Tactile Experience (Sports Night, Dan/Casey, PG)

[sparcck]

Title: Tactile Experience

Comments

[chrismm]

So, now I'm all smiley, and this was awesome, and I've never even watched the damn show. Makes me wish I had. Thanks!

[sparcck]

Thanks! You so should watch the show if you can find it. It's on Comedy Central, and there's a box set. It's seriously one of the best shows I've ever seen.

Thanks for reading.

[kaydeefalls]

::gapes::

SPORTS NIGHT SLASH! I officially love you. For writing Sports Night slash, and for writing it damn well, and for making the dialogue sound exactly like the show's, and...yeah. Rock on!

Damn, I miss that show...

[sparcck]

I officially love you.

LOL I love you, too. Keep writing that RPS, baby :)

For writing Sports Night slash, and for writing it damn well, and for making the dialogue sound exactly like the show's

Thank you! I was so afraid that the dialogue wouldn't be there, but Aaron Sorkin just created these characters that write themselves, I think. I can't tell you how great it is to hear you say that it sounded like the show -- what a great compliment.

Thanks again.

[untappedbeauty]

Ahh, Sports Night. I love the show (in fact, I was watching my first season DVD yesterday), but I seldom read any SN slash. And this was just lovely. You incorporated the challenge so very well, and your writing style fit the show's style flawlessly. Dan and Casey interacted believably, and Casey's thoughts really seemed...Casey-like. Yeah.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I read this and enjoyed it a lot. Great job!

[sparcck]

I love the show (in fact, I was watching my first season DVD yesterday)

I justified watching Sports Night when I should have been writing today as "research" :) When I got the box set we just settled in for a weekend and watched it straight through.

You incorporated the challenge so very well

The first thing I thought of when I saw sense of touch was Casey stumbling around like a fool. And Casey feeling up Dan is ever present in my mind ;)

and your writing style fit the show's style flawlessly. Dan and Casey interacted believably, and Casey's thoughts really seemed...Casey-like.Thank you so much for saying so. Aaron Sorkin really set the bar high for dialogue and these complex, sharp-witted characters, but I really think once you get going they sort of take over. And writing Casey was much harder than I thought it was giong to be; but I figure at heart he's a little boy, and trying to look at it like that made it a lot easier

[shaenie]

Ok, I'll admit this right off the bat. I didn't watch Sports Night. I may have seen a couple of episodes, kind of by osmosis, b/c my hubby *did* watch it, and I can recall odd little bits of things about it that I can't put into any real context.

But this; Oh, this was so, so good. I giggled a bit and angsted a bit and really really liked the whole thing.

And: Casey felt kind of lost without Dan's knee, but figured he'd sound stupid if he asked for it again.

This is what I mean. It's a giggle line, but it's also an: awwwwww, poor thing! line.

I would watch Sports Night just because of this improv.

That is all.

[fizzerbass]

Just so you know, this is still fantastic over five years later. Very evocative and I, unlike Casey, could see this happening very well.

I'm so glad you wrote this and even more glad Phoebesmum posted a link to it. Thanks so much for sharing this all those years ago.