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AVA
Deborah, I know you’re here! You can’t avoid me forever!Beat.
AVA (CONT'D)
The first step is admitting that you’re not okay!Another beat, longer this time.
AVA (CONT'D)
You’re trending on Twitter!After her departure from Late Night, Deborah finds a different way around the non-compete. Ava helps.
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This series picks up after Deborah leaves late-night. Bob Lipka gives her an ultimatum. “Ava is out or the show is over.” Deborah exposes Bob during her last LIVE late-night show. “I am being forced to fire someone I love who has done nothing wrong. Just to make shareholders happy. Where is the line?” A line that never existed for Deborah until Ava. “Well, for me it’s right here, right now.” Deborah heads back to Vegas, Ava stays in L.A. Ava returns for a vacation in Hawaii with Deborah that turns into a residency in Singapore. Ava watches the woman she loves spiral out of control. Deborah is in a drunk haze running from reality and making decisions out of fear.
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- Part 1 of Leaving Normal
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This is the fan comic version of my AU Acrimony, but from the beginning!
Deborah is a hot shot big name lawyer, and Ava is an associate, but a sex cam worker on the side.
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Ava is a struggling student trying to finish her master's degree at a liberal arts college in Oregon. She gets hired as a teaching assistant for Dr. Deborah Vance, whose research output is stellar, but who has never received tenure because of her unfinished book. Will Ava and Deborah find a way to help each other push past their fears?
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Inspired by the most amazing edit I have ever seen that made its rounds after being posted on the clock app by @forgotagainoops.
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Two people. Countless laughs. One confession. When Ava is pushed by her emotions and Deborah does everything to run from hers a story is born. This story - their story.
At this point everything in this story happens post show. Ava and Deborah have been working together for 10 years and everything that happened in canon is still canon in this story. Canon will not be the basis of this story but we will go back in time every now and then.
This story is ongoing on will update when I can but just know that this story is very close to my heart and if you come along for the ride - thank you so much<3
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Avorah season secret relationship au
Deborah put Ava into a hotel room and not her house because they needed a place to meet for “work”. A place where they could do whatever they wanted and no one would suspect a thing. None of them needed another public scandal right now, so they desperately tried to be discreet. One of those nights they “worked” very patiently when they heard a knock on the door. It surely was room service, right?
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Fake marriage. Real feelings. And a network that won’t survive a scandal
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Deborah Vance must fake a marriage to save "Late Night with Deborah Vance". But between flashing cameras, meddling execs, and chaotic moments, pretending turns out to be harder than expected.
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Take a Chance on Me [Fanvid] by periru3 for ultraviolet_catastrophe
Fandoms: Hacks (TV 2021)
31 Jan 2026
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🩷 Schaefer + LuSaque 4 life! 🩷
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Post-Episode 04x06.
Deborah follows Ava to the beach. However, when she arrives, all she finds is the abandoned car. From that moment on, her world collapses, and guilt consumes her completely.
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Deborah has a new stalker. It's an ordinary thing, but Ava has a strong dislike for this particular stalker. He has some weird vibes. For a while, Ava was rather concerned about this, even though she and Deborah can't stand each other now. Luckily, they have Kayla with the perfect solution to any problem.
Problem: "The new stalker thinks he's Deborah's long-term boyfriend and is trying to get to her in every way possible to propose."
Solution: "Post a tweet that Deborah has been engaged to Ava for half a year now and is incredibly happy."
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"Listen, if you can't walk, I can help you out of here."
The woman let out a dry chuckle. "Oh, really? What are you, some kind of post-apocalyptic Gen Z saint with a savior-complex?"
"Jesus," Ava muttered. This was not going well.
"Really, I want to know," the woman continued with a mocking grin. "Are out here every day helping strangers for fun, or is it just my lucky day?"
"Or," Ava snapped, "I can just walk out and let you bleed to death in this shitty casino with your clicker friends. Whatever floats your boat."
That earned her a scoff.
"This is not a shitty casino. It's the Palmetto."
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Twenty-six years into the apocalypse, and one year after her last interaction with another human being, Ava meets Deborah.
And maybe it has something to do with the fact that Ava hasn’t spoken to anyone in a year, but there’s something about Deborah that makes her feel like there might still be some fun left in their dead world.
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After confronting Deborah for taking the head writer job from her, Ava decides not to blackmail her, she just walks away. Determined to build her own path, Ava creates a show inspired by her complicated relationship with Deborah. The series becomes a massive success, turning Ava into a rising star. Two years later, fate brings them face to face again when Ava is invited as a guest on Deborah’s late night show to talk about the hit that changed her life.
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Kayla picks out the perfect couple’s costume for her and Jimmy to rock at Deborah’s epic Halloween party.
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In Deborah’s defense, she thought Ava was asleep. It was a poor defense, she could admit. The jet hadn’t even hit cruising altitude yet. Ava’s forehead was still sweaty when they boarded from the mad dash through the casino. It really was a piss-poor defense.
And though she could admit it, she’d only admit it to herself.
So there’s really nothing she can say when Ava catches the big blocky text on her phone screen.
AM I GAY QUIZ
At least, for once, there’s nothing Ava can apparently say, either.
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two words about furniture: killing machines by lennynards
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV), Hacks (TV 2021)
22 Aug 2025
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Ava's the one with the head wound, but Jimmy's the one having a panic attack, and Jack's the one having a hell of a night.
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- Part 2 of The KCU (Kayla Cinematic Universe)
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Set immediately following the end of Season 4, Deborah and Ava must figure out their next steps, where in the world they see themselves, and how the pieces of their lives continue to intersect.
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let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment by mirdania for judypoovey
Fandoms: Hacks (TV 2021)
14 Aug 2025
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When Jimmy and Kayla drunkenly get married in Vegas, it seems like yet another problem to add to the pile...and yet, it may be the solution they're looking for, if they can play the long game.
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《Deborah Vance深夜秀》首集录制前夕，Ava得知她必须杀了Deborah以拯救自己的生活。
瞬息全宇宙AU，Avorah无差，凯拉&吉米友情向，内含有关S4E4的魔改造谣。 -
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The bar is loud - thumping music, clinking glasses, laughing women - but all Deborah can hear is Ava’s stupid little voice in her head.
“Your sexuality isn’t a choice, but whether or not you examine it, I think, is.”
Patronizing little shit. The only thing Deborah should be examining these days is her goddamn mammogram.[Or: Deborah takes Ava’s advice and examines her sexuality. They’re both SOOO normal about it - Set during the cruise on season 2]