3 Works by QueerlyMaxedOut
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Junior year.
Max is dating Esme. Abby is being extremely normal about it.
Abby drinks vodka at school sometimes. Draws things she won’t explain. Max writes a play about it, sort of. Esme holds everyone together until she starts coming apart too, which would be easier for Abby to ignore if she hadn’t started caring.
In the art room, Marcus, Ginny, and Esme run a zine club for things nobody says out loud. Obviously, everyone handles this with grace.
If you want Abby’s leg taping, body image, avoidance, and Max’s fear of being abandoned treated seriously: this fic goes there.
If OCs or poly fic usually aren’t your thing: Esme will hook you, then fall apart too.
Rotating POV: Max, Esme, Abby. Max/Esme, Abby/Max, Abby/Esme. Poly endgame. Slow-burn sapphic. Mind the tags.
Series
- Part 2 of Portrait of Max, Esme & Abby
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A companion to The Break Before the Noise and Hold Me When I’m Quiet
Each chapter is a standalone story told through a different voice, POV, and timeline. Can be read as a standalone collection of character studies. Each one is a thread, pull one, and the whole thing unravels.
Note: Small Rules of Magic crossover in Rebecca's arc starting in Chapter18 (1962).
Series
- Part 3 of Portrait of Max, Esme & Abby
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The summer Marcus goes to rehab and her friends disappear, Max Baker discovers there’s a mysterious French girl living three blocks away. Esme Delorme has perfect eyeliner and terrible emotional boundaries. Max is catastrophically intrigued.
A canon-divergent, post-Season 3 story about two queer girls learning to want each other without destroying themselves. MANG and Marcus are part of it.
Series
- Part 1 of Portrait of Max, Esme & Abby