Ode to Ovaltine Jenkins

[allthevmff]

Insisting on Love by hiddeneloise

Picks up a few weeks after the events of the last episode of the show. The roller-coaster that is Logan and Veronica. Sometimes you need to get off the ride and stop spinning in order to appreciate the high.

Originally posted 12/27/2007 by hiddeneloise

This story is now on AO3: X

The Veronica Mars LiveJournal Archive Project was inspired by the VM 20th Anniversary Celebration

[foggycatgarden]

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves photographed by Bruce Weber for Interview Magazine, 1991.

[malcolm-reeds-pineapple]

Sesame Street posting techniques for comforting children during traumatic world events feels so fucking dystopian but here are the slides they posted just in case you or a loved one has any little critters at home right now

No one is doing well right now, but being a little critter right now has got to be terrifying. This is such a crushing series of images, especially considering PBS’s funding got slashed. While I’m happy Sesame Street continues to keep the wellbeing and education of children as a major priority, there’s a certain amount of innocence that Sesame Street represents and this is giving me such a visceral feeling rn

[fickledame]

VMFC Monthly Reads

Every month at VMFC, I’ll be posting a curated list of Veronica Mars fics based on a specific theme or trope, with a particular focus on L/V. We’ll also highlight one as the “Best of the Month” and feature a “WIP of the Month." Please come and join us on the VM Fic Club Discord. Why? VM has some fantastic authors. Fandom has gone a little quiet - and this is being done in the hopes on giving love to existing authors, and hopefully encourage others to write again.

The VM fandom is filled with talented writers, both past and present. This initiative is designed to encourage authors to return to writing and show appreciation for the fantastic work that’s already out there. You never know – a little spark might inspire someone to return to the fandom! I really hope you enjoy reading and leave feedback on the fics. You never know, if an author feels the love on a WIP, they may just finish it! So let's get to the February theme: Hurt/Comfort. My favourite. There's just something about our fave pairing comforting each other - whether they've been physically hurt or emotionally, or some kind of healing needs to be done.

The winner of this month:

Title: Third Rule of Fight Club

Author: aperfectsong

Wordcount: 34,368

Description: After a case goes wrong, Logan finds Veronica at the beach. Set in season one.

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2. Title: Knockout

Author: Oliviet

Word Count: 54,024

Season: 2

Description: Veronica is shot on the roof in Not Pictured

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3. Title: Stay Part Two: With Me

Author: BryroseA

Word Count: 13,048 for part one, 115,404 for part two

Description: Veronica is at Columbia when she gets the news Logan’s plane has gone down.

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4. Break My Fall

Author: lafleurdumal

Word Count: 52,056

Description: Logan kills Aaron in self-defence. He and Veronica go on a road trip.

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5. Title: Erase/Rewind

Author: casket4mytears

Word Count: 61,584

Description: Veronica and Logan have to re-do Shelly’s party until they get it right. Russian Doll.

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And WIP of the Month: Title: In Case of Emergency

Author: Melissajade

Word Count: 21,030 (WIP)

Description: Despite the years of radio silence, he would be lying if he said he did not from time to time think of her, dream of her, even long for her. He had long since accepted that Veronica would always be tattooed across his soul.

But when she’d occupied his thoughts, he never imagined her like this: a tube down her throat; her left eye swollen shut; abrasions and bruises maring her face, neck and arms and her fingernails mangled and bloody.

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[allthevmff]

Sending <3 to @tvfanatic, @bryrosea, @chaosandrecover

[shutyourmoustache]

[oliveksmoked]

It’s just occurring to me now that I’ve underpaid for every sweater I’ve ever bought.

[gomezisabellas]

GREGORY EDDIE & BEN WYATT

Abbott Elementary (2021—present) / Parks and Recreation (2009—2015)

[allsonargent]

[allthevmff]

The More Things Change & They Stay The Same

by __tiana__

Summary: Set after 2x12 (Wallace and Rashard Go to White Castle). Veronica goes to the Neptune Grand and runs into Logan. Words are exchanged.

This story is now on AO3: X

The Veronica Mars LiveJournal Archive Project was inspired by the VM 20th Anniversary Celebration

[peakotp]

A 7,223 word dopamine hit of spiky, prickly S2 Veronica and Logan. @allthevmff you are a treasure.

