#marshmellowbobcat

[elliebear75]

Sure. I’ll bite, @fickledame Thanks for the tag.

Post the last thing you’ve written and then tag the same number of people as your own word count.

From an update for a VM fic:

Self-deprecating humor is a total Dad move, but I'm leaning in.

From my not so fic writing:

When I go, I won’t join them

I will dust the mountains

And dream forever

Of the prairie plains

Is anyone still out here in Tumblr land?

Let’s try @the-og-mkt @kmd0107 @nicemom93 @marshmellowbobcat @chikabiddy @cubbiegirl @cattyk8fic

[allthevmff]

In celebration of Veronica Mars’ 20th Anniversary, @vmficclub is bringing back the popular WIP It Good event

The goal is to celebrate and encourage participation in the VM Platinum Anniversary Fic Challenge, whether that is in starting a brand new story or searching through dusty folders to find a unpublished works in progress.

Wednesday August 28th through Wednesday September 11th @vmficclub is encouraging anyone who writes a story, or updates one of their WIPs to post in the The Veronica Mars 20th Anniversary Celebration collection on AO3 by September 15th. After the release of the stories on September 22nd, post a link to your story on @vmficclub's Discord and a new piece of artwork will be created for your story.

Readers can participate by playing VM Comment bingo or just leaving kudos/comments on existing WIPS to let writers know that you enjoyed their work.

Check out the @vmficclub discord for more info OR feel free to reply or send a D/M if you have questions/need additional information.

Here are links to the Fanfic Friday Favorites (#FFFF) WIPY roundups:

Active WIPS (originally posted 04.15.19)

WIP You Were Here (originally posted 09.19.19)

WIP IT GOOD Fics from 2023 Challenge

Please respond to this post, by sharing a favorite Veronica Mars Fanfic WIP and/or join @allthevmff on Friday, August 30th (on Tumblr, Discord, Twitter or Instagram) to share one, some, or all of your favorite #VMFanFic WIPs.

Tagging:

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[allthevmff]

In celebration of VM 20th Anniversary Celebration (yup 20)– let’s share (or reshare) favorite, posts, fics, art, vids, etc. on any platform before 09/22/24.

Please use #vmplatinumanniversary when posting.

For additional reverie and more information on the celebration's corresponding fanfic challenge (including using the spinning wheels of ficspiration), join us on the VMHQ and/or the VMFicClub Discords.

Here is a list of Veronica Mars XO Fanfic. Which ones did I omit? Let me know in the comments….

A Charmed Life by @marshmellowbobcat

A Damsel in Distrust by @invidiosa

A Left-Handed Form of Human Endeavor by @best-laid-plaids

At the Overlook by @nicemom93

Beware of Blondes by Nerdyesque

Big Damn Heroes by @querulousgawks

Bitter pill by @jaqofspades

Dance to Forget by betweenthebliss

Empire State of Mind by @tjs-whatnot

Fish Out of Water by dark_roast

How to Fall in LoVe in 10 Days by @kmd0107

How very Emma of you by @francesderwent

It's All for a Saturday Night by @machawicket

It's All Here In Your Head by @cheshirecatstrut

Killer Crossover by disdainfullady

Last American Exit by @elliebear75

LoVe in Doppelgangland by DarkVoid116

many attend, few understand by @darlininmyway

Mr Darcy Comes to Neptune by @vmsteenbeans

Once Bitten, Twice Shy by HappilyShanghaied

Pineapples & Promises by @cubbiegirl

Three Hours To Sunrise by hjcallipygian

We Provide... Leverage by @happilyeveraftereveryday

[scabopolis]

lv au week, day 1: vampires/werewolves

Fandom: Veronica Mars Rating: PG-13 (one or two swears...look, Veronica is under some stress) Pairing: Logan Echolls/Veronica Mars, Additional Tags: Secret identity, vaguely vampire hunter related things, filed under: relationship obstacles Word Count: 862

written solely for @cubbiegirl and @marshmellowbobcat because they are two humans who deserve all good things - though, I don’t think this half-baked barely a fic I wrote qualifies. BUT IT’S ALL I HAVE TO OFFER, OKAY? 

this is also so out of my comfort zone, so please be kind. and rewind. okay...I am stalling. 

