Thanks, rainbowtough and rowanceleste! And rowanceleste, those issues will be addressed in the next couple of chapters - the answers have been left intentionally vague up to this point.

*cackles evilly*

sadie kate, I love you. Honest. You're one of the best VM fanfic writers out there. I'm checking them all out as we speak. :)

Aww, what a sweet thing to say! Thank you so much.

If you'd like easy access to all my stories, they're archived in my livejournal memories, here.

Hey sadiekate - I went to your lj to read your fic but am getting an error on the Logan/Veronica fics. I friended you in case that's the problem. Then again, it's probably just the mad rush of TWoPers heading over there to read them too. I think I've read them all (and loved them) but I just want to be sure I don't miss any.

They should all be public, cbr - you may just have to hit refresh, since the memories feature on lj has been a little wonky, lately. I'm glad you're reading them , though, and I'm friending you back!

I've finally finished the script for Wild Things. It takes place in Las Vegas. And no, you don't need to have seen the Las Vegas show to follow along. I put a summary - only 6 bullet points! - to bring the reader up to speed.

Other than the location and the 6 summary points, this story is pure VM mystery. But it is VERY long. Sorry about that. I couldn't cut out any scenes and make the story work.

skk670 - Wild Things was great. I posted at lj but I thought I would post here too. The story was excellent and the characterizations spot on. I will read anything you post. I hadn't seen Las Vegas and it didn't make any difference - a great script. FYI - I read the whole thing at once and it did not seem that long because it is engrossing. Maybe RT should move the crowd to Vegas for summer!

sadiekate - I did finally get in so it must've just been an lj issue. I will finish them tonight!

Excellent! I'm looking forward to hearing what you think.

Okay, I got bored and went searching for something to make me laugh, and I came upon this fic. HILARIOUS, is all that I can decribe it as. It's an alternate to the alternate ending, and just read it!

The Alternate-Alternate Ending

Wow, lot's of great recommendations around here. I haven't read all the recommendations here, but of the one's I have:

Blood Play by Rachel_Shanz -- really well done. Not, my cup-o-tea exactly, but it was well written. And sorta hot.

I really liked I Keep Losing Everything About You by sexycereal.

And we remember our bedrooms. Just awesome. It threw me at first, with the strange punctuation, grammar, etc. But, it's just perfect Lilly voice.

And sinaddict's (ab)normal was great, as usual.

And, TrueMyth, I loved Meant to Be, but Was Not.

And kur's Looks Like an Evil Doer. Also loved. LOVED. I can't wait to see where you go with it.


Love all the angsty fics. And I still have much more to read...

ElaborateDream, thanks for the hilarious rec! When does Duncan bashing get old? Cause I just never seem to get tired of it.

I needed a good laugh today, and this was it. The Ostrich Farm

ETA: Yay! I'm a channel surfer! Go me!

I think that this is like the funnest thing in the world but it may just be me... still so randomly funny. Being a girl who rarely reads fanfic....this is just too funny. Props to whoever wrote it.

The Wizard of Neptune (A Musical)

OH, MY, GOD. Hilarious. Hi-fucking-larious. Everybody needs to go read that fic, "The Wizard of Neptune", right now. I am stuck in a ridiculous giggle-fit from which I may not recover. I think I'm wheezing. Go read it, please!

Everybody connected with this fic OMANK

I totally agree - my husband is trying to watch Invasion and I am laughing maniacally. He doesn't quite get it. That was hilarious! THe Duncan parts especially.

Oh crap. I woke up my kid laughing.

DUNCAN: I'm going to go beat the crap out of this tree now, for totally unrelated reasons. Bwahh!!!

And, the PCHers welcoming her to munchkin land. Hee.

Queen Haq I love equilateral its one of my favourite fics and I'm a die hard LoVe shipper.

I recommend this fic to every VM fan out there. It's really that great!

I really can't wait for another update. Please tell me it's comming soon.

gabs3.0, wow... thank you so much for the kind words. If all goes well I should be posting late tomorrow night or next week Monday. I'm going to Austin so the weekend is not an option.

The Wizard of Neptune is way too funny! If anyone hasn't followed its link yet, do so now! There are singing dancing PCHer's for Christ's sake! How can you not pee your pants giggling? And then there is the priceless Duncan bashing...never enough of that to go around.

queen haq, I have my fingers crossed for tomorrow night on Equilateral. Most of us will be eaten alive with soul-rotting envy for those of you in Austin and the only way to save us is to give us a new chapter.

anyone know what's going on with Holding the Curve? I've been missing that one terribly.

I'm late to the game but I wanted to throw in my praise for I keep losing everything about you. Great story.

A little bird told me I'd been mentioned in here... Which I actually didn't believe at first, but considering the unprecedented response I've gotten... I'd eventually figure it out.

I'd reply to each one of you individually, but apparently that is called SPAMMING and is in fact frowned upon in most societies... And I'm on tenuous enough ground as it is!

