#tww cast

[regardstosoulandromance]

Allison Janney in a Roger Vivier tuxedo on December 6th, 2023

#Allison janney #tww cast #yes the photos are blurry that’s how they were posted

[romansroys]

#last post fr i promise #bradley whitford #janel moloney #those are my parents though 😭😭😭😭 #tww cast #the west wing

[donnaamoss]

shaking and crying my bffs 😖😖😖

#LIKEEEE #janel i owe you my life #tww cast #the west wing

[elliebartlets]

I love and miss them your honor

#the west wing #tww #the west wing cast #allison janney #bradley whitford #richard schiff #martin sheen #janel moloney #rob lowe #john spencer #dule hill #jimmy smits #alan alda #I miss them 🥺 #tumblr needs to let you add more pics there’s so many good ones!!! #also not interested in a relationship and hate people percieving me but I want someone to look at me the way bradley looks at rob

[idontshitpostbuttheolympicpark]

why wasn't joey lucas added to the main cast in s2, or even s4. I would even take her splitting amy's time. I know it's hard with a main cast of already 7+, but she made more of an impression in one episode than mandy did in a whole season.

#but just the way she complimented the rest of the cast #joey was the perfect combatant for josh in a way that no one else could keep up #and who can argue against more women #also: kenny #the way he seems like a character without taking the spotlight #as all good translators do #the west wing #tww #joey lucas

[onekisstotakewithme]

2023 Fic Masterlist

Happy New Year! It was my first full year of writing "The West Wing" fanfic and I loved every minute of it. Aaron Sorkin's work has me by the throat... so behold: the fic round-up for the year.

Works in Progress (WIPs)

An Idea, Whose Time has Come (3/20 chapters posted) - "Could always run for President." It’s been twenty years since CJ Cregg joined Jed Bartlet’s campaign, and with another election looming, Danny makes a suggestion: CJ should run for President. So she does. And on the campaign trail, along with a new staff, a hostile incumbent, and a familiar rival candidate, CJ also has to grapple with the legacy and impact of her twenty years in public service – good, bad, and ugly – while preparing for the most important election of her career. CJ/Danny, presidential campaign shenanigans. also side Josh/Donna, Will/Kate, lots of original characters. Some smut. 14k so far. (A present for my dear friend miabicicletta 💜)

CJ/Danny

None of Us are More Than Caretakers (12 chapters) - “The president’s dead.” Three weeks before Inauguration, things appear to be running smoothly. Transition is going (mostly) well, Kazakhstan is (mostly) stable, and CJ is (mostly) happy with how things are going with Danny. Everything is taken care of. And then former president Gerald Ford dies. Set between "The Last Hurrah" and "Institutional Memory". 66k.

Off the Record (22 chapters) - “And this… thing… would be…?” “Off the record.” (Or, one missing scene per episode). Season 1 missing scenes. 31k.

A Night to Watch - “So how does it feel, watching yourself become unemployed in real time?” Tag to Election Day Parts I & II. 6k.

Fallout - It’s only been a few hours, but already the dinner with Danny feels like it was an entire lifetime ago. Tag to "Duck and Cover." 3.1k.

our secret moments (in a crowded room) - Secret Dating. Tag to "Drought Conditions". Written for the twwpress Wheel of Destiny 500 word Drabble Challenge. 500 words.

The Fall - “What do you want, Danny?” “Saw you on C-SPAN this morning, Sundance. Wanted to see how you were handling the rise to power.” “You mean you wanted to see if the fall killed me.” Tag to "Liftoff." Butch & Sundance Part II. 2.6k

You're Gonna Die Bloody (and All You Can Do is Choose Where) - The hearings will turn over every rock in her life, every email, every phone call – and of course they’ll see Danny’s name – but she can’t drag him down any further. Tag to "The Ticket", "The Mommy Problem", "Mr. Frost"/"Here Today". Butch & Sundance Part III. 2.7k

Fight or Give - Glory days are over. Nothing left but the ending – nothing left but the fall. Tag to "Internal Displacement", "Requiem", "Institutional Memory". Butch & Sundance Part IV. 2k.