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Veronica Mars wakes up sore and pissed off. She’s also not entirely certain of her precise location, though she has her suspicions. How she arrived in the mysterious location, though, is something she remembers clearly. 

She’s not sure what she should be more concerned with: the sharp pain that starts somewhere in the back of her head, her palpable and seething anger, or the fact that her dad is probably losing his mind with worry. He never did quite warm up to Logan. She can’t imagine that changing much now.

Veronica blinks away the sleep (can it truly be called sleep when one’s sleep was the result of being bashed in the head?), waiting for her eyes to adjust to her surroundings. Once able to discern some of the shapes around her, she attempts to sit up. Her hands are bound tight, though her feet have been left alone. It takes some maneuvering to feel the sore spot behind her head. Her fingers come away clean, and that at least is a small mercy.  

She knows it’s a fruitless endeavor but she reaches down and pulls up her right pant leg only to confirm that, yes, her hidden stake has been confiscated. No doubt when she pulls up her left — son of a bitch. Not only did he take her vial of holy water, the bastard left her a note. 

Looking for something?, the post-it note reads.

Veronica crumples the note and tosses it aside. 

The cell where he’s decided to hold her is by far the nicest holding cell she’s ever spent a night. (What is it with vampires, by the way? How do they always, no matter how unassuming they appear, have access to a place to stash humans?) He’s left her a bottle of water, a package of her favorite granola bars, and some of those sour gummy worms he can’t stand but keeps his kitchen stocked with for her. The biggest affront is that he also left her a pillow and duvet. Because it’s her pillow. The one she brought over special from her apartment once she started staying the night more and more. And the duvet is the one from his bed. The one so comfortable it’s actually inspired impromptu songs about its decadence. Is his bringing these to her is an act of kindness or a form of torture? 

“I’m sorry. I do love you.” 

That’s what he’d said right before he’d sent her flying backwards into a tree. The last words she heard before her vision went black. 

“See, this is why I don’t date,” Veronica mutters. 

“And here I thought it had more to do with your general disdain for the human population.” 

Of course. 

Knowing Logan, he’s been standing by to wait for the perfect melodramatic moment to make his entrance. That she wasn’t able to sense him, even now knowing his true identity, is more than a little alarming. 

“I might have disdain for the human population, but at least I don’t eat the human population,” she replies.

“Fair point.”

Logan comes into view and leans against the bars of her cell. He holds out a bottle of what she assumes to be painkillers. She would really like to tell him to shove it, but this headache is no joke. 

She takes the bottle from Logan and he immediately steps back several feet. Which, given she was about to yank him by the neck of his henley and slam his face into the bars was a smart move. 

“So,” he says, “how was your day, dear?” 

She doesn’t look up from the pill bottle. Instead she concentrates on pouring three into her hand. Veronica swallows them dry, puts the lid back on, and tosses the bottle over to her cot. 

“Kind of shitty, if I’m being honest,” she says. “Pretty sure my boyfriend and I broke up.” 

The tendons in Logan’s neck flex. “What makes you say that?” 

“Well, see, he’s a soulless, bloodthirsty monster. And it’s my job to kill soulless, bloodthirsty monsters. So, as you can see, we’re a bit at odds.” 

If Veronica wasn’t mistaken, she would think her words actually hurt him because he visibly tenses at her cold tone.

“Ah. Well, thanks for letting me know, then.” 

“Oh, god. Spare me, Logan. I’m not the one who decided to imprison the other. I’m not the one who planned an ambush. And I’m sure as hell not the one who pretended to be in love just to—” 

“ —You think I pretended?” 

“You must think I’m a fucking moron.” 

“I don’t, Veronica. I really don’t.” He sighs heavily, taking a step closer to the bars. “I wasn’t pretending.” He looks past her to the interior of her cell. “How do you like your suite?”

“Let me out of here.” 

“Oh, I plan to.” 

“Alive?” 

“If that’s what you want.” 