FraLaLa, thanks for pimping me! And I get props? What about costumes? Hee.

Kelmette16, are you okay? Just hope you don't have asthma! *wink* ...And what does "OMANK" stand for? Is it even an acronym? Or am I just hopelessly outdated here??

cbr1965, please tell your husband that I don't get Invasion. I mean, SERIOUSLY!

miniglik, I'M SO SORRY! ...Hopefully your child isn't a fussy sleeper or school-age ...Which leaves old enough to leave home but won't ...And I'm never having kids.

Doula76, you left out the Dante, Dickinson and Hilton bashing ...And clearly, there is nothing that I hold sacred!

In summation, I'm loving you all like a two-dollar whore! Tip optional.

More Holding the Curve would definitely help get us through the hiatus...honestly, I think it would almost be the same as performing an honorable public service...the mental health professionals probably also feel it would be a great idea! Hell, some of us are already going batty!! LOL...the rest of us don't need to go see the Wizard! Save us from the flying monkeys, Tiana!

I think I'm nearly recovered, thanks. Isn't going to hold for the rereading, though. And the acronymn is usually YOMANK (I learned it on TWoP), which stands for You Owe Me A New Keyboard. I just lopped off the Y.

Oh, I just noticed this:
If you tell me that's a Scrubs shout-out, I'll love you forever.

I keep forgetting to mention this, but since we've gotten a few funny fics recently, I thought I'd ask. When I was making my Clemmons vid, I used a shot that cracks me up every time. It's from RotK, and it's Madison reporting Wanda's food delivery to Clemmons. They're sort of facing each other and then slowly turn to face Wanda. It's almost synchronized, and it always makes me think of a superhero and his sidekick gearing up to face the coming menace. If anyone would write a Clemmons as superhero fic (with or without Madison as his less-than-helpful, pesky sidekick), I'd be awfully grateful.

Hello, hello! You know how your nose itches or your ears burn or something when folks are talking about you? Well, I had that feeling today and come to find it's true when I popped in here! So, here I am! I wish I could say I come bearing a new chapter of Holding the Curve, but well, that would be lying. HOWEVER, I am working on it. *crosses heart*

I went back in this thread a couple pages and realized I missed aurora621 calling for me and RedFlora offering me chocolate for a new chapter! YUM! How did you know I will do almost anything for chocolate???

Hi wittyname! Nice to meet you! I've been out of town for awhile and just busy busy. Sorry/thanks for missing HtC! ;)

And rowanceleste, you crack me up! If my writing can serve as a public service, a cure for mental illness AND a deterrent against flying monkeys, I am really doing something right! :P Honestly, thanks for the enthusiasm and I promise to provide the service/cure/monkey deterrent SOON.

One thing that kept me busy recently was a one shot (S2, V/L) fic for a VM Secret Santa community on LJ. Here's the link if you are interested: For Old Times' Sake. Kill some time while you wait for me to write HtC. :P

I promise to shut up soon, but kunju, I just have to point you to a recent icon post on LJ by wasted fairy which includes an icon of Madison and Clemmons from that very scene, suggesting they fight crime together. If you haven't seen it, that's one crazy coincidence! I love this whole set of icons, so here's the link. Very funny stuff!

Tiana...to be honest, I'm not quite sure if you can prevent the attack of the flying monkeys...only 1/25/05 actually getting closer may do that...but you can help provide a public service and cure (temporarily alleviate?) the mental health problems of some of us! :)

Yup! I've alluded to most of my favorite shows in there... Kudos if you can name them all! Actually, that one just came to me in my sleep last night (Zach Braff might've made an appearance) and I couldn't resist! Of course, I'll randomly add stuff in anyways... But since I'd been THISCLOSE to deleting the whole damn thing, my first version is quite a bit different from its current incarnation! ...What I've been trying to say is, thanks for reading and commenting ...And for re-reading and re-commenting! All of which is greatly appreciated. This goes out to everybody, even the lurkers! Because I'm guilty of it, too.

PS: Could you spoiler-tag it? I don't want to be another Jackie, if ya know what I mean!

tiana, that's hilarious! Thanks for pointing that out - I'm not familiar with wasted fairy, but she's evidently my (good) twin.

I usually don't pimp fics on TWoP (except for Holding the Curve (Tiana) and Cuddling (skk670) but I just read this great Casey fic called This Boy about Casey with Casey POV to L/V, etc..I won't tell you the rest because I don't want to ruin it..it's not long but I read it twice it was so good! The characterizations for Casey, Logan and V were great and I loved the story.

This Boy

I have to agree with rowanceleste.

This Boy is amazing.
The characterizations are great and it's been a long time since I've seen a good Casey fic.

I was just remembering a fic I read a while back and I can't remember where I read it so I was hoping someone would remember and post a link to it for me if possible. I don't exactly remember the title but I believe it was something about revenge being a dish best served cold. If someone could help me with this I would really appreciate it.

