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Title: Ein ganz besondrer Saft
Fandom: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Characters/Pairings: Homura/Madoka
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers through episode 10.
Disclaimer: So not mine. Although if I had a wish...

Homura gets Madoka out of a witch's barrier alive, but not unharmed. Now Madoka needs someone to take care of her while (if) she recovers.

For round 2 of hc_bingo, prompt "poisoning"; card and masterpost here. Title is from Faust (line 1740), translated there as "a juice with curious properties."

( The strands near the top were thick enough to hold the witch: a hulking spider with legs coming out at all angles and jet-black wings curling out from what Homura could only assume was its back. Half a dozen of its limbs clasped something tiny and pink. )

Title: Hagiography (II)
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: OC/"Stephen", Jon/Tracey
Warnings: Everything from previous parts, now with extra violence and (skip) character death
Beta: sarcasticsra
Disclaimer: #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. The fictional characters are fictional, not mine, and used with love, not profit.

The long-awaited climax of the Green & Gray 'verse. (If your memories of previous installments have gotten fuzzy and you were thinking of doing a reread, now would be the time.)

In which Jon swoops in and carries Stephen to safety under cover of night. At least, that was the plan.

( 'Is there anything else you absolutely need?' )

Title: As If You Were Salt-Rose, Or Topaz
Rating: PG
Pairings: Jon and Raven (pre-slash or pre-het, however you want to read it)
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

Written for pookiesbleubass in the 2010 fakenews_fanfic Secret Santa. Big Stew (or, at least, sinister!Jon) meets Raven for the first time.

Sexy title courtesy of Pablo Neruda. Sketchy illustration over here. Far better illustration, by omelton, here.

( The figure on Goldman's arm was unmistakably not his wife, a fact which Stewart knew better than to mention. )

Title: The Gender Ninja of Oz
Rating: PG-13 (light sexual content)
Characters/pairings: Ozma/Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow, Toto, Jack Pumpkinhead
Contents: Major spoilers through The Emerald City of Oz (book 6); minor ones through Tik-Tok of Oz (Book 9).
Disclaimer: I didn't create these characters...not that it matters. Public domain FTW!
Prompt: lgbtfest, prompt 3782: Wizard of Oz series, Ozma, Ozma's gender identity is complicated - zie wasn't fully satisfied as a boy when zie was Tip, but isn't fully satisfied as a girl when zie is Ozma. On top of that zie is in love with Dorothy. Is there any resolution to this?
Notes: Ozma/Tip's pronouns will be going all over the place; sometimes they match hir physical body at the time, sometimes not. Most of this sticks to Baum's canon, though I have pulled one detail from Ruth Plumly Thompson: rather than staying at the same age forever, characters can choose on their birthdays whether to grow that year. Title nabbed from Genderfork. Full-size versions of the illustrations will be showing up with my other Oz fanart. And, as always, other trans!fics are here.

"I might try it for awhile,—just to see how it seems, you know. But if I don't like being a girl you must promise to change me into a boy again."

"Really," said the Sorceress, "that is beyond my magic. I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not."

—The Marvelous Land of Oz

( 'You never talk about your life before they let you be Princess again,' says Dorothy crossly. 'I s'pose being a farm girl isn't very exciting next to being ruler of all of Oz...but I'd like to hear about it some time, all the same.' )

Title: Clover and Shadows (4/5)
Rating: R
Warnings: Trans issues, angst, character death
Characters/pairings: MtF!"Stephen", FtM!Charlene, Jon, families
Marvelous betas: stellar_dust and balljointed
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

In which there is one cousin dead and one surviving, trying to make a future out of the pieces.

Now with even more gorgeous illustrations: the photos Stephen keeps in the office, by omelton.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Transverse

( 'I don't have time to play your little games here, ma'am. A man is dead, and we have work to do.' )

Title: Clover and Shadows (2/5)
Rating: R
Warnings (highlight for spoilers): Trans issues, angst, character death, (skip) dubiously-consensual sex work, brief violence
Characters/pairings: MtF!"Stephen", FtM!Charlene, Jon, families
Marvelous betas: stellar_dust and balljointed
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

In the past, Charlene and Stephen find gainful employment during the day, and follow less-respectable pursuits during the night. In the present, Jon has Stephen's back. (For those of you keeping score, this is a wifeless AU.)

