Lupe García/Jess McCready

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Pairing
Pairing: Lupe García/Jess McCready
Alternative name(s): Jesslupe
Gender category: F/F, Femlash
Fandom: A League of Their Own
Canonical?: No
Prevalence: Moderate
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Lupe García/Jess McCready is a pairing in A League of Their Own fandom. The pair are close friends, bonding shortly after making the team together, and some fans were hopeful that a relationship between the two might develop in Season 2.

Canon

Lupe Garcia is the Peaches' pitcher and Jess McCready is the shortstop. They quickly become close friends, and, while the viewer doesn't see the depth of their friendship throughout the episodes, the audience later learn that Jess and Lupe have been going to gay bars together. It is theorised that Jess clocked that Lupe was a lesbian first, based on a scene where she used gay slang from the era, which seemed to go over Lupe's head.

dying on the hill that jess asking lupe “so what are you a pitcher” was lupe getting clocked bc jess obviously knew the literal answer but like. in slang terms pitcher means top and catcher means bottom

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Fandom

A League of Their Own was praised by lesbian and other sapphic fans for having multiple butch lesbian characters in the cast and representing the diversity of butch women. Jess and Lupe both being butch and being close friends was already a popular dynamic generally in the fandom, with the pairing between the two getting more popular over time.

I need Lupe and Jess to have theeeee slowest burn best friends to lovers arc a league of their own # jess mccready # lupe garcía # yes they COULD be best butch friends forever but. i think they should fall in love

sufferlove

thinking about how as time goes on and jess and lupe get more close, jess gets more and more touchy with Lupe and then by the end of the season she’s pretty much glued to their hip 🥹

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As of September 2023, Jess/Lupe is the second most popular pairing on AO3 for the fandom, with 412 works.

Common Tropes in Fanworks

Alternative Universe: Different Time Periods - Both modern AUs and AUs set in other time periods are popular.

Butch4Butch - A number of works explore the two character's butch identities as part of their ship fics as well as their developing relationship.

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