you love a strong woman until it makes you bitter

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[divorcedlizbartlet]

Jed & Abbey Bartlet + Is The House Haunted? by @thatsbelievable

[therozanov]

HEARTSTOPPER FOREVER [2026]

[donnajosh]

I’m very personable. It goes a long way.

[mich-vanadis]

In a world full of "Rocky hates Stratt" I am "Rocky thinks Stratt is brave for giving up the one person who understood her most"

[bberry005]

that first press briefing after the shooting. the way the camera moves so fast from each reporter you can barely see them. the wall of noise and camera flashes the second cj finishes saying something. the way the press room seems more full, like the reporters are creeping in on all sides, the forward push of cameras and questions and microphones. cj leaning against the lectern like she's trying to create a space for herself to even think. "can you tell us anything?" "is there anything you know?". cj reaching for her necklace. she was pushed to the ground during an active shooting barely an hour ago. she's trying to quip with danny like she always does. "the canadiens. i mean the hockey team." she was in the hospital a few minutes ago hearing that the president is okay but josh might not make it. now THIS is television.

[singlethread]

Maisie got dressed up for the occasion

[singlethread]

WERE ENGAGED @imtheiliad

[zillanovikov]

every year I post this meme and every year people get more mad at me than they did the previous year

[bartletslesbians]

"When did I stop being Dr. Bartlet? When in the campaign did I decide women were going to like me more if I called myself Mrs? When did I decide women were that stupid?" I need essays written about this decision and Abbey's feelings about it and to what degree it was her idea and to what degree it wasn't but she didn't think it worth the fight.

But really in general the entire scene with Abbey and Sam and then Babish is so good and you can really see how defensive she is about this and it's such a layered thing. She fucked up. She did something illegal, she risked her medical license, to get her husband elected. And now because he considered another term, it's all coming out and the consequences are back to bite her. And it's sinking in and it's getting to her and these guys have a great way of being harsh as they should and still with this kind of total lack of understanding where she's coming from.

And then her eventual "I want to be next to my husband when he does this" cuts right through all of that to really the emotional core of what Jed is about to do and say, and her entire motivation for ALL of it in the first place.

[bartletslesbians]

Privateers would be a really great episode to play ‘Add Andy to an Episode’ with because in between the Marion Cotesworth-Hayes scene and Amy’s hazing and Donna having to babysit someone’s boyfriend at a White House event? The issue that Amy is actually working on for Abbey is the global gag rule. It’s a foreign policy bill that’s received an amendment that foreign aid can only be granted to hospitals and clinics that don’t offer or even talk about abortion as an option for pregnant people.

This is set in the later part of season four, which means Andy is not only an established Congresswoman who we already know is very passionate about her work for the International Relations committee and who surely has had many meetings about the bill this was an amendment to. She’s also in her third trimester with twins she conceived Very Controversially. And I really do think there would have been a great opportunity to bring her in for conversation around the this amendment and how awful it is, Abbey’s frustration on not being able to do much about it, Amy’s rough first day trying to get half the things she wants done.

It gives Andy an opportunity to be part of this policy conversation we know she’d very reasonably have something to do with, unrelated from Toby. Because as much as her and Toby are so fun to watch in meetings, it’s a little sad that Andy’s only on screen opportunity to talk business is usually with her ex husband. It further establishes the connections in Congress we already know Amy has (and how we later find out she has a lot of experience coaching Congresswomen through debates? Show some of those relationships in the House!)

But also there really is just that powerful visual of a member of Congress who is already literally being sued for CHOOSING to be and stay pregnant in the position she’s in, unmarried and working, this very visibly pregnant woman being very passionately pro-abortion and talking about that with the White House. The juxtaposition between women overseas being made to stay pregnant because their hospitals and clinics won’t receive funding if abortion is an option, and this Congresswoman who wanted so badly to BE pregnant being crucified by those same conservative lawmakers for making that decision would be so easy without even directly mentioning it, just by virtue of having Andy there in the middle of this pregnancy and the controversy around it, making her voice heard in this debate. And that could have been so good.

[cybermanes-deactivated20251227]

wow babe you’re really good at staying up incredibly late and barely sleeping every night

[crustacean-warlock]

Reminder:

[bberry005]

characters in shock at a cup of coffee being $6.50 meanwhile i'm over here like "oh well that's not too bad for a fancy hotel especially since they both used cream and sugar". ok sure whatever WHATEVER

[bberry005]

shoutout sam seaborn (and the writers of the show) for accurately predicting how big an issue privacy would become in the next 20-30 years and how essential it is they appoint a supreme court justice who upholds it

[thatsbelievable]

[imtheiliad]

Tell us about what the cats are up to lately

oooh my god so today we got those robot fish and these cats have never in their life use their water hunting instincts so they mostly just watched it like it was tv

[respocked]

btw if i was doing the modern carrie retelling. i wouldn't do what the guy is doing. but i would make carrie's mother still religious and abusive but she's also one of those fundie influencers who mommyblog and post their kids. and when carrie gets her period it's not at school but it's a tiktok her mother made about it that everyone sees. and carrie explodes every person's phone who looked at it and it blows up in their face. and she's still fat

[laluce1999]

How I be moving lately