#c: dick casablancas

[vmficrecs]

Every school has an obligatory psychotic jackass. He’s ours.

It has been one year since The Incident. In celebration of this beautiful, snarky, dynamic, passionate, beloved, smug, asshole, essential, etc., etc., character I have complied a lengthy (but by no means exhaustive) collection of some of my personal favorite fics focusing on Logan, or on his relationships, or fics that i just think do something neat in terms of Logan/his journey/his character. ❤️

Previously on vmficrecs: 

dark_roast, “Fish Out of Water,” Mature, Post Season 1 AU 

Logan opts to leave Neptune, and spend summer vacation with his grandparents.

Notes: This AU is essential reading if you love Logan. His characterization is nearly perfect, and the premise of the fic is endlessly engaging and smart. 

wily_one24, “Sleep, Perchance...,” Mature, Pre-series AU

Logan thaws towards Veronica and sets out to save her.

Notes: I want to eat this fic. If you’ve never read it, read it-- it will linger endlessly inside of your brain in the best way possible. So many of the things Logan does or says in this fic exist in a very tangible and palpable manner for me, it’s that good. I think about it constantly. 

ghostcat, “What We Have in Common,” Teen, Post Season 3 AU 

Weevil Navarro, his incredibly poor choice of a research paper prepping locale and the close talking, finger waving jackass that interrupts and effectively hijacks his night. Set in 2010, three years after The Bitch is Back.

ghostcat, “A Trace of Meaning,” Teen, Pre-series 

13 year-old Logan Echolls and 14 year-old Veronica Mars wait at the Kane Estate for their held-up sleepover hosts to show up. 

theohara, “Rich Dirt,” Mature, Pre-series AU 

And Logan wouldn’t let you have anything. He’d danced over to you and smirked in your face and twirled your plastic cup right out of your hand and cooed that just because your Daddy wasn’t sheriff anymore didn’t give you license to break the law, and he’d acted all shocked with his hand over his mouth and he’d laughed like breaking glass and nanced off with your drink.

anjou, “Into the Blue,” Mature, Post Season 1 

It’s almost summer, and Logan is sinking into the blue.

flyingcarpet, “Mexicali Blues,” Mature, Post Season 3 AU

When he reaches the water he doesn’t hesitate, just keeps walking until he can duck his head under and start to swim away from shore, letting the salt and the waves wash away the residue that Neptune’s left on his skin.

absolutelyiris, “Truth for a Dream,” Teen, Future Fic (Pre-movie)

Fleet Week 2012. A reformed bad boy turned sailor and a former party girl turned career woman meet in a bar…

Notes: A LOGAN AND PARKER FRIENDSHIP FIC!!! pure fucking delight 

absolutelyiris, “Come Around,” Mature, Future AU 

A woman travels the world over in search of what she needs and returns home to find it.

Notes: I will talk about this fic until the day that I day, and then I will still talk about it. One of my absolute favorites. Pure gold Logan/Keith dynamic. I would 10/10 die for Razia. and, of course, the l/v is so damn good 

TheLastGoodGolfish, “The Phenomenal Pixie, #1,” Teen, AU 

Veronica is a masked avenger who stalks the streets of Neptune. Logan is the intrepid reporter who’s on the story.

Notes: PERFECT. PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT. also-- “That’s ridiculous. My favorite person is a sorority girl.” in my head, rent free, and i am forever indebted. 

bryrosea, “Waste of Breath / A Quartz Contentment,” Mature, Post Season 2 to TDTL 

Part one: Logan Echolls, the nine years, and the Navy. Part two: Veronica Mars, the nine years, and a new normal.

Notes: I am recommending specifically “Waste of Breath” for my boy, although Veronica’s piece is excellent as well. 

always_winter, “Written Out,” Teen, Season 2 AU 

Duncan has some residual guilt and Logan wants to be left out of the story.

always_winter, “White Combs and Sweet Honey,” Mature, Season 1

Even when Aaron is trying to be a good father, there’s still a lot he’s doing wrong.

Notes: This fic is so tender to me!!! A beautiful Logan and Aaron piece. 

sadiekate, “Grand Canyon,” PG-13, Season 1 to Future AU 

Three friends reminisce several years in the future, snarkily and pointlessly.

sinaddict, “Necrosis,” Explicit, Season 2 AU 

Death in bits and pieces, denial as a religion… Or ‘normal’ in Neptune.

sowell, “Surviving the Wreck,” Explicit, Season 3 AU 

Nothing’s ever simple with Veronica Mars. Weevil’s day at sea gets a little complicated.

Notes: THIS FUCKING FIC!!!! i love everything about it and especially at this moment in time, the part where logan gives weevil a blow job but weevil notes that somehow, in spite of this, logan retains the upper hand. this fic is world class and i am grateful everyday for it 

theohara, “Broken Toys,” NC-17, Pre series AU 

One glance across a street saves Lilly Kane’s life. It changes everything; it changes nothing.

Notes: This is the most heartbreaking Veronica Mars’ fanfic ever. I have such a deep love for it. It takes Lilly’s character and Logan/Veronica’s relationship to places I don’t ever think they would go and yet it works in this and it works so damn well. a truly devastating and beautiful au 

fluffernutter8, “The Ninety Nine Percent,” Teen, Post Season 3 AU 

Junior year of college, Logan gets some news that proves that no matter how hard he tries, life is just going to keep throwing him curve-balls. Post season 3, non movie canon compliant.

youcallitwinter, “gravity is gonna keep you tied down to this city,” Teen, Post Season 3 to TDTL 

[your life in extended parenthesis] the lone neon nights and the ache of the ocean, and the fire that was starting to spark. From the love to the lightning and the lack of it. 

Notes: please don't fall out of love with me, okay? don’t you dare give up on me. I DIE EVERY FUCKING TIME youcallitwinter is a force with all of her writings, but this one.......my god every single bit about it is fucking flawless 

petpluto, “Of Scars & Consequences,” Teen, Post-series AU 

Almost a decade in the future, Logan's still a little messed up. And Veronica's still a little closed off. They make it work.

julietbravo, “one brutal thing after another,” Teen, Pre-series to Season 1 

These rich boys think they can get away with anything, don’t they.

querulousgawks, “there should be stars for great wars like ours,” Teen, AU 

It’s gotta be some Alliance mind game, a holdover, the Operative’s last trick: Logan’s old secrets manifesting everywhere around them. Where are you, how are you doing this, he wants to scream, but he doesn’t know which ghost he’d be railing at.

SilverLining2k6, “Sometimes (You Can’t Make It On Your Own),” Teen, Season 1 AU 

Silly Duncan stopped taking his meds. Now, one dead Fitzpatrick later, Logan and Veronica need to get him out of town. Too bad they hate each other.

SilverLining2k6, “Control,” Teen, Pre-series AU 

Don’t you mess with a little girl’s dreams. ‘Cause she’s liable to grow up mean. Pre-series. Oneshot. - A twisted little tale of hate and revenge.

Notes: CONTROL!!!!! I love Control so much, it’s one of the first fics I ever read for the fandom and one of the finest. The Logan that exists in this is sooo good and his relationship with Veronica is deeply flawed & wonderful. M is in the process of writing a remix to Control (more in-depth emotion) and I for one am foaming at the fucking mouth every day about it. 

nevertothethird, “Reunions,” Teen, Post Series AU 

Sometimes it just takes a little longer to get things right. Two high school reunions and a birthday party should do the trick.

youcallitwinter, “you give love a bad name,” Teen, Season 2 AU 

“Hey, did you guys know there was a sensitive poet-type hiding behind this hard exoskeleton of expensive alcohol and bitter cynicism?” In which Logan Echolls is, well, Logan Echolls.

scandalpants, “Something to Remember,” Mature, Post Series AU 

Facing a separation, Logan and Veronica spend their last night together exchanging gifts.

Notes: I am always in a goddamn state about this fic. Logan jacking off in front of Veronica at her request? Yes, thank you please. thank you so much 

leurocrystal, “Take Your Time,” Teen, Post Season 2 

Keith doesn’t know how to look at or touch his daughter for the first time in his life.

petpluto, “We Are Nowhere, And It’s Now,” Mature, Series AU 

“You know there is another way of looking at this, Logan. If you’d still been together, you might be dead too." Logan and Lilly both die on October 3rd. But for Veronica, it’s not like they’re gone. And she still works to solve their murders.

absolutelyiris, “Delay,” Teen, Post TTDL

Logan reflects on his first Christmas with Veronica after a ten year separation, as well as how his life has changed with her absence.

New to vmficrecs: 

Christmas in Arkham Author: dark_roast Pairing: Logan Rating: Teen Genre: Hurt/Comfort, A Really Good Hug  Setting: Season 2 Spoilers: 2.09, “My Mother, the Fiend” Chapters: 1 Word Count: 10128 Status: Complete Summary: Sequel to Fish Out of Water. Logan spends christmas with his grandparents.  Notes: This is, full stop, my favorite Veronica Mars fanfiction ever. I am so protective of this fic that part of me doesn’t even want to give it a formal place on the blog, which is ridiculous because I’m sure plenty of people have already read it and obviously it’s so good that I want people to read it but....this belongs to me, somehow, like I feel like it’s mine that’s how much I love it. ANYWAY possessiveness aside-- Every word, every sentence, every punctuation mark in this fic is perfect, devastating insight into Logan’s character. Absolutely beautiful and wonderful and every other good thing. 

The Teeth by the Shoulder Author: ghostcat Pairing: Fab Four, Logan/Lilly, Veronica/Duncan  Rating: Teen Genre: Friendship, Angst  Setting: Pre-series Spoilers: 1.01, “Pilot”  Chapters: 3 Word Count: 17273 Status: Complete Summary: Two couples, two friendships. The Fab Four in three Octobers. Notes: WE’VE NEVER FUCKING RECOMMENDED THE TEETH BY THE SHOULDER BEFORE?????? HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE OH MY GOD jesus this is one of the greatest fanfictions ever written. three pre-series explorations into the fab four friendship and it is impossibly good. i am especially in love with the logan/lilly in this fic (the first chapter!!!!) and as always special care is given to exploring the logan + veronica dynamic. the third chapter will break your fucking heart so bad in the best way 

Seven Times Logan Echolls Went to Jail Author: sowell Pairing: Logan/Veronica, Veronica/Piz  Rating: Teen Genre: Angst, Romance, Logan Echolls is a Little Shit   Setting: (Post) Season 3 AU  Spoilers: 3.12, “There’s Got to Be a Morning After Pill” and 3.16, “Un-American Graffiti”  Chapters: 1 Word Count: 6701 Status: Complete Summary: Who thinks Logan behind bars is sexy? I do, I do! // Logan goes to jail and calls Veronica to bail him out. Again and again and again and again.  Notes: WE HAVEN’T DONE THIS BEFORE EITHER???? oh my god!! I remember finding this one a few months before the movie came out and i would just lay in bed in the dark and re-read it endlessly. and then i left it alone for a few years and when i went back to it holy shit it undid me all over again. perfect logan and veronica relationship. p e r f e c t!!! i firmly believe this is exactly what shape their relationship would’ve taken if veronica hadn’t cut and run 

Love is Just a Four-letter Word Author: bigboobedcanuck Pairing: Logan/Veronica, Keith, Weevil  Genre: Angst, Hurt/Comfort Setting: Future AU  Spoilers: 1.12, “Clash of the Tritons”  Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1753 Status: Complete Summary: Set a few years down the road from high school. Logan hits rock bottom. Keith and Veronica help him back up. Notes: Lynn’s body turns up and it is fucking DEVASTATING. A short piece that’s told from Keith’s POV (anyone who knows me knows how much of a sucker I am for Keith + Logan interaction) and holy hell Logan is so good in it and I think about it all the fucking time 

Serendipity  Author: TheLastGoodGoldfish  Pairing: Logan/Veronica, Veronica/Piz, Carrie, Gia, Stu Cobbler, Ensemble Genre: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Detective-ing  Setting: Post Season 3  Spoilers: 3.20, “The Bitch is Back” and The Movie  Chapters: 4 (out of a planned 6, fingers crossed!!!) Word Count: 59763 Status: Complete Summary: During her sophomore year at Hearst, Veronica takes on your run-of-the-mill blackmail case: the clients hate her, the evidence is impossible to destroy, and her ex turns out to be a bit of a distraction, but Veronica is a sucker for a damsel-in-distress. Even if the damsel is an intoxicated, pissed off Carrie Bishop. Notes: I AM HIGH PITCHED SCREAMING. Transplanting the movie plot to this timeframe works tremendously and TLGG’s execution is fucking perfect. Carrie is a powerhouse in this fic and god, Logan is such a honey it in which is why it is being recc’d for him. Him practically letting Carrie move in with him and doing his damnedest to protect Carrie and Gia (much to Veronica’s chagrin) is so, so important to me and I love him so much. 

The Phenomenal Pixie - Interlude #1 - “Bugs”  Author: TheLastGoodGoldfish Pairing: Logan/Veronica, OC’s  Genre: Humor, Fluff, Logan and Veronica Are Smarter Than You  Setting: AU (Season 3)  Spoilers: uhhh n/a Chapters: 1 Word Count: 5072 Status: Complete Summary: Dating a superhero poses a unique set of challenges. Notes: Tiny sequel to The Phenomenal Pixie which you absolutely must read first (and is recommended above) because it’s a fucking delight. Logan is incredible in this fic and I would die for him, like always. The part where Steve can sense Logan is thinking about punching him in the face-- a million chefs kisses. 

