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Fitzwilliam Darcy is about to turn 40, and he feels depressed and purposeless. When he decides to travel to London for the season, he little expects that he will find something - or someone - to bring joy into his life again. (Note: This is an alternate version of A Young Man's Love.)
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10 Feb 2026
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Pride & Sensibility by AvonleaBrigadoon
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, Pride and Prejudice (TV 1995), Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (2005)
29 Dec 2022
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The story starts when Elizabeth and Maria are staying at the Parsonage at Hunsford. It diverges from canon when Elizabeth receives a package from her father - a copy of the new novel Sense and Sensibility. They start reading it together and this leads to insights into characters and events which had previously been misunderstood. This prevents Darcy making a disastrous proposal in Kent. The pathway is slightly different but they will get their happy ending.
Be aware that there are major plot spoilers for Sense and Sensibility if you have not already read this!
My thanks to Jane Austen for creating such wonderful characters and storylines.
Quotations from Sense and Sensibility are put in italics and page references are from the Wordsworth Classics (1992) edition. Words quoted from Pride and Prejudice are underlined.
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08 Feb 2026
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Trying to Tread Water by Taradactyls
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, AUSTEN Jane - Works
04 Oct 2025
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The marriage of convenience fic no one asked for.
The morning after the Netherfield Ball, while Mr Collins is proposing to Elizabeth, Mr Bennet collapses. With her father unconscious and apparently near death, her mother pressuring her to marry Mr Collins, and the gentleman himself ignoring her protests, suddenly saying 'no' is not so easy. Faced with poverty and homelessness if she continues refusing, the gossip soon reaches Netherfield that she will have to marry Mr Collins. Just as Mr Darcy is about to mount his horse and follow Mr Bingley to London, never to return, he overhears the servants talking. The thought of Elizabeth married to a fool like Mr Collins is unbearable to him, and he resolves to make her a better offer. But, when she refuses him, he finds that he's willing to do anything for love - even marry her without the hope of being with her.
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05 Oct 2025
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Sequel to it takes strength to forgive but i don’t feel strong
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it takes strength to forgive but I don’t feel strong by haylbopp
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
12 Sep 2024
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AU set during s7e10 Merry Fisticuffs. The scene where Christopher tells Lorelai “let’s make a baby” made me uncomfortable, and thus this fic was conceived. TW: violence
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07 Sep 2025