#otp: tww

[jiminysjournal]

I found out, via r/thewestwing, that Creggler has more works on AO3 than Cr3ggCann0n, and that's all that matters.

[hollygl125]

Dulé Hill, Janel Moloney, and Bradley Whitford in THE WEST WING (1999-2006), “A Proportional Response” (01x03)

I don’t think we’re allowed to make up our own words.

[unseenacademic]

[hollygl125-tww]

so do those two people from CSI get together or are they just like that?

This is such a totally delightful ask! (I mean, who doesn’t want an excuse to talk about their OTP! But also this is undoubtedly way more than you wanted to know, because who doesn’t want an excuse to talk about their OTP!) Thank you so much, @andmethefivefooter! 💛

Although it probably goes without saying, this answer is spoiler-laden.

Very short answer:

They were just like that for a really, really, really long time. Then eventually they got married. Then they got divorced. Then they got married again.

Slightly longer answer:

These two rival Josh and Donna in the length of their slow burn. It was quite a roller coaster ride. 🎢

She showed up in the second episode of the series as a nebulously-defined “friend” of his from San Francisco. (They’d met about two and a half years earlier at a forensics conference. I say they slept together at the conference, but that’s headcanon.) They were eye-fucking by the third episode. She tried to get him to go to dinner with her in season 3; he shot her down. But season 4 confirmed what we all knew: that he was just as into her as she was into him.

We found out at the end of season 6 that they’d gotten together at some point (later revealed to be about a year earlier). Season 8 confirmed he’d loved her the whole time (just as she had him). They got engaged. A few episodes later, she left the show, and we finally saw them kiss onscreen for the first (the first!), ever-so-heartbreaking time. Then he left the show in season 9, and they reunited in the Costa Rican rainforest (and kissed for a second—much happier—time!).

She came back to the show starting in season 10, and we found out they’d married offscreen. He never came back, though, so the incredibly unimaginative writers (very poorly) split them up during season 13. They ultimately reunited in the TV movie series finale that followed season 15 and literally went off into the sunset together on his (soon to be their) boat.

They returned together for the first season of CSI: Vegas, and it was confirmed that they’d remarried. They were flirty and loving and kind and supportive and beautiful and perfect and basically a shipper’s dream. And, at the end of the season, they finally kissed for the third (yes, third!) time (on a roller coaster, no less).

(This is my best GIF-set for an overview of the first fifteen years of their onscreen relationship. This one shows every time—yes, all three!—that they kissed.)

So, in sum, that’s something like the equivalent of eight full seasons of TV they spent onscreen together, and there were all of three kisses, two marriages, and one roller coaster ride. But, anyway, they’re amazing, and I love them. 💕💕💕

[lithiumseven]

Josh and Donna sharing a beer during the Stackhouse filibuster is everything to me. Her reaching behind herself for it and making impatient gestures, him trying to take as big a sip as he can before he passes it over, the fact that they’ve clearly done this before, ugh it’s incredible

[badwolftay]

a very, very carefully curated playlist for all of the joshdonna glances, emotions, plots, and feelings!

[fixomnia-scribble]

OH GOD these two and this scene.

And I love, love, love that these actors are such great buddies still. The whole dang cast (well, okay, most of the leads.) This was a once in a lifetime show.

*yearning*

DONNA MOSS AND JOSH LYMAN King Corn (6.13)

[malkaleh]

OTP asks, bullets 1-5 (all or just whatever you feel like answering):

when I started shipping it if I did:

my thoughts:

What makes me happy about them:

What makes me sad about them:

things done in fanfic that annoys me:

CJ/Danny my beloved <333333.

when I started shipping it if I did: my vague memory of this matter is that I started shipping them pretty early on in my TWW viewing - like I just really liked them!

my thoughts: OTP OTP. Genuinely, the chemistry, the everything, the way that actually Danny is the bond boy in this story, he’s the heroine in a romantic comedy. I love that for him. And CJ gets to have the pretty emotional support journalist.

