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, TWW Pride is extending the event through all of pride month! Prompts begin on Sunday, June 1st, and continue through Monday, June 30th. Any fanwork posted within these dates and tagged with #twwpride25 or included in our Ao3 Collection will be included as part of the event. At the end of every day and week, we’ll be posting round-ups of everything created, in addition to an end-of-month masterpost. Feel free to join our Discord to talk with other creatives in the community. Anyone who participates in all thirty days of Pride Month will be added to our Hall of Fame!
A massive thank you to @bartletslesbians for help with prompt generation!
Event Info & Guidelines
For Pride Month, one prompt will be provided per day. These prompts are primarily intended to generate inspiration, so if your creative process takes you elsewhere, you are still welcome to share regardless of the day.
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 #twwpride25 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 round-ups will be posted at midnight EST.
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!
sam/toby | the west wing | M, 2k
twwpride: history, first bartlet campaign
On Thursday, Toby was completely prepared to be fired by Leo. On Friday, he still has his job. On Saturday, he meets his new speech-writing partner, who turns out to be a lawyer from New York, originally California.
Toby introduces himself just as he remembers—he's seen Sam Seaborn before.
Donna glanced around the room, her hands gripping his forearms tight, and uttered words that would forever haunt him, “No, your– your father died, Josh.”
He froze, staring at her, waiting for her to say she was joking, that she was playing some sort of stupid, cruel prank just to see the look on his face at having his world crushed, even though he knew she would never do that. She didn’t say anything else though, just looked up at him with those sad, pained eyes and he stumbled back a step, all joy at their win lost to the sudden chasm opening within him, right where Joanie was all scabbed over and just barely closed. The room seemed to spin around him, sway under his feet like the deck of a ship, and he could just barely process the feeling hands wrapping around his waist and arm, familiar and almost comforting enough. Nothing quite made sense, nothing added up. The words spinning around endlessly in his head didn’t make sense, couldn’t be true. It was his dad, how could he–
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Sam and Donna are there for Josh after his father's death.
Written for @twwpride month event on Tumblr for the Day 6 Prompt Hurt/Comfort
Arm-in-arm with a girl dressed in all white, the train of her skirt stretching out behind them, Sam shifts uncomfortably in his stiff collar and tries not to think about Josh.
How does one begin to explain this? In the midst of their future planning, between debating whether to attend the same law school or be top of the class at two different Ivies and planning Sam’s first congressional campaign, he’d suddenly remember to mention that by the way, the girl I’m supposed to marry was chosen for me when we were seventeen, and I eventually have to move back to Laguna Beach and have kids.
It’s archaic to the point of cliché, but it’s his life.
yayyy my first @twwpride fic. silly little fic abt everyone celebrating the day after gay marriage was legalized. samjosh + background jla and general queerness.
