#cj/danny

[atearsarahjane]

Happy Christmas y’all

[bartletslesbians]

The West Wing + text posts (21/?)

[thebartlets]

unhinged West Wing + text posts (pt 2/?)

[thebadphilosopher]

There are few TV couples that I think are 100% perfect for each other and Danny x CJ are one of them.

My only complaint is that the show didn't give them more scenes together.

[jessbakescakes]

ANNOUNCING: THE WEST WING TROPES FEST 2025: A fandom-wide prompt meme! This is a low-key, low-pressure prompt fest, and sign-ups are open now! More info here, but here's the gist:

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[onekisstotakewithme]

patience is a virtue... and Danny is one patient guy.

[yes-a-lame-llama]

art I didn’t post the first time around 😙

[anderperries]

buying a girl ants because she likes them when she actually likes plants 🤝 buying a girl a goldfish because she likes them when she actually likes the goldfish crackers

[occasionaloneshots]

Before the World Ended - Y2K

Random headcanons I have about the main 6 teens we got from the movie (Ash, Farkus, Danny, Eli, Laura, and CJ). When I say random trust that I mean there’s absolutely NO connection between them, they’re just things about the characters that are true to me.

Warnings: canon-typical alcohol and weed mentions, emetophobia and allergy mentions, death mentions, vomit mentions

Ash

Is a foster kid, but they’ve been with the same family since they were 13

RadioShack employee (and though they say they hate it, they firmly believe they have the best job out of their friend group)

Has seen every horror movie at Video MD at least twice, constantly drags Farkus to the theater for new releases

Desperately wants to go to film school but knows they can’t afford it so they haven’t told anyone (dreams of being a director, that’s why they’re so attached to their little camcorder)

Has an obsession with Reptiles, currently has a pet gecko that they take better care of than themself

Really struggles to differentiate between romantic and platonic feelings

Had a crush on Laura when they first moved to town, told no one

Smells like one of those cheap Jasmine bodycology sprays from the CVS mixed with cheap weed and spearmint gum

Farkus

Recently got fired from McDonald’s because he gave someone an almost completely raw McChicken (they were absolutely awful to him and he’d do it again)

Watches extreme horror to seem cool, but he doesn’t even like normal horror (secretly a rom-com enjoyer)

Scared of birds (especially vultures)

Was best friends with CJ until his mom married CJ’s uncle, then he suddenly dropped CJ with no explanation (he’s not sure why he did it himself)

Raised by doomsday preppers

Is actually extremely laid back, he’s annoying but there’s not a genuinely violent bone in his body. He really just wants attention

Ash and August banned him from talking about Space when he’s high because he’ll get so obsessed with the idea of aliens that he makes himself paranoid

Absolutely always has a pack of gum on him, can’t leave the house without it

Won’t drink vodka lemonades anymore after the pool incident of 1997 (he is also coincidentally also banned from the public pool)

Danny

Has extreme emetophobia

Allergic to cherries, stilled tried to tie a cherry stem with his tongue at 15 and ended up in the ER over it

Can get along with absolutely anyone, the only reason he’s deemed a “loser” is because he’s so attached to Eli he never tried to make more friends

Favorite color is pink and he’s very verbally proud of it

Collects postcards, he’s hoping to one day have one from every state and all of Canada

Despite Ash making fun of him using Tacobell, he refuses to eat there (he got food poisoning from a burrito in the 8th grade and hasn’t gone back since)

Has a major soft spot for animals, wants to be a zoologist one day

Vanilla Ice enjoyer (once tried to make friends with CJ over it and it went about as well as you expect it to)

Eli

Claims to use aftershave but it’s actually just his mom’s Vanilla body oil

Eats a lot of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream despite Mint chocolate chip being his favorite (Danny got them confused one time and Eli was so stoked that someone cared enough to randomly get him ice cream that he never corrected him. He’s slowly starting to prefer cookie dough anyway)

Irrational fear of sharks in swimming pools

Can’t stand Ash outside of work, but on the clock they’re his favorite co-worker (they’re so much nicer to be around without their friends there)

Orders Chicken Tenders absolutely everywhere, doesn’t matter what type of restaurant it is

Plans on being a movie critic one day, has no clue how to get into the field

Gets chronic migraines

Is secretly a really big reader, he can finish 3 full length novels in a month on top of his school work

Laura

There’s not a single thing Laura knows that her mom doesn’t, that woman is her best friend. If you tell her a secret, trust her mom will know by the end of the day

Bisexual, broke up with Jonas because she realized she had a crush on Raleigh

Hates the smell and taste of vanilla passionately

dreams of having her own IT company

Really struggles to stand up for herself, let’s her friends make a lot of choices for her

Sleeps at really weird hours, she’s basically nocturnal and often runs off of only 3 hours of sleep

Has a major fear of dying, she’s terrified of what happens after you die

Works at Abercrombie & Fitch

Collects Bath & Body works body sprays

Takes all her notes in glitter gel pen

CJ

Is the youngest of 4 kids and the only boy. His mom and sisters have him absolutely trained

Isn’t actually all that pretentious about music, he just fakes it so no one realizes that he only hates Limp because of Farkus

Has tried to befriend Ash when they wandered away from the group more than once, it’s never worked

Won the state wide poetry competition when he was 12 for a poem he wrote about his dad dying

Works at Orange Julius

Is lactose intolerant but still eats at least 3 blizzards a week anyway (then wonders why his stomach always hurts)

