halfamoon | Entries tagged with the west wing

Title: An Optimist Makes Opportunities

Author:

maidenjedi
Fandom: The West Wing
Character: Ainsley Hayes
Rating: G, no warnings
Summary: Ainsley Hayes, at the end of her first week, with all her doubts and misgivings - and hardly a thing to eat in the fridge.

Prompt: Day 8 – "Food and drink"

Ainsley's quirk about food in the show has always stood out to me. I wrote this for the Wayback Exchange in 2019 and thought of it immediately on seeing the "food and drink" prompt. I used the act of rummaging through the refrigerator for how Ainsley processes all her experiences so far.

Story on AO3

maidenjedi

Title: To the Future in the Distance by Maidenjedi
Fandom: Star Wars
Characters: Kaydel Ko Connix, Leia Organa
Rating/Type: All ages, gen
Summary: Kaydel Ko Connix goes to work for Senator Leia Organa.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14463780

Title: If Your Dreams Do Not Scare You by Maidenjedi
Fandom: The West Wing
Characters: Donna Moss, CJ Cregg
Rating/type: All ages, gen
Summary: Donna joins the Bartlet campaign, and meets a woman who helps change her life.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18833365

Title: An Optimist Makes Opportunities by Maidenjedi
Fandom: The West Wing
Characters: Ainsley Hayes
Rating/type: All ages, gen
Summary: Ainsley Hayes, at the end of her first week, with all her doubts and misgivings - and hardly a thing to eat in the fridge.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18785728

mammothluv.livejournal.com

Quick, there are awesome women on TV and you need to watch them! These are my top eight women, plus several honorable mentions, in my TV watching life thus far. They're brilliant, y'all. I think you should get to know them.

Fandoms: All My Children, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Grey's Anatomy, Homicide: Life on the Street, Saving Grace, West Wing, Wire in the Blood

(seriously, it's important...)

sunclouds33.livejournal.com

I thought I’d make the next five female character into a theme and talk about the women screwed by canon- even if I’m not doing the thematic 30 Days of Awesome Ladies that I’ve seen circulating. Mind you, these are women who were screwed by canon but who I still adore despite their late addition warts. Also, while I may have issues with the futures of some of the other women on my list (**cough CJ Cregg, Hermione Granger, Dagny Taggart and Lilah Morgan**) or stupid-ass creative decisions (**Dana Whitaker and Kaylee Frye**), these following women have more serious degeneration problems. I completely adore all of them and celebrating them is a big part of my posts. However, I can’t talk seriously about them without their writer-induced degeneration playing a big role.

This will be in two phases because I have a lot to say which goes from I have so much to say that I can't say it right now to I've got to read about agriculture and you're not with me and go to hell. That's a hint for a character on this list, btw!

( For now, Abbey Bartlet, Jo March and Willow Rosenberg )

sunclouds33.livejournal.com

I've been admiring the 30 days of Female Characters posts. I know I'm a little late to the party but I thought I'd post five women a day to write about all of my favorite female characters in books, movies and TV before this event ends. I'm also not a big sci fi genre person although I'm open to it. So most of my favorite female characters are kind of underrepresented in this journal.

( CJ Cregg, Erin Brockovich, Elizabeth Bennet, Peggy Olson and Scout Finch )

averita.livejournal.com

Hi there! I took advantage of the 30 Days of Female Characters meme that was going around, only I wasn't really up for all 30 days so I wound up combining it into one picspam. If you'd like to check it out, it's here on my journal!

chaila43.livejournal.com

In November, I did a 30 Days of Awesome Women meme (though I cheated and did 32 days), with a post a day about my favorite female characters, including a little discussion about each, pics and recs. Here are links to all the posts.

( Links to 32 posts about awesome ladies )

sunclouds33.livejournal.com

( They Call Her the Jackal: Top 10 Reasons why CJ Cregg is Best TV Character Ever )

chaila43.livejournal.com

roselafleur at

withaddedsyrup has graciously made me a batch of icons for the

helphaiti auction, including a few under-iconned awesome female characters.

15 Julia Sugarbaker (you know you need these in your life)
5 Designing Women group shots
12 West Wing, including Abbey, CJ and Abbey, and Nancy McNally

Go here for the awesome

stargazercmc.livejournal.com

One of the reason I love The West Wing is because it is chock full of incredible, independent, beautiful women who revel in their femininity while putting their would-be alpha male peers in their place when the need arises. So for

halfamoon, I decided to dust off the PS skillz and celebrate these wonderful, wonderful women. Aaaaaand I'm getting it in JUST in the nick of time.

