#aloto 2022

[vintage-espionage]

The fact that is was just unscripted D’Arcy Carden is just 🤌🏼✨

[beanerlumitysapphic]

can we talk about bertie and gracie for a second? because those two are a POWER COUPLE. i love them. they are too cute. LOOK AT THEM

[lesbiandanhowell]

Every single one of you, no matter if you have watched A League of Their Own (2022) or not should watch this speech.

Abbi and Chanté beautifully highlighted the importance and impact of well done representation and how much it still matters. They talked so perfectly about the experience of community and fandoms and seeing your own experience and feelings mirrored. It is one of the best speeches I have ever seen (and it might make you cry).

[heartznstarznshit]

are yall gay for each other or something bc…

[gretsonaloto]

Ouch. My heart.

[artbugjuice]

JessLupe ⚾️

[totally-not-kawaii]

so i started watching a league of their own (2022)

[reallytinylaura]

I don't think we talk enough about how utterly exhausted Greta must have been when she was first starting things with Carson. She thought it would just be another fling with a married woman, just like she'd done so many times, it would be a one or two time thing, then it would be over. She didn't expect this little baby gay who doesn't know/understand the rules to suddenly emerge and basically take over her life. She definitely didn't expect to fall in love for only the second time in her life, which is overwhelming by itself.

Now she's got this girl who just bursts into her room talking about rashes when she wants to go make out and takes her to "secret" spots that everyone else knows about and somehow discovers a gay bar when she didn't even know places like that existed. She's falling for this girl who gets excited about everything because she's just discovering this whole new world. And she's so desperate to keep Carson safe, she probably feels like she's got an untrained puppy off it's leash that she's gotta constantly chase down the street so it doesn't get lost or hurt.

No wonder they fell asleep in Greta's bed.

Greta probably needed a nap.

[bookwyrrm]

 The acting and the blocking in episode 7 after Greta and Carson come back to the house is so good. We can feel the tension in the room. Jess, Lupe, and Esti have been back long enough for Lupe to start a game of Dominos with Maybelle, but none of them have changed clothes, so I think we can infer that they returned still pretty recently.

In this scene, Jess is full of nervous energy, pacing behind Lupe’s chair as well as rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet. Given how we’ve seen this character act just last episode in two spaces where she feels really comfortable (the bar and the team house after they win), the fact that Jess is standing all by herself, not touching any of her teammates, really shows how shaken up the atmosphere of the team is after Jo’s transfer. Because when Jess is happy, she’s touchy - she hugs her teammates and grabs or pats their shoulders. In the bar, she’s hanging off of Lupe almost every time they’re on screen. In the scene above, she’s staying close to Lupe, but even though we can almost feel how much Jess wants to reach out for physical comfort, she’s stopping herself and trying to keep busy in other ways, like drinking or pacing.

I think that Jo’s arrest is not only a disruption of Greta and Carson’s bubble (Oz), but also Jess and Lupe’s. As they’ve grown more comfortable and the team has grown closer, some of the walls they have to protect themselves have come down. What happened to Jo is a devastating reminder that it’s not safe for Jess and Lupe to be visibly queer and link themselves together. The blocking in this scene illustrates just how isolated they must feel now.

For example, here’s a screenshot from Episode 6. (I think this is ep 6. Also I’m sorry about the subtitles. I was so focused on getting a good screenshot that I totally did not notice the text until making this post.) Anyway, there’s Jess and Lupe standing together in the corner as they usually do.

Now here’s a scene from Episode 7. This is where I really credit whoever did the blocking for this shot. The other girls are clumped together similarly closely as they were in the locker room one episode earlier... except Lupe and Jess, who are standing abnormally far apart.

Are these the same people from the previous episode?? Yes, BUT the environment of the team has changed now that people are reeling over Jo 1) being queer 2) being arrested 3) being traded. In this screen shot, Lupe and Jess - also the only ones obviously wearing pants - are doing everything they can not to draw attention to their friendship, because the team is no longer a safe space for them to be their authentic selves.

They are standing so far apart, there’s room for a whole other person in between them. That’s why I think this is a brilliant blocking decision, because it not only shows the strain that Jess and Lupe are obviously feeling, but it also calls attention to the fact that Jo is missing from this tableau.

[yorit1]

[itsami]

It has literally been months and I’m once again thinking about this

So much about this show absolutely wrecks me but THIS.

and THIS

breaks me into a million pieces.

[vintage-espionage]

[shiprecx]

Jess McCready

A League of Their Own, 2022-

Digital colored pencil.

[yaneskasstuff]

baseball is a very interesting thing 👀👀👀

[heartznstarznshit]

roberta is just so…attractive

but like seriously, she’s doing a lot for queer latine folks (especially queer latinas) in acting and art careers. as a mexican lesbian theatre hoe, she means so much to me.

[gretsonaloto]

I’m in love with her, your honor.