fics by Erin Ptah

Title: Sweetness Follows (The Clownfish Files)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Transphobia, hazardously placed toys.
Characters/pairings: Jo(a)n/Tracey and kids
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.

Outtakes from Sweetness Follows (and thus a part of Transverse). Joan's family reacts to the change.

( 'And what about, uh, Mrs. Godzilla?' )

Title: Ratings-Grabbing For Two
Rating: G
Pairings/Characters: "Stephen", Jon, various audiences
Disclaimer: 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.

In today's issue of Neglected Commentfic Roundup Week, I bring you...mpreg!

The first line is ripped from canon; the rest of the fic just takes that and runs with it. And, yes, it's another of these fics. Follow-up in Ten Roads Converged.

Mirror on the AO3.

( 'Coming up next!' interrupted Stephen, hands planted on the desk. 'More very important personal news that Jon Stewart doesn't have time to pay attention to!' )

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 (5/5)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Trans issues, angst, character death, sex
Characters/pairings: "Stephen"/Jon, Gipper
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.

Now featuring one more illustration and a two-part soundtrack (all spoilerific). And I like to think trans!Stephen was the one who sent this tweet.

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

( Jon had to hoist himself into a sitting position to let Stephen wrest the shirt over his head, and was shaking out his hair when Stephen pushed him back down. )

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: Transverse (or, The Pronoun Ninja Diaries)
Series: Various - thus far, TDS/TCR and The Wizard of Oz.
Disclaimer: Follow the links. In short, fiction fiction fiction work of parody fiction.

A group of fics featuring transgendered versions of various characters. The fake news ones don't exist in the same universe, but some of them are AU to each other. (Also, they're open for exploration, which means that if you want to try writing/drawing/mixing in one of them, go for it.)

Subtitle is from the fact that the narration will pull all kinds of stealthy tricks to avoid using incorrect pronouns . . . even when that means leaving them out altogether.

Also, as long as I'm here, have a couple of resources:
Multifandom trans!fic rec list
Five Ways Being Transgender in Fandom Really Sucks, and Why I Stick With It Anyway
fknwsgenderswap, for genderbending fake news fic


~The Gender Ninja of Oz | AO3 mirror

"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."


~I'll Be That Girl | AO3 mirror
Stephen actually told Jon years ago. It was Jon's own fault he didn't know how to listen properly.
 +Bonus drabble by celli_puzzle
 +Art: All I Ever Wanted

~Binding | AO3 mirror
Stephen's been doing this the cheap way for a good twenty years, and nothing short of an order carved on stone tablets is going to convince him to change his methods now.
 +Art: Post-Op
 +Sketches

~Clover and Shadows | AO3 mirror
It's Stephen daring to swing her hips when she knows nobody's looking, and Charlene practicing his swagger in front of his full-length mirror, and both of them counting the days until graduation.
 +Chapter 1
 +Chapter 2
 +Chapter 3
 +Chapter 4
 +Chapter 5
 +Art: Switch by aybara_max
 +Art: Stephen's Photographs by omelton
 +Art: Steph n' Char
 +Mix: Across The Border And Into The City
 +Mix: Trading Your Memories For Fortune And Fame

~Sweetness Follows; or, The Remarkably Low-Angst Transition of Joan Stewart
"Are you going to switch to some outlandish and obviously fake pseudonym, like 'Connie Lingus' or 'Felicia Jollygoodfellow' or 'Nancy Grace'?"
 +The Clownfish Files
 +Sketches

~Ratings-Grabbing For Two
"It's the first week of November sweeps...and I'm pregnant!"
 +Follow-up: Ten Roads Converged

~Pace Yourself For Me
"Mama says I'm supposed to be a gentleman and offer you my bed."
 +Art

~TransDimensional
 +Page 1
 +Page 2

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. The original idea was to write something depressing, but it sprung a happy ending on me. Mirror on the AO3.

(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! )