The Goal for Which We Long - And then she notices the note left in the middle of her desk. Not a note, really, but one of the dignitary bingo cards she’d passed out – the one she’d given Josh by the looks of it – with the middle row filled in. She wonders why Josh would leave it there, before noticing the handwriting along the top. Tag to "The Wedding". 5k.

Other/Gen

The Day on Which They Shall Give Their Votes - Election Day, 1998. As the votes come in, the staff of Bartlet for America waits with one question in mind: Who will be the next President? Pre-Canon. Gen. 3.3k.

When it Rains, it Pours - Or, what happens in the motel after they get out of the rain? Well, wet clothing mostly. Josh/Donna. Tag to "20 Hours in America" Parts I and II. Written for the "Woulda Coulda Shoulda: a Fest to Get Josh and Donna Together" challenge. 2.6k.

Two for the Road - “It was a tough race.” “They’re all tough races.” Or, doing the same thing multiple time and expecting different results (1992-2018). CJ & Toby friendship fic. Gen. 5.3k.

#the west wing #tww #cj x danny #josh x donna #cj cregg #danny concannon #and the whole cast and crew. #PLUS one more that i will be sharing tomorrow... written for an anonymous holiday exchange ;)

[bookdork1]

season 7 is just weird. its weird how often characters who are paid as series regulars are just not in multiple back to back episodes. its weird that they started pushing will and kate on us for no clear reason. its weird how little we see dule hill although this is not unsurprising given the rest of the show in which he was often ignored. its weird that instead of zoey and charlie getting married its instead ellie who her parents literally thought was a lesbian until she announced her shotgun wedding. its weird they finally let josh and donna kiss and then wait three freaking episodes to do anything else with them. its weird that rob lowe didn’t come back for the funeral episode when literally everyone else the show ever featured did. its weird he DID come back for the very next episode and nobody even mentioned leo he didn’t make an excuse for missing the funeral and josh didn’t ask. its weird he has no scenes with any of his old castmates except for josh and donna and he and donna are just standing near each other the only og actor who speaks to him is bradley whitford. its weird as HELL that richard schiff wasn’t in the final episode AT ALL. i know he got the pardon but we don’t even have a brief scene of him and andy and the twins watching the inauguration on tv??? its just weird.

#i know there's so much unknown drama right below the surface that went into the writing and cast of this season and I DON'T KNOW IT #but it want to #tww #the west wing

[beardedbarba]

annabeth schott was one of the best casting decisions in the history of this show

and that. that’s saying something

#The West Wing (NBC) #TWW (NBC) #The West Wing S6 #TWW S6 #TWW 6x14 #EVERYONE IN THIS SHOW IS PERFECTLY CAST

[not-poignant]

Do you view Gary/Ef as a 'fanfic' ship? Like... for me, Augus/Gwyn, Eran/Mosk, all the canon FT ships... whenever you wrote a different setup with them, I loved it, but I was sort of aware that it was a fannish thing. But somehow I don't get the feel here? Like I know Arden/Ef came first, but Gary/Ef feels just as canon, if that makes sense? Maybe bc the Rainbow verse is so fleshed out, idk, but I thought it was interesting and I'm curious how you feel abt it XD

Hi hi anon!

This one's complex, so I'm gonna try and explain how I think about it as clearly as possible.

To me, everything I write that's set in my own world with my own main characters is original fiction.

That includes the alternate universes, because those alt universes are canon within those universes. So what happens in The Wildness Within isn't canon for the main universe, but it's certainly canon to TWW, and not only that, but about 70% of the extra character details are canon to the main universe, they're just things I couldn't share there, for whatever reason.

On the other hand, if someone else wrote an FT story, it wouldn't be canon to anything at all, except for like, their own story.

