these things that were ours

[raven]

From Sports Night 2x10, "The Giants Win The Pennant, The Giants Win The Pennant":

DAN: Did you see your daughter born?

ISAAC: Yeah.

DAN: Did you see her graduate college?

ISAAC: Yeah.

DAN: Are you watching Sports Night tonight?

ISAAC: Yeah.

DAN: Then shut up.

From 2x14, "And The Crowd Goes Wild":

NATALIE: I'm not upset about this, Isaac. I'm upset because there's a principle, a bedrock principle that doesn't change, and now I'm supposed to hand over these things. I'm supposed to hand over these things that are ours.

Keeps making me cry. Stupid show.

Hi, flist, I am spending my Bank Holiday Monday in bed. Watching Sports Night. I'm, like, the coolest person ever to live. I had a very nice party the other night, and now I'm supposed to be working, but seriously. Bed, really great.

Rec me lying-in-bed-all-day comfort fic you like? I'll go first:

Ordinary People, by daegaer, Good Omens AU.
Crowley and Aziraphale as... well, ordinary people.

Registration, by copperbadge, Harry Potter, Sirius & Remus.
Sirius and Remus queue up to register Harry at Hogwarts - only, he's not called Harry yet.

Left of West, by hannahrorlove, House, sort of House/Wilson, definitely AU.
Hard to explain. Just read it.

And, you all have got used to me going on about How Much I Love Connie Willis, and here's my chance to show you how great she is. This novella used to only be online as a sample, but sometime recently they must have put the whole thing up, having possibly realised you can only read it in paperback form if you're willing to pay $90 for a secondhand copy.

All Seated On The Ground, by Connie Willis, approx. 23000 words. It's a Christmas story. With aliens. And wacky evangelicals, a guy who squirts pizza and an honest-to-God Hallelujah chorus. It's just fantastic, do read it.

(Back to Sports Night. Oh, hey, you could rec me SN fic. I mean. If you wanna.)

Comments

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Oh I wish, wish, wish I was at home in my bed watching Sports Night instead of at work. It is cold here, I'm crampy and grumpy and I love that show!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Awww, honey, much sympathy! I am nearly at the end, and THIS SHOW. <333!

[rhipowered.livejournal.com]

Or if your local library (like mine in the US) has a copy of the paperback 'All Seated' is in, but obviously that's not a common scenario.

There needs to be another release of Willis' Christmas stories with the newer ones she's done, because they're great.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

You're lucky! I've never seen Willis in a bookshop here, let alone a public library.

[minttown1.livejournal.com]

Though I shook things up a bit this past weekend and rewatched most of The Class, Sports Night is my go-to show when I am home alone and have nothing pressing to do. It's amazing.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It's like a hot bath, isn't it? One day I am going to watch it IN THE BATH. It's going to be awesome squared.

[burnmybridges.livejournal.com]

"I am spending my Bank Holiday Monday in bed."

I'm not in bed but I am being delightfully lazy! I do love a good excuse to stay in doors and slob in my dressing gown...and it's so cold today, anyway.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It got chilly, yeah! It's got down to three degrees, which is Not On for May, really.

[burnmybridges.livejournal.com]

We've had the heating on all day. Sunny Kent? My arse!

[lizzip.livejournal.com]

Via metaquotes, this (http://pushdragon.livejournal.com/55113.html) fic... was kinda funny. Relevant metaquote here (http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9470977.html) (NB contains spoilers).

Long fic that I quite like, by Jesse Hajicek:

The God Eaters (http://chartreuse.studiowhippingboy.com/g_e_index.html)

The Forge of Dawn (http://chartreuse.studiowhippingboy.com/kastor/forge/forge_index.html)
The Road Home (http://chartreuse.studiowhippingboy.com/kastor/trh/trh_index.html), sequel to FoD.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Wah! I wish I was at home in bed with a dvd tooooo. Damn bank holiday shift!
/whining

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

If you are not in bed by now, I hope it is soon! *nodnod*

[tieleen.livejournal.com]

!! Thank you for the quotes, for the links, and most especially for the Connie Willis, since I probably never would have found out.

