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Fixits is what happens when I get a fave who doesn't get love in-canon.

Unusually, my fave and her OTP are for once actually the focus of the media property (however badly done), and so there are many other people who are producing/getting involved! It's kind of exciting! Although after toiling for 10 years to produce and encourage ~850 fics for Maria/Steve, it's been, oh, two weeks, and there's well over 1000 fics for Kate/Anthony. The speed at which the Anthony/Kate tag moves is unbelievable.

*sigh*

Give me five people who can write like the wind, plot like a villain, and obsess like a fangirl, and I can change the face of a pairing in a fingersnap.

I never had five people in Maria/Steve fandom. I barely had one at any point in time.

Also, the Bridgerton fandom skews...young, so far as I can see. And the people with the worst takes (Edwina deserved better than the show gave her, Penelope is an awful person) are always the ones who have a media publication for their platform.

So far there's the multichapter-only-two-written-so-far:

formed, not declared (4185 words) by tielan
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Edwina Sheffield | Edwina Sharma & Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma & Mary Sheffield | Mary Sharma
Characters: Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Edwina Sheffield | Edwina Sharma, Mary Sheffield | Mary Sharma
Additional Tags: Romance, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sharmas as family
Summary:

In the froth and flutter of the season, the ton - and royalty - so easily forget this simple truth: a diamond is formed, not declared.

And I have about 2000 words to a fic about the wedding-which-we-didn't-get-to-see. With Hindi wedding traditions, and Kate dealing with stuff that we didn't get to see her deal with in the show. Hopefully that'll be out mid-week.

Last night, B1 explained that (having been spoilered for Bridgerton S2 by B2), she thinks that the tropes they switched the story around to highlight are simplistic and common rather than the unusual and different ones that Book 2 used.

Which, yes, to some degree they are. They're for visual mass media consumption, and to develop the characters in the series, while in the book the only characters who really 'matter' are the main couple.

( 2.06: which I have personally labelled 'Things Fall Apart, But People Actually Talk To Each Other' )

Episode 7 tomorrow.

Bridgerton: desi influence, Bollywood, and romance: someone mentioned a desi take on Bridgerton S2 regarding Bollywood tropes and influence and I went looking for it because some things didn't quite sit right with me in S2.

I'm skimmed it because it contains fairly major spoilers through to the end of S2, but also it has some really useful characterisation notes and choices within the context of Kate and Edwina Sharma as desi women.

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( the most comforting thing in that article: rough spoilers for Season 2 )

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It's interesting looking around at the commentary on S2 and going forward.

( Bridgerton: future season speculation, some book spoilers, a couple general S2 spoilers )

( representation: includes forays into MCU and Endgame )

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My sisters are starting to get into Bridgerton. This has mixed consequences. Both have read the books and generally enjoy them. B1 (at least) has read the prequel series, too.

B2 has read ahead for spoilers, because she can't take the suspense. This means she is prone to dropping comments about things that happen because B2 doesn't really have a filter like that. She did drop the 'Bridgerton as Bollywood' article to me, independent of my finding it elsewhere, though. So that's nice.

B1 has listened to the spoilers from B2 and I suspect at that point the series had already landed on her shitlist. B1's a bit of a purist when it comes to adaptations. As a result, she vociferously punctuates her viewing with "but that's not how it happened in the books!"

She's really angry at ( Violet flashbacks 2.03, Marina book spoilers )

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Anyway, after all that, the next viewing party is Saturday night, and I somehow have to find a space to watch it without the sistren looking over my shoulder and making comments. I just want to watch and enjoy, I don't want to deal with the peanut crowd!

Not very well thought through based on teaser, trailer, and photos:

( Bridgerton: Season 2 structure )