#scandalpantsstuff

[allthevmff]

Haunted

by @scandalpantsstuff​

The problem with being haunted is that you can never truly escape your ghosts. They dominate your memories, they invade your dreams, and they appear right in front of you when you least expect them. Even in the middle of an ocean.

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Art by @lilamadison11​

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[scabopolis]

#the scripts clearly needed a scandalpants review LSDKJFALKSDFJS

Listen. 

When @scandalpantsstuff and I first started beta reading for one another 7 YEARS AGO!!! we were so stinking polite. 

Like, disgustingly polite. Every time we sent a comment that was totally benign (for e.g. “I don’t understand why Logan does xyz”), we would be effusive with praise. I’m talking “please know I think you are a genius, and you know your story better than anyone, and also have I mentioned what an honour it is to even be beta reading your story??? because if I haven’t that was a huge oversight on my part, and I am probably trash with trash opinions so feel free to ignore me entirely.”

And then we developed a color coding system: yellow highlighted text for punctuation errors, green highlighted text for grammatical errors, blue highlighted text for reordered sentences/paragraphs. 

And then @scandalpantsstuff did what she does: she makes everything 1,000 times better. HIGHLIGHTED HOT PINK EVERY TIME I USED A CLICHÉ . But it didn’t stop there. HIGHLIGHTED RED TEXT EVERY TIME I USED THE PASSIVE VOICE (which I see in academia all the time now, because apparently academics are allergic to use personal pronouns? really, George, data was gathered? BY WHO???? just say YOU gathered the damn data, George.) 

Now I use cliches but I always think “is this the best way to use this cliche?” I still use the passive voice but I ask my self “is this obscuring what I actually want to say?” 

Basically I need to figure out what mine and @scandalpantsstuff friend-aversay is (I think I probably have the first FF.net message I ever sent her) and make it a national holiday. 

ETA: I just looked and the first interaction Pants and I ever had was on 22 July 2013 when she reviewed three chapters of my fic in a row and I responded to her reviews. FRIENDERVERSARY! And I offered to be her beta reader on 19 August 2013. 

[nightlocktime]

It’s been 18 hours and still, I don’t even know what to do/say/think. I have nothing. I’ve felt so empty since yesterday like removed from reality. Seeing your usernames/icons showing me your support, made me feel something at last. I finally cried, no even because of the show but because of you. I cannot express how much love I feel towards all of you right now, towards this fandom that deserved so much more, so much better. You all are incredibly dear to me, you have no idea. The reassurance of you all is the real gift from this show. 

@theawkwardterrier @starlightafterastorm @whatwillthegirlbecome @scandalpantsstuff @fatherjerusalem @ghostcat3000 @absolutelyiris @lilamadison11 @gretchcutlers @emilykinncy @mysilverylining @heavenli24 @nevertothethird @susanmichelin and to everyone else that has been a part of my VM fandom life for the last 6 years. At the end of the day, you’re what really matters to me and the reason I keep coming back to this site. Thank you so much my loves.

[allthevmff]

🌊Haunted

🌊By @scandalpantsstuff

The problem with being haunted is that you can never truly escape your ghosts. They dominate your memories, they invade your dreams, and they appear right in front of you when you least expect them...

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

[theawkwardterrier]

scandalpantsstuff replied to your photo“Favorite fic aesthetics 26/?: Haunted by @scandalpantsstuff The...”

Oh my goodness!!!!!!!! This is amazing, and so beautiful. It was just the push I needed right now. Thank you!!!

Absolutely! Sometimes when I make these I have to search around and pick images based on tiny moments, but your visuals are so clear that it was a delight to make. Also delightful: getting caught rereading bits as I tried to focus. ;)

[ghostcat3000]

winifredburkle replied to your link “What We Have Common - Chapter 1 - Ghostcat - Veronica Mars - Fandom…”

!!!!!!!! this is the best day

cheshirecatstrut reblogged your link and added:

EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

bryrosea reblogged your link and added: “What We Have Common - Chapter 1 - Ghostcat - Veronica Mars - Fandom…”

READ THIS NOW.

querulousgawks reblogged your link and added: “What We Have Common - Chapter 1 - Ghostcat - Veronica Mars - Fandom…”

THAT FEELING WHEN you thought you were free but  THAT FEELING WHEN you thought you were free but the Fandom Magician posts a 10k chapter and suddenly you’re crying into your laptop over eli navarro

scandalpantsstuff reblogged your link and added: “What We Have Common - Chapter 1 - Ghostcat - Veronica Mars - Fandom…”

Signal boost because, damn, READ. THIS. FIC.

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I posted a chapter two and a half years after the last update and you guys are so nice, I’ve got a mouth-wobble happening.

[joyfulnerd]

scandalpantsstuff replied to your post “Things that Suck”

Oh man. Sending positive thoughts your way!

marshmallowtasha replied to your post “Things that Suck”

Crossing my fingers for you!!

Thank you! I’m hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. :-\

[scabopolis]

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

Chapters: 24/? Fandom: Veronica Mars (TV), Veronica Mars - All Media Types, Veronica Mars (Movie 2014) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Logan Echolls/Veronica Mars Characters: Logan Echolls, Veronica Mars, Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie, Wallace Fennel, Keith Mars Additional Tags: Friendship, Mystery, Romance Summary: Veronica and Wallace are roommates in Chicago and heading back to Neptune for the holidays. On her first day back she encounters an old friend and she knows he's keeping a few secrets from her. That's cool because she will figure out what he's hiding. The bigger issue, though, is the mystery she's brought back with her to Neptune to try and solve. Now that will take some fine maneuvering.

Thanks, so many thanks, to @scandalpantsstuff for reading this through four times for me. She’s amazing.

If you’re not much of an epilogue person you can consider the story all finished! And if you are a fluff-pilogue person expect that to be posted within the next week or two.

"I'm going to kill her," Logan all but growled. "No. I'm going to put her under house arrest, attach a monitor to her ankle, and if she leaves the house it'll explode." He pushed past a distracted business traveler in the jetway. Logan didn't look back for Wallace but he trusted him to keep up.

"Maybe we could not make with the bomb humor while in an airport," Wallace said. "You'll be on my mom's bad list for a good long while if I end up in federal prison."