To be clear,
@PrimeVideo
:
When we come out in droves to support season 2 of this show, we are wrapping our arms around the cast, crew & creators. To return the love they gave us.
YOU, can take your homophobic focus groups and data, and shove them up your ass 🖕🖕
Just putting it out there to the ALOTO writing team: you can just start season two with Carson on the train to New York, divorce papers in hand straight up.
We've all read(/written) a bunch of fics filling in that particular gap, and we don't need to see the breadloaf again.
Final though before bed.
Imagine Prime cancelling
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
, wasting $300M on Shitadel, and then League got nominated for an Emmy? What if ALOTO *won* an Emmy??
How bad would Prime look?
#ALOTORenewal
mega thread time!
So to address the fandom anxiety about Renewal, and being the self-appointed Shirley of the fandom, here is all the points of consideration. Looking at hard facts, reliable sources through to opinion/conjecture. 🧵
Pronoun update!
Please bear with me cos it's a big deal [read: low key terrifying] for me, but the lil gay baseball show
#ALOTO
has nudged me into another identity epiphany. 1/?
I'm actually losing count of the amount of people that have felt brave enough to change their pronouns (including me) or become more comfortable with themselves thanks to
#aloto
I'm so DAMN proud of you all, I freaking love you and so thankful to
@WillWGraham
and
#AbbiJacobson
Polite request to the
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
writing team: when the time comes to finish the show, can we PLEASE stay faithful to the 1992 film and have the fast forward to a Peaches reunion? I need to see old Gretson, Max honoured in the baseball hall of fame, to meet May's kids.
Anyone else find it insane that we are compelled to share our personal stories, be vulnerable on the internet to justify our worth as an audience? To convince someone we deserve to be seen? 😞
Nobody had to pour their hearts out for LOTR.
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
for
#MoreThanFour
I like that Carson's mask ages from episode 1 (left) to episode 8 (right). I mean they played 108 games and the thing is faded, seams splitting, paint coming off, rusty. Good attention to detail.
#aloto
#renewaloto
#aleagueoftheirown
In my head, there is a big
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
cast group chat, and they either went off on
@DarcyCarden
yesterday for (maybe) spilling the beans, OR they have a bet going on who will slip up first, and nearly everyone is betting on D'Arcy anyway 🤭😂
That was a long 5 years!
Many nervous breakdowns, autism/dyslexia diagnosis, briefly homeless once, (an alarming amount of student debt), family passed away, but now legally a Mechanical Engineer!
(also couldn't resist and Abbi pose in my red dress🤭)
Along with the usual stuff about respecting actors, once again politely requesting to not bring up SMAUs or Fics to them, especially explicit ones. Those are for the fandom, not cast and crew.
That includes FSOG.
We have no desire to make anyone uncomfortable.
Not me thinking about Greta - who has/had aspiration of being a famous movie star - being openly excited about Carson getting asked for an autograph.
Oh yeah,
#RenewALOTO
I just wanna stop and apprectiate the SMAU creators, fan fic writers, vid editors, artists, posters and tweeters, for helping to keep the
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
fandom alivin' and thriving 🥹
The work y'all do istg ❤️🧎♀️
An update, so people don't wonder:
@JessBaenard
have agreed to continue writing FSOG, however we will take this week off to attend to RL and decompress.
So expect chapter 12 to drop *roughly* next Friday.
The bit that hurts the most about eventually saying goodbye to
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
is the loss of communites that were built around it. The safe spaces, the friendships, the fan made content... we made those because we loved this show.
The fact that
@AmazonStudios
,
@PrimeVideo
and
@SPTV
has a show that literally just got a
@HRC
award, and aren't riding that PR wave by renewing
#ALOTO
is mind-boggling! They literally GOT. IT. RIGHT. with this show and aren't buying into social currency is crazy!
#RenewALOTO
I don't have the character limit for this.
But I woke up this morning to find out
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
FINALLY got renewed (supposedly, I'll wait on WillFlork for that one) and I was joyful.
