fics by Erin Ptah

Title: Five Wishes Madoka Made (and one she wished she had)
Fandom: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Characters/Pairings: Homura/Madoka, Kyuubei, Mami, Sayaka, Tomohisa, Tatsuya, Anthony
Rating: PG-13
Contents: Anti-QB violence. Character deaths. Spooooilers.
Disclaimer: MadoMagi characters and plot aren't mine.

A treat written for bell in yuri_challenge. Saw the prompt (which is now the title) and couldn't resist. Also here on the AO3.

( In the basin of a crater, filthy water soaking into her stockings, Homura curses the Incubators, this cruel world, its nonexistent God. )

Title: Jon Knows
Rating: R
Contents: (skip) Non-con
Characters/pairings: Jon/"Stephen"
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.

A depressing drabble (100 words). Another of those through-a-glass-darkly twists on the OTP dynamic.

( Jon Knows )


Title: Check In
Rating: G
Contents: (skip) Mental hospitalization
Characters/pairings: "Stephen", OC
Disclaimer: Same as above.

A second dismal drabble. Inspired by the lack of tosses lately.

( Check In )

Title: Scars
Rating: PG
Contents: Past abuse
Characters/pairings: Jon/"Stephen"
Disclaimer: Same as above.

And a third, though this one is on the right track. Same universe as this picture (borderline NSFW).

( Scars )

Title: It Came From Beyond The Stars And Stripes
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen", Olivia, the Wørd, various alien OCs
Disclaimer/Warnings: See individual chapters.

Stephen's an alien. Olivia's a secret agent. Jon's pregnant. What could go wrong?

(Alternate title: "Planned Planethood.")

~*~The Ficlet
~Chapter 0

The Story Proper
~Chapter 1
~Chapter 2
~Chapter 3
~Chapter 4

The Extras
~Initial concept sketches
~AU follow-up scene: Ten Roads Converged

~*~

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: Five Ways Stephen Reconciled His Faith And His Sexuality
Rating: PG
Characters/pairings: past "Stephen"/Jonathan; a cat named after Ronald Reagan; "Stephen"/Lorraine; OCs; P. K. Winsome; angel!Feist; Jon/"Stephen"
Contents: varying religious views; rapid tense shifts; lots of tears; mystic poetry. Emotional abuse in #2 (of the ex-gay flavor). Self-harm in #3 (of the canon flavor).
( Two disclaimers, with love )

This follows an unclaimed lgbtfest prompt: "2575. RPF - Pundits, "Stephen Colbert"/Jon Stewart - Stephen struggles to reconcile his faith and his sexuality." The operative word here being "struggles."

The poem is translated by Coleman Barks in The Essential Rumi; full text can be found here. Shortly afterwards, Stephen quotes this treatise on sin by Richard Simpson.

Author's own religious views do not actually appear in this fic.


( She's wearing silk, although not enough of it to stop smooth flesh from brushing against his neck, freshly washed and smelling like soap and lavender. Which means that if he values his spot on the mattress, he's going to spend the rest of the evening envisioning Daniel Craig's abs. )

Title: Clover and Shadows (3/5)
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 a lot of singing, and a lot of stress, and, for Jon, a surprise discovery.

Stephen's giant gold balloon is from the beginning of this segment.

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

( The producer mutters something containing the words 'prima donna' and a slur that would have earned a sock from Charlene if he hadn't been busy following his cousin. He doesn't really get worried, though, until Stephen ducks into a clearly-marked men's room. )

Title: Clover and Shadows (1/5)
Rating: R
Warnings (highlight for the spoilery ones): Trans issues, angst, (skip) 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.

Yes, I'm finally posting that story I've been referring to for months now.

An AU/variation on I'll Be That Girl. This time around, not only is Stephen MtF, Charlene is FtM. (So if you thought I was a pronoun ninja before...)

Part of the loosely associated group of fics which I have cleverly decided to refer to as Transverse. Extras are on the index page.

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

( Charlene has to do a double take, but sure enough — it's just Stephen, the bratty cousin who cheats at checkers and once got run up the flagpole by the football team for making the mistake of paying too much attention to Hamlet. )

Title: All The King's Horses, 1/3
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Rating: R overall
Words: ~2700
Warnings: This story gave the author nightmares. Proceed with caution.
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Notes: It was impossible to write this one with "Stephen" as he is on TCR. He simply isn't strong enough to go through it. So this chapter is spent fixing up some of his other damage first.


( The pundits on the far left crowed hypocrisy; the religious right denounced him entirely. The late-night comics batted around jokes at his expense like tennis balls. )

Title: A Tiny Version of Himself
Fandom: TDS, TCR
Rating: PG
Words: ~1400
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Notes: Normally I write stories in which "Stephen" is pushed to the brink of complete internal disintegration, and someone (mainly Jon) pulls him back. This one takes place a year or two after he's gone over the edge.

The title is from I Am America: "Children are tiny versions of you, minus the crushing failure."

Mirror on the AO3.

( 'Hi, Jon! Hi! Come see what I made! Did you bring me anything?' )

Title: Five Times Jon Terrified Stephen (4)
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Rating: PG for innuendo
Words: ~3300 in total
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Notes: We certainly all know about this infamous toss. Another that isn't used nearly enough.

One | Two | Three | Four | Five

( In which Stephen is scared by, for, over, and generally because of Jon. )