“What’s the catch?” 

“I haven’t decided yet.” She lunges forward at the precise second Logan jumps back, out of her reach. His mouth twists up in enthusiastic delight. “Chinese for dinner? You probably can’t be trusted with chopsticks anymore, right?” 

“I hate you.” 

“Extra pot stickers?” 

“Obviously.”

[jjmazzy]

A multimedia playlist for the amazing @acessy0420 with song inspired ficlets by the uber-talented @marshmellowbobcat.

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Supernova • Liz Phair

Chapter 1.

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You’re So Damn Hot • OK Go

Chapter 2.

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You Really Wake Up the Love in Me • The Duke Spirit

Chapter 3.

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Holding Out for a Hero • Bonnie Tyler

Chapter 4.

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The Old Black Hole • Dr Dog & Trip Through Your Wires • U2

Chapter 5.

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Just Like Heaven • The Cure

Chapter 6.

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Bad Boy • Dragon Inn 3

Chapter 7.

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The Dive • Fool’s Gold

Chapter 8.

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Wasted and Ready • Ben Kweller

Chapter 9.

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U Sexy Thing • Crocodiles

Chapter 10.

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The Man • The Killers

Chapter 11.

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Loving Cup • The Rolling Stones

Chapter 12.

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🎶 Playlist via Spotify

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🎶 Playlist via YouTube

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**Huge thanks to @marshmellowbobcat for making this gift truly special and for saving my 🍑@acessy0420, hope you have as much fun with this gift as we had making it. S4 may have been 💩, but all of you are amazing. Thank you for your friendship, solace, words, art, etc...**

[vmficclub]

📢Announcing March's Fic of the Month...

As voted on by our membership, with a record number of votes!

Title: Reclaiming Normal

Co-authors: @cubbiegirl and @marshmellowbobcat

Bring us a S2 fix it that is the perfect balm for post S4 healing.

Join us, as we read together, in the Fic of the Month channel on the VM Fic Club discord server.

[vmficrecs]

Hi! I’m the co-writer if Reclaiming Normal and my name is wrong on the master list! Could you update?😊

Done! 

I’m sorry about that and thank you for letting us know! 

[jasondohringnews]

📸: Hernan Photography Studio

🗣: Interview with Christina Radish, collider. com, March 17, 2014

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[cubbiegirl]

Chapters: 2/13 Fandom: Veronica Mars (TV), Veronica Mars - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Logan Echolls/Veronica Mars Characters: Logan Echolls, Veronica Mars, Wallace Fennel, Eli "Weevil" Navarro, Jackie Cook, Dick Casablancas, Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie, Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas, Meg Manning, Duncan Kane, Jake Kane, Keith Mars, Aaron Echolls, Kendall Casablancas, Richard Casablancas, Cliff McCormack, Van Clemmons, Leo D'Amato, Jerry Sacks, Don Lamb, Eduardo 'Thumper' Orozco, Pretty Much Everyone in Season 2 Additional Tags: Logan Echolls/Veronica Mars - Freeform, Season 2, Season 2 Fix-It, fix-it jesus, team detecting Summary:

Normal girls are supposed to have typical jobs and want nice guys. Nice, normal guys probably don't burn down community pools or live in luxury hotel suites.

But when you’re framed for murdering gang members, school buses mysteriously crash, and bodies wash up on shore with your name written on them, it's time to create your own definition of normal.

A Season 2 Fix-it fic.

[tvfanatic]

marshmellowbobcat replied to your photoset “google your name + your favorite color + “aesthetic” and the first...”

Oooooh pretty!

it does speak to me quite nicely haha

[scabopolis]

I love these and MB is a fandom angel. 

But also, I love the most that it looks like @thelillykane​‘s life subtitle is “it was a shit show,” which...is fair. 

TROPES OVER COFFEE

Midnight Monkey Madness | @cheshirecatstrut

Popsicles | @scandalpantsstuff

It Was A Shit Show | applemysteries

Woman Seeks Tequila | @nevertothethird

[allthevmff]

A Charmed Life

Marshmellow Bobcat (MellowBobcat) / @marshmellowbobcat

A Legally Blonde AU in which Logan is Elle and the "bend and snap" becomes the "lean and smirk". Just go with it!

