We're gonna run out of cake at this rate

Title: A little bit of your taste (in my mouth)
Authors: delicatale and sirona_gs
Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Darcy Lewis/Bucky Barnes (implied), Darcy Lewis/Steve Rogers (one-sided)
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~21,000
Warnings: AU (including Clint's background), pining, a bit of angst, a lot of fluff, elements of h/c, otherwise nothing that isn't implied by the rating.
Summary: Coffee Shop AU. In which Clint owns the coffee shop that makes the best damn coffee Phil has ever tasted, and things only go downhill from there.
Notes: Co-written with delicatale, who said to me, Clint/Phil Coffee Shop AU, and much like Phil, I fell helplessly for her charms. Endless thanks to laria_gwyn, who has been an absolute trooper and helped an enormous amount to polish this. ♥ Thanks also must go to all other Coffee Shop AUs out there, which I'm sure we've borrowed from without even realising. :) And to everyone who was so fantastically enthusiastic about this story, and made apt suggestions that we have shamelessly taken advantage of! <3


( If Phil has one addiction, it’s caffeine, and the coffee in the NSA offices is so terribly rank he has no choice but to nose around to find a viable source of espresso on a regular basis. )

Heeeeey guys! All right, I might be scarce for the next couple days, as my cousin is in town. Good news is, I feel better! Except for the throat, but I'm kind of thinking that's going to take a while to get over.

dream_holiday posting date tomorrow!! \0/ I AM EXTREMELY EXCITE. :D :D Also Sherlock Holmes 2 Day!! \0/ \0/ \0/ We're passing over today's showing for tomorrow's, in lieu of going out and having dinner and mainly getting trashed with my sister and my cousin, which ought to be fun! :D (Remind me I said this when I moan about my hangover tomorrow, will ya? /0\)

Seriously, some complete gems over at dream_holiday already! I have about four tabs opened right now (even though what I ought to be doing is dusting and working out what to make for my cousin in terms of baked goodies! :D New cupcake book to the fore!! And I have two recipes for peanut butter cookies that I'm just itching to try out! :D

Also: Kat Dennings is kind of awesome. <3<3<3 Observe:

The way I view feminism—-and I know there are a lot of different things going on—-but, at it’s purest form, to me, it’s very positive, supportive, nurturing, empowerment thing. I mean, God, who isn’t a feminist? If you don’t think women are as good as men, you’re not a good person. I like to think that most of the population of people worth being friends with are feminists, if that’s what feminism means. Again—-it probably means something else. I’m gonna get someone angry, setting me on fire for this, but I think it’s a positive, beautiful, and good thing. Supporting women is the point. It’s the point of life. Women are life. You have to support us.
Kat Dennings (BUST Magazine)

In the same vein, an excellent article over here. Makes for pretty interesting reading.

Annnd that's about it from me for the time being! :D Time to get in on the dusting and tidying after the mess baby Nicky left this morning. If I owe you beta, emails, stuff, I'll get to it, I promise! And I am around on email; I just don't know how much free time I'll have when my cousin gets in town! She's my favourite cousin out of all of them; the jaw flapping when we get together is kind of epic. :D :D Enjoy your weekends, guys, whatever you're doing! <3 And hopefully before the end of it there shall be Clint/Phil Coffee Shop AU for thee! \0/

I've spent all day wrangling an ill baby Nicky, and I am now exhausted. I'm gonna go to bed in a bit, but first I wanted to share a conversation delicatale and I had over the past couple days, because, well. Let's just say WE'VE DONE IT AGAIN. Basically it went something like this:

delicatale: OMG Clint/Phil, we need ALL THE TROPES, like puppy fic and kid!fic and coffee shop au.
sirona_gs: FHJFHFJGH COFFEE SHOP AU.
delicatale: YES.
sirona_gs: Have you too been feeling the co-writing bugs bite? BECAUSE I KNOW I HAVE.
delicatale: WE SHOULD TOTALLY.
sirona_gs: BUT BUT BUT PUPPY FIIIIC, I NEED IT IN MY LIIIIFE, YOU WILL BE GLORIOUS. LET'S DO IT AFTER YOU WRITE IT.
delicatale: BUT BUT BUT COFFEE SHOP AUUUUU I REALLY WANT TO WRITE IT NAO. :')
sirona_gs: ...FUCK IT, LET'S DO IT. \0/ \0/

And so you're looking at about 5,500 words of said Coffee Shop AU sitting pretty in a GDoc overnight until we get to writing some moar tomorrow. YOU GUYS, THE FUN, IT IS EPIC. Also writing with delicatale is ALWAYS A DELIGHT, I swear, ALL THE BEST THINGS IN THIS SO FAR ARE HERS. <3<3<3 SO MANY FEEEEELINGS, GOD, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW I'M HANDLING ALL OF THEM. :')

...Those two, I LOVE THEM SO MUCH, NO LIE, THEY ARE RIDICULOUS BOYS IN LOVE. <3 This is going to be utterly trope-tastic and I LOVE IT. :D :D It's so awesome, finding a pairing early enough that most tropes are still up for grabs, writing-wise! \0/ \0/

Anyway, oh god, I have an Arthur/Eames fic to edit before sending it out to my SuperBeta tonight. Luckily, it's fairly short -- about six and a half K. Once more unto the breach, et cetera, et cetera.

The Avengers Friending Meme is still ongoing! :D If you're wondering whether to play, there's only one answer to that, really: DOOOOO IIIITTTT. Come make new friends! \0/

ALSO ALSO SHERLOCK BBC'S NEW SEASON WILL AIR ON JANUARY 1ST. I FEEL A PARTY POST COMING ON. \0/ \0/ \0/

We interrupt your regular broadcast for THIS.

( Under a cut because I can't bear to size him down )

AJGH;FHGH' WHAT WHAT EVERYONE EVER IS FIRED HOW THE HELL HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS UNTIL delicatale GLORIOUSLY SHOVED IT IN MY FACE AND BASICALLY THIS IS ME RIGHT NOW: O______O

( DO WANT THIS IN MY PANTS RIGHT FUCKING NOW. )


...Ahem. Anyway. I'm kind of high off lack of sleep and coffee and just generally bouncing off walls, so I apologise in advance for spamming the hell out of everyone's flists with random squee all day.