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SN is a smallish, kind of quiet fandom. We're not so much a freeway of stories as a cul-de-sac. So having three good SN fics show up in the last week is cause for a celebration. Even better, we got a story for each of the main three: Dana, Casey and Dan.
The Dana story is Imaginary Husbands of the African Savanna by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mosca. It's gen, and all about women and their attitudes towards Sports Husbands. The dialogue is spot-on, and there's a wonderful understanding of Dana, of the way her mind works and that careful combination of humour and seriousness.
Natalie, who had been loyal to Derek Jeter for as long as Dana had known her, understood baseball husbands. She understood, for instance, that it did not constitute polygamy to also have a basketball husband, a football husband, and a tennis husband. Sports husbands were happy to share.
The Casey story isphoebesmum's A Sweet Disorder, written for the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
picfor1000 challenge. It's a lovely story and in a thousand words, manages to explain *so much* about Casey McCall. Utterly lovely. (Also Dan/Casey slash, which I should mention.)
It turns out that it wasn't Casey's apartment that needed spring cleaning. It was his life, and what it needed was to be picked up and shaken, turned upside-down, inside-out and backwards, have its windows and doors flung open and, for the first time that he can remember, welcome in air and sun and light and *freedom*.
The Dan story, coincidentally enough, is also byphoebesmum. I read I Will Be With You Again and it immediately became my favourite story written by her (and probably one of my top three Dan-stories ever). I *heart* this story. (Do I need to mention it's Dan/Casey?) This is Dan growing and learning, and becoming the man he is. This is Dan coping with those personal tragedies, gaining a fuller understanding of life and finally, finally, getting everything he wants.
This is *my* Dan. This is how I see Dan on the show. This odd mix of emotionally observant and avoidant, surprisingly tactful and careful of others' feelings, self-aware but not always able to see the difference between objective truth and his interpretation of events.
I'd quote a section, but really, you should just go and read it all.
The Dana story is Imaginary Husbands of the African Savanna by
mosca. It's gen, and all about women and their attitudes towards Sports Husbands. The dialogue is spot-on, and there's a wonderful understanding of Dana, of the way her mind works and that careful combination of humour and seriousness.Natalie, who had been loyal to Derek Jeter for as long as Dana had known her, understood baseball husbands. She understood, for instance, that it did not constitute polygamy to also have a basketball husband, a football husband, and a tennis husband. Sports husbands were happy to share.
The Casey story is
phoebesmum's A Sweet Disorder, written for the picfor1000 challenge. It's a lovely story and in a thousand words, manages to explain *so much* about Casey McCall. Utterly lovely. (Also Dan/Casey slash, which I should mention.)It turns out that it wasn't Casey's apartment that needed spring cleaning. It was his life, and what it needed was to be picked up and shaken, turned upside-down, inside-out and backwards, have its windows and doors flung open and, for the first time that he can remember, welcome in air and sun and light and *freedom*.
The Dan story, coincidentally enough, is also by
phoebesmum. I read I Will Be With You Again and it immediately became my favourite story written by her (and probably one of my top three Dan-stories ever). I *heart* this story. (Do I need to mention it's Dan/Casey?) This is Dan growing and learning, and becoming the man he is. This is Dan coping with those personal tragedies, gaining a fuller understanding of life and finally, finally, getting everything he wants.This is *my* Dan. This is how I see Dan on the show. This odd mix of emotionally observant and avoidant, surprisingly tactful and careful of others' feelings, self-aware but not always able to see the difference between objective truth and his interpretation of events.
I'd quote a section, but really, you should just go and read it all.