I think of many of the Fae Tales AUs as being fannish in nature (they're serials, they go up on AO3, I'm pro transformative works, they show characters in different or new scenarios etc.), but to me they're still original fiction. I've never seen a single AU that I've written as a 'fanfic' ship, no matter how connected it is to the original canon (like The Nascent Diplomat and The Wildness Within which I think we can say are probably the closest to the original world, and the original canon).

However, when it comes to almost complete departures, where characters like Efnisien become almost unrecognisable compared to his original counterpart, I think of those as new worlds. For example, I almost never tag any of Underline the Black with 'fae tales AU' anymore, because it doesn't really mean anything. It's not helpful to newcomers. It's not useful.

Most of the cast never appeared in the canon. (This was also true for the main cast of Falling Falling Stars sans Efnisien - Arden, Gary, Kadek were all newcomers; for me, if a story is 75% new main characters and 25% one holdover vastly AU character, that's now another canon universe lmao).

But back to Underline the Rainbow:

Kadek, Gary, Anton, Flitmouse, Caleb, Faber, Nate, Janusz are all either original characters or were developed as original characters in AUs (like Kadek). Kadek, Caleb, Faber, Kent, and more aren't AUs of anything, they're original to the story. Characters like Gary, Anton, Flitmouse, Nate, Janusz were never anywhere near the Fae Tales canon, or the early Fae Tales AUs, and to me they have nothing to do with it. Which makes classifying Underline the Rainbow as a 'Fae Tales AU' make about as much sense as classifying it as an 'FFS AU' - there's about as much crossover in the characters, after all. And not only that, but main ensemble characters more fundamental to the canon - Ash, Mosk, Eran, Julvia, Gulvi, Augus, Gwyn, either haven't made an appearance (or been mentioned once), or have only been one or two chapters out of 50+.

Proportionately, the amount of characters remaining from the original canon Fae Tales universe stands at about 10%. If you had a dog that was 90% border collie and 10% beagle, you probably wouldn't call that dog a 'beagle AU' or a 'beagle cross' - you'd probably just start calling it a border collie with a weird grandpa. Falling Falling Stars is the same to me, honestly, because so much of the core cast was original to the story, and everyone else from the original series mostly got 'cameos' if they weren't Efnisien or Gwyn. I made a conscious decision to give more weight to original characters - even side characters we don't see much - Vicki, Bridge, Han Yuen, Leo, Nate, Janusz, Teddy, Mika, Gary, Arden, Kadek, etc. The story is nothing without them.

To me, this kind of process (10% og characters remaining) separates Underline the Black out into its own universe. It has very heavy, fairly robust worldbuilding for an omegaverse story (enough that I need to use worldbuilding software to keep track of some of it). I don't need to go back to the Fae Tales canon ever to write it (which I did have to do sometimes for The Wildness Within, and have very rarely had to do for The Nascent Diplomat). I don't need to go back to the Falling Falling Stars/Spoils universe to write it. It stands fully on its own, complete and contained.

Because it has some links to Fae Tales (Efnisien + Gwyn's family mostly), it still has like... a Fae Tales flavour. And now that I've started working on like completely original world stuff in the background, there is a difference.

But yeah no, for a start I don't consider any of it fanfiction, and it's weird when people do, because it's not fanfiction if it's something the OP is doing. We don't call comics by the same comic author - that happen to be different versions of the same world - 'fanfiction.' If the Russos direct two Marvel movies focusing on two separate characters, but the first character cameos in the second in a way that retcons the character's narrative, we don't call the second movie an AU of the first, or fanfiction of the first. It's still an original property.

Underline the Black and Spoils are both separate universes as both have like less than 25% of the original story/characters within them (Imho Iron Man is still Iron Man just because Loki or Thor cameo, or join the ensemble as minor characters). It could be that the Spoils universe feels less fleshed out to you because it's contemporary, for me they're on a similar keel. Especially because Efnisien was literally a 2 dimensional paper cut-out of a fae before Spoils who exists for like 5 seconds in the canon, and he bears almost zero resemblance to his originating character except in name, family and appearance. But certainly not in personality, origins, actions or capacity for growth - i.e. everything that makes the character a character.

