Title: Clear Blue Day
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen"
Rating: G
Disclaimer: See the index.

For doctorv, who wanted "the one where they get married."

( Jon strolls, hands tucked in his jacket pockets. Stephen sort of flutters. )

Title: The Gravitas Never Fails
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Jon, "Stephen", BriWi
Rating: G
Disclaimer: See the index.

For sarcasticsra, who wanted "Jon and Stephen discover they have a mutual crush on Brian."

( 'Don't be ridiculous, Jon. This is not a slumber party.' )

Title: Grey, And Oh So Large
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen", an elephant
Rating: G
Disclaimer: See the index.

For punkishgrin, who wanted Jon and Stephen riding an elephant.

( 'And after all I've done for their population growth, too!' )

Title: Services Rendered
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen", Computer, ????
Rating: PG-13 (offscreen sex)
Disclaimer: See the index.

For punkishgrin, who wanted something with Jon and Computer, suggesting that "perhaps 'she's' helping Jon live out his fantasies about Stephen virtually, and Stephen finds out."

( For a second Jon saw the wireframe rendering on the table in front of him. )

Title: Peachy Keen
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Jon, "Stephen", cats
Rating: G
Disclaimer: See the index.

For anais_rhys, who wanted "tiny babies and/or furry animals." (I went with kittens.) Sequel to Anchor's Pet.

( 'I will take videos of the kittens being adorable, and use them to draw traffic to the Colbert Nation website. Once we have enough cute cat footage, we will crush YouTube, which will in turn destroy Google, which will then surrender its position as ruler of the world to the Nation.' )

Title: Cozy
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen"
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: See the index.

For violent_rabbit, who wanted "The reason Stephen has a secret panel in his desk."

( Jon mentally added cough drops to the list of increasingly improbable things he had seen come out of that panel in the last twenty minutes. )

Title: Score
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen", family
Rating: G
Disclaimer: See the index.

For anais_rhys, who prompted "Jon takes Stephen to a baseball game."

( 'No shouting, no doping scandals, no minibar. What kind of boring game is this?' )

Title: Measure In Love
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Happy!"Stephen"(/Jon), Evelyn
Rating: G
Disclaimer: See the index.

For seagullsong, who wanted to hear more about the world in which Stephen is happy. (Title is a RENT reference.)

( 'There you are, girlfriend!' exclaimed Stephen, as Evelyn threaded her way through the food court to the smoothie stand. )

Title: How To Do A Suit
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: "Stephen", family
Rating: G
Disclaimer: See the index.

For anais_rhys, who wanted some pure fluff about Stephen's happy childhood.

( The four-year-old had insisted on dressing himself for church. )

Title: Study Break
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: teen Jon/"Stephen"
Rating: PG (innuendo)
Disclaimer: See the index.

For zelkovaserrata, who prompted "boarding school roommates."

( 'Your light is keeping me up. Therefore, it's your fault I'm awake. Therefore, it's your responsibility to entertain me.' )

Title: Or You Could Show Him How To Work Your Nail Guns
Rating: G
Characters/pairings: Tad/Bobby, Stephen
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: A fluffy double drabble (i.e., 200 words exactly, not counting the title), written for one of the unclaimed prompts over at lgbtfest: 1086. Punditslash, Tad/Bobby, Something happens and now Stephen knows about their relationship. How do they handle being out to their boss, and how does Stephen's own repressed sexuality come into play?

( In the summer when Bobby turned six, his parents got an addition built on their house. )


Title: The Pun Was Too Good T'Eschew
Rating: PG
Characters/pairings: Stephen, Meg
Disclaimer: See above.

Summary: And another, with a slightly sadistic twist: 1079. Punditslash, Character!Stephen Colbert and Meg the intern, To Stephen, hitting on women is a way to force his sexuality into line. When Meg refuses his advances on the grounds that she's a lesbian (and it's *sexual harassment*) he decides that they can 'help' each other become straight. Meg is forced to teach Stephen a few things.

(You may want to do some background reading first.)

