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welcome to my aloto blog !!! my name is soleil or tirzah, and my pronoun page is linked here :-) i write fanfic ( ao3 account here ) and occasionally write analytical essays !! this is a sideblog, i follow from @sunnybugz :-)

i'm queer, trans, autistic, and jewish :-) my fav characters are jess and shirley (insane combo i know) and i am a jess/lupe Truther <3 that is all i have to say for now !!! i love you <3

honeybee-arts

Hermanos

vintage-espionage

You’re on thin ice Prime… you better come through with Season 2

moghedien

love Kate Berlant barely ever mentioning that she has a girlfriend on her podcast but then when she does she goes on a long explanation about how she was going to Hawaii with her girlfriend and was thinking about telling the people at the resort that it’s their honeymoon so that she can get free stuff but she decided not to do that and was just gonna charm the resort people instead

#she's so funny

5bi5

Kelly McCormack said nonbinary Jess rights

#man? woman? no you misheard . baseball .

dykecosette

obsessed with how jess is this weird feral little butch shortstop who chews tobacco and distrusts paper money and asks about carsons "rash" and also has a gorgeous singing voice?? i genuinely adore they wrote kelly's singing into the show it just makes jess even weirder

#if we dont get more singing jess im killing #i love her voice its so clear and bright

letabbyfight-deactivated2025072

i can’t stop thinking about how the first scene at the gay bar in epsiode 6 is literally the most perfect scene of television ever written:

- the first 16 minutes of the episode was literally just a set up for the line “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU’RE TRYING TO PLAY FOR THE OTHER TEAM”

- lu thinking carson is calling her out for being queer and carson literally just trying to prevent a trade

- “lupe i thought we were really making a connection” “i did not know she was taken i would not do that to you shaw”

- jess being -1000% surprised to see carson at the gay bar but being 100% surprised at carson being angry

- jess CACKLING “carson look around”

- carson literally just realized she was queer like 3 days ago and now she’s in a gay bar and she can’t process just how fucking GAY everyone is

- “i’ve known since that first night at the bar but also you fell asleep in my room cuddling your girlfriend dumbass” (paraphrasing)

- YOU AND GRETA? THE HEIGHT. THE HEIGHT. WHO DOES WHAT???

- the intermission of clance explaining the problematic white supremacy of the wizard of oz

- followed by the saddest scene ever of max being ashamed of her uncle being trans in front of her bff

- back to the bar where we have so much fat butch representation i want to sob

- “maybelle? i wish!” literally everyone wants maybelle the milf and no one loves her gaybies like mama may

- lupe literally explaining to carson how she can be girly and be queer at the same time (god i wish someone had told me that as a child)

- “not everyone’s butch.” “what’s a butch?” “oh boy”

- EVEN THE BATBOY

- lu “martin’s gay. VERY GAY.” jess *CACKLE*

- the never ending physical touching of lu. jess’ love language is physical touch and just god i feel seen. jess as soon as they’re allowed is always touching lu and lu never pushes jess away. i need to go cry now.

- they’re literally hanging off of each other practically glued together while counting on their fingers how many chicks they’ve banged this week alone

- “veronica? she’s a biter.” me i’m veronica.

- TWINS.

- “you ladies like uhhhhh beer?”

- ROSIE FUCKING O’DONNELL (side note go listen to her podcast where she talks about how despite penny marshall’s wishes she made the movie as queer as she could it’s beautiful)

- arm wrestling turning into cheek kissing

- “there are a lot of soldiers in here”

anyway i’m gonna go watch aloto again.

#do you ladies like uhhhh . beer .

trashyeggroll

i LOVE lupe and jess they are continuing the tradition of scrungly gay rep

i love them your honor

littledata

wishes for ALOTO season 2: Jess' past is revealed to be absolutely fucking unhinged. Did prison time. Worked for a senator. Had a wife for a while (no explanation on what happened to the wife). Lived under several false identities. Nursed a dying man back to health. Found a cool rock at the side of the road. Then they heard about this baseball thing and figured "yeah sure, beats prison anyway".

stuckinsquahamish

Crazy ALOTO Wizard of Oz Thought

The 3 butch Peaches, Jess, Lupe, and Jo are the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion respectively.

