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Weekly Press Briefing #14 - September 25th - October 1st

Welcome back to the Weekly Press Briefing, where we bring you highlights from The West Wing fandom each week, including new fics, ongoing challenges, and more! This briefing covers all things posted from September 25 – October 1, 2022. Did we miss something? Let us know; you can find our contact info at the bottom of this briefing!

Challenges/Prompts:

The following is a roundup of open challenges/prompts. Do you have a challenge or event you’d like us to promote? Be sure to get in touch with us! Contact info is at the bottom of this briefing.

Trope Soup: A Josh/Donna Tropes Fest is open for prompt submissions and claims. The deadline was extended and fics will be revealed on Saturday, October 22. Learn more here.

The October 20 prompts in 20 days are up on Tumblr.

 Photos/Videos:

Here’s what was posted from September 25 - October 1.

Bradley Whitford posted BTS photos from The Handmaid’s Tale, including one of him doing the splits at Commander Lawrence’s desk and one of him cuddling with Max Minghella. 

Dulé Hill posted photos from his family’s Disney Cruise.

Allison Janney posted a photo of herself on set for the movie Lou. Amy Landecker posted a photo of Brad with Margo Martindale.

Marlee Matlin posted photos of her family dropping her daughter off at college as well as a photo post for National Daughters Day. 

Marlee Matlin posted a photo of herself with Daniel Durant and Troy Kotsur at Dancing With the Stars.

Josh Malina posted an edited image of himself with a shofar for Rosh Hashanah and a photo of himself and his sister for her birthday.

Donna Moss Daily: September 25 | September 26 | September 27 | September 28 | September 29 | September 30 | October 1

Daily Josh Lyman: September 25 | September 26 | September 27 | September 28 | September 29 | September 30 | October 1

No Context BWhit: September 25 | September 26 | September 26 (2) | September 27 | September 27 (2) | September 28 | September 28 (2) | September 29 | September 29 (2) | September 30 | September 30 (2) | October 1 | October 1 (2) 

@JanelMilfoney: September 26 | September 28 | September 29 | September 30

@down_brad_: September 25 | September 26 | September 26 (2) | September 26 (3) | September 27 | September 27 (2) | September 28 | September 29 | September 30 | October 1

@thefinestmuffin: September 25

Edits/Artwork:

#JOSHDONNA i don’t want you like a best friend by @joshlymoss [VIDEO EDIT]

#TWWCAST: all my heroes by @teresalisbcn [VIDEO EDIT]

#TOBYANDY: i knew you’d come back to me by @jenniferjolie [VIDEO EDIT]

Miscellaneous:

Dulé Hill and his wife Jazmyn Simon have a picture book coming in May of 2023.

The casts of Veep and The West Wing are teaming up for a live-streamed event for the Wisconsin Democrats on Sunday, October 9.

 Creator Spotlight:

Each week, we talk to a fandom creator and ask them questions about their work and their process. You can follow our twitter if you want a chance to ask questions of them, too! Want to be a featured creator? Find us via one of the methods listed at the end of the briefing!

This week’s creator is @joshatella (on twitter and on ao3). You can find the spotlight on tumblr or on twitter.

This Week in Canon:

Welcome to This Week in Canon, where we revisit moments in The West Wing that occurred on these dates during the show’s run.

Season 4, Episodes 1 & 2: 20 Hours in America (Part I and II) aired on September 25, 2002.

Season 7, Episode 1: The Ticket aired on September 25, 2005.

Season 1, Episode 2: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc aired on September 29, 1999.

Season 5, Episode 2: The Dogs of War aired on October 1, 2003.

Editor’s Choice:

It’s 20 Hours in America week, so while our guys walk this off a bit, here are some of our favorite fics and hidden gems set during or just after the episode.

“Quit whining."  from my other half was you by sam_writes_fics | Rated M | Josh Lyman/Sam Seaborn | Complete | a collection of sam/josh prompt based ficlets

A Whole World, Bit by Bit by Dipenates | Rated G | No characters tagged, but focuses on Josh Lyman | Complete | Back from his road-trip, Josh thinks about politics. And Sam. Episode tag for 4.1-2 "20 Hours in America".

stuck with nowhere to go by perfect_little_fool  | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | “In your apartment,” she recalls, craning her neck back to squint at the sky as they walk. “I think I was changing your bandage on your chest and you, uncharacteristically, became very grateful and thanked me for helping you. Then you made some comment about how if you were stranded on a desert island one of the things you’d want with you was, well, me.”