Refuses to eat hotdogs anymore because Farkus made him join a hot dog eating competition at 10 and it made him sick

Is Crawford’s go to guy for edibles, his family knows he’s making them but as long as he doesn’t get caught, they don’t care

People always assume he’s not listening so they gossip around him constantly. CJ knows the entire school’s business

Keeps hard candies in the pockets of his wind breakers partially to have something to fidget with and partially to have something sweet “just in case”

Almost got struck by lightning when he was 7

[fictionalcraze]

💘I was rewatching west wing for emotional support and I came across this scene and I just had to edit this one. Danny and CJ will forever be one of my favourite couples. Like the chemistry btw them, the slow-burn, the man danny is, ughhh I absolutely adore them. This scene sums up their whole relationship. Just danny being danny lol. I mean wht girl wouldn't fall fr a man like him, saying things like tht??

[dancingwithlamas]

Shout out to Gail the goldfish

[yutaspierced]

For my dear @silverhandy (behold, a very small scene from a show that shaped about 1/4 of my entire personality)

[bartletslesbians]

The west wing + text posts (10/?)

[dearemma]

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

favourite twdg villain?

I'm a fond enjoyer of the St. John's as villains. I don't know if they're my favorite just because they're only in one episode, but I love the concept of this family almost immediately jumping into cannibalism toward the start of the outbreak, dealing in human flesh to bandits, and casually feeding this group their friend's legs.

Like... what the hell was this family like before the outbreak that all three of them were like, "Hey now listen... nothing should go to waste, the dead are eating people so why shouldn't we? We gotta survive and in our defense, we only target those who were gonna die anyway... like y'all."

Dude, Mark was shot in this shoulder with an arrow. He wasn't going to die from that injury. It's so fucked that these seemingly friendly people took the group into their home and then fed them Mark's legs.

If we take the idea that everyone is infected and have the capacity within themselves to become walkers, to become monsters, then the St. John's were infected long before the outbreak, y'know? Not literally, but something was wrong with them and the outbreak just further spread that infection and changed them.

But again, are they my favorite? I dunno if I can say that since I have a lot more appreciation for Lily now. Yeah, some of her writing gets a little wonky in ep3 of TFS when she goes on her monologues and shit, but y'know what? I'm into it.

You have to remember who we're talking about and the fact that she's the antagonist; Lily isn't some anti-hero in TFS who secretly has a heart of gold that's brought to light because she reunited with Clementine... she's a fucked up woman who did fucked up things in the name of survival. She's full of rot now. She sees kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers to protect her home as a means to an end, but she doesn't actually give a shit about the people she's taking. They aren't people to her, they're as the episode title suggests, toys in her game. The only one she sees as a person is Clementine, and while that makes her hesitate at first, she sees Clementine's a prize to bring back.

She remembers what happened in S1; her father had a heart attack and as she tried to save him, Kenny smashed his face in with a saltlick and then expected Lily to just stand up and help him get back to his family because "he did what he had to, he made the hard choice." Yes, Larry was a piece of shit. No one liked him, and you can even question Lily on him and she'll tell you that he has a lot of pain. Yes, it makes him an asshole, but he's still her dad and he's all she has. I mean... the simplification is daddy issues, but in all seriousness, I don't doubt for a second that many of Lily's issues stem from Larry being a shitty father to her.

Then everyone thought she was losing it when she insisted there was a traitor in the group, which she was right about, but she was unstable. She was unwell, but how do you help someone like that when you don't have training to go about it? Then Lily ends up killing either Carley or Doug and the group turns on her, and either she's left behind or she steals the van and runs away.

Then we don't know what the hell happened to her until we see her again in TFS, but like... a lone woman with decay festering inside of her joining the delta? Exposing her to their methods? I mean, what else did she have to lose? She had nothing, she lost everything, and she has a lot of issues. Survival is easy when you're numb, when you don't care about the individual; they're all just cogs churning to make the system run, and if a piece doesn't cooperate, you get rid of it and find a new one.

Plus I think there's something to say about Lily not wanting to be perceived as weak again. That whole display she put on in the cells? Telling the story of what happened to Minerva and Sophie? I get the criticism that it feels like Lily did a 180 between episodes but like... yeah dude, because it's a performance. It's not just her and Clementine anymore. It's a display of power and authority. She's playing the part and thriving in it as she ensures everyone else is terrified of her.

But then when Clementine and AJ get the upper hand? Again, she's not afraid to play up the pleading to earn enough sympathy to spare her- hell, just to let their guard down enough to strike and get the upper hand again. I mean, she's got nothing else to lose, right? If she doesn't go for it, she'll be killed and sure, you can kill her anyway but at least she tried.

Honestly, I look at Lily in TFS and still see that scared little girl playing the tough bitch, just like Carley said in S1. It's just now escalated from "tough bitch" to a downright vile person. She's so... lost? I suppose? Lost within herself and the monstrous means she's taken to survive.

I get the criticisms of how she was used in TFS, but for me, it's like when people complain about Minerva not getting the redemption arc she supposedly should've gotten, y'know? There's no saving her. Lily was never on our side, and there was no getting her on our side. She wasn't ever going to redeem herself. Even if you spare her and she drifts away on her raft, can someone like her actually find redemption? Or will she just find another group that'll feed into her rot?

Truly, I say let her be horrid. Let her be the piece of shit villain with a few fleeting moments of humanity. Let her drown in the blood she's spilled.

[jessbakescakes]

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