FIC: The Stars and Scones Bakery and Coffee Shop (6/6, COMPLETE)

[lucia_tanaka]

Title: The Stars and Scones Bakery and Coffee Shop (6/6)
Pairings: Harry Dresden/John Marcone
Warnings/Content: Explicit sex, food porn, past child abuse, oblique reference to self-harm, serious portrayal of a character dealing with past trauma, realistic depiction of a panic attack, and abandonment issues, but now, finally, some romantic fluff. ♥

Comments

[inteligrrl]

This was beautiful and perfect. Harry's reaction to Hendrix's name MADE my day. Love you to pieces. *hearts*

[lucia_tanaka]

I hope someday Butcher gets around to canonizing Nathan Hendricks. He's too awesome to not have a last name, man.

:♥ right back:

[skeptic7]

Great finale! I love that it takes a week and Ivy before John can get back to Harry. Real life always interferes. Also Kincaid as an ex-Seal or something. I do love the cookie experiment where not everything turns out well. This is just fabulous.

[katie310117]

Oh my god, that was amazing. And Ivy! Ivy's a brony! AND A DECEMBERISTS FAN.
What is this I don't even. I am so happy, I can hardly stand it, and can (obviously) not articulate it very well. But seriously, the only thing better than this fic is knowing there will be more! And I can't wait for more MoC.

[lucia_tanaka]

She's not a brony, she just likes MLP. :has issues with the "brony" label and the inherent assumption that men enjoying certain media gets them special treatment, /rant: And whether you like the Decemberists or not, "The Tain" is amazing.

Glad you enjoyed!

[katie310117]

IMO, a brony is just someone who likes the new MLP. It isn't a guy thing, I guess for me it's more of an 'adult liking MLP' thing, but I suppose most people do think of bronies as male. Also, even if people do think of brony as just being male, since there is a female specific term (pegasister) I don't think it's exactly 'special' treatment. And I guess Ivy, not being part of the periphery demographic for MLP, wouldn't be a brony even by my own criterion. Not that it really matters, I just like the cute ponies.:D

I had forgotten that you were a Decemberists fan until I read this chapter. When I first saw your post with the quote from Don't Carry It All, I literally gasped aloud because it always makes me happy to see Decemberists fans, and even thought they aren't as unheard of as they were several years ago, they still aren't that popular. I wonder if John really listens to the lyrics of the Tain, I might not want my kid listening to it :p

[lucia_tanaka]

I actually read about the first 75 pages of that book. I wonder why I never picked it up again...

[lilgoody2sh]

Yay! It's finished and the ending was great. I like that although both of them told each other their feelings Ivy had to step in and make sure the relationship went smoothly. I'm looking forward to Marcone's side. The cover and music looks great. The picture of the cake, what's in the middle? Some kind of filling?

[lucia_tanaka]

IIRC (a lot of my food porn stuff was GISed), it's a chocolate red torte cake, so I assume it's cherry or raspberry. Not the right color for strawberry, really.

Thank you for reading! Glad you enjoyed. 8D

[akelios]

I have nothing but high pitched squeaking noises for this fic. The slow build up to Harry and Marcone actually attempting to have a relationship with one another was wonderful, Ivy was incredible, the cast of...everyone. Look, I loved this fic. Which may or may not have anything to do with my secret love of Rom-com's but that doesn't matter. What matters is that this is fabulous and the world is improved by its existence.

And yes, I may be gushing a little. Sorry! :)

[lucia_tanaka]

I haaaate rom-coms, except for the ones where both characters have realistic issues and have to work together to get through them (27 Dresses comes to mind). So, yep, I guess that's what I was going for? Heh.

Gushing is fine! Thanks for the kind words!