Oh, before I go I have to recomend Cracking The Shell Its an awesome fic with a solid story line thats very plausible.

gabs3.0: http://www.livejournal.com/community/vm_sm...797.html#cutid1

Gabs, thanks for pimping my fic, Cracking the Shell, I just posted Part V last night and I'll probably post Part IV tonight as long as I'm not stuck at work for 10 hours since I don't LJ at work :)

rowanceleste - great fic - I;ve been waiting anxiously for updates. I love that Logan has finally gotten a handle on dealing with Veronica. Excellent!

cbr, thanks! Besides, I don't think V would feel like she does for Logan if he was still the same 'thank you ma'am for treating me like crap, may I come running back for more right away?' type guy he was with Lilly. She enjoys the fact that he can stand up to her and he's not scared of her or has no idea how to handle her when she's a bitch :)

Just to add another voice to the chorus, This Boy is absolutely excellent. The author really deepens Casey's character beyond what we've seen in his two episodes, and I really believe pretty much everything in there. It's very real, and honest, and I think a very good account of what might have happened with Casey, and even what can happen with him (and Logan and Veronica) in the future.

I hope that isn't giving away too much. But, yes, definitely, go read it if you haven't already.

Thanks for the pimpage, Tiana! I'm a TWoP lurker but was directed here by someone who saw your post. :)



Evidently you're not familiar with me. ;) There must be a semi-decent triplet somewhere out there...

Hi everyone! Austin was a blast and JD was hot! (as if you guys didn't know that already - hee). Anyhow, just dropped by to say that I updated Equilateral.

Equilateral - Chapter 13

queen haq, I've been rechecking this thread every couple of hours to see if you'd posted a new chapter of Equilateral. All I can say is: wow. As much as I love LoVe, the way you write Logan/Meg (Leg?), the characterizations and the relationship between them, is just so compelling and believable that it makes me kind of depressed. But in a good way, I swear.

Glad to hear you had a good time in Austin! If I was of legal age and had the money...../sigh

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Cool writing Queen Haq. You should think about writing full time. You should have told Rob Thomas that you could write for them when you saw him in TX. Keep Writing.

For those that are interested, I posted Part VI of Cracking the Shell. I plan to write chapter 7 probably later today/tonight.

Cracking the Shell - Part VI

Just read the updates of "Equilateral" and "Looks Like an Evil Doer" and they are GREAT!

PS - kur: There is no need to apologize for making the story three parts. As far as I'm concerned you can take all the time you need to let this one play out.

rainbowtough, 32ndflavour and amarettolime25, thank you for the great response to Equilateral. I have to admit I was really hesitant about this chapter because of the abuse (physical and emotional) issue that was brought up but I thought it was absolutely necessary to show how they were both affected.

Thanks imnotworking

I’ve been really frustrated with the way the show has been going and of course I turn to fan fic for comfort. I’m sure I’m not alone so I thought I’d share my sources of joy. These are four fics I would sell my kidney on the black market for if it meant quicker updates:

Queen Haq - Thanks for the update! Equilateral was the most recent and still I’m asking for more. You can never satisfy me when it comes to this fic. It’s like an addiction. Each chapter just makes me want more.

Rowan love - you posted Cracking The Shell two days ago but I’m desperate for more so I’m gonna beg for another update anyway.

Me - I know you just updated La Douleur Exquise three days ago but I know if you start now you can have chapter 8 up by midnight… what too soon? Okay you can have till Sunday but only because I adore you for writing this story.

Lindsay - I recall being promised a second part to Turnabout is Fair Play almost a month ago. I'm still waiting. I will forgive you only because I know it will be worth the wait.

Gabs, I swear I was going to write another chapter of Cracking the Shell, but I got a tad 'distracted' to say the least LOL.

If you're interested though, I did write a one shot fic for the What May Dreams May Come Challenge for vmfanficutopia

It's NC-17 and Lamb/Veronica (MM is seriously hot and I definitely have a new lust/boy toy obsession other than just Logan now!). Here's the link:

Smarter Than Me

I was just on the loveathons website and there is an amazing new fic up.

All things which cease to be, begin anew

It is L/V NC-17, with spoilers from Donut Run.

Btw, I would second LadyDuff's recommendation and add a warning.

Do NOT read it at work unless you want to embarass yourself. Not for the NC-17 part, but just that it's beautifully written and there are some emotional parts. I read it before work luckily!

I sure could go for some Holding the Curve right about......now. No? Oh well, guess I'll have to keep waiting.

Heeeeeeeeeey fic lovers! Just wanted to swing through and pimp out the first round of the Fic from Mars awards. Any story can be nominated, regardless of whether or not it was posted at the community. Spread the VM fic love and go here to nominate your favorite fics! Then be sure to vote in the Readers' Choice poll after the nomination period closes.