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im so sick of congress i could vomit he/him

[westwingfan]

oh right intro post hi i haven't come up with a name for on here but im a 21 year old politics student and tww fan. i write fic in theory but it's been a while and i need to clean up my ao3 before i link it.

he/him

im mostly interested in the white house senior staff relationship (josh & sam & toby & cj, for the most part) and the triad thing i think is going on with leo mcgarry and the bartlets. i will get into any ship if the writing is my style, but im mostly into this show for the impassioned rants about politics, and to justify my own dependence on coffee...

ask me and i'll consider tagging smth but right now i only tag for characters and ships if i can think of them. dm me for my discord to talk?

tags: #big block of cheese - anything more personal #bartletmaxxing - a subset of big block of cheese posts that anything bartlet/tww-adjacent in my personal life lollll

[bberry005]

yeah okay okay so charlie young goes in for a job as a runner and then gets tapped by josh lyman to be personal aide to the president and he denies the job about a dozen times before taking it. and then it turns out the job is great and he's met some really cool and awesome people and he started dating zoey and there's the threat of violence looming in the background, but maybe it doesn't seem quite so real. and then one day he offers the president of the united states something to say during a town hall type meeting. and then the president actually says it and attributes it to charlie by name. charlie goes up to josh and says josh was right you don't ever get used to the feeling, the very feeling that convinced charlie to keep the job back at the beginning of the season. and then he walks outside and white supremists try to kill him but instead of him they get the president and josh, the two people who charlie looks up to most in that workplace if not his life (not including his mother). and then months later he's walking around the white house looking at a little kid. that kid was charlie once. a long time ago, back before charlie lost his dad and his mom and took this job and got shot at by white supremacists. and that kid's dad tells charlie "if they're shooting at you, you're doing something right." and charlie says "yeah" multiple times as he's wrapping his head around the idea. his mom died in the line of duty. she died while getting shot at doing what we assume is the right thing. maybe if charlie didn't take this job, he wouldn't have gotten shot at. but he also wouldn't be part of the bartlet administration. he wouldn't be part of trying to change things for the better. so maybe he is doing something right despite it all.

[westwingfan]

no one ask where i get my fix of my bullshit re: the accoutrements on this still cause i needed it on my dash so bad i just screenshotted it straight off... a website.

[westwingfan]

guys im feeling a type of way can anyone and everyone drop any trans tww headcannons they've got. either "they've been stealth the whole time" or "they realize something foundational to themselves at the ripe ole age of Adult" or anything in between?

[westwingfan]

thanks for all y'all's thoughts on this--i am no longer feeling a type of way :D

[westwingfan]

do you think that, before he ran for anything, jed bartlet and abbey bartlet would hear "dr bartlet?" from one of their colleagues at some meeting or party and, in unison, go "which one?"

[westwingfan]

speaking of reasons why 20 hours in america is the two best episodes of the west wing: donna moss.

[westwingfan]

my problem with sam seaborn is that most of the time he feels flat but by god, for every single moment that he feels like a real guy, he is exactly my type...

[westwingfan]

toby and sam can you stop being so gay that your fucking speechwriting melds.

toby, 2x16 when he talks to the dc police officer at the wto protest, says something about rising and falling language, about lowering and then raising, the dichotomy makes it powerful, i forget the exact quote but it's in there, i promise it is.

then, in 4x2:

"we did not seek, nor did we provoke, we did not expect, nor did we invite..." <- mallory's quote back to sam about the 20 hours in america speech

obviously it's not a one to one parallel but these two make me sick. and happy. shoutout them, happy pride.

[westwingfan]

"when did you write that last part?"

"in the car"

[a beat] "freak."

sam seaborn man that you are. bartlet's speech in 4x2 never fails to make me tear up.

[westwingfan]

help im getting insane about leo mcgarry again i might fuck around and read the gatekeepers

[westwingfan]

no one ask where i get my fix of my bullshit re: the accoutrements on this still cause i needed it on my dash so bad i just screenshotted it straight off... a website.

[westwingfan]

guys im feeling a type of way can anyone and everyone drop any trans tww headcannons they've got. either "they've been stealth the whole time" or "they realize something foundational to themselves at the ripe ole age of Adult" or anything in between?

[bartletslesbians]

There are so many possibilities but I always just love CJ and literally any form of making her not cis actually.

Most generally CJ as a genderqueer or non-binary person works just so well. The experience of living a life where they are heralded as this influential woman in politics. The first woman to be the White House Press Secretary and then again to be the White House Chief of Staff. The way their entire career is framed through the lens of Being A Woman in the praise and the boatloads of criticisms and misogyny faced. And then having to come to terms with not being a woman at all? Terrifying.

Recently I started really thinking about CJ as a stealth trans woman though and that ALSO works so incredibly well. (And? Really both of these, or any queer CJ headcanons, just fit into canon themes and quotes about her character very well.) CJ who is very painfully and completely aware of how bad it could be if the press ever found out; who's been stealth since college and only a very small group of people know. (Toby because he's Toby. Carol because she needs her assistant to know some important things that could impact the office if revealed and also Carol is better at keeping track of the time for CJ to take her estrogen than CJ is. Andy because they dated in college. Leo and Ron Butterfield because the secret service had to check Every reason someone might stalk her.)

Honorary mentions too to trans man Toby Ziegler (and the mere possibility of the family planning between him, and CJ and Andy in Any variation of genders between them actually) and trans girl Huck

[politicalprocrastinator]

maybe my favourite thing about the west wing is jed and abbey accepting that leo is the third in their relationship and never questioning it

[westwingfan]

guys im feeling a type of way can anyone and everyone drop any trans tww headcannons they've got. either "they've been stealth the whole time" or "they realize something foundational to themselves at the ripe ole age of Adult" or anything in between?

[bartletslesbians]

Toby has very clearly had the most time among the senior staff to absorb the MS news and I really appreciate the way that shows in how he's managing CJ and Sam. In the cold open CJ has the job and the expertise to know exactly what methods they should use to go public with the MS, and while Sam is questioning everything she says partially because he is so stricken by the news himself. Toby doesn't waste time arguing with Sam, he doesn't get angrier, he doesn't get snappy the way CJ does yet, he just very calmly states what will happen. And what will happen is exactly what CJ just suggested.

And then later with Sam, who's set on Hoynes being there for the announcement. Toby asking Sam a question about Jed's performance and Sam answering it with "I'm not a medical expert" and providing Toby with the perfect example of why Hoynes should not be asked about Jed's performance right now? It's again so calmly. It's thought out. He's had time to take it in and now he can make sure Sam and CJ, his own staff, are as okay as they're gonna get through all this.

[westwingfan]

"i asked chatgpt" well i asked cj cregg and she called me sparky, so i think we might be up shit's creek without a paddle on this one

[westwingfan]

i love it when i come up with a new tag (in this case #bartletmaxxing) and then immediately have cause to use it. (in this case, i am learning the tww jacket move. for joy and whimsy...)