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Anyone know any fics that don't pair Holtzmann with one of the other ladies?
Especially not Holtzbert, that's almost all there is on Archive of Our Own and Fanfiction.net, and my level of interest in them went from 0% to -100% because I can't seem to get away from it, even Tumblr posts that just seem like they're about Holtzmann headcanons usually end up with something like 'She's the little spoon when she's in bed with Erin'. I just want Holtzmann with some woman who's not part of the team. I've found a few good fics, but they're mostly oneshots, the only chapter fic I've found that I really love is mellindahightop's The Hippie and the Scientist.




Oh hello friend, I don't have recs per SE but I am very interested in any that you get!
I would be into... uh, pretty much Holtzmann/anyone but Erin myself because Erin is probably the one ghostbuster I'm least interested in as a character. (Look, I am a neurotic, high-strung, competitive-as-shit scientist named Erin; her personality traits are basically 'everything I am ambivalent about in me' with a side of weird gross sexual harassment towards her one dude employee and overt painful heterosexuality, which I don't personally share. No thank you.)
(Which is not to say that other people cannot love her! I just. Seriously, so many of my own least favorite traits, sitting right there in front of me.)
Oh hi, fancy meeting you here!
Yeah, I share several traits with Erin (and a body plan with Abby), but I also am the least interested in her, and I think Holtzmann would find her boring. (So my personal headcanon is that Holtzmann screws with whoever seems the stodgiest, and it's not really flirting at all.)
That is entirely how I read Holtzmann's interactions with Erin too! I mean ...Holtzmann does tend to mess with people, and certainly when she first met Erin she was messing with her in a sort of "you hurt my friend" way.
That said, sorry, no fic recs :( I'll be watching this thread though
Yes, exactly! High five.
I'm so glad someone asked! Haha
Yeah, I'm with you. For whatever reason, none of them work for me.
There are also some Holtzmann/Reader fics on AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Jillian%20Holtzmann%2As%2AYou/works
and a handful of Holtzmann/OC fics:
http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Jillian%20Holtzmann%2As%2AOriginal%20Female%20Character%28s%29/works
(and a few Gorin/Holtzmann fics but I'm really not a fan of that)
And if you don't mind a crossover, I enjoyed Holtzmann & Wells: http://archiveofourown.org/works/7806826
unfortunately by the time I clear out all the ones that are too error-ridden for me to be able to read, there are still not that many leftSeveral of the Holtzmann/You fics are series or multi-chapter.
I mean, I thought about writing Holtzmann/OC, but I'm working on my own mad scientist girlfriends novel and figure I should probably put my energy there...Holtzmann/You is easier to write, though.
It is extremely hard to find non-holtzbert fics on AO3. I haven't gone to check in awhile, but I am actually amazed you took the time to find any. I can't rec you anything, but I know there's a method of filtering out certain ships you don't like in AO3. You can also try downloading the AO3rdr extension for Chrome/Firefox. They have an extremely useful blacklisting tool
edit: alternatively, if you're interested in holtz x reader fics, there seems to be a lot on tumblr
Here's the search you mentioned! (I've sorted mine by kudos.) The trick is to put -"$WHATEVER YOU DON'T WANT TO READ" in the 'Search Within Results' bin. The - means "none of this, please."
185 fics? out of 716??? That's a good 75% of fics dedicated to Holtzbert. Why do these numbers not surprise me. (I don't particularly hate the ship, it's just super uncomfortable to me cause... it's everywhere??)
Also, thank you! I'm probably just going to stick to the Chrome extension since I already have it installed though haha. Just curious, using the search method, would I be able to cancel out multiple tags?
Yup! Works for as many tags as you like. it's worth mentioning that I also specified fics with f/f when I made that search, so that miiiiiight help some. A little.
I see, thanks!
Also, by removing the f/f filter there's now 275 fics. Almost a hundred that's not f/f pairing centered. I guess the number could have been worse. I should have realized that excluding the f/f filter should have affected the results tho haha
It didn't seem to work for me :( It cut my results down to five, and those were all Holtzbert fics.
It is kind of overwhelming!
And there are a couple of Kevin/Holtzmann fics, which NOPE NOPE NOPE NOOOOOOOOOPE. (Room full of nightmares!)
That's really, really weird. Clicking that link didn't work, or searching with the hyphen in front of a quoted tag didn't work?
Searching with the hyphen in front of a quoted tag didn't work. I honestly think that technology enjoys screwing with my head sometimes...
Ewww. She's gay, people, stop it.