This tiny 8+ episode show gave me my pronouns, brought me out of my shell, made me real.
To clarify,
@JessBaenard
's Fiancè
@amysewell1993
helped sneak me to the UK to post the (first part of the) FSOG epilogue. We surprised Jess!
So hello from England! I love that
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
took me to meet my friend on the other side of the world!
Part one coming soon!
It's crazy that the TEN longest
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
fan fiction works (of which 6 are not yet finished), comes out to:
1.58 Million words 🤯
(1,582,445 to be exact)
We're so insane for that. Now someone
#SaveALOTO
I don't have much more to say, except:
Please don't attack anyone over this, I don't need the stress rn.
Please be respectful.
Rumours are just rumours.
Please don't make assumptions on our story.
Again, thank you to those who have been kind and listened to us. ❤️
9/9
Just to be clear with the
#ALOTO
army:
If
@AmazonStudios
C-words our lil gay baseball show after their post about representation, we are rioting, right?
Like instilling sudden, loud, painful backlash. Right? Right.
Just checking.
✨Fifty Shades of Gill [not] SMAU: Bonus scenes!✨
Hey there! We are taking a break from the typey-type, but we had a little fun with some cross-media content.
Carson's Insta📷
Greta's priv Twitter🔒
Jobelle texting 🥹
No chronological order, just by chapter! Hope you enjoy!
The fact that Meg asked Carson in Episode 2(!!) if she was leaving Charlie makes me wonder how out-the-door Carson was already 🤔
#aloto
#renewaloto
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
I just want to take a moment to address some stuff surrounding Fifty Shades of Gill, or fsog, from my perspective as one of the co-writers.
Please note that'll use 'I' and 'we' to differentiate between my opinion, and what Jess and I have discussed and agreed upon. 1/?
Instead of a teaser, some tiny news:
Originally
@JessBaenard
and I planned for 3 more AO3 updates for FSOG, but now we are looking at 4. So expect chapters 15a, 15b, 16a and 16b.
We've still got a *little* it more story to tell before the epilogue.
And something tomorrow too :)
Waking up to news Amazon cancelled
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
is devastating 😓. I hope it's shopped by Sony. I hope it get's picked up.
For now, I'm gonna wallow in sadness for a little, then contribute to any
#SaveALOTO
campaign by keeping up engagement in fan fiction.
Fuck Amazon.
After 159k words, and considering where we are in the story, I think Abbi summed it up best when considering the idea of discontinuing:
"I think that's a shame for all parties."
So for me, the overwhelming support and kindness from everyone is what made me want to continue ❤
Hot take:
The reason ALOTO Jo and Maybelle (show) makes sense is because of Doris and Mae's (film) relationship. And it could be argued the former are heavily based on the latter 🤔
The fact that there are still
#xenaCon
events 27 years after the show finished... damn I want the same for
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
! Both completely transcend beyond just being a TV show and have so much damn impact.
#RenewALOTO
After last week, I think we need some softness in chapter 8 of
#FiftyShadesofGill
☁️ Pretty much all nice stuff this week!
So here is the weekly no context post (which is actually just context-less spoilers, let's be real here)
Is it *really* a Fifty Friday this week without a teaser tweet? 😊 But it's a special weekend!
(These are as vague as I can get without spoilers)
Hi! Thanks for the patience. We hope you didn't forget about us 👉👈
#FiftyShadesOfGill
@JessBaenard
A trip away! Carson's birthday! Another tiny, random Cameo?! Other stuff, other stuff, other stuff... some spice too, because it's
#fsog
🤷
But it's also time to start the end of Act 2 events 😬
*Reminder, 12 hour delay this week, cause... life.
@JessBaenard
#RenewALOTO
Genuinely believe that the
#ALOTO
fandom has never been more self-sustaining content wise, nor so completely unhinged. And all from just 8 episodes.
@WillWGraham
and Abbi created a full blown ecosystem.
Are you ready for a weekly Hashtag update?? I AM!
