Weekly Press Briefing #66: September 24th - 30th
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 24 - September 30, 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 hosted The West Wing Pride Week (@twwpride here on tumblr) September 17 - 23. More details here, and you can check out the AO3 collection here!
This Week in Canon:
Welcome back to This Week in Canon, where we revisit moments in The West Wing that occurred on these dates during the show’s run.
Season 1, Episode 2: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc aired on September 29, 1999.
Season 4, Episode 1: 20 Hours in America Part I aired on September 25, 2002.
Season 4, Episode 2: 20 Hours in America Part II aired on September 25, 2002.
Season 5, Episode 1: 7A WF 83429 aired on September 24, 2003.
Season 7, Episode 1: The Ticket aired on September 25, 2005.
Photos/Videos:
Here’s what was posted from September 24 - September 30:
Bradley Whitford posted a photo of his wife Amy Landecker along with a sweet message for her birthday.
Marlee Matlin posted a photo of herself with her daughters in honor of National Daughters Day.
Marlee Matlin posted a photo of herself and her sister getting their hair done together over FaceTime.
Marlee Matlin posted photos of herself with her sons in honor of National Sons Day.
Marlee Matlin posted photos of herself out on the ice for an NHL game.
Rob Lowe posted a throwback photo of him swimming underwater in the ocean.
Donna Moss Daily: September 24 | September 25 | September 26 | September 27 | September 28 | September 29 | September 30
Daily Josh Lyman: September 24 | September 25 | September 26 | September 27 | September 28 | September 29 | September 30
No Context BWhit: September 24 | September 25 | September 26 | September 27 | September 28 | September 29 | September 30
@twwarchive: September 24 | September 25 | September 26 | September 27 | September 28 | September 29 | September 30
@bestofcjtoby: September 24
Editors’ Choice:
Because it premiered this week in 2005, we’re rounding up some of our favorite fics that take place during or after the events of The Ticket (Season 7, Episode 1).
I don't wanna miss you like this (come back... be here) by WitchyPrentiss | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | This starts as the part in the rom-com where everything feels like it won’t end up okay and some sad song is playing as the leads go about their lives without each other - but bare with me because every rom-com has a happy ending.
Post the ticket, pre the Al Smith dinner
Title: Come Back Be Here by Taylor Swift
As Swords Go by thefinestmuffins | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | After his disaster interview with Donna, Josh gets some advice from Leo and does his best to makes amends with the help of emotional vulnerability and Chinese takeout.
Post-Ep Fix-It for The Ticket
see right through me by itwasit | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | Lou shoves him into the room with her and he’s not prepared. He doesn’t have his folder full of her quotes to remind him of why he can’t miss her. He doesn’t have his memories prepared, in the front of his mind, of the specific ways her leaving hurt.
taylor swift song fic (josh's version) (the archer)
Spoiling for a Fight at Midnight by LizaCameron | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | Josh and Donna finally fight it out, post The Ticket
You're Gonna Die Bloody (and All You Can Do is Choose Where) by onekisstotakewithme for daylight_angel, miabicicletta, Luppiters, hondagirll | Rated T | Danny Concannon/C.J. Cregg | Complete | 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.
Chianti by TheBreakfastGenie | Rated G | Josh Lyman & Toby Ziegler, C. J. Cregg & Toby Ziegler,Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Danny Concannon/C. J. Cregg | Complete | The bag hits the ground with her, and the bottle breaks, spilling dark wine all over the driveway.
He stares at the dark liquid spreading over the ground, staining the ice. It’s more purple than red, but it might as well be blood.
make
an honest stand by jazzjo | Rated G | C. J. Cregg/Kate Harper | Complete | Oliver Babish asks her, once, then again after a dizzying go-around, if she trusts Kate.
She does; she trusts Kate Harper with her life.
Please hold while we reblog with this week's fics!
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The 1869 solar eclipse gained widespread news coverage, including this full page article in Harper's Weekly. The newspaper reproduced some of the earliest photographs taken of an eclipse for its readers; much safer than observing with the naked eye!
Astronomers of the day set up solar telescopes to study the rare phenomenon for clues about our solar system, including whether the sun's corona consisted of a gaseous atmosphere like the Earth's, and whether or not another planet existed between Mercury and the sun.
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