Fake News | Jon/"Stephen", Jimmy, Olivia/Kristen, ensemble | up to R | Shout*For [Table of Contents]

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Title: Shout*For [Table of Contents]
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen", "Stephen"/OCs, Jimmy Fallon, Olivia/Kristen, Wyatt, Tucker Carlson, Brian Williams, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Anthony Weiner, 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.

Fake news AU. Our heroes (and some villains) (and some imports from The Newsroom) 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.


★ Story ★

Act I
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. Don't Look Back
14. Gave It A Name
15. All That Heaven Will Allow
16. Give The Girl A Kiss
17. My Best Was Never Good Enough
18. Two Hearts In True Waltz Time
19. We Take Care Of Our Own

Intermission
1. Long Walk Home
2. Seaside Bar Song
3. Local Hero
4. The Ties That Bind

Act II
1. It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
2. Dancing In The Dark
3. Be True
4. Hollywood Kids
5. Growin' Up
6. I'll Work For Your Love
7. When The Lights Go Out
8. This Depression
9. New York City Serenade
10. One Step Up
11. The Fuse
12. Long Time Comin'
13. The Rising
14. What Love Can Do
14, bonus: #stimmy is real
15. Born To Run


★ All Of This Is Mirrored On The AO3 ★
☆ Act I
☆ Intermission
☆ Act II
☆ #stimmy is real


★ Bonus Material ★
☆ Poster: The Boys in a Field
☆ Sketches: Singing and sleepovers
☆ Art: And then they make out
☆ Art: The Meeting of the AUs
☆ Poster: The Boys in Blue
☆ Magazine spread: The Princess of Tween Pop
☆ Mix: Shout*For: The Best Of
☆ Art: Album Cover


★ Spinoffs ★
☆ the broken worlds will never heal by politicette (in-universe badfic)