#charlene x mary jo

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MJ does have big sapphic energy!!! I totally ship her with Julia. 😍

You know I’m down for that but I also REALLY REALLY need my fellow sapphics to open their eyes to the beauty that would be Mary Jo/Charlene. Like yes Julia, obviously Julia, who wouldn’t want to be with Julia and i know they’re two characters that endure till the end and have a lot of ship potential but also CHARLENE like their sleepovers, the fact that they met bc they lived in the same building and Charlene has probably known quint since he was an infant and Claudia since she was tiny and like their history. Charlene probably seeing Mary Jo through her divorce, Mary Jo being there as all Charlene’s sibs get married but her big romance is taking it’s sweet time. Their little side hangs and just their bond. Anyway, this show is so filled with sapphic potential and I’m loving seeing it in a new light.

[thehours2002]

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i know i just posted this the other day but... it’s so good

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I’m so upset that there’s no active fandom for designing women on this site because I really need to scream about Mary Jo and Suzanne for a second. Like really really bad omfmfjfjd

So far I’m halfway through season 2:

- Mary Jo and Suzanne slow dance in one episode in the first season. They get awfully close and look awfully intimate for a moment before they let go of each other because it’s gotten too awkward. Also Mary Jo comments on her cleavage. *cough* gay

- Mary Jo bets Suzanne personal jewelry (Mary Jo’s pinky ring and Suzanne’s diamond bracelet given to them by their respective ex-spouses) that she can get the most handsome man on a singles cruise to be her date to a captains dinner or whatever. Suzanne ends up spending her day with allegedly the most handsome man and Mary Jo thinks she lost. The handsome man ends up hitting on Mary Jo and insutls Suzanne. She gets angry and defends her as the “Rolls Royce of females” and admits that “one of us loves Suzanne and I guess it’s me.” (The waiter/drag queen gives Suzanne the tea on what happened and describes the entire thing as if Mary Jo was proclaiming that she was in love with Suzanne. *cough cough* gay.) At the end of the episode, Suzanne gives Mary Jo her diamond bracelet willingly after pretending she didn’t know what Mary Jo said about her. They hug and I melt like a puddle at the sight 🥺

- in the very next episode, Charlene has a WWII dream sequence, where Suzanne is a pageant winner dating an elderly rich man that falls asleep all the time, and Mary Jo is the cigarette/candy girl that argues flirtatiously with Suzanne and comments on her cleavage at every chance she gets and it all just sounds super flirty. Especially when Suzanne laughs coquettishly omg. The sexual tension! That’s all!

- Mary Jo, who’s usually the more level-headed, reserved one of the group, gets a lot tipsy and insults an IRS worker whom she went to speak with, along with Julia and Charlene, on behalf of Suzanne, one of the reasons being that she didn’t like him calling Suzanne a “full figured gal.” *bonus thing from the same episode: Suzanne comes inside whimpering and visibly upset, and immediately drops her head into Mary Jo’s lap.

The list can be longer once I watch more episodes and try to recall more similar moments from the eps I’ve already watched. These are off the top of my head.

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the underlying eroticism in checking to see if your co-worker has a fever

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what were YOU doing up at 1am listening to them, charlene and mary jo? they could have just as easily stayed in charlene’s apartment away from the sex hot tub!!

[thehours2002]

god this whole episode where mary jo “accidentally” prevents charlene from having sex with her husband by hanging around all the time. i’m sure it was just an accident. nothing else could POSSIBLY be motivating her actions.

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oh?

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lesbian moms, part 2

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they are so...

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