#joshsam

[sabeedraws]

Little Sam and Josh sketch I finished on my PHONE, idk why that worked so well lol but whatever

"Hi Josh, It's good to see you"

Never forget ExoJosh

[lassie-farce]

Watching Sam and Josh trying to start a fire in a fireplace only to discover it’s been welded shut for over a century (S2E11) makes me wish there was a camping episode where these 2 try to survive a day in the woods

[starship21zedna9]

I've started watching The West Wing for the first time since it aired. And I was in grade school when that show started. I always shipped Josh and Donna but Josh and Sam didn't occur to my young, foolish mind. Totally seeing it now though. And it doesn't take away from Josh and Donna. Josh has two hands etc. etc.

Also seeing some crazy tension between CJ and Toby that I definitely didn't notice when I was 8.

[gabiisfics]

I don't have much experience but I really want to make several aesthetics of Until Dawn ships, Canon and non-Canon, I think I like at least most of them, advantages of being multishipp

[sparklygraves]

just a small moment that sent off my joshsam alarm: s2 when Sam goes into a tv studio for some kind of interview & he’s friendly with the reporter & the guy asks him, “How’s Josh?” doesn’t ask about anyone else at the office, just Josh. it just gave me, “How’s your husband?” vibes.

also side note: this is Ainsley Hayes’ first episode!! I’m so stoked cuz I heard an interview with the actress on the west wing podcast & she & her character seem so cool!

[hawksredrobe]

new joshsam fic for y’all to enjoy!!

Once Josh has finished his last phone call confirming reservations, he springs up from his chair with an air of triumph and wanders into the hallway. “Donna, you’re looking at a man who just scored. I have a date with a certain gentleman for this Saturday night. Exclusive. No phones, no pagers, fancy hotel. Unreachable.”

or

josh tries (with limited success) to plan a hotel assignation with his stupid sexy boyfriend. slice of life joshsam.

[lassie-farce]

Me writing fanfic

Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

[22degreehalo]

So, I've gotten an entirely random new obsession: The West Wing.

Yeah, the tv show from the early 2000s about the White House. :') (er... no current political relevance intended. We just started rewatching in my house since we'll be going to Washington D.C. later this year to visit family...)

I watched it the first time a few years back but I absolutely do not remember very much of that, lol. I suspect I just wasn't paying a whole lot of attention? I enjoyed it somewhat, but around the end of season 3 I kinda got tired of it, so we gave up.

But I had no fandomy interest in it whatsoever. My one attempt at that was, after falling for Joey Lucas, looking up Josh/Joey fanfics on Ao3, and being immensely disappointed to find very few :') at which point I wrote off the fandom as having bad taste

Wellllll I had another go at it, and have developed an appreciation for some ships! :) Leo/Jed(/Abbey) is an easy one, but I've also been reading a Lot of Josh/Sam. NGl, at first I felt... weirdly guilty/embarrassed about it, because it felt very much like a 'pick two conventionally attractive men and smoosh them together' kinda ship, and I'm continually ashamed that I am in many ways the generic fujo who just always favours m/m.

But... I am in fact enjoying myself :') Josh and Sam are both great characters in their own right - Josh with his canonical trauma and guilt complex, Sam with his earnest vague autisticness, and I like the show and it's always fun to dive into canons with really unique settings/styles, and the pairing offers many many MANY opportunities for pre-canon canoodling, pining, and secret relationships (and optimistic glimpses into the future!), soooo I've been reading a lot :')

I still don't feel a HUGE amount of attachment to the ship itself - it's something obviously non-canon, and doesn't have a lot of depth to its dynamic in the canon (aside from those flashbacks in In The Shadow of Two Gunmen), and neither really have anything much to point to in terms of queerness (though it is interesting they've both had an episode arguing in defence of queer people). I still feel a bit... cliched fujoshi shipping two random man characters with nothing going for them.

But. Maybe I should just accept myself on that one? Is liking 'basic' m/m ships really that much of a crime?

Anyway. We're on season two and I just got to the episode where everyone's needling Josh about asking out Joey buuuut the writers had already realised that Josh/Donna was gonna be endgame and torpedoed JoshJoey just so they could support this will they/won't they that WON'T for at least another like 5 seasons >:( JoshJoey had plenty of time to get together and be fun and cute before ultimately parting ways for career reasons or whatever!!!!!!!! I know the writers couldn't have known that but idk they should have been psychic. And in the meantime I have my JoshSam lmao.

[lassie-farce]

If the writers were not cowards we’d get an episode on President Sam Seaborn and first Dude Josh Lyman but the entirety of the episode would focus on Secret Service’s efforts to keep him from accidentally killing himself via clumsiness.

At the end of the season the only ones opposing reelection would be his security guards bc how is this man still alive?!