Elements from both the movie and the musical.

Story ---> X

Art by @veronicamarsfanart

More on the WIP IT Good Challenge ---> X

More on VM Comment Bingo ---> X

More on the VM 20th Anniversary Celebration! ---> X

[scabopolis]

lv au week, day 2: super heroes

Title: superbloom Fandom: Veronica Mars Rating: PG-13 for content, R for swears (Veronica writes in her feelings journal and really lets those swears go) Pairing: Logan Echolls/Veronica Mars Other Characters: Mentions of Mac and Meg Additional Tags: Secret identity (again?! what?), unnecessary epistolary literature (does a journal count as epistolary?), half-baked world building, a vague understanding of superhero lore Word Count: ~1,075 Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7

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Again, written solely because @cubbiegirl and @marshmellowbobcat are earth angels. I even added a title this time so that MB doesn’t have to come up with one. 

Why did I write this as Veronica’s journal? Mostly because it’s a style which seems to be a fanfic right of passage and I haven’t tried it so...here we are.  

I probably owe a lot to other superhero universes and their world building (as in, referring to them as ‘supers’ ala The Incredibles). What are the full extent of Logan and Veronica’s powers? *shrug emoji*

***

Date: February 15 Tracked a low-level Kane agent to a tourist trap bistro in downtown San Diego. Place was packed. Is this the new thing? Shitty men forget to make Valentine’s Day reservations, so they make them for the day after? 

Thought I had the guy but when I mistimed my pulse he metamorphosed into a cockroach and scurried away. 

Best part of the night was the chocolate mousse I got to-go. Despite appearances within, the food wasn’t too bad. 

Date: February 17 Caught up to Cockroach. Real name is Abel Koontz. Slimy guy tried to escape again, but Mac outfitted me with a souped up Morph Choke as backup — emphasis on the choke. Gonna need to recalibrate that a bit, Mackenzie. 

Bonus! Forgot it was laundry day, so had to wear my backup uni. Next time I run into Meg out in the field I’ll have to ask her if she can see my underwear through it. 

Date: February 18 Finally got around to watching season two of The Boys. Where do they get this shit? 

If Piznarski brings up forming some sort of super team for the 7-millionth time at the summit this year, I’m siccing Clayton on him.

Date: February 21 Got into a fight with Mac. Technically my fault. 

I faded while in public, and look, I get it. 

Being detected while living as my alter would be bad. BUT!! Being forced to interact with my ex as he is on a date with a woman who legitimately looks like she could be my doppelganger is very bad. 

Date: February 22 Clarified with Mac: me fading in public did not worry her. Me tripping Leo on purpose as I faded was apparently a problem.

Date: February 24 Cockroach stood me up.

Date: February 25 For all that is good and holy if another fucking cocky cowboy of a super moves to Neptune, I am going to lose my shit. This newest one? Got in my way as I attempted to track Kane, Jr into a warehouse. Fucking Smirky McCowboy stepped in my way and assured me I didn’t want to follow. Something about a dozen armed guards with guns aimed at the door. MAYBE THAT WAS MY PLAN!

(Because, of course the guy ripped a powers page right out of Superman’s book and has x-ray vision.)

(And, his uni? Not hard to tell when a super has money. They’re always the worst.)

Date: February 28 Ran into Smirky McCowboy again. This time outside of a poker game hosted by a real estate developer with connections to Kane. Smirky said it was a coincidence. 

Still no sign of Cockroach. 

Date: March 2 FUCKING HELL. He beat me to it. AGAIN! How is he doing this? 

Date: March 4 Smirky’s name is apparently Logan. Which I learned because I was getting coffee at Willow Grove (just minding my business while covertly eavesdropping on previously mentioned real estate developer) when some guy sat at my table. Unprompted. Uninvited. UNWELCOME.  

Mask or no mask, THAT SMIRK. 

