’s why they are losers who’s never getting love like I’ve seen y’all TikTok’s and trust me there’s reasons y’all ain’t desired irl and it has nothing to do with y’all lack of self esteem social skills or y’all seeing yourself as certain size or as wallflowers it has nothing to do with that y’all just huge losers and it’s clear seeing as though y’all not only want a black female character to kill herself so ur self inser ship can happen but the fact y’all are literally getting immense joy and excitement out of the idea that she’s gonna end it all just so y’all yt characters can literally interact
nasty and you keep crying to yourselves about Colin not loving Marina or Philip not Marina and that their only love is Pen and Eloise but it won’t change the fact i don’t know Philip but I know for fact Colin loved her down otherwise he wouldn’t still be going to see her in s2 just because she was Colin first love doesn’t in any way take away from Penelope being Colin true love and soulmate two things can co exist actually colin loved Marina with everything in him she was his first love eveyone has first love they can never forget even tho they love their true love more then anything same way Penelope is Colin whole heart and he just didn’t and wasn’t seeing her earlier in life same way Marina had huge fondness for Colin but George was her true love!
He didn’t love her I mean Bridgerton kids literally from birth are thought to only marry for love and Colin is definitely not the kinda guy who marries just to marry the whole motto in that family ingraved into their mind is to marry for love and Colin wanted to marry that girl bad and he loved her down whether y’all like it or not it’s not gonna change the facts in the show or is his character nor is gonna change how Penelope is his one tue paring his soulmate his true and end love guys!
First love dosent have to mean true love/soulmate or endgame as y’all can clearly see it! y’all can accept that Anthony loved that other girl and Ben that dress maker but aren’t using that to undermine them or the love for their endgame characters or the love they felt had for these woman before they meet their person so why can’t y’all do that for Colin with Marina if it? I wonder? I know why so fcvk y’all who got all excited in the idea of Marina coming back means her dead her cruel suicide
After everything she went true just know your moms a hoe and May that be your faith not S but no love ever!
Tell me exactly how y’all saying what y’all wanna see on first part is Marina ending herself and you should see it so the story can build up to philoise starting to interact with each other like cant they just met in another way since the show ain’t following the books all the way and you know it and are completely fine with it nw but y’all want them to follow the books this one time when it’s a black female character ending herself interestin indeed
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2023
Pickleball. Generative AI. Lula takes office in Brazil, Amazon Rainforest throws a party. Prince Harry refusing to stop talking about his frozen penis no matter how many times society begged him to stop. UFOs are real. Viral cat dubbed ‘largest cat anyone has ever seen’ gets adopted. Pee-Wee’s big adventure ends. Musk & X. Turkey-Syria earthquake kills thousands. India surpasses China as ‘country squeezing in the most peeps’. Tucker Carlson ousted. Miss USA and her 30 lbs moon costume. Wildfires in Kelowna and Hawaii. Macron tinkers with retirement age of the French. Paltrow can’t ski. Big Red Boots. Bob Barker leaves us. Alabama mom delivers 2 babies from her 2 uteruses in 2 days. Charles III. Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian forces as the war drags on. Taylor Swift is Time’s Person of the Year. African ‘coup belt’. Flo-Jo dies in her sleep. Chinese spy balloon shot down. Hollywood writers strike. Human ‘nice mugshot’ Shitstain and his 91 indictments. Highest interest rates in 2 decades. The Bear’s Christmas episode. War in Gaza. Shinzo Abe is assassinated. Alex Murdaugh. Ocean Cleanup removes 25 000 lbs of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Vase purchased for $3.99 sells for $100 000 at auction. Barbenheimer. A third of Pakistan is flooded. Lionel Messi is the GOAT. Travis Kelce. The Sphere opens in Las Vegas. Regulators seized Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, resulting in two of the three largest bank failures in U.S. history. “The Woman In Me”. WHO declares COVID ain’t a thing no more. Titan sub sinks, rich people die. Matthew Perry drowns. Dumbledore Dies (again). Massive sales of ‘Fuck Trudeau’ flags for jacked-up micro-dick trucks. Everything Everywhere All At Once. June-August was the hottest three-month period in recorded history across the Earth. Tina Turner dies. And the Beatles release a new song?! Wow… You got big shoes to fill 2024.
Archives for context:
2020
Kobe. Pandemic. Lockdown. Koalas on fire. Harry and Meg retire. Toilet paper hoarding. Alcoholism. Impeach the f*cker. Parasite. Bonnie Henry. Tiger King. Working from home. Sourdough bread. Harvey Weinstein guilty. Zoom overdose. Dip your body in sanitizer. 6 feet. Quarantine. OK Boomer. Home schooling (everyone passes). Murder hornets. Dolly Parton. Don’t hug, kiss or see anybody, especially your family. Chris Evans’ junk. TikTok. Glory holes. Face masks. CERB. West Coast wildfires. Stay home. Small Businesses lose, big box stores win. F*ck Bozos. ‘Dreams’ and cranberry juice. Close yoga studios, but thumbs up to your local gym. Speak moistly to me. George Floyd. BLM. F*ck Trump. Phase 2, 3 and Summer. RBG. Baby Yoda. Biden wins. Bond and Black Panther die. No more lockdown. Back to school and work. Just kidding... giddy up round 2. Giuliani leaks shit from his head. Resurgence of chess. UFOs are real. Restrictions. Dave Grohl admits defeat. Monolith. “F*ck... forgot my mask in the car”. No Christmas shenanigans allowed. Bubbles. Alex Trebek. Use the term ‘dumpster fire’ one too many times. Jupiter and Saturn form 'Christmas Star'. Happy New Year Bitches!!!! 2021... you better not sh*t the bed!!
2021
“We love you, you’re very special”. Failed coup attempt at the Capital. Twitter, FB and IG ban Donny. Hammerin’ Hank goes to the Field of Dreams. Bozo no longer richest man but still a twat. Leachman, Tyson, and Holbrook pass. The economy is worse than expected. Kim and Kanye split. Brood X cicadas. Dre has an aneurysm and nearly has his home broken into. Bridgerton. MyPillow CEO is a douche. Covid restrictions extended indefinitely. Captain Von Trapp dies. Proud Boys officially a Terrorist Organization. Richard Ramirez. Cancer takes Screech. Travel bans. Impeachment trial (again?… oh and this was barely February? WTF??!!) Suez Canal blockage. Myanmar protest. Kong dukes it out with Godzilla, while Raya watches. Olympics. Friends compare elective surgeries. F9. Canada Women’s Soccer Gold. Free Britney. Multiverses. Residential Schools in Canada unearth children’s bodies. Kate is Mare of Easttown. Cuomo resigns. Disney and Dwayne cruise together. Wildfires. Delta variants. Musk passes Bezos. Candyman x 5. Capt. Kirk goes to space. F*ck Kyle Rittenhouse. Astros didn’t win. Squid Game. Goodbye Bond. Dune is redone. Angelina is Eternal. Astroworld deaths. Meta. Omicron. Three Spidermen. Tornados in December? World Juniors cancelled. Pills against Covid. School opening delayed. And Betty White dies. 2022… my expectations are ridiculously low…
2022
Wow… eight billion people. Queen Elizabeth II passes away after ruling the Commonwealth before dirt was invented. The monkeypox. Russia plays the role of global a**hole. Wordle. Mother Nature rocks Afghanistan. Hover bike. Styles spits on Pine. Olivia Newton John, Kristie Alley, and Coolio leave us. Pele was traded to team Heaven. FTX implodes. Madonna and the 3-D model of her vagina. Pig gives his heart to a human. Beijing can brag that it is the first city ever to host both the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. Uvalde. $3 trillion Apple. Keith Raniere gets 120 years. The Whisky War ends with Canada and Denmark going halfsies. Mar-a-Lago. Nick Cannon brood hits a dozen. Shinzo Abe is assassinated. Inflation goes through the roof (if you can actually afford to put a roof over your head). Volodymyr Zelensky. European heat wave. Bennifer. Salman Rushdie is stabbed on stage, Dave Chappelle tackled, and Chris Rock is only slapped. Thích Nhất Hạnh. Heidi Klum goes full slug. Cuba knocked out by Ian. Liz Truss and 4.1 Scaramuccis. Taylor Swift breaks Ticketmaster. Human shitstain Elon Musk ignores helping mankind and buys Twitter instead. Riri becomes a mommy. NASA launches Artemis 1. Trump still a whiny little b*tch. Music lost Loretta Lynn, Christine McVie, and Meat Loaf. Democracy died at least three times. Pete Davidson continues to date hottest women on the planet (no one understands how?!) Microplastics in our blood. Alex Jones is a c*nt. So is DeSantis. Argentina wins the World Cup. Meghan and Harry. Eddie Munson rips Metallica in the Upside Down. tWitch. Roe vs Wade is overturned by the micro dick energy of the Supreme Court. CODA. James Corden shows he is a "tiny Cretin of a man". Amber (and the sh*t on the bed) Heard (round the world). Sebastian Bear-McClard proves he’s one of the f*cking dumbest men alive. Latin America's ‘pink tide’. Anti-Semitic rants by Ye. Bob Saget. A verified blue checkmark. Godmother of punk Vivienne dies. And, Tom Cruise feels the need for speed yet again. 2023… whatcha got for us?!? Nothing shocks me anymore.
@daily-esprit-descalier
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tired-multifandom-fans · 11 months
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NETFLIX CANCEL LOCKWOOD AND CO????!!!!
So.... Hahahah Netflix that idiot cancel lockwood and co??? are you f***king kidding me???!!! like seriously???!!
They don’t even bother to promote it, yet Lockwood and Co can be the No. 1 top-watched show in several countries and make it to the top 10 In 80 countries. Have over 90% ratings both from the audience and critics on rotten tomatoes. viral on TikTok and Twitter, have like over 50% completion rate, and they still cancel it???? 
Imagine if they promote it seriously, i bet the show will become a hot topic all over the internet because it has literally everything. romance, slow burn, family, friendship, fantasy, action, and other things. You can even watch it together with your whole family because it reaches out to all age groups.
Ruby, who played Lucy, left Bridgerton so she can focus on her role in Lockwood and Co. Cameron, who played Lockwood, did such an amazing job in his first professional acting role. and Ali, who played George, really brought the character to life.
Well Netflix, screw it! Let Lockwood and co look for another streaming service such as Disney+, HBO Max, Prime Video, or even the BBC. Because We Locknation will never give up until Lockwood and Co get renewed to season two.
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pluckysidekick · 1 year
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Hello, Drewds! The Drew Crew actors have all been active this week, a very rare occurrence. The most recent is this morning we got this fabulous photo from Amanda Row, director of many classic Nancy Drew episodes (e.g. Burning Bride, Uninvited Guest, S2 finale) and both the S4 premiere and finale. She was out last night with none other than Alex Saxon AND RJ Hatanaka.
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Love seeing these people back together - and extra points for Alex sporting a classic Ace snapback. How amazing would it be if we got to see Alex and RJ together in something directed by Amanda? Ace and Tamura did have the best scenes together. A person can dream…
Meanwhile, we caught our first glimpse of Tunji in the “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” trailer. He looks (and sounds) so amazing in period garb.
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Sadly it appears from IMDB that he’s only in the first episode - hopefully we’ll see more added as we get closer. No matter what really looking forward to seeing him on my screen again come May 4!
Onto the women of Nancy Drew. Kennedy, who we’re waiting to hear if her backdoor pilot The Good Lawyer was picked up for the fall, gifted us with a duet to Taylor’s “Invisible String” on TikTok. I’ve only listened to it fifty or so times. More please, Kennedy!
Speaking of pilots AND singing, Leah similarly has her own pilot (a Matlock reboot), which started filming on Monday in Toronto. Really hope this one gets picked up - I want to see Leah sparring with the brilliant Kathy Bates. Network TV has room for both of our favs as up and coming lawyers!
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Leah has also been singing for us in her spare time in her IG stories this week, her voice is sick. Maybe a Nancy and George duet could be arranged? In the meantime you can envision them putting on an entire musical in my Nancy Drew AU fic No One Mourns the Wicked!
Last but definitely not least, Maddison has been out and about in Vancouver and around B.C., taking some fabulous photos, baking, and visiting her friend who’s building a house. She also mentioned on IG she’d be traveling back to England soon to visit family and enjoy British comfort foods. Hope she has a great time, and that we get to see her on our screens again soon in something new!
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Craving Nancy Drew S4, but glad to see what our favorite crew members are up to in the meantime.
