#claudiajcregg

[waldronconnells]

@claudiajcregg replied to your post “the clock just hit midnight over here, so i guess...”:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANTJE!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 I am dreading my big 3-0 moment, coming in less than two months. Hope you have the best day!!!

​thank you so much, elena! i felt exactly the same until a couple of weeks ago, but then i resigned myself to accept the fact that the big 3-0 was gonna hit me whether i wanted it to or not and now i´m actually feeling pretty great about it. so don´t worry too much about joining the club in a couple of weeks 💕

[unseenacademic]

@claudiajcregg Thank you sooo much, Elena! 💜💜💜💜I somehow managed to delete your ask, because it's me 🙈🙈 can't find it anywhere now 😅 sooo, anyway...

4. total number of words you wrote this year

I've got over 35,000 words, spread across several documents, including published fics and WIPs, various drafts and completed scenes, but not including the drafts and scenes handwritten in a notebook. I do like to outline or full-out write my fics in a notebook.

19. any new fics to start next year

Aaaaa, so manyyy! Wow! Okay, so I want to write a series of one-shots depicting scenes from Bartlet history (college, Kennedy-style wedding, or that time Jed accidentally ran over their next-door neigbors). There's another short, winter/holiday fic that I just might end up finishing before the New Years and a 5+1 things fic I've talked about on discord. (I have no self-control). I've also been working on my "What Was Abbey Bartlet Doing" fic which is basically a collection of standalone post-eps, so I'm going to continue working on that one as well.

22. events you participated in this year

This summer, I participated in TWW Press' Wheel of Destiny Drabble Challenge and I wrote two ficlets. One is a little bit of self-indulgent fluff, the other's a post-ep which started the whole Abbeyverse fic madness. I'm finishing my fic for TBW holiday fic exchange and I'm having so much fun!

[thebreakfastgenie]

nine people I want to get to know better

Tagged by the lovely @claudiajcregg!! Thank you!

LAST SONG?

FAVORITE COLOR?

Yellow! 🍋🌼🔆

CURRENTLY WATCHING?

The Sopranos

LAST MOVIE?

I think it was The Godfather

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY?

All of the above! Sweet if I must pick but sometimes savory is what I need in the moment...

RELATIONSHIP STATUS?

Single 👀

CURRENT OBSESSIONS?

Cold War history, Billy Joel, frying the perfect egg, lemons

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED?

"us states map" because the fastest way to remember which states I've been to was to refer to a map

Tagging @nero-neptune @wiklm @nowhereindiana @norma-jean-monster @coralreeferband

@lesbiandarvey @rocketsaurus @punkrockhound @damejoansutherland

Anyone else who wants to do it can too!!!!

[malkaleh]

WIP meme

tagged by friends @emilykaldwen @theladyelizabeth and I thought because I haven’t actually written anything in ages because uh Brain (is like ‘no actually [redacted] dolls aren’t allowed to write whatever they like’ among other things) that I’d write out what WIPs I have/am thinking about and people can ask me about them if they’d like and then if you want to do the same for yours I would be DELIGHTED.

tagging (if you want): @claudiajcregg @miabicicletta @shes-a-voodoo-child @nocompromise-noregrets @emilykaldwen @alintalzin @onekisstotakewithme @hondagirll @unseenacademic @ricardian-werewolf @corporalicent @librarianmouse @elysabeththequeene @sherwoodknights @shehungthemoon @the-ships-to-rule-them-all @gen-is-gone

Actual WIPs In Progress (With Words)

Rewrite The Stars

Crown Of Ashes

It’s Always Darkest/Golden World Rewrite(s) Eventually

Tavern Date

Grishaverse Hunger Games AU

Patch Up The Tapestries

Tortall Found Family

Some Ideas That Do Have Like Sentence(s) Maybe Or At Least A Scrivener Document

Sun Summoner Nikolai

Miss Fisher Girl Saves Boy

Jed/Abbey/Leo (TWW Poly)

CJ/Danny Girl Saves Boy

Courtesan Christian/Noble Satine Moulin Rouge AU

Miss Fisher Tudors OT3 Verse

Everything Is Trauma (Multifandom)

TWW Mandy POV

Scarlet Pimpernel Tudors OT3 Verse

Civil War Tudors OT3 Verse Explainer Post

Tudors OT3 Verse Multimedia Post Expansion???

