Welp, this is it.

I'm really, really sorry to do it but I simply don't have the time to dedicate to my 70+ person flist anymore.  Obviously, it was made based on how frequently a person posted and if we ever made a connection -- all the usual reasons.  If I have removed you from my friends' list, please do the same for me. 

(as always, if you were cut and think it is a mistake, leave a comment or e-mail me at hazelnutcoffee12@yahoo.com)

This is mostly for myself but in case anyone is interested, under the cut is all the fic I wrote in the last year with links and word counts (plus 2 stories I wrote in late, late December 2006 that I'm counting for this year.)  All of it was posted at _hazelnutcoffee.

I'm having a New York City renaissance.

Ok, not quite (although I do want desperately to go home and then go into the city to enjoy all the Christmas upgrades NYC gets around this time), but I am having a Sports Night renaissance.

I watched the entire show about a year or two ago and loved it but never really got into the fandom aspect of it, for various reasons like: it was before I joined lj, it was right before I started my new semester and when I went back to school I quickly got swept into buying books etc, and, mostly, I assumed it was a dead fandom since the show's been off the air for a long time.

How silly of me.

I'm not sure exactly what started it but for the past, oh, three days or so I have done nothing but read old SN fics.  There's TONS of them -- and, god, they are all really good.  Every fandom has fantastic writers and maybe I stumbled on most of them, but I feel like everyone writing in the SN fandom just gets the characters and Sorkinese (which, hard!) and the feeling of the show.  I have a desire to now write SN but I probably won't because I know I'm even not half as good as those writers out there.  Most of the fics I'm reading are Dan/Casey -- the show makes it so easy to slash them and I'm not even a big slash fan but maybe that's another post -- but the gen ones are hysterical and adorable too.

I know I have some Sports Night fans on my flist - either passing interest or otherwise - so let's make this a Sports Night Love Post!  Tell me: what are your favorite episodes of the show?  lines from the show?  ships? and in fandom: who are your favorite authors?  favorite stories?  communities?   I feel like I've seen a good deal of stuff in the past few days but it was the type of thing where you read one story and then click another link and get lead somewhere else and felt like there was probably more on the other site that you missed but you just HAD to keep going ... you know?

Here are some of my favorite scenes, as clips on youtube (which obviously means I'm missing some favorites): Dan's apology from 1x02, which makes me cry every time; random classic Dan and Casey scene, which makes me feel warm inside every time; and where my subject line comes from featuring the woman who voices Lisa Simpson's voice, which semi-bothers me every time (as does the laugh track!).  But there are more.  Lots more.  :)

And for those that want to know even more about Sports Night, Dan, Casey, or Dan/Casey, check out this awesome explanation of it all at ship_manifesto, which is another thing I stumbled on.

EDIT: following morbidmuse's suggestion, I've made this post public so feel free to pimp it so we can all spread some Sports Night love!