Each of them appears at first to lack, and then turns out to possess, a personal quality in the same manner as each of these characters.

Let me explain.

Jess: The Scarecrow. A Brain.

Jess appears at first glance to be an uncouth and uneducated heathen from the Canadian hinterlands. She lacks refinement, shall we say. She also lacks the ability to pass, which is a strategy even the other butches seem to be able to employ. The fact that she is so outwardly masculine further compounds her rural vibe to give off a (prejudiced) impression that she probably won’t be that intelligent (I could write a whole thing about why people associate female masculinity with stupidity but that is for another time), and definitely won’t be emotionally intelligent.

This turns out to be wrong very quickly. Jess is smart. She is highly observant, ridiculously emotionally intuitive, great baseball iq, good musical ability, at least a decent understanding of math, plus whatever you would call the rural version of street smarts (woods wits). She’s not a book smart genius or anything, but honestly, she seems like a genius in her own way particularly when it comes to reading people. Like the Scarecrow, people assume she’s dumb. Like with the Scarecrow, they are wrong.

Lupe: The Tin Man. A Heart.

Lupe seems like a complete hard ass from the first moment we meet her and in a lot of ways she is. She’s harsh with Esti, weirdly abrasive in her first interactions with Jess, defensive with Carson, etc. She is competitive, she is here to play. (I am in no way saying this is unjustified, by the way; I think Lupe’s overall harshness is a defensive strategy that makes perfect sense in a world that is coming for her on so many fronts, especially when she’s dealing with racist BS from within her own team.) She tries very hard to seem like she doesn’t care about anything or anyone.

This also turns out to be blatantly untrue, though, often to particularly entertaining effect. It makes for a great laugh, actually- especially in the scene in the bar with her date from the other team (Wait, baby.!..I mean, I don’t know her) and the scene where she and Jess search for Esti (No I don’t care…we need her, I’m worried about the team). Despite her carefully callous exterior (and genuinely tough personality), it becomes clear that she cares. This is especially true where Esti is concerned. Yeah, she cannot show it, but it’s not caring too little that makes her lash out at Esti; if anything it’s the opposite. Like the Tin Man, Lupe seems harsh and cold. Like the Tin Man, she had a heart all along.

Incidentally, Jess and Lupe’s friendship/brotherhood showcases this well for both of them: Lupe’s heart first shows in her bond with Jess, and Jess’s weird little genius enables her to see through/facilitate fixing some of Lupe’s bullshit with Esti.

Jo: The Cowardly Lion. Courage (The Nerve).

Jo is such an under appreciated character, in my opinion. She had one of the best arcs on the show.

From the moment we first meet her, Jo is placed as the more cautious “voice of reason” to Greta’s antics. She is wary of Carson as baseball competition when they first encounter her. She is constantly concerned with Greta breaking the rules, and interrupts and reminds her of them. She is the most reluctant to go to the bar. But through all of this, which we are mostly seeing from a more Greta or Carson based POV, there’s something else happening on the inside. Jo starts urging Greta to go for it. She does go to the bar, and when the worst thing happens, instead of turning tail and running she is bolder than ever. She doesn’t want to hide anymore. She’s not the scared one-Greta is. And she is going to take her moment to shine, goddamn it. She faces the future with courage, and defiance, and even a kind of joy, in the face of everything.

When I first watched the show, I was so expecting it to go a different way, with Jo blaming Greta for talking her into going to the bar and thus getting her trapped in the raid. That would have been the predictable fight. But instead, it went for something so much richer and more interesting, and in that it revealed that Jo, like the Cowardly Lion, had the nerve all along-she was finally ready to use it.

This concludes my rambling unedited analysis.

Who is Dorothy in this situation? Carson, obviously, and I do think these 3 all play a role in her journey pretty similar to their Oz counterparts (Lupe and Jess guiding her at the bar, a more contentious back and forth with Jo-it’s not a perfect match but I see something there). Also I would like to shout out the butch trio dynamic which I wish we’d seen more of-”showering” Lupe with praise, Jess and Jo bonding over boxers, etc.-I think their interactions were awesome and they only reinforce this reading for me as well.