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3d-wifey · 2 years
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Once More to See You: Of Departures and Homecomings
Pairing: Anthony Bridgerton x Reader Synopsis: Anthony is not one for flowery musings. He isn’t a poet, nor does he spend his time admiring the arts or waxing poetics about beauty and such. No, he leaves that sort of thing to his brother. But as you peer up at him with expectant eyes, the lights of the chandeliers painting you in a soft yellow, he can understand why a war was waged over Helen of Troy. Word Count: 4.2k Warnings: N/A A/N: I wrote this after watching a shit ton of Anthony tiktok edits and 3 episodes of Bridgerton. Ao3 link + Playlist
You have always preferred Autumn. The changing of the leaves, the rainy days spent inside, and the crisp air that carried a cool breeze. As you and your mother stand before your carriage, the breeze you love so much comes to soothe the heat of humiliation from your face.
Your mother is steadily advancing in her pregnancy and you both will be making the journey from England to Paris to be closer to your father. The decision to move was a sudden one, giving you only a few weeks to get your affairs in order and say your goodbyes. The Bridgertons, a family who had practically taken you in and treated you as one of their own, have come to see you off.
Lady Violet Bridgerton and your mother converse the way only old friends can. Eloise gave you a book that reminded her of you to read on your journey, Colin and Benedict gave you advice surrounding noblemen that you were confident was largely nonsense, and you and Daphne exchanged tearful hugs. Even the little ones said their goodbyes before running off to play.
You should have left by now. But everyone knows who you are waiting for, and everyone knows he won't come. All except—
"Just a few more minutes." Daphne reasons. “He’ll be here.”
You have already been waiting for over half an hour. There is only so much small talk your mothers can make on your behalf before it becomes truly pathetic. Despite all of that, Daphne is sure Anthony will come and no amount of convincing will persuade her otherwise. Stubbornness is a trait they both seem to possess.
You sigh. "Daphne—"
"No. He promised me he would be here to see you off." Overwhelmed with your own business, you gave Daphne the task of informing her family about your departure. She told you Anthony had given her his word that he would be here to bid you farewell and that he wouldn't miss it for the world. You may not have been there for the discussion, but you’re sure she embellished it to make you feel better.
"You should have seen his face when I told him. He was miserable, truly."
In reality, your relationship with Anthony is partial at best. There has never been any indication that he has ever felt the same as you. At most, he sees you as a sister. But if that were the case, he would be here now, ready to see you off with a bittersweet smile. You know it’s only wishful thinking on your part to think he sees you as anything more than his sister's bothersome friend.
"Well, I guess I am not terribly important to him." You jest, but you can tell it had fallen rather short. Just as well. You didn’t find it too amusing to begin with.
"You cannot possibly believe that in earnest—"
You grasp her hands before she can try to convince you to stay any longer.
"Daphne, I understand what you are trying to do, and I thank you for it. But if Benedict throws me one more pitying look, I will be prone to hysterics." She huffs a laugh before a look of disconcertion takes over her features.
She shakes her head. "I just do not understand why he has not shown." 
The wind picks up, ruffling your hair and the skirts of your dress, as well as giving you a good excuse for why your eyes are welling up.
"Nor do I. Now, I'm afraid if I do not get into the carriage, my mother will drag me by the ear herself," you kiss each other's cheeks in farewell, "Write to me?"
"Of course. You needn't even ask."
After you and your mother climb into your carriage and set off on your course, it is much harder to disguise just how hurtful his absence proved to be. You had held out hope that Anthony would come to his senses and he would show you the kind of love that all the great poets wrote about, but that was just the childish musings of a girl. It is nothing less than tragic just how long it has taken you to see how little he cares for you.
As the familiar scenery of London fades away outside your window, you find yourself barely suppressing a sob. It is mortifying to be weeping over a man who has never given you the time of day, and, yet, here you sit crying into your hand. Your mother pulls you to her side and you let your head fall to her shoulder.
"Maybe he will write to you."
You say nothing of how little you believe that and, instead, bury your face in her shoulder.
After settling down in France at your father's estate, the next three years went by in a blur for you. Many things changed, but your one solace was Daphne, and never once did her letters falter in frequency. 
She told you all about the gossip back home and in turn, you made sure not to spare a single detail about how different the nobility of Paris was compared to London's. You gushed about how much your brother had advanced in his learnings and she wrote to you about her etiquette training.
She told you of her insecurities surrounding marriage and how she doubted she'd have a love like her parents and you told her about how utterly isolated you felt. You weren't able to attend her debut, but you were able to send as much advice as possible.
Through it all, you never received a single letter from Anthony. You didn't hold it against him. It just proved you valued your friendship more than he did if it could even be called a friendship. It was more so him just indulging your embarrassingly childish crush. A crush that, despite the years, hadn't quite gone away.
Though she did it sparingly, likely for your sake, you found yourself becoming giddy when Daphne mentioned him in your letters. Your heart would kick up in speed as your fingers traced his name on the rough parchment. There were many a night where you wished he would suddenly write about how much he missed you and your company.
However, as your mother adjusts the feathers on your head for what must be the thirtieth time, you realize that’s all trivial to think about. Your parents have allowed you to push it back for two years now, but you can no longer delay the inevitable.
It is time for your debut.
You haven’t told Daphne of your plans to come back to London before the queen this season, hoping to surprise her. She had told you Eloise would be debuting as well so you know the Bridgertons will be in the crowd.
Your mother adjusts the hem of your gown one more time before the guard at the door gives you the signal. It’s your turn.
"Miss Y/n Dupont...presented by her mother, the Right Honorable Countess Dupont."
The grand doors open before you, displaying an aisle with people on either side and the queen seated at the end. You summon all of the lessons in etiquette your mother had drilled into you and walk forward. 
Your entire life has accumulated into this one moment. Each of your steps are steady and sure as you cover the distance between you and the queen with your mother at your back. Your chin up high, back erect, and a delicate smile on your face.
You bow into a deep curtsy before her majesty. In the crowd, familiar faces catch your eye. Though they have matured with age, you’re able to make out the Bridgerton family's faces fixed with surprise and delight respectfully.
"Very good, my dear." Queen Charlotte praises with a slight smile. Though it isn't as big a reception as Daphne got last season, it’s by far the best anyone has gotten all day and certainly more than you were expecting.
As practiced, you and your mother back up and bow once more before walking back down the aisle.
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The debut was cut short with the arrival of Lady Whistledown's latest column. Shortly before you and your mother leave to prepare for the ball, you hear your name being yelled from outside the carriage. You look out the window to see Daphne frantically waving.
"Stop the carriage!"
You push the door open and ignore the hand of the coachman as you all but jump out. She calls to you again and you gather your skirts under you, walking as fast as you can to her without it being considered running.
She meets you halfway in an embrace that nearly knocks the air out of you. Wedlock seems to give one abnormal strength.
"Daphne," you pull away from her, "or shall I say, Your Grace."
"You most certainly shall not," you giggle at her scandalized face, "Daphne will suffice."
"Well, you must forgive me, Daphne. It is not every day one's friend becomes a Duchess." 
It isn't long before the rest of the clan comes to say their salutations.
"Oh, you looked wonderful out there, dear!" Violet gushes as she pulls you into a hug. Her motherly embrace is one you have particularly missed. She squeezes you once more before moving over to your mother, who you completely forgot about in all the excitement.
You thank her before greeting the other young lady who was supposed to debut along with you.
"Eloise, look how much you've grown," the last time you had seen her, she was barely at your shoulders, "I'm so sorry your debut was interrupted."
"You need not worry," she waves you off, "Believe me, this has worked in my favor." You are, in fact, inclined to believe her. For as long as you have known her, Eloise hasn’t been keen on the feminine traditions women are expected to take on in the Ton.
One by one, you catch up with the people you regard as a second family. Exchanging stories of your journeys and things you missed in your absence and it’s as if no time had passed at all. 
Until he steps forward.
You knew he would be here—you did, and you had gone through many possible scenarios of how your meeting would go. What you would say, how you would act, how he would react to seeing you if he would react at all. 
However, many things are different in theory than they are in practice. In theory, you would keep your cool in his presence and he'd be utterly floored by your manner. In theory, he would be the one vying for your attention and you wouldn't even bat an eye.
Yet, in practice, your heart races as his eyes lock with yours and you feel awfully close to being ill. 
In practice, you’re the same as when you left three years prior: wholly and positively in love with Anthony Bridgerton.
"Countess Dupont," he bows his head to your mother before pausing a breath, "Y/n." You falter at the sound of your name rolling off the tongue of the one voice you have wished to hear for what felt like ages. If your relationship had ended differently, on better terms, you would have lunged at the opportunity to say his name in turn. 
As it stands, you are both past that easy companionship you once shared.
"Lord Bridgerton," for some reason, you can see Colin and Benedict give twin winces in your peripheral vision, "It has been far too long." It feels as if everyone has stopped to listen in on your conversation. Probably because everyone has stopped to listen to your conversation.
You feel yourself grow warm as the weight of everyone's gaze falls upon you, but none heavier than his.
A series of expressions pass over Anthony's face, none of which you can even begin to parse before he swiftly settles on indifference.
"I would have to agree," he clears his throat, trying—and failing—to clear the stilted air between you both, "Though not time wasted, it would seem. You've been in good health, I hope?"
"I have been well. And you?"
"Much...of the same."
You thought you had loosened the hold that the incident had on you and removed any lingering bitterness you had, yet it seems it still dictates your interactions with him. Despite your muddled feelings towards him, you can’t help but notice he’s just as handsome as you remember.
Thankfully, Colin steps forward before the conversation fails even further.
"Not to interrupt this remarkably stimulating tête-à-tête, but—actually, I would very much like to interrupt it."
"Colin Bridgerton!"
"Oh, we were all thinking it, Mother!"
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Lady Danbury's ball is in full swing. Dreary debutants and maddening mamas swarm the room like locusts, setting their sights on any eligible bachelor they see.
Anthony looks out over the soirée and deems himself lucky that his reputation keeps him from being approached. He knows he will need to marry, sooner rather than later, but he can’t find it in himself to settle for a marriage of convenience.
Maybe some part of himself, some part of him that hadn't died with his father, still holds onto the childish notion of a love match.
Though, not everyone can be as lucky as Daphne and Simon.
His siblings don’t share the same resistance to consorting as he does. Eloise in particular should be on the lookout for admirers like the rest of the debutantes.
No, instead of socializing, they spend their time recounting his reacquaintance with you in great, mortifying detail.
"You should have seen his face when she came through the door, Eloise. I'm surprised his eyes didn't roll out of his head with how wide they were." Colin stage whispers to their sister.
"I especially loved the part where he froze up when she called him "Lord Bridgerton". You're a real," Benedict pauses, wide-eyed at Anthony's glare, "charmer. I'm sure the poets envy your eloquence."
"It couldn't have been that bad." When he saw you debuting before the queen, the only thing he could focus on was how much you had matured since the last time he saw you. 
No longer were you the young girl chasing his coattails. The girl—the woman he saw was nothing if not awe-inspiring. But he can confidently state that he hadn't expected such a cold reception from you. You greeted him as if you were strangers and walked away just the same.
"Oh, no. It was horrendous. Ow," Eloise yelps as their mother pinches her arm, "I guess it could have gone worse. Somehow."
"Chin up, brother. It's only up from here," Colin chimes in before mumbling into his drink, "Hopefully."
Lord Almighty, strike him down now.
Before he can defend himself, a hush falls upon the room. Ladies whisper behind fans and gentlemen stare in awe, himself included, as you come through the entrance arm in arm with your mother.
Of course, he came to support Eloise, but he can admit in the safety of his own mind that he had hoped to see you as well. And see you, he does.
As it is, the daughter of a foreign Earl would garner plenty of attention, especially one as beautiful as you. But with the Queen giving you such a phenomenal reception, it seemed your allure only soared.
All eyes follow you as you and your mother greet Lady Danbury before making your way toward his family. Did you notice the effect you had, the attention you reaped?
Your royal blue dress sways with each of your steps as you come closer and his breath catches in his throat before he forces himself to swallow around it. You bow your head in greeting.
"That is a gorgeous dress!" His mother compliments you before kissing your mother's cheek in greeting.
"Why, thank you. We brought it with us from France." You preen. Had you always had that slight Parisian lilt to your voice? How hadn’t he noticed that until now?
"She looks lovely. Right, brother?" Benedict's sharp elbow nudges Anthony in the arm as he stares at you. Later, he will thank Benedict for giving him this opening. But, for now—
Anthony is not one for flowery musings. He isn’t a poet, nor does he spend his time admiring the arts or waxing poetics about beauty and such. No, he leaves that sort of thing to his brother. 
But as you peer up at him with expectant eyes, the lights of the chandeliers painting you in a soft yellow, he can understand why a war was waged over Helen of Troy.
"Stunning. You look—stunning." You hold his gaze for a moment before looking away, seemingly bashful. He wonders at what point in your lives did he become someone you hid yourself from.
"Thank you, my Lord." There it is again. That steady growing distance between you and him. You bow your head in thanks before turning and starting a real conversation with Eloise. 
Is that all you’ve him to? An afterthought?
He interjects at multiple points in your conversation, adding his input in hopes that he'll grasp your interest, but you don’t even spare him a glance.
