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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 2 years

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sometimes a family is a smol baby gay, her 9ft tall smoke show of a girlfriend, a soft butch best friend, a retired Marine who acts tough but is just trying to protect her girls, a hypochondriac statistician who is Definitely Not A Queer, two butch daddies and their Spanish-speaking daughter, and a mother hen ally who’s Just Happy to be Away From Her Children for Five Goddamn Minutes, and I just really think that’s beautiful

#a league of their own #aloto #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw #and all of them tbh

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 1 year

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no thoughts, just Carson Shaw in her dumb* backwards cap

*adorable

#probably one of my favorite genders #carson shaw #aloto #abbi jacobson #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw #abbi jacobson doing the nice thing with her face #a league of their own

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 1 year

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The way that Carson absolutely short-circuits when Vi says Edie is her wife and they got

m a r r i e d

#like I can BE a wife and also H A V E a WIFE????#sign me tf UP #carson shaw human disaster #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw #a league of their own #Leah is doing a rewatch #we’re deep in the brain rot #aloto

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 1 year

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Since, upon inspection of the shot itself, the game card Greta kissed and left for Carson was just the card of whatever player was closest to her.

My headcanon is that, while yes of course Carson keeps that one card on her...

One day Greta gifts her with another game card with "Carson Shaw - Rockford Peaches, Catcher" scrawled across the top.

Yes, there are some game stats on it, but Greta also lists some of the things she loves about Carson, Carson's favorite foods, books…

And, of course, a stamp of bright red lipstick in the top corner, caressing the first few letters of her name.

Carson tapes the card to the inside of her locker, where it stays through the remainder of the league.

#carson shaw #greta gill #gretson #a league of their own #these two are so soft for each other #you can't tell me this doesn't happen #we are experiencing full gretson brain rot tonight folks #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw #9ft tall smoke show of a girlfriend #aloto

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 2 years

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I know we love the kisses and the convent scene and the car scenes but THIS

and this

and ya know what even this

…get me every goddamn time.

I don’t know what it is about two women doing this thing with their hands. One finger at a time. Gently. Cautiously. Lovingly. Soothing.

Just to say “Hey…I’m here.”

I know it’s done in the show because of the time in which this story takes place. Because it’s about the safest way that Carson and Greta can show, in public, genuine affection for each other that isn’t only read as being friends or teammates.

But even if that wasn’t the case…there’s a tenderness in these subtle movements and touches that Abbi and D’Arcy honed in on that just *work* for Carson and Greta and where each character is at.

Always reaching for each other. Whenever they can. Holding each other as closely and gently and securely as they’ll allow themselves to.

Because fuck the rules.

And I

just

melt.

#a league of their own #gretson #carson x greta #let them write poems #aloto #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw #9ft tall smoke show of a girlfriend #hands touch eyes meet #I go absolutely feral

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 1 year

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I love you Carson I love you autistic Carson I love you she/they Carson I love you stimming Carson I love you info-dumping Carson I love you hand-flapping Carson I love you NB Carson I love you touch-starved Carson I love you ‘can’t read social situations or sarcasm well’ Carson I love you 'baseball is my special interest' Carson Shaw I love--

#a league of their own #aloto #carson shaw #carson shaw human disaster #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw #we’re deep in the brain rot atm

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 2 years

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Current ALOTO Brain Rot is how

Carson and Greta wanted to kiss each other

SO BADLY

after the Peaches last regular season game.

They look at each other. Giddy. Elated. That they did the damn thing. They did the thing that nobody thought they could do. And, for a half a millisecond, they almost let it happen.

But they have to remember that they’re still In Public. They still have to be careful. And they go back to just being teammates.

The real celebration — their celebration — can come later.

#a league of their own #aloto #gretson #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw #carson x greta

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 2 years

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So won’t you please just

take

my

hand

And take my whole life, too

‘Cause I can’t help

Falling in

Love

With

You

#gretson #carson x greta #a league of their own #aloto #we are experiencing full Gretson brain rot tonight folks #Am I sorry #absolutely not #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw #9ft tall smoke show of a girlfriend #I’m an absolute sucker for this song #especially the Ingrid Michaelson version

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 2 years

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My sexuality is Carson saying “They play dirty, we’re gonna play fucking *filthy*”.

#my life has been ruined by the existence of Carson Shaw #a league of their own #aloto

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 2 years

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Not Greta Gill literally pulling Carson Shaw *into* a closet to kiss her for the first time and they both come out — both literally and symbolically — when they leave.

