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!
Tag @twwpride here on Tumblr and use the tag #twwpride26 so we can find your posts, and join our Ao3 collection here. Come by our Discord to talk with other fans and creators.
We can’t wait to see what you create! And don't forget to join us on at the end of the week for our fanwork round up and community catch up!
The West Wing - CJ/Andy, Andy & Toby - Rated G - 1,160 words - Read on AO3 - Excerpt under the cut
written for @twwpride day 3: marriage
Finally married to CJ after a long few years, Andy revels in a new kind of happiness. Toby is happy for her, too.
Even though he’d come to the wedding, Andy doesn’t get much of a chance to sit down and talk to Toby about her second marriage until May, when Molly and Huck’s birthday rolls around.
They’d discussed it long beforehand, of course. It hadn’t even been Toby but CJ herself who had told Andy the story of Toby, drunk enough that she’d had to lean in to decipher his slurred words, telling CJ I really hope you marry her. She deserves it. She’d talked about the important things with Toby, everything from her professional image to if and when the twins will call CJ mom. It’s not so much the relationship as the love that’s hard to talk to her ex-husband about. So, when Toby sits next to her on the porch and asks how have you been? You guys doing well? Andy’s first instinct is to deflect.
“Still in the honeymoon phase,” she says casually, crinkling an empty plastic water bottle in her hands. “I mean, it’s not an election year, so going into summer without stressing over campaign revenue and advertising costs feels like a vacation in itself.” She laughs at her own joke, and Toby chuckles agreeably.
could I make a difference (would it matter?) 2k, T
The June air was sticky, sweat like a film on her skin, the back of her shirt clinging to her, the huge crowds only making the heat more oppressive. But she couldn’t really bring herself to care about the sunburn she knew would have her skin stinging the next day or the sweltering waves of heat rising off the pavement, not when being here was what mattered. Very few people would write about it, let alone write about it correctly, but somebody had to, even if it was just her for her small paper. Now more than ever, this mattered. An ache spread through her chest, stabbing and heavy, as her gaze slid across the people around her, the men being partially held up by their friends, the number of gaunt faces that felt like it had doubled since the year before.
People were dying. People she knew, people she didn’t, people maybe she would have if anyone actually bothered to pay attention or care that a disease was tearing its way through people, neighborhoods, everything. People were dying and the President had yet to even acknowledge that anything was even happening.
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CJ and Sam meet far earlier, both of them just wanting the government to care people are dying
Written for the @twwpride prompt "Press and Media"
Welcome to Day 3 of The West Wing Pride, MARRIAGE!
Tag @twwpride here on Tumblr and use the tag #twwpride26 so we can find your posts, and join our Ao3 collection here. Come by our Discord to talk with other fans and creators.
We can’t wait to see what you create! And don't forget to join us on at the end of the week for our fanwork round up and community catch up!
Just a reminder that the surest way for us to see and reblog your posts is by @-ing us! I'm so thrilled by the turnout for the start of the month and want to make sure I don't miss anything!!
The West Wing - Amy/Liz - Rated T - 2,054 words - Read on AO3 - Excerpt under the cut
written for @twwpride day 2: press and media
Amy and Liz make a splash through no fault of their own when they go out for drinks. It's not unexpected, and in a few days, it won't even be that big of a deal. It's still frustrating for them both, making an already tenuous connection even harder to hold onto.
By themselves, Amy and Liz tend not to make too much fuss unless they’re trying to-- and Amy is usually the one trying. Together, though, they’re just recognizable enough to get noticed, especially since people already know Liz is in town for the Fourth of July. Later, Amy will kick herself for not suggesting that she come up early instead of staying late. Later, Amy will shake her head and grumble that they should’ve anticipated the extra fuss surrounding Liz’s first public event since her divorce. But in the moment, when they exit the new taphouse to a flood of cameras and reporters, she’s properly surprised.
”Jesus,” Liz says, mostly under her breath, which is impressive considering how close Amy is to yelling hey, what the hell? at the nearest camera.
“I’ve got you,” Amy tells her, which is a stupid thing to say as they’re actively being surrounded by the Secret Service. Still, she can’t help reaching her arm over Liz’s shoulders, ducking their heads together out of instinct as they wade down the sidewalk. She tries to lighten the mood as the car pulls up. “Bet you get this all the time in New Hampshire, huh?”
In two months they would be in the White House again, fighting with Congress and everyone else to try to make their victory mean something. Three weeks ago, they had won the election and lost Leo. Two weeks ago, Josh had flown to California without telling her and Sam had chased him back a day later. A week and a half ago, she had dragged Sam with her to the airport to follow Josh on the vacation that Sam had all but forced him to go on. Two days ago, they had landed after DC had been bathed in darkness and all collapsed onto the same bed in Josh’s apartment without saying a word about why.
Yesterday, she had woken up with Sam’s arm around her and Josh half on top of both of them like there wasn’t an entire person’s space left on the other side of the bed for him to lay in. Yesterday, she had woken up and felt the sort of peace and love that she’d only ever really dreamed about as a kid, born from cheesy romance books and Hallmark movies. Yesterday, she’d finally understood what all had been missing for so long, why the last four years had felt so different, why everything felt right again.
"The press eats their friendship up; Jed Bartlet is nothing but relieved that two women he loves so much seem to get along so well. Behind closed doors, Liz Bartlet and her marriage is a game CJ just can’t stop playing."
Welcome to Day 2 of The West Wing Pride, PRESS AND MEDIA!
Tag @twwpride here on Tumblr and use the tag #twwpride26 so we can find your posts, and join our Ao3 collection here. Come by our Discord to talk with other fans and creators.
We can’t wait to see what you create! And don't forget to join us on at the end of the week for our fanwork round up and community catch up!
The West Wing - Helen & Josh, pre-relationship Matt/Josh - Rated T - 1,190 words - read on AO3 - excerpt under the cut
written for @twwpride day 1: unconventional/unpalatable
Helen Santos has enough experience having a crush on Matt to know that's exactly what's happening to his campaign manager now.
“Josh, do you have a crush on my husband?”
His lips part in an ‘o’ of surprise. “I-- huh? What?”
He looks so dumbstruck that Helen has to cover her hand with her mouth so she doesn’t laugh at him. Maybe he really hasn’t realized-- with his packed schedule and manic energy, she doubts he has a lot of time for self-reflection.
“I’m really just asking,” Helen reassures him. “It’s cute, Josh. I’m not suggesting you’re having some torrid affair.” She rolls her eyes, taking another sip from her drink. “God knows none of us have time for that.”
