Fanfic Recommendation Challenge

my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Seeing the Future
Author: candle beck - candle_beck
Characters: Casey, Dan
Prompt: 46. Reccer’s Choice
Rating: PG-13
Length: medium
Brief summary: Because usually most fic deals with how crazy and broken Danny is (and I love that, I do), but sometimes Casey goes a little crazy too and needs reassurances. This is angsty with a happy ending. The best kind.
Link to the story: Seeing the Future


Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Screw
Author: Charlemagne
Characters: Dan, Casey
Prompt: 47. Reccer’s Choice
Rating: G
Length: epic
Brief summary: Faced with the prospect of no longer being together, what else are they gonna do…I just enjoy this fic immensely and feel the need to share.
Link to the story: Screw

my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: In Which Dan Has A Bad Day
Author: Sinead - smallbeer & License My Roving Hands
Characters: Dan, Casey, the whole gang
Prompt: 10. Fandom Cliché
Rating: none listed but NC-17
Length: epic
Brief summary: Dan forgets to buy soap. The office falls apart. Another guy hits on Casey. It’s the worst day cliché put to wonderful use that leads to hot sex for Dan and Casey. Really, banter and hot sex. Is there more to this fandom? I think not.
Link to the story: In Which Dan Has A Bad Day


Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: The Lost Boys
Author: Bone - thisisbone & Bone’s Slash Fiction
Characters: Dan, Casey
Prompt: 31. Discovery
Rating: NC-17
Length: medium
Brief summary: Dan and Casey are having trouble with the women in their lives, only to discover that maybe they don’t need them after all.
Link to the story: The Lost Boys

my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Even Sugar Peas Run Out of Snap
Author: K - callmesandy & Lowercase K Collected
Characters: Dan, Casey
Prompt: 39. Break-up
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Dan and Casey are together, even happily, but being in the closet takes its toll. Wonderfully written, perfect voices. So painful because it’s just very real.
Link to the story: Even Sugar Peas Run Out of Snap


Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Protect Me From What I Want
Author: Annie - out_there & Amazed By Mathematics
Characters: Dan, Casey, Dana, Charlie, Rebecca
Prompt: 35. Threesome
Rating: NC-17
Length: epic
Brief summary: The author calls it “three mistakes made in a complicated world.” And that’s pretty accurate. It’s all about human nature and balancing wanting & desire with real life, and sometimes failing at that balance.
Link to the story: Protect Me From What I Want

my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Djibouti
Author: Caroline and Fox - linabean and darthfox Caroline’s website & Fox’s Den
Characters: Dan, Casey, a little of the rest of the gang
Prompt: 25. Kink
Rating: PG
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Dan turns thirty. Lotsa banter as Dan discovers Casey likes to talk dirty, give rimjobs, and many other things. Dan is very pleased with this information. Hot, hot, hot.
Link to the story: Djibouti


Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Painting Shadows, Catching Light
Author: Kristophine
Characters: Casey, Dan
Prompt: 21. Epiphany
Rating: PG
Length: Epic
Brief summary: This story has all Casey’s issues up front, based around an epiphany he has one night based on a vision in neon lights. And he realizes he wants Dan and has always loved Dan. Wonderful, fluffy, banterful fun.
Link to the story: Painting Shadows, Catching Light

my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Due South
Author: A S Lawrence - phoebesmum
Characters: Dan & Casey
Prompt: 40. Confession
Rating: 15
Length: long
Brief summary: Dan goes on a road trip with Casey to visit Casey’s grandmother back in the day. Casey kisses Dan and confesses his love. But it doesn’t really change things because Lisa is still in the picture. This story is beautifully written – read it for no other reason than that – and it’s just painful, but yet I couldn’t stop reading. Oh, and it’s hot too.
Link to the story: Due South


Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Pungent
Author: Signe - oxoniensis & Grooves As Spirals
Characters: Dan & Casey
Prompt: 30. Seduction
Rating: PG-13
Length: short
Brief summary: Because this seems to me to exactly be the way Casey would attempt to seduce Dan, by using banter and not really getting his point across subtly. (you guys should know how I feel about banter by now!)
Link to the story: Pungent

my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Unspoken
Author: Helen - helenish & Helenish
Characters: Dan & Casey
Prompt: 19. dark
Rating: not rated, but R to NC-17
Length: long
Brief summary: I love this story a great deal. I love that Dan and Casey are together because it’s impossible for them not to be, even when they know it probably would be better if they weren’t doing this, even when they’re both not completely sure of what they are doing. It’s dark at times, but wonderful all the same.
Link to the story: Unspoken


Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Between One Darkness and Another
Author: Lordess Renegade - lordessrenegade & Lordess Renegade’s Fan Fiction
Characters: Dan & Casey
Prompt: 14. Loss
Rating: PG-13
Length: medium
Brief summary: Dan remembers Casey via a white shirt. This story, in its short span, runs the gamut of emotions, man. It’s killer – but in a very good way.
Link to the story: Between One Darkness and Another


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my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Nutrition and Other Needs
Author: Pearl-O - pearl_o & her website
Characters: Dan, Casey, Dana, Jeremy
Prompt: 34. Vacation
Rating: none listed
Length: epic
Brief summary: It’s a story by an amazing writer where the characters are dead on. It’s set after Sports Night ends, with Dan living on the west coast and Casey still in New York City. But Dan visits Casey a lot. I just love this story and feel it must be shared!
Link to the story: Nutrition and Other Needs

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Fan Mail From a Flounder
Author: Punk - runpunkrun & The Underground
Characters: Dan, Casey, the whole gang
Prompt: 17. Jealousy
Rating: PG
Length: epic
Brief summary: Dan discovers the internet and email and becomes unbearable. Dan thinks Casey is jealous of the attention, but really, that’s not what Casey is jealous about. So much banter it makes me happy! I need the banter, people!
Link to the story: Fan Mail From a Flounder

my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: The Smile In Your Eyes
Author: lordess renegade - lordessrenegade & Lordess Renegade’s Fan Fiction
Characters: Dan, Casey, Natalie, Jeremy, Dana
Prompt: 24. Future Fic
Rating: none listed
Length: long
Brief summary: Set in the future at Dana’s wedding to Sam, Casey is worried about Dan, and Dan is clueless as to what’s bothering Casey. It’s so true to these two – so much love for one another, so sure that they know each other so well (which they usually do) that they’re unable to be honest when things have changed a bit in the friendship.
Link to the story: The Smile in Your Eyes


Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Diversionary Tactics
Author: shrift - shrift & Shrift's Fanfiction
Characters: Dan, Casey – the rest of the gang
Prompt: 7. Love
Rating: PG
Length: long
Brief summary: Frankly, I think is one of the best examples of Dan & Casey’s love for each other that I’ve ever read. This story has it all. It’s set near the end of season two as Dan and Casey are attempting to rebuild their friendship. It has angst, tension, romance, and the wit & conversations that make Sports Night what it is. Most of the conversations seem trivial at times, but it provides little insights into how each characters acts and thinks.
( excerpt to wet the palatte... )
Link to the story: Diversionary Tactics

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my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Therapy
Author: Waldo - kwaldo12 and Fiction By Waldo
Characters: Dan & Casey
Prompt: 26. death
Rating: T (PG-13)
Length: medium
Brief summary: I think what I love most about this story is that Danny finally allows himself to properly grieve his brother's death, and he does it with Casey. It only further cements the fact that the two are there for each other through everything and the author does a great job of showing us that, without hitting us over the head with it. And while it's not necessarily slash, the innocent touching and emotional trust between the two has always allowed my mind to wander...( I really enjoyed this particular paragraph... )
Link to the story: Therapy

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my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: The Story of the Hurricane
Author: Scrunchy, found at scrunchy and Scrunchy.Net
Characters: Dan, Casey
Prompt: 23. Time
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Aside from the fact that scrunchy is one of my favorite writers in the Sports Night fandom, this story manages to show that Dan and Casey are a given, that whatever they ended up doing, it worked best if they were together. Take away the sports and they are still Dan and Casey. And that's what this story does, while maintaining the banter and sometimes obliviousness of the boys. Oh, and it's told in real time for the story. Hee.
Link to the story: The Story of the Hurricane

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