"There are plenty of young men in attendance. I wonder who will approach me first." You grin at Eloise—who undoubtedly does not share in your enthusiasm—and your eyes are bright with excitement as you look around the room.
"I'd advise proceeding with caution. You shall be surprised with what these pests will attempt for a foreign wife of large title and an even larger dowery." He speaks up once again and, finally, your attention turns to him.
"Is that so?" He doesn’t know what to say to you when you look at him like that, eyes wide with curiosity as you peek at him from under your eyelashes and he falters. Instead of coming up with a witty or even articulate response, Anthony sputters in a way that he is sure looked reminiscent of a fish on dry land. 
He’s determined you really don’t know the effect you have.
"As it is your first season, and you don't have a brother here to help you sort through the excrement, I'd like to offer my services as a chaperone." He proposes as if it is a benevolent act of charity and not a thinly veiled excuse to keep you close to him. An excuse he is sure you see right through.
"What of Eloise?" Your mother asks.
"She has two other brothers who will keep a close eye on her. Right?" He looks over at Colin and Benedict who both turn to each other before nodding in agreement. 
He is thankful they both choose at that moment not to make an ass of him.
"While that is a very generous offer, my Lord, it is wholly unnecessary. Not to mention improper, as I am not your sister." He needn't be reminded of that. It is a fact he is well aware of.
"Yes, you most certainly are not," the corners of his mouth twitched up as he clasp his hands behind his back, "And forgive me, my Lady, I had not thought of it that way."
"Yes, well, with those sorts of suggestions, you will lead many to believe you do not think at all. Now, if you all will excuse me, I have a dance card to fill." Your smile is stiff as you turn your back on him to continue your rounds with your mother. 
He is sure you meant the remark to be scathing, and if anyone else had said it to him, it might have left him scowling. Still, when you look back over your shoulder at him with a satisfied smirk in place, he can’t help but smile in turn.
"Why is he smiling? That was worse than the first meeting." Eloise voices.
He sees Benedict shake his head in his peripheral. "I haven't the slightest clue."
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"You must forgive me for staring, my Lady, but I've never met anyone as…exotic as you. The French have always intrigued me."
Next partner.
"Pardon me for asking, but what am I to expect in terms of your dowery?"
Next. Partner.
"My profession? I'm sure it's too complicated for your delicate sensibilities. Don't worry your pretty little head about it."
Next. Partner.
By your fifth round of dancing, the conversation with your potential suitors only further declines in quality. You hate to admit it, but Anthony's earlier statement proved true. You seem to be a lighthouse for vermin. Perhaps you should have taken him up on his offer, but the very idea ignites your nerves.
Spending the entire night alone with a man like him—even with your mother in attendance—is dishonorable and calls for scandal. Even if said man holds no affection for you.
You take a break from the dancing and horrid small talk by the refreshment table. If you knew the company in England was so dull, you would have stayed and debuted in France. You could have spent time with the number of Bridgertons in attendance, but you need a moment of respite.
"Escaping by way of refreshments?" You sigh into your drink at the accented voice coming from behind you. Though you know it is the entire reason that you attended, you are getting tired of pompous men thinking they are owed your time. 
"Yes, though it doesn't seem to be working considering your being here." Your posture straightens like a cracked whip as you spin around, you hadn't meant to say that out loud. "I'm so sorry, I hadn't—"
"No need," he laughs, "You were only being honest. Rarely do people of high standing speak their minds. It’s refreshing." Despite what he said, you are still mortified at your behavior.
He bows before you, "Count Henri LeClair." The name LeClair seems familiar, but you can’t put your finger on it.
He is quite a bit taller than you, at least by a head. His dark brown hair shines copper in the light and warm brown eyes peek up from beneath his fringe. A red, velvet coat is tailored well to his lithe frame.
You curtsy in turn and introduce yourself.
"Ah, I already know who you are. Um, our fathers, they worked together in France." 
"Oh, LeClair! Yes, yes I've met your father before." That's why the name seemed so familiar. The Right Honorable Count LeClair was a family friend before his untimely death, but you had only met him after you moved to France.
"So, you're the little Henri he spoke so fondly of," you grin up at him and realize little might be an inaccurate description, "What are you doing in London?"
"Perhaps I can explain while dancing?"
He holds his hand out for you to take as the band readies themselves for another set. He would definitely be the best dance partner you've had thus far. And he’s quite pleasing to look at, so even if the conversation did fall through you'd at least be in good company.
"Perhaps you can." You take his hand in yours and allow him to sign his name on your dance card before he leads you to the dance floor.
There are some lulls as there often are in discussions and he isn't the perfect conversationalist, sometimes speaking too little or too much, but you eventually find your rhythm with each other.
It isn’t terribly engaging and you aren’t swooning at everything he says, but he’s easy to talk to and you enjoy actually being able to speak freely.
He explains to you that he began his tour in Europe and decided to start in London before continuing his journey to Ireland. Under the urgency of his mother, he decided to stay for the debut and look for a wife.
"Thank you for this," you smile at him as the violins reach their crescendo, "I was afraid I would be doomed to a night of dull conversations with even duller men." He spins you under his arm before he pulls you back towards him. You follow him step for step as he leads.
"I hope you do not mind me asking, but do you...already have a courtship with Lord Bridgerton?" He asks with a tilt of his head.
You blink rapidly, taken aback. "Whatever would make you think that?"
He nods over your shoulder towards the other side of the room where the Bridgertons converse amongst themselves. Your mother and Violet are locked in conversation, Colin and Benedict are chatting on either side of Eloise, and at the end of that line stands Anthony.
His face is pinched with a deep furrow between his brows. His lips are pursed together in a thin line and his jaw is stiff. That’s all normal. What isn’t normal is the way his eyes haven’t moved an inch from your dancing form.
There is no telling how long he has been watching you, and if you didn't know any better, you would assume he’s jealous.
But you do know better.
Daphne's whirlwind of a season is no secret to you and you had read enough from her letters to know how much Anthony's overprotectiveness had played a hand in it. It wouldn't do to have him scare off any of your potential suitors as he did for her.
"He's a family friend, nothing more." You say far harsher than you meant to. It is the truth, no matter how much you wish it to be the opposite. 
Best not to think about that.
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Okay, so the Addams family (yes, I will make this reference even though the Featherintons are not gothic in this AU) are an ancestral and powerful family in the world of magic. And Penelope's mother just happened to be born in this family.
Portia Featherinton went to Hogwarts and had wonderful years in its halls, laughing at the ghosts and paintings on the wall. Somehow, she ended up in a marriage with a muggle.
Penelope grew up in two worlds, one full of magic, where her mother was actually happy, and the world of her father, surrounded by the restrictions of the ton, but she had Eloise, she had the Bridgertons, and most importantly, she had Colin.
On her eleventh birthday, she didn't pray, she didn't know which world to pick, so destiny choose to her. Weeks later, her mother woke her up, smiling and giggling. Penelope was going to Hogwarts, even with her obvious lack in talent in magic. So, she packed her bags, promising her mother she would never tell a soul about the school, and trying to calm Eloise nerves about being separated from her close friend. She didn't get to say goodbye to Colin, him starting his travels and not being home.
And the thing is, she adored the school, and even made friends who weren't Eloise. There's Simon, a former Slytherin who now worked as a teaching assistant in potions, and Kate, the brave Gryffindor that shined bright on the quidditch team, Sophie, a kind Hufflepuff with a talent for divination, and Gareth, her fellow Ravenclaw, a year younger, whom she took under her wing. Then there's Phillip, a sweet Hufflepuff who spent his days in the gardens, and Michael, a talented in transfigurations Gryffindor who spent his trying to get him out of there.
In comparison, she just kinda hated going back. She missed Eloise, just like someone misses their limb, but she hated the ton. Hated being looked as if she's weird just because she goes to an unknown school with her sisters, hated being ignored, just an unpleasant feeling by being there.
At 18, she graduates and starts working at the Daily Prophet, and spends most of her days away from her dad's side of the world. Away from Eloise, and the Bridgertons, and Colin.
In her 28th birthday she apparates to her mother's birthday party, only to be discovered by Colin.
Chaos ensues as her, her friends, with the addition of genius Lucy, a Slytherin who is claimed as the brightest witch, and who somehow likes arithmancy, and her family try to gaslight the boy into thinking he's crazy. Colin falls in love amist this.
Wait, I somewhat have a Harry Potter au! Link
The post is more to do with Michael kidnapping, I mean force befriending, I mean adopting, Phillip and Penelope at Hogwarts. Still applied the whole spouses only thing for the magical world but this a great expansion for it!
Again, fair warning everything I know about Harry Potter was absorbed through the fandom with random videos popping up on my tiktok. So this is highly me just winging it. I might tweak this though just a little bit.
Penelope, for all her life, had heard the whispers around her about how weird her family is. Even when others weren't making a sound. They say her family dressed oddly, that her mother miserable old bat, and that she was so unnoticeable it was creepy how she somehow always seemed to answer others even without them saying a word.
It was true that her mother dressed her daughters differently than others, but what they don't know is that citrus colors were to hide the reminisce of the magical world her mother was born into.
Yes, her mother was miserable at times, but wouldn't you also be miserable if you were forced to hide the one part of yourself that you loved the most? Her mother's misery was derived from being forced to stay in a world that forces her to supress herself.
As for Penelope herself, she can't help she hears things others say. Maybe they shouldn't be speaking if they don't want her to hear.
The truth was Penelope's mother, Portia Featherington, was not from the world of the ton. Born Portia Addams, Penelope's mother was a witch, born into the Addams family, a powerful and old magical family in Spain. During Portia's childhood she was brought to England's wizarding world, and later attended Hogwarts. Portia adored her time in school, and she adored magic. Things after Hogwarts became murky but somehow, she ended up married to Penelope's father, Lord Featherington. This marriage forced Portia to stay in her husband's world and hide her magic. Now the only time Penelope sees her mother smile is when they visit their Addams family members or during the nights when Portia brings her daughters outside and teaches them about magic under the moonlight. If Portia could, she would leave the ton behind and fully rejoin the magical world.
Penelope herself wasn't sure what world she would prefer to live in. Despite the whispers and restrictions of the ton she had her best friend Eloise, and her family the Bridgertons, who sometimes felt like Penelope's second family. Of course, there also Colin Bridgerton, Eloise's older brother, and the man Penelope was secretly in love with. But the magical world was also quite fascinating to Penelope, and there were times that she found herself smiling more in the magical world than she did in the ton. Even though Penelope does not have the same accidental magic bursts that her sisters displayed she knows her mother is hopeful all her four of her daughters will go to the same school she did.
On Penelope's 11th birthday she did not pray for one way or another. She was still unsure what world she wanted to be in. She decided to let destiny take the wheel.
About a month after Penelope's 11th birthday she was awoken with her rmother laying next to her, giddy as a child.
"Oh Penelope," Portia sang. "You have a letter."
Turns out Penelope was going to Hogwarts after all. With a promise to her mother to not tell a soul about the magical world, and reassuring Eloise that they will write to one another Penelope found herself in a carriage on it's way to her mother's world.
Once Penelope was at Hogwarts she found out why her mother loved it so much. There was something freeing about magic and Hogwarts felt like endless possibilities. That hat hesitated when sorting her, it had debated between Ravenclaw and Slytherin before ultimaly deciding to put her in Ravenclaw. Penelope also found out why she kept hearing whispers in the ton at Hogwarts. Turns out she had an affinity for legilimency and what she thought were whispers was really her going into people's minds and reading their thoughts. Oops.
Sorted into Ravenclaw Penelope found herself quickly making new friends too. It started with her fellow first year, and fellow Ravenclaw Edwina Sharma. Edwina proceeded to introduce Penelope to her older sister, Kate Sharma. Kate Sharma was a Gryffindor, a talented quidditch player, and had an affinity for magic associated with magical beasts. Next came her kidnapping, okay fine surprised friend adoption, from Hufflepuff Michael Stirling, who has a talent for transfigurations. Through Michael Penelope met one of his other surprise adoptees Phillip Crane, a fellow Ravenclaw who spends more time in the herbology greenhouse than he does in his dorm. While being dragged by Michael to the Huffelpuff common room Penelope met Sophie Beckett, another Huffelpuff who had a talent for healing spells. It was a slow build to friendship with Simon who was a Slytherin graduate at Hogwarts and now assists the arithmancy teacher, hiding from his father Penelope will accidentally learn later. During Penelope's second year Kate came bounding in the group study session with a nervous looking first year Gryffindor Gareth St Clair, who turns out was semi related to Simon and had a talent for charms. The last one came after Penelope's graduation in the form of Lucy Abernathy, a Huffelpuff divination specialist, who Penelope's sister, Felicity, had befriend.
