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saw a woman so beautiful I cried (it's allison janney it's always allison janney)

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some alternative eras of lady normalgirl and her eunuch <3

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why is sansa stark hating so common. like she's a little girl. she's terrified, she's trapped, she's being handed from one pedophile to the next, she saw her dad's head get cut off, she's alone, all her siblings are dead, her mom is dead, she's 11 years old, she's supposed to be making rubber band loom bracelets and listening to one direction, she's just a kid. all the most evil characters in the book hate her for no reason other than she's ned's kid. she's also a very smart, polite, and kind girl. she's preppy in the first book, but her greatest sin is what? being a girl? being a little girl? being a bit snooty (which she quickly gets beaten out of her anyway)? yall are horrible

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you're not turning your fandom hobby into a job are you? giving yourself deadlines and quotas that you have to meet? focusing on the numbers instead of your enjoyment of the act of creation?

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TWW Pride is intended to encourage creation of queer fanworks and help to form community and support for queer creators in The West Wing fandom.

This year, TWW Pride is extending the event through all of pride month! Prompts begin on Sunday, June 1st, and continue through Monday, June 30th. Any fanwork posted within these dates and tagged with #twwpride25 or included in our Ao3 Collection will be included as part of the event. At the end of every day and week, we’ll be posting round-ups of everything created, in addition to an end-of-month masterpost. Feel free to join our Discord to talk with other creatives in the community. Anyone who participates in all thirty days of Pride Month will be added to our Hall of Fame!

A massive thank you to @bartletslesbians for help with prompt generation!

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For Pride Month, one prompt will be provided per day. These prompts are primarily intended to generate inspiration, so if your creative process takes you elsewhere, you are still welcome to share regardless of the day.

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FAQ

What do you consider a queer fanwork?

Whatever you consider to be queer - and in whatever form (fic, poetry, gifs, edits, art, etc) - so do we. This is an inclusionary event, and here will be no policing of identity or creation. While any maturity rating is welcome, all we ask is that content is appropriately tagged for its platform (AO3 or Tumblr).

Do I have to wait until the month begins to start writing/drawing/editing?

You can begin creating as soon as you’re ready, but only content posted during the month will be counted for archival purposes.

How closely do I have to follow the prompts?

The prompts are inspirational, not compulsory. Any queer fanwork is welcome this month, regardless of if they fit into the prompts!

How do I make sure you can find my work when I post it?

If you’re posting on Tumblr, be sure to use the tag #twwpride25 so we can reblog and promote it! On Ao3, you can find The West Wing Pride Week collection here! A question we missed? Ask us right here!

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Following up a career and era-defining fantasy franchise leading role with a steadfast commitment to playing weird little freaks.

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The good news: you get to pick your new soulmate! (You can define "soulmate" however you want: platonic/romantic/partners in crime/etc. But they will be in your life, constantly.)

The bad news: you don't get to pick where they come from.

Spin this wheel until you get a fandom with characters that you recognize. As soon as you do, stop. One of those people* is going to be a constant presence in your life, whether you like it or not. So choose wisely.

*broadly defined

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Haven't posted in literal years but here's a quick concept for Flint that I did ages ago and never posted

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on it, boss 🫡

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— H OF H PLAYBOOK, anne carson (insp.)

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some things about sunrise on the reaping/the hunger games universe i'm thinking about today

haymitch was close friends with katniss's father when they were teenagers... how many times did haymitch see her at the hob or around town and do a double take?

burdock everdeen is lenore dove baird's distant cousin, meaning katniss is connected to lucy gray's bloodline... literally snow's worst nightmare come back to haunt him, down to genetics

reaping day is on the fourth of july. idk what else to say about this one i think we're all on the same page about this

katniss wanting wiress, beetee, and mags as allies despite over half of the victor tributes wanting to pair up with her... the three victors who helped haymitch win his games

haymitch, the victor of a games with twice as many tributes, bringing two victors home as a mentor in the 74th games

despite having the most tributes and therefore the most deadly, with the least odds of survival per tribute, the 50th hunger games had the most alliances out of any other games

beetee's son being a tribute in the quell- i know we're all there already and it's been talked about endlessly but i'd like us to recall in catching fire when katniss tells the reader that the children of victors are reaped at a disproportionate amount... ampert was not the first nor was he the last. how many tributes were reaped to punish previous victors? "you tried to take away control from the capitol... look what we can take from you"

the circumstances of ampert's death: mutts that were engineered just for him, just for beetee, designed to literally strip him of anything that made him recognizable while they killed him. beetee and his family didn't even have a body to bury, just a pile of bones

we also know that at the end of sotr, beetee's wife is pregnant, but when beetee comes to district 13 in mockingjay his is alone. was his family killed in the uprising, or was yet another one of his children sent to the games as punishment for beetee's actions before and during the 2nd quarter quell?