Icons are in alphabetical order according to character.

Enjoy.

Previews:

~+~

( 48 icons behind the cut: )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John

bluflamingo.livejournal.com

Title: Traveling On
Author:

bluflamingo
Fandom: The West Wing
Pairing: Gina Toscano, Zoey Bartlet
Rating: PG
Word count: 3769
Summary: Ron Butterfield asks her, when he puts her in charge of Zoey Bartlet's security detail after the bar incident, why she wants this post.

Traveling On

ariestess

Disaster
Babylon 5/Glee, Susan Ivanova & Sue Sylvester friendship, PG13
Summary: After a bombing, Susan Ivanova and Sue Sylvester must rely on each other to escape unscathed.
Chance Meeting
Poltergeist: the Legacy/The West Wing, Alex Moreau/Ainsley Hayes, PG
Summary: It started out innocently enough.

Current Mood: creative

damelola.livejournal.com

Title: The End of the Conversation
Author:

lauriestein
Rating: PG
Pairing: Sam/Laurie
Spoilers: Up to 4x16 "California 47th"
Disclaimer: Not mine! Owners retain their rights, I'm merely borrowing and no profit is being made.

Summary: Words are eventually all they have left. Once Laurie leaves Washington, Sam doesn't give up on her. Then he tells her he's going to Orange County. Prompt written for

halfamoon for

queenbookwench

Read it here

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock | Powered by Last.fm

arefadedaway.livejournal.com

Song: One Girl Revolution (Battle Mix)
Artist: Superchick
Fandom: Multi-fandom, 89 in total
Details: 3:18 minutes, 54.7 MB, avi
Summary: How about a 155 girl revolution? (No, that's not a typo.)

Download and streaming links (here) at my journal, as well as a full list of included fandoms.

(Mods: I've tried to include all the necessary tags, but it looks rather intimidating! Please feel free to edit down if you would rather.)

nomadicwriter

68 icons in total: 20 Alias, 4 CSI, 4 Due South, 12 NCIS, 8 Stargate SG-1, 8 Stargate Atlantis, 12 West Wing.

Samples:

Sydney Bristow

The rest are at my journal here.

Comments are appreciated, but I'm not particularly fussy about being credited.

musesfool.livejournal.com

title: Out of the Loop
author: victoria p. [

musesfool]
summary: They're locking her out again.
fandom: The West Wing
character: CJ Cregg
rating: g
notes: For

rynne, who requested CJ, frustration.
word count: 270 words

~*~

[Out of the Loop]

~*~

Current Music: Carissa's Wierd - Drunk With The Only Saints I Know | Powered by Last.fm

spacejaggy.livejournal.com

I've been wanting to look back at the shows with strong women characters which influenced me growing up (and which still do), so here they are. Photos are taken from wherever. I'm really sorry about not giving credit, I've just never done this before and some of these have been wandering around my hard drive for years. There are minor spoilers for Star Trek TNG and DS9, Earth: Final Conflict, Babylon 5, Firefly, Stargate: SG-1, West Wing, The X-Files, Criminal Minds, and The Wire.

To put this in perspective, I turn twenty-four this year (2009). I started watching Star Trek from about age seven or eight, then Earth: Final Conflict and X-Files around ten or eleven, Babylon 5 in early teens, and the rest spread out until all of Stargate in one long marathon this past summer and Criminal Minds and The Wire now. These ladies have really made an impact on who I turned into because I had few other strong female role models around me as a kid and teen. Certainly none in the trades, the active military, or aviation.

( Cut for photos and commentary. )

nestra.livejournal.com

The last post of recs from PolyRecs, fandoms N-X. That's all she wrote.

( Fandoms N-X )

thuviaptarth.livejournal.com

I'd wanted to do a new story (or two) for the challenge, but I'm not sure it'll be done by midnight tomorrow. I'll manage the time better next year. :) In the meantime, here are my previous stories about women:

* = intended to comment on gender or intersections of gender and race or class in the source.

( Original characters )

( One-shot/Very minor characters )

( Regular or recurring )

( Leads )

( The male gaze )

sundancekid.livejournal.com

I made several Keller icons from 4x16, "Trio," because she looked so darn pretty, and then I went through my "to be posted" folder and added a bunch more icons from various sources for

halfamoon -- so yay, women!

[1-9] Stargate: Atlantis
[10-14] Kristen Bell
[15-20] Friday Night Lights
[21-23] 30 Rock
[24] The West Wing

As usual, comment, credit, no hotlinking, textless icons are not bases. :)