Un assemblage de mensonges

This is the fanfiction and fanmix journal of sailorptah.

It was formerly found at reseda_ptah, until for various reasons I decided to move. The LJ account is no longer being updated, and will sit quietly, untouched, until the deactivation of the LJ servers or the heat death of the universe, whichever comes first.

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Icons | Fake News | Everything Else
Challenges: Hurt/Comfort Bingo | Longfic Bingo

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Title: Boys (and Girls) of Summer
Rating: PG-13
Contents: Descriptions of mania/depression, strained non-monogamy
Characters/pairings: "Stephen"/Jon, "Stephen"/Lorraine, "Stephen"/various
Disclaimer: #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. Characters belong to the Report. Names of real people are used in a fictitious context, and all dialogue, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only.

For queer_fest, prompt: Any fandom, any character, Being queer and mentally ill, and knowing the difference between the two. "Stephen" is (enthusiastically) functionally bi when he's manic, and has no sex drive at all when he's depressed. His wife and his best friend try to manage him through his moods, and everyone (even Stephen himself) is mostly guessing as to where his genuine attractions fall.

( Lorraine is aware of her husband's escapades, and tries not to let them bother her. )

Title: This Mix is Really Gay
Fandom: General/miscellaneous
Subject: Happy queer people
Rating: PG
Warnings: Language, sex.

A collection of upbeat, cheerful, frequently ridiculous songs about same-sex couples. Or people hoping to get into same-sex couples. Or just people who are into same-sex.



( I didn't just kiss her — we went all the way and I liked it )

Came up with a couple more that never got archived here while paging through my hard drive...

They're safely in the mix archive now. (Also uploaded, but not yet published: a bunch of Christmas mixes. I figure I'll hold off on releasing those on 8tracks until December.)

Meanwhile, the fic soundtrack page is now comprehensive. Older examples of cover art and all.

All of which leaves only three mixes still not streamable/downloadable! First, an SJA one, which fails the 8tracks TOS by being all-Beatles. Second and third, the fake news pair that can be listened to separately or together, which would lose something on a site where you can't control the playlist order. Not sure what to do with those yet.

I'll figure something out.

Hey, remember that long list of unsorted multi-short-fic posts that used to be lurking at the bottom of the Fake News fanwork masterpost? It's been almost emptied out!

Instead of trying to sort the fics all separately, these posts are now collected on the new Fake News Drabbles & Ficlets tag, which is treated like a separate ficlet-collection index post (same as the Merry Month of May index). Meanwhile on the masterpost, ficlet collections are now organized in their own group, so they don't have to be awkwardly grouped under "multichapter" when they aren't single chaptered works.

Also tagged as drabbles-and-ficlets are a bunch of other short, individually-posted fics that had been sorted on the masterpost. I didn't erase their existing entries, though. Figure it's better to have more ways to find a story than fewer.

During the organizing here on DW, I did a massive crosspost of the lot to the AO3. This series includes both the contents of the drabbles-and-ficlets tag and the Merry-Month-of-May tag. (...except for the ficlets I don't really like anymore.) The darker ones are only visible to registered users -- you can get an account very quickly if you'd like to read them.

Future posts with multiple shortfics, including prompt fills (a few more of which I should be posting soon), will go on the drabbles-and-ficlets tag, and be crossposted to the appropriate part of the AO3 collection. Feel free to read/review on whichever site works best for you!

Title: Collar U
Rating: PG-13
Cast: Jon/"Stephen", background Olivia/Kristen and Steve/Nancy, other correspondents, Jane Fonda
Contents: Sexual predator Jane Fonda.
Disclaimer: #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. Characters belong to the Report. Names of real people are used in a fictitious context, and all dialogue, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only.

D/sverse, high school/college AU. Stephen's family doesn't believe in sending uncollared submissives to college, so Jon offers to collar him, at least through graduation. Cue a year of awkward deception, GSA shenanigans, platonic bed-sharing, one threatening incident with a certain pushy senior, and the triumph of the power of unrecognized romantic attraction friendship.