During her time at Hogwarts Penelope found she did not want to return to her father's world of the ton. She found the longer she was away from it the more she came to hate it. She found even less reason to keep coming back when her letters with the Bridgertons lessened until they were practically non-existent, then her father died too when she was 14. Without a son Penelope's father wrote in his will that whichever of his daughters had the first son would inherit the estate and their son would become the new Lord Featherington.
Portia raged that it was one final jab at her, another reason to force her to stay around the ton.
When she was 17 and graduated Penelope had begged her mother not to debut her like she did with Prudence and Philippa. She argued that there was no way she would have the first grandson since the ton didn't even notice her for one thing, and Penelope wanted to stay in the magical world.
Portia gave her daughter her blessing and Penelope fled to the magical world, finally staying. In the magical world Penelope had a well-known novelist under the name Lady Whistledown. She's known for her characters being so lifelike and the enchantments she used to let readers hear the voices of the characters as they read. Penelope doesn't mention that the reason her characters are so lifelike is because she'll study people and with her legilimency she can casually hear their passing thoughts as they walk by her.
When Penelope is 19 and getting ready to write her next book Edwina drops a bomshell on her.
"You want to what?" She could not have been hearing Edwina right.
"I want to participate in a London season as a debutant," Edwina repeated.
"Why?" Penelope asked beyond confused. "And why do you want me to join you? What of Mr. Bagwell?"
Charles Bagwell was a scholarly man Edwina had met as she continued her studies at University. Since their first conversation Edwina has been infatuated with him, possibly love him. Penelope could not think of any reason why her friend would want to give up a rarity like that for a London social season of all things.
"Actually, it's all for research," Edwina answered. "I am researching on how enchanted instruments sound to muggels vs witches and wizards. I figured the balls of the London social season would give me both instruments to enchant and a group to study off of with the debutants."
Penelope raised an eyebrow because Edwina still hasn't explained why she wants Penelope to run the London social season with her.
"And I was hoping my very good friend with knowledge of the social season and the ability to hear others' thoughts would join me so I know what the debutants internal thoughts are when they hear the enchanted music."
"Edwina!" Penelope exclaimed.
"What? I'm not asking you to dig into their minds," Edwina said. "Just do what you normally do and passively listen."
Penelope stared down her friend, and Edwina stared right back.
"Fine," Penelope said," but I want that nice new quill set, the one with the raven feather."
"Deal," Edwina said.
"And," Penelope stressed. "You must get all of our friends who are of age to come too. So that means Simon, Michael, Phillip, Sophie, and of course Kate."
Edwina's jaw dropped. "How am I supposed to drag Simon and Phillip to London? And why do we need all three? Can't we just get Michael?"
"A debutant can only dance with a gentleman twice my dear Edwina, and you know the ton does think my family weird," Penelope said. "If you want me to gather as much information as possible we'll need all three."
Edwina groaned and plopped her head against her friend.
Somehow by some miracle (probably Kate) Edwina had gotten all their friends to come. She even got Gareth and Lucy. Though those two are on a break from Hogwarts and came with Felicity to laugh at them.
Portia had to hide her laughs when Penelope informed her of Edwina's research and that Penelope must debut to help her. With her husband dead Portia was much more relaxed. While she was still forced to stay within the ton until a grandson was born, she was now free to do as much magic as she wanted in her home. The staff to the Featherington home has dwindled as well but those who are on staff like the butler Briarly, and Mrs. Varley the head maid, are witches and wizards themselves.
Penelope had already sent her luggage ahead to her mother's house and was just grabbing a new journal to draft her new story in with her new raven quill.
"Here we go," Penelope sighed as she apparates to the Featherington House in Mayfair.
Well, not exactly to the house, but on a corner of it where one would have a hard time seeing her. While most should still be in bed or at breakfast before morning calls, one couldn't be too careful.
"Pen?"
Penelope froze. It's been years since she's heard that voice. The last time she heard it she was 16.
Turning around Penelope's horror grew as she saw Colin Bridgerton on his horse, most likely returning from one of his travels.
"Colin, it's been so long." Penelope said, her voice too high.
"Did you just appear out of thin air?" Colin asked, bewildered.
Damn, damn, damn! Deny, deny, deny!
"Colin don't be silly," Penelope said. "Humans appearing out of thin air? It's only the stuff of fantasies."
Penelope began to walk back towards her house. "If you will excuse me, my mother is waiting."
Once inside Penelope ran to the drawing room. Thankfully only her friends and Felicity were in there. "I fucked up! I fucked up!"
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cherrygorilla · 1 year
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Happy Birthday, Danelle! 🎂
Sadly, thanks to my life being consumed by my degree, I didn't manage to get anything substantial finished writing-wise in time for your big day. However, I didn't want to let it go to waste without doing anything, especially after you'd been lovely enough to put that video together for me at Christmas. But since I'm not nearly as talented as you when it comes to doing that sort of thing, I resorted to what I do best: rambling about our characters, and the apparently endless list of ideas I have for them. Well, not quite endless, but 16 pages of a Google Doc is still pretty insane...
So yeah, this is basically just a total brain-dump of any story concepts, headcanons, random song-inspos, and TikTok references I've got stored up that would likely never have seen the light of day otherwise. They're way too much fun to just keep to myself though, so hopefully they can bring you a little joy today! And even if you think they all suck, at least you can enjoy the fact that your characters are living in my head rent-free pretty much 24/7. 
And so, without further ado, enjoy your window into the chaotic, fangirl mess that is my brain…
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Story concepts:
First, of all we have: ✨story concepts✨ - aka, actual, substantial ideas of mine that have potential, but likely no means of ever getting written thanks to everything else I have on my plate atm. The first two are big ones, which earned themselves their own moodboards, but the rest are just ideas that are too big to just be considered headcanons lol.
Idea 1: Bridgerton AU
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Okay, I've definitely mentioned this one before, and this one at least has some potential of maybe getting written one day, but I would LOVE to do a Bridgerton AU focusing on a Miles & Carrie Enemies-to-Lovers style story. It has been like a year since I watched anything Bridgerton related though, so if the technicalities of this are a little sketchy then that's why lol.
The outline I have is basically: Mrs Murphy works as part of Butchy and Mick's staff, with her sons also taking on roles around the house. Butchy's parents had taken pity on Mrs Murphy when she came asking for a live-in work position since she had three young boys to take care of and the eldest was close in age to their own son. So basically, Butchy and Lela grow up treating Miles, Royce and Bentley like their own siblings, despite the fact that technically they work for them. The Season prior would have been when Butchy fell in love with and married Mick, so this would start with them beginning their new life as a couple, still with the Murphys working for them, and with Lela getting ready for her first Season. She'd be super nervous about it though because she's heard rumours that the prestigious Cole family are going to be entering their precious twins into the Season for the first time this year, and she knows that if that's the case then she's got no chance of getting any attention. Her family try their best to reassure her, but when it comes time for each eligible young lady to be presented to the queen, sure enough, the Coles present their daughter, Caroline, and she totally steals the show. This immediately gives everyone a vendetta against Carrie for crushing Lela's confidence, but at a ball later that evening, when Carrie is once again taking all the attention of any potential suitors, she runs into Miles and in a matter of minutes proves that she's just as much of a spoiled brat as he suspected her to be, if not worse, thus souring his opinion of her even further. They end up arguing out in the garden, since Carrie had gone out to get some air and Miles couldn't bear to be surrounded by the stuffiness of the party, they get caught in the rain, and after Carrie denies Miles' help to get her back inside (because even when he hates her guts, he still has to go and be a nice guy lol), she ends up slipping on a wet paving stone and completely ruining her dress. Their argument gets even worse and before long, Carrie's older brother (literally only a character for this story, so irrelevant otherwise that he doesn't even have a name lmao, I just couldn't have Tanner doing this because he needs to be elsewhere) demands that Miles and his family leave before they cause any further trouble as Carrie has to go and clean herself up, which she is especially not happy about since it cuts into her time of pursuing potential suitors. Butchy tries to help and defend Miles, which he does without question, but ultimately decides that it would be best if they left anyway, much to Lela's dismay since she'd finally been getting some attention from Carrie's brother, Tanner.
Miles' opinion of Carrie gets worse and worse with time, which extends to the rest of his family when they catch wind of what happened, but as Lela starts growing closer to Carrie's brother, the more time they have to spend around one another. Carrie is crowned The Diamond and as a consequence starts courting a duke (Seacat, don't ask me why, I just feel like I picture him being her other love interest in this more than Eric lmao), which Miles and his family are subjected to bear witness to after Lela and Tanner also start courting, and they're invited to spend some time at the Coles' huge estate. In Bridgerton S2 fashion, they all partake in a croquet game, where Carrie and Miles' bickering reaches an ugly head. Sick of listening to them, Mick knocks Carrie's ball off into the woods and, in an act of defiance, Carrie insists that she doesn't need Seacat's help to go and retrieve it. Vivien, a close family friend of Mick's, who is also along for the trip, and takes on the 'Lady Whistledown' type role in this story, knocks Miles' ball in the same direction after Carrie has left to annoy/tease him further, and in an unlikely turn of events, the pair end up helping each other retrieve their balls from rather precarious places, leaving them both giggling like children and covered in mud. This reveals a little insecurity on Seacat's part, however Carrie reassures him it was nothing. But when she catches Miles awake and wandering the house that night, and they get to talking again, they start to realise they might have been wrong about each other after all, and scary, new feelings start to be uncovered. They're caught by Mick before anything can happen, but the can of worms has already been nudged open and the damage has already been done, and she keeps an extra close eye on them from then on as her suspicions start to rise.
I've already gone into way too much detail already, so I'll summarise the rest of it quickly, but basically, as much as they try to deny it, Miles and Carrie start catching feelings for one another, and their unlikely run-ins just keep making it worse, especially when things are supposedly getting serious between Carrie and Seacat - at least from an outsider's perspective anyway. One day, when Miles is out tending to the horses in the stables (because that's the closest job I could think of to match his mechanic skills lmao), Carrie once again gets caught in the rain, and runs there for shelter. One thing leads to another, and in true Miles and Carrie fashion, and in true Bridgerton fashion, they get way too carried away with one another and just start going at it right there in the stables. They're not as careful as they thought they were being though, and Vivien being the nosy little genius she is, immediately figures out what is going on and runs to Royce to fill him in. In a panic, and desperate to stop Miles from ruining his life, praying that if he does everything will just go back to the way it was before, Royce comes up with a plan to use Vivien's Lady Whistledown-esque writing powers to put together an expose on Carrie and her adulterous habits (without revealing the identity of her partner in crime though, obvs), thus ruining her reputation. They don't have the foresight to realise that it will bring down Carrie's family with her though, including Tanner, and then, by association, Lela, since by the time they've sent the draft off to be printed, Tanner and Lela have announced their engagement. With a push from the queen, Seacat and Carrie announce their engagement promptly afterwards, leaving Miles horrified and Mick concerned for him, since she had been suspecting Miles had been developing feelings for a while now, which is then confirmed after getting him to open up to her, and him breaking down about how badly he's messed up by taking things as far as he did with Carrie. With Carrie and Seacat's engagement being the talk of the town, the queen throws together a whirlwind wedding in mere days, and before anyone knows it, Carrie is reciting her vows with her eyes locked on Miles, and Seacat is reciting his with his eyes locked on one of Carrie's bridesmaids. In a display not dissimilar to the bracelet incident in S2, the queen finally sees through the cracks in their charade and calls the wedding off, leaving Carrie and Seacat in a state of shock, and Carrie's reputation in the gutter, which is only made worse by the arrival of Royce and Vivien's Lady Whistledown pamphlets. Cue an utter meltdown inspired by this song from the unofficial Bridgerton musical, where Carrie, who had only agreed to the marriage in the first place to help expand her family's connections, and to help cover for her handmaid, who had slept with Seacat and had ended up pregnant, goes completely off the deep end. Will Royce and Vivien be able to enlist the help of Mick and Butchy to fix their mess, and give Miles the happy ending he deserves? …I guess we'll never know. But it sure is fun to think about! 
I know I already mentioned one song from the unofficial Bridgerton musical, which I love btw, but the only other one, besides the opening number, that really makes me think of this AU is If I Were A Man - because how cute would it be for Vivien to sing this when she's hanging out with Royce and Bentley, complaining about how stupid the Season and all this 'courting' business is, only for Royce to be watching her the whole time with the biggest heart eyes imaginable??
And it's not a part of the musical or anything, but every time I listen to this Bridgerton-esque arrangement I think of this AU. I mean it just fits so well! Like the fact that it's a cover of Paparazzi when in her og universe Carrie's a famous actress - it's perfect! And it sounds so good! I feel like I can so clearly picture Miles and Carrie dancing together for the first time with this playing in the background and everyone just watching them like: 👀 ...are they supposed to be doing that??? but he's poor?? and she's supposed to be unlovable?? what's going on?? 
