There Is An Ache DEEP IN MY CORE That Can Only Be Satisfied By Being Held In Abby’s Arms. G O D.

Taking a female character who belongs to a non-majority group of bigger, muscular women in a video game and making her a very skinny person in the TV show adaptation of said video game is problematic and worthy of (respectful) criticism and I’m tired of pretending it’s not. Because the creators of the TV show said they specifically offered the actor who plays this character the part. She even said she didn’t even have to audition in an interview, she was offered the role with no audition for it. No hate to this actor, she’s amazing, she’s out here working, I don’t blame her at all. But they also did not have other actors (or if they did, very few) read for the part.

But I am so sick of people acting like the character’s original physique doesn’t matter. It DOES MATTER. Media has power, and purposefully erasing a part of a character’s physical identity that aligns her with a group of women who are either grossly misrepresented in traditional media or just cut out of it completely IS harmful. And the fact that they used her physicality to market the second game so heavily and then abandon it when the reception wasn’t good for the TV show is SO problematic. Bigger women are not there to simply be movement devices for your plot and aesthetic choices. People who are bigger matter, and having representation of bigger women fucking matters.

Abs, using her charm

When I’m insecure about my nose I remember that Abby Anderson has a nose like mine 😓🫶

NOSE TWINSSSS

greatest female protagonist ever created, i know that’s right

I genuinely forget there are people in this world who don't like Abby.

I'm not even kidding.

When I see random hate it actually shocks me for a bit. And then I go back to remembering she's the greatest female protagonist ever created and it soothes my soul.

ABBY ANDERSON’S BOOK COLLECTION

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CITY OF THIEVES

written by david benioff, 2008

the main character’s name is lev, perhaps a nod to abby’s future ward

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

written by alexandre dumas, 1846

some of the story’s key themes are revenge, redemption and forgiveness.. sounds a bit familiar, abigail

THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY

written by homer, c. 8th century BC

THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA

written by miguel de cervantes, 1605

HEART OF DARKNESS

written by joseph conrad, 1899

DIVINE COMEDY

written by dante alighieri, 1321

LITTLE WOMEN

louisa may aclott, 1868

THE MOONSTONE

written by wilkie collins, 1868

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

written by mark twain, 1884

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS

written by various authors, c. 1706-1721

MEDEA

written by euripides, 431 BC

THE ROSE GARDEN HUSBAND

written by margaret widdemer, 1915

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

written by H. G. wells, 1898

WAR AND PEACE

written by leo tolstoy, 1867

ROBINSON CRUSOE

written by daniel defoe, 1719

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

written by oscar wilde, 1890

THE DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH

written by H. P. lovecraft, 1943

THE SCARLET LETTER

written by nathaniel hawthorne, 1850

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

written by george orwell, 1949

TREASURE ISLAND

written by robert louis stevenson, 1883

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

written by charles dickens, 1859

FISHING IN UTOPIA: SWEDEN & THE FUTURE THAT DISAPPEARED

written by andrew brown, 2008

STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE

written by robert louis stevenson, 1886

i’m sorry but there’s one abby fanfic writer on here that’s so obviously using chatgpt to mass-produce fics and it’s actually infuriating as hell. she’s even been called out before which validated my suspicion. if someone’s dropping 5+ fics a week, you KNOW they’re cutting corners. writing takes time, editing takes time. there’s literally no way you can post so many fics back to back like that every single week i’m sorry. they’re all awfully formatted, with chatgpt copy and pasted spacing. they have zero personality and they’re the same ai generated language. i’m so sick of seeing this person get praised for work that isn’t even theirs, simply because she’s spamming the abby x reader tag with ai fics and overshadowing people who actually work hard and put love into what they write. ai has no place in fanfiction, write real stories. it’s so lazy and fake as fuck. and readers, please try to be more aware. if someone's putting out a perfectly polished character x reader fic every 48 hours, either they're lying about how fast they work or they're outsourcing an ai.

i will not be naming who because people have already flocked to her account to tell her about this post and defend her so whatever, at least i tried. sorry for wanting more for this fandom

the way so many of you guys act like abby is some mean ass dominating, degrading butch is crazy to me. did you play the game or just see a strong woman and assume…? she is repeatedly shown to be considerate, polite, gentle and caring. her anger filled grief is not her actual personality and i wish you guys would take the time to unpack that. idk if you’re just projecting your own fantasies onto her or what but wow

details of ellie’s room (joel’s garage) and dina!

“abby shouldn’t have tortured joel/abby should’ve made it quick” have you never considered maybe she (and the rest of the salt lake crew) wanted him to experience all the pain he caused at saint mary’s? not just her dad’s pain or her own grief but everyone else’s, too?

if you think abby is a stone top i automatically think you’re incompetent or smth because wym