Concepts Dot Gif

Good Duke OT3 (Moulin Rouge)

Smallest Maia Who Ever Lived (ROP)

Lionel Grey and John Norwich Introduction Posts With Graphics

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

also it's hilarious to wake up to the sound of my phone blowing up with text notifications from @claudiajcregg in rapid succession which can mean one thing: that Blondie has done A Thing

[clintbeifong]

nine people I want to get to know better

Thanks for the tag @claudiajcregg!

LAST SONG? "Into the Storm" by BANNERS. It's on my book-writing playlist, which I haven't been listening to as much lately, but it was nice to go back and listen to some of my staples today.

FAVORITE COLOR? Maroon/burgundy but also just like...fall. A fall palette.

CURRENTLY WATCHING? As my dinner show, White Collar, and I've finally made it into the seasons I've never seen before (three onward). But I've also been watching The Gift on Netflix entirely in Turkish to practice. I've been learning Turkish for a little less than a year now and I understand maaaaaaybe 10% of what they're saying? on a good day? but it's making the mystery elements very compelling lol

LAST MOVIE? Panther Panchali for my movie club. It's an Indian slice of life drama from the 1950s that was slow but weirdly compelling. Also kinda heartbreaking. I think I'll be feeling this one for a while.

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY? Sweet, no savory, no sweet, no savory, no sweet no--just order eggs and pancakes goddamn it. (my inner monologue every time I go out to breakfast)

RELATIONSHIP STATUS? Uninterested

CURRENT OBSESSIONS? Been running low on obsessions lately. Been into X-Men '97 in the short term and, as always, National Treasure and Atlantis the Lost Empire. And happy 55th anniversary to one of my og obsessions, Scooby Doo.

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED? some local restaurants and museums to make plans for this weekend. which i need to decide on. like now.

Tagging nine people, no pressure! @chase-prairie @adhdandanxietyandbearsohmy @of-alexandria @some-deranged-weirdo @samabigailalan @thetinyadventurer @vanderbear @scottsummerscoffeemug @systemadministratorclu

[onekisstotakewithme]

Tell People About Your WIPs

make a list of all your WIPs with a brief description of each and then people can ask you questions about them and then tag other people.

tagged by the creator of this game, @mihrsuri, and will in turn say 'anyone who wants to, feel free' but specifically of the westie besties Lil didn't tag, I'm yelling at @claudiajcregg 💜 I've been agonizing over having nothing to publish for ages now 😭

Currently Active:

Close to the Heart, aka MASH noir AU where Hawkeye is still a doctor, and Peg comes to him wanting him to kill her husband.

the west wing post-canon wedding: CJ and Danny try and make it work after CJ decides to stay in the WH, can't make it work, break up... all of which is backstory to the two of them reuniting at Charlie and Zoey's wedding a few months later... and going from there

the "BJ accidentally follows Hawkeye to a gay meet up, learns some things" WIP that I have been agonizing over.

the valentine's day tww discord prompt fulfillment (I know I'm not in the discord but humour me, i did the christmas exchange) that starts during "Manchester".

Things that Should be Active (but Aren't)

the prompt fulfillment for the Josh/Donna Rom-Com exchange in which I Romcomify "Inauguration: Over There" (I have words written for it, but not many. that was a busy week lol.)

President!CJ - you know the drill. I keep calling it president!CJ but the actual name should be "CJ runs for President and Ally rambles her ass off trying to make it happen". Anyone looking for a full time volunteer job as my research assistant to make this story happy, apply within.

