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Regina’s Hair Flippy thing when Emma calls her 2x10/3x03/3x10

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2.10, The Cricket Game 6.08, I'll Be Your Mirror

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"I could fix her" well actually I like evil women and I'll let her commit crimes in the name of love

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BROOOOOOOOOO OMG

do y’all think ava is you scared to say “i’m in love with you, you fucking idiot” to deb when she asks shit like “why are you even here?” because deb let her go in S2 when before she even said “i want to be wherever you are” and we know how hard it was for ava to get over it???

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I don't condone cheating but if a certain fashion editor in chief and her journalist former assistan wanted to commit adultery with each other, who am I to judge?

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Season 1 Regina was this big, important, busy mayor, who mostly spend time in her office, untill this one blonde showed up and suddenly she's popping up all around town right in front of her at all times. Like a little puppy who isn't quite sure what to make of the new person in their house so they follow them around to try and get their vibe

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Look at the last gif, her mask slipped, that lil almost smirk, my Gods she's loving having someone to push her buttons, someone who fights back. Emma lit a fire inside Regina, which Regina thought was long gone

Endless Swanqueen gifs (17/∞)

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#oh emma, you small, defenseless gay.

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THEY'RE INSANE ABOUT EACH OTHER

HACKS 1x07 – “Tunnel of Love” // 2x03 – “Trust the Process”

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Same Regina, same.

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Just in: CC Babcock found blushing profusely and foaming at the mouth in a gay.exe has stopped working system override

FRAN DRESCHER as Fran Fine

The Nanny –1.09: Personal Business

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Why are you🫵🏻 licking your lips while watching your assistant in designer clothes🤨

Miranda Priestly I know what you are

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i’m still reeling from the tonal shift between 1.06 and 1.07, because the show wastes no time solidifying the emotional architecture around ava as deborah’s partner—not just professionally, but personally, intimately, and foundationally. aidan doesn’t go to DJ’s friends at the party, nor her mother, nor anyone else there. he turns to ava, the new hire, and asks her to talk to DJ because DJ’s upset. and somehow, on some unspoken level, everyone already knows ava is the one who might can reach her.

and it works because the groundwork was already masterfully laid in 1.06 (which i delve into more here). everything that unfolded between deborah and ava on that trip—the depth, the unraveling, the unspoken synchronicity—carries forward into 1.07, which plays like the next natural beat in a relationship that has already rooted itself in place. the show doesn’t flirt with subtext here. it leans in with absolution. it solidifies ava as deborah’s life partner and treats her accordingly.

(analysis continues under the cut.)

that scene in DJ’s bedroom captures it best:

the dynamic of an awkward, well-meaning new girlfriend trying to console a stepdaughter she hasn’t earned yet. DJ is raging, pouring out deborah’s expensive skincare in a defiant act of long-delayed teenage angst/anger/rebellion, and ava walks into the storm with this disarming mix of empathy and confusion. she tries to understand both of them, and she can, because she does get deborah—she’s already been slotted into the role of someone who should. DJ even says it: “i just feel like you get it when it comes to her.” because she does. not because of time or history, but because of something deeper, something lived and shared and irrevocable.

ava even voices her own confusion aloud, saying to DJ that maybe she’s only attracted to deb because she’s never been this close to someone without there being some romantic or sexual element. she tries to rationalize the intimacy, explain it away. and the show lets her say that—but it also continues to prove the opposite across all of the seasons (1-4). ava’s closeness to deborah has never been incidental or convenient. it’s visceral, trascendent—it’s transformative.

the beginning of the episode sets this tone perfectly: deborah tells ava she looks pretty, just the slightest bit offhand, but with an undeniable and unmistakable pulse behind it. we can all sense that and ava blushes and asks kiki if she’s blushing when deb is gone. the attraction is tangible, palpable. kiki’s later encouragement—“you should really go for it with deborah”—is a thread being pulled with purpose. ava denies it, but the groundwork is there now. especially when we see what marty does and his betrayal against deborah next ep.

but before that (and before even the fight) comes the birthday speech. the camera lingers on deborah’s face after ava says, “i think it’s really cool that you found someone who loves you exactly as you are.” the expression deborah gives in that moment is loaded, layered, raw. it’s the look of someone who’s recalling her damaged former marriage, and now these new feelings surfacing not only for someone new but a young woman too. it’s unfathomably intimate.

everything culminates in that scene with DJ in deborah’s bedroom, the most private corner of her world that ava was once barred from. ava steps into that space and delivers the line that becomes a turning point for DJ’s arc: “stop waiting for her to be proud of you and start doing things that make you proud of yourself.” and DJ listens. she acts. she moves forward with her life. she gets married, becomes a parent, builds a healthier relationship with her mother with renewed clarity, and does better with her business. and ava lit the match on that.

and still, it doesn’t stop there. ava drives DJ and aidan to their wedding. she’s the one at the center of it all. deborah’s “have fun” at the door carries the unmistakable tone of someone whose partner has just done something significant—something they’ll revisit at home in private. the chapel call is pure anxious stepmom energy, and it’s ava who gets deborah to show up (through the phone), to bear witness. ava gets deborah to be a mother again. she opens the door that deborah couldn’t bring herself to walk through.

ava is the throughline.

she is more than the bridge between generations. she is the link between deborah and DJ, between rage and reconciliation, between withholding and acceptance. everything begins to reorient around her because that’s where the gravity is. it all gathers in her orbit. ava is a quiet singularity, pulling each fractured piece of deborah’s life into alignment. she simply exists, and in being, she offers a grounding center where there was once only the vastness of retreat. she holds space for conflict, absorbs impact without losing shape, and becomes the point around which real change can take root.

she is the reason deborah softens.

ava is the reason DJ finds direction, the reason the story sharpens into something more than comedy, the reason it becomes more than survival. with ava, everything converges—grief, love, pride, fear—and somehow, impossibly, deborah’s life begins to move forward.

this episode is the quiet declaration of a new center. ava becomes the person deborah loves, the person who sees her, the person who reflects her in ways even deborah isn’t ready to name yet. and that love isn’t waiting for a label. it already shapes the choices they make, the lives they touch, the future they begin to build—together.

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it’s their wedding pic actually ☝️

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mirandy season

(from patreon last year)