The Medusa Jewel  Author: TheLastGoodGoldfish Pairing: Logan/Veronica  Genre: Established Relationship Bliss, Fluff  Setting: MKAT Spoilers: MKAT  Chapters: 1 Word Count: 5336 Status: Complete Summary: Logan and Veronica's new neighbor is a writer. Notes: is my TLGG obsession shining through? good because it fucking should be. The Logan/Veronica in this relationship is so sweet and perfect and is 100% my reality and i would like to bathe in this fic and live in it forever as is my right.

Drowning Together Author: bryrosea Pairing: Logan/Veronica Genre: Romance, Hurt/Comfort Setting: Season 3 Spoilers: 3.07, “Of Vice and Men” Chapters: 1 Word Count: 897 Status: Complete Summary: AU of the confrontation scene from 3x07: Of Vice and Men (Logan and Veronica both need a hug) Notes: Absolute wonderful insight and even some reconciliation into a canonical season three fight. Logan calming down while Veronica falls apart as they hug is so important to me. 

Interrupt Us  Author: bryrosea Pairing: Logan/Veronica Genre: Romance,  Hijinks, They Want To Fuck So Bad  Setting: Post TDTL Spoilers: through TDTL  Chapters: 1 Word Count: 17223 Status: Complete Summary: Logan Echolls is home from deployment. Time to cue the sweeping movie montage, right? Notes: Logan and Veronica try to have sex everywhere and it is my life force. The car scene when they get pulled over and Logan instinctively hiding under Veronica’s desk....god i love everyone in this bar

Ready to Go Author: Amberina Pairing: Logan/Duncan; Veronica  Genre: Friendship, Romance, Angst Setting: Post Season 1  Spoilers: not obvious but 1.22, “Leave it to Beaver”  Chapters: 1 Word Count: 6346 Status: Complete Summary: "Let's leave. Let's go. What's left in Neptune for us anyway?" (AKA Duncan, Logan and Veronica have wacky adventures on the road! Also angst.) Notes: Logan getting hissy and storming off from the car while Duncan and Veronica just watch him and then calling a taxi once he’s out of their sight is PEAK logan. I love boyfriends, even if they’re angst-ing in this, and they big time are. 

Nashville On My Mind Author: hjcallipygian Pairing: Logan, Veronica, Duncan Genre: Friendship, Hijinks  Setting: Post Season 1 AU Spoilers: 1.22, “Leave it to Beaver” Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1659 Status: Complete Summary: Every year, they take a road trip together. This year, it's to Nashville, Tennessee. Notes: i just spent forty minutes trying to find this fic to the point where i was genuinely concerned i had hallucinated it. it’s so fucking good. a sequel/prequel of sorts to grand canyon by sadiekate (recc’d in the previously section). logan is a mess and by god do i love him 

Six Times Logan Echolls Got Wet Author: bryrosea, CarolineShea, ghostcat, kmd0107, marshmallowtasha, SilverLining2k6 Pairing: Logan/Veronica Rating: Teen Genre: Romance, Friendship, Hijinks Setting: Everywhere Spoilers: All series to MKAT  Chapters: 6 Word Count: 11568 Status: Complete Summary: aka: The Wet Henley ChroniclesSix stories in which we probably give Logan Echolls pneumonia, inspired by the movie's infamous wet henley. Set variously across the series and post-MKAT. Notes: each chapter is written by a different author, they’re all good but bryrosea’s chapter and silvery’s chapter are my favorites. set during the summer between season 1 & 2 and post season three respectively they do such a great job dealing with the fractious and tumultuous nature of Logan/Veronica’s relationship at the time and i love it so much

A Little Dysfunctionality Goes A Long Way  Author: fluffernutter8 Pairing: Logan/Veronica Rating: Teen Genre: ANGST with a side of fucking ANGST, happy ending but jesus   Setting: Post Season 3 AU  Spoilers: 1.22, “Leave it to Beaver”  Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2878 Status: Complete Summary: Despite their history, Logan and Veronica might be somewhere on the brink of normal. A few years post season 3. Notes: i just read this for the first time 07/13/20 at 9:08pm because when i asked shelby for her favorite logan fics she included this one. i am fucking dead now and-- there’s nothing else to say about it. i’m just fucking dead. for YEARS i have said that nobody with the username fluffernutter8 should be able to write shit this goddamn emotional and yet, time and time again, i find myself here fuckign wrecked and furious about it 

these are just ghosts that broke my heart before i met you Author: theviolonist  Pairing: Logan, Veronica, Carrie, Dick  Rating: Teen Genre: Introspection, Angst, I Love Logan   Setting: Pre Movie & Movie  Spoilers: Movie  Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1326 Status: Complete Summary: In the army they say, don't think of the target as a person, otherwise you won't have the guts to pull the trigger. Notes: fuck, you guys. this one is so beautiful. an exploration into logan’s grief and him trying to move on and it cuts like a damn knife because he can never really do it but fuck he wants to so bad and [lucas scott voice] that’s gotta mean something, right? truly so so wonderful 

Fugue Author: vaeran Pairing: Logan/Veronica, Logan/Lilly, Dick  Rating: Teen Genre: Angst, hopeful ending  Setting: Post Season 1 Spoilers: 1.22, “Leave it to Beaver”  Chapters: 1 Word Count: 4137 Status: Complete Summary: It's something he refuses to let go because it defines who he is and what he has become. Notes: deviates from the PCHer confrontation on the bridge, which means logan takes a little longer to come around to reconciliation with veronica. it’s perfect and i particularly love the logan/lilly in this, he’s hurt but still so impossibly and eternally in love with her 

One Flew Over the Echolls Nest Author: Wynn Pairing: Logan/Veronica, Duncan Rating: Teen Genre: Angst, Friendship Setting: Post Season 1 AU  Spoilers: 1.22, “Leave it to Beaver” Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1507 Status: Complete Summary: Open wide and see what's inside. A bridge and a bed and Veronica. Logan finds himself in a mental institution after the events of "Leave it to Beaver." Veronica, Duncan, and Logan's psychiatrist attempt to help. Notes: so sad and so good!!! the part where Logan’s psychiatrist asks him when the last time he was happy was fucking wrecks me everytime!! 

Free at last  Author: querulousgawks Pairing: Logan, Weevil, Aaron Rating: Teen Genre: Frenemies, They Are Boyfriends Setting: Season 2 Spoilers: 2.09, “My Mother, the Fiend”  Chapters: 1 Word Count: 1242 Status: Complete Summary: Logan and Weevil and fire go a long way back. A flashback scene interrupts their Season 2 meeting in the Neptune Grand. Notes: I LOVE EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT THIS SO GOD DAMN MUCH 

The Right Shade of Red Author: ghostcat Pairing: Trina, Logan, Aaron  Rating: Teen Genre: ANGST Setting: Pre-series Spoilers: 1.15, “Ruskie Business”  Chapters: 1 Word Count: 883 Status: Complete Summary: Trina finds her jerky little brother hiding in her closet and does the unexpected thing. (Or, A time Logan trusted Trina) Notes: If you want 883 words to be able to make you feel like you’ve been hit by a truck this is the fic for you! I love the Echolls family dynamics so much, and this one is excellent. 

#VM fic rec #c: logan echolls #c: veronica mars #c: eli navarro #c: gia goodman #c: keith mars #c: lilly kane #c: duncan kane #c: carrie bishop #c: stosh piznarski #c: aaron echolls #c: trina echolls #c: dick casablancas #p: logan x veronica #p: logan x lilly #p: logan x duncan #p: veronica x piz #p: veronica x duncan #S: S1 #S: S2 #s: post series #s: movie #s: au #s: mkat #S: S3 #s: post TDTL #r: t #this is so long and i regret nothing

[fisherkings]

tagged @cowbeau thank u!!

rules: answer 10 questions and tag 10 people you want to know better

relationship status: single, i am literally just vibing here

favorite color: dark green but i look terrible in it so in practice, dark red

three favorite foods: i have no idea i like fwuit i'll eat whatever

song stuck in my head: godspeed by frank ocean but just the line where he goes "there will be mountains you..can't moOooOVe"

last thing i listened to: 3 hr compilation of thunderstorm and rain sounds <3

last thing i googled: ... "daddy long dick meme"...

time: 4:45 pm

dream trip: so many but rn i really want to just go into the woods for a while up north and Be. or by the sea! i miss the sea so much. i've been lucky enough to travel a fair amount outside of my country and i hate sightseeing so mostly when i think of places to travel i'm like. yeah i want to live there for six months or whatever.

anything i really want: just 3 weeks of time off please god i'm dying out here

currently reading: i've been really bad at consistent reading the last few months so: "lunch poems" - frank o hara, "underland" - robert mcfarlane, "call down the hawk" - maggie stiefvater, "universal harvester" - john darnielle, but like. i am 20 pages into all of these probably

last song: "i wanted so badly to be brave" by the wonder years everyone go listen to the wonder years

last movie: i think? the guest? or maybe 45 minutes of casablanca, but i cannot remember it's been a while.

last series: .......................s*pernatural..............

sweet, savory, or spicy: i love all of them but if i had to pick ONE ONLY probably savory she's so versatile

craving: chip..

tea or coffee: coffee i do rlly like jasmine tea and some herbals but i drink coffee most regularly

currently working on: in my professional life i am doing research assistant work on ancient greece and rome, and assorted supportive admin/training work at my other job. mostly i make documents and power point presentations and look pretty in meetings. in my personal life i'm theoretically making fanvids and in practice typing out deeply self-indulgent fanfiction into my notes app about above series and [redacted football show]

tagging: i feel like i'm always so bad at this b/c i never know who's done these/what people's urls are/who is still active on this site! but if we're mutuals and u've seen this and u want to, do it and tag me <3 <3 i promise u i want to see it

#the meme was about ruby spn #long post #sort of #the read more is because i hate Putting things on Your Dash #sorry if you are on mobile <3 #also @cowbeau i'm screaming that ur last movie was my own private idaho that's my film of all time hello #about me

[asexual-juliet]

You date Logan, he's nailed for murder. You date Duncan, he's wanted for kidnapping. You get put on Robbie and Hunter's jury, they get sent to Chino. You're like, rich dude kryptonite, Veronica, and this rich dude wants no part of it. moodboard: Dick Casablancas

#veronica mars #dick casablancas #you piece of trash #garbage boy #why do i keep making content for you #moodboard #my moodboards #i’m very proud of this one #it’s got all his vibes!! #seasons 1-2 surfer asshole? yup! #season 3 traumatized kid who the writers don’t give a shit about? check!

[run-kellyy-run]

Veronica Mars rant!

**Spoilers for season 4 ahead so if you haven’t seen it just stop reading***

Okay, I’m sick and tired of TV shows thinking that killing off someone’s character to further another characters plot is a good idea rather than just lazy. Sure, it could be a way to reel us all in for a season 5, but why do they make it seem like the only way a woman can be strong is through tragedy and loss? Like c’mon, you can be a badass woman without that BS and they did enough to Veronica that killing Logan off is either A: lazy writing B: a new plot or C: just to let us end on Veronica being a survivor and not someone with an Happy ending. Why is it that men can save the world and come home to their wives but when a Woman does the same it’s like she can’t have the best of both worlds. I hope they pull a prison break and Logan is actually alive and well but taken away because if not ill just be pissed off forever at this. Like no body, no funeral, nothing. We saw Big Dick Casablanca’s severed head and they couldn’t show us Logan?

Anyway, I’m also upset about Weevil and Veronica not being friends in this because they were my faves and that was BS too.

And where the cuss is Mac.

#im upset #logan echolls #veronica mars #veronica mars spoilers #spoilers #veronica x logan #weevil #veronica mars s4

[maaarine]

MBTI Typing Index: Names C-D

Name starts with: A B, C D, E F,  G H, I J K L, M N O P, Q R S T, U V W X Y Z.

