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Title: Revenge of the Prag
Main Character: Tobias Beecher
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 993
Creature Prompt: Werewolf
Summary: Beecher comes back to Oz a changed man.
Notes: Set during Season 666. Written for the 2023 Spook Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon. Cross-posted to AO3 and Livejournal. The artwork prompts sent to me are included at the end. This story was also inspired in part by the following piece of fanart I created several years ago:




( Revenge of the Prag )

Late notice, I know, but I've been trying like the devil to get concrete information on this whole thing before posting about it.

Tonight at 8:30 pm Central Time, the ATX Festival is hosting a virtual Oz reunion with Tom, Lee, Dean, Kirk, Terry, and Harold. It was originally supposed to take place last June in Austin, Texas but got cancelled because of the pandemic. Rather than cancelling the festival again this year, the organizers decided to take it all online. The Oz reunion is in a Zoom format and was actually recorded last week.

Tickets for the entire festival cost $150, but you can purchase a day pass for only $25 (plus about $5 in taxes/fees) HERE and watch the reunion that way. That's what I've done.

EVEN MORE EXCITING THOUGH ------>

As part of the festival's additional content, Tom Fontana wrote a 15-minute short film called "Zo" starring Lee and Dean where they reprise their roles as Beecher and Ryan O'Reily in an Oz "sequel." You can watch this short with the purchase of your day pass. (I think you can actually watch it by buying a day pass any day from now until the end of the festival on June 20.) I've just finished watching and *FLAILING*. It was OZSOME and leaves you wanting so much more! IT'S JUST SO EXCITING TO HAVE NEW OZ CONTENT.

Plot bunnies ------> hop, hop, HOP!

YES! It's time to sign up for Oz Magi!

I know, I know... 2020 has been a sucky year. But let's end it on a high note! And what better way to bring in the New Year than B/K kisses an Oz-style holiday celebration!



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Back in May 2010, there was an Oz reunion of sorts when several cast members assembled in NYC to do a charity stage reading of the play "The Godfather, Part IV." The play was written by Tom Fontana, with the proceeds benefiting the Writers Guild of America. "Godfather IV" was a comedy where the actors played fictionalized versions of themselves, often incorporating the personality traits of their Oz counterparts. Oz fans from all over (including many from Livejournal) attended "MobFest" and came back with rave reviews on how uproariously funny the play was, and how generous and gracious the actors and Tom Fontana were after each of the two performances (there was one in the afternoon and another the same evening).



Unfortunately, I did not discover Oz until 2012, and missed all the squee associated with this legendary event. As fate would have it, however, someone recorded the audio of the first performance and tobyfan recently sent me a copy (THANK YOU ANNE!). And, let me tell you, IT SURPASSED ALL MY EXPECTIONS. It was every bit as OZSOME as I'd always imagined.

And, yes, Lee Tergesen was totally the star of the show. :D

Being the devoted fan I am, I decided that more needed to be done to immortize this milestone event in Oz fandom. I therefore took it upon myself to transcribe the entire play from the audio recording so other fans could better understand what the play was like (or reminisce, as the case may be). The transcription is not 100% perfect (there was so much laughter at various points in time, it was sometimes difficult to hear exactly what was being said), but it is very, VERY close. There were several instances of onstage visual humor that aren't necessarily reflected in the transcript (for example, there was prolonged laughter at the point where Chris Meloni and Tom Fontana "snuggled" together onstage), but you'll be able to get a very accurate idea of what the play was like.

Please note, I am going to ask that no one re-post this anywhere else. I have a feeling the recording was not entirely legal, and I don't want to be responsible for raising Awkward Questions about its origin.

I hope you enjoy it!

( Godfather IV transcript )

My Twitter friend @marchriska tweeted this Oz meme (original source unknown), and I thought it was too hilarious not to share. Slutty!Beecher for the win. :D

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So many good ones, so little time to write for them...

I swear, I blinked and summer is nearly over. But this also means FOOTBALL. And pumpkin spice food products!

Anyway, I absolutely love the remix idea that cmk418 came up with for hardtime100, but I have a seed of an idea for July's "camping" prompt (a moody B/K AU!) so I'm inclined to start with that, I think. Hopefully I finish it before oz_magi rolls around. ;D

ALSO Someone on Dreamwidth ("wholeyolk" -- I don't believe I know her?) listed Oz as one of her requested fandoms in the annual Fandom Giftbox fest, but neither of her prompts sparked anything in me. Maybe someone else might be interested in taking them on? It's not an exchange, you just post fic (100 word minimum) to whoever's giftbox by September 22. I wrote a couple of things a few years ago for ozsaur and trillingstar when they posted giftboxes. Very low pressure. Anyway, here is wholeyolk's giftbox, and these were her requested Oz prompts:

• Character/Pairing: Chris Keller/Vern Schillinger

Prompts: It’s not love, that’s for sure, but it’s definitely lust…plus a pinch of sadism, just for fun. I’d love some more of their history together, such as during the first time that Keller was put in prison as a teenager and Schillinger “protected” him. Missing scenes from their time in Oz would also be interesting—they certainly do a lot plotting together, so perhaps their liaisons continued in some form? If you wish to incorporate the characters’ canonical relationships/fucked up issues with Beecher into the story as well, that’s absolutely fine.