I don't know if any of us are cool around these here parts (thank god), but you definitely made the intelligent decision.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*grins* Still here, still terminally uncool. Glad you liked the Willis! It's fab.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Hi iluuuuu. Have your next party a date I can attend and be awful.t

I'm afraid I have only seen two episodes of SN ever, but as you're clearly in an AU mood, read this (http://archiveofourown.org/works/45844). Yes my brain is still unable to process things not to do with Star Trek, no I did not have time to finish the fuckyeahshe'sawesome post about Lwaxana over the weekend, still love you.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I will do this, yes! It will be win. :)

Ooooh, fic! And ooh, Lwaxana. Oh, I am looking forward to this post. Please put the bits about Odo in it, they make me so happy.

(For some reason I teared up slightly at "It doesn't matter, you’ll find your peace." /sap)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

EEE!

You must report back when you have seen the Passover episode. *bounces in excitement for you*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It is the next one after the one I'm on! *bounce*

[fahye.livejournal.com]

DID SOMEONE ASK FOR COMFORTING SPORTS NIGHT FIC

There's No I In Team (http://archiveofourown.org/works/31470) (best. ever.)

& there's another one which I am kicking myself for not bookmarking because I now can't find it anywhere, but it's long and epic Dan-in-therapy fic which is completely amazing. Damn you, past self! BOOKMARK MORE!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh no, that is torture! Epic Dan-in-therapy fic, omg, I would've been ALL OVER that.

(thank you! ohhh, Dan & Casey, I love them.)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

FOUND IT. Like Sailing and Home Runs (http://archiveofourown.org/works/64253).

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh em gee you are so great I am never doing any work again.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥ that fic. It is the perfect lying-in-bed-all-day story.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

Iona, you SO had the right idea about today. Sadly it's not a bank holiday here, so I'm at work and our computer systems all went down and I have a trainee shadowing me, and so I went right to our manager and was like, "Fuck this shit, IN BRITAIN THEY DO NOT HAVE TO WORK TODAY, let's all go home." And she was like, "Yes, let's."

...and yet we are all still here.

Anyway, omg S2 Sports Night, DID I NOT TELL YOU IT'S FULL OF AWESOME? I will totally rec you fic once I'm on my own laptop. Which characters/pairings do you want?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Ohh, honey. :) I am glad my lying in bed all day is a force for good everywhere.

YOU TOLD ME TRUE. Oh, Dan. And Jeremy being such an arse. And Natalie, lovely lovely Natalie, I love her. Can I have fic about her please? Her, and Dana, and ohgod DAN, I want fic about Dan, and oh, oh, this is a weirdly specific request but has anyone done fic riffing off the Passover seder? I thought it was awesome.

Three episodes to go!

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

...I realized belatedly that the laptop where I saved all of my favorite SN fic? Was the laptop that crashed and died in 2006. agh why why why

That said! This (http://likethesun2.livejournal.com/tag/recs--sports%20night) is my SN recs tag on the fandom journal, and I stand by it. With the provisos that most of those stories are Dan-centric (and thus inevitably often Dan/Casey), and all of them are several years old.

(If you want Dan-in-therapy fic--and really, who doesn't, ALL DAY EVERY DAY?--I'd particularly recommend "Analgesia (The One About The Rabbi, The Bishop, And The Fullback Remix)." (http://community.livejournal.com/remix_redux/80955.html) Uhhh, and not just because I'm biased because it's a remix of something of mine; in this case the remix is much better than the original, and I am totally okay with that.)

Also, iamsab wrote some amaaazing classic SN fic back in the day; see here (http://fromthesabrary.livejournal.com/tag/sn). "Where Have You Gone, Tom Glavine" is NECESSARY READING. Do with this information what you will. I also really like just about everything here (http://web.archive.org/web/20071123043853/http://wearemany.net/all.html#sorkinfic), particularly "Fan Interference Is a Stand-Up Double." (http://web.archive.org/web/20071022194850/wearemany.net/snkastle/fan.html)

[tau_sigma]

'All Seated On The Ground' is SO WONDERFUL. I love it. Oh, I love it so much.

I enjoyed 'Left of West', but I have a confession to make; I don't get it! I don't get wings fic at all. Um. What is the why of it? How did it start? Google has failed me terribly on this subject.

('Registration' also great, and haven't yet read 'Ordinary People'.)

I hope you had a nice day in bed. :) I would like one of those soon.