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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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24 Jun 2026
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Mary and Tom are book editors in Bloomsbury, skilled at untangling narratives but utterly clueless when it comes to their own.
Modern AU.
Mary closed her eyes and took a breath, trying to ignore the fire that had begun to burn in her chest.
“So, it’s a compromise for you?” she said, her voice trembling with a brittle, rising anger. “You offer me ‘security,’ and in exchange, I devote my life and every waking hour to your whims and travels?”
“I never said—”
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23 Jun 2026
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Mary had done her research.
This was, she felt, the most responsible approach. She had always believed that the correct response to an unfamiliar situation was thorough preparation, and she had applied this principle consistently throughout her life - to London, to the Lake District, to the question of managing a household, to the correct way to address a letter to a barrister’s chambers, to approximately anything and everything she had ever encountered that was new. There was no reason to treat this occasion differently simply because the literature was somewhat more difficult to obtain and considerably more… varied in quality.
She had obtained it anyway. Through methods she was never going to describe to anyone, including Tom, including Mrs. Gardiner, including her journal, she had acquired and read several relevant texts over the course of the weeks between engagement and the wedding, and she had formed, from this reading, a set of conclusions.
The primary conclusion was: Tom would know what he was doing.
*Tim Robinson voice* You SURE about that?!
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18 Jun 2026
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Aziraphale is afraid that he will never find his soul mate. Crowley gave up looking a long time ago.
Sometimes love turns up at the most unexpected time.
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09 Feb 2026
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Love 'em and leave 'em fast by danegen
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
20 May 2024
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Wei Ying loves hookups. He especially loves hooking up with gorgeous people who are a little mean. But there’s a difference between a little mean and whatever Lan Zhan has going on. Which is why Wei Ying has the most confused boner of his life.
But it’s not like he’s afraid of Lan Zhan. He should just text the hot guy who’s obviously hot for him, let the hot guy fuck his brains out, and then forget about the hot guy completely. That’s what hot people are for.
It's so rude when the creep at the coffee shop turns out to be really good at sex and then also wants to date you. Who expected that? Not Wei Ying, that's for sure!
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02 Nov 2025