Header aside, this is a question for readers, rather than the fic post itself:

The story is about 9500 words long, and breaks down into five pieces (an average of 1900 words each). I'm currently posting the parts on the AO3 at the rate of one per day. People on DW, would you like it posted in parts here too? Or would you rather wait until it's over and have the whole thing posted as a single entry? Maybe it doesn't matter, since you would just as soon read the pieces on the AO3 no matter how it's posted here? Whatever your thoughts, please let me know!

Title: I've Got No Strings To Hold Me Down
Rating: G
Cast: Wyatt, Aasif, Jessica, John Oliver, Larry, Jon, various celebrity cameos
Disclaimer: #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. Characters belong to the Report. Names of real people are used in a fictitious context, and all dialogue, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only.

Third Monday fic for count_nickula. (On the AO3.) After Wyatt delivers his final TDS segment, he goes off to travel the world. But he will always be with his Daily Show friends in some form. Specifically, felt.

( 'This week has been awesome. Crazy awesome. But I gotta move on. The road just keeps calling to me, you know?' )

Title: Shout*For [Table of Contents]
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen", "Stephen"/OCs, Jimmy, Olivia/Kristen, Wyatt, Tucker Carlson, Brian Williams, Steve Carell, other correspondents and cameos, a few OCs.
Rating: through R
Contents: Drinking/drugs, awful and/or neglectful adults, background *isms, teen/teen sexuality, sexual abuse of a minor.
Disclaimer: #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. Characters belong to the Report. Names of real people are used in a fictitious context, and all dialogue, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only.

AU where our heroes (and some villains) are all performers in various blocs of the Disney tween music/TV/movie empire, which naturally is amazingly screwed-up behind the scenes.

Jon and "Stephen" are in a manufactured boy band with Jimmy and Tucker. They're about to get some cross-promotion with Olivia, the local equivalent of Miley Cyrus. These kids are only thrown together based on whatever will get the best publicity, but there are still genuine Best Friendships Forever to be forged...which is good, because with high-pressure careers in the fishbowl of celebrity, sometimes friends are the only thing that keep you going.

For my longfic_bingo card, prompt "band!fic". Ideas, encouragement, and Disney-tween-marketing expertise/dirt provided by politicette.

Mirror on the AO3.

Chapters

1. Living On The Edge Of The World
2. Restless Nights
3. Meeting Across the River
4. Open All Night
5. My Father's House
6. Cover Me
7. The Price You Pay
8. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
9. Worlds Apart
10. Human Touch
11. Lion's Den
12. I'm On Fire
13. [work in progress]

Title: A River So Long: being a multi-season Love Story in three Acts, color-coded for Your Convenience (brought to you by Americans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow) (Act 2)
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen", correspondents, OC
Rating: PG-13
Contents: Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll
Disclaimer: #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. Characters belong to the Report. Names of real people are used in a fictitious context, and all dialogue, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only.

8) Prompt: Stephen's tirade on election night. "Then you realise you made a terrible mistake but it will be too late, you had the chance but you rejected him and now [Mitt Romney] will never want your [vote] again." We all know he meant "Jon" instead of "Mitt" and "love" instead of "vote."

After getting off to a rocky start, Stephen and Jon try to maintain their fledgling relationship. Can it stand up to the pressure of an election year?

AO3 mirror | Act I | Act II | Act III

( For the record, Stephen had every intention of fulfilling Jon's request. Eventually. )

Title: Persephone's Waltz, Chapter 20: I'm right here.
Characters/Pairings: Madoka/Homura, Kyuubei, others.
Rating: R
Disclaimer/Warnings: See table of contents.

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying.
Howard Nemerov

or, in which it's all on Madoka to decide where to go from here.

(The final chapter! There may be some art or omake, which will be posted in my dA gallery and be linked from the DW ToC, but as for the story proper, this is where it ends. Thanks again to everyone who's been commenting, kudosing, or just keeping my hit count up.)

( Her hair, messy and wet and with its ribbons almost completely undone, hung in tangles on either side of her face and in strands plastered across her forehead. )