Exchange Fic #17: Dare to Bake a Peach

[dmacabre]

The actual identity of the writer will remain secret until all the submissions are in and posted.

****

Title: Dare to Bake a Peach
Author: akavertigo
Recipient: dmacabre
Prompt: Someone is cooking someone else a special dinner for a special occasion. Who, what, when, where and why? P.S. Feel free to make with the food porn, but I swear it is totally optional.

Comments

[dmacabre]

Consider my mind blown, Mystery Author. I can't even really quote lines, because every single one's like a work of art, a story told in evocative flashes.

(And the food porn was pitch-perfect. I'm not sure if people realize how hard it is to get that done right. I only dabble, but this would probably make Julia Child cry. In a good way.)

I know you sweated over this, but it was absolutely worth the wait-- and worth a kidney, for that matter. I love it. Thank you so much!

[dmacabre]

So...can I have my dog back now?

Thank youuuu~

(Also: wow. That's, um, a lot of typos. Which we shall call "raisins", for they are annoying and do not belong.)

[dmacabre]

You can take possession of your dog and your kidney again. That's how good the fic was. (Because a good kidney is worth at least $20K on the black market and hey, I could use the cash.)

And because I thought it would amuse you-- a certain Guilty Party and I were discussing how much we'd like to go all zombie on your brain in hopes of absorbing some of your writerly skillz. Some might call that groundwork for a restraining order, but I call it praise!

[dmacabre]

Is this why all those shampoo sets you give smell like basil?

(I knew Shake'N'Bake didn't make body scrub!)

[anonymous]

oh my god. ;_;

[tallulah99]

I see the previous poster's 'Oh my God' and raise them a moment of slack-jawed speechlessness. This was simply INCREDIBLE. I started to panic as I read because I was getting closer to the bottom and I didn't *want* to finish it.

There were lines I had to read aloud simply to enjoy the taste of them. I'd quote some of them, but I am nearly positive that LJ has a character maximum on these comments. The whole thing was dreamlike and lyrical and I loved it. Undoubtedly the food p0rn transported dmacabre to her happy place. It made me hungry and caused much lamenting over my own lack of expertise in the kitchen. Astouding.

Also 'J. Henson High' for the EPIC WIN.

[akavertigo]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Food pr0n is fun to write and read (provided you do so next to a well stocked fridge or late-night take out.)

I second your culinary lamenting because, seriously? I can, like, toast things and that's about it.

[aliasheist]

OH MY WHAT

That was. Ohmyholycrap. I haven't been keeping up with the exchange because I'm a moron, and then this was posted and I had a minute and HOLY MOTHER OF MOSES.

Um. Basically I wish I had written this. Or that I could write this. Or write like this. Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick. Wow. (Because, in my inarticulation, this is amazing, singularly and utterly.)

[akavertigo]

All pogo sticks are to be parked in the rear next to the author's grateful flailing. Watch out for the elbows!

[akavertigo]

Thirteen? I was only aiming for seven--damn.

There's a big bang project coming up so, yeah, I'm gonna be out of all major organs by August. Oh, well.

[akavertigo]

The frog is eloquent.