12 Bookmarks by beaspoken
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Princess Mary, the third of King Henry and Queen Jane’s five daughters, had gotten away with sneaking into Leeds United matches with her Yorkshire-born nanny, Mrs Hill, since she was a tween. A team beanie, a scarf and some facepaint rendered her completely anonymous and free to dance like a lunatic, raucously sing the team songs, and hurl abuse at the refs in peace.
Since Leeds acquired a humble but dangerous young striker, Yorkshire born-and-bred Tom Hayward, her fervour for the team had only grown. Then came the day the tabloid press spotted Princess Mary in the crowd in her Hayward jersey and she became the subject of several viral TikToks and, of course, the ire of her mother.
A Princess/ English football hero AU 👑⚽️💖
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Mary looked out across the garden again. Tomorrow, she would catch the bus to her faculty building, not a packed commuter train with a two hour journey ahead of her, instead from a home where she had been told she was most welcome.
For the first time since her father's death, she allowed herself to imagine the future without a sense of dread attached to it. London suddenly didn't seem frightening at all.
It felt, quietly and unexpectedly, like her real life was about to begin.
Mary/Tom Modern AU.
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18 Jul 2026
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Mary Bennet comes to London to finally start the life she has always wanted, determined to build something of her own beyond expectation and disappointment.
She does not anticipate how quickly certainty starts to unravel once she arrives.
She soon learns that not everything can be understood through logic alone and that some things begin long before they are ever named.
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17 Jul 2026
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somebody loved me once & somebody will love me again by reindeerjumper
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
25 Jun 2026
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mary shares a daughter with her ex-husband, will. tom also has a daughter who just so happens to be in the same class as mary's daughter. when the two exchange phone numbers on the playground, something shifts in both of their lives for the better.
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17 Jul 2026
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Tom is a professor at Oxford.
Mary is library director.
Romance ensues.
A tale as old as time, fraught with the perils of teaching, library work, and the pains of staying curious.
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17 Jul 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.
Or...
Tom is a walking hazard & Mary overthinks way too much.
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17 Jul 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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17 Jul 2026
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Please do come in and place your bets on our stubborn, argument-addicted fools.
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16 Jul 2026
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Let 'Em In by dabeedan
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV), Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
11 Jul 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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15 Jul 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 when Tom Hayward and Mary Bennet meet for what they think is the very first time.
A modern AU inspired by the film You’ve Got Mail.
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11 Jul 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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07 Jul 2026
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Mary needs to start fresh. A new life with a new job at a new school, teaching her favourite subject: history.
Her own history has a funny way of coming back to bite her, as it happens, but maybe a new English-teaching acquaintance who won’t stop being kind to her will help with that.
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05 Jul 2026