LookingForShadows
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- Bridgerton (TV) (7)
- Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn (6)
- The West Wing (5)
- Schitt's Creek (2)
- Glee (TV 2009) (2)
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the past is just the same by LookingForShadows
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
20 Feb 2026
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Penelope first meets Colin on the train.
England, 1935: Penelope is shipped off to boarding school, where her friendship with Eloise leads her into the glittering world of the British aristocracy in the days before World War II. When the war arrives, it shatters life as they have all known it, and it will take years of grief, longing, and love to pull her back to Colin Bridgerton once more.
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what can i give (i give my heart) by LookingForShadows
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Dec 2025
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Colin draws Penelope's name in the Bridgertons' Secret Santa and has no idea what to get her, so he proceeds to ask everyone in his life for advice.
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the rhythm of a wild heart by LookingForShadows
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, Wicked (Movie 2024), The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire
20 Dec 2025
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Why did Fiyero go with Dorothy to the Emerald City?
Well, once upon a time, the prince had a sister.
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giveth unto all lovers courage by LookingForShadows
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Apr 2025
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Lord Colin of Aubrey, of the Bridgerton royal line, is married to the Lady Penelope of Mayfair. And they barely know each other.
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a blaze in the dark by LookingForShadows
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
19 Dec 2024
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In 1815, Colin leaves Bridgerton House ten minutes later.
After running from his troubles across Europe, Colin hears that Lord Debling is missing, presumed dead. He returns to London to find that life has not stood still for Penelope.
Recent series
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And This Is Good Old Boston by LookingForShadows
Fandom Gilmore Girls, Parks and Recreation, The West Wing
08 Oct 2016
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And this is good old Boston
The home of the bean and the cod
Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,
And the Cabots talk only to God.
-- John Collins BossidyThis city - filled with "courage, compassion, and strength that knows no bounds" - isn't their home, but it becomes a safe haven anyway. [Favorite characters in Boston.]
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this ain't no john hughes movie (but the girl gets the guy) by wereadtoliveathousandlives for LightLeadingMe
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
30 Nov 2025
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“Let’s do it,” Colin said, pushing off the desk and sliding his chair in front of her.
He held out his hand for her to shake, and she slowly slid her hand into his, trying not to marvel at how large or warm it was.
“Let’s make you a people person.”
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To win the bid for Student Government President, Penelope needs the help of her best friend's older brother. As Colin helps her get her name out there, they start spending a lot of time together and things get...interesting. -
but they were real to me by unsavorablefavors
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
12 Jan 2026
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Colin Bridgerton had it all: a beautiful wife, four beautiful children, and a fulfilling career.
Saying he’s content is an understatement; he loves this life.
That is until he’s yanked from this reality and finds himself in the hospital, awakening from a coma.
It turns out he is not married and never has been. Penelope’s just his friend, his children don’t exist, and his perfect job is merely a pipe dream.
On a journey of rehabilitation, self-discovery, and grief, Colin must come to terms with the life he has and build it into the one that he dreamed of.
…trying to convince the girl he’s known as his wife of their wonderful life together shouldn’t be too tricky, right?
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- English
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- 278,106
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- 31/31
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Bookmarked by LookingForShadows
16 Feb 2026
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The Conditions of Choice by PenelopeInBloom
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV) RPF
24 Jan 2026
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In the aftermath of her father’s death, Penelope Featherington learns how little remains when a man’s authority vanishes and a woman’s does not exist. Sent from London to the courts of Vienna and Paris, she must navigate a marriage market shaped by war, inheritance, and expectation—while guarding a secret voice that has long been her only power.
Colin Bridgerton is traveling without purpose when he finds her again, changed and changing, in a world far from home. What begins as familiarity becomes choice, and what society demands is quietly weighed against what the heart will bear.
A Regency-set Polin novel about agency, partnership, and the cost of being seen.
Bookmarked by LookingForShadows
27 Jan 2026
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drawn after you by justapoet
Fandoms: Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked (Movie 2024)
11 Aug 2025
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“Oh, my Oz, Elphie! They are from a secret admirer!” Galinda practically bounced in place, the paper held aloft like a prize.
“So?” she said. “That’s hardly worth bursting an eardrum.”
But Galinda’s eyes sparkled in a very specific, unsettling way.
“But they’re for you!”
Or,
someone has been leaving flowers at Elphaba’s door for weeks, and she’s certain it’s a cruel joke—until the notes start feeling like truth, and she starts hoping, and maybe falling, for the one person she thought would never see her like that.
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Before the fights and the couples’ therapy and the slow, inevitable drift. Before the night he came home from work to find Marina on the sofa, pale and drawn, already knowing every word that was about to come out of her mouth (because the words were already on his tongue, weren’t they?). Before the thousands spent on divorce lawyers and moving into the sad flat Anthony found for him and having to tell the fucking kids (worst bit – Oliver had gotten so quiet and Amanda had cried silently; wouldn’t let either of them touch her).
He could have gotten out of it. Ben had called him and said we can find someone else in a way that made it very clear they probably couldn’t, and Colin being Colin (reliable; helpful – a dope, maybe), had said no, no, I’ll do it.
Which is how he ends up in Bari, parked in a service station in a cramped hire car; forty-five; divorced; and about to embark on a two-week trip across Italy he had booked in an attempt to save his marriage. Without, you know, his wife.
.OR: post-divorce, Colin Bridgerton takes his friend Penelope on a road trip to Italy
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Bookmarked by LookingForShadows
08 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Deeply upsetting how good this is. You will be emotionally flailed alive and simultaneously realize your own inadequacy as a writer and somehow you will enjoy it.