#RenewALOTO
= 8,640 Tweets,
#ALOTO
= 8,281 Tweets,
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
= 8,708 Tweets
#RenewALOTO
is up! 👏✊
The others may be down since last week, but remember that 3 weeks ago, these counts were lower 👇 Keep going! 🫡
🚦Fifty Shades of Gill PSA:
Hey folks, this week is a bit rough for me. I had a family member pass away immedietely after 7a was posted and I have a very big exam this week. Between these things and working full-time AND writing FSOG, I'm getting close to burnout. ⤵️
Possibly one of the most fun chapters of '200,000 Shades of Gill' to write so far and again covered a lot of ground.
Delivering on the long tease of revisiting Carson's dream (kinda??).
[I'm a bit of a nit now I know how to add pics to fics] 🙃
And finally, Chapter 7 spoilers 😌
We're back at the usual time next week, and remember to do Power Hour or Greta will make you count down from 100 😇
#AleagueoftheirOwn
#Renewaloto
#renewALOTO
because she felt spent years feeling confused, unlovable and broken, but
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
and the fandom made her brave enough to come out to EVERYONE at 31 ❤
I wonder if we just kept writing Fifty until
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
got renewed? 200k words? 300k long fan fic?
Would that make renewal news come faster?
Cos I'm willing to make that 'sacrifice'.
Possible reasons
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
hasn't been renewed yet:
The tweet announcing renewal was scheduled for the missing Daylight savings hour. That's why it hasn't been renewed.
NOT ME FORGETTING THE NO CONTEXT TEASER TWEET!
Well it's cos I'm on a six day week, I'm a day behind. Anyhoo, here is some pre-
#FiftyShadesofGill
content. See ya soon!
Someone needs to bring this to fandoms attention. We were moots.
Bullying should never be allowed to go this far. Not over
#ALOTO
fiction/poetry. I'm so disappointed in the people involved; take a good hard look at yourselves.
This should not have happened. Not here. At all.
Apologies, not EXACTLY made to the requested specifications.
I guess there is pre-pining and some angst and a fair bit of kissing, but it's something else?? 🤷♀️
Thank you
@queenzulu
for the beta!
Elevator AU: Carson and Greta are stuck in an elevator alone. As minutes turn to hours they get to know each other!
(entire story including pining/angst/kissing/etc. happens during this one elevator ride)
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
That took a bit longer than expected, but these characters will do what they will. This is very much the softest, fluffiest chapter yet.☺️
#FiftyShadesofGill
#ALeagueOfTheirOwn
Just to answer the questions: The stuff that came out today is a leak and it isn't official, which is why we aren't saying anything. So if you want to see more episodes or more seasons of this show, now is your moment. People are listening.
We can see the difference though.
The way her smile changes from the fake one, when Carson won't come to NY and she thinks Carson is going back to Charlie, versus her real smile.
I don’t think we talk enough about Greta in this moment… her barely audible “I know” when Carson says she can’t go with her and how she perks up when she says “no” after Carson says she isn’t going back to Charlie… I feel her movements are subtle but add so much to this scene
Ring giving? The L word? Bikini? Illana? Mile high club? *Stupidly* long chapter?!
Sorry for the delay folks, have a big one on us to go with your D'Arcy SAG content 🫡😌
@JessBaenard
#RenewALOTO
#FiftyShadesofGill
I feel like when Jess and I write, we ask two questions:
What are we doing to Carson this week? And,
How close can we push Greta towards therapy again?
It's been a long 7 months! The last teaser tweet for
#FiftyShadesOfGill
(No Teaser/word count updates for the epilogue) 🥲 But we thank you for reading.
We started with Grey, and now we finish with Freed. The stuff in the middle... well we did our own thing 😉
Please dont mind my little thread of fics that I want to catch before they disappear through the cracks. I'm *very* lucky to have readers, but not everyone does.
So if you have time, help me show some love to new(ish) writers or unsung fics. 👇❤️