Mike CAHILL (ENFJ)

Agnes CALLARD (ENTP)

Anna CALVI (INFP)

Ricky CAMILLERI (ENTP)

James CAMERON (ENTP)

Alastair CAMPBELL (ENTJ)

Albert CAMUS (INTJ)

Peter CAPALDI (ENTP)

Cardi B / Belcalis ALMANZAR (ESFP)

Steve CARELL (ENTP)

Mariah CAREY (ISFJ)

George CARLIN (ENTJ)

Magnus CARLSEN (INTP)

John CARMACK (INTP)

Alan CARR (ESFP)

Jimmy CARR (ENTJ)

Jim CARREY (ENFP)

Elizabeth Jean CARROLL (ENFP)

Ryder CARROLL (INTJ)

Fabiano CARUANA (INTJ)

Julian CASABLANCAS (ISFP)

Nick CAVE (INFP)

Dick CAVETT (ENTP)

Henry CAVILL (ISFJ)

Noah CENTINEO (ISFP)

Michael CERA (INTP)

Alain CHABAT (ENTP)

Timothée CHALAMET (ISFP)

Emma CHAMBERLAIN (ESTP)

Coco CHANEL (ESTJ)

Charlamagne Tha God / Lenard MCKELVEY (ESTP)

Charli XCX / Charlotte AITCHISON (ESFP)

David CHASE (INTJ)

Jessica CHASTAIN (ENFJ)

Damien CHAZELLE (INFP)

Cher / Cherilyn SARKISIAN (ESFP)

Margaret CHO (ENFP)

Noam CHOMSKY (INTP)

Priyanka CHOPRA (ESFJ)

Christine and the Queens / Héloïse LETISSIER (INFP)

Hélène CIXOUS (INFJ)

Tom CLANCY (ISTJ)

Dodie CLARK (ENFP)

Jeremy CLARKSON (ESTJ)

John CLEESE (ENTP)

Jemaine CLEMENT (INTP)

Hillary CLINTON (ENFJ)

George CLOONEY (ENFJ)

Glenn CLOSE (INFJ)

Kurt COBAIN (INFP)

Brie CODE (INFP)

Paulo COEHLO (INFJ)

Michaela COEL (ENFP)

Ethan COEN (INTP)

Coeur de Pirate / Béatrice MARTIN (ENFP)

Emory COEHN (ISTP)

Leonard COHEN (INFJ)

Daniel COHN-BENDIT (ENFP)

Ada COLAU (ENFJ)

Stephen COLBERT (ENFP)

Lily COLE (INFJ)

Eoin COLFER (ENTP)

Jacob COLLIER (ENTP)

Michelle COLLINS (ENFP)

Olivia COLMAN (ESFP)

James COMEY (ISTJ)

Lauren CONRAD (ESFJ)

Kellyanne CONWAY (ESFJ)

Ryan COOGLER (ISFP)

Olivia COOKE (ENFP)

Bradley COOPER (ENFJ)

David COPPERFIELD (INTP)

Sofia COPPOLA (ISFP)

Brady CORBET (INTJ)

Jeremy CORBYN (ISTJ)

Enola COSNIER (ENFJ)

Nikolaj COSTER-WALDAU (ESTP)

Marion COTILLARD (ISFP)

Katie COURIC (ESFJ)

Brian COX (ENTJ)

Graham COXON (INFP)

Daniel CRAIG (ISTP)

Terry CREWS (ENFJ)

Robert CRUMB (INTP)

Mark CUBAN (ENTP)

Kieran CULKIN (ENTP)

Macaulay CULKIN (ENTP)

Benedict CUMBERBATCH (ENFJ)

Alan CUMMING (ENFP)

Whitney CUMMINGS (ENTP)

Andrew CUOMO (ESTJ)

Rivers CUOMO (INTP)

Jamie Lee CURTIS (ENFP)

Richard CURTIS (ENFJ)

Miley CYRUS (ESFP)

Noah CYRUS (ESFP)

Leonardo DA VINCI (ENTP)

Tom DALEY (ESFJ)

Salvador DALÍ (ENFP)

James DAMORE (INTP)

Damso / William KALUBI (ISTP)

Paul DANO (INFJ)

Susan DAVID (ENFJ)

Pete DAVIDSON (ESTP)

Geena DAVIS (ENFP)

Mackenzie DAVIS (ENFP)

Elizabeth DAY (ENFJ)

Daniel DAY-LEWIS (INFJ)

Hugues DAYEZ (ENFJ)

Alain DE BOTTON (INFJ)

Kevin DE BRUYNE (ISTP)

Charles DE GAULLE (ESTJ)

Pierre DE MAERE (ENFP)

Robert DE NIRO (ISTP)

Neil DEGRASSE TYSON (ENTP)

Dane DEHAAN (ISFP)

Robert DEL NAJA (ISTP)

Lana DEL REY (ISFP)

Benicio DEL TORO (ISFP)

Guillermo DEL TORO (INFP)

Rob DELANEY (ENTP)

Lea DELARIA (ESTP)

Cara DELEVINGNE (ENFP)

Julie DELPY (ENFP)

Antoine DELTOUR (ISTJ)

Claire DENIS (INFP)

Johnny DEPP (ISFP)

Alexandre DESPLAT (INFJ)

David DEUTSCH (INTP)

John DEWEY (INTJ)

Alfie DEYES (ESFP)

Poppy DEYES (ISFJ)

Cameron DIAZ (ESFP)

Philip K. DICK (INTP)

Joan DIDION (INTP)

Ani DIFRANCO (INFP)

Stephen DILLANE (INTJ)

Céline DION (ESFJ)

Peter DINKLAGE (ENTP)

Scott DISICK (ESTP)

David DOBRIK (ESFP)

Peter DOHERTY (INFP)

Lou DOILLON (ENFP)

Ethan DOLAN (ESTP)

Grayson DOLAN (ESTP)

Xavier DOLAN (ENFP)

Natalie NORMER (ENFJ)

Jamie DORNAN (ISTP)

Jack DORSEY (INTJ)

Rain DOVE (ENFP)

Maureen DOWD (ISFJ)

Robert DOWNEY Jr. (ENTP)

Arthur DREYFUS (INFP)

Adam DRIVER (ISFP)

David DUCHOVNY (ENTP)

Julia DUCOURNAU (ENTJ)

Esther DUFLO (INTP)

Jean DUJARDIN (ESTP)

Lena DUNHAM (ENFP)

Eric DUPOND-MORETTI (ESTJ)

Francis DUPUIS-DÉRI (INTJ)

Ramani DURVASULA (ENFJ)

Jacques DUTRONC (ISTP)

Ava DUVERNAY (ENFJ)

Name starts with: A B, C D, E F,  G H, I J K L, M N O P, Q R S T, U V W X Y Z.

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When the Veronica Mars fan-funded film was released in 2014, no one could have predicted it would help to usher in a trend of revivals and reboots and remakes that would come to dominate Hollywood. And certainly no one could have predicted the series, a neo-noir about a teenage private detective in its original form, would be returning again five years later, this time as an eight-episode limited series on Hulu.

And yet the show's refusal to accept defeat feels like a perfect encapsulation of the spirit of Veronica Mars herself. Brought to vivid life by Kristen Bell, Veronica always gets back up. She plays by her own rules, never allowing herself to be content with or conform to the status quo. She's never what you expect, and she can accomplish anything she sets her mind to. Along with her sparkling wit, these are her most admirable traits. But as with any revival, one has to wonder what the end goal ultimately is.

The feature film funded by fans through a Kickstarter allowed series creator Rob Thomas to craft an ending where there previously wasn't one. A parade of familiar faces, it was heavy on the nostalgia but light on the intricate, well-paced mysteries that originally set the show apart. This new chapter in the Veronica Mars saga doesn't serve the same purpose. It's not a trip down memory lane or an extended coda; it's an opportunity to test the waters and find out whether or not Veronica Mars still has life left in her. The world of television has changed a lot since the series first debuted on UPN, and although audiences might not have been ready for her then, they very well may be now.

Hulu is referring to these eight new episodes as Season 4 rather than simply a limited series, and while that doesn't necessarily mean anything, we can't discount the fact this is the second time the show has returned from the dead or that Bell, whose NBC series The Good Place will be ending after this upcoming season, and Thomas have both already expressed an interest in continuing Veronica's story beyond what we see here. The stakes are infinitely higher now than they were five years ago when the film hit theaters. The new season has to appeal to longtime fans as well as potential new ones. This ultimately means the overarching mystery at the heart of the season has to be strong enough to carry the weight and then some. The story has to push Veronica forward in a meaningful way. And for the most part, it succeeds.

When the show returns, Veronica is still working alongside television's No. 1 dad, Keith Mars (Enrico Colantoni), as a private eye in her hometown of Neptune, California. She and Logan (Jason Dohring), who is still in the military (and remains incredibly handsome), are still together and have adopted a dog named Pony since we saw them last. They're happy and stable, but Logan's job often takes him away suddenly for weeks or months at a time. While he's constantly moving, Veronica is more or less standing still. And she appears completely content with her life. But when a series of deadly bombings hit the town during the month-long celebration of spring break and threaten the city's tourism industry, and thus the livelihood of Neptune's quickly disappearing working class, Veronica dives headfirst into solving the case.

The class divide of Neptune, with the working class pitted against the town's rich elite, was built into the foundation of Veronica Mars, but when Veronica was in high school, it often played out through Veronica's status as an outsider. She didn't fit in with the popular crowd, known as the 09ers, because of Keith's wrongful accusation of the Kanes in the wake of Lilly's (Amanda Seyfried) murder. But she also didn't fit in with the working class because of her former association with that same rich crowd. In 2019, with Veronica now in her 30s, the class warfare manifests itself differently. Veronica and Keith are still hustling to make ends meet as private eyes — Veronica is hesitant to take any job that won't pay them well and drives up their retainer whenever she can — but a pointed C-plot also finds Keith, who is still struggling in the wake of the car accident that occurred in the film, attempting to navigate our country's broken healthcare system as a member of the have-nots. It's familiar social commentary for the series, but it's perhaps even more relevant now than it was in 2004.

So when bombs start going off, putting many of the businesses that rely on local tourism in jeopardy, like a rowdy nightclub owned by Kirby Howell-Baptiste's Nicole, Veronica naturally starts digging. Technically she and Keith have been hired by the family of a congressman whose brother was injured in one of the bombings, but Veronica is interested in the case for other reasons too, namely Matty (Izabela Vidovic), the daughter of a divorced single father who dies in the first explosion. The show takes every opportunity to remind us Matty is a lot like a young Veronica, for better or worse.

The ensuing investigation, which plays out over the entire season, puts Veronica on a collision course with Penn Epner (Patton Oswalt), a local pizza delivery guy with a true crime obsession, as well as a few familiar faces from the original series. They include Weevil (Francis Capra), who's back in his criminal element after being framed by the sheriff's department in the film and taking an out-of-court settlement in Mr. Kiss and Tell, one of two canonical books published after the film; Leo (Max Greenfield), who now works for the FBI and continues to have sparks with Veronica; Vinnie (Ken Marino), whose office is a strip club because that's the logical next step after a van; and even Liam Fitzpatrick (Rod Rowland), who's still a scumbag and may or may not be involved in planting the bombs. Eventually, the case leads Veronica to none other than Big Dick Casablancas (David Starzyk), who seems to have suffered very little from his time in prison. Now cozied up to a man he met on the inside, Clyde (the always excellent J.K. Simmons), he's attempting to transform Neptune from a wild spring break destination into an elite and idyllic seaside community only the rich can afford.

This is a Veronica Mars that is both familiar and new. As Bell and Thomas promised, the new season is a different beast from the show that initially ran for three seasons on UPN and The CW in the mid-2000s. It's been described as more adult and as "hardcore So-Cal noir," and although it's difficult to imagine a scenario for Veronica that is worse than her own rape and the murder of her best friend as a teenager, the series somehow manages to go bigger and darker and create a more dangerous atmosphere, complete with increasingly dire consequences. In the process, it also evolves into a show about Veronica's emotional stagnation.

A running thread this season finds Logan pushing Veronica to go to therapy so she can hopefully begin to cope with her trauma rather than continuing to ignore it. He credits his therapist with helping him manage his anger — Logan might have evolved and matured during his time in the military, but he's still Logan — but Veronica repeatedly refuses, insisting she's fine. Of course, anyone with a working set of eyeballs can obviously see that Veronica is not fine, that she's been hardened by everything that has happened to her over the years and still suffers from the trust issues that have plagued her since her high school days. It's not entirely clear if Veronica is even happy working as a P.I. in Neptune or if that's just what she thinks she should be doing. All the same, Logan is determined to help Veronica, and after seeing plenty of men on TV struggle in this same way, seeing Veronica face these challenges instead is a welcome role reversal that still feels completely in character. In fact, everything that occurs between Logan and Veronica throughout the season is well done, completely thought out, and true to both characters.

But for all the good, and for all the fun it is to return to Neptune and watch Veronica continue to be smarter than everyone around her, the new season isn't without its faults. A major twist near the end of the season feels like it belongs in a different series entirely, like it was added more for shock value than anything else, and I worry about its lasting implications and how it might affect the possibility of another season. If it's an attempt by Thomas and the writers to convince Hulu to grant the series more episodes to explore the aftermath, it's a big swing, and not one I am sure will pay off.

It's unfortunate that one bad decision in a sea of good ones can so easily color the rest of a finished product, but there's a very good chance that is exactly what will happen for many fans. If they can get past it, there absolutely could be life left in Veronica Mars. For most of the season, the show is a lot of fun, balancing its well-honed sense of humor — many times at the expense of fan-favorite character Dick Casablancas (Ryan Hansen) — with Keith and Veronica's powerful family dynamic and a sometimes predictable but nevertheless engaging central mystery. There were many times throughout the season I found myself wishing Kristen Bell would never stop playing Veronica, that we never stop getting to spend time with what might be one of the best and weirdest supporting casts on TV after FX's Justified (another series I would kill to revisit in the future). And to an extent, I still feel that way; Veronica is one of the most competent characters on TV. After 15 years, she's now an old friend, and I'd rather spend time with her than most anyone else. But after these eight episodes, I also won't be surprised if this is the end of her story, and if it is, it's a somewhat disappointing one.

All eight episodes of Veronica Mars debut Friday, July 26 on Hulu.

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Shared False Memories: How Spooky Is the Mandela Effect?

