the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
Made the mistake of buying a bag of spinach as a person who lives alone so now every single meal I eat for the next 2 weeks is gonna about this damn spinach. We are on 24/7 spinach lockdown. Last time this happened, I made 3 salads and a spinach curry and spinach pasta and STILL half the bag turned to green rot in the fridge. My conception of "what meals require spinach" is rapidly expanding into "what meals COULD conceivably include spinach." I am considering recipes never before seen outside the realms of vegan mommy blogs. By day 10 I anticipate I will probably just do a Land Before Time and take the rest of that shit raw
today at work i rung up a customer and the total was 12.30 and i said “12:30, reminds me of a clock :)” and they kind of smiled at me with confusion and i was like “like the time on a clock, just reminds me of it… 12:30” and they said “i have no idea what you’re talking about…” with an expression of supreme pity and gentleness. after that was finished i turned to my coworker next to me and said “i just bombed so hard with this clock comment” and then realized the customer hadn’t moved and was still standing right next to me. if my fate continues down this path, the customer will probably read this tumblr post as well
In elementary school, my best friend and I had this game we would play where we were school supplies living inside a child's desk and going on slice-of-life adventures inside it. And I remember that a key component of our school supply society was a sort of religious schism that existed around the purpose and nature of the giant hand that occasionally reached in to grab different citizens, use them, and then return them, because most school supplies considered this an auspicious and enviable moment of being selected for a greater purpose and allowed a glimpse of a vast truth, but pencils considered it a horrible portent of doom because they always got sharpened during it and came back smaller and closer to death. We were third graders btw.
TWW Pride is intended to encourage creation of queer fanworks and help to form community and support for queer creators in The West Wing fandom.
This year, we're including weekly themes for you to take inspiration from as well as our daily prompts. TWW will take place though all of June — prompts begin on Sunday, June 1st, and continue through Monday, June 30th. Any fanwork posted within these dates and tagged with #twwpride26 or included in our Ao3 Collection will be included as part of the event. At the end of every week, we’ll be posting round-ups of everything created. Anyone who participates in all thirty days of Pride Month will be added to our Hall of Fame!
Come and join our Discord to talk with other creatives in the community!
Event Info, FAQ, and a text list of the prompts is below the cut!
Event Info & Guidelines
For Pride Month 2026, we’re providing one prompt will per day along with a weekly theme. These prompts are primarily intended to generate inspiration, so if your creative process takes you elsewhere, you should still share regardless of the day! There are also a set of alternate prompts included at the bottom.
If you do choose to follow the prompts, they will be filed under whatever day(s) their prompts fall under for easy reference. If you post on Tumblr, don’t forget to tag your work with #twwpride26 or mention us directly @twwpride — any tagged posts will be reblogged unless otherwise requested.
The prompt list will be reposted weekly as we count down to the beginning of the event. During Pride Week, prompt reminders will be posted at the beginning of each day, and weekly round-ups will be posted after the weekly theme ends.
In order to keep TWW Pride accessible to everyone, we request that you add alt-text or an image description to any visuals.
This information, as well as an accessible version of the prompts list, can be found on our desktop site here.
FAQ
What do you consider a queer fanwork?
Whatever you consider to be queer - and in whatever form (fic, poetry, gifs, edits, art, etc) - so do we. This is an inclusionary event, and here will be no policing of identity or creation. While any maturity rating is welcome, all we ask is that content is appropriately tagged for its platform (AO3 or Tumblr).
Do I have to wait until the month begins to start writing/drawing/editing?
You can begin creating as soon as you’re ready, but only content posted during the month will be counted for archival purposes.
How closely do I have to follow the prompts?
The prompts are inspirational, not compulsory. Any queer fanwork is welcome this month, regardless of if they fit into the prompts!
How do I make sure you can find my work when I post it?
If you’re posting on Tumblr, be sure to use the tag #twwpride25 so we can reblog and promote it! On Ao3, you can find The West Wing Pride Week collection here! A question we missed? Ask us right here!
do you ever think about how sometimes it just... takes one random message? and suddenly you find yourself with a best friend or in constant conversation with someone who lives on the other side of the world but is just as much of a freak as you are or maybe you find yourself in love with someone without a last name but with so much kindness and affection in their words and presence. crazy how life and love and friendship just happen
americans are sooo desensitized to guns and sometimes it manifests in ways that affect your media literacy. like remember in the first episode of sherlock when john watson opens up his drawer and you see a gun in there and youre supposed to understand that this is narratively significant and conveys his suicidality as well as his willingness to skirt rules and laws but the first time i watched it i was like oh well theres his desk gun. lots of people have those