The more concerning thing is that his x-ray vision apparently sees through the skeletal enhancements Mac wired into my mask, meaning he ID’d me right away. 

Date: March 5 Why do they keep coming here? Doesn’t New York have more crime? Go there!

Mac says it’s my fault for busting the Fitzpatricks, outing Kane as the sociopath he is, and helping all those kids find their lost dogs. 

Okay, she only mentioned the first two, but I think the third has value. 

The point is! these hangers-on need to find their own territory.  

Date: March 6 Mac traced at least 70 arrests to Smirky in the Los Angeles area alone. I hate him.

Date: March 10 If he scoops another one of my cases…

Date: March 11 He calls me Supergirl. 

He calls me Supergirl and I want to punch him. 

Mac says Cockroach’s tracker is still active but the signal is being blocked.

Date: March 13 Saw Meg today. She took down her own parents. Fucking savage. God, I love her. She flew me up to American Plaza and we drank champagne to celebrate.  

Oh! And good news! She says my backup uni isn’t see through. 

Date: March 13 Woke up with this terrifying thought: can smirky see through my uni? 

He wouldn’t...right? I mean...he’s an asshole but I don’t think he’s a creep. 

Date: March 16 I punched him. 

Not for the underwear thing! He swears he’s never looked and I weirdly believe him. 

And I didn’t punch him as much as he walked into a pulse. Yes, fine. 

I maybe purposefully put up the pulse to see if his x-ray vision could detect it. But I didn’t tell him to walk into it. 

(He can’t detect it, btw. I did it a second time just to be sure.)

Date: March 18 Found Cockroach. Or, I guess I should say Koontz. He washed up on Dog Beach as his alter. 

Mac said it could be a coincidence but we both know that’s not true. 

Date: March 19 Did I do this? Did I get Cockroach killed? 

Date: March 19 Logan has very good alcohol. 

Date: March 20 Hangovers. Bad. 

Date: March 20 Logan makes very good pancakes. 

Date: March 21 Logan has seen me drunk, which means Logan must be destroyed. 

Date: March 22 In a certain light, the smirk isn’t so bad. 

Date: March 23 Oh god. 

Date: March 24 Oh god.

Do I like him?

Date: March 25 I hate myself. I’m a giant cliché. I apologize to all women supers everywhere. 

Logan swears he can’t see past the new enhancements Mac made to my uni.

He also asked me to dinner. Was tempted to 1) fade, and 2) run away, but I did neither. 

Date: March 26 Adding insult to injury, Smirky McCowboy really knows how to kiss.

Date: March 27 Mac says I shouldn’t be so hard on myself. 

Actually, what she said was that neither he nor I are all that pleasant to be around so we might be meant for each other. 

Date: March 28 He really knows how to do some other things, too. 

Date: March 29 Logan got me a present: surveillance footage of Kane’s mysterious second-in-command with Koontz the night before he was found.

He’s been upgraded to not the absolute worst. 

Date: March 29 To be perfectly clear: we are not a super team. 

Date: March 30 Logan and I are on surveillance detail tonight. 

Maybe I can convince him to stop for some chocolate mousse. 

[elliebear75]

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how nondescriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it. And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I was tagged by @the-girl-in-the-band-tshirt and @cubbiegirl ! Thanks for the fun!

So many WIP right now. I'm only going to post the Fanfic writing ones and spare everyone the long list of OG stuff I have on the go.

Veronica Mars Fandom

"No Souvenirs"

"Dustkicker"

And an untitled addition to the Gracie Mars Chronicles.

Dramione Fandom

"Needles and Pins"

And and untitled ballet fic based on the movie "White Nights" which one day I will start posting.

I am going to tag @nicemom93 @the-og-mkt @marshmellowbobcat @cattyk8fic and @kayte76

[vmficclub]

Today we’re discussing “The Casablancas Effect” by @cubbiegirl and @marshmellowbobcat *** Come join the discussion on VM Fan Fic Discord! 
https://discord.gg/aZJgk8T

[jasondohringnews]

📸: Hernan Photography Studios

🗣: Interview with Kath Skerry, www.givememyremote. com, March 16, 2006

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