THIS IS VERY EXCITING!!!!!!!!! You have no idea how long I've wanted a movie or a series about the Women's Army Corps and now Tyler Perry is making a movie all about the 6888th!!! I'm EXCITED!!!!
The 6888th Postal Battalion, affectionately known as the Six Triple Eight, was an all African American WAC unit that served in England sorting through the massive backlog of mail. It was a nearly impossible task that the Army predicted would take them years to accomplish but they completed the task in half the time, processing 17 million pieces of mail and sending them to soldiers awaiting news from home. They were so good that the unit was sent to several other areas to do the same thing.
I'm also very excited to finally see their story shared with a much larger audience who probably have never heard of these women! I hope it's just the beginning of women's stories being told. There are so many more to tell.
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Batfamily Powerpoint Night! (Part 6: Stephanie)
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[Masterlist]
Steph: Okay my turn! Bruce I think you’ll be impressed by research and persuasiveness.
Bruce (head in his hands): How do I already have a migraine from this
Steph: My words are just that powerful, B-man.
Tim: I like the typo, really gives the impression of “professional social media manager”
Duke: Steph you are so brave
Tim: I’ll be surprised if you make it out of this alive. But you’re so right
Babs: Yeah like I applaud you for saying what we’re all thinking but it will probably get you killed within the next five minutes
[disgruntled Bruce noises]
Jason: HA not the list of descriptors in the bio
Tim: For someone with “father” as 50% of their twitter bio you could tweet about your kids once maybe
Damian: It is very clear that you only post what is asked of you by your corporate underlings.
Dick: You met Kris Jenner???
Bruce: I don’t think this information is relevant to my duties
Tim: You don’t know who Pedro Pascal is?
Babs: You’re a celebrity, Bruce, I think it applies very heavily to at least one of your double lives
Dick: YOU MET KRIS JENNER?
Jason: Even I know this stuff and I actively try not to
Jason: I don’t know how much he’ll love you after this
[Bruce migraine noises]
Cass: (signing) He loves you :)
Tim: Another typo...
Duke: Steph how much time was it
Steph: Nope. We’re moving on
Babs: You made a Go Fund Me to make a... “Spoiler Signal”...?
Steph: Yeah do you want to donate I can text you the link
Babs: I think I’m good
Dick: I hate that tweet
Jason: You did it to yourself dude
Damian: Did you receive that footage of Timothy’s fall?
Steph: Yeah I’ll airdrop it to you :)
Tim: Yeah maybe let’s get rid of the vigilante twitter accounts
Jason: I clearly was coerced into that statement
Bruce: Jason why don’t I have your phone number?
Jason: Stephanie
Tim: YOU TEXTED BERNARD?
Steph: He knows a lot about Gotham’s vigilantes
Tim: Where did you get his number? Why did he already know it was you??
Steph: Oh we talk all the time :) Anyway,
Bruce: I’m sure you all remember why I was in GCPD’s headquarters.
Tim: To be fair that was mostly Damian’s fault
Damian: Todd purposely provoked me, the blame is his.
Jason: Okay but why would you bring a grenade to a gala?
Dick: We’re all sorry for fighting at the party can we not rehash this right now guys
Jason: See I would follow this Bruce Wayne.
Tim: Except Steph you’re definitely not the favorite, especially after this
Duke: Why does “The Batman” only tweet in the third person
Steph: I think it fits the vibe
[noises of collective agreement, and Bruce’s pain]
Steph: So Bruc-
Bruce: No.
<<Part 5: Cass | Part 7: Damian >>
[Masterlist]
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I finally found some time to watch the A League of Their Own show and OH MY GOD IT'S GOOD!!!
I have so many feelings right now I don't even know how to properly express myself. This may be completely incoherent and I apologize for that but its tumblr so I can be incoherent here.
As a woman, a former softball player, a member of the lgbtqia+ community, and a historian I am on cloud nine and I am legitimately crying right now. This show means so much and the care that went into telling these stories is so evident I can hardly believe it. You can see how much they researched and how much of this is set in real history. The stories being told, the history being shared is so important and I love that it's being told. God I'm emotional. Little girls are gonna see the show and see these amazing women, these amazing queer and poc women, and be inspired. That is why I study and share womens history. I'm crying. I'm crying so much. These stories are so important. And all those idiots saying this show sucks because of added wokeness or whatever bullshit they're saying in their review bombs can SUCK IT because THIS IS HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!!! These stories happened!! The characters may be fictional and some things in the show are fictionalized but their stories are true!! The creators of this show did extensive research and talked to former members of the league. You can't claim this was made up for woke points because THIS IS FACT!!! Queer women were in the AAGPBL. Black women were barred from the AAGPBL but still found a way to play professional baseball and their stories are real and needed to be told.
As someone who has extensively studied women's history during World War II, I am screaming! I've been so excited for this show to come out. I love womens history and especially women during the 1940s and I love the story of the AAGPBL and I'm so freaking happy to see it depicted in a show. I'm also a big fan of the original movie. I am impressed with how much you can tell that these creators researched the period and the league. You can tell which stories they found to draw from and how speaking to former players like Maybell Blair influenced the story they are telling. To be able to tell queer and POC stories for a modern audience set within a historical time period. I'm just blown away. I'm so impressed.
And I'm not just in awe of the overall story being told but I'm so happy with the tiny details. I'm so often disappointed by costuming and dialogue and such but not with this show. There is period accurate clothing!! The dresses, the colors and designs, the luggage, the hair, the jewelry, THE UNDERWEAR! ACCURATE!! That never happens in period shows!!! They even got the peaches logo right on the uniform!!!
God I've teared up so many times. First it was because this is a tv show about WOMEN'S HISTORY. Which is something that never gets told! I want 1,000 more shows just like about other aspects of womens history please. This was perfect. Then I cried was because this is a show with an entire cast of women! So many women! How many TVs show are just about women! Then I teared up because baseball! And baseball history! And womens baseball history! And then I teared up because POC women!!!!! And POC women's history!!! And then I teared up because queer women!!!! And i teared up because of female friendships!!!
I'M DOING A LOT OF CRYING ON MULTIPLIE ACCOUNTS HERE!!!
Anyway, please do yourself a favor and WATCH THIS SHOW!!!!!!! There really is nothing else like it.
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Stephanie Lauterrrrr the cool girl who everyone likes but no one actually knows... she has a lot of friends but she isn't CLOSE with any of them they're just. the people she spends her time with. they're the people who give her an excuse to be somewhere that isn't home. the people who distract her from how empty of a person she feels like she is, but only on the surface. because they like her on the surface, but none of them could say exactly Why. she's cool and that's all she really is to them. it's all she really wants to be. it's easy to be The Cool Girl, no one expects anything more of her. she isn't going to fail at just being cool, as long as she keeps all her friends at arm's length. they like who she is on the surface, she's afraid she doesn't have anything more to offer besides the smokescreen of coolness, and if anyone gets too close they'll see what a disappointment she really is. but no one can be disappointed if they never expect anything more from her
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