The Requiem First Time Smut - it's six thousand words long and contains only one orgasm so far. aka the wednesday night where CJ shows up and they 'don't reallly talk' (except nobody is naked yet because they can't stop fucking talking!)

Random WIPs that can't even be considered in the same realm as active, yes i'm as annoyed about it as everyone else.

tww plane crash au - on the way back from a summit in Japan, AF1 crashes on a small island in the South Pacific. This project is my baby but alas. Featuring bioluminescence, sex cabanas and copious amounts of Repentance.

sperm donor AU - canon divergent in s5 of tww, after slow news day et al, where CJ starts seriously thinking about her life post-administration... and having a kid. Coincidentally, Danny comes back into her life around the same time.

mash triad ski au - BJ and Peg go on vacation over Christmas of 1998, and meet another skiier when they all get trapped on a chair lift together 😉

triad wedding - I include this on every list (sigh) just because a whole draft exists, it just needs to be burned to the ground, chopped up with a machete and started from scratch and I burned out hard wriitng draft one. Anyway, final part of the first "arc" of Home verse. BJ, Peg and Hawkeye get 'married'.

Ambassador Spock - genuinely don't think I've touched this since 2021 but. Kirk is still captain of the Enterprise, charged with bringing the Vulcan ambassadors (Sarek and his son Spock) to a summit, "Journey to Babel" style only with more Spirk.

[waldronconnells]

my top 5 songs currently

Rules: 🎶 when you get this, list 5 songs you've been listening to & tag 5-10 people.

i got tagged by the lovely elena @claudiajcregg 💕

eat your young - hozier

cut me out - james hersey

running out of time - paramore

lass es kreisen - annenmaykantereit

let me down easy - daisy jones & the six

tagging everyone who feels like it, because i love hearing about other people´s taste in music at all times!

[unseenacademic]

unpublished fics game

I was tagged by @mihrsuri (thanks, friend 💜) you know how much I love talking about my fics, so if you want to know more about any of these, ask away 💜💜Anyway, I'm gonna sort my WIPs into three groups, based on the level of their WIPness 😂 Level 1: Fics I'm Actively Working On

The First Lady - my ongoing project, a series of post-eps and behind the scenes, which answers the most important question of them all: what was Abbey Bartlet doing during the episodes she doesn't appear in. The chapter I'm working on at the moment is a post-ep for "Evidence of Things Not Seen", part 1. Contains a lot of banter.

Substance of Things Hoped for - post-ep for "Evidence of Things Not Seen", part 2. Contains a lot of barbecuing.

Day Four - what happens between Abbey's return and the state dinner in season 5, ep. "Shutdown". Features the First Lady dressing a nice bird, Millicent Griffith as the voice of reason and a lot of Angst.

The Proposal - exactly what it says on the tin. Features a Ferris wheel, a beaver plushy and the phrase "hens etc."

Level 2: Outlines + a Scene or Two

The Hospital Scene - A deleted/missing scene from "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen". Feature a lot of cuteness and too many references to Ronald Reagan.

It Never Could Have Happened in New Hampshire - Jed and Abbey spend the weekend at her parents'. Features a malpractice suit, golf, Vermont maple syrup, Abbey's ex-boyfriend and an MS episode.

Level 3: Just an Idea or WIP's I'm Not Actively Working on

Jethro the Snowman - a holiday fic. Inspired by Jed's quote from season 7 that Abbey's dad took him on a six-hour hike in the dead of winter after he proposed to Abbey.

Abu el Banat post ep - a sequel to Day Four.

The First Meeting - exactly what is says on the tin. Features a lot of gratuitous nerdiness.

The Dead Irish Writers Missing Scene - not sure when I'll finish this one, so far I have only two scenes and one of them needs rewriting.

