Assorted Ramblings...

Snagged from zinke

When you see this, post an excerpt from as many random works-in-progress stories as you like. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

I'm sure I must have done this meme - or at least, something like it, before, but I'm buggered if I can find it. But I can say that any fics I may have listed before as being unfinished are now done and dusted (I hate letting a fic defeat me, and it hasn't happened so far!) - the ones I have languishing around now are ones I've started more recently and am having trouble finding the time and/or the inspiration to finish.

Of course, they're WW fics - and as zinke and I were saying last night, maybe it's becoming harder to write them the more time passes since the show finished. I think there's something in that and although we'll always have DVDs, finding time to sit and watch them is currently a real problem for me :(

( Anyway, on to the fics. )

Oh, and there is a little something bubbling away that came out of a conversation I had last night, but if I post anything from that, it'll give it away, so I'll keep that under wraps for now.

So ... what should I attempt to finish first?

With thanks to skywaterblue

Obama seeks some fatherly advice... from our very own Jed Bartlet.

BARTLET - Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.

God, I love that man... (well, both of them - Bartlet and Sorkin!)

From the NYT.

For anyone who's interested - or who isn't re-watching with us at ww_renaissance, I've finally gotten around to making a list of all the episode picspams I've done since we started.

It's here, if you're ever at a loose end :-)

Disclaimers: I own nothing, I’m making nothing… these wonderful characters were created by Aaron Sorkin and belong to Sorkin, Wells and NBC. I’m just taking them out for a spin and will return when I’ve finished with them. Although I might need to hang on to Josh for a while …

Being anally retentive about that sort of thing, I proofed it myself, so any mistakes are mine!

Characters/Pairing: Josh, Donna, Amy. J/D

Spoilers: Post series, so everything!

Rating: PG

A/N: Written for the 2008 sorkin_fest ficathon. The prompt was –

Amy at Josh and Donna’s wedding

- or Donna at Josh and Amy’s wedding. (Um. Yeah. Like I was going to write that one!)

A/N 2: Thanks and hugs to my fellow demented fangirls, coloneljack and zinke. They’re awesome – and they know why!


( She was well aware that there were some things about Josh she’d never ‘get’, but there were some ways in which she knew him far better than anyone would ever have given her credit for. )

There's a long list of prompts over at sorkin_fest here for anybody who feels the urge but needs the inspiration!

Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 are all represented, so head on over and see if there's anything you fancy - and grab it!

Disclaimers: I own nothing, I’m making nothing… these wonderful characters were created by Aaron Sorkin and belong to Sorkin, Wells and NBC. I’m just taking them out for a spin and will return when I’ve finished with them. Although I might need to hang on to Josh for a while …

Being anally retentive about that sort of thing, I proofed it myself, so any mistakes are mine!

Category/Pairing: Josh/Donna, ridiculously clichéd fluff. (Look at the date!!)

Spoilers: Up to the end of S4, I guess. Evidence of Things not Seen takes place at the end of March, so let’s put this shortly after that.

Rating: PG

A/N: I’ve been on a bit of an angst kick lately, so I thought it was time for some fluffy silliness.

It’s probably the daftest thing I’ve ever written. My natural instinct is to blame coloneljack, but then I remembered this: Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?

So I guess I’d better shut up.

A/N 2: Usual plaudits to my ‘crew’ - coloneljack for putting up with my many insecurities and slapping me about when I need it, and zinke for her helpful (and far less painfully delivered) comments.


( Did you know that April Fool’s Day is generally held to be a left over from ancient festivals celebrated around the vernal equinox? )

I watched Life on Mars last night - the West Wing episode, not the BBC series! and I was surprised by how much it got to me. I haven't seen that episode for a while, and I'd forgotten how much of an emotional punch it packs. When the screen faded to black I sat there almost stunned - despite the fact I've seen it and I knew what was going to happen in advance. I can't explain it really.

Also, I guess knowing that S5 isn't far away and that the summary butchering of the characters I came to know and love is about to happen casts a bit of a shadow over the end of S4.

Not that I'm an inveterate S5 hater. Of course there are things seriously wrong with it, especially at the beginning. I mean, Leo is practically unrecognizable; the way he bawled out CJ in whatever episode it was makes me cringe and want to scream. And don't get me started on Josh. And Donna. And Will! I loved S4 Will, but boy, did they screw him up.

But it wasn't all bad. Okay, so the resolution to the kidnapping was highly unsatisfactory, I still don't get the point of The Stormy Present and Full Disclosure was just - uh - to mis-quote Sorkin, forty-two minutes of my life I'll never get back. But we also got Abu Al Banat, The Supremes, Talking Points and the Gaza episodes.

I shall attempt to watch Jefferson Lives without throwing things ;-)

( Other telly ramblings... )

Even those of us on this side of the pond have been experiencing a strange sense of déjà-vu about the electoral race stateside.

The Daily Telegraph has neatly summed it up -

Barack Obama stars in The West Wing.

Did John Wells have a crystal ball? ;-)