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The Anatomy of a Scandal: A Bridgerton’s Guide to Ruin by AFlowerInTheSun
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Jun 2025
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The Bridgertons have always had a talent for drawing attention, whether through triumph or whispered disgrace, they are a family forever teethering on the edge of scandal. Passion and consequence weave through their lives like an unbreakable thread, drawing the eyes of the ton with every misstep.
Penelope Featherington, however, has spent years accepting her place on the fringes, her sharp mind dismissed, her presence overlooked. The irony, of course, is that no one knows London’s scandals better than she does. After all, she is the one writing them.
That is, until Benedict Bridgerton takes notice. And suddenly, she is no longer a mere observer of ruin, but a player in the very game she has chronicled, ensnared in the very thing she has always observed from a distance.
A flirtation that tempts fate. A dance along the razor's edge. A secret that should never be spoken. A game of chance played in shadowed corners, where a single misstep could mean ruin.
Because when the writer of scandal entangles herself with a family born to create it, there is only one certainty: sooner or later, the next scandal will be theirs.
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- Part 1 of The Rules of Ruin: Scandal Seasons
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- 133,499
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- 16/16
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26 Aug 2025
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He had earned this.
He was due.
Everything had to go perfectly.
He had a plan, and it had to go perfectly.
First step; the presentation.
Second step; blackmail Lady Whistledown.
-Story completed: 12/12/2024
-Epilogue updated with art: 1/26/2025- Language:
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- 143,496
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- 31/31
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- 3
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01 Jul 2025
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“Penelope, please do not be stubborn.” He did not know why, but he felt that if she left, their friendship would be forever tarnished. “This is a great beginning to our story to the Ton. I ran into you on my first day back, the wool was pulled from my eyes, and I realized that while I have been looking at you nearly my entire life, I never truly did see you until I found you laughing over a pile of books outside the stationers.”
“A lovely story, Mr. Bridgerton,” Penelope said dryly, “but it is certainly not ours and I will not let it be mine. If you don’t mind, I really must be going.”
“Pen-”
“Good day Mr. Bridgerton.
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Colin comes back in 1816 to find that things have changed in a way he was not ready for.
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20 Jun 2025
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Lord Fife goes in search of a closet.
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- 47,525
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- 18/18
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19 Jun 2025
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12 Jun 2025
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When Anthony Bridgerton declared himself an active participant in this season’s marriage mart, he had not anticipated that he would find the crop of willing prospects thrusting themselves before him to be quite so unappealing, nor that he would instead end up spending the summer bestowing proposal after proposal upon Penelope Featherington.
Or, the five times Anthony asks Penelope to marry him, with increasing degrees of sincerity, and the one time she knows he really means it.
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- 24,093
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- 7/7
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09 Jun 2025
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Of Gentle Things and Gentlemen by pussshhh
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 May 2025
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Anthony Bridgerton was never supposed to confide in Penelope Featherington. But between the lines of their letters and the spaces between their meetings, something tender takes root.
As seasons change and scandals rise, they remain each other’s quiet constant—until friendship begins to look an awful lot like love.---
“You write like a man twice your age,” Penelope scrawled at the bottom of her reply.
Anthony’s next letter arrived with only one line:
“That’s rich coming from a woman who hides behind an alias to scold the entire ton.”- Language:
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- 44/44
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04 Jun 2025
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The wedding to Miss Edwina Sharma has just been called off and, most importantly, Kate has left. Viscount Anthony Bridgerton has nothing to do to drive away his heartache but think and drink.
Miss Penelope Featherington hopes the man of her dreams is finally willing to get to know her better, but at the same time she may be losing her best friend to some foolish games. Meanwhile, she also has a business to run.
Their paths seem to keep crossing, sometimes completely accidentally, sometimes wholly and entirely planned. They slowly discover that they have much more in common than they both initially believed and that perhaps, there might not be anyone in the ton who could understand the other better.
A deep friendship ensues that comes to mean the world to Penelope, especially when she loses everything else.
Slow burn. Canon divergence after around s2e6.
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- English
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- 112,798
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- 30/30
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06 May 2025
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A Timeless Match by m_luthien for ynnej2198
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
12 Jul 2025
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The year is 1814 and Anthony Bridgerton declares his plans to marry the diamond of the season. However, his carefully ordered world is thrown into chaos when his son, Elijah Bridgerton, arrives from the year 1830 with startling knowledge of his life and his supposed destiny. His mission? To ensure that he marries Penelope Featherington, a match that, according to him, will secure not only his own happiness but the future of his family.
