fics by Erin Ptah

Title: I Got 99 Problems, But The Truth Ain't One
Rating: Through PG-13
Cast: "Stephen", Jon, Olivia, Kristen, Wyatt, Al, Elliot, Neil Degrasse Tyson, liberal!Stephen, John Oliver, Jessica, Jimmy, Rob Corddry, Tad, Ed Helms, Sam, Jason, Patrick Stewart, Al
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 compilation of single-sentence fics, written for prompt threads over several months until I cut them off after #100. Including lots of characters, various AUs, and two mini-continuities (one about "Stephen" recovering from an accident, one about his wife kicking him out).

Mirror on the AO3.


( John declares his side to be Team Glasses, Wyatt counters by establishing Team Beard (and declaring Jon an honorary member), and they never actually get around to the game, what with spending most of the afternoon arguing which side gets to claim Al. )

Title: Five Times Stephen Got A Green Light
Rating: R
Contents: Sex, D/s, forced femme, bondage, post-roleplay aftercare, language
Characters/pairings: Liberal!"Stephen"/Jon
Disclaimer: The Report characters and their universe are property of Stephen Colbert, the other Report writers, and I presume Viacom. The real person(s) are used in a fictional parody context.

Fic from TCR's liberal mirrorverse. In which Stephen is still not quite comfortable with kinking on being a Dom, and Jon provides constant reassurance via the stoplight-based safeword system.

This poor fic has been languishing half-finished for aaaaaages, until a certain recent sequence (alternate viewing link) made it fall into place.

Mirror on the AO3.

( Stephen drops both the half-tied knot around Jon's ankle and the heavy bondage manual he had been consulting while tying it. )

Title: Eight Roads Converged
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Liberal!"Stephen"/Beck!Jon, happy!"Stephen"/Beck!Jon, "Stephen"/Beck!Jon, real!Stephen/Jon, real!Stephen/Beck!Jon, Jon/"Stephen", Wyatt
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.

Ficlets written for a series of requests: what happens when people from various fakenews AUs cross paths. Featuring the liberalverse, the happy!verse, Jon's Beck incarnation, and the universe where Wyatt hosts the 11:30 timeslot.

Done again in Ten Roads Converged.



For politicette, liberal!"Stephen"/Beck!Jon meet happy!"Stephen"/Beck!Jon

( 'Can I play with your hair?' )

For raven_hoodoo: "Stephen"/Beck!Jon meet regular Stephen/Jon

( 'My god, what have we wrought?' )

For w_thit: regular!Stephen/Beck!Jon meet regular!Jon/"Stephen Colbert"

( 'He's a nice guy, I'd be glad to have him as a friend, but you're the one that I want.' )

For aybara_max: "Stephen" meets Wyatt from a 'verse where Larry & Wyatt were always the hosts of the shows.

( 'We're not filming a 'my white friend' segment this week.' )

Medium: Television
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Subject: Liberal!"Stephen"
Title: Pollyanna Flower Child

It's not that hard to figure out liberal!Stephen. All you have to do is take traits of the regular Stephen and invert them. Like so...

(Cover art.)



( The sign said long haired freaky people need not apply / So I tucked my hair up under my hat, and I went in to ask him why )

Title: Five Gifts Stephen Gave Jon, Because It's No More Than He Deserved, And It Was Nothing, Really
Rating: PG
Contents: A very sexy massage.
Characters/pairings: Jon/liberal!"Stephen", that puppy again
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Summary: Where the regular version of "Stephen" is stingy, self-absorbed, and demanding, the AU liberal version is generous, thoughtful, and giving. Also, has a bit of a kink for caretaking. From his and Jon's first live broadcast to their first night together.

Mirror on the AO3.

( 'Uh, Stephen? The whole reason college kids offer each other backrubs is to get in each other's pants.' )

Title: Not Out Of The Woods Yet
Rating: G
Characters/pairings: Jon, liberal!"Stephen"
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Summary: I asked the Internet for ficlet prompts; aybara_max responded with "Liberal!Stephen takes Jon on a camping trip." (Mirror on the AO3.)

ETA: Speak of the devil: Stuff White People Like (stuffwhitepeoplelike_feed) just did an entry on camping!

( 'We're really in the wild now! Nature at its finest!' )

Title: Puppy Love (2/3)
Rating: PG-13
Contents: Steamy scenes, mention of mildly blasphemous sex toys, dangerously cute puppies
Characters/pairings: Jon/liberal!"Stephen", past liberal!"Stephen"/Anderson, the puppy again
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: The Liberalverse marches on. Jon insists on putting Stephen through an archaic and limiting system of courtship — or, as he calls it, "being treated like a gentleman." Stephen doesn't understand why they can't just get on to the free love, already. But for some reason he's willing to put up with all kinds of silly proprieties when Jon is involved...

There's a round of sketches here (mildly spoilery if you haven't read up to the last chapter).

( Jon made a mental note to find out just how many nude images of Stephen there were on the Internet, anyway. )

Title: The Lepidopterist
Rating: PG (sexual references)
Characters/pairings: Jon, liberal!"Stephen", Larry, Rob R., John-O, Wyatt, Aasif, Jason, Kristen, an elephant
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: More from the liberal!"Stephen" AU. In which Stephen is inquisitive to the point of offensiveness, Jon runs low on forks, and Larry is not as scary as he thinks he is (but every bit as devious).

(Precedes A Modest Proposition, which is why Stephen by that point has a bit more of a clue.)


( 'I'm a Zen Taoist Wiccan Discordian, but it's not quite the same, you know?' )

Title: The Liberalverse [Index]
Series: TDS/alt!TCR
Disclaimer: Follow the links. In short, fiction fiction fiction work of parody fiction.

Stories from the canon AU seen in The Wørd 10/2/2007 - Troops Out Now.

