pinkand-yellow:

The West Wing - 4x18 - Amy Gardner

Amy: Am I being hazed? Is this a hazing? ‘Cause I’ll go along and everything but I have to see Josh again so…
Will: It’s not a hazing. They don’t do that. Except, yes, you put olives in my jacket again.
CJ: I did. I did put olives in his jacket but this is on the level.

(Source: thefinestmuffinsandbagels)

gigglemonster:

you’re cussing a storm in a cocktail dress
your mother wore when she was young
red sun saint around your neck
a wet martini in a paper cup
you’re a wasp nest, you’re a wasp nest

lyrics meme → wasp nest, the national → suggested by arbitrarily

(Source: slybrunette)

notabadday:

Posse Comitatus ⇒ May 22nd, 2002
10 Years Today

I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch,
But love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

thefinestmuffinsandbagels:

shelightsupwell:

AMY: You should stop being mad at me.
JOSH: I’m not.
AMY: You are. You know, I lost my job because of a strategy you organized.
JOSH: You lost your job in a fashion that ensured you ninety-three better offers.
AMY: That’s sweet of you to look out for me, but I liked the job I had. And when I lost it, I didn’t pitch anything. I didn’t stage a nutty. I fought you, I lost, I had a drink, I took a shower. ‘cause that’s how it is in the NBA. You know what I do when I win? Two drinks. I didn’t start consulting with Stackhouse to piss you off. There are things here I believe in.

- The West Wing, 4x03 “The Red Mass”

pinkand-yellow:

I fought you, I lost, I had a drink, I took a shower. ‘Cause that’s how it is in the NBA. You know what I do when I win? Two drinks.

I’ve been meaning to do some Amy babbling for a while now. She is my favorite character of all time, and she just generally means a lot to me as a young woman trying to work in social justice. She was a huge part of my formative years of deciding what I wanted to do and be and what was important to me. Which basically means I get intensely defensive of her as a character that gets a lot of hate in the fandom.

The quote above basically defines Amy. She knows who she is and what she believes in, and she knows what she is going to fight all out. And sometimes she’s going to lose, she’s going to get hurt, she’s going to screw up, but then she gets up, takes a shower, and has a drink. She is what I mean when I say I want strong female characters. I mean I want women with flaws and strengths who feel like real people. She’s unyielding and she’s stubborn, but while it can be a flaw, it’s also not a bad thing. Amy doesn’t come to policy from the same position as Josh and the other senior staff. Her job is to advocate on behalf of women. That’s it. Better than the other jackass doesn’t really do it for her, and it shouldn’t. Yes, she has to make political decisions and compromises, but sometimes you just have to put it all out there and say this is going to screw over women, I know why you’re doing it politically, but that doesn’t make it ok, the lesser of two evils isn’t going to cut it.

JOSH: You can’t win the White House while the middle class thinks you disdain work and responsibility.
AMY: I would hope not, and I congratulate you for punishing poor women as the symbol of the strength of mainstream values.

We need people like Josh, but we also need people like Amy. We can’t leave everything to the opinions of the majority, which means there has to be room for people who aren’t worried about re-election. I always get a little defensive at the implication at the end, when Santos offers Amy a job, that what she was doing wasn’t real work. That the only way to make a difference is to get in there and make changes from the inside. Amy is smart and talented, but I’m not sure that’s the world for her.

And this became a rant about a very specific part of Amy, but it’s part of why I love her, and it’s why I want to do social justice advocacy and not work in government, so you know, feelings. I love Amy Gardner, she’s smart and funny, and I like her face.

thefinestmuffinsandbagels:

fightcoldwithcold:

JOSH: How you doing?
AMY: I’m freezing.
JOSH: Where are you?
AMY: I’m at my front door.
JOSH: Well, go inside.
AMY: I can’t, I’ll lose you.
JOSH: You’ll never lose me, Amy.
AMY: [beat] Please don’t say that.
JOSH: What do you have?
AMY: I don’t have anything.
JOSH: I don’t believe you.
AMY: I don’t know what you want me to say. I want women to have help from the government. I want women to earn what men earn. I want everyone to earn enough so that everyone can make the right choice for their family, and after that, it’s none of your business who stays home and who goes to work. You don’t know more about raising a family than I do.
JOSH: That was it. We got it. We’ll give it a test. I’ll call you back. Probably
around 1:00.
AMY: A.M.?
JOSH: Yeah.
AMY: Good.

(via fightcoldwithcold)

amy: you can turn on the news, y’know.

josh: i don’t wanna turn on the news.

(Source: gigglemonster)

arbitrarily:

C.J. Cregg: It’s the 21st century, Nancy. The world’s gotten smaller. I don’t know how we can tolerate this kind of suffering anymore, particularly when all it does is continue the cycle of anti-American hatred. But that’s not the point, either.
Nancy McNally: What’s the point?
C.J. Cregg: The point is that apartheid was an East Hampton clambake compared to what we laughingly refer to as the life these women lead. And if we had sold M1-A1’s to South Africa fifteen years ago, you’d have set the building on fire. Thank God we never needed to refuel in Johannesburg!
Nancy McNally: [nods] It’s a big world, C.J. And everybody has guns, and I’m doing the best I can.
C.J. Cregg: They’re beating the women, Nancy.

The West Wing; 3.09 The Women of Qumar