Quinn doesn’t panic.
She doesn’t do panic. Or fluster. Or irrational internal spirals over inconsequential things like former academic rivals-slash-accidental allies-slash-girls-who-sometimes-text-at-midnight-about-obscure musicals-and-then-pretend-it-meant-nothing.
OR: The weekend Rachel visits Quinn at Yale and they stop pretending their constant texting is just friendly.
TENSION! TENSION! TENSION! TENSION!
I loved this
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Rachel decides to relieve some tension. This does not quite go to plan, and continues to be unexpected for some time after. Set just after Michael, and further chapters incorporate events up to and beyond On My Way.
This story starts one way (which I loved), and then pivoted and went a completely different direction after (which was unexpected, but still fun!). Primarily, this is a post-On My Way story - so all the fun that comes with Quinn’s accident, recovery, and everyone dealing with their feelings in the face of life-or-death. It also features multiple points of view from all sorts of glee characters, but the author did well with it and was clearly having fun. I think they did a great job using the multiple points of view to weave the story together.
Rachel has an announcement to make.
reader beware, this one’s…different lol. it’s not a poly fic but it almost is, and if you’re completely uninterested in entertaining a scenario where rachel and quinn have a poly foursome sex thing going with santana and brittany, then this one’s probably not for you. that said, this isn’t smut, so if you are super into that, sorry! this is somewhere in the middle of a poly fic and a faberry fic, leaning much more faberry. I liked it!
i watched a lot of glee in my youth but never shipped quinn and rachel like i do rewatching it as an adult. like why are you wistfully telling finn the exact corsage you would get to match quinn’s eyes.
I finally wrote a new fic! We’re going into the future with this one…
https://archiveofourown.org/works/80881276/chapters/212481876
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Chapters:
2/?
Fandom:
Glee (TV 2009)
Rating:
Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings:
No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships:
Rachel Berry/Quinn Fabray
Characters:
Rachel Berry, Quinn Fabray, Finn Hudson, Noah Puckerman, Santana Lopez, Brittany S. Pierce, Tina Cohen-Chang, Mercedes Jones, Kurt Hummel, Blaine Anderson, Sam Evans (Glee), Leroy Berry, Hiram Berry
Additional Tags:
POV Alternating, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - 1960s, Vietnam War, Inspired by Music, Song: Travelin’ Soldier (The Chicks), Faberry, Love Letters
Summary:
AU Faberry
In 1967, L. Quinn Fabray is set to go to California to begin military training. With no home, no family, and no idea what is going to happen in the future, she meets Rachel Berry - and asks a favour of her. What begins as a spontaneous friendship turns into love letters across miles of ocean, weaving the two together into an inseparable thread that not even war can break.
“Our love will never end, waitin’ for the soldier to come back again. Nevermore to be alone, when my letter says a soldier’s coming home.”
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She’s clutching the cast soundtrack she bought with her pocket money, and her little mind is hard at work. She’s got work to do to go from shy little Lucy to sing and dance like Rachel Berry.
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Child star Rachel Berry meets Quinn Fabray in her freshman class at NYADA and in every life, thinks she’s the prettiest girl she’s ever met. A bit of a character study for these versions of these girls and how their lives change.
“Rachel sits on her proverbial hands her first few weeks at NYADA, waits for Quinn to acknowledge the Metro-North passes, waits to see if it might have been a fluke. This isn’t because she has any doubt about her appeal (though unbeknownst to her this too will change with time) but because, were she in Quinn’s position, she would not deign to return to any part of McKinley, present company included.
She finally gives in and emails her on a Thursday (she’ll remember that part forever, for some reason), a simple thing – Dear Quinn, Are you doing well, Warmest Regards, Rachel Barbra Berry – and she does her best to forget it, beneath homework and Cassandra July’s…everything.”
or, Quinn, Rachel, and a lot of emails.
Ten years later, Rachel and Quinn find themselves trapped in an apartment against a howling snowstorm.
I’m just overwhelmed by all of your kind words and messages and comments. 😭 I truly love you all so much.
-Mimi
Yay, we meet more of the gang! Also, Rachel leave poor Cowboy!Quinn alone, you’re making her go stupid :)
a huge thanks to: Full Game Script: Game Scripts Wiki Blog Posts.
Character Lists: Red Dead Fandom Wiki.
Writing&Art References: Red Dead Reference Tumblr
Line Dividers: @Deltamel on tumblr
Don’t wanna spoil if you haven’t read yet - so putting them under the cut!
[[MORE]]Rachel’s Tony Nominee: Meet The Press Dress
Rachels NYT Photoshoot Dress, Shoes, and Quinn’s Outfit
Rachel’s Tony Awards Dress, Quinn Tony Awards Dress
Big House Foyer Wallpaper
“I Love Lucy” keychain
Frannie - who I fan casted as Kate Winslet! I always thought she and Dianna Agron favored a little bit and she instantly came to my mind when writing Frannie’s character.
Rachel Proposal Dress and Quinn Proposal Suit
Rachel’s Engagement Ring and Wedding Band
Quinn’s Mother’s Wedding Ring and Band
Rachel’s Wedding Dress and Quinn’s Suit (Not Ivory in Picture, but described as Ivory)
Rachel and Quinn’s Ceremony Site
Rachel and Quinn’s Italian Villa Reception
Cherished Affliction - Chapter 41 - CherishMimi - Glee [Archive of Our Own]
Well, here we are my loves. The end of this journey.
