#shirley and maybelle

[halfratsalready]

JD Dancer Appreciation Vol. 4: Shirley Henault ✨

The beautiful and talented Shirley Henault is a staple of the Just Dance franchise. She’s been in so many maps and portrayed so many coaches that I won’t be able to fit anywhere near all of them in one post, so expect several more Shirley posts down the line. For now, here’s a few of the dozens of coaches portrayed by Shirley. She’s an incredible dancer who disappears into every character she portrays, and she is clearly extraordinarily hardworking. The JD franchise wouldn’t be the same without her. We love Shirley ☺️💕

Sara: Can’t Stop The Feeling (ft. cameo as Liza Friday), Majesty, If You Wanna Party, You Should See Me In A Crown, Swan Lake, Tainted Love

Night Swan: Witch, Majesty

Liza Friday: Last Friday Night

Ruby: Buttons, Don’t Cha

Dolores: Driver’s License

Maybel: Call Me Maybe, Call Me Maybe (Alternate), Beauty And A Beat Vs. Call Me Maybe

Other Shirley maps will be featured in future posts :)

[gendergeezer]

i did this yesterday and i cannot decide if i like it today, but pay day!

[peachesunited]

Day 3 of ALOTO meme week brings to you:

Remember you can also send your memes or tag us when you post them! 🍑⚾️

[lupeloto]

how am i holding up with the aloto news? i’m not. i’m choosing to pretend it doesn’t exist and that we are getting them back one day for a long time and that jess and lupe are traveling together and that they are all just hanging out together in the off season and everything is good😄

[sawyerconfort]

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN MASTERLIST

What if...

First Kiss With the Rockford Peaches (+ Max)

When They Get Jealous With the Rockford Peaches (+ Max)

Caught Wearing Their Shirt With the Rockford Peaches (+ Max)

Carson Shaw

Exhaust Valve | Carson Shaw x Fem!Reader %

Greta Gill

Two Weeks and I’ll Be Home | Greta Gill x Fem!Reader 

Lupe Garcia

Dating Lupe would include...

Your Small Insecurities | Lupe Garcia x Fem!Reader 

Jess McCready

Dating Jess would include...

Jo de Luca

She’s Not You | Jo de Luca x Fem! Reader

[ray-vnn]

Some ALOTO charts for meme week!

@peachesunited

[emeraldcitynerdfighter]

ALOTO characters as spambot girlies part 2

Jo💪🏻Bazooka 🔫Queer🐊 Brooklyn🎯

Maybelle👩‍👧‍👦Mama🧶 Yeehaw 🤠Township 🌭Tits

Shirley🫣Outfield🥫Not ✡️Queer📊

Esti 🏃🏻‍♀️💨Cubana🇨🇺 Musicales 🚙 My Peaches🍑

Part 1

[walison-abigobaldo-iii]

Long Live is a song about the Rockford Peaches

I will not elaborate because there is no need

[hecate112]

My peaches ❤️❤️❤️

THE ROCKFORD MORNING STAR ARCHIVES ☆

Let them write poems about what we’re about!

[ruassurvivalkit]

💫❤️‍🔥RUA'S MASTERLIST❤️‍🔥💫

💥Rules💥

1) I don't write ageplay, anything sexual to do with bodily functions e.g. vomit, underage, too graphic, beastality etc. Generally what most people on this app consider iffy

2)I have the right to refuse requests

(especially if it goes against rules or I am uncomfortable by the request)

3) don't reblog my stuff or I will find you! (/j about the last part but don't reblog my stuff /srs)

4) Request thro my ask button and do it respectfully or I won't make the request. If you want it to be specific to your tastes, make it specific. If you want me to have my own artistic interaptation then let me know.