Tagging (no pressure💜): @claudiajcregg @holy-ships-x-red-lips @miabicicletta @librarianmouse @temperancecain @krazykitkat @hondagirll @muldxr @onekisstotakewithme

[eyes-onthehorizon]

fic tag game!

Tagged by the incredibly talented and ridiculously patient @claudiajcregg - thank you for the tag Elena! (sorry for the 4-month late belated reply!)

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written fewer than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

i saw that Elena tagged me, had only two works to my name, went away and wrote a bunch more only to forget about the tag game in the process. so, uh, please accept my contribution? (and go read her fic. it’s beautiful and heartbreaking and written with such care!)

fandoms i’ve written for so far: Anastasia, The West Wing, The Diplomat (US), The Old Guard. i’ve included the summaries in case you wanna read more.

i’m paraphrasing Elena’s wording here, it’s much neater than mine: @beepbeepsan @loungemermaid and literally anyone else who sees this and wants to join in! Feel free to ignore it if you don't want to do it, or if you've been already been tagged, etc. ♥️

1. Just In Time - Anastasia

The first time they’re on a boat, the tempest and Rasputin’s magic conspire to throw her overboard.

Dmitry arrives just in time.

2. The Consequences of Aristocracy - Anastasia

"You will bow before the Princess," barked the orderly.

Anya has been crowned as the Lost Princess, and Dmitry pays the Dowager Queen a visit. Anya catches him as he leaves, but it seems her new life has come between them.

What might have been running through their heads, and what should have happened after.

3. Everything Was Won - Anastasia

The second time they’re on a boat, Dmitry can’t believe his eyes or his luck.

Dmitry reflects on his relationship with Anya at the end of the film.

4. Something Else Hoc - The West Wing

Author’s note: There are 35 chapters in this work, and each chapter is freestanding. I have so many favourite opening lines; I’ve pared down as much as I can bear. Sorry! (I’m not)

CJ Cregg was radiant, and Danny could not take his eyes off her.

“Carol!”

“Don-NA!”

It was the final day of junior year, and Jed was being his usual dorky self.

"...I do NOT have anitch!!" slurred Mallory. 

CJ frowned at the badly-wrapped presents.

Sam had walked up to Mallory, wordlessly handed her a glass bottle, and continued down the corridor as if it was a perfectly ordinary part of his day.

Joshua Lyman had a competitive streak a mile wide, and an infectious enthusiasm that alternately inspired and frustrated everyone around him.

The beach was supposed to be a place for relaxation.

“Leo! Did I blink or fall over or something while you replaced my senior staff with muppets?!”

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the President of the United States cheated at sports.

“I’ve had enough of your airy-fairy bullshit!”

Charlie had this… recurring nightmare.

Will and Sam only ever go on one date.

It wasn’t supposed to be a pool party.

It was the Rock the Vote concert again, and none of them were young enough to go and do the speech any more.

Claudia-Jean Cregg was a woman of many talents.

It’s not something they share with anyone, but they talk to each other whenever they see pink skies.

Annabeth Schott was like champagne bubbles, Leo decided.

Liz becomes a little obsessed with Friends after Doug loses the election.

a series of one-shots of my favourite overworked family, sparked by tumblr prompts. mostly canon-compliant. i apologise in advance.

5. Two’s Better Than One - The Diplomat (US)

Having met Cecelia a grant total of once - this being the once in question - Stuart found himself in danger of losing his eyebrows.

Stuart weighs up some pros and cons of his boss's love life.

6. It’s Not About To End - The Diplomat (US)

Stuart was used to being momentarily stunned.

Stuart's internal monologue from the break-up scene.

7. I Think It Just Did - The Diplomat (US)

Eidra was the kind of person who planned for the worst and hoped for slightly better.

Eidra's internal monologue from the break-up scene.

8. February is a Month Like Any Other - The Old Guard

Author’s Note: This series is in desperate need of editing. You’re welcome to have a read, but it is not in it’s final or even an acceptable form imo.

