Fic: Shooting into a Clown's Mouth

[monroeslittle]

Title: Shooting into a Clown's Mouth
Author: monroeslittle
Genre: Veronica Mars (Mac, with background V/L and Mac/Dick)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Mac only visits Neptune once a year around the Christmas holiday. This Christmas holiday? This is the Christmas holiday from hell.
A/N: This is for free-for-all challenge for round seven of vmfic_gameon. I used hyperemmalawlz's prompt "Sweetie, your

Comments

[montisello]

LOVE IT

[monroeslittle]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! There is definitely so much that can be done with the Dick, Mac, and Cassidy, and this is the first time I've ever been brave enough to try tackling it. Dick and Veronica's relationship is definitely something that would have had to be addressed, but for the purposes of this story I assumed that to be something that Veronica and Dick worked out between the two of them a while ago, as Veronica is married to Dick's best friend. But it would definitely be something interesting to explore!

[afrocurl]

For the life of me, I can't tell you when the last time was that I read some Dick/Mac, and this was a treat at that.

You hit on all the pain in what can come from their relationship--their respective issues with Cassidy--and the way that those issues bring them together.

Bringing up the issues between Madison and Mac also worked so well to illustrate all of Mac's issues with trusting people (because she's the one person in Neptune that never got to really address them as the show moved forward.)

Well done, and thanks for writing it!

[monroeslittle]

Thank you so much! Regularly most of my fanfiction reading and writing in the VM world is devoted to Veronica/Logan, but I have a bit of a soft spot for Mac and Mac/Dick, so I had a lot of fun writing this. I'm glad you liked it! :)

[spygrrl76]

This was a great story. I never pictured Mac not moving on from Cassidy, but I can totally see it now after reading your story. I also love how you brought back in the switched-at-birth storyline because really, how could that not, at some point, be a big part of Mac's life?

[monroeslittle]

Thank you! Yes, it always annoyed me that the show never even mentioned Mac's switched-at-birth storyline again, so I had to include it in this. I'm glad you liked it!

[dipenates]

I love this. Section ix made me cry, which is about the third time a fic has made me bust out actual tears!

This is lovely because it's so lightly done, even though there's so much going on. I love Logan, snarking kindly from the sidelines, and pregnant!Veronica, and wrong!Veronica, and a Dick who is truly himself, but in whom the kindness is visible. Fabulous job, and I'll be reading this again and again.

[monroeslittle]

Thank you so much! That's high praise. This is the first VM fic I've ever done that isn't centered on Logan/Veronica, but I had a lot of fun putting Logan in the background and having Veronica be a normal friend who gives good and bad advice and has a happy, normal life, so I'm glad you like that :)

[sanya4]

This is such a beautiful story. I'm not really a Mac/Dic fan but I had to read this because your fics are always so wonderfully written and this one definitely didn't disappoint. I also loved the fact that Veronica and Logan were so "normal" and happy together.

..."I think I'm spending too much time with Logan. He's such a bad influence on me. I'm so much less badass these days."
This made me smile. :)

[monroeslittle]

Thanks so much! Generally, I tend to read Logan/Veronica more than Mac/Dick, but I do have a soft spot for Mac and I wanted to try my hand at writing something focused on her. I'm glad you decided to try reading this and enjoyed it! :)