#polinator

You people don't understand crap! You really don't have book/show storytelling narrative comprehension at ALL do you? Polin are a true love match through & through.

Colin saying what he said to his brothers (in the book) was something that he didn't mean. It was said, because his mother was pestering him to settle down, even Penelope understood that. He would have said it about ANY woman his mother was bringing up, not just Penelope. As for on the show what Colin said (to the jack*ss Lords) was due to him being kind of drunk (Luke confirmed this) & wasn't being himself & again didn't mean it. He was feeling increasingly stressed due to not finding a purpose/a life's work. (which his purpose all along was Penelope & career being a writer) After he lost himself when Pen stopped writing him over the summer, to numb the pain of Pen shutting him out he started trying to feel less, to change who he really is into what everyone expected of him, not being his true self (also confirmed by Luke & the narrative). He was still feeling pressure due to not having found a purpose/still feeling overshadowed by his brothers. I blame Anthony actually (love him, but still, Agh!). Anthony was even congratulating Colin for his act when he returned home in S3. It's sad that Anthony actually liked that Colin wasn't being his true self.

That's also why whenever his family asks him at the beginning of S3 how many cities he visited he says he couldn't remember. It's because after his travels at the beginning of S2 he answered them & they all rolled their eyes basically, thinking his travel stories are boring, that his interests are boring. So basically, they think Colin's true self is boring. Whereas Pen cares about his travel stories though, loved reading his letters (between S1 & S2), she actually loves his true self (Nicola & the narrative confirmed this). Colin's subconscience picked up on that fact due him being in love with her without realizing it. That's why he always loved receiving letters from her the most. It's also why even though she made him lose himself from her not responding to his letters he still knew she would understand. So unlike when asked by his family, he actually told her how many cities he visited. It's because around Pen he can always be himself. She is his home (again Luke & official source, I believe it was Netflix UK confirmed this)

Whoever was in charge of Netflix Latin at the time of the linked post just shows that whoever did this post is just as confused as any of "fans" that believe Colin thinks of Penelope as a left over or whatever & also anyone who think he had any true romantic feelings what-so-ever for Marina. Colin has always been in love with Penelope, but didn't realize it until his first kiss with her (again confirmed by Luke & the narrative, actually everything I'm writing is based on the narrative basically not just the parts confirmed by sources)

The whole thing with Marina was just to get out from under the shadow of his older brothers. It was an 'understanding' as Colin put it AKA would have been a marriage of convenience, plain & simple. He wasn't in love with Marina. It was him being curious of ways to try to find a purpose. Colin was basically thinking "maybe getting married would get me out of my brothers shadows & help me in finding my purpose"

Then in S2 he visited Marina out of kindness. It wasn't due to him having feelings for her at all. He felt sorry over her situation & since he is a kind person & wants to help people. He wanted to make sure she was truly alright & that is all it was. Marina wasn't even thinking it was having been due to him having feelings for her either. Just that he felt sorry for her. She didn't need or want his pity. She was also frustrated that he hadn't woken up yet to the fact that he & Penelope belong together. We get it girl, we Polinators were there too. She was the one that ended up helping him & Penelope instead that day. What she told him nudged his subconscience closer to the realization of his feelings for Penelope.

Learn how to understand the story. The true/correct way by paying attention to ALL the info given instead of your obvious limited understanding & I'm sure what is likely a preconceived hate towards characters & a couple that I honestly believe comes with having biases against them from being Kanthony or Benophie shippers. Which is ridiculous due to the fact that this is a show/story about a family of couples, none of which hinder or block any other from getting their happy ever after. So, stop with the hate of Polin/Penelope/Colin! Stop the hate agenda towards one couple just so you can try to raise your preferred one up. It's pathetic & utterly childish.

If anyone doesn't see how amazing Polin is, then you are truly blind & thankfully are of the minority, because Polin's season has been the most loved & watched season of the whole series. Their trope: Friends to Lovers is the most popular, most loved trope in the whole world/of all time, so it's not surprising at all. It's not showing hate towards the other couples to state this. It's just statistical facts.

Polin are also the only couple of Bridgerton siblings that have a history. They've known each other the longest. So, there is a comfort & familiarity that runs deeper than any of the other couples could have. It's because it's core foundation & basis is rooted in true friendship. A true love that comes from that is so precious. It's the most important thing to have in a loving relationship. Also, Colin is the greenest flag as anyone in Bridgerton (anywhere really) can get. Someone better watch out for what's coming in season 4 in regard to 🚩's with the male lead. I can't wait to see how Benophies try to handle those.

I still love Benophie. Polin is my #1, but I still love all the Bridgerton couples, unlike solo Benophies & solo Kanthonies shippers. True Polinators don't find the need to hate on the other couples. We state facts, but we don't venomously hate on the other couples whereas that's all the Kathonies & Benophies do. Instead of spending their time self-promoting their couples, they spit hate at Polin & cry over their couples, wondering why they aren't as popular or aren't treated right. Probably because you all spend all your time focusing on stuff other than your couple & making content to share with others to get their popularity up. Fandom is only as happy/fun as you make it to be. You waste your time spreading hate all you'll get back is disappointment. Spend your time focusing on your ship & making content for them. Then you'll be happier.

I speak truth, not lies. I spit facts, not hate.

By Nicky Jones

My grandfather was a Beekeeper. Sometimes his breath would smell like honey from the honeycomb he would chew. Memories of childhood can be so elusive. The bigger the space between then and now, the more difficult it can be to conjure the portal that allows us to peer through time and look back on those days. I remember being intrigued by a peculiar device that my grandfather owned. Maybe I was seven.

It was a little hand-held contraption made of tin. It had a small cylindrical chamber with a smokestack and a bellows attached. As a child, it would seem very odd to me when my grandfather would gather pine straw from the yard, stuff it down inside this tin man accordion of sorts, and light it on fire. Once it was burning and smoking quite nicely, he would pump the bellows, which would push thick plumes of smoke out through the smokestack. It was enchanting to watch. What I describe to you is called a bee smoker. It does just what the name implies. It smokes bees. Since smoke happens to make bees really calm, this is an important beekeeper’s tool. You can actually go and get one of these nostalgic little devices right now on Amazon for around fifteen dollars. The design has remained unchanged through the decades. In contrast, much has changed with me.

Image by Alexander Wild.

I have lived half a lifetime since my childhood and my grandfather’s bees. Along the path, I lost and found bits of myself. I lost my grandfather, or at least lost touch with him a few times along that stretch of years. Then I finally lost him for good about ten years back. A quick fisticuffs with cancer and he was gone. What can never be lost is the near druidic respect for the natural world that my grandfather imparted in me. My grandfather the beekeeper. My grandfather who was also a welder and a veteran, a woodsman and a poet, and an old-timey gardener who was many years ahead of his time with his composting; but that’s for another discussion.

So I made the decision to have bees this coming spring 2019. It was actually more my wife’s idea than mine. We were standing in the kitchen just after the new year, enjoying some bread & butter pickles from the garden and talking. “So what’s next for us in the gardens this year?” she asks. “Bees?” My eyes lit up! Did she just say Bees?! She was completely unaware that I had been on a quest that very week to find us some local honey. It was not a simple quest! I had posted in several of my gardening and beekeeping groups on Facebook seeking honey. A friend of mine from one of the groups pointed me to a guy that he claimed was selling honey fairly local to my area. With a phone call, I found out that this honey guy had nearly ten years experience as a beekeeper, he had thirty hives, and he only lived two miles away from my house! I contacted him right away.

It took us almost two weeks of missing one another to finally come up with a solid day to meet and discuss bees. Our schedules kept conflicting and the weather was far from ideal. The day before I was finally supposed to meet my beekeeper friend for the first time, I suffered an acute episode involving my spine. I was taken to the hospital via ambulance suffering a boatload of pain and I couldn’t walk. I spent over seventeen hours in the emergency room before I was finally admitted into the hospital. I texted my beekeeper friend to let him know I wouldn't be able to get together with him. The next day, I spoke with my mom on the phone from my hospital room. During the call, I struggled to stay positive. She could tell I really missed my family and that I was pretty disheartened about not making my meeting with the beekeeper. I wasn’t giving up on this idea of honeybees in the spring so during my few days in the hospital, the bees became an integral part of my healing process. I had to build hives and buy bees. I had to meet my beekeeper friend. I had to get home. But first I had to walk. So i did.

I was surrounded by an unbelievable support system that fast-tracked me back to walking and out of that hospital in about five days. My wife, an amazing nurturer with nearly a decade of experience working as an RN, oversaw every facet of my care. She enveloped me with positive healing energy and bottomless love every second of every day and then she brought me home. My first day back home, of course I called my beekeeper friend. I had just set up a meeting with him and hung up the phone when there was a knock at my door. It was a package from Amazon. I opened the box and nearly cried. I pulled out a brand new beekeeper suit! When I had spoken to my mom from the hospital, she heard it in my voice how badly I wanted to become a beekeeper. So she ordered me a suit!

There is work to be done. Hives to be built. Processes to be learned. As the Crocuses burst forth from the snow, raising their sleepy heads to herald spring, a queen bee will call her court. Her colony will grow and develop and thrive because of an amazing group of people that love and support me. The queen will owe her deepest gratitude to a beekeeper that hasn’t tended hives in many, many years: my grandfather the beekeeper. What an amazing honor to continue in a noble task that an old timer showed to a young boy half a lifetime ago. I will be a beekeeper!

Image by Liz Mackney.

BLONDIE Pollinator Label: BMG Released: May 5, 2017