Nicholas Governor was bored out of his mind.

a drabble-a-day fic for the month of February. the old guard are the progenitors of something not yet known as team leverage; they are conning a lecherous, powerful man to his doom.

9. You Can’t Spell Team without Tea - The Old Guard

So much had changed since that fateful day in England, Andy included, but tea had not.

Quynh reflects on this new part of her life.

10. Echoes of Our Past - The Old Guard

Nile has been trying to explain gaydar (and GPS, and radar, and sonar, and how portmanteaus work in modern English) to Quynh for a few minutes before she gives up entirely.

Nile tries to explain gaydar to Quynh, and Nicky loses a bet. Part 2 to You Can't Spell Team Without Tea

[malkaleh]

It’s The History Of Man (Rewritten By Women)

Just posting this here - a fic about TWW women + Trauma (and maybe the men later). Dedicated to @miabicicletta @claudiajcregg @librarianmouse @unseenacademic and all my TWW discord loves too.

Content Note: discussion of abuse, rape/sexual assault and misogyny.

She’s never been, you know, the undeclared Thing. Men look for motivations like that, a backstory as to why she really cares - that it must have been a bitter experience in blood, in bruises and broken bird metaphors. So no, CJ’s never been raped. She’s never been assaulted.

You shouldn’t have to be, to give any of a damn - shouldn’t have to find motivation in sister or daughter or someone that makes a something real when you could just find humanity - she’d said it too many times, to too many people. Too many men.

She’s been marked by it, the way that you are when you make your way through the world, for most women. Condescension, especially from good men, men she loved, men she liked - who just could not see, not that, not that bathrobes don’t make up for anything, let alone the way CJ stands alone.

The way the articles about which staff member she might be sleeping with, the way she uses clothes as a shield and even that doesn’t help - it shouldn’t matter, it doesn’t but she has to exist in this world and better to mocked as dowdy than marked as a slut, a distraction. The way some reporters are, the way some staff, some everyone are that they aren’t with the others - assuming she doesn’t know or she just innately knows, by virtue of being a woman or being a Berkeley Grad - both said with knowing looks.

CJ has kissed girls. And boys. And people, in general. The girls didn’t actually do anything for her, but she’s kissed them. Berkeley was safety and yet it wasn’t. There are rapists amongst left wing enclaves, there are friends she’d patched up and held while they cried and the worst feeling in her life had been when men who she had thought respected her, who had said all the right words leer at her or try to slip a key.

(Hoynes. Hoynes is a story she will keep locked until the day she dies because the thing is, the thing is CJ still isn’t sure. Still can’t bear the thought of the judgement, of all of it, of the way she thinks they’d all look at her differently - like she was less in their eyes, hardly the perfect daughter now).

-

She’s the perfect victim but she isn’t. The stupid little girl who went out dancing, who dated a boy who wasn’t good, who drank and wore something too sexy and got people killed. Zoey knows it’s an undertone, though no one ever says it to her face.

It’s like the way they talked about ‘sullied’ and ‘inappropriate’ far more when she dated Charlie and with Jean Paul they make noises about ‘struggles with addiction’ and ‘understanding’ because he’s got money and the correct shade of pale and pedigree and no one wants a ruined girl they can’t trade.

Zoey knows it’s not the 19th century or the 18th but it also is. The media dissects her outfits, but not the men who stripped her bare and bruised. They sigh over the impact on her father, on issues, on politics but not the way her nightmares haunt her. What a shame they ruined her prettiness, her purity, not that Zoey was hurt.

She’s a good victim but she isn’t.

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They don’t ask Jed to smile, to put on make up and put himself together, to get the outfit just right so it’s not sexy, but not frumpy, not drawing attention to herself but not sloppy. No pearls for him, no demure apologies.

