APPLES (PG) BY IAMSHADOW

[shadowfiction]

Title: Apples
Author: iamshadow, pictures created for the story by kath_ballantyneShip: Ron/Harry

Comments

[tailoredshirt]

*sigh*

That was just so, so lovely. Honestly, I didn't think it could top its companion piece, but I think it has. Once again, I loved the flow of the piece and how you incorporated all of the people that Ron loves. The part about his mom warning him against making Harry cook was slightly heartbreaking, and I could just see Arthur Weasley reach up to wipe that smudge of dirt off his face. I could list a dozen little details that I loved, but we'd both be here all day so I won't. :) But I did love that last scene, with Ron's cold feet and their mouths tasting like tea and apples and basically just everything.

I'm going to recommend this story and its companion piece, if you don't mind. Wonderful work. :)

[iamshadow]

I felt that this piece had a lot more detail in it than the first. A real motivation was to showcase the house

[wordsweweave]

Autumn is my favorite time of the year. Ron and Harry are my favorite boys. What a wonderful combination! A perfect change of season fic.!

I'm going to curl up in a blanket and sit by a fire with a hot cup of apple cider now! Domestic bless!

[iamshadow]

Cheers!

I love autumn too. Shame it's getting on for summer down here. I hate the heat. :(

[oncelikeshari]

Heavy yellow cream? Were you looking for the word custard? *lol*

That was really well written *applauds you*

[iamshadow]

LOL! No, clotted cream like this. But serving suggestions for Apple Dappy and Devonshire Apple Cake do say to use custard if the cake is warm. :)

Thank you. :)

[mrsquizzical]

i adore the pace of this, the domesticity of it (guh) and the broken harry and ron is completely adorable.

you write a molly i can recognise, and the feeling between them is glorious.

i think i just might love you.

[iamshadow]

As lovely as Ron is, I think it's quite astute of Molly to recognise that he needs a little reminder now and then that Harry's had a rough time of it. But that being said, I think everyone after the war is a little broken. I tried to show that with George in Tea.

*blushes* Thank you!

[thewatch]

I love this story. The home you've conjured is a perfect thing, just the kind of place I would love to live in. I'm an autumn person myself so I completely relate.

I love stories that have that wonderful peacefullness of a home filled with love and all those little domestic moments that tie you to a place and a person. I love the pictures and I love the apples.

I've recently come to appreciate the long and varied history of apples and Devon itself is a place I've been and enjoyed. Beautifully written and filled with all that warm feeling of the best apple pies and custard and cream.

[iamshadow]

I wouldn't mind living there myself!

Mad Martha turned me on to domestic fic.

Glad you like the pictures! My partner worked on them most of last night. They're composites of about half a dozen pictures, Photoshopped a lot, and the house itself was modified a great deal from the original photo to match a floor plan I drew.

That's the back door you can see. The sitting room window is on the right and the kitchen on the left. Upstairs you can see Harry and Ron's bedroom window on the right and the window set into the roof is the spare bedroom. The orchard is to the left of the house, and the pond is further down, behind where the picture taker would be standing. I might put the floor plans up later, once I draw them up neatly.

Well, that makes one of us who's been to Devon and eaten Devon apples!

[thewatch]

The floor plans of the house sound lovely, I love being able to match the rooms to the windows. Congrats to your partner for the lovely work on the pictures and photoshopping magic.

I'm also a Mad Martha fan which hooked me onto the domestic fic too.