I don’t think we appreciate enough that Benedict told Anthony to try a new perspective and Anthony immediately made that new perspective “no longer pretending I’m not thrilled that I kissed Kate Sharma”
The package arrives with no note, four days after he walked out of Danbury House into the still falling rain.
Plain brown paper, tied with string; there could be anything inside.
And yet Anthony knows, immediately, what lies within.
One of my favourite things is how often Anthony brings up their first meeting. Literally every chance he gets he’s like “remember when we met in the park and I became obsessed with you forever?”
Luke Thompson was so interesting in this week’s Bridgerton podcast, talking about Benedict’s arc and how that feeds into all the little ways he isn’t quite there for Anthony in s2. Worth a listen 🎧
actually the biggest difference between book and show anthony is that book anthony plans elaborate heists for the mallet of death while show anthony says never mind and makes out with his wife.
I just think that post s2 fic writers are sleeping on one very important fact and it’s that Anthony now knows precisely where Kate’s bedroom is in Danbury House. Just saying.
I’m not sure we appreciate enough that Kate has a canonical tendency to space out with horny daydreams about Anthony.
They’re both equally unhinged and I love it.
He never wears the jacket again.
First, because he cannot bear to.
And later, because he does not want to. It is too dreary, too dull.
He prefers colour.
Nick Miller was talking about them— “anytime a man shows a woman how to do something from behind, it's just an excuse for him to get really close and breathe on her neck. Watch any sports movie.”
any true aficionado of Bridgerton Pall Mall understands that sending Anthony into the lake is far more important than actually sending one’s ball through all the wickets.
He pours another brandy and laughs bitterly into the quiet of his empty room.
What a pair they make.
She cannot seem to wake.
And he cannot seem to sleep.
We really don’t talk enough about Anthony’s “Anything for you, Lady Bridgerton” after Kate demands a kiss during the wedding night chapter. Truly a top tier moment.
hey remember when anthony quietly admitted that he couldn’t bear to cause anyone grief and that he didn’t care if people thought he was hard-hearted because they didn’t know his reasons he’s such a sad, good boy send tweet good night
do you ever think about how s2 opened with a scene of the previous lead which means s3 will probably do the same & open with a Kanthony scene? Because I do. I think about it a very normal amount.
The way Kate thought Anthony didn’t visit after her accident because he didn’t love her enough only to find out that in actual fact it was the exact opposite — he loved her too much. It’s fine. I’m fine.
been offline for four days have we all already discussed how the loveliest thing in episode one is Kate’s soft little “you’re back” when Anthony walks in 🥺
okay hear me out — an au where hyacinth is stung by a bee before the hearts and flowers ball, and Kate running through Aubrey Hall yelling for Anthony is what clues everyone in that they’re in love
He hesitates, then lifts it to his nose and breathes in the scent of the fabric. Laundry soap. Clean and fresh, and wrong.
It should smell like rain. Like grass and blood and the impossible, brilliant woman he left it with.
It should smell like lilies.
“It's the neck smell, ultimately, isn't it? Either it makes you feel something... or it's just someone's neck.” — yes this is a quote from Lovesick in 2016 but it’s also very much Anthony Bridgerton in 1814
She still thinks about it sometimes.
She must cross that foyer half a dozen times a day — on her way out, on her way home, chasing after the children — but every once in a while, she stops.
Been so fixated on the beauty of “a life that suits us both” that it took me over 2 months to recognise the significance of Anthony saying “I want” at the start of that sentence.
All this Anthony-holds-a-baby chat is so very valid but also we’re sleeping on something important here — WHY he’d be such a natural with babies.
And that’s because of Hyacinth.
Just keep thinking about Daphne rocking up to Aubrey Hall expecting a fun holiday with her family only to end up completely embroiled in Anthony’s courtship.
He opens it later, alone in his lodgings after five glasses of brandy and no supper at all.
And there it lies, just as he knew it would — the jacket he stripped off in the park that morning, to keep Kate warm.
Freshly laundered. No longer required.
A note drifts out and he snatches for it, recognising the familiar hand of Lady Danbury. Five words, and nothing he does not already know—
“She has not yet woken.”
Can’t decide what I prefer — Kate and Anthony defying convention to always sit beside each other at dinner or Kate and Anthony sitting at opposite ends of the table and just casually bickering over literally everyone else’s heads.
He moves it aside, shoved to the far end of his desk while he works. Then onto the chair by the door. Then dropped to the floor.