But it is fannish.

Tl;dr: I definitely don't see Gary/Ef as a 'fanfic' ship. I don't see any of my AUs as 'fanfic ships' because I don't see any of my original writing as fanfiction even though it's fannish in nature.

If anything, Underline the Black is a Spoils AU, lol.

#asks and answers #spoils of the spoiled #underline the black #fae tales au #(lol) #fae tales verse #pia on fandom #pia on fanfiction #efnisien ap wledig #dr gary konowalous #one of the reasons you might feel that Underline is separate #is because i made a deliberate choice #not to bring Arden into the world AT ALL #and in a more standard AU #he'd be there in some other visible capacity #either matched off to someone else or like #just around #i didn't repeat the couple that most folks would write an AU about #and he's not even in the world itself #which does change the vibe #but i did the same when i transplanted Efnisien and matched him #with someone completely new in Spoils too #both to me were new / original worlds with cameos / guest star spots #vs. AUs like TWW / TND / QPP / Strange Sights / etc. #for me it's like...a percentages thing #but none of it is fanfiction #even though it's very pro fandom asdlfkjsa #bless your soul for not asking me about Temsen

[wolf-of-stormwind]

TWW An'ora: there's no “I” in ”team” However, there are six in “Fuck it, I don't care how big the room is, I cast fireball”

#world of warcraft #oc: an'ora sunstrider

[regardstosoulandromance]

the cast of The West Wing at the “National Day of Solidarity” rally outside Walt Disney Studios on August 22, 2023 in Burbank, California supporting the SAG-AFTRA WGA strike

#the west wing #huge day for annoying people (me) #allison janney #bradley whitford #janel moloney #richard schiff #martin sheen #kathleen york #tww cast

[romansroys]

screaming crying throwing up etc etc

#do you remember like years ago when brad went on vacation and took that picture of a 'josh' mug and a 'donna' mug together shajfjdjs #he gets it #anyway that's mom and dad #tww cast

[donnaamoss]

love you then, now and forever !!!!!!!

#CAN YOU BELIEVE #i literally haven’t thought about anything else all day like #gonna pretend she did this for me personally as a birthday present bc it sure feels like she did😌 #janel moloney #bradley whitford #tww cast #the west wing

[erinptah]

Annotated Ask A Character #1: Patrick

Annotated Q&A will be posted M-W-F for the next few weeks!

Patrick’s shows, in order:

Inspector Spacetime is the Community parody of Doctor Who. No surprise Patrick finds the Doctor expy relatable, even if it’s on some unusual levels. He also understands that Doctor/Master shipping is a thing, and hasn’t really grasped the details.

Whee! is a parody of Glee, which I also watched for a few seasons before dropping, for similar reasons. Although I got invested enough to follow the Autostraddle recaps (with all their refreshing snark) through to the end.

Slander is a parody of Scandal, which billed itself as “what if The West Wing with the cast of Leverage?” And then you slowly realize that all the politician characters are corrupt, all the “expert” characters are just passing the idiot ball around between themselves, all the wonderful heroes keep trusting and/or falling for the schemes of blatantly evil characters, when they don’t turn out to be secretly evil themselves…

I stopped watching after an arc where main characters imprison and torture each other. Then, uh, started watching again after I said to myself “what if I watch it with the expectation that everyone is terrible, and there isn’t a single TWW/Leverage-like character in the whole cast that I’d want to root for?” And then it was entertaining.

Camp Pining Hearts is a possibly-anime show-within-a-show on Steven Universe. We don’t see any full episodes, but from the way the SU characters describe it, it sounds cute.

Plus The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, which I watched religiously, but that doesn’t mean Patrick would.