[[MORE]]Before we go, I’d like to take this time to tell you all why I began writing this fic and thank you properly for hanging in there with me this long.
Though I had been reading and dabbling in writing for a while as a young inexperienced teen writer and in other fandoms, I never truly felt like my journey begun until I began writing this story 13 years ago for this fandom. At the time, there was so much discourse around Fifty Shades of Grey and what a horrible job the author had done depicting BDSM and all of its intricacies accurately and it made me curious.
I personally liked the concept of a tortured, detached, young billionaire that had a past and was using kink to numb that past, I was just incredibly unimpressed with the execution. So, I searched in the fandom for something that was similar to scratch the itch and only found two stories that satisfied me. One was ’These Strange Steps’ by thememoriesfire - a Faberry fic and ‘Consequences’ by hathfury - a Brittana fic. I noticed some similar themes in both works.
Both stories used Dominance and submission as an outlet for the characters and at times depicted bad kink etiquette as well as the use of kink as a shield from emotional attachment. Both showed a resolution and acknowledgement of why the etiquette was bad, and had a character that ultimately fell for their partner and had to navigate the dynamics of BDSM alongside their vanilla relationship in a healthy way. Consequences, in particular, was also the first fic I ever read that introduced me to futanari. In other fics, I noticed that the niche of futanari was primarily a vehicle to skate around a pregnancy storyline or feature penetrative sex outside of using a strap on. But I viewed it as a vital part of what could make a main character more complex. A plot device first, vessel for erotica second.
I decided that I wanted my ‘tortured, kinky, billionaire falls for regular girl’ trope but I wanted it realistic. I wanted depth and I wanted a backstory. I didn’t want Quinn to exist as some fantasy only - I wanted her to seem like a real human who had gone through things. I wanted her relationship with kink to be more than just steamy sex scenes. I wanted her body to be more than just a silly little niche. I wanted the reader to feel like they could believe that this particular part of herself had been hard to navigate and maybe led her to bad choices and emotional instability. I also wanted to flesh out what it looked like to see two people falling for one another from different societal classes and how the differences that came with that might impact a relationship. Most of all, despite it being an AU fic, I wanted the characters to still feel familiar. I wanted to connect them to the show as much as I could while still building my own world for them.
I understand that for some, it was not an enticing fic. I won’t forget the angry reviews from readers who didn’t like the concept of reading about a woman with a different sexual organ engaging in sex with another woman. Or the hate I got for some of the harder scenes depicting Quinn’s mistakes as a Domme or my writing in general. I know that there were some that reported the story multiple times, and that ultimately succeeding in getting it deleted from Archive of Our Own all together. But it didn’t matter.
I experienced my own tragedies, triumphs and life changes and I ultimately grew as a writer all while keeping these characters in my heart and never losing sight of what I envisioned for them. Because I refused to abandon this story, or all of the people that were reading it.
I knew in my heart that there was a loyalty that existed in each and every one of you and that is what ultimately kept me going. I could not have written a single word without your support and comments of encouragement. Your comments, messages, kudos and subscriptions reminded me that there was always someone out there waiting to read what would happen next and on my worst day - that fact gave me the strength to write. I’m sure there were many that gave up on the story, or got tired of waiting, but there were so many of you that stuck around. Some of you since the beginning, and for that I will forever be grateful.
I share every part of this accomplishment with all of you. My loves. So, I wanna say from the bottom of my heart - thank you.
Over five hundred thousand plus words and thirteen years later, I hope the conclusion to this story is everything you ever dreamed of from the very first chapter, as I said before. I hope you take something powerful and inspiring from it, and cherish it. I hope that you tell me all about it! About how it made you feel, about what it feels like to get to the end.
And I hope that you all continue to read and support love stories of all kinds.
I have so enjoyed our time together. This isn’t goodbye, I promise. I’ll see you soon!
I love you all!
-Mimi
Rachel orders vegan pizza from a gourmet pizzeria only to find Quinn standing on her doorstep.
AU. Ugly duckling Lucy Fabray was picked on and bullied during her childhood years. Resurrected as gorgeous Hollywood swan and A-lister Quinn Lucas, she is content hiding behind a cold facade. However, Fate just might have other plans.
Man I loved this fic. LOVED this fic. A fantastic celebrity AU, plus they’re both celebrities in this one which is EXTRA fun (to me). And there’s suuuucchhhhh a cute backstory for them that I’m OBSESSED with. I don’t want to give it away but lowkey it’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever seen someone do in a faberry fic - it’s just SO cute.
So the thing about this fic is - it is incomplete. I know!! It sucks!! But I took a chance on it, and I think you should too!! Under the cut here, I’m going to give some spoilers for where the story is at when it ends, in case anyone is really picky about incomplete fics and wants to know what they’re getting into. But for the record, I found it completely worth the read and still recommend it regardless.
[[MORE]]Still not going into deep detail here, but at the time the story ends, faberry ARE dating!! There’s still a lot of things left unresolved, but it’s nothing really bad and I can certainly see how things were soon going to tie up. The author themselves said in a closing note in one of the last chapters that we weren’t too far from the end.
And the thing is, this story is a slow burn. So if that’s your thing like it is mine, then it’s already worth it. Because we get the slow burn and we get the pay off of the slow burn. And it’s soooo good.
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