And That's The Word

Title: Some Sunny Day
Rating: PG
Cast: Jon/"Stephen", family, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Neil Degrasse Tyson
Contents: Character death
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.

Tried to start writing this when TCR ended, but it didn't come together until just now.

Post-Report, "Stephen" is immortal. Snapshots of his relationship with Jon as The Daily Show ends too, and the years go by.

( "I have been busy! Running errands for Santa. Trying to launch a startup around the revolutionary concept of beard-based advertising, or 'beardvertising'. Handing out condoms at the drunken week-long bacchanal in Secret San Francisco after the whole thing with the gays and the marrying." )

Title: Family Reunion (1/4)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale, fake news, The Magic School Bus
Characters/Pairings: Cecil/Carlos, Jon/"Stephen", Ms. Frizzle, other crossover cameos
Rating: T
Contents (across the whole story); moderate sexual situations, canon-typical character death
Disclaimer: None of these series and/or people are mine.

Cecil brings Carlos as his date to a family reunion. He can't wait to catch up with his journalist cousin Stephen, and he's sure Carlos will get along great with his scientist aunt Valerie.

( 'You have to not...freak out. Or scream. Or hide. Or run to the nearest phone and call up the SCP Foundation. In fact, you really shouldn't let on that you've ever heard of the SCP Foundation.' )

Title: Shout*For, Act II, Chapter 1: It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen", Jimmy, Tucker, Olivia(/Kristen), cameos, OCs.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: See series Table of Contents.

And we're back! With brand-new art of the band, from one of their newer and increasingly more suave photoshoots.

With their vacation over and their next album about to drop, the band is back to work, starting with a round of promotional events in New York City. You'd be surprised at how many ethical dilemmas can be packed into a couple of late-night talk show appearances (and one later-night raid on their suite's minibar).

Musical accompaniments: Stephen and Jimmy singing with Taylor Hicks; Stephen singing with Dolly Parton.

( Read on DW | Read on the AO3 )

Title: Rogues' Gallery (1/4)
Rating: PG-13
Cast: Jon & "Stephen", others
Contents: Drugging, baby-kidnapping, sexualized brainwashing
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.

Four vignettes about four different villains, from the universe where "Stephen" is a forcefield-generating superhero and Jon is his Lois Lane. (A very belated response to some OT prompts.)

Fills some squares from my hc_bingo round 4 card: "hostages" is #1.

( I. "Something about the people who want to take away all your guns. Maybe they're gnomes?" )

Title: Shout*For, chapter 1: Living On The Edge Of The World
Characters/Pairings: Jon+"Stephen"+Jimmy, Olivia+Kristen+Wyatt, Tucker Carlson, Brian Williams, other cameos, a few OCs. Eventual Jon/"Stephen" and Olivia/Kristen.
Rating: PG-13
Contents: Drinking/drugs, awful and/or neglectful adults, background *isms. See the ToC for full-story warnings (may be added to as more gets written).
Disclaimer: See series Table of Contents.

AU for longfic_bingo. Our heroes (and some villains) (and some imports from The Newsroom) are all performers in various blocs of the Disney tween band/music empire, which naturally is amazingly screwed-up behind the scenes.

Ideas and Disney-tween-marketing expertise/dirt provided by politicette.

( Chapter 1 on DW | Chapter 1 on the AO3 )

Title: Someone To Make You Come Through
Rating: PG-13
Cast: Jon/"Stephen", the bear, Sam, supporting OCs
Contents: Some gore + medical imagery.
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.

Prompt from kribban, who wanted hurt/comfort about "Stephen" losing his arm during the bear-mauling at the 2012 Night of Too Many Stars.

Established-marriage fic. Title is from Company's "Being Alive." (Glee version / John Barrowman version / version with background Stephen.) Also on the AO3.

( Ridiculous, impossible situations always seemed to work out when Stephen was involved. )

Title: Silent (3/4)
Rating: G
Cast: Jon/"Stephen" (eventually), John Oliver, Wyatt, OCs
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.

Stephen's Daily Show goes through growing pains. Also, some literal pains, in the form of broken wrists and striking writers. At least it keeps picking up awards (for achievements in English and ASL both) along the way.

AO3 mirror | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

( 'I can understand why you're enthusiastic about this, Stephen, but think about what you'd be asking of people.' )

Title: Silent (1/4)
Rating: G
Cast: Jon/"Stephen" (eventually), Kilborn, Madeline Smithberg, Steve, Sam, Chuck, Jimmy, Bobby
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.

Alternate universe. In 1998, the staff of The Daily Show (including star correspondent Stephen Colbert) gets a new addition: deaf writer Jon Stewart. Cue an otherwise familiar blend of jokes, politics, a young series finding its feet, and a long-term intimate relationship starting to bloom.

For purposes of this story, ASL will be indicated by italics, spoken English by quotation marks, and typed English by being set off in various ways. There's a lot of cross-language communication in here, and it should be easier to follow if it's instantly apparent which lines can be understood by which subset of characters. Credit and thanks to ASLU (Lifeprint) for providing vocabulary and grammar.

AO3 mirror | Part 1

( 'M thinks it's a good fit for my sense of humor, and she's worked with me a bunch so she would know, but if this is going to be a nightmare, I won't shed too many tears if they dump me.' )

Title: All My Roads Lead To You (5/5)
Rating: PG-13
Characters/pairings: Jon/Tracey, Jon/"Stephen", (skip) Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg
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.

In which Jon has to get his act together or else, and this turns out to be a proper crossover rather than a setting AU after all.

Relevant to this fic: a cat cuddling with baby hedgehogs. And as some of you noticed, Stephen's Sentinel/Guide not-romance novels are straight out of early Sentinel fandom (yes, even the "gen" French kissing).

AO3 mirror | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

( —anger hurt suspicion fear mistrust determination Stephen you're the problem you're a threat — )

Title: All My Roads Lead To You (3/5?)
Rating: PG-13
Contents: Metaphorical sex
Characters/pairings: Jon/Tracey, Jon/"Stephen", kids, Jimmy Fallon
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.

Sentinel Jon pulls his Guide's feelings back on track, so that Stephen can help him achieve greater sensory heights in their ongoing auxiliary police work. Now it's Jon's turn to have confusing feelings, and to drag the most important people in his life back and forth as he tries to balance them.

AO3 mirror | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

( 'I bet you anything the reason I bonded with you, and not any other Guide, has a lot to do with how much I like your voice.' )