Lyrical Ballads
"The eye — it cannot choose but see;
We cannot bid the ear be still;
Our bodies feel, where'er they be,
Against or with our will."
— Expostulation and Reply, Lyrical Ballads (1798) by William Wordsworth
The first two chapters of my The Other Bennet Sister Mary and Tom fic is out now, exclusively on AO3! My only criticism of the show is that we didn't get to see their wedding, and this fic is a little insight into their lives, including their marriage, honeymoon (called a bridal tour in the Regency era), and newlywed bliss.
At the time when I first wrote it, there was only one other fic — which is why I decided to take matters into my own hands and write my own — but now we have been blessed with almost thirty in the Mary/Tom tag!
It is not only my first time writing for this show and therefore these characters, but my first time writing anything in a long time. I lost all inspiration for it, but this show woke something in me, and I could not stop writing!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/82200841/chapters/216331636