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Coffee shop AUs redefine escapism from wild fantasies about dragons and space travel to the comforting ideal of having a steady job and supportive relationships.
 
For a generation who came of age during the Great Recession, living in a time of constant political trauma, it’s not hard to understand the appeal.

How coffee shop romance became fanfic’s hottest genre

(via dailydot)

This article features fanart by @sheepskeleton of the coffee shop AU that @wicked-felina and I wrote!

The fic is called Signature Blend, and there are additional chapters called the Last Drop. 

Fanart used with permission from both of us and the artist, @sheepskeleton:

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The Last Drop: The Lost Chapters – Chapter 4 – Burnadette_dpdl, Rebness – Vampire Chronicles – Anne Rice [Archive of Our Own]

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codenamecesare:

i-want-my-iwtv:

Fresh fanfic by myself and @wicked-felina (Rebness)!

Warnings: Gen, no warnings apply.

Words: 3,792

Characters: Nicolas de Lenfent, Louis de Pointe du Lac

Summary: A rainy afternoon at the café is a perfect setting for Louis and Nicolas to argue over philosophy and coffee.

Notes: This chapter is dedicated to the legendary Cesare, one of our all-time fave fanfic writers, who discovered our little AU and has left us wonderful encouraging comments! Among which, that they wanted to see a good dialogue between Louis and Nicki, and we sprung into action to fill the request. We hope that this satisfies like a smooth fancy coffee.

The Signature Blend Vampire Chronicles AU is a delight. Every fandom needs a coffeeshop AU (or many of them!) but I’m not sure how many fandoms are lucky enough to have a coffeeshop AU where the coffee is actually an important factor, and the shop is a huge part of the characterization, and there are breezy romcom elements alongside some of the existential issues of canon.

It’s so fun to see the VC characters skillfully modernized and set in motion. And this bonus chapter gives a lovely compare and contrast of two characters described in the books as “the very twin” of each other in their cynicism, but very different in other ways. 

So, I rec this obviously, since I encouraged it and it beautifully fulfills my request.

Also, thanks for the ego boost! Pro tip on becoming legendary: find a fandom that’s been hunted almost to extinction by a lawsuit-happy creator and therefore doesn’t have a ton of fic; write a fairly long id-riddled WIP; leave it hanging unfinished; then wait 18 years. Voila! ^_~

*flails* what a lovely endorsement, I’m speechless. I’ll reply better later, but you’re welcome, we wrote that last chapter for you, and we’re both thrilled with your reaction 😘

… and yes, the How To Become Legendary Pro tip worked perfectly for you, and we expect that chapter you’ve teased (and completion of the fic!! I ain’t too proud to beg)!

The Last Drop: The Lost Chapters – Chapter 4 – Burnadette_dpdl, Rebness – Vampire Chronicles – Anne Rice [Archive of Our Own]

The Last Drop: The Lost Chapters – Chapter 4 – Burnadette_dpdl, Rebness – Vampire Chronicles – Anne Rice [Archive of Our Own]

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Fresh fanfic by myself and @wicked-felina (Rebness)!

Warnings: Gen, no warnings apply.

Words: 3,792

Characters: Nicolas de Lenfent, Louis de Pointe du Lac

Summary: A rainy afternoon at the café is a perfect setting for Louis and Nicolas to argue over philosophy and coffee.

Notes: This chapter is dedicated to the legendary Cesare, one of our all-time fave fanfic writers, who discovered our little AU and has left us wonderful encouraging comments! Among which, that they wanted to see a good dialogue between Louis and Nicki, and we sprung into action to fill the request. We hope that this satisfies like a smooth fancy coffee.

The Last Drop: The Lost Chapters – Chapter 4 – Burnadette_dpdl, Rebness – Vampire Chronicles – Anne Rice [Archive of Our Own]

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laberintodeofelia:

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What if….Victoria was a closeted lesbian and accidentally marries Emily—who is bisexual—instead of it being Victor?

(Pt 1)

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In all seriousness though, I’ve always had this idea in my head since I first watched this movie twice in theaters and I’m finally making it come true because dammit I want to; this alternate story would’ve made my heart soar back when I was in the closet and had an embarrassing crush on Emily

The Grim Brothers – Rebness – Vampire Chronicles – Anne Rice [Archive of Our Own]

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wicked-felina:

Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: Vampire Chronicles – Anne Rice
Rating: Mature
Characters: Louis de Pointe du Lac, David Talbot, Lestat de Lioncourt, Jessica Reeves
Summary:

Very AU: Louis and David, stepbrothers travelling through 18th century France, end up in a remote village in the Auvergne – where an unknown beast is killing people. Can they solve the mystery? Whimsical fairytale and murder. Nice.

The Grim Brothers – Rebness – Vampire Chronicles – Anne Rice [Archive of Our Own]

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trusmurff:

A Beauty and the Beast AU where Belle realizing she loves Beast isn’t at some dramatic climactic event but during some randome everyday moment. Like, she’s filing her nails and just kinda glances up at him and he’s like doing something just as dull and it just kinda dawns on her that she loves him but she doesn’t voice it cause she isn’t exactly ready to confront thoes emotions and what they mean so she goes back to filing her nails but then is starts raining glitter and Beast is defying gravity in a glowing ball of light and the castle is changing back and everyone becomes human again. Then everyone is left in silent moment of shock and confusion and Belle, being completely unaware of what it takes to break the curse, is just staring around in horror while everyone freshly humanized comes running into whatever room she and Beast were in (probably the library) expecting to see something other than human Beast in a heap on the ground and Belle across the room in a chair frozen in shock and confusion and everyone just kinda looks at each other for a couple of seconds not realy sure what to say cause nobody is entirely sure what happened other than the curse was broken. Then Beast finaly gets up and looks around and realizes what this means and looks at Belle and is just like “you love me?” And Belle is just like “wat?”