#these two #a league of their own #aloto #gretson #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 1 year

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Listen I know we all love/tease/roast Carson Shaw for bringing a suitcase full of books to baseball tryouts, but I, for one, would like to go on main and say that

I, too, also bring multiple books somewhere, even if I was doing something I enjoyed at said place because

WHAT IF I HAVE TO WAIT AROUND FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN??

What am I supposed to do?

Talk to people????

…And I don’t know if that says more about Carson or me.

Carson, my love, I got you. I feel you. We’ll cart our suitcases around and swap books with each other.

#leah writes things sometimes #carson shaw human disaster #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw #aloto

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 2 years

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A non-comprehensive list of things I need to see in season 2:

-Operation: Get Shirley A Man — all of the Peaches take part in this, and they find a genuinely good dude who is absolutely smitten with Shirley and also loves the AAGPBL and isn’t a raging homophobe and supports all of the Peaches, yet Shirley is Not Having Any of It

-There’s some pool on 1) how long it will take Carson and Greta to kiss/bang; 2) who walks in on them in a compromising position; 3) and where they’re found in said compromising position

Mother Hen Maybelle organizes it, but Jess ends up winning it all. Because it happens immediately after bets are taken, and Jess goes back up to her and Greta’s old room to find Carson and Greta absolutely going at each other.

-Footage of Max throwing absolute bricks and Esther looking on with the biggest heart eyes

-Actually, just Max. In suits. All of the gender euphoria.

-At least 15 minutes of each episode dedicated to scenes with Clance and Max. They could be reading the phone book and I’d be howling.

-Lupe, Jess, and Esti all chirp back and forth to each other in fluent Spanish on the reg.

-Pre-season shenanigans by Lupe, Ana, Terri, and Jess to make sure Carson and Greta are roommates at any given moment when they’re away for road games, but Not Make It Super Obvious

-Maybelle knits hats for all of her Peaches

-the Peaches claiming/establishing another gay bar in Rockford, and the parties there after winning home games become legendary

-WHY IS ‘BIRD’ JO’S NICKNAME FOR GRETA

#a league of their own #aloto #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw #text post

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 1 year

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Carson Shaw: *runs away from home the moment she finds out her husband/lifelong best friend is returning from war, to go try out for the new professional women’s baseball league, on the way to which she nearly runs into a brick wall when she comes across the most beautiful woman she’s ever seen who is *also* on the way to said tryouts*

Also Carson Shaw: sure hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me

#Carson Shaw #a league of their own #aloto #carson shaw human disaster #my life has been ruined by the existence of carson shaw

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emeraldcitynerdfighter · 2 years

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I had a friend ask me if there’s a happy ending in A League of Their Own. If there are sad parts in the show.

Having seen it already, I emphatically had to reassure them that, yes, overall, A League of Their Own has a happy ending. Nobody dies. The Burry Your Gays Trope is far, far away.

That, of course, as we all who have seen the show know, doesn’t mean that A League of Their Own is all sparkles and rainbows.

Yes there are hard parts of A League of Their Own.

The shot of the newspaper article about the teacher being fired for being queer.

The homophobia and transphobia. The racism and sexism.

The raid at The Office. The police brutality.

It isn’t gratuitous violence, though, violence just to Create Drama. It fits with the time-period, and with the growth the characters are experiencing over the course of the show. Everything was — and still is — a very real danger that queer people, people of color, and queer people of color had to worry about. (Although, by any means, if any of that is triggering, you have no obligation to watch. Your well-being is more important than views…the rest of us can take care of that.)

But to not include it would be so irresponsible, and I think it would’ve completely ruined the show.

But what is most important, and I haven’t seen it a lot in queer-focused media…is the way the story then goes back to “yeah okay that thing was hard, but we still have each other. We’re still here.” This community always — and has always — regrouped and found each other again, and still decided to keep each other safe, and keep moving forward. Because going backward, to become small and invisible again, is no longer even a choice.

And that makes the pain not hurt as much.

And that’s how you know that there are queer writers and queer creators in every aspect of this show. And that they’re pouring so much love into every scene, shot, line of dialogue.

Because they get the pain. There always has been pain. And there might always be.

But they also know that their people are always there. Ready to catch them.

As far as Sports Media goes, this show has no goddamn right to be as good as it is. But I’m so glad it is.