Q: Patrick, what shows are you watching with Bianca and Sparrow, and which ones have you gotten particularly invested in?

Patrick: We’re watching a lot!

My favorite is Inspector Spacetime. I like how they portray someone who’s immortal and changes bodies every once in a while. I want there to be an episode where he gets together with his Master and they live happily ever after!

I watch Whee! with my Master. That’s the one about a high school dance club. Sparrow stopped watching because she got mad about how it handles, she said, “everything.”

And I watch the political drama Slander with Sparrow. My Master is the one who stopped watching that, because all the characters got too mean, but she said I should keep watching because Sparrow likes the company.

Sometimes we do marathons of older shows. We just finished Camp Pining Hearts — the dub, because I can’t read fast enough to follow the subtitles. It was okay.

Plus, my Master and Sparrow always watch the fake news shows together, and usually I ‘m in the room . . . Does it still count if I don’t pay attention? I never understand any of their jokes.

(Originally posted here on But I'm A Cat Person.)

[mihrsuri]

ask meme! can I...can I ask you all of them? (the one you made up with like five or so questions with emojis I mean) :D :D :D

🎬 which fic would you want to see made into a movie or tv show? (Assuming obviously this can happen) Go into details about why and what you’d want it to look like!

This actually has two different answers depending on the medium but I’m going to go with the mini series of Such A Time As This aka Jewish Anne Boleyn. I don’t know who I would cast (if anyone knows any Persian Jewish actors for Anne I would love to know so then I can make some specific self indulgent graphics) but I do know how I would structure it (eight-ten episodes). And that it would be released over Purim.

The creative team (writers, producers, costumers) is entirely Jewish/Mizrahi Jewish.

(Listen if I could age some actors back and you know do it, I would love to see the OT3 verse on screen though).

🎧 your favourite singer/band is going to write an album about a fic of yours - which fic and what would the album be like?

I mean Taylor Swift has already contributed so much to the Tudors Fandom I would love to see a Taylor Swift album specifically focused on the Tudors OT3 Verse. Like yes please where is my themed album it would be a banger. (Specifically about the OT3). I would also accept an album about the OT3 verse in general/some of the couples specifically composed by some of my favourite artists (Beyonce, Taylor, Olivia, Maisie, Maureen Nehedar).

🎨 what scenes from your fic(s) do you really really want fanart of?

Anything from Such A Time As This but specifically:

Anne in Persian Jewish dress, praying and echoing Esther.

Thomas Cromwell (in this fic he’s half Jewish) also praying

OT3 Verse (PLEASE)

Anne, Henry and Thomas all in bed together

Anne and her husbands with their children

Their wedding

There’s a specific moment involving Norwich that’s a spoiler but uh, THAT.

The one’s below

Mihrimah and Thomas’ wedding

🌌 the image that sums up [fic]

📓 list your current WIPs

Grishaverse Hunger Games (currently working on individual chapters for each character and trying to avoid picking a district for them except I know Nikolai :cough: Sturmhond is District 4)

Horse And His Boy Fix It (I have nothing at the moment but it’s something I would like to do)

Crown Of Ashes (It’s just all Norwich being The Worst and also Patrick Gibson is really good at acting/looking sad but brave and good)

Rewrite The Stars 2.0 (Trying not to listen to the brain weasels that say that no one cares about your stupid little niche AU ship dot gif)

Sam/Donna/Josh President Seaborn modern AU. I did have a line come into my brain. “They got married. Technically you could say it was illegal but no one paid attention to that in favour of gushing over the fashion”

TWW Hunger Games (Am I going to write more of this? I mean I don’t think so but if I did there are some ideas)

Tortall Found Family (I can be a better boyfriend than him and Jon of Conte is CORRECT).

CJ was kidnapped not Zoey AU (maybe maybe because @miabicicletta is an enabler I’ll write some of the background if it comes to me)

#meme #lils fic wishlist #long post #apologies but I HAVE THOUGHTS

[twwpress]

Weekly Press Briefing #61: August 20th - 26th

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 August 20 - August 26, 2023! 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.