Idea 2: Star Wars AU
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I only thought of this one recently but godddddd it's so fun. Like just picture Miles vibing on some random planet in the middle of nowhere, just trying to mind his own business and get by looking after his little brothers and their handful of a best friend, Vivien, aka a wannabe resistance fighter, who is always getting told by Miles to stay away from that stuff because it's dangerous. And then one day, Miles is unwillingly dragged into helping a runaway evade capture - he doesn't know who she is, he just knows that she's very charismatic, and very pretty - and she has a LOT of hair. He ends up repairing and hijacking an old space cruiser, and, with some prompting from his little brother and Vivien (any maybe Riven too; I feel like he would thrive in this universe), all hungry for a little adventure, he ends up agreeing to take Carrie across the galaxy to where she needs to go.
They run into Butchy and Mick along the way, a pair of resistance fighters working on a mission to steal some plans from the First Order, and they decide to join forces, although Butchy is incredibly reluctant to trust Carrie, despite having no problems with anyone else - he just senses there's something off with her. When they stop on a planet to refuel, the First Order has managed to track down Mick and Butchy thanks to bounties they have from a previous mission where they took down a fleet of First Order Star Destroyers, and a huge fight breaks out, that, despite their lack of experience, Miles and his family are swept up in. Surprisingly, they manage to hold their own quite well, but Miles is soon distracted when he sees that the First Order have taken Carrie. Butchy tries to help him, but his efforts land them both in First Order prison cells after they're both knocked unconscious. Butchy tries his best to reassure Miles that Mick will already have a plan in motion to come and rescue them, and tells him to just stay quiet when the stormtroopers inevitably come to question them. It's not a stormtrooper that comes to interrogate them though, instead, a pair of heels clacks along the polished floors in time to the Imperial March, accompanied by a long, black cape with a hood that is dropped when its owner comes face to face with the boys to reveal a devilish smirk belonging to none other than Carrie, who's actually been working for the First Order the whole time. Miles feels understandably betrayed, Butchy feels frustrated that he didn't trust his gut feeling more, and after some pretty intense Force mind games, not dissimilar to this scene, Carrie reveals her boyfriend Eric's master plan to bring down the Resistance once and for all. There's an obvious back and forth, as Miles tries to talk her around to see sense, but when Eric shows up he's quick to shut him down, and the unhealthy nature of his and Carrie's relationship is quickly exposed. Carrie chooses to ignore Miles' pleas, and leaves with Eric, however, as to be expected, before all hope can be lost, Mick and the others show up and come to their rescue.
On their way to escape, Butchy and Miles run into Carrie yet again and a pretty epic lightsaber battle commences. It's mainly Butchy (blue lightsaber) and Carrie (red lightsaber) to begin with, and it's rather intense since they're both, understandably, super pissed at each other, but when Carrie wounds Butchy pretty badly, Miles, despite his lack of experience and doubt in his ability since he's never even heard of The Force before (apart from through the stories Vivien would tell his brothers, which up until now he'd believed were entirely fictitious), let alone used it, has to step in to defend him. Their feelings for one another make the fight a difficult one, but when Eric finds them and starts taunting Carrie, bossing her around and degrading her right to her face, and Miles starts pleading with her and helping her try to see reason, telling her that it doesn't need to be this way and that she can be happy like she was back on the ship with him and his family, and that despite what Eric says, there is light in her because he's seen it, she finally sees Eric for who he really is, and sees through all the lies he's been telling her about the First Order. Her lightsaber, locked in place by Miles desperately trying to block her latest swing, starts flickering from red to purple (I know lightsaber colours don't work like that, but the symbolism of it shifting from totally red to a mix of red and blue [ie good and bad] is too good, so just let me live) as her allegiance to the dark side starts to waver, until finally she's had enough and turns on Eric, killing him with a final, ruthless display of passion. Miles helps Butchy to safety on the rescue ship as Mick leaves Riven and Vivien in charge of piloting it, in favour of helping tend to Butchy's wounds, before he goes back and convinces Carrie to leave the First Order once and for all. Vivien and Riven navigate the ship through one last First Order attack as they make a break for it, and by the time that the group makes their way back to the Resistance base, the fight has found itself six new soldiers: Miles, Royce, Bentley, Vivien, Riven and, of course, Carrie. Kind of a fun concept, right? Well, maybe, but maybe I just want to see Butchy and Carrie going at it with a pair of lightsabers to Duel of the Fates. Is that too much to ask? lmaooo
Idea 3: The Little Mermaid
 Okay, these ones are much shorter now, and this one literally only materialised a few months ago when I started getting excited about the new Little Mermaid live action remake. Tbh, there's not really any substance to it other than the fact that I think Carrie would make SUCH a good mermaid. Like she grew up at the beach spending pretty much all her time in the ocean, she has the voice of an angel and her hair would be SO FUN underwater haha. Also, you know if Carrie was a mermaid, Miles' ass would get dragged out to sea in like two seconds flat lmao. And even before I saw you pinning some mermaid stuff to Kona's Pinterest board, I felt like she would have made such a cute little mermaid companion for Carrie - getting all grumpy about her acting weird and ignoring her (a la She's In Love from The Little Mermaid musical) and then teasing her like crazy about crushing on a human once she's figured out what's wrong and has come around to the idea of it. In a similar way, I think Vivien would also make a great mermaid pal for her, if not for anything other than the fact that her purple hair would look incredible underwater hahaha. Plus, I've always thought it would be cute for, in a totally separate AU, Carrie to start taking some of Vivien and Kona's dance classes to earn some extra cash whilst she tries to book an acting job, and when they find out that Miles is crushing on her big time, they start meddling and trying to get them together, and end up getting super close with Carrie in the process. Obviously that wouldn't work for this concept since idk how mermaids would dance, but the theme of Vivien and Kona teaming up to get Miles and Carrie together, and building a really close bond with Carrie in the process remains lol. There's literally no other substance to this idea, I just like the thought of Carrie singing pretty songs and splashing around underwater with a sparkly mermaid tail, because, let's face it, she would absolutely neail Part Of Your World. 
Idea 4: Mrs Murphy meeting Carrie for the first time
Again, no real plot idea for this one, I just really like the thought of Mrs Murphy slowly realising that Miles has a crush on someone and trying to do what she can to encourage him to follow his head and go for it - giving advice here, and fixing his hair before he leaves the house there. And then when she finds out that he finally plucked up the courage to ask her out and it all went well, she's obviously overjoyed, and is always trying to convince him to bring her over for dinner, much to Royce and Bentley's dismay. Eventually, Miles agrees, but when Mrs Murphy opens the door to find that the girl her son had brought over was basically the exact opposite of the one she'd envisioned he'd fall for in her head, she's understandably…confused. Will she start to appreciate the lovably egotistical blonde for who she is with time, or will Carrie's reception at the Murphy house meet the same fate as a certain ship of special interest to none other than the girl that had the Murphys wrapped around her little finger from day one?  😉
Idea 5: The One With The Pregnancy Test
Okay, this one just totally rips off the scene in Friends where Rachel finds out she's pregnant, but it does have its own fun spin, so I'll go ahead and include it anyway. Basically, everyone's at the cabin in New Hampshire, and Mick, Vivien, Carrie and Miles are all chilling in the kitchen. Carrie goes to grab some milk from the fridge but can't stand the smell of it and starts feeling really nauseous. Miles takes it from her and gives it a sniff-test, but says that it smells fine to him. He offers it to Vivien and she says the same thing: it smells fine. Carrie's majorly weirded out, but that confusion soon turns to complete and utter terror when Mick says that the last time milk smelled weird to her was when she was pregnant. At first Miles thinks Mick's just joking because she knows how much the thought of having kids freaks them out, and says that there's no way of that being possible anyway because they're always careful and Carrie's on birth control. But Mick says stuff like that's never fool-proof and starts telling them about how Lela had to go and get a new prescription of her birth control pill because her batch had been recalled due to the dosage being too low. Carrie, knowing that she takes the same brand, instantly starts to panic because she hadn't heard anything about the recall and immediately goes to check her batch number. Miles tries to calm her down and tell her to not jump to conclusions, but when she's gone, starts freaking out in his own right to Mick and Vivien about how this all just has to be a big coincidence because there's no way he can be a dad. They talk him around a little, and say there's no point in worrying about something that might not even be happening, and eventually send him off to go and talk to Butchy and his brothers to help distract him. Mick and Vivien then go and track down Carrie, who is hyperventilating into her purse as she checks her birth control batch number for the hundredth time, praying that the next time she looks at it it'll be different. Mick tries, and fails, to get her to relax and tries asking her if she's had any other symptoms: but the missed period (which she'd previously chalked up to the stress of a busy work schedule), persistent nausea (which she had thought was just because of Bentley's poor cooking skills), and sore boobs (yeah, she had no explanation for that one) were not making things look good.
Mick finds some old pregnancy tests in her bathroom and convinces Carrie to take one so that she can get a concrete answer before she starts having a total meltdown over a hypothetical, but only if her and Vivien wait around to check on the result with her since she's in no fit mental state to find out that kind of news alone, and she's too nervous to get Miles involved yet, knowing that he'd be just as stressed about the result as her, if not more. As they wait, Carrie starts opening up to Mick and Vivien about why she doesn't want kids, why she doesn't think that she'd be a good mom, and how selfish she feels ince most of it revolves around her own vanity. She confirms what the girls had already been suspecting about Miles' view on it all: how his relationship with his dad basically ruined his desire to take on that role in his own life and saddled him with a fear of one day turning into him if he ever did somehow have kids of his own. But she also expresses a fear that she'd be letting him down by continuing to focus on her career if his views on parenthood ever changed, and worries that he'd forfeit that opportunity for her sake when she knows that, if he was to be put in that position, he'd be an amazing dad - which naturally leads on to her venting about how terrible she thinks she would be as a mom because she cares too much about the way she looks and has such a crazy work life and doesn't have a maternal bone in her body, at least in her mind anyway. Mick and Vivien do their best to reassure her and talk her around to the idea, but before they can get a definite read on her feelings towards the situation, the timer for the test goes off. Carrie makes Vivien read out the results to her; she can't bear to look herself, and Viv says that it's negative. Carrie breathes a  huge sigh of relief, and says that she feels silly for working herself up over nothing, but it doesn't take long for the enormity of everything to hit her. She'd basically already started mentally preparing herself for how different her life would be because of this baby, and had started considering all the good that could come with it (yes, it was in a bid to counteract the bad, but it was still good in its own right), and part of her, although she didn't want to admit it, was starting to not only come around to the idea, but kind of getting excited about it. And even if the test was negative, she still had the problem of what the hell was going on with her body to deal with. So she asks Vivien to check again to be totally sure, which is when she reveals that it was positive all along, and that she knew Carrie would be happy about it deep down, she just wanted to get her to come to that realisation on her own first - which, thankfully, worked wonders! And after the initial shock wears off, all three girls are thrilled by the news…until they realise they now have to go and tell Miles… 
Idea 6: Carrie booking a dream role
Okay, Carrie's acting roles could have their own mega-post entirely, because I have a LOT of plans for storylines she's involved in on Find Your Voice, as well as other projects like Broken Shadows and Chasing Down Chelsea, and a whole slew of other things. One of the big and pretty important Find Your Voice ones is her character's Season 2 romance with Tyrone though, which comes off the back of her Season 1 breakup with Scott (Eric's character). The reason why it's so important is because, in a similar way to how Glee was pretty monumental in the portrayal of gay relationships in TV shows aimed at teens back in the early 2010s, I wanted Find Your Voice to be one of the first mainstream TV shows to properly explore interracial relationships. And like how Kurt and Blaine and Santana and Brittany were a huge deal for Glee, Candace and Tyrone telling the story of a white girl and a black guy falling in love like any of the other couples on the show was a huge deal in the 60s. Carrie's managers were reluctant to let her accept the storyline because of what it might do to her public image, and several of her co-stars had turned it down for fear of being blacklisted from the industry, but Carrie stuck by her beliefs and her and Donny (the guy who plays Tyrone) put their all into their performances, and as a result, they won over the majority. Sure, there were naysayers and protests about them 'corrupting the youth', but most people fell in love with the couple's love story as hard as the characters fell for each other, and cemented their position as series favourites. They made TV history with their on-screen romance, paved the way for generations to come, and won a bunch of TV awards for their performances as they went - but most of all, they became super good friends in the process. That all being said, this idea doesn't involve any of that lmao. It's just important context for her career-wise, and it needed a home somewhere, so I dumped it here haha.
