QueerlyMaxedOut
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- Ginny & Georgia (TV) (2)
- Original Work (1)
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Junior year. Max is dating Esme and trying to save Abby, who’s drinking vodka at school and secretly in love with Max. But while Max watches Abby spiral, Esme vanishes in plain sight, and Max doesn’t notice until everything falls apart.
Getting the girl doesn’t fix Abby’s broken parts. Max writes a play to control the chaos, Abby draws to survive it. In the art room, Marcus, Ginny, and Esme build a zine club for the things no one will say out loud. Finding her voice through her art, Abby starts paying closer attention and discovers an undeniable pull toward Esme.
Rotating POV: Max, Esme, Abby. Poly endgame. Slow-burn sapphic. Mind the tags.
Book 1 optional: quick recap in notes.
Book 0 is a non-linear archive of the women who made them (full recap here).
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- Part 2 of Portrait of Max & Esme
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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.
Welcome to the architecture.
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- Part 3 of Portrait of Max & Esme
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Part 2: Hold Me When I'm Quiet is available now. Check the series page to continue the story or click HERE.
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, and about the messy, intentional healing of their friends.
Series
- Part 1 of Portrait of Max & Esme
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A queer, literary, character-driven universe about love, identity, and becoming.
At the center: Esme Delorme, newly arrived from Paris to a small Massachusetts town after a betrayal she can’t outrun. And Max Baker, whose messy, loyal heart is more dangerous than she realizes.
The main arc follows Esme and Max across a transformative year, from a summer of first love (book 1) to everything that comes after (book 2), but the series expands beyond them.
A story about wanting, staying, surviving, and choosing.
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At exactly 9:17 a.m. on a Tuesday, Maxine Baker taught Abby Littman a secret language called "quiet talk." It was a language meant for when the world got too loud, but over twenty years, the silence between them grew teeth.
From the duct-taped hallways of Wellsbury to a 3,000-mile run to San Francisco and a high-stakes reunion in New York at age 25, this is a story of childhood promises, miscommunication, and the long road back to the person who always felt like home.
Bookmarked by QueerlyMaxedOut
03 Apr 2026
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After an unexpected connection between Abby and Max the summer before Junior year, the two find themselves at an even worse place than when they started. Despite this, they carry on and never rekindle their friendship through the remainder of high school. When college comes, they're both in for a surprise that is primed to ruin everything...or maybe make things better in ways the pair could never have imagined.
This is set pretty soon after the end of Season 3 and while it does contain some chapters following Abby and Max in high school for plot purposes, the bulk of this story takes place 2 years later during their freshman year of college.
Bookmarked by QueerlyMaxedOut
03 Apr 2026
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- Words:
- 45,795
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- 10
- Bookmarks:
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Bookmarked by QueerlyMaxedOut
22 Oct 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Sporklyfrog! You’re awesome. Hope you’re okay.
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I’m not a religious person, but I do sometimes think God made you for me.
Or: The one where Ginny isn't speaking to her family and reunites with Marcus in Maine over Christmas break.
Bookmarked by QueerlyMaxedOut
20 Mar 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
This is excellent! Must read.
Some Winters Will Never Melt by Arisucola
The one where Ginny isn't speaking to her family and reunites with Marcus in Maine over Christmas break. -
painting, or how to escape the weight of love by hollow_sunset
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022)
07 Sep 2022
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What is art if not love?
The paintings in the family room, that wait like guardians for someone with sanity to return, are love. Of a mother for her children, even those that aren’t hers by blood. For all of them. Each brush stroke, each composition of colour and form, of image and meaning.
That is love.
- Susannah paints. Always. For the people she loves, for the things she can never say.
Bookmarked by QueerlyMaxedOut
19 Nov 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Okay I mean anyone saying they’re not a thing is full of shit.