#both hands

I love that Colin was grabbing on to Penelope with both hands constantly in Bridgerton Season 3. In regency times, when touching gentle ladies is forbidden, makes it even hotter. Colin just loves his bestie so much and needs to touch her with his grabby hands.

Every time he did it I screamed the book quote:

"This was love. And he was going to hold on with both hands." - Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

S3E1: Friendly little, "I shall see you soon"

S3E3: Colin's Dream

S3E4: Colin picks Penelope up with both hands in the Carriage

S3E4: Colin's Grabby Hands

Pensbridgerton's post had the GIF of Colin comforting Penelope with both hands as they enter Bridgerton House to inform his family of their engagement.

S3E6: Dancing in the church. Colin holds Penelope with both hands in all their dances, but I love how slowly he takes hold of her hand here.

S3E7: Double handed stroking of the wedding ring

Reason: For A-Jiu, it’s because street rats and slaves were forced to use both hands for survival. Street rats because they would get broken limbs doing dumb shit to survive, and since you mainly jut out your dominant hand, that was the one that would get broken, forcing you to use the other one. For slaves, it’s kind of the same reason, especially for Qiu Jianluo, who loved to torture our A-Jiu, constantly giving Xiao Jiu a broken limb, forcing him to work with the other hand.

Prompt idea for an og!Shen Qingqiu: Just chilling at a peak lord meeting, bored out of his mind, and just switches hands no problem writing notes to eat the provided pastries. Cue everyone who noticed curiously peeking over his shoulder to get some blackmail on the poor left handed writing of the Peak Lord of Qing Jing (except Liu Qingge who was just genuinely curious), only to find it flawlessly flowing with the rest of it.

Of course, that leads them to try to get him to fight with his left hand.

He also does embroidery with both hands, cause why not.

Sometime around age twenty, I realized there were many songs that I’d long loved but hadn’t always understood in a bone-deep way, because I hadn’t yet lived them, that I could now relate to. But it was at age twenty-two that I had that realization specifically about “Both Hands.” I was lying on the top bunk of the bunk beds I shared with my roommate, in our cold room, chain-smoking French cigarettes, listening to an Ani DiFranco mix tape, and making notes for a poem I wanted to write, about a long-distance lover of mine. A guy who had said I was his soulmate, and who talked of coming to Chicago, to stay with me, until: Well, I’m seeing this other girl, and I don’t know if I can stand to be away from her for that long. It wasn’t him seeing another girl that I objected to—I’d continued to see other boys and girls throughout the entirety of our whatever-it-was—it was the fact that he no longer wanted to come see me. I had been replaced. So much for soulmates.

another cover, this is Both Hands by Ani DiFranco

this is an interesting one to cover bc the vocals are so different to what I usually do: the range is higher, the delivery is sweeter