Heyyyyy do you have any Abby x reader recommendations? I searched for literally 30 minutes and could only find smut 😭😭😭
Hello!!!
I'm going to be so real and say that it's been a hot minute since I've properly read Abby fic because of this exact reason, and also because I've been writing my own! I don't know if any other fanfic authors feel the same, but I struggle to read for the character I'm currently writing for?? Maybe it's because I'm scared about accidently taking something, or I'm worried I'll get sick of the character lmao I don't know.
Tumblr is lovely but I really recommend looking at Archive of Our Own! You can sort by tags and fic rating, so if you want no smut at all you can filter it out!
I recommend sorting by bookmarks if you want the cream of the crop, and words if you want to find longfic! Those will usually still have smut but it won't be PWP.
The one fic I will plug is The Little Ruse. It has smut, but they tell you where it is and it's not the entire story! It was the first Abby/Reader fic I ever read, and it really motivated me to write for Abby!
I'm sure there are plenty of non-smut fics for Abby here on Tumblr, but like you said, it is a bit of a struggle to find them. Love my girl and I'm so glad we're really into her, but I completely understand wanting to read something that isn't just pure smut lmao
Sorry this wasn't much help!!!!!
I cannot begin to express how much this means to me!!
I know I'm not the quickest to upload and I leave you guys hanging more than I probably should, but the idea that so many of you have read and enjoyed my silly fanfic about our favourite girl makes me embarrassingly emotional :')
Thank you so so much for all of the love on dream of us in a year here on tumblr and over on ao3!! We're only just getting started (this was originally going to be a one shot don't ask me how I'm nearly at 150k and haven't even reached canon yet) and I'm excited to show you all what I have planned!!! <33
i promise that i was working on it, but life got in the way so i had to put everything on hiatus. and unfortunately i am not a good parent and i do have my favourites, so when i did have time to write i chose my longfic LMAO
but!! i have a big chunk of it done, and am even going to give you a 1k snippet of it to tide you over because this thing is going to lightly brush 20k so giving you an entire scene isn't going to spoil too much hehe
thank you for your patience <3
snippet from is it casual now, the part 2 to it's hard being casual
The Tipsy Bison wouldn’t be your first choice of bar.
Not that it’s not nice; the interior is entirely wooden, and the lighting is made up of these rather nice hanging bulbs that give off a warm and cozy vibe. It always smells lightly smoky-- in a woodfire way, not a cigarette way—and they make sure to never have the TV in the corner up too loud on game nights. They’ve still got a working jukebox filled with country classics, and when you’ve got a drink or two in you, you’re not afraid to twirl around and boot stomp like Joel showed you all at Ellie’s twenty-first.
But you definitely stick out like a sore thumb here, a beacon of colour in the middle of flannelette central. Especially when you sit across from Jesse and Ellie— Jesse who wears flannels because he wakes up every morning at ass o’clock to help out on his parent’s ranch, and Ellie who wears flannels because she’s a lesbian and treats it like a uniform.
So yeah, this would never be your first choice of bar, but Ellie gets drinks cheap because the owners know Tommy and Joel, and because they feel like they owe you guys after The Seth Incident.
The three of you— You, Jesse, and Ellie-- have been here since seven, a basket of fries half empty between you as you pick at it and wait for Dina. She had a conference today that was meant to end at six, but started pinging the group chat at six thirty with updates.
“When are you gonna come out to the ranch again?” Jesse nudges Ellie, making the chip she was about to put in her mouth hit her cheek instead. “Shimmer is fit to ride again after her fall.”
Ellie grimaces as she rubs the oil and salt from her skin. “You sure your parents want me to take her out again?”
Jesse claps a hand on her shoulder, squeezing gently, reassuringly. “It wasn’t your fault. You can’t control what she does when she’s spooked. Plus she misses you, so who cares what my parents think.”
“I do.” Ellie chews on the fry, already grabbing another. “…but fine. I’ll make some time next week.”
Jesse grins, and Ellie rolls her eyes as she gets jostled by him. He turns to you, pointing a finger your way.
“What about you? When’s the city princess finally coming down and pulling her cowboy boots on?”
You cross your arms over your chest with a scoff. “I’ve been busy. It’s not like I’ve been avoiding visiting the ranch.”
Ellie raises an eyebrow, mouth still full of chewed up potato as she speaks. “What about making coffees makes you so busy?”
“I’m a manager, Ellie. I… manage.” You slump back in the booth, letting out a huff. “Plus, I’m trying to save up to move. My lease is almost up, and I want to move somewhere a little closer to work. The bus is killing me.”
“Just get your license,” Ellie says, as if it was the most obvious answer in the world.
“Why don’t you get your license, and then you can drive me to work,” you say, kicking her shin under the table.
“Hey! It’s not my fault they failed me. That turn was legal.”
Jessie snorts. “Didn’t you run up on a curb?”
Ellie waves the two of you off. “Whatever. We’re not talking about my ability to drive. We’re talking about how hard making coffee is.”
“That’s—Ugh,” you groan, taking a sip of your water. “You suck.”
Ellie smirks, puffing her chest out. “Actually, I—”
“I am so sorry,” Dina breathes, dropping into the booth next to you. She tosses a quick look to the door she just bustled in from before turning back, smiling apologetically to you all. “They would not let me leave.”