@callixton is hosting The West Wing Pride Week (@twwpride here on tumblr) September 17 - 23. More details here! 

Photos/Videos:

This was a huge week in TWW media. Before we get to the regular round-up, we’re going to start with a mini round up of all of the photos and videos from the August 22nd SAG-AFTRA picket line event: 

Amy Landecker posted an Insta reel of Bradley Whitford speaking.

Devika Parikh posted a slideshow of photos with the cast from the event. 

Janel Moloney posted a selfie with Bradley Whitford from the picket line. 

Josh Malina helped organize the TWW reunion aspect of the event and posted a number of videos and group photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Kathleen “Bird” York posted photos from the picket line: 1 | 2

Kim Webster posted a slideshow of photos from the picket line with throwback photos from the show’s glory days mixed in. 

Mary McCormack posted a group photo from the event. 

Peter James Smith posted a photo round-up from the picket line. 

Richard Schiff posted a video of himself and his son being picket line captains at the Paramount gate. 

Here’s the rest of what was posted from August 20 - 26:

Marlee Matlin posted a video on her birthday.

Marlee Matlin posted a photo of herself and her friend Liz Tannebaum in honor of Liz’s birthday. 

Marlee Matlin posted a photo of herself with her brother Eric and her sister-in-law Gloria in celebration of Gloria’s birthday. 

Melissa Fitzgerald posted a photo of herself with her dog for National Dog Day. 

Donna Moss Daily: August 20 | August 21 | August 22 | August 23 | August 24 | August 25 | August 26

Daily Josh Lyman: August 20 | August 21 | August 22 | August 23 | August 24 | August 25 | August 26

No Context BWhit: August 20 | August 21 | August 22 | August 23 | August 24 | August 25 | August 26

@twwarchive: August 20 | August 21 | August 22 | August 23 | August 24 | August 25 | August 26

Editors’ Choice: 

This week's cast reunion has got us thinking present day/future fic thoughts! We already did a future fic roundup in a previous briefing, but here are a few more present day/future day fics to satisfy all your where-are-they-now cravings!

everything I need is right here by my side by WitchyPrentiss for flowersinapril  | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete |  Post series JoshDonna - wholesome married people who love and support each other.

dancing in a snowglobe ('round and 'round) by JessBakesCakes | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete |  Tonight, they’re celebrating the Inauguration of their dear friend Sam Seaborn, the newest President of the United States. They’ve been married for fifteen years, they have three daughters who are getting ready in their own bedrooms, and it’s just Josh with a pile of snowballs at his feet, standing on the sidewalk of their home.

//Snowballs, 20 years later

Heavy Days In June by Lily_Padd_23 for supernatural_mondler (starzinoureyes) | Not Rated | Josh Lyman/Sam Seaborn | Complete |  A glimpse at an alternate summer 2020 with President Seaborn in the White House.

Takes the Biscuit by Nemainofthewater | Rated G | No Pairings Listed (Gen Fic) | Complete |  Three times Josh is amused at the Leader of the Free World. And one time he wants to straight up murder him.

all i gotta do is say your sweet name by hufflepuffhermione for mikaylawrites | Rated M | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete |  "You’re not going to come out and hear me speak?”

Josh kisses her cheek. “We’ll be waiting in the wings, and then I’m taking you home.”

“Home?”

“Well, to the hotel here. We have two rooms…” he says, wiggling an eyebrow.

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October 2022. While surprising Donna on the campaign trail, Josh reads an article and finds a new word to describe his wife.

It seems like the new normal is a word count limit on posts, so we'll keep reblogging with the week's fic updates after the Editors' Choice section each week. Stay tuned for this week's fics!

#the west wing #tww #tww fandom #west wing #josh lyman #tww fic #donna moss #cj cregg #sam seaborn #toby ziegler