I seem to remember people as being kinder than they appear. Those memories from the past could be figments of my imagination. Or perhaps missing from the past are the people I once recalled.

I am curious about the Mandela Effect, the shared false memory phenomenon named such because people often believe Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s, although he died in a free man in 2013. The folklore surrounding the Mandela Effect suggests that it’s more out there than simple memory lapses in large groups of people. True believers claim that it’s a manifestation of alternate time streams and multiple worlds. A global shift has occurred: reality is changing, history isn’t what it used to be, and the evidence from yesterday has been altered or erased. 

Listed below are some famous examples from pop culture… 

In the Walt Disney film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The evil Queen didn’t say “Mirror, Mirror.” She said, “Magic Mirror.”

The name Berenstain in The Berenstain Bears (from the famous children’s book series) was never spelled ‘Berenstein’. The name has always been Berenstain!

The golden android named C-3PO in Star Wars was never all gold. One section of its leg has always been silver!

Bogart’s character in Casablanca never said, “Play it again, Sam.” (He said, “You played it for her, you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it!”)

Since the start of this phenomenon, armchair philosophers and conspiracy buffs have scrutinized the effect with a multitude of incredible arguments and far-fetched explanations. Their anomalous theories often border on the implausible.

The more grounded and rational elements in this discussion insist that human memories are gullible, often ephemeral, and that recollections — especially of cultural icons — can be easily misled. 

The radical theories to explain the Mandela Effect include conspiracies of time travel, quantum weirdness, and parallel dimensions. For example, mini-explosions inside the hadron collider at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) may have opened a ‘hole’ between universes, causing separate realities from each universe to intersect. These parallel worlds may have shifted into alternate patterns of existence. 

Keep in mind that a small number of these conspiracy theories could trigger mental obsessions and/or delusional thinking, especially in patients diagnosed with clinical false memories.

When it comes to curious or incredible ideas, the impulse to speculate is irresistible.

My own personal example of the Mandela Effect concerns a read-aloud book that I vividly recall from the age of seven: Captain Kangaroo Stories to Read Aloud. The original copy I owned is now gone, but I do remember the cover depicted Captain Kangaroo with his friend, Bunny Rabbit. I located a vintage copy of the book, but the cover was now different. It revealed Captain Kangaroo and a giant teddy bear — no Bunny Rabbit. The title and contents hadn’t changed; just the cover. Had the original cover been replaced over the years? No evidence for that.

Could I have been wrong about the book’s cover? 

Numerous studies indicate that long-term storage of past experience is unreliable and prone to distortion. 

But the original cover still remains indelible in my mind.

I can’t shake the contradiction. What if the conspiracy theories are actually true? 

What if the nature of reality cannot be trusted? 

What if the universe incorporates a spectrum of alternate worlds?

My old Captain Kangaroo cover may be lost in one of those universes; gone, but not forgotten. Along with billions of other co-existent and timeless destinies.  

Like eerie shadows, flickering on the walls of Plato’s Cave.

The Mandela Effect reminds me of a Philip K. Dick thriller: It is replete with flashes of paranoia, exciting plot twists, and thought-provoking suspense. 

I just hope it’s not a documentary.

References:

40 Mandela Effect Examples That Will Blow Your Mind

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film) 

C-3PO

Captain Kangaroo Stories to Read Aloud

The Man in the High Castle (alternate time streams)

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SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!)

[Harry Tynan posts on our forums as Moose Malloy. Earlier this week, he messaged me about his fun, self-published kid's book, written as a series of bedtime stories for his kid (a tradition I'm very fond of -- it's the origin story of The Borribles!). The book is so much fun that I invited him to write a short introduction and choose a excerpt for your edification. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! -Cory]

The great Umberto Eco once wrote, in a marvellous essay about Casablanca, that "Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred clichés move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion."

And hey, who doesn't love Casablanca?

I'm no Umberto Eco, but a while back I wrote a science fiction novel out of love for my son and out of love for the SF genre itself. Freed by love, I poured my heart into this short tale of a boy and his dad (plus his two accidental, argumentative clones, plus his dad's childhood dog accidentally yanked forward from the 1970s for their own, very tail-waggy reunion).

For my son's amusement, I unselfconsciously stuffed each of my quick, cliff-hanging chapters with my favourite SF clichés from a lifetime of fandom. I smushed in some 'gritty history' and some light moral lessons and some Shakespeare and some counterfactual frolics. I had huge fun bashing out 500 words nightly on an old laptop after everyone else hit the hay.

I was pretty careful with editing and general quality control. But I let the tale itself go where it wanted. When I read it over I smiled to find influences from stuff I adored -- not only Sheckley and Dick and Zelazny and Silverberg and Doctorow, but also Beverly Cleary, and Treasure Island, and Calvin and Hobbes, and 2000AD and Red Dwarf and arcade games and pop music and every other good thing we turn to for hope and light. I called it SO LATE SO SOON, after the wistful absurdism of the Dr. Seuss verse. Then I printed some copies and gifted them around. Did that a few times. Kinda forgot about it then, to be honest.

Now, I've never made any big claims for this book. For me it is, as Eco says, 'the clichés having a ball.' But it's had a joyful little half-life. Some schoolteacher here in Ireland read it in class. Kids I don't know, cousins of neighbours of my nieces or something, petitioned for a sequel. Well-meaning friends kept nagging me to publish it -- as if it were that easy!

But of course, it IS that easy to self-publish these days. And this week I finally did, on Amazon KDP. It feels great! Right now it's free, so if interested, please snag it

here

(US) or

here

(UK) or in your local Amazon region. I'll run more free days asap (KDP limits these, though).

I hope some of you like it. You could start with the extract below, wherein our protagonists use a time-freezing whistle to escape from a medieval court which alleges they're demons.

Finally... I cannot thank Cory and Boing Boing sufficiently for this -- it's a wish come true, realising a childhood dream (to write and share an entertaining story) with my dream audience (the awesome happy mutant community). Buíochas!

FORTY-FIVE

One minute later I was outside again, panting heavily, frightened and excited at the same time. The streets were filled with people stuck in fixed poses; even the horses who'd pulled us here in our cage were poised without twitching, like statues. And around everything, that strange ring of the whistle pulsed like some alien music.

No time to hang about, I told myself. We need to leave. But how? I went back inside the courthouse to assess the situation.

First, I removed the whistle from Marlowe's collar and stuck it in my pocket. No telling when I'd need that again.

Second, I took a good look at Dad, where he was suspended in time, leaning against the side of his dock. No way would I be able to carry him. But I might be able to drag him.

The sound of the whistle, still echoing, rang pure and clear in my ears as I worked.

I pushed experimentally on Ezquerra, who was blocking the steps up to Dad. He tumbled over like a skittle and landed flat on his back with a crash. Terrified someone would hear me, I looked around in a panic for somewhere to hide. But then I controlled myself. Who cared if anyone heard me? They were all frozen. And that gave me an idea. I looked around for the largest people in the room, to lie down beside Ezquerra.

Two soldiers and a judge later, I'd made a pretty soft-looking landing pad just outside Dad's dock. "Sorry, Dad," I whispered as I opened the gate at the top of the steps. He tumbled straight out and landed smack-bang across the judge's belly and a soldier's fleshy forearms. It seemed to me that the sound of the whistle was beginning to fade at this stage, and from the corner of my eye I could see hints of very slow movement amongst the crowd, so it looked like the freeze was wearing off.

That was fine. I was nearly ready anyway. But I needed to talk to Dad. I dragged him, with great difficulty, outside the courtroom door, around a corner, and down a quiet hallway with polished wooden panels and huge pictures of great battles hanging everywhere.

Then I waited.

All around me I could hear the sounds of reality restarting, like one of Dad's old records rotating at the wrong speed. Around the corner somewhere, I heard a footstep. As I watched Dad's face, he blinked. The ring of the whistle was almost completely gone now. And suddenly, time was back to normal -- moving forward at one second per second.

"Dad," I said quickly, "don't talk, let me explain. I froze time using this Silverberg whistle. Lukes B and C and Marlowe are still in the courtroom, which I imagine is going bananas right now, because you and I have just disappeared into thin air... and also, some people have been, uh, rearranged."

Dad's eyes bulged in confusion as I continued, but I put up a hand to silence him. "There's no time to lose. They'll really think we're devils now, with this kind of black magic. We need to escape. But I'm too small to carry everyone."

He nodded to show he understood. "This time, I want YOU to blow the whistle, go back in there, and carry all of us to somewhere safe. It wears off after about ten minutes, so keep blowing it till you're done. Got it?"

There were sounds of shouting and alarm all through the building now. A group of soldiers came tearing around the corner, spotted us, and charged with an almighty roar.

"Got it," said Dad. He grabbed the whistle from me, raised it to his face, and --

FORTY-SIX

Dad got us out of Lisbon. He got all of us out, all on his own.

It must have taken him hours. I woke up a couple of times, emerging woozily from the freeze-sleep, becoming aware of reality crowding in on me once more. The first time it happened, I was bent forward over a low wall, presumably where he'd left me while he went to get one of the other Lukes. There was a slow, low, grinding noise: GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG... It started to get faster and higher: GRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGR... and then it suddenly disappeared as normal time resumed with a POP!

I lifted my head. I felt fine. I was near a busy marketplace. Sounds of life were audible all around me; I wasn't the only person waking up.

"Dad," I croaked. "The whistle."

I was still lying draped over that wall and couldn't even see Dad, but he must have heard me, because next thing I knew I was coming around again on the side of a dusty pathway just outside of the city.

GGGGGGGGGGGGG

GRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGR

POP

Luke B was lying beside me and I could see Dad, with Luke C in his arms, staggering tiredly toward us. He saw me watching him, and winked. "You okay Dad?" I asked. "I'll be fine," he answered. "The old dog for the hard road, as my mother used to say."

He'd even rescued one of the backpacks somehow. It lay on the ground beside me. Seeing me looking at it, Dad winked. "Took it from the hands of the boss bishop himself," he said. "He'll be one surprised padre when he wakes up!"

I heard a sneeze behind me and looked over to see a soldier staring in amazement. That was only to be expected. After all, as far as he knew, there'd just been some weird noises and then we had appeared out of nowhere.

"No problem," said Dad, as the soldier started shouting. He lowered Luke C gently to the ground and reached again for the whistle.

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[elowynlavellan]

Veronica Mars: Secrets.

Been rewatching Veronica Mars recently and decided that my feelings for Logan have to be expressed somehow, so why not write a quick Reader x Logan one shot? I love Veronica and Logan together, but I felt more inspired to write it for the reader instead. 

Prompt: You’re crashing at Logan’s hotel room, to get away from family & friends, when he brings home a girl...

Word count: 2,400

Warnings: None

Pairing: Logan x Reader

Logan almost flipped out when he walked into his Neptune Grand hotel room and saw you eating out of a bag of crisps on his couch in front of the TV. Not only did he not expect to see you there, it being only just after school and all, but also was just about to bring in the girl who's father had testified against him in the murder of Felix Toombs. His brown eyes widened at the sight and he stumbled back towards the door where Hannah was, stammering out something like, "Oh, I think I might've left something in the car..." 

You take this single moment to dash into his bedroom, turning the TV off, crisps in hand, you close the doors behind you. Your room, or the room that you've been staying in for the past few weeks, is on the opposite side of the hotel room, the one Duncan Kane used to occupy before he fled the country. But because Hannah would've seen a stumbling teenager with a bag of crisps and wild couch hair run past Logan... well, that idea was of course completely off the table. Instead, you'll just have to hide in here and hope for the best -- that they don't need the bedroom to do what they want to do.

You hear them settle on the couch as the TV is switched on, so you relax a little and thank your lucky stars that this room has a bathroom suite. You turn over on the mattress and plug earphones into your MP3 player, jamming them into your ears so you don't have to listen to their lovey-dovey talk. Logan has been a friend to you for the past couple of months, nothing more, and you're still not so sure how you feel about that. But now that he's bringing girls over... well, it doesn't fit so comfortably with you after all. You chuck him a text, letting him know how much crap he'd be in if you didn't practically leap from the couch and tumble into his room in time.

You: You're lucky I'm so quick and agile. BTW -- plugged in some music so u can make out all u want. Just don't moan too loudly or I might vom.

Logan: I thank you and thank you again. DW not 2 much making out happening here, but ty 4 the heads up. FYI do NOT go looking under my bed. U don't wanna c what's under there. Tootles.

Sometimes you admire how well Logan uses text-talk but most of the time it irritates you, and he knows it, so he does it more than often.

Not too much making out? Now that's a lie you'll never forget, why else bring the her home to a hotel room where no parents can keep a watchful eye? And the part about not looking under his bed? Of course you would snoop, it's almost what you do best, other than sleeping over everyone's houses in Neptune because going home is just too much right now, of course.

You glance at the closed door and then duck down close to the bedroom floor and peer underneath the bed. A few boxes lay close together, some odd dirty laundry the cleaners never found... and a white coloured CD with black marker writing: Mix For Y/N. 

You quickly shuffle around through Logan's belongings, hoping to not find anything too incriminating, and finally pull out his old CD Walkman. You plug in your earphones and slip the CD inside, then press play. Immediately your ears are engulfed by loud screamo, intense guitar filled music and you almost yelp loudly-- almost. You pull the earphones away, still hearing the echo of the music even when they're no longer in your ears, and then find your phone to text Logan once again.