You shuffle to give her more room, though Dina sticks right by your side, thigh pressed to yours.
“Hey, babe.” Ellie grins, reaching out across the table to her.
“Hey,” Dina breathes, smiling back and reaching her own hand out to grab hers briefly. She turns to look behind her again as she pulls away, back to the door.
“You okay, Dee?” you ask, placing a hand on her forearm.
Dina nods, shifting and finally settling in her seat, looking a bit flustered. Not in the way Ellie makes her, but like she’s trying to keep up with too many things at once, like there’s too much happening for her brain to keep track of.
She leans in closer to you, pressing your sides together as she speaks quietly, under her breath. “If you want to leave at any point and call it early, just let me know.”
You furrow your brows as you look at her. “What? Why?”
Her eyes flick behind her once more, and this time you follow them.
At the door to the bar, shuffling towards an empty booth near the entrance is Mel, Nora, and Abby.
It’s been weeks since you last spoke to her, months since you last saw her in person. And of course, after so long that it almost doesn’t feel like torture when you think of her, she appears in front of you.
And fuck you right? Because she looks good. Really good-- a white tee with the sleeves rolled up to expose her biceps, the bottom of her shirt just brushing the blue jeans that she keeps belted at her hips. Her boots stomp along the wooden floor, and you can practically smell the leather polish from where you sit.
There’s a part of you, a selfish part, that wishes that she looked how you feel—upset, tired. But as she offers the seats to Mel and Nora first, grinning at something Nora says, you realise that’s not the case.
You swear and turn back around, looking down at the knotted wood of the table.
“What is it?” Ellie asks, rising up in her seat to look. Dina reaches across the table and hisses at her to sit down, grabbing at her hands.
Jesse is tall enough that he can see just fine. He reaches out to you, dropping a hand to the top of your head. “Hey, don’t let her ruin your night.” He pats you gently, making you laugh softly despite what feels like a vice clenching around your heart.
“Yeah,” you sigh, trying to fix your posture and sit up a bit straighter. “I’ll try.”
I happened to read in your posts that you read Gideon the ninth. Do you recommend it? Is it complex? I've heard good things about it but I don't know
An excuse to talk more about The Locked Tomb!?
The Locked Tomb (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Nona the Ninth) is my favourite book series in the entire world. I have read/listened to them five times and plan to get some sick tattoos based on it.
My TDLR answers before I ramble:
Do I recommend Gideon the Ninth? YES 100%!
Is it complex? Kind of! In the way that most fantasy/scifi books are with their world building and lore. But not as much as the monster that is Harrow the Ninth is.
My full thoughts under the cut because I can't help but gush about these books!!!!
Gideon the Ninth is like, the perfect first book to a complex series.
The description 'lesbian necromancers in space' is real and true, but a more accurate description would be 'lesbian sword fighter and lesbian necromancer who aren't lesbians together but in fact mortal enemies fly through space to another planet because God told them to and they get caught up in a murder mystery while they're there' LMAO
It's got swords. It's got bones. It's got enemies to friends???? to ?????. It's got weirdo freaks. It's got hot weirdo freaks. It's set in a queernorm world. Camilla Hect is there. It will make you laugh and cry.
Harrow the Ninth which is the second book is where everything gets super complex, but that's like. The book. Literally everyone will tell you to just keep reading. You're not missing anything. You're not misunderstanding. It is just like that, and when you finish it you will realise just how genius this book was, and when you re-read it (because you will), it will be like you're reading an entirely new book.
Nona the Ninth will forever alter how you look at the world and your relationship with the word 'love' :)
And good news is that the last book isn't out yet!! So there's more!!
The bad news is that we've been stuck in the Alectopause for like... 1000 days now and we have no news on when it'll come out LMAO
your attention to not only the lore but also simply the smaller details (in dream of us in a year, specifically) is so so very impressive and once again i just want to tell you how amazing you are
you have managed to make me go through every possible emotion with just your (SCRUMPTIOUS) writing
+ i hope you're doing well!! big fan.
me getting y'all AGAIN
THANK YOU SO MUCHHH <33
You are all so very kind and sweet to me orz
I never really thought I'd get the amount of support I do on my silly little fics, and I am so very thankful and appreciative of all of you!!
You also have no idea how happy it makes me that people notice the little details!!
I literally have wiki pages, google maps, and gameplay videos up at all times while writing each chapter..... I get my lovely and amazing bestie @justanotherabbystan to take photo modes of locations for me to make sure I'm getting the most detail possible. I have calendars for 2037 and 2038 with an accurate (as much as I can be) timeline I pieced together to make sure I'm on track......
It's way too much effort but I think it's super fun! And it's such a relief that people appreciate the effort hahaha <33
I'm glad you're writing, any updates on its hard being casual?
This is what we're looking at right now.
I know I said I'd get it out at some point, but I'm going to be completely honest and say that I got major writers block when it came to part 2, and I was feeling a lot of pressure to write it which just made things more difficult.
Currently, I'm about halfway. I could cut it into further parts because this is probably going to be about 20k? But I doubt y'all would want that.
I could have made it a lot simpler but I also wanted to stay true to how I enjoy writing Abby, and didn't want to just have them kiss and make up out of the blue. A lot of people resonated with what I wrote, and I'd hate to ignore that and not use this second part to do similarly.
I know that it's been months, but trust that I am chipping away at it. I will let you know when it's ready.