Josh is looking at her, but she’s pointedly not looking at him. For reasons. “Because you’d be the one to get us off of it,” he finishes, nodding his head like he remembers the exact conversation. It’s few and far between that Josh illuminates his feelings about her, even if they’re strictly professional and platonic, but when he does it feels nothing short of a miracle.

Her heart is pounding again. “Yeah. You’re lucky to have me.”

(or, the one that asks and answers: what if it was only Josh and Donna who'd been left behind by the motorcade? just the two of them?)

Back to Earth by ETraytin | Rated T | Donna Moss, Josh Lyman | Complete | Donna's trip to Indiana with the campaign ended up being a lot longer than she planned. The day after isn't looking to be much shorter.

20 Hours in America by PrettyPretty [archived by westwingfanfictioncentral_archivist] | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | Post-Ep to 20 Hours in America

20 Hours in America [The Acheinu Kol Beit Yisrael remix] by seekingferret for elrhiarhodan | Rated T | Toby Ziegler, Josh Lyman, Donna Moss | Complete 

These Things in My Head by Ryudoowaru | Rated G | Toby Ziegler | Complete | Toby's inner thoughts

Fics:

Presenting your weekly roundup of fics posted in the tag for The West Wing on Archive of Our Own. If you are so inclined, please be sure to leave the authors some love in the form of kudos or comments. Be mindful of posted warnings/tags for each story.

Josh/Donna

wherever you go (i follow) by hanyolo | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

Give you my wild, give you a child by StealtheRest for WitchyPrentiss | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

31 Days of Halloween by sam_writes_fics | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

plant a little happiness; let the roots run deep by flowersinapril | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

A Different Lens by eowyn_of_rohan | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

Brand New Day by Shinyrosa | Rated T | Complete

always thinking you're behind me by cleansl8 | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

Abbey/Jed

Wait For Me by imperfectirises | Rated M | Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet | In Progress

Holding Hands by Thedoctorsblogger | Rated M | Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet | In Progress

Miracle by imperfectirises | Rated M | Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet | In Progress

Other Pairings/Gen Fic

it started off with a kiss... now it ended up like this by imawkwardlysoc | Rated G | Sam Seaborn/Original Female Character | In Progress

The Manchester First by pipisafoat | Rated G | Josh Lyman, Ron Butterfield, Original Characters | Complete

Pressing Her Luck by freshtart | Rated T | Danny Concannon/C.J. Cregg | Complete

Figures of Speech by Darsynia | Rated T | Toby Ziegler/Original Female Character | Complete

The Language of Healing by silasfinch for justdreaming88 | Rated M | Ellie Bartlet/Original Female Character(s) | Complete

Multiple Pairings

those people keep on movin' (and that's what tortures me) by jazzjo | Rated G | Andrea Wyatt/Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg/Andrea Wyatt, C. J. Cregg/Andrea Wyatt/Toby Ziegler | Complete

(so romantic) on the borderline tonight by jazzjo | Rated G | Andrea Wyatt/Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg/Andrea Wyatt | Complete

don't you love farce (my fault I fear) by jazzjo | Rated G | Andrea Wyatt/Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg/Andrea Wyatt, C. J. Cregg/Andrea Wyatt/Toby Ziegler | Complete

The Girl from Madison by Shinyrosa | Rated T | Donna Moss/Sam Seaborn, Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

Not Quite the Parent Trap by eowyn_of_rohan | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Ainsley Hayes/Sam Seaborn | In Progress

your best-kept secret (and your biggest mistake) by rearviewmirror | Rated T | Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet, Jed Bartlet/Leo McGarry, Abbey Bartlet/Leo McGarry, Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet/Leo McGarry | Complete

Red, White, and Boo by fleurfemme (Scream crossover) | Rated M |  C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler, Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Dewey Riley/Gale Weathers, Ellie Bartlet/Sidney Prescott | In Progress

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What’s next?

[claret-ash]

- HOLY DIVER -

[s-dei]

holy shit khadgar

[panfaristo]

[boilingheart]

"why is anduin 40" have none of you seen a 25 year old man before

[missadacackle]

Ada and Agatha's Birthscroll

Okay, so I do not know if this has been done before, but I was overstimulated this morning and needed something to focus on and after a lot of puzzling, I believe it took me about three hours I came down to the following.

(it's a lot of reading and I'll try to keep it as clear as possible)

Lets just start off with date and time of birth, from Ada and Agatha.

What I managed to figure out is that the scroll says

Agatha Cackle was born at [time]

Ada Cackle was born at [time]

to Alma Cackle

I'm not sure if the scroll says "on" or "Date" both could be possible, and is followed by "Tuesday/Thursday 27th December 19.."

I will get back to whether it's Tuesday or Thursday in a moment, but first the year.