• Character/Pairing: Miguel Alvarez/Alonzo Torquemada

Prompts: Alonzo’s late, last season seduction of poor, try-hard Miguel is fascinating, and I’d love to know more! Loss of virginity for Alonzo + first time with a guy for Miguel = yummy, smutty times. :D I’m also especially interested in Miguel’s point of view and the despair/hopelessness/oblivion of it: What is it like to go back on drugs and give up on machismo in one fell swoop? What happens to them after the end of the last episode? Or, Miguel has been told that he’s never getting out of Oz, but Alonzo’s not in for life, so maybe he has some string he could pull…


A couple of people posted giftboxes with Stranger Things prompts that I absolutely loved, so I'm going try to put something together for those. In June, I rewatched the show's first 2 seasons, then I watched Season 3 when it came out last month, and I fell in love with it all over again. It's basically become my new obsession. And I think I've found a sub-group of fans whose interests run parallel to mine, so the fandom isn't quite so intimidating anymore. Whereas with the Marvel fandom... it's so big and scary there, man. When I try to wade my way through their stuff, I still feel like somone from small-town Iowa who's been dropped into the middle of New York City. Without a map. LOL

OH, I nearly forgot! spook_me sign-ups will be here before you know it! I CAN'T WAIT. I wonder what new special creature prompt ozsaur has planned for this year.

A big thank you to cmk418 for hosting a special hardtime100 challenge for Friday's International Women's Day! It was a great idea and generated some amazing women-centric drabbles. If you haven't already, check them out HERE under the "ch 132 women of Oz" tag.

While trying to come up with ideas for my drabbles, I was reminded of a Claire/Gloria/Diane drabble I had written long ago. Initially, I was unable to locate it, but then I realized that I hadn't written it for hardtime100, but for a Drabble Tree instead. Specifically, the 2013 "Waiter, There's an Oz Drabble Tree in My Soup" challenge, an occasion that marks the very first time I wrote Oz fic.

(I've been writing Oz fic for six years now? Whaaat?)

Anyway, I tracked it down, and it still put a smile on my face, so I thought I'd re-post it here. :-)

******

Claire walked into the breakroom with a heavy sigh and poured herself a cup of coffee.

Gloria and Diane looked up from their conversation. “Rough shift?” Gloria asked.

“The usual shit,” Claire replied. “O’Reily was giving me a hard time.”

“I’ll bet,” Diane said under her breath.

Claire glared at her. “But I did have the pleasure of breaking up Keller and Beecher.”

“For fucking or fighting?”

With a roll of her eyes, Claire answered, “I can’t tell the difference anymore.”

“O’Reily, Keller, Beecher,” Gloria murmured, shaking her head.

Claire grinned. “Marry, fuck, kill.”

“Marry Beecher, fuck Keller, kill O’Reily,” said Diane quickly. “That was just too easy.”

“I disagree,” retorted Claire. “Kill Beecher, fuck O’Reily, marry Keller.”

“You would kill Beecher?”

“Yeah, a mercy-killing,” explained Claire. “What about you, Dr. Nathan? I bet you’d marry O’Reily, fuck Beecher, kill Keller.”

“Why do you say that?”

Claire raised an eyebrow and smirked. Quickly, a heated discussion followed, voices overlapping as rumors collided with secret desires. None of the women noticed the arrival of additional bodies into the room and were startled when someone yelled out, “Hey, why are you ladies so worked up?”

The three women turned and looked into the faces of McManus, Murphy, and Father Mukada. Then they looked at each other and burst into laughter.

The game was over, and they knew better than to have a second round.

Today is the last day to sign up for Oz Magi 2018 !!!



Requirements are deliberately low to encourage participation! We welcome ANYone and EVERYone!

Fic requirements are only 500 words! We're not looking for a War & Peace here!
Art requirements are only 1 graphic or 3 icons! We're not looking for a Picasso here!

There's nothing to be afraid of! Plus, you can get a cool gift from someone else in return! If you need wish ideas, consider checking out oz_paroleboard where old unfulfilled wishes are archived!

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Title: Pawns
Main Characters: Tobias Beecher, Bob Rebadow, Chris Keller, Mondo Browne
Rating: R
Word Count: 871
Summary: Rebadow has ulterior motives when he invites Toby to play a game of chess.
Notes: Written in response to two prompts from cmk418 for this summer's Oz Season-based Prompt-A-Thon. I chose Season 4a, and she gave me the Minor Character prompt of Bob Rebadow and the Quote prompt of "My relationship with Beecher started with brutality and that's where it's ending. Love was the smallest part." My original intention was to write this from Rebadow's POV, but Toby was calling to me instead.

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( Pawns )