[jjmazzy]

😍😍😍

[akaanmo]

i think i just witnessed a miracle

[fractiousrvt]

There is always hope

[uncleasad]

[Image ID: Screenshot of part of an AO3 chapter listing. Chapter 3 was published 2015-04-02 and Chapter 4 was published 2025-12-15, 10 years, 8 months, and 13 days later. /end ID]

[thisweekinfandomhistory]

Multifandom: Crack the WIP 2026

(Banner by ysilme)

Description: Crack the WIP is back this year! Crack the WIP is a multifandom fest for finishing your WIPs. If you need a deadline to help you finish something, this is the challenge for you! All fanwork media and all fandoms, ships, kinks, ratings, and lengths are welcome. Got a WIP you'd like to make a resolution to finish in the early-ish part of this year? Come join us!

Schedule: Works must be posted by June 30th. Sign-ups are open now and will remain open until the posting deadline.

Links:crackthewip | Event rules and sign-up post

[galindaelphaba]

VERONICA MARS 2.01 // 2.22

[allthevmff]

Not Myself by moire2

Takes place a little over a decade after 2x22.

Summary: As we all know, Veronica and Logan have their issues. After living with Logan for a decade, Veronica walks out.

This story is now on AO3: X

The Veronica Mars LiveJournal Archive Project was inspired by the VM 20th Anniversary Celebration

[sofie-gold]

POV: you're a eccentric, philandering millionaire and this schlubby little cigar hobbit in a trench coat is about to solve the fuck out of the murder you did.

[otp-after-dark]

The Myth of “Fans Killing Shows”: Here’s the thing I fundamentally disagree with. It wasn’t the fans who “killed the shows.” It was the writers who killed it.

I came across this Tumblr post and here's why people blaming the fans for the writers fatal flaw is just wrong.

And now I'll get to the most unpopular opinion I've ever shared online - fully aware that what I've already said very few people on here would agree with: I don't think it's Rob Thomas who killed the show with his ill-adviced decision, it's the fans who did that. Not that they are not aware of it, but they still refuse to take the blame for it, as if there could not have been any other reaction. And clearly they don't regret it. After they paid to bring Veronica Mars back once before. They collectively decided that season 4 was a crime against the fandom and that it never happened. Therefore making it impossible for anyone who did not feel the same way to get more content and have some closure. I know I don't get to be mad about that, but it is sad. And I've been on the other side of this a few times and stopped watching a show after a certain point, but that never triggered a cancellation. I've seen favorite characters killed off many times without it ever leading to a fandom turning hostile like that, sometimes even ripping everything else apart about the show. And it's not even like Veronica Mars was a cosy show where people didn't die. It was neo noir. It started out with her solving the murder of her best friend ffs. So, how did this happen? How did one character's death kill the show? Was it because he was the main love interest over more than a decade? Why does it now feel like he was more important than the protagonist? Or was it maybe because the fans campaigned for it's return and even funded the movie? Was it because they felt more invested in a way and later betrayed although they did not pay for the last season to get made?

I know this take circulates a lot: “The fans killed Veronica Mars. If they hadn’t reacted so strongly to Season 4, we’d have gotten more.”

But after watching this happen over and over, across shows I love, shows that shaped me, shows that built entirely new corners of fandom culture. I just don’t buy it.

Fans aren’t killing shows. Writers are breaking the emotional contract, torching the narrative spine, and then blaming the audience for the smoke.

And if Veronica Mars were the only example, maybe we could write it off. But this specific heartbreak, this implosion of trust, has now happened on too many shows, in too many fandoms, with too similar a pattern to chalk up to “one overreacting audience.”

It didn’t start with Season 4. It didn’t start with Logan Echolls. And it didn’t end there.

It’s The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Game of Thrones. It’s The 100. And on and on.

This is a cultural pattern. A breaking point between audiences and creators, and VM is just the case study where people still argue about who struck the match.

The pattern is the same every time: the writers kill the relationship they spent years telling us mattered most.

This is the part critics pretend not to understand.