Now, you may remember a brief Metalex and Ultraviolet comic being mentioned in Drive My Car Part 6 (don't worry if you don't, I just hyperfixate on these things lol), and if you do, you may also recall Miles saying that he thought Ultraviolet was one of the most badass superheroes of all time. Well, this idea basically revolves around Miles having a long history with reading these Metalex comics growing up - loving the stories and becoming obsessed with the characters. So when he hears that the studio Carrie works for have bought the rights to turn the franchise into a series of movies, naturally he starts freaking out and begging her for any information she can get, which is only made worse when she finds out that her agent also manages the guy who they've cast as the lead. What she doesn't tell Miles though is that, knowing how much he adores this franchise, she decided to audition for the part of Ultraviolet. By some miracle, after a pretty rigorous audition process, she books the role, and confides in the first person she finds in the house after she's given the news (idk why I picture it being Royce, it could be anyone lol), who is equally as excited about Miles' imminent reaction, knowing that he'll lose his mind when he finds out. She ends up surprising him for his birthday by saying that she managed to talk her agent into giving her one of the promotional posters before the cast list is officially announced, and wrapping it up for him to open. And as I'm sure you can imagine, unrolling that poster to find that his childhood crush is being played on the big screen by his girlfriend, is a pretty huge deal for him. Profanities may have been shouted, tears may have been shed, shits may have been lost. All in all, a pretty successful birthday surprise if you ask me.
Idea 7: Vivien and Carrie's ✨Girl Day✨
I don't know why small-town America fascinates me so much, but I would just love to read about Vivien showing Carrie around her hometown and doing the most mundane everyday stuff you could imagine with her. Like that little snippet of them at the mall in one of your Christmas stories? Drinking boba? I need more of that. I love itttttt. Like them going through a drive-thru and then having a picnic in Vivien's car as she fills Carrie in on all the gossip from her school to get her take on it? How cute and iconic is that? I'm obsessed. 
Idea 8: Pampering Session
This was going to be one of my Christmas one-shots but, as is the theme with me lately, I ran out of time. Buuut, basically it was just going to be a little culmination of a few random little self-care based headcanons I had. Like a major one is Carrie having a super extensive skin-care routine that The Murphys tease her to no end about, but she doesn't care because she loves all her random little lotions and potions and tying her hair back and setting to work on her face every morning and night - it's like her definition of 'me time' lmao. And part of that headcanon is Miles lovingly teasing her about it, but also low-key getting pulled in once she starts introducing him to his own products that he can use too. And whilst at first it's super basic stuff like: look here's some ✨moisturiser✨, it goes on your ✨face✨ to stop it looking like the sAhaRa DeSerT 🤩 and Miles looking at her like: 🤨 ...you sure about that? It progresses to him taking more of an interest - it's only slight, but he at least has a little corner of the bathroom dedicated to his handful of nice products he uses to take care of himself. And, it's mostly to humour Carrie, but there have been a few instances where she's convinced him to do facials with her - it's largely influenced by her teasing him about getting wrinkles, and he always drags his feet at first, but as soon as she starts slathering it on and it feels all nice and cooling he tooooootally relaxes and enjoys it haha. And I loved the little mention of Carrie helping Vivien dye her hair purple in Through The Valley, so I was going to have her barge in on them mid-facial chill-out-time at the cabin, likely watching some trashy reality tv show together (because I feel like they would get so invested in that kind of thing, especially if it's a really shitty one where they could make fun of it together lmao), and ask her for help re-dyeing her hair because Royce is proving to be ✨incompetent✨. Of course Royce and Vivi would tease Miles to death about the facial - but because he was in his ✨relaxation mode✨ he'd be too chilled out to care and would just laugh along with them. And knowing Carrie, as soon as she started working on Vivien's hair and fixing the mess Royce made of it she'd start grilling him about how he thought he was capable of doing this when he can't even take care of his own hair properly. After a lot of protestation, they finally convince Royce to give Carrie's hair care routine a go, with Carrie shouting instructions to him through the bathroom door as he washes his hair lol. And, much to Royce's initial disgruntlement, by the time his hair's dry it looks healthier than it ever has. He grows to appreciate the advice in the long-run though because of how much more defined and silky it makes his curls look once he starts looking after them properly, and because of how crazy his hair now drives Vivien as a consequence lol. Cute, right? If only I'd had more time over Christmas lmaoooo.
Idea 9: Ghost Mrs Murphy
This one probably sounds more ominous than it actually is, but I keep seeing TikToks about people on the verge of death being comforted by loved ones, and then afterwards realising that they weren't actually there because they died x number of years ago. And whilst I don't think there would be any sort of complications surrounding Maisy's birth (because Carrie and Miles are already stressed out enough at the thought of a baby alone, I don't want to put them through anything else lmao), I did have an idea where Carrie starts haemorrhaging and is super out of it, but all she can focus on is this really nice 'nurse' who keeps talking to her and keeping her calm. She reassures her that she's okay and that she's doing great and that her daughter is beautiful, and just basically stops her freaking out until she drifts off to sleep (i.e. passes out lol). When Carrie eventually comes around though, this 'nurse' can't be found, and none of the other nurses or doctors she speaks to seem to know who she's talking about. Miles obviously can't know for sure, because he didn't see what she did, but when he listens to Carrie's description of her, he can't help but have a sneaking suspicion (or at least a fleeting hope) that it might have been his mom :')
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Headcanons:
AKA, all the other random little ideas that I have that aren't enough to warrent a full story of their own, but I still wanted to share...
Okay, I feel like this is such a random little thing for me to have latched onto, but I love the fact that Mick loves blistering hot showers. And whilst I feel as though sometimes Mick and Carrie struggle to see eye to eye (at least in TMM they do anyway haha), one thing they can both bond over is their love of lava showers. If they don't leave the bathroom looking like freshly cooked lobsters then what's the point? 
Whilst I feel that generally Carrie gets along better with Bentley, her and Royce have a really similar wicked sense of humour, and if they catch each other in the right mood then they can set each other off laughing for hours. But one thing that both Royce and Bentley can agree on is that Carrie is INCREDIBLY fun to tease, and they do so ruthlessly, at every opportunity possible. Thankfully, she has a good sense of humour though and, even if she doesn't think so in the moment, she'll always be able to see the funny side eventually. 
Royce and Bentley LOVE all the different accents and impressions Carrie can do, they're always so entertained when she whips a new one out of her back pocket, especially if it's unprompted.
When Carrie's pregnant, especially the first time around, she gets really bad morning sickness, like to the point where almost everything makes her at least gag, and Royce (in true sibling-esque-bullying fashion) finds this HILARIOUS, and pushes it to its very limit. Again, thankfully Carrie can also see the funny side of it and entertains the game for a while, but when they discover that the sight colour green alone is enough to make her nauseous it's game over for Royce; he's laughing so hard he needs his inhaler.
The concept of Carrie giving Bentley singing lessons is literally the cutest thing ever to me holy shit. Like little Bentley doing a cover of The Climb like the version in HSMTMTS? Brb I'm crying. 
Once Royce and Carrie's relationship starts to become not terrible, he develops a weird sort of familial protectiveness over her, especially when it comes to stuff people say about her. I only say it's 'weird' because it's not like how he's protective over Vivien or Miles or Bentley, or anyone else in his family, it's like its own entity. And sometimes he doesn't even know why he cares, because both Carrie and Miles got used to ignoring it pretty quickly, but he just can't stand it. Sometimes it's just because the kids in his class are being racist pieces of shit talking about her on-screen relationships, but it's mostly gross, vulgar stuff the guys say about her body or her more 'adult' scenes in certain shows and the stuff they come out with literally makes him sick to his stomach. Maybe it could manifest as Carrie catching him defending her, or maybe he just vents to her about it one day after school, idk. But the weird protectiveness of her that neither of them really understands is such a funny, but well-intentioned little notion to me lmao. 
On a different note, Miles was PETRIFIED at the very thought of meeting Carrie's parents for the first time, and obsessed about it for weeks, but they both absolutely adored him pretty much as soon as he walked through the door, and just immediately jumped to treating him as if he was already part of the family 
And if anything the bond only grows stronger with time - like when Maisy is born, and Carrie's parents visit the hospital for the first time, Carrie's dad goes over to check on Miles and give him a hug before he even thinks about looking at his granddaughter lmao 
And although Royce and Bentley feel super awkward about it at first, Carrie's mom is such a motherly person that she can't help but want to take them under her wing when she first meets them. They're pretty reluctant to open up to her for a while, more so than Miles was anyway, which is totally understandable, but over time, as they get more familiar with her (and she bakes them more and more birthday cakes) they start seeing her as another mother figure (after Aunt Mack though, of course lol)
Miles and Carrie's mom become low-key besties though, like she's always asking Carrie where he is if he's not with her, she's forever baking little treats for Carrie to pass on to him, and she loves filling him on all the drama she has to deal with at her catering gigs because the way he humours her by getting so invested literally makes her day
Carrie does not handle pain well at all. She trapped her finger in her car door once and from the way she reacted Miles thought that her entire hand had been ripped off lmao. But I guess that's to be expected when she's such a drama queen.
On a similar note, she hates any sort of creepy crawlies, especially spiders - and don't even get me started on her reaction to finding out that Riven has a pet lizard. She thinks he's certifiably insane.
And to round off Carrie's dramaticness - she is SUCH a cryer. Like she's such an emotional wreck that she can be laughing her head off one minute and then bawling her eyes out the next. Movies are normally the worst culprit since she's almost guaranteed to cry at something over the course of the 90 mins, which Bentley is incredibly entertained by, but as she spends more and more time in the modern world, TikToks of old people are really proving to be her new downfall.
I love the thought of Miles and Carrie both loving to cook, and both loving to cook for each other, but really struggling to cook together because they both keep wanting to take charge. Usually they can work out a compromise, but sometimes, especially with Carrie's temper as volatile as it is, stubborn bickering can escalate into chaos.
I've definitely mentioned this before but I can SO see Royce owning a cat. He's just a boy who needs a kitty to snuggle with whilst he reads, it's a necessity.
And I think you maybe mentioned this in your Christmas stories, or maybe it was your Hocus Pocus AU, it was definitely one of the two, but I LOVE the idea of Miles driving an old Jeep/truck. Like it's one that's kind of a heap of junk when he buys it, but he loves it to death anyway because he saved up all his own money to get it, and spends hours upon hours fixing it up and making it look like new again hehe.
Idk but I feel like Royce would really be into taking photos. Like he's not quite as artistic as Bentley or Miles, and he can't draw or paint very well, so he turns to taking photographs instead. That, and I feel like he's really sentimental, so I the thought of capturing memories like that would really appeal to him.
I know in your character info posts you mention Vivien getting her appendix out, but idk why I can just so vividly picture Miles getting appendicitis. Like at first he just tries to power through and insists he's fine because he's a 'man', but he taps out after like an hour and can barely move. And then maybe because Viv's been through it before she's like "this is an awful lot like when my appendix went 'boom'" lol, and suddenly everyone's like: hospital. NOW. Idk why I love the thought of that; it's so random. And the thought of Carrie and all the others taking it in turns looking after him afterwards? Ugh. Adorable.
Omg and speaking of your character info posts: I love the thought of, a couple of years down the line, once he's not feeling as financially responsible for Royce and Bentley, Miles being convinced by the others to go back to school to pursue one of the careers he always thought he'd go into. Because Miles as a teacher is such a perfect fit! And Carrie is like soooo not about school for herself, but she'd be super proud of Miles if he went back. Like at his college graduation ceremony she'd be cheering SO loud haha.
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Musicals:
Okay, this section is literally just for all the roles I'd love to see our characters play/roles I just think they'd nail, which I feel like is fun because we both love musicals, so why not indulge that a little bit here?
Eponine - whilst I could totally see Carrie nailing On My Own, I really think that Vivien would be a brilliant Eponine if her school were to ever put on Les Mis, especially if Carrie was there to help her. Also, the thought of Vivien and Royce singing A Little Fall of Rain together, especially when I'm still riding the high of all that angst you put them through in Scattered Screams? SO GOOD. And if Vivien is Eponine, Carrie would make a great Fantine, don't you think? Omg and if Viv is Eponine, and Royce is Marius, then wouldn't Riven be perfect for Enjolras? Aaaah, and you could have someone like Erica or Jade playing Cosette and having a running joke with Royce about having to play each other's love interest when they'd both sooner go off with Eponine lmao. Is Scattered Screams influencing this too much? Maybe, but idc it just shows how good it was haha.
Belle - in a similar sort of vein, I feel like Vivien would be a perfect Belle in Beauty and the Beast. Like smart and brave and kind? That is so her! I feel like Carrie's character in Find Your Voice (Candace) would also be a really good Belle because she's a little braniac bookworm, and I've toyed around before with the idea of them putting it on through the show (HSMTMTS-style), but as is the theme with this post, idk where what would ever fit in a story lol. Still, I think this role would be perfect for Vivi if she was ever going to be a leading lady again after Acting School Dropout haha. And I'm sure Carrie would be more than happy to offer up her coaching expertise again haha.