You: Wow. U are an idiot.

Logan: Hey! I told u not 2 look!

You: My ears are suffering.

Logan: UR own fault

You laugh quietly to yourself over his last text and then decide that chilling on Logan's bed with your own, non-screamo music plugged into your ears will just have to do for entertainment until his girl leaves. You've grown used to the Logan Smell, and it's not a bad smell either. You hope he doesn't mind you snuggling up in his blankets... soon, your eyes grow too heavy and sleep overcomes you all too quickly.

Hannah leaves, thankfully only a small kiss goodbye, and Logan's thoughts go suddenly to you. He feels guilty that he had to push you out of the living room, but thankful that there didn't seem to be any complaints. You don't know a lot about the murder case, but you believe Logan when he says he didn't do it. You don't know Hannah's connection to the case, or how her father falsely testified because of his link to the Fitzpatricks. 

Logan walks quietly towards his room, carefully listening out for any sound from within. He hears nothing so he decides to knock but there's no answer. When he opens the doors he immediately spots you curled up on top of his bed, wrapped loosely in some of his blankets, your MP3 Player still on and playing tunes. He nears the bed and watches you breathe rhythmically before carefully pulling away your earphones. He goes to leave but then notices the blankets aren't over your body completely, so he tucks you in and then closes the bedroom doors while he awaits his next guest outside on the couch. 

You wake up and notice your turned off MP3 Player, wrapped up in your earphones on the bedside table. You remember you're inside Logan's room and wonder if they've finally left or not. You rub the sleep from your eyes and get up from the bed. You twist the doorknob and open the door barely, to see. You hear voices, Logan's and a girl's. Blonde. But different, not the girl who was here before. Jeez, how many girls can he have over in one night? She turns around for a quick second and you realise it's Veronica Mars. You gasp close to inaudibly and back away from the door, right now you're on good terms with Veronica so if you walked out from Logan's bedroom... well... you know the history they have.

"It's alright, Y/N, you can come out."

Your eyes widen as you hear Logan speak and suddenly wonder if you could just hide under the bed instead. However, you know you can't just sit here now that he's mentioned your name, so hesitantly, you walk out of his bedroom, meeting eyes with Veronica. She smiles, although you can never tell if she means the friendliness behind it or not.

You smile back, "Hi... Veronica," you glance quickly at Logan who only seems to be amused by this, "It's seriously not what it looks like."

Veronica looks between both you and Logan.

Logan laughs, "Yeah, I had a surprise visit by a girl I've been seeing and... well Y/N had to go hide for me."

Veronica shakes her head, "Right, that girl, Hannah, huh? How's that working out for you?" You notice an edge to her voice, and wonder if it was on purpose or not.

He looks away, as if ashamed, and you suddenly wonder who this Hannah girl really is... "Fine Veronica. Just fine."

She then looks over at you, still no emotion that you can properly identify, and you're unsure if your good terms just turned to bad terms, "Are you staying here?"

You glance again at Logan who only shrugs at you, "Yes... Yeah, I am."

"You know, your friends are worried about you."

He quickly interjects, "Why would her friends be worried?"

She rolls her eyes, "Because Logan, Y/N hasn't been going to school much lately and she isn't staying at her own house anymore, clearly."

Logan looks to you, as if questioning you. He knew you weren't at home much these days, because of your being here obviously, but he didn't know you weren't making much of an appearance at school. You blamed him not seeing you on the very different class schedules you have, besides Journalism, but you would just excuse yourself by claiming you were busy taking photos for the articles. He usually didn't think much of it, at least, until now.

"You haven't been going to school?"

You look to your feet, "I... uh..."

Veronica turns to Logan quickly, "She's been staying here but you haven't noticed her disappearance from school? Are you kidding?"

He throws his arms up, while sitting down on the couch, out of frustration, "Haven’t you noticed I've been a little busy, you know, trying to clear my name of murder?" 

She shakes her head and doesn't reply.

You sit on the edge of the couch, looking at him apologetically, "Logan, I... I'm sorry I lied--

"If I ask how your day has been at school and you tell me that it was fine, I expect you to have actually been there--

You roll your eyes, this conversation quickly starting to sound like the ones you have with your parents on a daily basis, "Since when did school matter to you? Didn't you just blow off like two months of it with Dick and Beav's step-mom?"

Logan sits back into the couch defeated, although definitely pissed. Veronica doesn't say anything, although you do spot a sense of enjoyment out of all of this.

Veronica packs up her laptop and slings her bag over her shoulder, "I should probably get going, we can talk about your case tomorrow if you want." She passes Logan and heads towards the front door, "See you Y/N!" 

You sigh and regret what you said about Logan and Mrs Casablancas. "Logan, things at school," You sigh again, "Things at school are shit right now, and I didn't want to tell you about it all because you've let me stay here for the past couple of weeks and... I guess I didn't want to mess that up."

He doesn't look at you for a moment, but when he finally does, he seems to understand. "Why has it been shit?" His voice is quiet and genuinely caring; concerned.

You shrug, "Those friends Veronica were talking about... let's just say them worrying about me is a total lie. They just like to gossip. And my parents, well, you know all that."

He scoots closer to you on the couch, an arm wrapping around you to bring you closer to him, "Neptune is a shithole." His statement is so matter-of-fact you can’t help but laugh.

Shaking your head you reply, "I really am sorry though, I shouldn't lie to you if I'm staying here."

He sighs, "It's okay. I guess I don't expect you to tell me everything..."

You look up at him with a grin, "Why, because you don't tell me everything?"

His eyes widen, and he feigns shock, "Excuse me?"

"This Hannah girl, huh?"

He shakes his head, "That is nothing to worry about."

You screw your face up in confusion, "What's that supposed to mean?"

He leans his face close to you, his cheek brushing against your face, his nose almost touching yours, "It's just something I have to do."

"Something to do with the case?"

"Yeah," he says it quietly, almost too quietly, and you know whatever it is he's doing, he's not so proud of it.

"Don't get into any more trouble."

His body shakes with the laughter, "Starting to sound like... hmm... everybody I know."

You look into his eyes meaningfully, "I'm serious Logan, that night on the bridge must have been scary enough for you, you don't need anything else right now..."

Logan suddenly thinks back to the van that swooped him away unconsciously one night, after the bridge incident, when he woke up in some shed or warehouse with a man pointing a gun at him, playing Russian roulette with his dick. He hasn’t told anyone about that, and he probably won’t be sharing it with anyone any time soon. He looks at you seriously, no more Logan wit or sass, "I promise, I won't do anything to cause me anymore trouble, okay?" Although he says it, he’s not so sure how true that claim really is.

You lean in, only slightly closer, and squeeze him with your arms around his neck. “I know you hate it, but I’m only saying it because I care.” 

You begin to release him from your hug, but before you can settle back into the couch, he turns his head and follows you back into the cushioning. His lips touch yours and at first your startled by this kind of affection from him, but you kiss him back, your hands sliding up the back of his neck into his hair. He pushes you back so you lie down instead of leaning upwards, a gentle hand on your waist and the other leaning on the couch cushion. You continue kissing as his body brushes over yours, heated and impatient, your hands fumble at his shirt. He slips it off with ease and your unfortunately reminded of the many times he's had practice with all of this, but you push it to the back of your mind, well, more like it's forced back as he unbuttons your own shirt. He dips closer to you, his heated kisses leaving your lips and instead pressing on your neck, a trail of them left towards the center of your chest. 

Suddenly, two sharp knocks bang against the front door and your both apart in seconds. You look at Logan and he looks at you, him shirtless and you as good as it, both surprised but not regretful. His eyes cling to yours for a moment but then the door shakes again with a couple more knocks and your both reminded someone is waiting to be answered. He quickly kisses you again before picking up his shirt, telling you that whatever it was you both were doing is most definitely not over yet.

"Hello, guys? I left my phone!" Veronica's voice echoes from outside the hotel room and you quickly do up your shirt in haste as Logan answers the door.

Veronica walks in and quickly retrieves her phone but as she heads back towards the front door she eyes you, "Y/N, your buttons aren't done up right. Maybe I should knock a little longer before--

Logan shakes his head, pushing her out the front door, "Annoy, annoy like the wind, Veronica!" As he comes back towards the couch he smiles at your blushing cheeks, "Oh don't worry about it, Veronica isn't a gossip, just nosey." He kisses you gently and slowly, drawing it out for a moment before breaking away, "Now, where were we?"

#veronica mars #veronica mars one shot #logan echolls #logan echolls x reader #logan echolls imagine #logan echolls one shot #veronica mars imagine #vm #veronicamarsbars writing

[jancys-blue-bayou]

hi, I'm the anon who sent you the photobooth prompt and I'm here to bring you another fluffy headcanon ♡ Jancy movie night! With lots of cuddles and eventually falling asleep on the couch

A/N: Great h/c, I use this for the finale of Jancy Fanfic Week: Valentine’s Day, so it’s this h/c plus more. Fluff and a bit of smut ahoy.

Also on Ao3 and FFNet.

”Hi Nancy, it’s Joyce.”

”Hey! How are you?” She greets happily, but slightly confused as to why her boyfriend’s mother is calling her on Valentine’s Day rather than the boyfriend in question.

”Oh, very well, thank you. But unfortunately Jonathan will have to cancel your date tonight he-”

Joyce is interrupted by a voice in the background. She can hear Jonathan call out ”let me talk to her” and the two of them arguing a bit back and forth, Joyce for some reason insisting that he should stay seated. Her confusion grows. She then hears several heavy thuds, more of a whispered argument and then some shuffling as the phone receiver changes hands.

”Hey,” he says.

”Hi, uh… what’s going on?”

”Well um… I sort of hurt my foot a little bit.”

”What?” She asks, she can hear Joyce in the background calling out that he broke it. He shushes his mom before explaining.

”Okay, kind of broke it.”

”What happened?!”

”I slipped on the ice this morning and it sort of got caught under me and I landed really weird, like on it, somehow. We just got back from the emergency room.”

”Oh my god!”

”It’s not a big deal! Listen we could still go out tonight I just have to-” He stops himself again for another argumentation with his mom, she can hear Joyce talking about keeping it elevated and Jonathan arguing that it’s not that important.

”Hey, Jonathan,” she calls to get his attention again.

”Yeah?”

”Listen to your mom, she’s right. We’ll go out to dinner some other time, it’s not a big deal, just a silly commercial holiday, okay?”

”But it’s-”

”It’s fine, don’t worry about it. Feel better, see you soon,” she says, already formulating a plan in her head. ”Love you, bye,” she finishes.

”Nancy?” Joyce looks surprised when she opens the door.

”Hi,” she smiles as Joyce steps aside to let her in.

Jonathan’s laying on the couch and looks even more surprised and immediately starts to shift. He got his foot in a cast up on the coffee table and Will is crouched by it, drawing on the cast. He whines when Jonathan starts to try and move.

”No, don’t get up!” She calls out.

”What are you doing here?” He asks.

”Well, you can’t go out on that foot, so I came here,” she explains while she walks over to him. ”Nice,” she nods to Will, who’s drawn Ziggy Stardust on Jonathan’s broken foot. Will grins.

”Oh how nice!” Joyce says and Jonathan’s lips turn upwards.

”And I brought some stuff,” she continues, shrugging of the backpack that’s slung over her shoulder.

”What did you bring?” Jonathan asks.

”Some chocolates in a ridiculous box,” she starts, pulling out the heart-shaped box she picked up. ”And a couple of movies,” she continues digging, ”some more assorted candy,” she pulls out some Twizzlers, his favorite, ”… and Clue,” she finishes, taking out the board game.

”Great,” he smiles.

”Oh and I was going to get you flowers too, but the florist on Main Street looked at me with pity so I got out of there. I was going to take my business elsewhere but then I realized there’s only one florist in town.”

Jonathan chuckles.

”Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, An Officer and a Gentleman?” Will grimaces at the movies she rented.

”Yes, and Jonathan gets to pick!” She gleefully lets him know.

”Lucky you,” Will deadpans at his brother. ”Mom can you drive me over to Mike’s now?” He then asks.

”Yeah sure honey. Have fun you too, I’m seeing Hop later so I won’t bother you! Bye!”

Joyce and Will leave and they’re alone.

”Does it hurt?” She asks, looking over his foot.

”No, they gave me some painkillers.”

”Good, I figured. I was gonna bring vodka but you shouldn’t mix those, right?”

”Right.”

She crouches down. Will left his stuff on the table so she takes a pen and draws some roses on another part of the cast. ”There, got you flowers,” she smiles.

”Thanks,” he smirks. ”I’m sorry about dinner, I wanted to-”

”It’s fine. Really. I don’t need a fancy dinner, just you,” she says before kissing him. ”Okay?”

”Okay. But just for the record, I had made plans to woo you.”

”Oh yeah?” She smirks, sitting down next to him. ”Tell me about them.”

”Flowers, chocolates, the whole works. And I was thinking that new Italian place for dinner. Oh, and I made the mushiest tape, for you,” he says and pulls out a mix tape from his shirt pocket and hands it to her.

She smiles as she reads the playlist.