Fandom doesn’t melt down because a character dies. Characters die constantly in television, and people grieve them, yell about them, move on. They melt down when a character dies in a way that breaks the story’s thesis. Let's take a deeper look:

Veronica Mars: Logan Echolls

Years of storytelling, marketing, PR, revival hype, and arc-building told us:

Logan is Veronica’s person. He’s the love story that grows with her. This relationship is the heart of the show.

Season 4 then kills him in the last 90 seconds as a plot device. Not a turning point, not a thematic evolution, just a twist that contradicts everything the show told us about her healing.

The Handmaid’s Tale: Nick Blaine

Four seasons of narrative work (and two books) told us:

Nick is June’s equal, mirror, moral counterweight, and match. Their love is radical, raw, complicated, feminist, and central.

Then Seasons 5 and 6 decide:

Actually, punish him. Actually, flatten him. Actually, the story is about motherhood, not womanhood or desire. Actually, June belongs with the safe man.

That isn’t a character arc. That’s an ideological pivot.

Game of Thrones: Daenerys Targaryen

Eight seasons told us:

Daenerys is the heart of the myth. She breaks chains. She frees people. She’s the emotional and moral center of the show’s grand design.

The final three episodes say:

Forget that. She snaps because… trauma? lineage? vibes? The woman who liberated millions is actually a tyrant.

A series that built itself on emotional logic ends on plot logic. The single most disorienting pivot a story can make.

When the ending contradicts what the story was, fans don’t feel shocked. They feel gaslit.

Killing the love interest isn’t the issue. Killing the thesis is.

This is the part nobody wants to talk about, because it forces a reckoning with the power and legitimacy of fandom interpretation.

Logan wasn’t just Veronica’s boyfriend. Nick wasn’t just June’s romantic partner. Daenerys wasn’t just another lead.

These characters were:

thematic mirrors

emotional anchors

narrative engines

symbolic structures

the emotional grammar of the show

and the embodiment of the protagonist’s arc

You don’t just rip those out. Not without re-breaking everything around them. It’s like pulling the keystone from a bridge and then blaming drivers for falling into the river.

Why does this keep happening? Because TV writers mistake cynicism for prestige.

This is the actual disease that keeps killing fan-beloved shows:

Prestige = tragedy

Prestige = subversion

Prestige = women alone

Prestige = punishing love

Prestige = nihilism masquerading as maturity

It’s a worldview that sees romance arcs, emotional continuity, loyal love interests, or morally gray partners as “cheap,” “fan service,” or “too soapy.” And because of that mindset, writers keep doing one of two things:

1. They kill the love interest to seem edgy or surprising.

2. They rewrite the protagonist or their partner beyond recognition.

And sometimes both. Either way, the show loses the very thing that made it groundbreaking. The fans didn’t kill Veronica Mars. They mourned what the creator killed first. If a fandom was powerful enough to:

campaign for a return

fund a movie

keep the discourse alive for a decade

pull the show into the 2010s streaming era

…then maybe, just maybe, they had a point about the story’s emotional core.

People didn’t walk away because Logan died. They walked away because his death dismantled the show’s moral vocabulary.

Just like:

People walked away from The Handmaid’s Tale, especially 6x10, because they dismantled the show’s feminist thesis and punished the very arc they built around love, agency, and liberation. (Ahem Hulu's TT because I will be shocked if it's not heading for a similar exit.)

People walked away from Game of Thrones because the finale dismantled eight years of character logic and replaced it with plot convenience.

This isn’t “toxicity.” This is narrative literacy.

Fans understood the assignment better than the people writing the final chapters. The truth is this: fans don’t kill shows. Shows kill themselves when they decide the audience was wrong about what mattered.

And here's the irony that never gets talked about: Writers taught us what mattered.

They built these love stories. They crafted these arcs. They centered these relationships. They marketed these dynamics. They put these characters in promos, posters, finales, interviews, season-long narratives. They told us these bonds mattered.

So when they then turn around and say:

Actually, wrong. Actually, silly of you to care. Actually, this was never the point.

Of course people walk.

It’s not immaturity. It’s not entitlement. It’s not “fandom killing the show.”

It’s the audience refusing to be told that the story they meaningfully engaged with for years was a mistake.