5) I ONLY WRITE ROMANTICALLY FOR WOMEN/NONBINARY AS I AM A LESBIAN. (I will write for men platonically) (or the man is man x other character) and I don't write for male readers

6) I write romantic and platonic but you need to be specific. If you want a character to be written as a parental figure, say "can you write for parent!character" or if you want a character to be written as a crush/crushing say "can you write for crush!character or crushing!character"

7) depending on the fandom, I may write for one I don't have listed but i have the right to refuse

8) I write for character x reader and character x character and I'm chill writing with multiple characters if given specifics

9) I may write for a character not listed in the listed fandom but I have the right to refuse.

WHAT TYPE OF IMAGE/ONE SHOT IS THIS?

❣️ - fluff

💢 - angst

🍋 - smut (I am not well versed in writing smut but I'm willing to give it a try)

🕊 - dead dove do not eat

*trigger warnings will be given on iffy subjects (dead dove do not eat)

WHO/WHAT DO I WRITE FOR?

Arcane

• Jinx

• Vi

• Mel

• Caitlyn

• Vi and Caitlyn

Stranger Things

• Robin buckley

• Nancy wheeler

• younger characters × younger characters only as theyre 13-15 in the series(e.g. Max x Lucas or Mike x Will) but will only be cutesy fluff bc aweee

• Joyce × Jim

• Joyce Byers

• Chrissy Cunningham

• Vickie (cannot find her surname for the life of me)

League of their own (series)

• Jess McCready

• Lupe Garcia

• Max Chapman

• Carson Shaw

• Greta Gill

• Maybelle Fox

• Jo De Luca

• Shirley Cohen (love the girl but platonic only)

• Esti Gonález (platonic only)

Life is Strange

Lis 1

• Chloe Price

• Max Caufield

Lis tc

• Steph Gingrich

• Alex Chen

Feel free to request a character and ill yay or nay them

Yellowjackets

• Shauna Shipman/Sadecki

• Jackie Taylor

• Nat/Natalie Scatorccio

• Tai/Taissa Turner

• Van Palmer

• Lottie/Charlotte Matthews

• Laura-Lee

Hazbin/Helluva Boss

• feel free to request FEMALE characters and I'll yay or nay them asap but male characters can be platonic!!

Bridgerton

• Penelope Featherington(my love my life my wife not Colins 😾)

• Eloise Bridgerton (LOVE HER SM)

• umm idk who else but like requests and stuff! 😼

I also write for

• dc universe

• marvel universe

• 2 broke girls (only Max and depends on Caroline)

• Fallon Carrington the new Dynasty series (havent watched the older one)

• can request a lot of characters from diff fandoms as I always forget what media I watch/read etc until its brought up

• Harry Potter but only when the younger characters are older

• FEAR STREET!!!!

• doric from the dnd movie and Syd from ianowt 👀👀👀

• STRICTLY PLATONIC!!!!paper girls ❤️ I luv them they're such wee cuties but I can do Mac x Kj romantic bc duhhh just not x reader BC DUHHH

• mean girls

‼️DISCLAIMER‼️ This is a stream of consciousness so apologises for the messiness and istg I will actually combust and explode if anyone ik finds this 😔🙏💔

[youmearepeaches]

I’ve just read a post about Esti having fun and the peaches including her and laughing together during the first episodes, even thought the language barrier. And I’m very confused because I didn’t perceived that at all. 

In fact, I don’t think we see anyone talking/interacting with Esti in the first few episodes. Except Lupe (because of the language), Greta (to invite her to night practice) and Jess (howling together into the night and codito codito at night practice). And sure, we see her smiling while night/morning practices but we also see Shirley kind of dismissing her while they ride the bikes. And we see her sad as soon as episode 3, first because they got her name wrong on the check, and second when she tries to bond with Lupe over a letter written in Spanish and Lupe shuts her up and is being a bitch to he.

Then there’s that night scene when Lupe confronts her about night practices. I’ve always perceived that scene with Maybelle, Jo and Terri as them laughing at Esti, not with her. Like that bit when we get Maybelle, Jo and Terri on the front and Lupe and Esti looking at them? It didn’t feel like just about night practices but also about language/cultural barrier.  