effie was the last person haymitch saw before the games began. she came into his launch room before he went into the tube... she was the last face he saw, the last person he touched, before the games changed him forever. she was the last person to know the "old" haymitch

maysilee didn't even like the mockingjay pin- it wasn't a beloved token that had a deep meaning to generations before katniss. it meant nothing until katniss made it mean something- until madge, maysilee's niece, made it mean something

gale mocking madge for wearing an especially nice dress and trying to present herself well on reaping day, and her defending herself by saying "i want to look nice if they send me to the capital" - maysilee being scorned by haymitch for her nice clothes and her necklaces until he realizes it's her own way of rebelling against the capitol... "i am going to make you see me as human too if it kills me" (they all try to dress their best for reaping day but gale & haymitch were bothered by madge & maysilee’s clothes as a status symbol)

haymitch mentions that hattie used to tell him "fire is catching", which later became one of the slogans of the rebellion via katniss's propos with plutarch

haymitch's token being a flint striker, and katniss being the girl on fire. katniss inciting the rebellion by succeeding at the exact task at which haymitch failed- destroying the force field. she wasn’t special, she was just in the right place at the right time and got enough support

we've always seen the quarter quell as a way of snow getting back at katniss for her rebellion in the 74th games, but after sotr we know she is hardly the first victor to rebel against the capitol. beetee was already a rebel in his own right, wiress and mags were instrumental in haymitch's victory in the 50th games, we can infer from johanna's characterization as loud and outspoken and certainly less than palatable to the capital's propoganda that she may have had a less than ideal (to the capitol) history... how many victor tributes were reaped on purpose? how many of them won their games through an act of defiance that was covered up?

similary, we know plutarch's plan with katniss was similar to his plan with haymitch... but surely they weren't the only two. how many other tributes, district 12 or otherwise, did plutarch and co. try to use as weapons, simply by being victims of circumstance? how many families of rebellious tributes, whether they were victors or not, were punished, because they went along with plutarch's plan thinking they had nothing left to lose seeing as they were probably going to die anyway? so much of haymitch's games was covered up and rewritten to hide his defiance of the capitol,,, how many other games were significantly or almost entirely fabricated by the capitol because of "unruly" tributes? was any of it real?

anyway i may be reaching with some of these but suzanne collins just gave us so much to think about with sotr!!! i've seen some dissent about how some of sotr disrupts the canon of thg but i think that's entirely the point... none of what katniss knew about haymitch's games was real to begin with, it's just what was fed to her by the capitol.

don't let media literacy die friends there are too many stupid people in the world already!!! mwah

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Jon, Theon, and Jeyne, the underdogs of Winterfell coming together to save it and take it back is something I wanna see SO BADLY.

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Last Line Meme

Post the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

Thank you @bartletslesbians for tagging me!!! Sadly it was nothing The West Wing related, and I'm going with two fics I'm currently in the middle of!!!

“My husband was meant to create a way to reeinvite Nassau to the Empire--” she heard Mr Hands spit on the floor, which did confirm he was listening, even if he was pretending not to. “My husband planned to introduce the pardons--” “Is your husband the Governor?” Pete asked. “No, my husband was incarcerated and killed by having the exact same plan brought forward. I was almost killed, and incarcerated when I went to Charlestown for the exact same plan.” “You presented this plan?” “I went to Charlestown with Captain Flint, as he introduced the plan to the--” “His bruja…” Jim murmured, making the sign of the cross.

The other one is...

They were still holding each other when she heard Miss Bonny growing restless, and arguing with Charles, she pulled apart from the children and James and moved back into the house, Charles raising to her, leaving where he was pushing the keys in the harpsichord, his hand on her back quickly. “The child is coming soon.” “Not long now,” she agreed. “This is taking too long,” Miss Bonny complained.

Tagging: anyone who sees this and wants to join in!!!! I'm sorry I haven't been active and engaging on tumblr for too long, and I'm not sure who's still around!!!

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BOOK ARYA STARK || Family ➸ Catelyn Stark

She wanted Riverrun, not Acorn Hall; [Arya] wanted her mother and her brother Robb, not Lady Smallwood or some uncle she never knew. (Arya VIII, ASOS)

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“Lady Catelyn wants her daughters.” Tyrion pushed himself down from the bench, letter and map in hand. (Tyrion V, ACOK)

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Camp Straight is a man who exhibits some or all of the common characteristics of a Camp Gay but is heterosexual. Rackham is foppish, not very good in a fight, and more cultured than normal for a pirate, but he’s only ever shown to be interested in women.

BLACK SAILS APPRECIATION WEEK day four: tropes