[illbisexual]

꒰ Lorelai; she/her, 15, writer, reader, professional freak ꒱

Fandoms include (💌 - most likely to be written for)

꒰ until dawn 💌 ꒱

꒰ life is strange 1 💌 ꒱

꒰ life is strange 2 💌꒱

꒰ the quarry ꒱

꒰ the walking dead game ꒱

꒰ arcane ꒱

꒰ yellowjackets ꒱

꒰ other socials 🐇𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒🤍 ꒱

꒰ untilzaun on twitter ꒱

꒰ furciillo on tiktok ꒱

꒰ bloodyymarie on tiktok - less active there ! ꒱

My favorite characters;

꒰ life is strange 2; Sean, Daniel, cassidy, finn, hannah, lyla, Karen, Jacob, ingrid ꒱

꒰ life is strange 1; warren, Kate, max, Nathan, Victoria, courtney, alyssa, joyce ꒱

꒰ until dawn; Emily, Jessica, josh, Ashley, matt, beth ꒱

꒰ the quarry; nick, Jacob, Emma, Ryan, kaitlyn ꒱

꒰ twdg; clementine, Louis, Violet, Ruby, Lee, duck ꒱

꒰ arcane; maddie, jinx, ekko, felicia, sevika, Mel, ambessa ꒱

꒰ yellowjackets; mari, misty, Travis, javi, shauna, Jackie, akilah ꒱

Favorite ships;

꒰ until dawn; emjess (retrygirls), emmatt, emjosh, joshsam, bethsam, hannahsam, samashley, jossammike, mikejess, emmattjess (retrytrio) ꒱

꒰ arcane; timebomb, madcait, melora, catcouncil, meljayvik, melvik꒱

꒰ life is strange; marshfield, grahamfield, sassidy, mcdiaz ꒱

i hope u enjoy my content <3

[lassie-farce]

of course. everything in the name of research. gotta be prepared for anything. just in case the south Indian business treaty requires them to know where exactly lie the dimples on the deputy communications director’s back, or that the deputy chief of staff’s breath hitches as small bites and kisses are placed at the nape of his neck.

ya know. research.

Do you wonder if the Deputy Chief of Staff and Deputy Communications Director ever explored each other's bodies

[the-hipster-nugget]

Saw a text post saying this was them and I wholeheartedly agree. JoshSam for life have I mad made it clear how much I love them yet

[sparklygraves]

[seaborns]

hello! i've been reading your joshsam fics on ao3 and as a fellow avid joshsam stan i just wanted to thank you for your service to this terribly underrated pair <3 my fav was while we are young men and i left a comment there but i just wanted to thank you on another front!!

-@hawksredrobe <3

ahhh this is such a nice ask to get, thank you so much for your comment and for taking the time to read them :’)

[qvid-pro-qvo]

another prompt: samjosh + late nights

it’s in a sleepless haze that josh looks over at sam, and maybe for the first time, truly sees him.

he doesn’t know why now. there’s nothing particularly special about tonight. a deadline they have to meet. a bill that has to be signed. a speech that has to be written. there’s been plenty of nights like these, where the caffeine has long since gone cold and the hours wind on and on. they don’t seem to be any closer to their goal than they were five hours ago, but there’s a comfort here anyway, because while there’s nothing special about tonight, there’s something special about sam.

maybe it’s the light, the new LEDs really playing tricks on josh’s eyes. maybe it’s the fifth (sixth, seventh) cup of coffee. but there’s something there that josh hasn’t seen before.

because an hour ago sam’s laptop died, and yet the guy hasn’t stopped writing. he takes out a pen and paper and keeps at it. surely his hand should be cramping by now, but with each stroke he seems more determined, more incensed, more…. sam.

his hair’s loosened from its careful styling. josh’s fingers twitch. right there. that’s where he’d kiss him, if he could.

weird thoughts. but all centered around him.

sam.

sam. sam, sam, sam.

“hmm?”

the veneer shatters. sam looks up, looks at him, and josh realizes his thoughts have been spoken aloud. and as sam looks at him, josh can’t help but look right back, frozen, pen between his lips.

“wha’sat?”

“you…” sam blinks. confused. eyes bleary. he’s been broken from something sacred, and josh curses himself for doing that to him. “you said…”

“right. i was just -“

“right.”

the two of them sit there, in the glare of new LEDs, in a kitchen that in two hours will have breakfast on display, and stare at each other.

see each other.

“we should really go to bed,” josh finally murmurs. “i - i gotta call holihan in the morning.”

“it is the morning,” sam replies, and there’s a quirk to his lips that makes josh laugh.

“right,” he says again.

neither of them bother moving. josh looks, and sees sam, and he thinks, with that little smile, sam sees him, too.

“sam?” he says. their eyes are already meeting, but there’s a sharpness to that gaze that wasn’t there before. “i’m - i’m really glad you came to new hampshire.”

and sam grins. which josh wishes he never had to stop seeing.

“me, too, josh. me, too.”

[i-find-the-beauty-in-chaos]

josh x sam gifs I paired together. Not sure what kind of AU this is, just vibes I guess