And I might be projecting here? But that feeling when you realise they’re not laughing with you but AT you, and that they’re using you just because you talk a different language and that can be “exotic” and “funny” to some people for a bit, it’s devastating. And I feel that’s also the moment Esti kind of realises where she is and that she’s completely alone (because who she thought was gonna help her out -Lupe- ignores her most of the time).

[peachesunited]

Hey All-Star Fruits!

As we all know, A League Of Their Own’s 2nd season was scrapped from Amazon. Like Abbi, Will and Desta said, blaming the strikes is a cowardly move on their part and we all know the actual reasons behind this decision.

We are confident we’ll find a new home for our award winning show, one that appreciates and understands the importance of the stories told by this amazing show and the people that have put their heart and soul in working to bring it to life.

Meanwhile we have to show the studios and streamers we are backing up our team, and that no matter how long it takes we will still support this amazing family. That’s why we urge you all to help spread and sign this petition.

This is one way to quantify to them the support ALOTO has.

Help us save A League Of Their Own.

https://chng.it/n9zqB4zxyy

#SaveALOTO

[gatheringbones]

[“William Quantrill was born in Ohio, made his living as a cattle rustler and slave catcher in Missouri-Kansas and Texas, and was living in Lawrence in 1859, although not yet politicized. Quantrill’s pro-slavery terrorism in Missouri coincided with the onset of the Civil War, when he and fifteen men set out to torture, kill, and destroy the properties and livestock of abolitionists and their supporters. In August 1862, Quantrill received a field commission as a captain in the Confederate Army.

By the time of the attack on Lawrence a year later, Quantrill was able to muster a force of hundreds of Bushwhacker guerrillas, nearly all armed with multiple six-shot revolvers. The group staged its attack at daybreak, when everyone in the town was still sleeping. Although the men of Lawrence had drilled and practiced for defending themselves and the town, they stored their firearms and ammunition in the city’s armory, so the sleeping population was defenseless when the lightning attack began. Over a span of hours, the guerrillas secured the main hotel as a command center, slaughtering 150 unarmed men and boys, most of the adult males of the town. They burned about a quarter of the town’s buildings, including all the businesses except two.

For the city of Lawrence today, the trauma of the massacre still resonates, especially for the descendants of the dead and survivors. “‘It was utterly catastrophic,’ said Pat Kehde, a retired Lawrence bookstore owner and great-granddaughter of Ralph and Jetta Dix,” reads a Wichita Journal account 150 years after the fact. “On the morning of the raid, Jetta tried to protect Ralph by standing between William Quantrill’s men and her husband. When Jetta stumbled as one of Quantrill’s men rode his horse into her, Ralph was momentarily unguarded and in that instant was shot and killed.”

“We are in an age where we have a war on terrorism, and we talk about terrorism all the time,” said Lawrence historian Paul Stuewe, “but we don’t think about the 19th-century terrorism.”“It is a calamity of the most heartrending kind,” said the New York Times following the attacks, “an atrocity of unspeakable character.”

Following the Civil War, John Newman Edwards, who had fought for the Confederacy, wrote Noted Guerrillas, extolling the Missouri guerrillas as great patriots of the Confederate cause, romanticizing the taking of life up close, claiming the guerrillas were almost superhuman specimens, trying to place them alongside the valiant Confederate Army to be commemorated. He was fascinated by the guerrillas’ deft use of the pistol, often attacking with one in each hand, rather than a rifle, which was the standard weapon used by professional soldiers. He wrote that before a battle, “a Guerrilla takes every portion of his revolver apart and lays it upon a white shirt, if he has one, as carefully as a surgeon places his instruments on a white towel. . . . He touches each piece as a man might touch the thing that he loves.”

Edwards also portrayed Quantrill and his guerrillas as expert horsemen, shooting while riding fast. In fetishizing the guerrilla revolver and the horse, Edwards heralded the beginning of the “cowboy” and “outlaw” hero of the post−Civil War decades, even though these figures had nothing to do with cattle or ranching or even the “West.”

