15 Bookmarks by AMillionLittleStars
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A collection of outtakes from the world of The Lost Art of Letter Writing.
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- Part 2 of The Lost Art of Letter Writing
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30 Aug 2026
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Nothing could persuade Rebecca Gardiner that her cousin Mary Bennet intending to marry Mr Ryder did not indicate something very wrong in the universe. But their parents had forbidden them to pester Mary about the matter, Cousin Elizabeth seemed curiously enthusiastic about it, Cousin Fitzwilliam was related to Mr Ryder and Tom had vanished off the face of the earth. Logic suggested there was no other alternative than accept it.
‘No!’ exclaimed Marianne. ‘We won’t give up. Not yet. We have to stop this. We must be constant unto our task.’
George was flummoxed. ‘What does that mean?’
‘I don’t really know,’ admitted Marianne. ‘Tom said it once. But if nobody else cares enough about Mary to stop this, then it must be us. There has to be a grown up somewhere who will help us.’
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My take on the 'Stop the Wedding' trope.
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30 Aug 2026
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Months after her father’s untimely death, Longbourn Agriculture’s Chief Operating Officer, Mary Bennet, finds herself ambushed into a new board vote by her mother and major shareholder Catherine de Bourgh—who both favor Mary's charming, incompetent boyfriend, William Ryder, for the CEO seat. Caught between her own ambitions and corporate sabotage disguised as family expectations, Mary is forced to watch everything she’s worked toward for years slip through her fingers.
Modern AU.
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21 Aug 2026
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The Gardiners make the match.
It is not love at first sight, or second, or third.
It is love that comes later - in the accumulation of shared steps and conversations in the dark. In a stranger becoming, without your noticing, the first person you want to tell things to.
In having the deeply inconvenient realisation, somewhere in your marriage, that you have a crush on your spouse.
OR: Mary and Tom have a regency era marriage of convenience
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17 Aug 2026
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ModernAU - Mary Bennet lives a relatively quiet life as a teacher in Manhattan alongside her lively and carefree boyfriend, William Ryder. That is, until some of his recklessness goes a bit too far and he finds himself in the midst of a lawsuit. Luckily, Will has an old university friend he can convince to help him out – Thomas Hayward, lawyer extraordinaire.
Between museum exhibits, depositions, tense family dinners, and new feelings she can’t seem to ignore, Mary’s life is about to get a bit more exciting, and a whole lot more complicated.
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10 Aug 2026
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Let 'Em In by dabeedan
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV), Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
07 Sep 2026
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Mary Bennet spent years loving Tom Hayward quietly. Quietly enough that nobody noticed. Not Tom, who only ever saw his best friend's younger sister. Not Jane, who never realised how carefully Mary stayed out of the way.
University changed everything. By the time Mary returned, she learnt how to take up space; she became someone she finally recognised in the mirror. Then she moved into the spare room of Tom’s flat.
Tom can't understand why the friend he remembers so fondly now keeps him carefully at arm's length. Mary can't understand why the boy from her past suddenly seems determined to learn every version of who she's become.
Some people grow apart. Others simply need to meet each other twice.
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10 Aug 2026
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Mary Bennet has spent her whole life trying not to be ungainly. Tom Hayward has spent his whole life accepting that he is.
When Mary Bennet lands the internship of her dreams at The Woodhouse Post, she is certain her efforts will finally pay off. That is, until Tom Hayward, the award-winning political journalist, knocks her off her feet. Literally.
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Tom is a walking hazard & Mary overthinks way too much.
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10 Aug 2026
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In the first year of their marriage, Mary Hayward assembles three months of evidence without knowing she is doing it, presents her husband with a hypothesis, and discovers that the largest things can only be carried in small containers. Then autumn comes, and the two of them learn what they are to each other when there is nothing to be done — no argument to win, no book with the right chapter, no door Tom will consent to wait behind ever again.
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- Part 2 of A Course of Study
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10 Aug 2026
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The Lesson Plan by beekathony
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV), Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
31 Aug 2026
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Mary Bennet is a new professor at Oxford University, where she is thrilled to be teaching her favorite subject - History. Before the school term begins, she meets a fellow Professor, Tom Hayward, who challenges her in ways she never expected. Professor Hayward embarks on finding ways to challenge Mary Bennet, teaching her to listen to her heart and not her head for once.
*Modern AU - based on the book swap that happens in the book!
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10 Aug 2026
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Plus One by meltedcoconut
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV), Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
07 Aug 2026
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A romcom of Mediterranean proportions.
Mary Bennet and Tom Hayward are neighbours, book club partners and emotional support friends. Now they're sharing a room on the Amalfi Coast, holding hands in front of her family, being adopted by the Gardiners' children and discovering that fake dating is significantly less fake than advertised.
Everything is fine.
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08 Aug 2026
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When embarking on their anonymous email experiment, The Rules that TinternAbbeys and MrsMacaulayKnowsAll had set up were very clear:
1. No personally identifying information of any kind
2. No looking the other person up at all
3. No texts/calls/meeting in person
4. These messages are a way to reclaim a dying form of communication, so at least try to keep to some level of etiquette - it’s the correspondence that’s the point!Rule number four is easy to follow. The other three, less so…especially after Tom Hayward and Mary Bennet meet for (what they think is) the very first time.
A modern AU loosely inspired by the film You’ve Got Mail.
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- Part 1 of The Lost Art of Letter Writing
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08 Aug 2026
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Invitations have been sent, the dress ordered, flowers chosen and a cake made. As the last days count down before the wedding of Miss Mary Bennet to Mr Thomas Hayward, various Bennets, Darcys and Haywards arrive in London to meet one another, celebrate the marriage and record exactly what occurs in a number of revealing letters.
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08 Aug 2026
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The Bingleys Need A Barrister by SimpleHoneyBadger14
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV), Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
31 Aug 2026
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Tom Hayward is invited to Netherfield to help a new client purchase the estate. Upon Tom's arrival to Netherfield, he meets Miss Mary Bennet and their story goes from there.
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08 Aug 2026
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Tom Hayward’s Operational Guide to Yearning (While Being a Public Nuisance) by dbpn
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
22 Jul 2026
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Tom Hayward is a menace, a law school dropout, and an absolute public nuisance to the joint-task force.
Mary Bennet is a brilliant, ruthlessly efficient MI5 desk officer fighting tooth and nail to outrun the gossip of family nepotism.Locked away in a remote corner of the Thames House archives to track a phantom billionaire, they should be focusing on the data. Instead, Tom has made it his personal mission to elevate Mary's blood pressure through elaborate office warfare, and Mary is on the verge of filing a vetting request for his sanity.
An MI5/MI6 Espionage AU full of denial, overused fanfic tropes and of course, yearning.
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08 Aug 2026
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The unravelling of tom hayward by Murder_shesnored
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
25 Jun 2026
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Tom Hayward is a sensible man with a sensible engagement and a sensible plan.
Mrs. Gardiner has stewed pears and other ideas.
"Will you come, or will you sit in your rooms all summer reading contracts and pretending that is the same thing as living?"
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08 Aug 2026