The Beach Boys – Wouldn’t It Be Nice

The Turtles – Happy Together

Modern English – I Melt With You

New Order – Temptation

Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough

The Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love?

The Beatles - Something

Simon & Garfunkel – For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her

The Doors – Light My Fire

Ben E. King – Stand By Me

Roy Orbison – Blue Bayou

Billie Holiday – You Better Go Now

”My oh my Byers, you’d woo any girl with that plan, I can tell you,” she teases. ”Luckily you’d already wooed me,” she smirks.

”Yeah, lucky indeed,” he answers and kisses her.

”This really is very sweet,” she says, gesturing with the tape in her hand. ”The Bee Gees?” She questions, amused. It’s so far from his usual tastes.

”It pained me, but yes,” he says.

”And not a single punk song or song about someone wanting to die!” She further notes.

”I know, it took a lot of effort,” he jokes.

”Okay, I say it was Mrs. Peacock, in the Billiard Room, with the Candlestick,” she says before checking the envelope. ”Yes!” She calls out when she learns that she was correct.

”You win again,” Jonathan grumbles.

”3-0!” She says with glee, quite pleased with herself. She likes to win.

”I give up,” Jonathan sighs.

”Aw, well-played anyway,” she says and sticks out her hand. He rolls his eyes and gives it a shake.

”You’re way to good at this game.”

”Do you know all the lines?” She asks halfway through Gone With the Wind, sitting up a bit from where she’d been snuggled into his chest.

”What?”

”You’ve been mouthing along.”

”No I haven’t.”

”Yes you have.”

”No I haven’t!”

”Yes you have, it’s really cute.”

”I wasn’t mouthing along!”

”Don’t worry, I won’t tell Will. I think.”

He looks to be about to protest again so she silences him with a kiss, that always works.

When she gets up to get Gone With the Wind out of the VCR and put Breakfast at Tiffany’s in, he starts to prepare himself to stand up too.

”No no, sit, sit. What do you need? I told you, I’ll get it, just sit.”

”I have to pee, Nance.”

”Oh. Well let me help you to the bathroom,” she says and takes his left arm over her shoulders and supports him as he hobbles forward on one leg.

She helps him all the way inside.

”Thanks, I think I got it from here,” he says but she starts to unzip him. ”Nance, I didn’t break my hands…”

”What? Not like I haven’t taken your pants off before,” She smirks.

”You’re not watching me pee,” he says firmly.

”Right, we’re not there yet,” she says and walks out, closing the door behind her.

As soon as she hears him flush she walks in again.

”Jesus Christ, Nancy,” he sighs.

”What?” She smirks again before helping him back to the couch.

Thirty minutes into Breakfast at Tiffany’s and they have definitely lost focus on the movie. It started innocently enough, Nancy simply resettled her position, curling up even closer to him and letting out a content sigh. He in turn pressed a kiss to the top of her head. Then she tilted her head up so he kissed her on the lips. After that they were gone, really. It’s just very hard not to kiss Nancy’s lips. They’re just so soft and inviting and perfect. And then her tongue was in his mouth. That’s when things escalated. Now his hands are under her shirt, cupping her breasts. He loves the way her breath hitches when he runs a thumb over the nipple. And her hand is inside his boxers, stroking him. She briefly releases her grip on his cock only to unzip him again and liberate him from the suddenly very constricting denim. She manages to jiggle his jeans down slightly and then pulls his dick out through the hole in the front of the boxers. She takes him in her hand again and starts to jerk him off. He’s rock hard within seconds, she knows just how to get him there, and quickly. Honestly the way she bites her lip slightly and looks him in the eyes is almost enough by itself.

”Nance,” he moans.

”Wait two seconds,” she says, voice low and husky.

She lets go of him and jumps off the couch, darting into his room. He can hear her opening the familiar drawer in his nightstand. Her return to the couch isn’t as quick. But then she suddenly stands before him again, completely nude. He’s seen her naked plenty of times of course, but his eyes almost pop out of his skull. It’s not often she’s before him just like that, suddenly, in all her glory, in good lighting. There will never a more gorgeous sight.

”Wow,” he mumbles to himself. She smirks a bit and locks eyes with him. She straddles him so one of his thighs are between hers. She rubs her pussy against his denim clad leg while putting the condom on him and he can feel how wet she is. She readjusts herself again, straddling him with one knee on either side of his hips. She grips his cock by the base, steering it inside of her as she slowly sinks down on him. All the way down.

”Fuck,” she breathes out, eyes closed. He holds her steady with his hands on her hips. She leans forward, resting her elbows against the back of the couch and starts to ride him. She leans in and kisses him again and again. Her hands go in his hair, messing it up like she’s taken to do sometimes for some reason he don’t understand but kind of likes.

She puts her forehead against his and opens her eyes.

”Happy Valentine’s Day,” she murmurs as she continues riding him.

”You too,” is all he can mutter back because he can’t manage that many syllables right now. ”I love you,” he does manage to get out after a second though.

”Love… you,” she breathes out.

She increases the speed, riding him quicker and quicker. He wants it to last forever, for her to always be on top of him like this, but eventually he comes inside the condom. She collapses against him and his arms go around her back, holding her close. His cock stays inside her pussy, slowly going flaccid again. She lifts her pussy up a bit so it slinks out of her. She distracts him with a kiss and removes the condom, careful not to spill on the couch, then quickly jumping off him and the couch to dispose of it and clean herself up a bit. He zips up. She returns fully dressed again a couple of minutes later and curls up to him again.

Eventually they realize they should probably eat something at least a bit more substantial then candy. She insists that she’ll take care of dinner so he doesn’t have to get up, but he doesn’t trust her in the kitchen. The words ”fire hazard” and ”your track record isn’t great” are used. In the end she convinces him to remain seated while she makes some grilled cheese sandwiches. Even she can’t screw up grilled cheese, she’s pretty sure. He’s doubtful and tries to keep an eye on her from the sofa.

”Well?” She asks after he’s bitten into his sandwich.

”Fine, you can make grilled cheese,” he admits.

”Told you. I’m not a complete mess in the kitchen.”

”Did you turn off the-” He begins asking but before he finishes her eyes go wide and she darts into the kitchen. Seconds later she plops down on the couch again.

”Yes I did,” she tries to play it off casually.

”Smooth,” he laughs. She huffs and digs into her sandwich.

The clock is well past midnight when she gets home after a wonderful evening with Jim. They are taking things slow though, as they’ve explained to the kids. Will is spending the night at the Wheeler’s. She sees that Nancy’s car is still parked outside. She doesn’t mind that at all. She adores Nancy. She’s smart, nice and caring, fun and she makes Jonathan happy. That’s more than enough, and she’s done way more than enough. She saved Will. She’ll never be able to thank her enough for that. And so far as spending the night goes, she trusts both Jonathan and Nancy, they’re responsible. Plus, she was young once too. It’s not like separating them at night would mean they wouldn’t be sexually active, she’s not that naïve. She puts the key in the lock and steps inside.

She recognizes the ending of Casablanca on the tv. In the sofa both teens are asleep. Her son lying with his injured foot up on the coffee table on a pillow. Nancy draped over him, resting her head against his chest, one arm flung across him. His cheek rests against the top of her head and he’s got one arm over her shoulders, holding her close. It’s a sight that warms her heart.

Spotting Jonathan’s camera on the table she can’t resist. She picks it up without a second thought. It’s not the same one she got him years ago, that one broke during that infamous week in November of 1983. And this new one was better. And it was Nancy who’d given it to him. She looks through the lens and takes a picture before setting down the camera again in the same place. She then picks up the remote and turns off the tv before retreating to her bedroom.

Usually their routine is that he picks up Nancy for school. With his foot in a cast though they change it, she insists on coming by and picking him up even though he said his mom could drive him, he didn’t want to be a bother. It’s a bit of a grind getting around school on the crutches, especially up stairs. Nancy also insists on carrying his books for him.

They spend lunch hour in the darkroom, as usual since winter came and it became too cold to have lunch on his car outside away from everyone else. The darkroom gives them the same privacy. Plus he can use the time to develop photos too. It’s a bit of a challenge doing it balancing on one leg but as he’d explained to Nancy this was something he had to do himself, no matter how smart she is she doesn’t know how to do this. And yes there’s a learning curve. And no, it’s not possible for her to have just picked everything up from watching him previously.

Towards the end of the roll he finds something surprising.

”I can’t believe my mom sometimes,” he mutters, looking at the newly developed photo of the two of them asleep on the couch.

”Aw, I want a copy of that,” Nancy says and presses a kiss to his cheek.

#jancy fanfic week #jancy fic #st fic #stranger things fic #stranger things fanfic #stranger things fanfiction #jancy #nancy x jonathan #nancy wheeler #jonathan byers #joyce byers #stranger things

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LoVe soulmate aus?

Back now where it all beganAuthor: ris91Pairing: Logan/Veronica, LillyRating: TeenGenre: Romance, FriendshipSetting: Pre series to movie Spoilers: all seriesChapters: 1Word Count: 6904Status: CompleteSummary: Logan and Veronica love and lose and finally, find their way back home to each other.Notes: The amount of serotonin this fic gave me was INCREDIBLE. Takes you through Logan and Veronica’s canonical journey in the show, with the heightened element of them being soulmates but not knowing it yet and I definitely was tearing up. Lilly Kane is an icon & the 2004 section of this (aka the Logan Wants to Fuck Veronica While She Wears Her New Boots section) is beautiful. And a very special shoutout to two specific lines -- “I know how much you hate it when the topic is anything other than yourself” and “I didn't even know it was possible to come without you murmuring how much you loved me in my ear” both of which changed me as a person. 

Written on the BodyAuthor: Emma_OzPairing: Logan/Veronica; Mac/DickRating: TeenGenre: Friendship, RomanceSetting: Post Season 2 AU Spoilers: 1.11, “Silence of the Lamb” and 2.22, “Not Pictured” Chapters: 1Word Count: 818Status: CompleteSummary: Almost everyone is born with a name written on their wrist. Some are easy to understand, some quite enigmatic.Notes: Logan’s soulmate mark says trouble, and Veronica’s soulmate mark says epic. The story itself is mostly setting up the Mac/Dick stuff, but LoVe’s soulmate marks for each other are top notch. Also let’s all give Mac a nice big hug she deserves it. 

GratitudeAuthor: HP Slash LuvPairing: Logan/Veronica, Lilly, (Duncan)Rating: TeenGenre: Romance, FriendshipSetting: Pre series AU Spoilers: 1.06, “Return of the Kane”Chapters: 1Word Count: 695Status: CompleteSummary: Veronica is filled with gratitude. Notes: Logan and Veronica discover their soulmates the first time they meet when they’re 12. It’s short & sweet, and Veronica seeing flashes of Logan’s life is!!! 

Play it TwiceAuthor: TheLastGoodGoldfishPairing: Logan/VeronicaRating: TeenGenre: Romance, FriendshipSetting: AUSpoilers: n/aChapters: 1Word Count: 3005Status: CompleteSummary: Logan and Veronica meet for a second first time. Notes: NEVER BEEN RECC’D BEFORE????? oh man. technically, thelastgoodgoldfish self describes this as a soulmates au without the soulmates au, but it’s so good and it’s THELASTGOODGOLDFISH so we’ll allow it. anyway -- He grins, and there’s something smug about him that’s fifty percent annoying and fifty percent attractive. “You know how I know you, don’t you?” Veronica accuses, to which he laughs but doesn’t answer. “You know why I recognize you, and you’re not telling.” I LOVE THEM AND I LOVE MY BEST BOY LOGAN ECHOLLS. also wallace telling veronica logan was an asshole in high school!!! & veronica blushing because logan has long fingers is ICONIC and so is the ending when logan says her full name. the entire fic is a work of art and if you haven’t read this masterpiece yet, drop everything and read it immediately. 

if i know what love is, it’s because of youAuthor: avaloneanPairing: Veronica/Duncan (eventual. Logan/Veronica)Rating: TeenGenre: FriendshipSetting: Pre-series AU Spoilers: n/aChapters: 1Word Count: 883Status: In ProgressSummary: The universe had a funny way of choosing the people Veronica was destined to love.Notes: so this fic is listed as having an eventual logan/veronica endgame, but only the first chapter is up so we’re not there yet, but maybe if everyone leaves a kind word....I can’t help but notice that this fic was posted only a month before The Incident. anyway. the chapter that’s up is veronica and duncan centric, but i love the characterization of tiny veronica in this. it’s such a cute start to the fic and i would like to see more. 

The FirstAuthor: marshmallowtashaPairing: Logan/VeronicaRating: MatureGenre: Romance, They’re FuckingSetting: Season 1 AU Spoilers: 1.18, “Weapons of Class Destruction” Chapters: 1Word Count: 3496Status: CompleteSummary: Who would be The First? The one who would “deflower” her? Again.Notes: An innovative take on soulmate AUs. Love that Logan and Veronica’s first kiss was kept the same, and Veronica realizing Logan has the same soulmark as her and going, okay that’s it we’re having sex right here right now is iconic. Also Logan admits to jacking off to thoughts of Veronica and that is so special and endearing to me that it gets its own line.  

