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Briefing #17 - October 16th - October 22nd

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 October 16 – October 22, 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. Fics were revealed on Saturday, October 22. The collection remains open to submissions. Learn more here.

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

Big Block of Cheese Day is celebrating its one year anniversary with October’s prompts.

Photos/Videos:

Here’s what was posted from October 16 - October 22.

Allison Janney posted a photo from the Academy Museum Gala.

Allison Janney posted the trailer for her upcoming film, The People We Hate at Weddings.

Janel Moloney posted a photo of her son’s Flobsters.

Rob Lowe posted a photo of himself on a motorcycle taken while filming 911 Lonestar.

Richard Schiff posted a photo with The Good Doctor co-stars Freddie Highmore and Noah Galvin.

@JanelMilfoney: October 16 | October 17 | October 18 | October 19 | October 20

Edits/Artwork:

#JOSHDONNA: mastermind by @EditsbyLu/@thehellisL [VIDEO EDIT]

#JOSHLYMAN: everybody agrees by @sinistercherubs [VIDEO EDIT]

Creator Spotlight:

Each week, we will talk to a fandom creator and interview them about their work and their process. We’ll also give you the opportunity to ask them questions, 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 @thefinestmuffin on twitter and thefinestmuffins 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 1, Episode 5: The Crackpots and These Women aired on October 20, 1999.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Midterms aired on October 18, 2000.

Season 3, Episode 2: Manchester Part II aired on October 17, 2001.

Season 4, Episode 5: Debate Camp aired on October 16, 2002.

Season 5, Episode 4: Han aired on October 22, 2003.

Season 6, Episode 1: NSF Thurmont aired on October 20, 2004.

Season 7, Episode 4: Mr. Frost aired on October 16, 2005.

Editor’s Choice:

This week, we’re featuring some fics related to the episodes that came out this week in years past!

Season 1, Episode 5: The Crackpots and These Women:

let me give you pinky promise kisses by fleurfemme | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | Josh can't live with the guilt. Donna can't live without knowing how it would feel to kiss him.

“I’m not going to be brave,” he told her. “If something bad happens.”

“You don’t have to be.”

Voices of His Better Angels by nubianamy | Not Rated | Jed Bartlet/Leo McGarry | Complete | While the rest of the senior staffers eat chili, the President attempts to fix Leo's marriage.

to remember or to forget; by LookingForShadows | Rated G | Josh Lyman, Joanie Lyman | Complete | "What do you do with the memories of someone who's gone?" Josh thinks of his sister.

Season 2, Episode 3: The Midterms:

sacred new beginnings by JessBakesCakes | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | But now, he doesn’t need her anymore – or he shouldn’t, anyway. So she’ll go back to her apartment, and he’ll go back to work, and things will go back to normal, whatever the hell that means.

There’s something about that idea that makes his stomach churn.

Season 3, Episode 2: Manchester Part II:

Insomnia by orphan_account | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | Deleted scene from Manchester Part II. Josh can't sleep, so he goes to bother Donna.

Season 4, Episode 5: Debate Camp:

Maybe She Always Knew the Ending by IDreamofAJ [archived by westwingfancentral_archivist] | Rated T | C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler | Complete | Maybe she never really wanted him.

Season 5, Episode 4: Han:

getting caught up in a moment by payback16 | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | He looks up from the files on his desk and sees her leaning against the doorway, shrouded in soft light, a gentle smile playing at her lips, looking like she belongs there. Here. With him. It settles something in his chest.

or: donna ties his bowtie and promptly unties it

Season 6, Episode 1: NSF Thurmont:

all we know is don’t let go by mikaylawrites for defendingtheearth | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | Donna nods, but a tear slips down her cheek. Josh reaches for her, wishing he weren’t wearing gloves so she could feel his skin on hers. She grabs his hand with both of hers, clutching onto him with surprising force until the anesthesiologist puts her under and her grip slackens. He watches her eyes close, unable to tear his gaze from her face.

The last thing he wants to do is let go of her hand, but one of the nurses gently tells him he has to leave. They guide him out of the room, and the moment the door closes behind him, Josh knows.

He’s in love with Donna.

In which the events of the Gaza arc bring Josh and Donna together rather than drive them apart (and Donna’s mental health gets the attention it deserves).

Season 7, Episode 4: Mr. Frost:

does she mouth “fuck you” forever by JediAnnieScrambler for claudiasjeancregg | Rated T | C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler | Complete | he tells her. she doesn’t want to hear.

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

if you were in an accident by helsinkibaby | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

Books, Board Games, and Bow Ties by mlea7675 | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

Congresswoman Lyman Meets the Press by mlea7675 | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

leave what's heavy behind by WitchyPrentiss | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

OMG! They Were Roommates! by WitchyPrentiss | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

How Will He Find Me by Shinyrosa | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

Let’s Go Home by Shinyrosa | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

we are a wave of white noise by flowersinapril | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

darling, so it goes (some things are meant to be) by mikaylawrites | Rated M | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

You Deserve Better, Baby. by casliyn for thefinestmuffins | Rated M | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

the moon’s never seen me before (i’m reflecting light) by JessBakesCakes for thefinestmuffins | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

what the head makes cloudy, the heart makes very clear by phos3 | Not Rated | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

Jed/Abbey

out, out damned spot by jazzjo | Rated G | Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet | Complete

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

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

Inauguration by AndAllThatMishigas | Rated M | Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet | Complete

Other Pairings/Gen Fic

enumerated powers by jazzjo | Rated G | Evelyn Baker Lang & Christopher Mulready, C. J. Cregg/Evelyn Baker Lang | Complete

(taught me) how to fail by jazzjo | Rated G | Evelyn Baker Lang/Christopher Mulready | Complete

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

The Language of Tomorrow by silasfinch for justdreaming88 | Rated T | Ellie Bartlet/Original Female Character(s) | In progress

We’re Not Done Yet by krazykitkat | Rated T | Danny Concannon/C.J. Cregg | Complete

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

You’ve Got Time by youvebeenlivingfictional | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Reader | Complete

Pieces Form the Whole by eowyn_of_rohan | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Sam Seaborn | In Progress

Multiple Pairings

The Short List by mlea7675, Spybaby47 | Rated T | Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet, Alexandra Bartlet/Logan Huntzberger, Donna Moss/Sam Seaborn, Danny Reagan/C.J. Cregg, Helen Santos/Matt Santos | Complete

rewrite an ending or two by jazzjo | C.J. Cregg/Andrea Wyatt, Danny Concannon/C.J. Cregg

31 Days of Halloween by sam_writes_fics | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet, Josh Lyman/Sam Seaborn, C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler | In Progress

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

air force ones by rearviewmirror | Rated T | Zoey Bartlet/Charlie Young, Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, 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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