fic: THE BIG RED BUTTON

[herbalistic]

THE BIG RED BUTTON
veep, selina meyer/kent davison, r.
he knows her just a shade too well.
note: spoilers for 2.01

Comments

[falseeeyelashes]

“Part of my job involves fishing Ma’am. I am the West Wing’s chief fisherman. I am their Moby Dick.”

“That was the whale’s name, Jonah.”

ACTUALLY LAUGHING OUT LOUD RIGHT NOW.

This was so great, dude! You did such a wonderful job of capturing both all of their voices and the utter ridiculousness with which the show portrays this job, haha. I loved EVERYTHING about the dialogue you gave Selina in particular, and I think thanks to you, I am now super invested in these two? IT'S FULL OF SO MUCH HATRED AND POTENTIAL HILARITY!

[herbalistic]

AHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH OH MY GOD. I WAS SO SCARED THIS WASN'T FUNNY. I'm normally too scared to write fic for comedies, but I'm making the exception for these morons, clearly.

The Thick Of It was probably the first grown-up TV I ever watched (I remember sneaking downstairs to watch it after my parents had gone to bed) and so I guess I've kind of absorbed Iannucci's dialogue style as a formative influence or something in that vein of shit? idk, but for reals you are way too nice to me and this'll all totally go to my head.

Haha it totally is! A ship brimming with wondrous potential! I still don't understand how I ended up so stupidly invested in these two? (And Amy/Dan too je-sus)

[magisterequitum]

This is so great. I am so into the idea of these two and all that's there, so I am now subscribing to this as what is happening on the show.

Your dialogue is so snappy and perfect.

[nahborghi]

i've been looking for fic of these two everywhere, this is amazing! you did a great job, everyone's so in character, and I love the references. The humour is spot on, everything works wonderfully. I'm also too invested on selina/kent. Great job! can't wait to see more of you :)

[hyacinthian]

God, they suddenly became my crackship otp and I am really into all of this. You got their voices so well and it was so much equal parts hot and sniping, and so, so them.

Thank you so much, man. It was a fab read.