Elle Woods - this will probably be a short one, because I don't feel like I really even need to explain myself but I feel like if Carrie was ever destined to play any role on stage, it would be Elle Woods in Legally Blonde. Ditzy and girly, but determined enough to put her mind to something and succeed with flying colours? That's Carrie all over! And Miles would literally never do it, but how perfect would he be as her Emmett? And with Eric as Warner? Oh my god I could die. 
Regina George - purely for the iconic vocals and how good she would be at playing a bitchy villain like this, Carrie would kill it as Regina George. 
Elphaba & Glinda - Mick & Carrie are such a good match for these two, and whilst I feel like Carrie would make a great Elphaba vocal-wise, the only person that I feel could be the Glinda opposite her Elphie would be Juliet
Evan & Zoe - this one only really came to me as I was putting this post together but how good would Royce and Vivien be for these roles?
Heather Chandler, Heather Duke, and Heather McNamara - played by Carrie, Molly and Juliet respectively, especially in the context of TMM; they give me major Heathers vibes there, but that's never happening in that AU lmao
And just to tag this on the end here, the thought of Kona, Vivien & Carrie singing each of the three Fionas through the ages in I Know It's Today makes me so happy
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Fancy dress costumes:
Again, I have no idea how I'd fit any of these fancy dress ideas into stories, especially the first two since they're for my TMM AU and there is no excuse for the characters to dress up in that plot, but these ideas are too good not to share…
Concept 1: The Mystery Gang from Scooby Doo
Just picture this: it's Halloween at All Skate and these guys are working their shift dressed like this: Ethan is Shaggy, Mick is Velma, Miles is Fred, Carrie is Daphne and Midge is Scooby (yes, Midge, not Barney, it'll make sense later on, I promise). How perfect is that?! I literally could have screamed when I first thought of this and how much potential is wasted by a lack of a Halloween plot. But hopefully the mental image is entertaining enough on its own haha. 
Concept 2: The Wizard of Oz
Again, picture it's Halloween at All Skate and the group are attempting yet another group costume with: Mick as Dorothy, Ethan as the scarecrow, Miles as the tin man, Carrie as the cowardly lion and Midge in a little basket as Toto.
Was this mostly fuelled by me realising that Mick would pull off a Dorothy costume ridiculously well? Maybe. But how well does it work for all the others too? Like Ethan might as well have straw for brains anyway, Miles is so stressed about his brothers he always struggles to loosen up and have any fun, and Carrie's huge mane of curls was practically destined for this costume. It's PERFECT.
Concept 3: Miles and Carrie
And then I just have a few couples costume ideas for Miles and Carrie, because I feel like with Carrie being an actress and practically dressing up on the daily anyway, she'd take Halloween very seriously. First of all, and quite possibly my favourite, how good would they be as Kermit and Miss Piggy??? I CAN'T BREATHE, even their dynamic is perfect for it! And it's such a fun, silly concept, I love it. Perhaps a prettier and a little more normal option would be Rapunzel and Flynn Rider because Miles' floppy brown hair and Carrie's insane blonde hair are just screaming for it lmao. But also, because they're both always down for fun above all else, they're not afraid to rock up in outfits as iconic as this too.
Concept 4: Carrie and Eric
Okay, I'll admit that this was heavily influenced by the new Barbie movie trailer that was released, but how iconic would Carrie and Eric be as Barbie and Ken? They'd be perfect! And I know based on what I've already written about Eric, he hasn't been painted in the best light, but his relationship with Carrie up until their break-up was actually pretty good - and with where the story is atm in TMM, it's actuually pretty healthy as well (I just don't know if I've done a good enough job at showing that yet lmao). They really did genuinely care a lot about each other, and had a bunch of fun together since they're naturally both pretty goofy characters (as you would expect from two actors who specialise in comedic roles). It was just an unfortunate set of circumstances really with the whole cheating scandal and Eric being a dumb, reckless twenty year-old. He never meant to hurt Carrie in the way he did, the fame just got to his head from all his newfound attention and, because he thought he was invincible, he stopped thinking about the consequences to his actions. That mentality soon came back to bite him though haha. Anyway, tangent over! I think I'm probably the only person that cares about that anyway lol. But back to my main point: they would have 100% killed a Barbie and Ken costume - Eric is perfect himbo material for Ken and Carrie would have such a fun ditzy, but super determined, take on Barbie. Whether it was for a couples costume, or as actual roles in a movie back in their universe, they're nailing it in my mind lmao.
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Songs:
Here's just a bunch of songs that I have saved on my story inspo playlist that either make me think of our characters, or have entire little scenarios planned around them, that otherwise would sit in my head forever…
Doomsday - Okay, this one freaked me out when I first heard it because of how perfectly this fits, but literally every time I listen to it it makes me think of Vivien in your Through The Valley story, but specifically in that period at the end where she's waiting for Mick and Royce and the others to come back from Canada and slowly losing her hope of them ever returning. Like I always picture Vivien just trying to go about her daily life, listening to this to get her through, and her and Carrie belting out the bridge as they drive across these big, barren, open roads to get out their frustration about being left behind. And the fact that she literally says 'you did it on Halloween' when they left at the end of October??? It. Fits. So. Well.
No Time To Die - I don't know why this gives me such Scattered Screams vibes, but it just does. Like the intrigue but the promise of danger idk, I love it. I've got an idea for where I could use Skyfall, but that involves Carrie and her Chasing Down Chelsea show, which is so niche I won't even bother explaining it, but just the thought of her slinking around a party full of dangerous, wealthy people in a silky dress with a hit on someone to fulfil before she's hunted down by an intelligence agent she knows for a fact is also a guest there - ugh, it's so cool. I just love the concept of someone being dressed up so glamorously but being so badass at the same time haha
Taylor Swift: There are SO many Taylor Swift songs that I feel would work so well for Carrie (like Bejeweled, Karma and Anti-Hero all fit her vibe perfectly), but also Miles and Carrie's relationship too…
Style is one, particularly the chorus, that just makes me think of them both instantly. Like you can't tell me that chorus doesn't fit them both to a T. Plus it feeds into my headcanon that Miles' sense of style and confidence in the way he dresses sky-rocketed after he started dating Carrie, so I love it hehe.
Red is one that will be VERY important in a story I have yet to mention in this post, because I'm still holding out hope that I'll get to write it one day. But this song features heavily and proves to be a pretty pivotal moment in their relationship. And again, every time I listen to it, those two are immediately who I think of. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and All Out Of Love also play big roles in that story, but like I said, I'm still hoping that I'll get around to writing it one day, so I don't want to give too much away too early. But that might at least give you a bit of a vibe of the theme lol.
Paper Rings is one that I first listened to after you said that you had a prompt in mind for it and holy shit, idk if the prompt was about Miles and Carrie, but they are ALL I can think of when I listen to it now. It fits Carrie's adoration of him, and her willingness to give up her flashy/dressy lifestyle in the blink of an eye if he needed her to brilliantly. God, it's so cute, I love it.
Burning Love - There's no real story behind this one, I just love the thought of Vivien visiting the Wet Side Story world and stepping out of the machine for the first time, and immediately being hit by the scent of the beach, the sound of the waves, and this song floating along on the breeze from nowhere, simply because it's one big musical lmao. Like a little montage of her discovering their world and seeing everyone going about their daily business (spotting the surfers waxing their boards, seeing Butchy working on his bike, watching Kona playing volleyball with her friends, waving to Carrie and Miles as they catch some rays, running into Royce and Bentley riding their bicycles down the boardwalk), all set to this song, would be so cute. 
Keep Driving - I've definitely already mentioned my idea to do a series of Carrie and Miles one-shots based on the lyrics of this song, but I thought I'd throw it in here anyway, because I love it so much and wanted it to have a good home haha.
Mine & Landslide - I'll keep it simple with these two, because I can't elaborate just yet. But picture this: an AU of Carrie singing these to/with someone, where 📢spoiler alert📢 it's not Miles lmao. For extra context, there's a reason why they're the Glee versions of the songs lol.
Freak - I have no idea how I'd work this into any story, but every time I listen to this song I think of Carrie in some sort of Hunger Games/dystopian-esque AU where she has this picture-perfect image, and she's all sweet and nice one minute, and then as soon as she loses her temper/shit hits the fan she flips a switch and her nasty side comes out. Maybe she's provoked, maybe she doesn't know she's doing it (like some sort of Peeta situation in Mockingjay, where the Capitol are controlling him), idk, I just have not nearly utilised her insane temper enough, and the prospect is so tempting.
Uninvited - I thought I'd throw this in here because it was almost included in Drive My Car part 6, right after Carrie's let Seacat down but before Miles plucks up the courage to go over to talk to her. And it was basically just going to be Miles imagining her singing this to him to sort of test his feelings for her, but I cut it to stop myself from dragging the damn thing out to be even longer than it already was. I love the song, it just didn't need to be in there, you know? But I thought it'd still be fun to include here so that the idea isn't completely lost to time haha.
Maybe This Time & Cabaret - I've got no real concept for these songs either, other than them being used in a story that's set, again, in some sort of dystopian-esque AU where Carrie has this perfect image to upkeep, but as the life she always knew starts crumbling around her, that perfect facade starts to crack as she starts to go off the deep end…
Green Green Dress - Another very rough concept for this one, but just picture Miles and Carrie (a little tipsy) singing this together before they go out for the night. It can be before a date, before some premiere for Carrie's job, or even a party, it doesn't matter to me. I just love the thought of them goofing around all love-drunk and actual-drunk, singing this to each other.
What Do You Know About Love? - Okay, I actually have somewhat of an idea for this one, as weird as it may be. It's an AU where Miles meets Carrie stranded by the side of the road after a huge snowstorm where her car skidded into a snowbank and is now stuck there. She's not even remotely dressed for the weather because the beach is all she's ever known, and she's trying to get to a tv studio to continue the promo tour for some new show she's on, where she stars opposite some guy she's basically been shoe-horned into a fake relationship with. She naively believes it, but she barely knows anything about the guy, and he never wants to spend any time with her unless there are cameras around. Miles tries to get through to her, despite thinking she's a total spoilt airhead, and after digging out her car to no avail, failing to fix it, and then trekking through the snow for hours, when Mrs Murphy, Royce and Bentley finally come to the rescue, and Mrs Murphy offers to take Carrie where she needs to go, Miles all too quickly finds out that he's become awfully attached to the ditzy diva…And isn't quite ready to say goodbye. 
You Oughta Know - I don't quite know how I'd set this up in any story, but I just love the concept of Carrie trying her best to keep her cool around Eric and Molly once they start officially dating, but then ultimately losing her temper with him and just belting this in his face. Maybe like backstage at an awards show or something for some extra drama? I've got no clue. Like I said before, I just like the thought of angry Carrie and I have not utilised her enough thus far lmao. 
Supermassive Black Hole - You probably thought that I'd forgotten all about your Ordinary Human AU, but every time I hear this song I think about how cool a superhero montage would be set to this. And since one of Carrie's powers in that story was manipulating sound, I just love the thought of her grabbing random songs and using them as backing music in her practice battles at the training centre, especially because it pisses Butchy off since he thinks she's not taking it seriously. But like how cool would this be? She could bounce the audio back and forth between her opponent's ears, make the lights start strobing through the chorus, and then if she's teaming up with Miles he could start manipulating time and shit to speed things up or slow things down to fit with the music, or start conjuring stuff to make their opponents think they're seeing things. Random, I know. But it's what I think of every time I hear the song lmao, and I thought you might appreciate knowing that.
Lay All Your Love on Me - I just would love to see Miles and Carrie recreate this in the early days of their relationship, like when people at the beach start realising that there's something going on between them. At first they don't let on that something's up, no matter how much everyon tries to get it out of them, but by the end they can't keep their hands off each other (as usual lmao). So fun!
Ain't No Doubt About It - This is cheesy as hell, but how cute would it be for Miles and Carrie to flaunt their movie musical universe roots when visiting Mick's world and just burst into a rendition of this when asked by Vivien if they're aware of/worried about Royce and Bentley's determination to break them up? 
At Last - There is very little else to this idea other than I love the thought of Carrie and Miles singing this at Mick and Butchy's wedding, especially if Miles had flat-out refused to sing anything when they had initially asked him, only for him to turn around and surprise them with this.
I Want It All - Basically I just really want Carrie to sing this with someone, but in the current AU I'm working most of this from, I think the only person I could see it making sense with would be Juliet. I could see it happening, and I could totally make it work, I just don't know where I'd ever put it lmao. But it's too over-the-top and cheesy for Carrie not to perform, like come onnnnn.
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TikToks:
And finally, here's basically all the tiktoks I've saved as potential story ideas that will never meet their full potential, or ones that just remind me of our characters. I thought this might be a fun way to round the post out hehe...