What makes me happy about them: That canonically they have at least one daughter like YES THANK YOU DELIGHTFUL. (Your baby flamingos are canon to me actually)

What makes me sad about them: hell was the journey (that they had to go through) also that I never got to see both Bartlets give Danny The Talk re their daughter (this is a silly obviously the idea of a shovel talk is Not Cool and so forth but also sometimes my brain wants protective parents)

things done in fanfic that annoys me: I once read a take somewhere about Danny being a misogynist/abusive and I just…no. Please no. I honestly mostly just read fic pretty selectively these days so I haven’t seen much that annoys me other than that (oh also the ‘CJ doesn’t love him as much as [character]’)

[thebreakfastgenie]

9, 11 for the fandom positivity asks 💜

9. a ship that isn't your OTP but that you enjoy

Well, with MASH I don't have an OTP, so every ship I like is kind of this. I guess a ship I think about less but enjoy would be Charles/Hawk. For TWW probably Josh/Joey or Sam/Mallory.

11. if you're a writer or artist, what fic or piece of art are you proud of making?

In terms of fic, I'm proud of hills like white elephants (MASH) and The Emergency Room (TWW). In terms of art, assuming edits count, this MASH edit and this TWW edit. Wait also. This Star Trek edit.

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

i have fallen into the deepest, most endless spiral this week and if you’ve been following me for a while then it’s really your fault, all of you, for sending me such great fic requests and giving my stories kudos and comments and just, so much love. 

because my background noise rewatch of the west wing sucked me in and brought back all the feels and now i’m in season 5 and three days ago i found myself compelled to start rereading my old tww stories (and my gosh, i still love them so much and reading them just gives me this overwhelming sense of i was a great writer once...where did that go) 

and then when i ran out of tww fic i dove into odaat where i still can’t believe i went from ‘wtf i did the thing’ as i tried to canonize a ship i’d never written before to writing the most stories for that otp on ao3 by a lot. i’ve gone so deep into my archive i’m back into izombie and the blacklist (the show broke me but i’m so proud of what i did there) and i’m about to finally go back to tdbm for the first time in ages because those are all the stories i have left.

and idk if this means i miss writing fanfic specifically when i was going to try and get back to noveling next month let alone if it means i could actually return to writing fanfic, it’s been such a long time and the confidence in my old stories just radiates out of them and i don’t feel that way now, i don’t feel so connected to the worlds i love or like my own versions are that clear to me anymore .

but all i’ve been doing for three days after a truly terrible doctor’s appointment and when i’m not busy with chores or sleeping in the middle of the day thanks to depression meeting fatigue meeting my monthly ADHD meds gap has been this rereading where i cannot tear myself away from living back in a world i stole and then recreated to be in reality. and i don’t know what that means but i know it means something.

[fixomnia-scribble]

The office weirdos are at it again.

God, I miss them.

[unseenacademic]

Which Plantagenet Do I Most Remind You Of?

The West Wing fic. Jed is excited about a play, but Abbey doesn’t share his enthusiasm. Takes place during “The Black Vera Wang” (3x20).

Written for The West Wing Wheel of Destiny Drabble Challenge @twwpress My prompts were Season 3 and Jed.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

1x10 / 3x12 / 7x17

[freedomqueen]

Here’s to the second chapter!!!! 🥂😄

[badwolfskiss]

This is me right now. I only discovered west wing last week and I’ve watched 6 1/2 seasons in that week. All for Josh and Donna. This show is like a drug and it’s impossible to not just binge the last of season 7 but imma gonna crash hard when it’s all over

i’m watching the west wing for the first time and I just started a week ago and I’m already 62 episodes in someone send help

josh and donna are basically all I can think about and I’m not going to last until season 7. How did people do this in real time

[yourlocalcreativeproblem]

I am deeply obsessed with whatever the fuck CJ and Toby's relationship is