Beatrice Bridgerton

I love the idea of high femme top!Cressida, making her clothes in harsh armour lines in a soft masculine colour, but shaping into bows.

I love the idea of high femme top!Cressida, redecorating her marriage of convenience house in a soft masc colours but in a Garish high maintenance way.

I love the unintentional gender stuff the are doing by assuming that pink has always been the “girly” colour.

You take one look at that little man and his giant pink frills and tell me he and Cressida DIDN’T spend the whole carriage ride from Wales coordinating their looks.

They are, in my mind, the textbook definition of a lavender marriage. Lord Penwood, terrified of being unable to navigate society without bringing ruin and scandal to his family name, is finally given the courage and opportunity to return when he finds a woman who is not only brave and outgoing, but also not in the least bit interested in sleeping with him.

“Are you prepared to see her again?” he asks as they prepare for the ball.

He’s developed this exterior that’s very amenable. [He] doesn’t feel like anything bothers him, yet clearly, in the middle of him, there is this side that is running away from something. Even with the mistress offer, it’s sort of quite a neurotic thing to do. It’s like trying to compartmentalize your life, this reluctance to give someone everything. It’s quite refreshing because he has a very soft exterior, and then there’s actually this center that is a bit more controlling, which is a surprise. — Luke Thompson