Okay, idk if you've ever seen this guy on TikTok but literally every time he pops up he reminds me of Miles, and I don't even fully know why. I feel like ever since I first noticed it I've been subconsciously been making my take on his character more and more interested in playing the guitar, to the point now where it's becoming one of his defining characteristics. Like I just imagine him jamming out like this to random songs all the time. And on top of that - I feel like he kind of looks like Miles too - at least how I imagine him anyway with the blue eyes and floppy light brown hair. I know you already have a bunch of faceclaims for Miles, but I think he has the right vibes to slot somewhere onto the list lmao. Either way, just know that every time this guy pops up on my fyp, Miles is the first person I think of, without fail haha.  Similarly, this is Royce once he starts getting good at the guitar. And I know Ethan is my OC, and he's only appeared in the few parts of TMM I've posted so far, so you might not really care about this - but he is OBSESSED with music, especially the electric guitar, and this kid is EXACTLY how I imagine Ethan would have played this at his age - he still would now tbh lmao, he's just that invested in the music. Moving on from guitars, lol, just imagine a modern All-Skate-esque AU with Carrie and Ethan goofing off at work and surprising Vivien with this after they find out she's obsessed with the Titanic. Again, super random, but this is what's bouncing around in my head all day lmao.
Concept behind this one: in true Sam Evans from Glee style, when faced with the prospect of being lonely while Carrie is away on long shoots across country/abroad, Miles decides to adopt a puppy to keep him company, and in this case, that puppy just so happens to be the canine version of the very girlfriend he's worried about missing - OR, as an alternative to this, Miles just gets the canine version of himself.
This is very Butchy/Miles-core with them both being mechanics lmao
This is so Bentley with his niece and nephews when Miles and Carrie start having kids (at least in my universe of them anyway lol). He always has the best intentions when babysitting them, but every time they start misbehaving he just panics and stares at them like: 👁️👄👁️ what. are. you. doing???
Staying in that same AU, this is 100% Miles with Maisie. And it's already cute and very on-brand with the video being Dirty Dancing, but just imagine how much cuter it could be if she was making him reenact something like this with her but it was Carrie on the TV instead. OUCH! 
idk where my headcanon for Kona being insanely good at martial arts came from (at least in my TMM AU anyway), but I'm pretty sure this tiktok is partially to blame. Like she can be all cute and innocent and make you a friendship bracelet one minute, and then the next she can flip you over her shoulder like you're made of paper. I love to think that she gets Miles to help her practice too because I'm still not over how cute their bond was in Glory & Gore - but also, I can't stop thinking about Ethan hearing about it one day and totally underestimating her, leading to him making a bet with Miles that he doesn't think Kona would be able to get him on the ground - cue Kona taking literally one look at him and knocking him flat on his ass in about three seconds, leaving Miles laughing his ass off. 
Again, staying in the TMM AU, Ethan 100% showed Bentley this when he was a little kid and got the exact same reaction 
Carrie and Ethan's interactions with each other because they have such a hilariously chaotic dynamic - and by the end of TMM 1, sort of Mick and Ethan's interactions too (kind of a spoiler, kind of not, but we move - anyway, it's your birthday, you deserve it lmao)
Continuing with the TMM theme, as a way of summarising Miles and Ethan's friendship, coming up with shit like this is EXACTLY what they do when they're bored at work
In some AU somewhere, Vivien would SO do this for Miles with Carrie lmao
Since I never really explore Tanner and Carrie's relationship, here's a little window into it where, in true twin sibling fashion, they have been forced by their mom to be nice to one another for one
Okay, I've seen a bunch of compilations of these guys on TikTok and maybe it's just the fact that they're three brothers but every time I see them goofing off like this I always think that this is how unhinged Miles, Royce and Bentley would get if they were left alone together for too long lmao. Like they love each other to death but oh my god they can get on each other's nerves and be stupid like any other siblings.
Again, another multi-example one because my fyp is FULL of these guys, but the dynamic they have gives me such Miles and Ethan vibes - Miles is Joe, Ethan is Frank, and whilst most of the time Miles is just in despair at how Ethan has made it this far in life being the way he is, there are way too many instances where they both just revel in being absolute idiots together.
Suuuuper random headcanon but ever since Vivien showed her an ASMR video like this on her phone, Carrie became OBSESSED with them. I like to think it's because she's so in tune with her hearing because of all her music stuff she does, but she is just so fascinated by it that she could watch them for hours. And she gets so excited and tries to show them to Miles when they're just laying in bed together or chilling out on the sofa and he's always just like: 🤨 ...and???? But she LOVES the little brain tingles it gives her, and Vivien finds it hilarious. Maybe Royce is the only one that can kind of understand where she's coming from because he's got his sensitive hearing, but it has to be the right kind of video or he has to rip his headphones out. Like if it's someone whispering into the microphone and they have that whistle thing going on? Absolutely not, he's yeeting that phone across the room. 
Miles with Carrie's Velvet Sunrise friends. That will make sense after Acting School Dropout part 3, I promise lol.
Okay, this works SO well if you stick with the idea from WAY back where Mick and Butchy name their son after Miles. BUT, even though they don't name any of their kids after family members besides Miles' mom, I could totally just see this being Bentley meeting Miles and Carrie's first kid.
Concept here: Miles cheering Carrie up whilst she's on her period having super bad cramps and when she's finally been doped up on enough pain meds to not be curled into a lifeless heap on the couch, they start goofing around like this as she tries to explain to him what she's having to go through because Miles is CLUELESS. Or, this is just one of their many random lunchtime activities back when they car-shared before dating, and would find any excuse whatsoever to go hangout together. Like Carrie gets wind that Miles doesn't know what a tampon does and just drops all her plans for the day to go show him lmao.
Very Carrie-coded.
Miles and Carrie's relationship in a nutshell.
More will come from Carrie's downtown apartment in Acting School Dropout but as a little insight, she would totally have a cool, fancy ice drawer like this (which leaves Royce and Bentley bAfFLeD) - and the decor is very this & this because she needs an escape from all the testosterone in the Murphys' house, and just because she has a really fun, colourful sense of style anyway haha.
Okay, I'll leave it here with this one, because I'm itching so badly to get back to working on TMM, but just imagine this transition with Royce, Vivien, Bentley and Kona on one side and Miles, Carrie, Mick and Ethan on the other. UGHHHHH. I LOVE IT. 
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So yeah, I know it might not be the most interesting of posts, but hopefully it was still a nice little surprise to help you celebrate and make you smile today!
Also, I'm so sorry about this being late, I stayed up editing it until like 2:30am, and I was 14/16 pages deep when my laptop decided to spontaneously shut down. 🤦 And to save me rushing through it again and being all grumpy and half-assing it, I thought I'd get some sleep and try again in the morning. And it worked because I had so much more fun coming back to this with fresh eyes lol.
But yes, that's finally it! I might come back and add stuff to this as and when I get any new ideas, but for now I'd love to hear what you think of what I've got so far if anything peaks your interest haha. And like I said before, because you always bring me so much joy with your stories, I hope I was able to do the same for you today with this ridiculous jumble of the inner-workings of my imagination haha. Happy belated birthday! 🎉
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The shipping real life people thing is something that is becoming more and more prevalent in every fandom recently, it's just so weird. People aren't content in shipping the characters anymore, they have to have some fantasy that the actors are together in real life as well. This happened this past year with Queen Charlotte, Little Mermaid, Hunger Games (Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth), it happened last year with Jonny and Simone with a lot of people saying he must be bi because of their chemistry, and it's happening again with Matt and Jonny.
The other day I even saw a tiktok where someone was telling people not to harass Luke Newton's girlfriend because I think a friend of his posted some pics of them kissing at a New year's party, and in the comments there were some people saying they were disappointed in him because it's disrespectful to Nicola to "flaunt" his relationship a few months before promo starts and that he should keep it discreet, which is completely baffling to me, how is it disrespectful to her that he is in a relationship? They don't need to sell a fantasy that they're together to promote Bridgerton, they're gonna talk about their characters.
People need to learn boundaries and separate the real from the fictional. Is it super common for people to get together or have affairs after playing love interests on a film or tv show? Yes, these people are getting up close and personal with each other for multiple hours a day for months on end, a lot of times away from their family and friends, it's inevitable that in some cases something is gonna happen, but it's also their jobs, and it's clearly not the case every time, and the speculation always ends up a little disrespectful to the people involved and their real life partners, and can end up ruining friendships between these people because they don't feel comfortable interacting with each other because they know it will be hyper analyzed.
yeah like there’s absolutely no need to speculate even in the rare case that something does happen
these people are actors and if they are able to create good chemistry with someone its bc they are GOOD actors
and instead of appreciating their craft people disrespect them by saying the shipper shit
like i have even seen a few fans enabling this behaviour? saying jonny has a crush on matt so thats a compliment for matt bc hes just oh so magnetic and charming - like nope im gonna need them to shut up and think about what they’re saying bc they’re essentially implying their fave is cheating on his husband with whom he has 3 kids
like its sick honestly and im so tired if seeing it
and the fact that some weirdos ‘threatened’ to out jonny as straight after his pics with ariana cane out????? That was so ridiculous and i cant even find it amusing bc imagine being a queer person and the world refusing to acknowledge your identity- something you’ve been so vocal about bc you went to a tennis match with your friend
this goes beyond fandoms and you are right, it’s becoming more and more prevalent in every space
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I am reading all these comments saying the only reason Luke is not public with his GF is because of PR. If that’s the case then why PR didn’t tell Corey not to mention his GF in the interviews for Queen Charlotte? He did that often as a lead yet I don’t see Luke acknowledging her at all, not even casually. Another reason I see mentioned is him trying to protect her from fans. Again, then why is he not asking his friends and her to stop posting every time they are together? They know fans are watching.
You would think he wants to let everyone know he is taken for people not to ship him with Nic. Yet he doesn’t do it.
To me the easiest explanation is he doesn’t want to, as simple as that. And there can be multiple reasons why. She is ready to shout it from the rooftops though. I mean recording and posting TikTok videos in a hotel room while he is doing press for what is definitely the biggest role of his career (so far) screams attention seeking behavior.
Curious about your thoughts on the whole public vs. private thing with Antonia.
You make some good points. Please read my previous Anon posts and you can get a sense of what I’m feeling.
I think it’s a combination of a lot of things, tbh.
Perhaps looking at things sequentially will make more sense?
1. New Years Day - he acknowledges Antonia by following her on his public account (she follows him too) and having his best friend post a video that he took, with her in it. I’ll never forget his 😏 smirk at the end of that video. The plan being to get the word out that he has a girlfriend that isn’t Nicola. He and his team know that fans follow Rory for Luke content.
2. Also New Years Day, fans find the NYE video of Luke kissing his girlfriend and getting overly affectionate with her. It was posted by the Soho Farmhouse house band member. His plan backfired big time, because people saw him basically groping a young lady 8 years his junior and fans dislike was very vocal about it.
3. Luke gets pissy and petty and refusing to acknowledge anything Bridgerton related for several weeks. His birthday message to Nicola was obligatory at best. Things seem “off” between him and Nicola day after her birthday, he still needs to do some press stuff, but he doesn’t promote it.
4. He takes Antonia to Paris for her birthday weekend. She had an invitation to the fashion show, but she doesn’t go. Luke didn’t look thrilled to be there and cuts out early. Probably PR stepped in to keep Antonia away.
5. Nic, Luke and company go to NYC for a week. Antonia goes to visit her family. Nic doesn’t post anything related to Luke. Fans were surprised and disappointed. Luke kind of appeases them and posts himself with Luke T and Claudia and attends a basketball game. Posts it to appease fans. They most likely had meetings with Netflix, etc… for promotions. Nic and Luke don’t seem to spend much time together there.
6. They are back from NY, Luke heads to Soho Farmhouse again with his girlfriend/crew for his birthday weekend and Nic posts a lovely message for his birthday, that he very rudely ignores, publicly.
7. They meet again to do a screening and lots of emotional connections were made that day. They had to sit next to each other and act like leads in front of their cast mates, producers and crew. Again Luke didn’t share anything.
8. At some point, my guess, is that Luke and Nicola talked things through. And came up with a plan. Along with Netflix expectations, they are executing said plan.
Antonia being next to him at these events doesn’t work, so she lurks in the shadows, hanging out in hotel rooms like a dirty little secret. While Luke plays buddy buddy with Nicola for promotions.
Nicola cares for Luke. Is going to be in this 💯 with him until the last promotional event in June. She cares about her career, the Polin brand, etc.. She will see this through to the end.
Luke also cares for Nicola. He’s been through a lot with her filming and as her coworker for years. He admires her. He preens when she compliments him. It’s all in the videos we are seeing.
So, bottom line for me, it’s a combination of many factors that Antonia is in the shadows, for now.
Luke did make a point on New Years Day and I’m sure he will stick by that. Just like I’m sure he left the Bafta parties and met up with her.
What happens after promotion will be the telling part.
My guess is they have vacations then start filming S4.
Whether Antonia is going to stick around is anyone’s guess, but she’s not dating a celebrity and flaunting it on social media for his stunning personality.
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