Infinity FoundAuthor: steenbeansPairing: Logan/VeronicaRating: TeenGenre: Romance Setting: AUSpoilers: n/aChapters: 1Word Count: 970Status: CompleteSummary: “All it takes is a single touch, skin on skin.” Notes: They find out they’re soulmates when Veronica slaps Logan in the face, in retaliation for Logan slapping her on the ass. They are idiots. Logan tells her he thought she’d be taller!!! and the simple, “veronica, i know you.“ PERFECT 

Counting the MinutesAuthor: Heavin24Pairing: Logan/VeronicaRating: MatureGenre: RomanceSetting: Post MKATSpoilers: All seriesChapters: 1Word Count: 13195Status: CompleteSummary: On the most important day of their lives, Logan and Veronica remember some of the important moments in their relationship. Canon-verse, movie-compliant. Spoilers for everything: the show, the movie and the books.Notes: Takes us through Logan and Veronica’s history together as they reflect upon their relationship on their wedding day. Extends a lot of L/V scenes beyond the screentime the show gave them (waves excitedly at the extend L/V ruskie business scene AND waves at the extended lv car makeout AND waves at the extended 2x22 logan realizes keith is alive and just dips out of that fucking apartment scene and basically yes i’m waving excitedly at all the scenes and so will you). Also, special shout to Logan WHO WEARS HIS NAVY DRESS FORMAL ATTIRE IDK THE LINGO TO THE CEREMONY and who also is 100000% ready to start a fist fight at his own wedding if anybody dares to protest their marriage. We love a man. “It was always you for me, Veronica.” want y’all to know i am screaming in my apartment right now!!!!  

Death of a Bright Young ThingAuthor: disdainfulladyPairing: Logan/Veronica, Mac, Lilly, Meg, Duncan, Dick, etc. Rating: MatureGenre: Romance, Mystery Setting: AU Spoilers: up to 2.07, “Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner” to be safeChapters: 5Word Count: 54052Status: In ProgressSummary: Veronica has been asked to investigate the suspicious death of one of London's Bright Young People. Said investigation throws her right back in among a crowd she'd left years ago and the man that had never quite been hers. Notes: Y’ALL THIS AU PREMISE IS SO GOOD AND ENGAGING!!! Also, Logan and Lilly have me screaming my head off with delight I love them so much. I don’t want to spoil this for y’all because I want you to be able to experience it for yourselves.....but like.......it’s so good. I am in love. Everything about this is a delight!!!!! I want to give y’all the specifics, but just trust in me that it is a wonder and discover it for yourself!! All the characters are so well thought out and the characterization even in this twenties setting in uncanny. OH MY GOD YOU GUYS WHILE I WAS PREPPING THIS TO POST TO THE BLOG THE FIC UPDATED!!! THIS IS A MIRACLE EVERYONE READ THIS IMMEDIATELY THANK YOU  

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[murderballadeer]

I was tagged by @celiabedelia. Thanks Celia!

Name: Lucie

Zodiac: Pisces

Orientation: Not sure, probably pan or bi, but for now I’m gonna say questioning

Height: 5′ 2″

Nationality: Canadian

Favorite season: All except that horrible thing you get in coldish climates between February and April where all slushy and grey and gross and the temperature goes between like -20 and 10 C so it’s either ice and bitter cold or gross slush.

Favorite fruit: Peaches, raspberries, grapefruits, pineapple…

Favorite book: Anne Of Green Gables & The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (I love the whole series but for some reason the third is my favorite), The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

Favorite flower: Lavender

Favorite color: Lavender, robin’s egg blue and lime green

Favorite scent: Lavender (again), old books, eucalyptus, anything spicy like cinnamon except nutmeg, and peppermint

Favorite animal: I have trouble with this, but for now I’m saying cats, hedgehogs, elephants, ducks and owls

Coffee, tea, or cocoa: Tea and cocoa

Average hours of sleep: 8-9

Cats or dogs: Both! But cats. My dream is to have two tabbies, a brown one and an orange one, and name them Fred and Ginger.

Favorite fictional character: Phoebe from Friends, Siegfried from Get Smart, Rhoda from Mary Tyler Moore, Hagrid from Harry Potter, Sally from Dick Van Dyke, Anne from Anne Of Green Gables, Miss Marple, Nick & Nora Charles, Claire in On The Town, Sam from Casablanca, and a lot of others.

How many blankets: Just one

When my blog was created: June 2016

Followers: 1715, thanks!

I tag @the-supreme-fez-monkey @thevintagious @the-fxcking-void @classic-flicks-chick @classicfilmgirl and @thescrewballgirl

#lu speaks

[chronotopes]

book log: a stitch in time by andrew robinson

you guys i’m going to go bullet point by bullet point through all of my ibooks annotations so buckle in if you dare 

first of all that first chapter owns my ass. “indulge me if you will i need you as a witness”?? that’s the most. that’s the absolute most. that said, the concept that they Grew Apart after our man bashir, while ... certainly canon compliant.... is a piece of canon i refuse to accept. i have my own canon timeline for these kinds of things

i fucking LOVE pythas lok? i lived for that relationship. in fact the fact that this book is just garak cycling through his exes and the way they were all instrumental to events unfolding on cardassia? in fact i begin now to suspect that gul dukat is the only cardassian from garak’s past whom garak hasn’t fucked AND isn’t related to 

i whooped victoriously when garak said he was attracted to pythas. small victories. and then again when garak criticized odo’s uniform. 

love that the bamarren parts of the book that don’t involve palandine read like some kind of fucking... edwardian all boys school shit. like am i reading an a.e. housman poem? am i rewatching maurice (1987) dir. james ivory? no i am reading a beta canon epistolary novel about a gay lizard 

on that note garak being genuinely into women is something ajr and i disagree on but that’s just like to each his own 

garak’s famed volcano dick made me laugh. this book is such a fanfic at times. and then palandine teaches him that IT’S ALL TRUE, ESPECIALLY THE LIES. in fact like ... i didn’t even consider this now but in the garak/palandine stuff at bamarren reads in certain cases like early seasons garashir? but we’ll get to the more concrete parts of alla that later 

anyway .... “but i’m also a doctor, garak. and i know which group of people suffers the most. i really won’t take up any more of your time.” he extended his hand, which he rarely did, and i took it. “thank you for the tea.” he turned and went out the door.  i stood there for a long moment, deeply upset. i felt trapped within myself, knowing what i had to do to get out but unable even to begin. yes, doctor, it does sound familiar.” WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS!! (what the fuck was that whole scene!!!)

SPEAKING of doctors, dr parmak is really something. sorry i know a lot of you love him but i hope you realize he’s a rebound of a mighty order. self care is dating an older lizard flavored carbon copy of your ex bf. 

this was like finding out that in ds9 beta canon ro laren becomes SECURITY OFFICER and dates QUARK is a similar experience to this. ro laren and kelas parmak: the only thing they have in common is being quark and garak’s doctor and security officer rebounds. 

that said ro is her own person! parmak is a fig leaf. a plot device. andrew robinson winking at you from seventeen years ago. a mirror. god! 

anyway then two of garak’s three school crushes hook up, and he’s left with pythas who is the best one anyway.

and there’s the fucking insane sequence where garak goes on lots of hikes with a Privileged Federation Twink whom he’s totally dtf as his first spy mission. and at one point, even though garak does hate his guts along with being dtf he thinks he’s “so concerned, so caring. i took another long breath. [...] i looked hans in the eyes and resisted being swallowed by their immeasurable blue depths.” like i’m not saying garak has a type but garak has a type! 

i forgot about this but aside from pythas and that bitchy cousin of lukar, among garak’s classmates turn out to be the asshole from the casablanca episode and a relative of tekeny ghemor. it’s some 19th century lit bullshit and i LOVED it! as if this weren’t enough, there are four lights guy is also in this. 

we also briefly meet remara, a totally deadly ex gf of kira’s. idk what garak was trying to do with their relationship but i’m totally interested in fanfic about remara being an asshole ex gf of kira’s. 

garak’s battles of conscience are great. again very 19th c . i love how miserable he is throughout this book. 

OH AND THEN HE AND PYTHAS LIVE IN THE WOODS FOR A MONTH OR SO AND FEEL LIKE.. COMFORTABLE FOR ONCE IN THEIR LIVES... AND PROBABLY HAVE SEX! 

ooh and then we get a rlly spooky sequence where we see the wire IN ACTION

the assassin cover professions we’ve seen in this book and in this show are either Lesbian Professions (gardeners, park rangers) or Gay Professions (the fashion industry). what is it with covert operations and the lgbt community. 

i SCREAMED about chapter 19 earlier today. but just to go over it once more 

garak has a spooky dream about julian burying him alive ! so he hits him up at six in the fucking morning 

“doctor forgive me but i need to see you,” i said as calmly as i could.  “garak?”  “i do apologize but it’s important.” 

and then garak hears “another voice in the background. ezri dax. a muffled conversation. the doctor cleared his throat again. “i’ll be right over” he said.” I LOVE THAT EZRI AND JULIAN AREN’T EVEN FUCKING AT THIS POINT BUT AJR COULDN’T RESIST HIGHLIGHTING THE RIVALRY BETWEEN THEM?!

and then julian said “there are more things in heaven and earth horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy” and i died on the spot. they’re IN LOVE?! ajr i thought you wrote garashir as unrequited but what kind of man quotes hamlet talking 2 horatio at his platonic dude friend while he’s run over to his quarters in the middle of the night after said platonic dudefriend has a nightmare? 

“i was also convinced that it was all a dream, and i kept asking myself what you were doing there” like what the actual fuck? anyway they talk the wire and it’s a lot. and of course “you not only saved my life you made it possible for me to live it.” 

AND THEN OF COURSE “this is my last trip to cardassia. i’m not returning. you were in the dream for a very specific reason. once again, you helped me remember. thank you, julian.” JULIAN! JULIAN!! i’m DYING OF CARDIAC ARREST! (also this scene finally solidified my headcanons for when they break up for the second time.) 

anyway then the palandine shit goes down and garak kills his OTHER old school crush (the one that turned out to be a dick) 

one of my notes on here, verbatim: “have garak and quark had sex” i asked myself and then immediately wanted to die

the second time garak said that kelas parmak was “so much like you, doctor” i damn near screamed in frustration. don’t try me like this elim!! 

and then we get the last julian mirror who’s that sad federation woman who spills her soul to elim and the line “CAREFUL, ELIM. YOU KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT THE SUREST WAY TO YOUR HEART IS THROUGH CONVERSATION”

okay and THEN he meets pythas who’s been Permanently Marked By The Horrors Of War and he’s got a gf who saved his life even though he didn’t want to be saved at first.... so like pythas is special because he’s a garak mirror AND a garak boyfriend at the same time!

and pythas was in the grounds trying to warn garak before all the shit went down with palandine. i’m dying scoob

the fact that the epilogue starts with the line “it’s just garak. plain simple garak.” the flashback timeline ends at the point garak meets julian! i hate this it’s so fucking romantic

and then YOU’RE ALWAYS WELCOME DOCTOR..... like idk about the canon status of a lot of these things but i totally buy this novel as a thing that exists that garak sent. which of course is a great jumping off point for post canon cardassia fic. justice is so sweet. 

#just katia things #trek talk #and #a really ridiculous entry in #book log '17

[irisbleufic]

Hi there! I was just wondering, do you tend to have a rec list for future fandoms to explore or is it more randomized to what grabs you in the moment? Sometimes it appears like you focus on one fandom at a time, but do you ever multitask so to speak? Can you recommend something that you haven't written for but really like or think you'd like for someone caught up with your work? Thanks!

Indeed, anon, my blog is very much a mishmash of everything I’ve ever done and continue to do!  Good Omens is the long-term constant.  I’ve been writing in that fandom for 13 years, and although my production is slower on that front these days, there hasn’t been a single year go by since 2004 that I haven’t produced at least some work for it!  As a consequence, it’s the fandom I’m most widely known for (although that might be debatable now; nine times out of ten, when new people meet me in a fandom context, they’re like, oh, you wrote Pacific Rim stuff, or often they’ll know my Hamlet or Gatsby content).

It’s accurate to say that I focus on whatever is my fandom du jour with Good Omens and Hamlet running like constant scripts in the background (meaning that GO and Hamlet stories are randomly interspersed with whatever intensely focused thing I’m working on in the shorter term).  In the shorter term isn’t even accurate for the other fandoms that come along, though, because those tend to last two to five years each (as far as constant, intensely-focused output until they slow to the same simmer my older fandoms are on).

As far as recs regarding what I read in fandoms I haven’t written for, my AO3 bookmarks scramble has a few of those!  These are the ones I’d highlight:

Taniwha, by norah (one of few Moby-Dick stories in existence, utterly stunning)

Nom de Coeur, by Dorinda (one of few Casablanca stories out there, sublime)

J’ai Vu le Loup, by Gileonnen (one of even fewer Bisclavret stories, remarkable)

If you haven’t read Jane St. Clair’s ST:TOS Kirk/Spock stories, whoa.  Do it.  I mean, I did write some Kirk/Spock for both TOS and Reboot, but it wasn’t very much, and these stories I’m reccing made me sob for days.  Wrecked during finals.

I briefly dipped into reading Inception fic, and Antimony by jibrailis is.  Yes.