Now featuring marvelous marvelous art of Stephen and Charlene, by aybara_max!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Transverse

( Stephen eventually lands a job at the Hair Force. She has to dress as a guy when she's on the clock, but there's enough room for flamboyancy that she doesn't have to worry about checking her behavior to match. )

Title: Five Versions Of The Limo Ride Home
Rating: G through NC-17
Characters/pairings: Jon/liberal!"Stephen", Joan/"Stephanie", Jon/r!Stephen (Sailor Jon version), Schmon Schmewart, Jon, "Stephen", Jon/happy!"Stephen"
Warnings: (1) character fatal disease (he's not dead yet); (2) character death (he gets better); (3) D/s, innuendo; (4) D/s, shameless lesbian smut; (5) may induce diabetes.
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Summary: After the Emmys snub various versions of Stephen (hypothetical cancer storyline, sailorjon 'verse, Liberalverse, genderswapped version of sarcasticsra's Needverse, and happy!verse), Jon comforts him on the way back to the hotel.

Mostly written for The 9/20 Project, which called for post-Emmy comforting and/or sex. There are sequels to the Liberalverse segment found at that link. For those seeking more Joan/"Stephanie", there's a bit of it by doctorv here, and I have some more here.

( 'I have a little bit of anger and frustration to work through right now. So it would probably be best if I just let myself into the executive lounge and meditated for a while. Or did some yoga.' )

Title: State of Grace
Fandom: TCR
Genre: Drama
Rating: Through NC-17
Length: ~108,000 words (plus ~8,000 words of meta)
Warnings: Sex, not always good; triggers, trauma, flashbacks; dissociation, memory issues; background childhood abuse (physical, emotional) and neglect; background young-adult sexual abuse, drug use, compromised-consent sex work; background stalking; mental illness, panic attacks, suicidal ideation; mild language, some physical violence.
Disclaimer: The Report characters and their universe are property of Stephen Colbert, the other writers, and of course Viacom. Not mine. While this story also makes references to real persons and places, the dialogue, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only. No fake newsmen were harmed in the making of this fic.

An excursus to Expecting (and, thus, part of the Expectingverse), taking place between its final chapter and epilogue. Described in comparison as "the emotional equivalent of jumping into a cold pool after soaking in the jacuzzi." Stephen has a new baby, a new marriage, and the love of a good man — so, naturally, this is when he starts to fall apart.

The current version of the story is a much-needed revision from the original, betaed by the painstaking and phenomenal stellar_dust. Title comes from the Billy Joel song.

( Chapters and bonus features )

Title: I'll Be That Girl
Rating: R
Warnings: Trans angst, voyeurism, self-harm, disturbing imagery, steamy scenes
Characters/pairings: MtF!Stephen(/OC), Jon, Charlene, Sweetness
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.

Summary: Another orphaned prompt from lgbtfest: 1082. Punditslash, Character!Stephen Colbert, Stephen's been obsessed with wooing his cousin Charlene for years. What no one knew was that he's more interested in becoming her than he is in dating her.

Title is from the BNL song. Also, this one was supposed to be depressing (the statistics for trans kids are horrific), but it sprang a happy ending on me.

(As a footnote, two old friends of mine have come out as trans in the past couple of weeks. Is there something in the water?)

This 'verse is open for exploration, and has been played in here.

( Womanhood is supposed to be a mystical quality reserved for teachers and mothers and the Virgin Mary, and now all of a sudden Charlene — the bossy cousin who always loses to Stephen at checkers, for crying out loud! — is walking into class with curved red lips and a sashay in her step! )

Title: In Time
Series: Fake news (the real people)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Drug references; loads of character death (same character, different deaths)
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Summary: In an effort to save his life, Jon keeps pulling a Run Lola Run on r!Stephen's personal history.

(Thought this was going to be long, so I decided to just write a summary and throw it in with the Five Fake News Stories Never Written. And then the synopsis turned out to be the story.)


( Jon drifts through the fog of funeral arrangements and hastily cut-together tribute specials, until it gets to be too much. )