She’s Mrs Bartlet, a White House ornament - a pretty decoration to wheel out, it feels like - like she’s been put back in her place the way a high school science teacher told her she should be. You have lovely deft hands Abigail, don’t waste your pretty face on mens work and ruin those hands meant for flowers and babies.

Abby has surgeons hands and they want to give her roses and dress up clothes while they cut them off for the crime of being Too Much. For the sins of her husband, for her husbands ambition she must cut off her own.

It’s the history of men, she sings along much much further in the future. I ran as fast as I could and I won my races and it still wasn’t enough.

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Donna can say now, it will never leave her but it is never the whole of her life. They never tell you that, that it all cascades into each other - Dr Freeride, the shooting, the second shooting, the way her parents valued appearances all make up the cracks in her skin, the webbing of scars that her mother gasps in horror at and that Josh’s mother and Abbey Bartlet simply hold her, hug her and listen. That CJ, as a friend, does too.

She’s learned so much about how it feels to have a mother, to have mothers. To be cared for, in a way that she has never been and it’s almost another wound, to think that she could have had this - not a telling off for leaving behind a wealthy respectable man and a nice house and a good name.

[hondagirll]

Tagged by @aprylynn thanks friend!

10 favorite TV shows in 10 gifs

Tagging @dollsome-does-tumblr @stars-inthe-sky @earnmysong @talldecafcappuccino @jicklet @onekisstotakewithme @queenofattolia @bethanyactually @holy-ships-x-red-lips @claudiajcregg @mihrsuri and whoever else wants to do this

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Lmao me @ @claudiajcregg before surprise songs:

[clintbeifong]

Thanks for the tag @hondagirll

Last song: Umm...nothing sticks out so, last songs I added to my playlist were "Sea Cruise" by Frankie Ford for Reasons™ that I promise make sense in my head, and "Mountain Sounds" by Of Monsters and Men because I heard it in a coffee shop and was like "this is mine now."

Currently watching: Suits, which I wasn't sure about at first but it's growing on me. Before that The Diplomat which was phenomenal.

Currently reading: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. I'd put it off for ages, but I highly recommend for anyone who writes. Before that A Psalm for the Wild-Build by Becky Chambers, which was sweet and cozy and beautiful.

Current obsession: Not to jinx it, but I have a lot of irl activities going on right now, and not a ton happening in fandom land. It's kinda nice actually?

Lowkey tagging some recent activity on my dash @burningdisarm @claudiajcregg @coping-via-clint-eastwood @frostysfrenzy @glurk-world @emmi-kat @themcwrathofsean

[onekisstotakewithme]

wip title tag game

was tagged by the lovely and talented @neekerbreeker 💜 (one of my dearest mash friends!) for this one and I always love doing it!

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs

mashnoir (M*A*S*H)

wedding fic (The West Wing)

president cj (The West Wing)

peg love magic fudge (M*A*S*H)

requiem smut fic (The West Wing)

ski resort AU (M*A*S*H)

plane crash (The West Wing)

sperm donor (The West Wing)

triad wedding (M*A*S*H)

Obviously anyone who wants to do this is welcome, but specifically tagging @claudiajcregg @remyfire @saltyfilmmajor @thebreakfastgenie if you feel so inclined! 💜

Also please send me asks, I love blathering on about my WIPs

[waldronconnells]

Soft asks! 3, 7, 24 ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

3 - what’s your favorite candle scent?

i´m a sucker for a good scented candle and pretty much anything that´s not on the too sweet side is right up my alley. that being said, i´ve been burning a citrus sage candle in my bathroom for the past couple of weeks and it´s lovely!

7 - what color brings you peace?

i love a nice green. nothing bright and crazy, but more of a warm, moss-y, olive kind of green.

24 - what’s something you do to de-stress?

cook, eat, get cozy, have a cup of tea or a glass of wine and either read or watch something on tv that i´ve already seen a hundred times before. preferably in that order.

soft asks to get to know people