[jjmazzy]

🔥🔥🔥

[thisweekinfandomhistory]

KABOOM! This week, V and Emily discuss a fandom that V was very much in, and is very much no longer in. Because no one is. Because the showrunner used the Hulu reboot to give a gigantic middle-finger to 15 years of passionate fandom. Why?! Why must showrunners Punish?!? Featuring also: Sex and the City and, of course, Marvel (but we promise it's not all Endgame salt for once). We also get pretty deep into a discussion of whether artists "owe" their audience anything and, for more of the episode, the issue of fictional people not being allowed to grow and change -- and how fanfiction is the one place where that's encouraged.

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[vmsteenbeans]

Happy 15th anniversary to my first fanfic ever, Knowing the Difference. ❤️ Credit to @lilamadison11 for the art.

Here's a little snippet from the unpublished epilogue:

He found Veronica in one of their barely used downstairs powder rooms after several minutes of searching.  She was standing in front of the vanity and dabbing a wet towel against the bottom of her dress.  She glanced up at him as he approached.

“Beer?” he guessed.

“Juice,” she corrected.  “Amelia’s still working on that whole hand-eye thing.”  Veronica tossed the paper towel into the trash can beside the sink and turned to face him.  “Is it me or does it seem like there are more kids here than adults?”

“Not just you,” he said.  “I feel like I’m at a Chuck E. Cheese.”

“Right?” Veronica laughed.  “Well, hopefully we won’t be outnumbered for long.  The rest of our adult-sized friends should be on their way soon.”

“Good.”  Logan leaned against the door frame, looking down at Veronica.  “Speaking of our friends,” he began casually, “what do you think about Mac and Casey?”

“Not quite as delicious as mac and cheese, but a very close second.”

“I’m serious.”  He took another sip of his beer.  “You think they’re crazy to get hitched?”

Veronica shrugged.  “Not crazy, but…”  She trailed off, glancing at the open doorway before continuing in a lowered tone.  “They’re kind of young, don’t you think?  I mean, they’re a great couple and I’m happy for them, don’t get me wrong.  But what’s the rush?”

Logan studied her in silence for a few seconds before replying.  “You really think age makes that big of a difference?  You don’t think it’s possible to just know?”

“Do you?” she countered.

“Yes.”

“Really?”

Logan set his beer down on the counter and walked forward slowly.  He stopped in front of Veronica, looking directly into her eyes.  “I’ve known I loved you since I was sixteen.  Are you saying you still aren’t sure?”

“Of course I’m sure.  That’s not-“

“Then say it,” he requested.  “You never say it.”

Veronica’s mouth opened and shut, a snappy comeback dying on her lips.  “I love you,” she said softly.

“How much?”

She smirked, a mischievous gleam replacing the fleeting solemnity in her blue eyes.  “From the depths of the Mariana Trench to the seas of Jupiter.”

“There are no seas on Jupiter,” he pointed out.

“There’s just no pleasing you, is there?”

He smiled, tipping her chin up and kissing her lips.  “Oh, on the contrary,” he replied.  “You do an excellent job pleasing me.”

[vmsteenbeans]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Spike & Logan Echolls have a friendly chat about their mutual appreciation for a certain pair of blondes, down at the pub.

[allthevmff]

♥️♥️♥️

[parkerhardison-deactivated20150]

parkerhardison’s make me choose

anonymous asked → what are your favorite parker/hardison moments from the last season?

[marsveronicas-deactivated201409]

#actual 5 year olds

[allthevmff]

As part of Veronica Mars LiveJournal Archive Collection Project, I am re-sharing Veronica Mars Fic Recs lists from LiveJournal. If the fic is now available on AO3 or FFnet, I will add the link next to the original link from LJ. If you’d like to participate in the VMLJ Archive Project,  feel free to complete this form.Here is a list of Logan/Veronica originally posted in 11/16/2007 by sowell How To Hold Your Breath Underwater by cyclogenesis Open Up by alocalband We are using our own skins for wallpaper by annakovsky Like a Rolling Stone by annie_oakley // (FFnet) Sexual Jealousy Issues by annie_oakley // (FFnet) If The Fates Allow by bigboobedcanuck // (AO3) Safe Place by pressdbtwnpages // (AO3)

Drabble bouquet: Veronica Mars II by cadhla 10 Things About Logan and Veronica by chibi_care Dude - Best Vacation Ever by chibi_care Written on the Body by gardinha

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