In s1e10, The Mists of Time, Ethel says "What if I have to spend the next fifty years with you." and Ada and Agatha are in this episode most likely around the age of 11/12. The oldest they could be would be 15 as in s4 Maud has a statement that I cannot quote right now, but to which we can assume that Cackle's has 5 years, in which the 5th is exam year.

If we calculate from 2017 when The first season of the Worst Witch was filmed, does that mean they were born somewhere between 1950 and 1960.

After quick research I found out that only times the 27th of December, in the decade between 1950 and 1960, fell on a Tuesday or Thursday were in 1955 (a Tuesday) and in 1956 (a Thursday).

And then if we assume that Ada and Agatha were in the mists of time Episode 11 years old, they would be 61 in 2017, which comes down that their date of birth is on Thursday, December 27th 1956

This means Ada and Agatha are both Capricorns.

Next I tried to figure out what time Ada and Agatha exactly were born

In the picture, zooming in a little, the first number after Agatha's name seems to be a five.

Okay, so they're born at 5AM (in the U.K they use the 24 hour clock, so if it'd be 5PM the scroll would say 17h)

Then comming to the exact minute.

The numbers aren't quite clear but we know from Agatha's quote "Mother only gave you the school because you're thirteen minutes older" that there must be a gap of 13 minutes. Agatha's numbers are most clear and it looks like 5:04 which would match with Ada's times, which look like 5:17.

(also I just noticed the scroll said "on" before the date)

To figure out what the ohter information was on the scroll I needed another picture.

Out of this picture I could make up that under "Birthscroll" it says "Twin Witches"

Together with the other two pictures used before it looked like underneath that is writen "Black Crow" + something I could not figure out yet.

The first captital letter looks like a D, followed by probably an o

This made me conclude that ithe words after Black Crow is probably Doctoral or Doctorate, something along the lines of that.

Under the Black Crow Doctoral/Doctorate we have a picture and from what I could see, it looks like an Baby/Angel on either a cloud or something else similair. I could not get a clear view on what it was, nor could I find good referentical pictures so this is just a speculation.

Then before we have Agatha and Ada's name, something else is writen. After viewing different pictures and zooming in, I think it says "This certificate states that" or something similair to that, if we look at how much space it occupies on the scroll.

Now we nearly have the entire scroll

At the bottom the scroll states something and I could not figure out what exactly, though after doing enough puzzling I managed to figure out that the scroll says "In Witness Whereof" and further it's unreadable.

The stamp seems to be having two babies in it, and under the stamp there is a autograph, which of my guessing and after doing research to these birthcertificates must be from the register.

---

And then we have the entire scroll

Birth Scroll

Twin Witches

Black Crow Doctoral/Docorate

[picture of the baby/angel]

This certificate states that

Agatha Cackle was born at 5:04

and(?) Ada Cackle was born at 5:17

To Alma Cackle

On Thursday 27th December 1956

In Witness Whereof ....

---

Peculiar I find that only Alma's name is on the scroll. I tired to do my research to this, but I had a throbbing headache when trying to figure this out, so with that research I did not come very far.

I simply concluded that Ada and Agatha's father was already out of picture/had already passed away when the twins were born, but this information could be incorrect, so if anyone knows, please let me know,

---

I dearly hope that this was useful. It's not very logical since that several episodes *after* Miss Cackle's birthday it's halloween.

But I feel like logic misses more often in The Worst Witch series.

Thank you for reading this all.

Some other pictures I used:

[wrathion]

"why do you still have this url if your title says you moved?"

unfortunately i made this tumblr account when i was like 13 when i was super fixated on wow, so naturally the main blog of this account is this one, my wow blog. i would make dedicated fandom blogs whenever i found a new interest, with my personal blog, @hyaesia, for everything else

in recent years though, i've moved to almost exclusively posting on hyaesia, because running fandom blogs is exhausting and i honestly just want to reblog things i like, post my art and call it a day!!

which sucks, because tumblr doesn't let you change your main blog. so when i send my mutuals asks or like their posts they see it from wrathion and might not know it's me

which is...basically why the title is what it is, it's shorthand for people who know me as my personal handle & a nudge to follow me there vs here for more general content

i'm still very much active on this account, and i'm still very into wow! i fell out of it during shadowlands and most of dragonflight, but my love for this game is here to stay & i still love interacting with wow content online ^-^ this blog is not dead, & i'm not planning on killing it soon

[howliteart]

Likelihood of dracthyr having Priest as one of their new classes? 🤔 I will admit I'm very tempted by double jump and Soar. I might actually race-change my main.

But then comes the hard part....... bronze dragon or (moon-touched) netherwing.......

