Cupboard Love
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cupboard Love |
| Author(s): | mklutz |
| Date(s): | 2012-09-08 |
| Length: | 32,682 words |
| Genre: | M/M slash, AU |
| Fandom: | Teen Wolf |
| External Links: | Fic on AO3 |
 Cover art by uncredited artist used on Wattpad | |
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Cupboard Love is a popular Derek/Stiles fanfic by mklutz. It is an AU in which Stiles is a college student who starts a catering business on the side. Several recipes were posted with the story.
Rhea314 made a podfic of the story (3 hours, 17 minutes) a few months later.[1]
As of 18 December 2014, the story on Archive of Our Own had 419 comments, 7259 kudos, 3931 bookmarks, and 285392 hits; out of 31,302 fanworks tagged with Sterek, it had the 28th highest kudos count, 6th highest hit count, 7th highest bookmark count, and 185th highest comment count.
Fan Reactions/Reviews
Before the record was deleted, Goodreads users had rated the story 65 times and left 17 reviews, for an average rating of 3.85 out of 5 stars.[2]
R *a Reader Obsessed*:
If you want a feel good Sterek with very little angst and tons of warm fuzzies - then this will fit the bill.[3]
Meep:
Sheer food porn!Long loving descriptions of food preparations - I'm definitely planning to try the Salmon Chowder and check out a healthier Peanut butter cookie recipe ;)
I enjoyed the fic though I wasn't looking for a cookery lesson (I'm very happy with my own potato mash and do not have shares in cream!) and Stiles' buisness idea seemed a big stretch.
Derek is a rich recluse but it's strange to me because we meet his perfect happy family with no glimpse of angst or cannon-tragedy which means his character doesn't add up, there's no explanations.
There are hints of wolfiness, marking, sniffing, mine, strong, perfect looks - but this is AU with out the Were-factor.
Family christmas prep is cute, but who has time to make all those cookies? it's a bit Stepford son!
It's warm comfortable reading if you don't look too close and I enjoyed it.[4]
Cyndi:
I enjoyed this simply because I am a foodie...[5]
the fluffiest, non-smutty fic ever with recipes no less![6]
The critics on Fail_Fandomanon labeled it an ATG fic, "cute but not Teen Wolf fic."[7]
References
- ^ podfic on AO3 posted 2012-11-22. Audiofic Archive link.
- ^ Google cache of http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21953664-cupboard-love accessed 18 December 2014. The record was recreated at least once; as of 28 August 2016, there were 6 ratings with an average rating of 4 stars. archived.
- ^ Goodreads review, 9 November 2014. Google cache of http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21953664-cupboard-love accessed 18 December 2014.
- ^ Meep. 13 October 2014 Goodreads review. Google cache of http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1077629861 accessed 18 December 2014.
- ^ Goodreads review, 15 July 2014. Google cache of http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21953664-cupboard-love accessed 18 December 2014.
- ^ "Multi-fandom fic recs". Archived from the original on 2023-02-01.
- ^ anonymous comment in thread Re: Disappointing popular fics, posted 15 November 2013 in Fail_Fandomanon. See also this 13 December 2013 comment: Obligatory mention of Sterek's ATG fic Cupboard Love.