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Heyyyy so this is a fic about two gay professors who fell in love without meaning to….but the twist is that the college forbids sexual relationships with another member of faculty especially if it’s another woman.
Will they find away to keep loving each other?Or will they accept defeat not allowing to risk their jobs?
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This is a serious crackfic inspired by Julia’s red phone on her desk (see picture). Charlene, being Charlene, can’t resist teasing her by calling her “Madam President” from time to time.
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What if Dixie sent signs from Heaven so that Jean would choose Hannah for Ava's role? This is a prayer… a poetic tribute to those in this story who walk (or have walked) this Earth, carrying the wish to make us dream. Nothing here is real. It is inspired by what these individuals have publicly chosen to share: Dixie & Hal's unconditional love, Jean & Dixie's friendship in Designing Women promo content and Jean & Hannah's friendship in Hacks promo content. Nothing more, nothing less…
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When Mary Jo Shively follows a midlife crisis and decides she wants another child... Julia Sugarbaker confronts her feelings towards the woman who's become a close friend in her life
Fate seems to have granted them both something they've never thought they'd get...
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“One last job,” Julia’s letter had said. “For Perky.”
Charlene left that life behind her, found love and motherhood and a crime-free existence in Virginia. But the moment her feet touch the ground at Hartsfield she can feel that old excitement pulse through her veins. There’s a rush to pulling off a heist, knowing you’ve stuck it to one of the snooty jerks that have judged you your whole life just because of how you talk or your haircut. “Where y’all from, bitch?” indeed.
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Bless Her Heart, She’s an Escort by streepytime for Caro_the_Poet
Fandoms: Designing Women
18 Jul 2025
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When kind-hearted Charlene invites a glamorous psychic into her home for a soul-healing session, she’s hoping to find closure, insight… maybe even a message from the universe. What she doesn’t know is that Julia isn’t a psychic at all... she’s a high-end escort who thinks Charlene is a new client. As candles burn and banana bread cools, the mix-up turns into a hilarious and unexpectedly tender evening, full of crossed wires, emotional revelations, and a spark neither of them saw coming.
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Suzanne makes a little stomp of frustration. “I don’t get it! Mary Jo called me the Rolls Royce of women! My push-up bras have never been in such steady rotation! How the hell am I supposed to get her attention?”
Anthony considers the question. “Well, Suzanne, Mary Jo drives a fifteen-year old station wagon. Perhaps she doesn’t consider herself worthy of luxury vehicles without an explicit invitation.”
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What if Li-Sing had gotten to stay with Suzanne?
What if Suzanne was allowed to have character growth that didn't have to do with her weight?AU fic from "O Suzannah" S1-Ep18
Here's hoping somebody else outside of me is even interested in this 😅😅
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The Sound You Make When You Can’t Be Quiet by streepytime for Caro_the_Poet
Fandoms: Designing Women
21 Jun 2025
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Inspired by Season 1, Episode 10 'The Slumber Party' where Julia falls asleep at the kitchen table, this story imagines what happens after the lights go out and Suzanne and Mary-Jo go upstairs. Julia’s tired, sick, and full of attitude... but Charlene is soft, persistent, and wearing this lilac silky pajamas. What begins as sleepy affection between them slowly melts into something far more intimate.
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Julia and Charlene are used to sharing quiet kisses in the dark... small, stolen minutes when no one’s looking. But when Suzanne and Mary-Jo almost catch them, the hush they’ve carved out for themselves nearly shatters. Buttons are fastened, skirts smoothed, and everything unsaid lingers just beneath the surface… except in the glance Mary-Jo doesn’t quite hide.
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On a quiet Friday afternoon, Julia and Charlene find themselves sharing more than just a drafting bench. Between soft sketches and quiet teasing, their hands touch, and the space they’re building on paper begins to mirror something tender between them. Sometimes, the best rooms are the ones you create together... line by line, heartbeat by heartbeat.
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“You know what would drive Ted crazy,” Mary Jo mutters after her children have left. “If you and me dated. You’ve got to be the hottest woman that ever dumped him.”
Suzanne does not immediately start laughing, which is kind of how Mary Jo thought this exchange would go. “Hmmm, I suppose you’re right, I am the kind of woman a man thinks about for the rest of his God-given life. And I’m willing to do just about anything to annoy the Miss Valdosta Feed and Grains of the world.”
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A tag scene for "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" Mary Jo takes her turn behind the wheel driving them all home.
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What happens after Julia sings her big solo in How Great Thou Art.
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“Mary Jo! What about this gown is saying hooker to you? It’s tasteful.”
“Oh, it’s tasteful, or it costs 800 dollars? It’s just, these dresses look like they were specifically designed to make you look…” like a whore, her socially-ingrained misogyny filled in before settling for a nicer word, “arousing.”
Suzanne folded her arms.
“Well, is it working?”
In the middle of a crisis, Suzanne attempts to seduce Mary Jo.
To her surprise, it works.
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How Mary Jo Got Her Groove Back by Divinemissem13 for wonderwanda
Fandoms: Designing Women
24 Jul 2024
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Julia Sugarbaker was stunningly gorgeous, refined, sophisticated… in short, she was everything Mary Jo was not.
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(S)he hit me, and it felt like a kiss. (DISCONTINUED.) by itcvdori
Fandoms: Designing Women
02 Jul 2024
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No matter how many times the older woman would promise she wouldn't do it again, it always seem to happen. Over and over.
Yet, she couldn't get enough and it was starting to wear on her.
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Just our favorite ladies talking and being cute with each other, nothing new.
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They look at each other a lot and can usually communicate without words because they spend a lot of extracurricular time together, semi-unbeknownst to everyone else. Charlene had definitely known because when Suzanne would offer to babysit Olivia, Mary Jo had usually been either directly or peripherally involved, but Mary Jo’s pretty sure everybody else is pretty oblivious to the fact that they hang out together outside of the office pretty regularly. It’s not a secret or anything: they’d never deny it if someone brought it up, but they simply don’t talk about it in front of other people because there’s really no need to.
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- Part 4 of It’s Been Rumored that I Died
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,882
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 12
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“A very nice visit. But that’s the thing about visits: they end. The visitor goes back to their real life.”
They look at each other for a long moment. Suzanne says, just this side of a whisper,
“But what if my real life is not all it’s cracked up to be, and I prefer who I am as a visitor?”
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- Part 3 of It’s Been Rumored that I Died
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,807
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 8
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- 61