Homestuck fic is an occasional craving, so I highly recommend interrogating the text from the wrong perspective by Vintar, The Big Bunper Book of Meteor Party Games by moonstruckNeophyte & Vintar, and Karkat Tantrum Bingo by gendersquare.  These are all wickedly funny and in-character.

Lastly: if you have not read basingstoke’s droids need love too series, you haven’t lived.  I really mean it.  I ship C-3PO and R2-D2 pretty hardcore.

#recs #fanfiction #fandom #meta #your stewardess reads in quite a number of fandoms she will probably never write in

[tessatechaitea]

Metamorpho #3

The deadliest element is knives!

When we last left Metamorpho, he was waiting to be proud of his son's first murder. See, little Joe has the power to turn anything he touches into any element (like knives!). And Seamus the bad guy had a gun up to little Joe's head. That meant Seamus was in physical contact with little Joe. You can probably work out the rest of what's about to happen yourself. I gave you all of the pertinent details!

Jillian also apparently lied when she said she put out most of the fire last issue. Or she doesn't know the meaning of most. Or she thought too much about oxygen when she was trying to turn into carbon dioxide. What I'm saying is she fucked up because look at all of that fire.

Joey turns the gun into gas and then turns O'Grady's jacket into acid. Not the good kind of acid where you turn on and tune out and beginning wondering why people have so many fingers. It's the kind of acid that we as a society feel teenagers are responsible enough to handle in science class. I don't know how Joey knows about acid though. Metamorpho did say his powers work in reverse. Maybe he has to think about milk to create acid, and poop to create gas. Those are probably the only two things he can create with his powers. Which is too bad for incest pervert Simon Stagg because he wants his grandson to create gold. But what's the opposite of gold? Texas tea? Rex learns that O'Grady sold the Orb of Ra to Egyptian Emir Abd al-Aziz. He's a collector of artifacts who probably uncollected the Orb of Ra to Ra's al Ghul because this is only four pages into the third issue. Unless Abd is one of those guys who is always forcing people to do favors for him before he does a favor for them. So Metamorpho will probably have to go to Hell to retrieve a rare demon's skull before he can get the orb. Is this that kind of comic book? Does Metamorpho fit in with DC's magic heroes? His origins are sort of mystical. Nothing so dramatic happens. It seems Mark Waid doesn't understand the extent to which comic book stories can be pushed. Instead, he writes some sensible plot about how the Orb of Ra was switched by some other scheming collector from Casablanca who was authenticating it. And instead of Simon Stagg's dick being cut off by Sapphire as he tries to incest her, it remains between his legs as he flies to Casablanca to get his hands back on the Orb of Ra. And Sapphire stows away on his plane because that's believable. That wasn't sarcastic! That was proof that Mark Waid doesn't realize he's writing comic books! Doesn't he know that Sapphire could have contacted Java's ghost to provide her with passage through the land of the Neanderthal dead where, due to the physical restrictions in the astral plane, she'd have to wear nothing but a bikini made from Woolly Mammoth fur? I think I just discovered why I think so many comics are terrible! Because I'm judging them by what I think they should be! And if Sapphire Stagg isn't wearing a Woolly Mammoth thong, why the fuck am I even reading this?! In Casablanca, Rex learns that the Orb was sold to an Egyptian cult who put the Orb of Ra back in the pyramid where it was stolen. But Rex also learns that the Ra can only be used once to reverse the transformation. Jillian was going to use it on herself and leave Rex and Joey in the cold. Although, who even knows if it would work on Joey! Maybe Rex would be better off just buying the kid a ton of gloves. Jillian and Rex get into a metamorphosis battle on page 18. This is the kind of stuff that I read Metamorpho comic books for and Mark Waid doesn't include it until the comic book is almost over? But he has plenty of time for Rex to visit an Emir's treasure room only to find it was a dead end and then to travel to Casablanca to re-enact a scene from every movie that ever had a scene in a small cafe in Northern Africa before finally getting around to the scene where two people who can transform into anything they want fight! Hopefully Mark Waid has taken some "Better Use of Comic Book Pages" classes since 1993.

I would have enjoyed 24 pages of this with little to no plot advancement.

I know that previous caption probably flies in the face of something I've said in over 3700 other comic book commentaries. But sometimes, as human beings, we contradict ourselves without becoming hypocrites. Only fools live by rules built up from a solid foundation! You have to take every experience and judge it for its own particulars. In this case, I'd rather see two Metamorphos battle for twenty pages than read a coherent plot that relies on all the old international art theft tropes. These last two issues were essentially just filler as Rex Mason chases down leads to find the Orb of Ra. Why couldn't those two issues be all bar brawl and battle of the two metamorphs?! Then when Metamorpho is finally defeated (because that's a comic book rule: the hero must be down and out just before the final issue of the story where they will rise in triumph), the reader can learn that Jillian was working with incestuous corporate devil Simon Stagg all along! Metamorpho #3 Rating: C+. I guess the story about what a father would do for his child wasn't as emotionally gripping as I was hoping it would be. So far, it's been mostly Metamorpho turning into soft things that his son can fall on while yelling, "Whee!" Maybe my almost certainly non-existent heartstrings will get tugged in the final issue!

#Metamorpho #DC Comics #DC

[nofomoartworld]

Hyperallergic: Art Movements

Kota Ezawa, “Chez Tortoni” (2015), part of a series inspired by the artworks stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 (courtesy Murray Guy Gallery)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.

Protestors gathered at the Museum of Modern Art to demand the removal of Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, from the institution’s board. Fink was one of a number of CEOs invited to discuss economic policy with President Donald Trump earlier this month.

Two more works found in Cornelius Gurlitt‘s collection — a drawing by Adolph Menzel and a painting by Camille Pissarro — were returned to the heirs of their Jewish owners.

Artists and campaigners will protest in London this weekend to demand the closure of the LD50 gallery in Dalston. According to the Guardian, the gallery has hosted a number of events involving white supremacist and far right speakers including Brett Stevens, whose writing inspired Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 attacks in Norway.

A bipartisan group of 24 United States Senators signed a letter urging President Trump against slashing or abolishing federal funding for the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities (NEA and NEH).

Rotherwas Project 2: Kota Ezawa, Gardner Museum Revisited opened at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. The exhibition consists of Ezawa’s digital drawings of the 13 artworks stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, as well as a six-minute animation based on security footage recorded the night before the robbery. The footage was released by the FBI in 2015.

Guercino, “Madonna with the Saints John the Evangelist and Gregory the Wonderworker” (1639) (via Wikipedia)

Italy’s Carabinieri art crime squad recovered a Guercino painting stolen from a church in Modena in 2014. Three men were arrested after they attempted to sell “Madonna with the Saints John the Evangelist and Gregory the Wonderworker” (1639) to a collector in Casablanca for around £800,000 (~$1 million).

Vjeran Tomic, a cat burglar dubbed the “Spider-Man,” was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing five paintings — works by Amedeo Modigliani, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso — from the Paris Museum of Modern Art on May 20, 2010.

A wrought iron gate bearing the Nazi slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work sets you free”) was returned to the Dachau concentration camp two years after it was stolen.

Approximately 7,700 tributes left in the streets of Paris in the wake of the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks were digitized and made publicly available by the Archives de Paris.

Jenny Heinz, a longtime patron of the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic, was denied entry to a performance at Lincoln Center after she refused to remove an anti-Trump sign attached to her jacket.

Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Säde Rönkkö, and Luke Turner ceased their participatory artwork, “He Will Not Divide Us,” after gunshots were reportedly fired near its new location at the El Rey Theater in Albuquerque. The Museum of the Moving Image announced on February 10 that it had closed the work in order to “restore public safety.” In a statement, the artists attributed the closure to “political pressure.” LaBeouf was arrested and charged with assault after an altercation outside the museum last month.

Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Säde Rönkkö, and Luke Turner, “HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US” (2017) (via thecampaignbook.com)

Arts patron and philanthropist Shelley Rubin filed a lawsuit against Nisha Sabharwal and her husband, Mohit. Rubin claims the couple, who she met at an event at the Asia Society in 2009, conned her into buying $18 million in knockoff jewelry.

A tract of Roman road was discovered during the construction of a McDonald’s in Marino, Italy.

Bath and North East Somerset Council approved a 100% cut to its small project grants for the arts in order to save £433,000 (~$544,000) by 2020. The decision was condemned by Equity, the UK’s trade union for actors, stage managers, and models.

Transactions

Aidan Koch, Alternate Paris Review 213 cover (2015) (Anne Koyama Collection of Comic Art, the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum)

Annie Koyama donated over 250 pieces of original artwork by contemporary American cartoonists to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.

John and Anna Sie donated $12 million toward the remodeling of the Denver Art Museum’s North Building.

The Moody Foundation donated $2.1 million toward the Museum of Street Culture in Dallas.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami received a $200,000 matching grant from the Knight Foundation for its PAMM Fund for African American Art.

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa received significant, undisclosed gifts from the Roger Ballen Foundation and the Eiger Foundation.

The New-York Historical Society acquired the personal effects of late New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts acquired two works by Sarah Anne Johnson.

Sarah Anne Johnson, “Untitled (Schooner and Fireworks)” (2012), expanded polyurethane foam, plastics, LED lights, stove paint, acrylic paint, wood, balsa, cotton canvas and string, silicone resin, 635 cm approximate diameter, gift of the Cirque du Soleil (courtesy Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)

Transitions

Miguel Falomir was appointed director of the Museo Nacional del Prado.

Courtney J. Martin was appointed deputy director and chief curator of the Dia Art Foundation.

The Drawing Center appointed four new trustees: Andrea Crane, Amy Gold, David Salle, and Waqas Wajahat.

Sara Reisman was appointed executive and artistic director of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation. Alexander Gardner was appointed executive director of The Treasury of Lives, a non-profit founded by the Foundation.

Caitlín Doherty was appointed director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville.

Susan Greenberg was appointed director of collections at the Brooklyn Museum.

Mari Spirito will step down as director and curator of exhibitions at Alt after February 28.

Risa Shoup was appointed executive director of Spaceworks.

Christina Rees was appointed editor-in-chief of Glasstire.

Andrea Rosen announced that she will close her gallery and co-represent the estate of Félix González-Torres with David Zwirner.

Parkett will cease publication after the release of its special issue this Summer.

The Washington Art Consortium announced its decision to disband.

The Obama Foundation appointed Ralph Appelbaum Associates to lead the exhibition design for the Obama Presidential Center’s museum.

The International Fine Print Dealers Association announced the appointment of three new members: Galerie Maximillian, Hauser & Wirth, and mfc-michèle Didier.

The Royal Academy of Arts launched Mayfair Art Weekend, a rebranding of Brown’s London Art Weekend. The new partnership involves over 60 London galleries.

Accolades

Serpentine Pavilion 2017, designed by Francis Kéré, design render, exterior (© Kéré Architecture)

Diébédo Francis Kéré was commissioned to design the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion.

Performance artist Taylor Mac and musical director Matt Ray were awarded the 2017 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, for their 24-hour work, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.

Naima J. Keith was awarded the 2017 David C. Driskell Prize by the High Museum of Art.

Lawrence Weiner was announced the recipient of the 2017 Aspen Award for Art.

Sarah Forrest received the 2017 Margaret Tait Award.

Wendy Yao, the founder of the Los Angeles–based bookstore Ooga Booga, received the 2017 White Columns / Shoot the Lobster Award.

The American Craft Council announced the recipients of its 2017 Emerging Voices Awards.

Jenny Sabin Studio was named the winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s 2017 Young Architects Program.

Opportunities

Lisa Oppenheim, “APPLAUSE” (2016), at the entrance of Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York (photo by Allison Meier for Hyperallergic)

Socrates Sculpture Park announced an open call for its 2017 Broadway Billboard series. Proposals should be sent to [email protected] and are due by April 15.

Obituaries

Alan Aldridge (1943–2017), artist and illustrator. Best known for his Pop imagery of the 1960s and ’70s.

Edward Barber (1949–2017), documentary and portrait photographer.

Dick Bruna (1927–2017), illustrator and children’s book author. Creator of Miffy.

Larry Coryell (1943–2017), guitarist.

Tony Davis (1930–2017), folk and jazz singer. Frontman for the Spinners.

Frank Delaney (1942–2017), author and broadcaster.

Sofia Imber (1925–2017), journalist and arts administrator. Founder of the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art.

Jannis Kounellis (1936–2017), key figure of the Arte Povera (“poor art”) movement.

Installation view of Jannis Kounellis’s “Untitled (12 Horses)” (1969) at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, June 2015 (photo by Allison Meier for Hyperallergic)

Thomas Lux (1946–2017), poet. Best known for Split Horizon (1994).

Junie Morrison (1954–2017), funk musician and producer.

Ivor Noël Hume (1927–2017), archaeologist. Director of archaeology at Colonial Williamsburg between 1957–1988.

Michael Rainey (1941–2017), owner of the London boutique Hung on You. Dressed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Eileen Ramsay (1915–2017), photographer.

Richard Schickel (1933–2017), movie critic, author, and filmmaker.

Clyde Stubblefield (1943–2017), drummer. Best known for his contribution to James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” (1969).

Seijun Suzuki (1923–2017), filmmaker. Best known for Branded to Kill (1967).

Abba Tor (1923–2017), engineer. Collaborated with architects such as Eero Saarinen and Louis I. Kahn.

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