BOOK TWO: putting out your fires with gasoline (12/?)

[lucia_tanaka]

Table of Contents

Title: putting out your fires with gasoline, Book Two of The Matter of Chicago
Rating/Warnings: PG, no warnings.
Word Count: Apparently my wordcounter on Google Docs is massively inaccurate, so I'll have a new, revised count next chapter.

Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six |

Comments

[surskitty]

\o/ Mouse! Plot! Plot where I've mentally erased the book from my brain! I am intrigued.

I'm pretty sure salmon cream cheese isn't just a Florida thing. I mean, I have no trouble finding it in Maryland! :)

[lucia_tanaka]

I live in Missouri.

Florida is like a whole new world of cuisine.

:om nom nom nom:

[gwendolynflight]

Hey, I live in Missouri!!! ::excited::

[sunsaralyn]

Ok. This is an interesting take. And Thomas etc vs. John. ... Interesting. I do like that you included Mouse. Foo dog FTW.

[lerabird]

I read two chapters at once because... Well, I just do. Two is better than one. So! I loved the sexy boat fun and I'm very glad they managed to get back into their roles. I can only imagine how awkward it was for Harry to be hearing all about John's businesses.

As for this chapter... loved it, but I have to admit I'm pretty nervous. I mean, yay Mouse, but Susan getting involved will probably spell trouble for the guys' realtioship. When she left they weren't together yet (maipulative Marcone is amazing) so I wonder how she's going to react. Although I suppose she may already know. Who knows what papers are printing about John's relationhip with Harry. Also, considering how much you hate what JB did with Molly (wholehearted agreement here) I'm nervous about what you're going to do to fix it. I mean, Charity was amazing in PG, but otherwise the book was difficult to read because of the multitude of bad dicisions made across the board.

I'll stop ranting now, but I'm going to be waiting anxiously for the next two chapters!

[lucia_tanaka]

I was just rereading a bit of PG to help me work on my map of Occult Chicago okay right

and early on Harry apparently calls Molly "Frankenhooker"

every time I look at PG, it's like a perpetual motion machine of fail. it's an mc escher staircase one continuous fail. i can't even. i so can't even, i cannot find the strength to use my shift key

[lerabird]

*snort* "mc escher staircase of continuous fail"? that's awesome! i approve of shift key fail to protest PG. it really truly sucked. i managed to get one of my friends into dresden, but during summer knight and proven guilty she couldn't handle it. i had to summarize those books for her because she hated them so much. unfortunately she's a dresden/murphy shipper so i get no support from her... but that's why i'm here!

i do feel like i need to mention that it isn't entirely harry's fault. in the books charity is so very negative towards magic every time harry's around that i can only imagine how much worse it is when he's not around. and molly has had to listen to that for over half her life. as much as i grew to appreciate charity's opinion after she explained her past, i still think it's stupid of her to take that opinion and make her daughter hate herself for something that charity gave to her.

[lucia_tanaka]

One day I will get over the fact Murphy committed an act of police brutality against Harry and then joked about it later. Today is not that day.

I have no qualms with the Molly-Charity thing in PG. My issues come from the really gross Harry/Molly shit going on and the way he talks to her, describes her, and treats her. The sexism is off the charts.

[lida_c]

Woo super relieved. For a minute there I thought there would be no mouse. I was about to cry. Then when the puppy appeared I almost cheered. Mmmm I love this story so much. I love how close this feels to the original books in style and flavor just a little less angst and more sexy fun. Thanks for writing and I look forward to more.

[lucia_tanaka]

just a little less angst

:bursts out laughing:

I um, I mean, yeah. That. Totally. :coughs:

[reticent_lass]

Well, a different, more grounded flavor of angst, certainly. Less of this pointless 'forever alone' self-inflicted surface manpain and more dealing with the actual shit he's been pretending isn't there since forever. It feels like less because 1) it's actually given a decent grounding in reality and 2) he does process it some.

[dinofly]

Thank you for updating so fast. I am just finishing the previous chapter and this is great news.

I've just re-read Book1 and loved it even more than the first time. Thanks so much! Your writing is just incredibly good and this whole story is just amazing. I don't believe I've read many published books that are better.

So once more - THANKS!

P.S. are there more of your works we can read somewhere?

[lucia_tanaka]

Aw, thank you. :twirls: Any of my fic that I don't hate is over here, if you like.

[gwendolynflight]

Oh, wow! I love Molly being in on the chase with the monkeys, and Mouse! I was worried Harry didn't get Mouse for a moment! (Or was gotten by Mouse? ... Accounts differ, hee.) I'm kind of sad we're leaving the fluffy bits, the foreshadowing about Molly is v v ominous - especially since you aren't following that book. What could it be? And this article! So, Susan was never partially-vamped, she's still writing stories ... Argh, can't remember the books well enough to figure out what this could be referring to. Unless we're getting into White Court stuff finally? Ooh, will there be Thomas?

[lucia_tanaka]

We are going into White Court, and this arc is not based on any of the books, no. So guesses based on the canon are probably not going to be correct. :smirk:

[gwendolynflight]

That is so cool, I love that you're breaking away from canon at this point. Yay! And Thomas, yay!