I do also think they each share some physical traits with their Oz counterparts (Lupe is physically rigid, Jo is big and strong, Jess…literally looks like a scarecrow IDK what to tell you) which is certainly a coincidence but entertaining none the less.

Finally, I doubt this reading was written into the text intentionally, but I think it’s a fun way to look at it and thought I would share. I couldn’t fit all of my thoughts in here, unfortunately, but I did my best. This is unedited so apologies for the rough spots. I love this show and its butches! Go Peaches!

talaricula

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Lupe García/Jess McCready

Rating: Explicit

Chapter 1: I'm not going to pretend (that I'm the kind of girl you'd call more than a friend) (5106 words)

Jess and Lupe know too well how the world looks at people like them. But then they meet, and they see each other.

This is an exploration of Jess’ and Lupe’s relationship throughout Season 1, as they become friends, get wildly horny for each other, fall in love, and finally do something about it. This fic is as canon compliant as humanly possible, and is built out of a mix of scenes from the show told from their perspectives, expanded upon background moments, and plenty of missing scenes.

(This fic is already fully written. It consists of 11 chapters, totalling up to about 60k words. I will be posting one chapter a day.)

talaricula

this fic is officially complete as of yesterday! Please go read it and leave a comment if you enjoyed it, you'd make my day!

#just letting everyone know this is my fav fic ever written

bugsongs

i know everyone has already posted about how aloto portrays all these different kinds of women/lesbians/etc etc but honestly having a butch character who is SO uncomfortable with having to present as feminine & straight passing rly hit with me. lupe and jo obviously prefer to wear pants, but they're both able to switch into dresses & skirts when needed. it may not be their first choice, but it isn't the end of the world for them.

but it is the end of the world for jess. i think a lot about kelly mccormack's interview where she says that jess never really had to pretend to be anyone else before, and how disruptive that would be for her. how she's never had to look in the mirror and not recognize herself before. the fact that jess looks the most vulnerable when she's being forced into femininity. like, knowing that femininity isn't something that works for you and having to perform and fit in with it anyway is so!!

like!!! look how upset she is!! even though jess is introduced in the first episode as this kind of hard, tough tomboy ("you ever heard of shut the hell up?") she's immediately shown to be vulnerable and to have this weak moment when the league (and society) are asking her to do something that is so at odds with who she is. she knows who she is, and she likes that person, she is comfortable with that person. so why the hell do they want to fix her so bad? i think it's a great demonstration of how damaging that kind of societal pressure can be.

gladinfinitum

not taking criticism. peace and love

#BEV DOXXING THEM OH MY GOD

weareallfuckingfruit

more headcanons because I'm bored and need better and cooler content (if ur reading please comment literally anything I want to see my outreach)

- Jess has literally the most messed up hands and legs humanly possible. She's broken all bones you could and is constantly telling the stories behind the breaks

-Lupe prays before she pitches, despite not being particularly religious. Sure, she was raised Catholic and got confirmed and everything, but she's just not that religious. (I feel EXTREMELY strongly about this) (if you watch the show she mutters something when she pitches)

- Esti goes to see Lupe about it one night, after she figures out Lupe's queer. Lupe promptly shits herself majorly and starts trying to cover for herself. ("No I'm-I'm not gay what? Who the fuck sa-" "It's okay, you know?") Lupe cries.

-Jess and Lupe promptly spend all of their money on completely pointless shit (after paying for the apartment) and turn up for their second season with coffee makers, a completely random assortment of books, and random other stuff that NOBODY needs in their life.

-Jess teaches Esti to swear first. Lupe doesn't know if she should be proud or disappointed.

-Carson shows up to Maybelle's a week after the season ends, eyes red. -"I just didn't know where to go I, He-" "SHAW!" Her and Charlie divorced. 'Belle looks after her for the off-season and if Jo is also there, Maybelle's youngsters hanging off of her broad shoulders in the peak of domesticity, Carson doesn't mention it to the other peaches.