Jjmazzy - Ode To Ovaltine Jenkins

Ahead of The Dark Times (brief AO3 unavailability), a selection of Veronica Mars recommendations from that other fic archive, because needs must. As it turns out, all my favorite stories are on AO3 (including those rescued from LJ by @allthevmff), so a little sparse...

Of Blizzards and Whiskey by steenbeans. 10k, Teen, complete. A delicious trope fest. They're fake dating for a stakeout, they're snowed in, and would you believe there's only one bed?

Both Planes Were Lost In the Crash by wowsugarpuss. 6k, Mature, complete. One of the LiveJournal-era fics I never got over. Logan disappears post-S1. Eventually, Veronica comes for him.

Another Voice in the Night by EllieBear75. 12k, Mature, complete. Don't you hate it when you call a 900 number and the voice is just a little too familiar?

I will mention Finite Erasure by Trixx, but I'm not linking it to make you go find it yourself after I warn you it's one of the darkest fics I've ever read and needs ALL the trigger warnings for violence and rape. It ends in hope, it just walks you through hell first.

And since I realized I had far fewer Veronica Mars fics bookmarked on FFN than I thought, I'm throwing in two random Dawson's Creek recs I didn't even remember bookmarking (apparently I went through a brief burst of early-2000s nostalgia at some point and binged these??) but now I'm a little tempted to re-read. The things you find when you log in to FFN for the first time in forever...

Roads Diverged by rebeldivaluv. 119k, Mature, complete. One decision, four parallel AUs.

The Ashes Left Behind by rebeldivaluv. 169k, Teen, complete. So much angst. That's all I remember.

The Facts Were These…

by @petpluto

Logan can wake the dead. He hates it.

cover art would not have been possible without @troublescout. Thank you friend!

Every time AO3 makes an update, there’s a chorus of ‘and can we please please please be able to leave kudos on each chapter pleeeeease?!?!’

In theory, this is a nice idea. We’ve all smashed the kudos button on our favourite fics, bemoaning the fact we can’t give them all the love.

But ya’ll, kudos per chapter would absolutely fucking suck.

For readers, it would suck because it would compound the existing problem of making it hard to find fics that are good and not just long - not that a fic can’t be both! But there are plenty of Pulitzer-worthy one-shots out there that are buried way way down the list when ranked by number of kudos, because they’re beneath a bunch of 50/? fics where the author lost sight of where the hell the story was going 30 chapters ago, but their fic has had 50x the chances to be viewed so has more kudos. It would encourage authors to release their fics in lots of little chapters instead of a few longer ones/one-shots as they might otherwise have done (and as might otherwise suit the story).

And for authors it would especially suck, as it would compound the existing problem of people not commenting. Kudos are very much appreciated, but comments make an author’s day; but so few people bother, and frankly, it’s disheartening. Let people just click a button to show their appreciation for each new chapter? The hits:kudos:comments ratio would get even worse than it already is.

You can already ‘give kudos’ for each chapter of a fic on AO3 - by commenting. Hell you can literally write ‘kudos!’ It will make the author smile, I promise.

Persephone by latetothedance

By the time their sophomore year begins, Stosh Piznarski is pretty sure Veronica Mars is in love with Logan Echolls. Or still in love with Logan Echolls. Whichever. Not that she’s letting on. Nope. In Veronicaland, denial isn’t just a river. It’s a dam.

This story is now on AO3: X

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

Second Chances by Gregory Alan Isakov