No matter where he tries to hide it, it won’t leave the corner of his eye.
Waiting. Accusing. Brown paper, tied with string.
and he doesn’t even care if ppl think he’s hard hearted because they don’t know the true reason, he’ll take on the pain of their poor opinion of him too 🥺
it really says a lot about anthony bridgerton that after witnessing his mother’s reaction to edmund’s death, he’s not scared of finding love because he doesn’t want to be in that much pain one day but rather he fears causing that same pain to someone else
I just saw a gifset of the Harmony dance and i can’t believe i never noticed that Anthony and Kate have a slightly different dance hold to everyone else. They’re the only ones holding hands 😭
it’s been less than 2 months since s2 and I already cannot remember life before I had the new show canon elements of Kanthony?? Like — them actively, openly choosing each other?? Them recognising themselves in each other?? Perfect. No notes.
Someone make a super cut of all the times Anthony has looked at Kate from across a room please I need to see something (the something is that’s he’s been besotted every time he’s just slowly stopped hiding it)
I feel like they wouldn’t have got a special licence because yknow, the less scandal the better, which means everyone will have had to put up with them courting for a minimum of three weeks while the banns were read. In this fic I will—
Thinking about how Anthony always does that little disappointed huff when he gets upset. And Kate does her equivalent angry little head shake. They really don’t allow themselves any grace 😭
the urge to make ‘bane of your existence / object of all your desires’ the bio for my dating profile vs. knowing that no single straight man will get it
To be clear this was a joke about Anthony going from ‘sad unshaven man’ to ‘man happily smelling air in public’ — pls don’t think I’m letting Benedict off the hook because he said one vaguely helpful thing
I don’t think we appreciate enough that Benedict told Anthony to try a new perspective and Anthony immediately made that new perspective “no longer pretending I’m not thrilled that I kissed Kate Sharma”
Like I genuinely can’t decide what’d be funnier, him trying to sneak in to her room or him actively trying not to, just sitting at home like it’s fine, it’s cool, I just know precisely what colour the sheets are on Kate’s actual bed, this is fine.
After the ‘you love your family dearly/as much as you love yours’ exchange, Anthony immediately moves on to say ‘I was fearful of losing you’ etc because he already considers Kate as family and loves HER dearly, so the segue makes perfect sense to him
happy one month anniversary to me refusing to go for after work drinks with the guys from work because I had a date with a 19th century viscount.
Yes those were my exact words.
@kathanisharma
The way she’s secretly a totally hopeless romantic (I mean c’mon — “souls that dance”??) but she doesn’t think that sort of love will ever be hers and then she gets this man literally worshipping her?? What she deserves ❤️
@kathanisharma
“Anthony, you are getting it wrong again.”
“What?” A burst of affection squeezes Kate’s heart at her husband’s predictable — and predictably disgruntled — reply. “What do you mean wrong? And what do you mean again?”
since we’re on the subject of ep1, whenever I see that scene of Anthony reeling off all his tasks and ideas, I always imagine something similar post marriage except Kate’s there finishing his thoughts and vice versa
I want a life that suits us both. I know I am imperfect but I will humble myself before you, because I cannot imagine my life without you, and that is why I wish to marry you.
What is your favorite line of dialogue and/or line delivery of the year?
Threaded a few of mine. None are meant to indicate "the best" but they're ones that resonated and stuck with me!
Give me Anthony at Aubrey Hall holding baby Basset and then give me flashback Anthony holding baby Hyacinth in the exact same spot, one of his fingers — and his whole entire heart — clenched in her little fist.
Remember when CVD said the subtitle of s1 was ‘The Education of Daphne Bridgerton’? Anyways, s2 is
‘The Salvation of Anthony Bridgerton’ and I will not accept any other suggestions at this time.
Kate’s little crush at the conservatory ball really is so cute. Highly recommend thinking about Kate Bridgerton having that same little crush on her own husband forever 🥰
Kate visits Bridgerton House on an Saturday, precisely three days after receiving Lady Bridgerton’s invitation to tea, and one week before she will never need an invitation again.
not to breeze past the actual scene we’re breaking down about today but the way Anthony stomps down the stairs and snatches up his hat on the way out? Iconic.
She’ll hear movement on the balcony, or catch the scent of roses on the air, and suddenly she’ll remember that night as if it were yesterday.
She wore lilac. He wore black. He wasn’t one for colours back then, but that night … that night, he was golden.