You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.

Happy Birthday, Brandon Flowers! (June 21, 1981)

West wing trying to convince me it’s a serious show with this slide show ass intro

I love the west wing fandom of 2023. Someone will make a gifset of a 40 year old man standing in a doorway and within minutes it’ll have dozens of reblogs tagged “screaming crying throwing up”

if i could only find a voice, i would speak

“I like writing heroes without capes, like in “The West Wing,” though it wasn’t just a fantasy. I like writing those stories — and Atticus Finch’s is also an example — because it makes us feel as though greatness is achievable. We’re not waiting for somebody to appear out of the sky and save the world. This is all achievable, and that is something that tends to elevate the human spirit.”

— Aaron Sorkin, NYT (March 1, 2020)

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is, at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures. It returns you to otherness, whether it yourself or in friends, or in those who may become friends. Imaginative literature is otherness, and as such alleviates loneliness. We read not only because we cannot know enough people but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.”

— How to Read and Why, Harold Bloom

He literally. Literally. Shows up to his old friend's place of employment soaked from the rain and smiles at him through a window and his friend gets up and walks out of his entire life (lucrative job!! finacée!!!! did I mention the fiancée???) and runs away with him. And then five years later he shows up at his friend's place of employment a g a i n and he's like run away with me like last time and his friend tells him he's engaged and he's like I've heard that before and G U E S S W H A T he fucking runs away with him again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All of this textually happens in The West Wing (1999-2006) a show about American politics. This is literally what happens.

I'm so glad West Wing is showing up on my dash again. This site is unlike anywhere else on earth and I love it

#hell yeah and im rewatching#and not to mention this is what he thinks about as hes almost maybe dying#true love baby

@advancedmathperson

Okay yes we need to talk about that part. He's maybe almost dying he has a bullet in his chest and he's mumbling that he needs to get to New Hampshire and his best buddy shouts "Josh, I'm here!" and says "You went to New Hampshire. We both did. You came and got me." and then he remembers asking his buddy to run away with him to New Hampshire.

bitches hate me for my earnest whimsy and my pathological degree of avoidant behavior

uh oh! you misunderstood a social cue and said something mildly awkward. you will think about this and cringe everyday for the next 20 years

sorry for the delay in responding to your message. I was walking around the house with unclear intentions

love when creatures sniff your hand and are like. ah understood