YES YES YES. they both agreed it was *just* to keep them satisfied while working in such a stressful environment, and without the fear of them being outed. instead of sleeping with random hookups, who could potentially leak it all to the press, they could just do it … together! (“Can’t get caught so we stiller than a statue”) as you said, it’s rare. it only happens every so often - after a really hard day where they both just dont want to think. and they dont want to be alone.

“Bad news, think I’ll probably die before I have you” works soo well for them in a fwb situation!! carol knows that the chance of it actually becoming a *thing* is so so slim. even if they did officially get together, there would be so many problems they’d inevitably run into that could break them. and if that happened, carol wouldn’t just lose cj, she’d also lose her job. so its safer for it to just be fwb.

(donna and carol bonding over being in love with their bosses. yes please)

oh my god … this is insane.. i love it. especially if it happened *years* down the line (specifically santos term 2) and they just don’t know what to do. donnas still the first lady’s CoS, and maybe doing law school on the side, and josh is the president’s CoS. and they both realise it isn’t working, but they blame it on their schedules at first. because of course it was hard, they really only saw eachother at work, and most of their time together at work was spent arguing. they just assume that their relationship would magically be fixed when theyre out of office, and have some more free time.

however, they both know deep down that the *core* reasons that their relationship isnt working arent just about the lack of time together. donna feels like josh still treats her like his assistant, and josh feels like donna has completely moved on from him and the chance he gave her when he hired donna. they both still love eachother, and care deeply about eachother, but they just wouldn’t survive being together. neither of them want to be the one to bring it up though, because a messy breakup (or divorce?) is the **last** thing either of them need to be dealing with.

eventually, they come to a mutual understanding that they wont work. maybe they finally confront eachother, or maybe they both just know how the other feels. so it slowly fades off. they stop sleeping at eachother’s apartments. donna ‘accidentally’ leaves her key to josh’s flat on his desk. josh ‘forgets’ to return it to her. it all happens so slowly that no one realises, until helen catches the look on donna’s face when she has to go and see josh. and then cj conveniently calls donna that night (the idea of helen and cj being close is so dear to me), and everything comes out. cj tells her she *has* to end it with josh so it can end as amicably as possible. then queue a few nights in a row in which donna gets very drunk with cj and the assistants. and josh gets equally as drunk with sam and cj.

and there are just so many possibilities. like what if it ended because donna realised she was gay. or josh. idk anyone in tww could be gay. or what if they already had a kid when it ended (if they decided to have kids). or 3 weeks into the first santos administration. i’m obsessed with this.

This might be controversial but Donna! I know that she’s popular, but I think she’s underrated in the sense that a lot of the hype around her character is linked to Josh and her relationship with him. Especially in the fandom outside of tumblr, a *lot* of the conversations around Donna are solely about Josh. And if they aren’t about Josh, theres a high chance theyre about one of her boyfriends/flings/ a man.

I just searched for “Donna” on the tww subreddit, and 7/10 first posts to show up were about her relationship with Josh, and another one was about her dating life. So I would count her as underrated?? And obviously it’s not just the fandoms fault, the show also fails to flesh out Donna and her life separate from the men in the show.

Everything we see about Donna that separate from Josh is so great aswell! Her friendships with CJ, and the other assistants, in particular. It just makes me want to know more about her life soo badly. And I think a lot of people do feel similarly, but the majority of Donna related conversations are about Josh. And I like Donna/Josh! I think it’s a great ship! I just think there is so much more to Donna that people could be discussing? Or writing about.

YES. I will *gladly* consider this. AmyAndy is a political power couple and they deserve this. If anyone could be the first female us president, it would be Andy. If anyone could get the first female president elected, it would be Andy. And the idea of a sapphic president … yes please

In my opinion it would start as a joke?? Andy’s complaining about how she doesn’t feel as satisfied as she used to in her job. Amy just tells her to quit and do what she *really* wants to do, to which Andy says something like “ah yes ill just go run for president really quick”. and Amy takes it seriously because she’s been waiting for this moment ever since she met Andy. then suddenly theyre both planning how it could actually work. it becomes real so quickly, and neither of them will back down because they are COMMITTED. obviously andy gets the democratic nomination (even though it is incredibly difficult, and almost kills both of them due to how much caffeine they consumed and how many people they argued with). when molly and huck find out, they tell all of their friends that their mum is gonna be the next president. Amy and Andy would rather die than let the twins down, so they simply accepted they had to win the election!

also the idea of amy and andy sneaking around on the campaign and failing to convince any of their staffers that they were just friends

when andy wins they offer CJ a job. obviously. as either a special advisor or maybe press secretary again? and of course she takes it. because i want the 3 most powerful women in the us to all be gay. and because theyve all been together, and now theyre trying to run a country together whilst 2 of them are dating. which might kill off all of them before they even start governing. If Amy takes CoS… she then has to manage dating the president, and advising her, and helping her raise her children (maybe molly and huck are teenagers by now, but still)

I wish sam didnt leave, however, out of the main cast, i would probably still choose for sam to be the one who left? which is very influenced by the fact that im used to sam not being there post s4. I’m very neutral on sam leaving! Don’t get me wrong, I like his character, but I’ve never been overly upset that he left? I think the way they did his exit was bad. Although it was unrealistic for him to win the race, I wish he didnt just … disappear until season 7. But it felt fitting to me that someone of the main cast left around that time! Working for the president would be hard, and it’s reasonable that someone would’ve left at some point to persue some other career. And sam leaving to run for congress makes me the most sense to me out of any of the other main cast leaving for other reasons.

If I **had** to choose someone to leave instead of Sam, it would probably be Toby. Only through a process of elimination though. I just like the other main characters at that time more! I still like Toby, I think he’s a good character, and I don’t wish he was written off. I would rather save the rest of the main cast! The president is pretty crucial to keep on, Leo is also integral (and I love the storyline about CJ being picked to be the CoS by him), Josh, CJ, Charlie, and Donna are all some of my favourite characters (especially Charlie and CJ in the earlier seasons), and Will Bailey wouldnt be there (or atleast probably not main cast) if Sam didn’t leave. So that just leaves Toby! But I do think Sam leaving was the right choice, and all the other main characters have storylines further down the line which I looove. And i’m sure sam would have good plots if he had stayed on. But I cant miss what i never had so? bye bye sam seaborn unfortunately