( 'Better do something heterosexual, just to make sure.' )

Title: The Interview
Rating: PG
Characters/pairings: Stephen(/Jon), Tracey(/Jon)
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: Stephen brings on a special guest to discuss tonight's top story.

( 'I am talking, of course, about my secret long-time affair with fellow late-night host and noted liberal, Jon Stewart.' )

Title: Firm Haunches
Series: TDS/TCR
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Puppy play; sexytime.
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Summary: Stephen can't understand why he didn't win that dog show.

(Kind of a spiritual cousin to last year's Good Boy.)

( 'I would run circles around the other contestants in the obedience section, too. You watch.' )

Title: COMFORT ME.
Rating: PG
Series: The Colbert Report
Disclaimer: This is a work of parody. The Colbert Report characters are not mine.

Wanted to make a blue period drawing out of this idea (as egged on by infraredphaeton), but I couldn't get the pose to come together. So here are two loose sketches instead, accompanied by two ficlets. Takes place right after the election special.

( The Version On The Desk )

( The Version On The Couch )

50 sentences, using Theme Set Gamma over at 1sentence.

Krazy Kat, by George Herriman, is a gorgeous and poetic comic strip from the 1940s. Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes has cited it as one of his biggest influences.

It is impossible to explain all the nuances, but in brief, Ignatz (the mouse) throws bricks at Krazy (the cat), which Krazy (who is in love with Ignatz) takes as a sign of love (there's an actual reason for this, but it's not terribly important).

Herriman writes half the text of the comic in this crazy mixed-up quasi-Creole patois. I attempted it in some of the dialogue, but mostly I didn't even try.

Title: There Is A Happy Land
Fandom: Krazy Kat
Rating: G for the lot
Disclaimer: Were that these were mine; but no, that honor belongs to Geo. Herriman.



( When a denizen of Coconino yells 'Run!', Krazy has learned to stand stock-still, because it means that Ignatz is aiming. )

Title: Also Good For Play
Series: TDS/TCR
Rating: PG
Contents: Roleplaying, bondage, reluctance, drag, adorable chibi-ness.
( Two disclaimers, with love )

In picking his own spider (video #3 on the page), Stephen asked, "Webs: are they just for catching prey, or also good for play?"

Jon is less than enthusiastic.

( 'Shh! You're breaking character!' )

Title: Hedgehog's Dilemma
Rating: G

For a prompt in the fakenews_fanfic 2007 Secret Santa: "hedgehog's dilemma", with an appearance (sort of) by John King. Wasn't sure if people would know what the hedgehog's dilemma is, so I brought an actual hedgehog in to illustrate.


( 'No, it just got its head stuck in a McFlurry cup. Almost starved before someone found it and brought it in.' )

Title: A Good Night's Sleep
Rating: PG (language)
Series: TDS/TCR
Disclaimer: This is a work of parody. Although reference is made to real persons and places, the dialog, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only.

Summary: TDS goes on a road trip, and nobody wants to room with Stephen. Jon, who ends up stuck with him, finds out why.

Half ficlet, half comic; part fluff, part drama; all cute, all chibi, and all flag pajamas.

( It was surprisingly comforting. Like holding a stuffed animal, if Jon had ever known a giant, flag-patterned stuffed animal that wouldn't shut up. )

Title: Hello, Nurse
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Rating: PG
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Summary: After sustaining grave injuries during their epic battle with Conan, Stephen insists that Jon nurse him back to health.

( Read more... )

Title: From the Nation, With Love
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Rating: PG
Words: ~2100
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Notes: This is unabashed group self-insert, giving "Stephen" a direct injection of viewer love. The comments used have been abbreviated to cut down on repetition; for the unabridged version, including who said what, see here.

I wasn't sure how to lead in to them, and then the 1/28/08 interview dropped the perfect setup into my lap. (Of course, I've never read The Purpose-Driven Life, nor am I any kind of religious, so I may be pulling some of this of thin air.)

( An interview with a much savvier version of Rick Warren sends Stephen into a meltdown. The Nation comes to his rescue. )