At first, Anthony is skeptical—Penelope, his sister’s closest friend, is not someone he has ever considered as his bride (and wasn't she in love with his brother?). But as time-traveling interlopers reveal glimpses of a happy future, Anthony is forced to confront his own fears and long-held assumptions about marriage and love.
*Pen/Anthony HEA - If you do not like this ship, just skip*
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- Part 7 of In Any Life
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- English
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- 74,000
- Chapters:
- 23/23
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- 2
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- 1,321
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06 Apr 2025
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27 Mar 2025
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1987 Hawkins Fuller is full of regrets for the life he's lived, though Tim once told him he regrets nothing. Hawk so wishes he could say the same.
In the still night air of a hotel room, clutching a cracked paperweight to his chest like it's carved of the finest gold, Hawk gets his wish.
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Or, a time-travel fix-it fic that nobody asked for.
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- English
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- 60,600
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- 11/11
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- 2
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13 Feb 2025
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Between the hospital and the sofa, and after the sofa.
Sam and Fred.
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12 Feb 2025
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12 Feb 2025
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Penelope stumbles across Benedict in her family’s garden during a ball. Benedict stumbles onto her secret life in turn.
Not beta’d
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- English
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- 14/14
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13 Jan 2025
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07 Dec 2024
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Helpless (I'm So Into You) by theangryuniverse for Iceprinzess
Fandoms: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
11 Aug 2024
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It is on a ball in Arles where Laurent feels his heart stop for the first time.
Laurent has never been the type to try and grab the spotlight. But as his heart goes boom, he knows that this one, Prince Damianos of Akielos, is his.He never expected Damianos to actually like him back.
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- 20/20
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13 Aug 2024
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Courting Convenience by ynnej2198
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
20 Oct 2025
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As the London Season begins, practicality wins the day for two members of the Ton who have been burned by love.
Instead of continuing to moon over a man who made it publicly and painfully clear he would never want her, Penelope Featherington has buried her girlish fantasies of a love match and decided to treat marriage as nothing more than the business arrangement it is.
Meanwhile, Viscount Anthony Bridgerton, who learned the hard way that love isn’t always enough, vows to move forward and do his duty to the family he gave up everything to protect. Love has no place in a marriage, at least not for him, so Anthony resolves to once again seek the marriage of convenience he originally intended.
All Pen wants is independence from her mother and all Anthony needs is an heir. But, maybe, just maybe, they’ll get more than they ever bargained for in the process.
WARNING: This is a Pen/Anthony story. If you can’t fathom them with anyone but their canon spouses, then DO NOT read this story because it is NOT for you. Please do us all a favor and scroll right by it without clicking.
CH 1-25 is the main story. CH 26+ are epilogues and missing scenes.
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- Part 1 of Courting Convenience Universe
- Language:
- English
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- 27,173
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- 28/28
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07 Aug 2024
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Perfect for the role by LilithAfrodite04
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV) RPF
22 Sep 2023
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Anthony Bridgerton doesn't intend to give up his life as a rake anytime soon, but he knows he must fulfill his viscount's duty and marry. To do so, he seeks a wife who fits the role of viscountess. In his search, he comes across Penelope Featherington, the Mayfair wallflower, and she seems to be perfect for the role.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 100,269
- Chapters:
- 33/33
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- 4
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- 886
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- 4,657
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31 Jul 2024
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“Perhaps you should take a seat,” said Violet.
Colin wouldn't remember the details of what his mother told him next. He would remember her hand warm on his knee, her eyes wide with concern, her voice gentle as velvet. All of it in stark contrast to the devastating news she shared.
Penelope was ruined.
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- 24/24
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01 Jul 2024
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As the carriage rolls onto the main street and their journey truly begins, Reynolds’ every nerve ending seems determined to focus on the bare inch between his and Brimsley’s fingers. His hand tingles. His skin aches. He glances down at their gloved hands, watches the soft flex of Brimsley’s hand and remembers what it feels like to have those fingers press into his skin.
It is going to be a long drive.
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When the King announces to Reynolds that the royal family wish for a discreet holiday by the coast, Reynolds worries only about making sure things go smoothly for his King. He does not realise that the idyllic holiday location is destined to throw his blossoming relationship with Brimsley into chaos.
Just how far is Reynolds willing to go to protect the man he loves?
- Language:
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- 100,544
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- 23/23
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04 Jun 2024