Some of the most enduringly famous, or infamous, of the Missouri guerrillas—Jesse James, Cole Younger, Myra Maybelle Shirley (Belle Starr), and their brothers—came from land-owning slavers; some, like the Shirleys, ran successful business operations and were well connected politically. Their elevation to post−Civil War social bandit heroes would eclipse their former pro-Confederate deeds. In the two decades after the Civil War, the Winchester rifle was fetishized for killing Indians, and the Colt revolver for outlawry. In the process, gun violence and civilian massacres were not just normalized, but commercially glorified, packaged, promoted, and mass marketed.”]

roxanne dunbar-ortiz, from loaded: a disarming history of the second amendment, 2018

[alototournament]

THE ALOTO SEASON ONE ULTIMATE BLORBO TOURNAMENT

hiiiii it’s your resident sports nut and ranking enthusiast (@sylviii)! I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t sleep, and I kept seeing a bunch of fun poll tournaments so I decided to make my own for A League Of Their Own (2022)! Here is the bracket:

The four main cast members get a first-round bye. Seeding was based on character prominence in both the series itself and fanworks and is intended to balance characters from both storylines.

Polls will be uploaded starting tomorrow (Sunday, Feb. 11), this post will be updated with links to every poll throughout the tournament. All polls will be tagged with #aloto tourney poll, please tag discussion as #aloto tournament and reblog this post so we can get as many votes as possible!

ROUND 1 MATCH-UPS

Shirley Cohen vs. Sgt. Beverly

(WINNER: Sgt. Beverly - 61% of 391 votes)

Gracie vs. the Pizza Twins

(WINNER: Gracie - 85% of 292 votes)

Edie (Vi’s partner) vs. Esther Warner

(WINNER: Esther Warner - 83% of 301 votes)

Uncle Bert vs. Dove Porter

(WINNER: Uncle Bert - 98% of 386 votes)

Guy vs. Charlie Shaw

(WINNER: Guy - 94% of 355 votes)

Edgar (Max’s dad) vs. Vi

(WINNER: Vi - 62% of 303 votes)

Red Wright vs. Cheryl

(WINNER: Cheryl - 95% of 287 votes)

Jess McCready vs. Toni

(WINNER: Jess McCready - 91% of 364 votes)

Terri (background Peach) vs. Jo De Luca

(WINNER: Jo De Luca - 98% of 326 votes)

Lupe García vs. Ana (background Peach)

(WINNER: Lupe García - 97% of 411 votes)

Esti González vs. Leah (the preacher’s wife)

(WINNER: Esti González - 96% of 290 votes)

Maybelle Fox vs. Gary

(WINNER: Maybelle Fox - 99% of 357 votes)

ROUND 2 MATCH-UPS

Max Chapman vs. Sgt. Beverly

(WINNER: Max Chapman - 92% of 427 votes)

Gracie vs. Esther Warner

(WINNER: Gracie - 52% of 349 votes)

Uncle Bert vs. Guy (WINNER: Uncle Bert - 87% of 344 votes)

Vi vs. Clance Morgan

(WINNER: Clance Morgan - 90% of 372 votes)

Carson Shaw vs. Cheryl

(WINNER: Carson Shaw - 78% of 405 votes)

Jess McCready vs. Jo De Luca

(WINNER: Jess McCready - 65% of 398 votes)

Lupe García vs. Esti González

(WINNER: Lupe García - 71% of 379 votes)

Maybelle Fox vs. Greta Gill

(WINNER: Greta Gill - 57% of 613 votes)

by the way, this blog is run by a queer trans lesbian. TERFs, bigots, fatphobes, and ableists fuck right off.

[aotgylbs]

top 5 fictional characters?

anne shirley cuthbert from anne of green gables

maybell parish from twice shy by sarah hogle

annie walker from practice makes perfect by sarah adams

tina belcher from bob’s burgers

lorelai gilmore from gilmore girls

thanks for asking! 🥰

put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer