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dykedivorce · 2 years

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A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN | 1x08 "Perfect Game"

#alotoedit #aloto #a league of their own 2022 #a league of their own #sergeant beverly #jess mcready #aloto spoilers #mine

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provincial-girl · 1 year

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Yeah, so A League of Their Own continues to live in my head rent free, and lately I’ve been really fascinated with what the show does with Sergeant Beverly. There’s one scene in particular in episode 7 which really strikes me as a moment that does some really great, subtle work towards helping us understand the ways in which she fits in the show’s larger goal of exploring queer and marginalized communities.

It’s right after Jo is escorted into the house by the police, the moment Beverly asks to speak to Carson privately. I feel like this is the scene where we get our first solid hint at the fact that Bev is queer, because she speaks as if she knows. Bev knows how this works. She understands that the names will be in the paper unless someone gets paid, and she clearly knows how to go about paying the right person. She understands the danger of keeping Jo in Rockford in a way that doesn’t even seem to occur to Carson until Bev explains it. Bev discourages trades all season in an attempt to keep the team together, but she pushes this trade through overnight, because she knows that getting Jo out of town ASAP is the best way to keep her safe. Bev is very matter of fact about the whole thing, like she knows these facts of queer life, and has known them for a long time.

This scene also takes place in the same archway where Bev all but comes out to Jess, an interesting parallel which suggests that Bev often exists in a sort of in-between space. On one side of the doorway, we have the kitchen, a more private personal space. It’s the only place inside the house where we see Greta try to kiss Carson, where Carson asks Greta on a date, and Greta asks Carson to move to New York with her. It’s also where Bev shares the most she ever has about her service in the Marines as she has a heart to heart with Carson about learning to stand up for herself and find her power (even if that advice is a bit misguided). The kitchen is very clearly a private space, though one vulnerable to intrusion, as we see right after Greta asks Carson to come to New York, and where we can still see people milling around behind Bev and Jess. On the other side of the archway is the much more public space of the staircase and main entrance, the place where Jo is very publicly escorted in by police, as if to indicate that this is what can happen when a person’s private queer life becomes part of a public space.

This is the in-between Bev works within for the entire time she is with the Peaches. On one hand, she’s an employee of the league, tasked with enforcing rules and maintaining their image for the public. On the other hand, she’s a queer woman doing her very best to protect these vulnerable women. Standing in that doorway as she has these conversations is symbolic of her straddling that line between her public and private self, brief moments where we can very clearly see one bleed into the other. One of the main difference in the shots is that she stands on the left as she talks to Carson, and the right as she talks to Jess. My theory is that this is symbolic of the fact that, in one case, she is taking something away from the team, even if it’s in Jo’s best interests, and in the other, she’s giving something back. It’s a literal give and take that Bev constantly has to balance as she tries to take care of her girls.

Bev may not be a main character, but this character arc acts as an important part of this broader portrait of the lives of queer and marginalized characters living out their own unique, often untold stories. Bev often hovers in the background, but the show treats her with thought and care,using small, subtle moments to create an interesting character, someone we grow to love and remember. By the end of the season, we learn that she’s an older, closeted, queer female Marine who doesn’t care about baseball, but is as devoted to protecting her baseball girls as she is to her fellow Marines, maybe even moreso. I can’t think of an occasion where I’ve ever seen a character quite like that, particularly one where we’re given the time to learn about her organically. I just really love that the show puts in the time and effort to allow a character like that to be seen and included as part of this larger portrait of the lives of marginalized people in 1940’s America. A League of Their Own is just so thoughtful and sneaky smart in how it does that, and I’m so grateful that it exists in this world.

#aloto #a league of their own #sergeant beverly #queer representation #meta #seriously though #the more I engage with this show the more I realize #how smart and thoughtful and well-researched it is #I forgot how much Ilove reading and writing meta #and I love this show so much for reminding me #(among other things)#this show has me in an absolute chokehold in the best possible way #my stuff

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gladinfinitum · 2 years

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not taking criticism. peace and love

#a league of their own #aloto #carson shaw #maybelle fox #clance morgan #greta gill #jo deluca #lupe garcia #jess mccready #sergeant beverly #max chapman

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autistickhunsam · 2 years

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A League of Their Own (2022-)

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alotogifs · 2 years

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Carson Shaw - Fire | Power

A League of Their Own 1.02 | 1.05

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moghedien · 2 years

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Thinking about how Bev had to have known about the raid pretty soon after it happened to have arranged for Jo to get released and traded so early in the morning.

Meaning that at some point in the night after she heard about it, however that was, she would have probably gone and looked to see if all of the girls were there, and she would have found Jo gone, Lupe gone, Jess gone, Esti gone, maybe Carson and Greta gone depending on when they made it back to the house

Like if Bev wasn’t called by the police and told that they had Jo and only Jo, and she instead went and investigated herself, then she might have legit thought she lost half the girls in one night when she realized what happened

#a league of their own #sergeant beverly #jo de luca #carson shaw #greta gill #jess mccready #lupe garcia #esti gonzalez

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brotherconstant · 2 years

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“They're like bats out there.” “Yeah, those western small-foots.”

#aloto #alotoedit #a league of their own #sergeant beverly #jo deluca #dale dickey #melanie field #beegifs #in which i am jo.#i apologize to the mutuals for devoting the entire day to this show but my country is currently going a puttane e tutte le volte che guardo #il telefono voglio morire

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all-things-aloto · 1 year

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OKAY PEACHES.

I need your help. I love floor plans and have been trying to figure out the layout of the house for forever.

** note: the rooms and stuff aren’t to scale, I was trying to get the ~general~ idea

I’m super confident I have the first floor right. They do so many scenes there and I’ve rewatched alllll the house scenes so many times to understand it’s layout and what goes where.

The second and third floor elude me.

I know Carson, Greta, Jess, and Shirley are on the third floor for sure, because the half point on the stairs goes to the second floor. Also because when they leave their rooms, you can see the ceiling from the stairs, and the stairs are an open-floor plan, so if they were on the second floor, we wouldn’t see the ceiling.

I cut the rooms on the third floor based off of how some of the old Victorian-esque houses have been split up, but also I’m not confident in the third floor at all other than the position of the four states before’s room (ie. they share the wall to the right of both Carson and Greta’s bed, and Shirley’s bed is right next to the rounded part of the house).

BUT DOES ANYONE ELSE KNOW HOW THIS WOULD LOOK ?! A part of me thinks that the house changed from episode one to two because of the stairs and the way the Peaches ascend (compare Jess and Lupe walking up the stairs while Greta is ringing the bell in ep.01 versus ep.02 when the Peaches are descending to Charm School. Also there aren’t two sets of stairs, I already tried out that possibility and it got ruled out to a back door between the kitchen and where charm school was because Lupe exits that door to get to the bar).

Anyways. Please help.

#greta gill #carson shaw #shirley cohen #jess mccready #jo de luca #lupe garcía #esti gonzález #maybelle fox #ana blair #terri cobell #sergeant beverly #deep dive #photoset

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edge-of-the-end · 2 years

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an incomplete list of a league of their own headcanons

-jess clocked greta the second they met but didn’t say anything

-as the baseball season progresses lupe and jess went to the bar less to pick up girls and more just to spend time together

-beverly has defended the girls more than she lets on, she always turns a blind eye to contraband boxers or suspicious room sharing

-carson mentioned the french hooker line to max once and max thought she’d gone mad

-max and carson keep in touch when max is on the road, clance sends max comic strips in the mail

-jess and lupe both go for femmes but are secretly more inclined in a butch4butch direction

-after getting her hair cut, carson became slightly more masculine in her mannerisms, greta noticed but didn’t say anything

-greta secretly has a photo of dana sewn into the lining of her bag, so that even if dana can’t see the world, she can come with her in spirit

-maybelle picked up on what jo meant by the blondes line, she deliberately kept it quiet

-shirley gets gradually more progressive as the season goes on, eventually she realises that being around queer people won’t make her one

-shirley has ocd (i would argue that this is canon, fight me)

-jess gradually improves her spanish, one day lupe walks in on her and esti having an argument over the washing up in spanglish

-esti sings and jess plays guitar, sometimes the whole team will sit in the living room and have a sing along (some of them say they hate it but no one really does)

#i will probably continue this #a league of their own #a league of their own series #carson shaw #maybelle fox #jess mccready #lupe garcia #esti gonzalez #greta gill #jo de luca #aloto #shirley rosen #clance morgan #sergeant beverly #rockford peaches

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youroldfriendmurkyaura · 8 months

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I am once again thinking about Jo in jail, after having a good time at the bar, after having a bad time beaten by the cops, thinking about life. And Greta. Knowing she’d be worried. Knowing everything she would say.

And knowing she made it out on the other side of the things they’d been running scared from all this time, more or less in one piece. Would recover. Would be fine. And Greta would never accept that. And Jo maybe couldn’t live on Greta’s terms anymore.

Where did Bev negotiate with the cops? Was Jo there? What did Bev say to Jo? How much did it cost to bribe the cops? Jo must’ve been so relieved to be greeted by such a good situation. Beverly definitely had a different perspective than Greta did, and advocated for Jo. And then Jo advocated for Jo.

I don’t think Jo ever intended to not be in touch with Greta, but definitely had the confidence and whatnot to not throw her life away again for Greta that day. (For her.)

#a league of their own #aloto misc #jo de luca #sergeant beverly #greta gill #aloto full count #aloto stealing home

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merdalexitimia · 11 months

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No but like think of this scene, when Beverly takes the team to that feminity test that she knows will be a terrible moment and can purge many of the members out of the team specially the most obviously queer/gnc. Like look at the detail of her calling out Jess just right before it. Later Jess was almost dismissed wasn't it for the intervention of Carson and Greta. And then at the end we have that scene where we discover that Beverly had Jess' back from the beginning

#guy a league of their own #jess mccready #sergeant beverly

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resplendentmackerelsky · 2 years

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This is now also a Sergeant Beverly fan account. Absolute fucking QUEEN

#yes - i even liked her before the last episode #also why tf is no-one talking about her? am i the only one out here simping for old queer women?#sergeant beverly #a league of their own #aloto

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sapphicday · 1 year

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