Instead of being a hawkish anti-intellectual pro-fascist ultraconservative, Stephen is a peacenik elitist pro-anarchist ultraliberal. Oddly enough, it doesn't make him all that different.




Put That In Your Pipe And Smoke It
(dramedy | Jon, l!Stephen | PG-13)
Liberal Stephen 101. Overexpressive, permissive, aggressively forgiving, and too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Not Out Of The Woods Yet
(comedy, fluff | Jon, l!Stephen | G)
Scene: Stephen takes Jon on a camping trip.

Fit For Office
(comedy | Jon, l!Stephen | G)
Scene: how Stephen decided to run for President.

Something to Celebrate
(holiday fluff | l!Stephen, Jon | PG)
Scene: Stephen celebrates holidays; Jon celebrates the Zadroga Bill.

The Lepidopterist
(dramedy | l!Stephen, Jon, Larry, team | PG)
In which Stephen is inquisitive, Jon runs low on forks, and Larry is not as scary as he thinks he is, but every bit as devious.

A Modest Proposition
(drama, some hurt/comfort | Jon, l!Stephen | PG-13)
Stephen doesn't think he's allowed to feel anger. No matter what happens with Proposition 8.

Puppy Love: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
(dramedy | Jon/l!Stephen, past l!Stephen/teacher and l!Stephen/Anderson, a gay liberal rainbow puppy | PG-13)
The one where they get together. Jon finally breaks the repressive shackles of the patriarchy by getting a divorce. Surely this means he'll be ready to jump into bed with Stephen now, right? Right?

Five Gifts Stephen Gave Jon, Because It's No More Than He Deserved, And It Was Nothing, Really
(comedy, fluff | Jon/l!Stephen | PG)
Stephen is generous, thoughtful, and giving. Also, has a bit of a kink for caretaking. From his and Jon's first live broadcast to their first night together.

Five Times Stephen Got A Green Light
(comedy, romance | Jon/l!Stephen | R)
In which Stephen has some angst about kinking on being a Dom, and Jon provides constant stoplight-based reassurance.

Five Versions Of The Limo Ride Home
(comedy, angst, drama, and/or smut | Jon/l!c!Stephen, others | through NC-17)
Covers five different AUs, liberalverse included. After the Emmys snub Stephen yet again, Jon comforts him on the way back to the hotel.

Homecoming Queens
(comedy, drama, hurt/comfort | l!Stephen/Jon, family | PG-13)
Stephen brings his queer kinky Jewish boyfriend to a Fourth of July barbecue with his old-fashioned Southern Evangelicatholic Republican family. Hijinks ensue.

Differently Temporally Enabled

(Stories that are AU to the main AU. Weird crossovers abound.)

♦ Four Fics That Never Would Have Worked In The Liberalverse, And One That Actually Might Work Better
(comedy, drama, angst | Jon, l!c!Stephen and family, Doctor Who crossover characters | through R)
Got to wondering how some of my "Stephen" fics would have been different if they had played out in the Liberalverse. Decided to find out.

♦ Eight Roads Converged
(comedy | l!Stephen/Beck!Jon, other AUs | PG)
Ficlets written for a series of requests: what happens when people from various fakenews AUs cross paths.

Comics

—Boundaries (vignette | Jon, l!Stephen, c!Stephen | PG)
—Childhood (vignette | l!Stephen, c!Stephen | PG)
—Needs Met (15 pages + extras | dramedy, romance, Needverse crossover | Jon/c!Stephen, Jon/l!Stephen, c!Stephen/l!Stephen, Sweetness, with bonus Joans and Stephanies | through R, includes consent issues)
—Liberal Guilt Attack (comedy | Jon, l!Stephen | G)
—Balanced Conversationalist (comedy | l!Stephen versus l!Stephen | PG)
—Neo-Colonial Kyriarchal Consumerist Slavery (comedy | l!Stephen, Jon, special guest | G)
—Someone Has A Tiny Jon Fetish (comedy | l!Stephen, tiny!Jon | G)

Mixes

—Drowning in Greyscale (l!Stephen)
—Baby, It's Fact (l!Stephen/Jon)
—Pollyanna Flower Child (l!Stephen)

Art

—The Many Faces of Colbert (chibis | various Stephens, including l!Stephen | worksafe)
—Free Iran (chibis | Jon, l!Stephen | worksafe)
—Sketchdump (sketches | Jon, l!Stephen, the puppy | worksafe)
—Yin to Yang (drawing | c!Stephen, l!Stephen | worksafe)
—A Selection of Stephanies (chibis | various Stephanies, including liberal!Stephanie | worksafe)
—Pollyanna Flower Child (drawing | l!Stephen | worksafe)
—Parade Wear (drawing | l!Stephen/Jon | worksafe)
—Whap! (sketches | c!Stephen, Jon, l!Stephen | worksafe)

Miscellaneous extras

—What I Think About When I Think About Liberal!"Stephen (thinky, link-y meta about characterization)
—Sketchdumps including l!Stephen: one (with high school AU), two (from Needs Met)



Liberalverse fanworks by other authors (not because I hold any claim to the AU, but because I like to keep things organized):

—Mirror, Mirror by sarcasticsra (fic | l!Stephen, c!Stephen | PG-13)

—Which Stephen Am I? by sarcasticsra (mix | various Stephens, including l!Stephen | PG-13)

—Beginning of the Neededverse by sarcasticsra (commentfic | l!Stephen/Jon | PG)

—In which I stole your multiverse café and Drake was the creative consulting producer by themistoklis (commentfic | l!Stephen/Jon, c!Stephen/Beck!Jon | G)

—"Stephanie" ficlets by themistoklis and politicette (commentfic | l!"Stephanie"/Jon | G)