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: With The Stars In His Eye
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Jon/"Stephen", audience
Rating: G
Disclaimer: See the index.

For stellar_dust, who prompted "Stephen scores the last ever tourist trip to the International Space Station." Title is from Alan Parsons Project's Day After Day.

(Since this is light sci-fi, I feel compelled to mention that today is Towel Day. Douglas Adams fans, represent!)

( 'For more on this story, we turn to our Senior Space Correspondent...' )

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

For zelkovaserrata, who wanted "sexy accents. And trenchcoats."

( It was as if the night itself had simply grown a pair of headlights. )

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: Convenient Fictions
Series: TDS/TCR
Characters/Pairings: Stephen/Jon/"Stephen"
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: See the index.

For zelkovaserrata, who wanted Stephen/Jon/"Stephen". Stealth Thursday Next crossover.

( 'It stopped him from sorting your bookshelf into 'censor' and 'burn' piles, didn't it? Count your blessings.' )

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

For hiddenxplaces, who wanted "Jon & Stephen ice-skating, bonus point if it's Stephen who saves Jon."

( 'The bears are smart,' muttered Jon from behind him. 'You sure you don't want to emulate them? Get back to the nice warm cabin, make some hot chocolate, snuggle up under the covers?' )

Title: The Mission
Fandom: Where's Waldo?/Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?
Pairing: Carmen/Waldo
Theme set: Delta
Rating: PG

For a Carmen/Waldo claim over at 1sentence. In which master hider Waldo is the newest recruit at ACME, where he's assigned to track down the notoriously slippery Carmen Sandiego. Sparks fly.

(You may want to scan the summary of the Waldo TV series and watch a bit of the old Carmen cartoon before reading.)

( 'This is my first time,' he admits; she lifts an eyebrow, which is all it takes to have him blushing and stammering: 'I meant going on an ACME mission!' )

Title: Why Should I Care?
Fandom: Strangers With Candy, TDS/TCR
Rating: Through R (language, sex, angry people, terrible parenting)
Disclaimer: Found on individual chapters. In short, not real, and not mine.
Mad props to stellar_dust for being everything from spellcheck to sounding board.

A second-gen tale of love between the sons of two sets of middle-aged homos.

With a violently homophobic mother and a father who pays more attention to his Madame Precious dolls than to his child, it's no wonder that Seamus Noblet grew up to be a bit of a jerk.

( And then he meets this guy. A guy who isn't put off by damage. A guy who's incredibly Zen.... )

Title: What The Kids Are Doing These Days
Series: Doctor Whoniverse (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None (ignores S2 canon completely)
Summary: Sarah Jane doesn't really understand the appeal of hip-hop and the MySpace; but if it'll help her pursue her 21-year-old neighbor, she's willing to try anything.

Written for fey_spirit, in the Sarah Jane/Maria ficathon over at the_second_time. The first time I tried to start writing this, it was all exposition; the second time (no pun intended), it was all angst. On the third try I finally went for comedy, and this is what it turned into...

( 'Ne-ga-tive, Mis-tress. This u-nit is not e-quipped with fin-gers.' )

Title: The Parts Of Management They Don't Tell You About
Rating: PG
Pairing: Tad/Bobby, with a side of "Stephen"/Tad
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Summary: Being a manager on TCR has a world of challenges that you won't find on any other job. Fortunately, Tad and Bobby have each other to lean on.

( Bobby took him in at a glance. Thick glasses. Full lips. Tacky bow tie. )

Title: Your Moment of Zanna
Fandom: TDS, TCR, Zanna, Don't!
Rating: G
Words: ~3700
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Notes: Crossover with Zanna, Don't!, a musical that opens in a universe where the majority of people are gay. The straight minority faces enormous prejudice; on the other hand, even the locker rooms are tastefully decorated.

Oh, and there's magic. Don't worry, it's easy to follow.

There's a dead dormant fancommunity at zanna_dont, and you can pick up the soundtrack here. If nothing else, listen to Sometime, Do You Think We Could Fall In Love? - it's glorious.

( Magical matchmaker Zanna attempts to hook up soccer nerd Jon and angry freshman Stephen. But there's more behind Stephen's ferocious heterophobia than meets the eye. )

Title: Five Other Universes Where Arrows Opened
Series: The Daily Show
Rating: PG
Words: ~1500
( Disclaimers, one in poem form )

Notes: Based on _lady_vanilla_'s story All Sparks (chapter 7, with links to the others). It left me with a lot of vague ideas but no full-fledged story, so I took refuge in the Five Things format.

This is also good ground for a game of spot-the-reference-to-other-fics.


( Five universes abruptly stricken with windows into five others. )

Title: Nate Corddry and the Supply Closet of Doom
Fandom: The Colbert Report (the characters); The Daily Show
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG-13
Words: ~1900
Warnings: Sex. It's offscreen, but there's a lot of it (eleven pairings total).
Disclaimer: The Colbert Report and its characters are the creation of Stephen Colbert, Eric Drysdale, and the other writers. Characters used without permission - but with love (and, more importantly from a legal standpoint, without profit).

And the real people are, well, real. Regardless, the story is not. I wrote a disclaimer about this as a poem. ( That disclaimer )

Notes: All the correspondents mentioned can be found on this list. (They date the story pretty well.) As for non-correspondents: TCR staff are in their Report characters; Laura is the intern to whom Stephen once did his unflattering Chinese stereotype impression, which was not meant to be broadcast but caught by the blogosphere; and if you don't catch one of the pairing references, mac_hearts_pc should clue you in.

( Nate is the only person not getting any action in the Daily Show supply closet. )

Title: Motorcycle Riding, Part II
Fandom: Good Omens, Sandman
Genre: Comedy, mechanical romance
Words: ~760
Rating: G
Warnings: Nope, none.
Disclaimer: Good Omens is the creation of Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman; Sandman is the creation of Neil Gaiman. Characters used without permission - but with love (and, more importantly from a legal standpoint, without profit).

Notes: Sequel to Motorcycle Riding. In which I give Anathema and Newt a married life that doesn't consist of them settling down and having kids right away, remember that post-Notpocalypse Dick Turpin speaks in haiku, and pair up Dick Turpin with Phaeton. Because I can.

( A jealous Phaeton has a conversation, and ends up bonding with a supposed rival. )

Title: Curiosity
Fandom: Hellsing
Genre: Comedy, light romance
Words: ~900
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Hellsing is the creation of Kōta Hirano. Characters used without permission - but with love (and, more importantly from a legal standpoint, without profit).

Notes: Pip/Seras drabble as part of hellsingreviews's 50th-review party.

( "Don't call me 'vampire', Captain. I have a name, you know." )