[haaam-guuuurl]

But why haven't we gotten a West Wing spin off about Charlie Young's presidential campaign/ first term yet?

[onekisstotakewithme]

"I want you to do what you want. Take the job at the White House, I just want you to talk to me about it. I want us to talk about what it'll mean and how we'll make it work. I want us to talk like we're gonna figure it out together. I want us to talk... because I like the sound of your voice."

[politicalprocrastinator]

Anyway I kinda hate how quickly our culture moves on nowadays where media cycles turn over so fast Rachel is officially saying goodbye to a film that only came out three months ago

[anduln]

WOW MAINSCREEN OFFICIALLY CHANGED FROM DF TO TWW JUST FELL TO MY KNEES

[ismisetk]

Imagining WW Characters being introduced to Noah Kahan’s music:

Likely story is that Gus is the one who hears the songs first and he and Zoey absolutely love them and just know it’ll fit their weird and wonderful family.

Zoey gets some interest first from Ellie, Liz & CJ but it’s when she tells Josh & her dad about the line: “I’m mean because I grew up in New England”, they start listening as a joke fully intending to be insufferable about it and with one song it cuts through quicker and more accurately than any of their therapy

(Which Zoey knew would happen and was biding her time because she loves them but also wants to hit them over the head with a frying pan with how stubborn they can be.)

Then everyone gets in on it (they all should be in therapy lbr) and absolutely relate too hard but love it anyways. Jed grudgingly admits people from Vermont can actually do good things. Abbey never lets him live it down.

Thus follows my interpretation of the characters as songs/what I think they’d resonate with the most. If you can guess my top 5 characters, who are basically all tied, you get a cookie:

Ellie is so Paul Revere, bit of No Complaints too

Liz is New Perspective and Growing Sideways (& Mess too)

CJ is You’re Gonna Go Far, No Complaints & Paul Revere (and a little bit of Orange Juice, esp towards the end of the series and what I imagine life was like after - yes, I have so many thoughts)

They all think of Leo during Orange Juice though

Abbey/Jed & CJ/Danny are Everywhere, Everything

Zoey/Charlie & Josh/Donna are Halloween

Abbey on her own is Everywhere, Everything too but also No Complaints and Save Me (& a bit of Paul Revere)

They are all Northern Attitude

Jed is Homesick, View Between Villages - Extended & Save Me

Josh is Homesick and Growing Sideways

Donna is Call Your Mom

Charlie is Stick Season and Maine (and a little She Calls Me Back)

Zoey is Homesick & All My Love

Danny is Your Needs, My Needs & Strawberry Wine

Toby is Come Over

Leo would be Dial Drunk & No Complaints (and Northern Attitude would have really resonated for him)

[sniperct]

also to the surprise of noone, hallowfall is my favorite zone thus far and almost makes me want to change someone back to a human (almost), despite the ringing deep being BASICALLY the deep roads, complete with red crystals,crystals sprouting out of people, people hearing creepy singing and a dwarf named varric

Other thoughs, that is CLEARLY A *REDACTED* INSIDE A *REDAAAAACTED* and earlier thoughts from Thursday the *REDACTED* effectively no longer existing due to *HOLY FUCK REDACTED* that's a huge *REDACTED*

[boilingheart]

i have GOT to get this spicy wranduin fic FINISHED already i've been sitting on it for a YEAR

[sesshy380]

Had a very 'WTF' kind of day yesterday, but coming home to a smooth early access expansion launch for WoW really helped to unwind.

So far I have found the story to be very engaging, and I can't wait to keep going today (before 3 days of upcoming nightmare with the idiot at work). I made it just 1 bar shy of 3 levels in the 3 hours I played last night, and that's just following the main story!

It's not much of a spoiler what happened to Khadgar at this point, but I'm hoping his 'absence' isn't permanent. I like to believe he was just transferred to somewhere else. You can't just get rid of a beloved character like that (though still miffed at the shitty Shadowlands ending they did for Arthas...he deserved better).

There was one not-expected sacrifice, and I was like 'Noooo! I was just starting to like that character! You can't do all this stuff to make me like this character then just have them die like that!!!'. But it really helped make the story that much more engaging.

There was something I've noticed when doing a lot of the quests (so far). There are a lot that are reminiscent of quests from earlier expansions. I'd be doing one and then go 'Oh! This is just like that one time in Borean Tundra!'. There were also a few that kind of reminded me of a few quests in FFXIV (specifically ARR portion, though it could have just been the setting/aesthetic of the one area I was in at the time).

Okay, enough rambling. Pic of my Draenei hunter, Kanika, and her two loyal kitties, Shadow and Ice, during the last few moments before the beloved city of Dalaran became an expansion casualty.