#jo positive

[undercoverpena]

HAPPY HOUR with jo

sometimes, a poll happens here on a Thursday. but this week a good thing happened to me (I passed my exam, will I shut up about this? eventually, but not today) and to celebrate I thought we could celebrate one another? sometimes, real life is hard, and this is our sanctuary to escape to, and while I can’t bring cake or flowers to everyone, I thought this is a nice way to let people feel celebrated. so let’s have a happy hour (will continue until the asks stop). you can begin sending in now, but I’ll begin answering in a few hours.

rules:

✨ be positive

to enter happy hour, either send in:

✨ something good that happened to you this week that you want to share and celebrate

✨ share that you completed making a challenging gif set, writing a oneshot/series or creating a piece of art? send in a link, let’s eat cake over it it! (only rules for this one is that it has to be the one you’re proudest of to do date — only because there’s lots of lovely fic rec spaces and im not trying to smother over them with this)

✨ a nice message to someone you love on tumblr dot com

✨ share a happy thot or idea over characters — let’s ramble

✨ share your fave photo of pedro or ppcu character

✨ anything positive you’d love to share

and just add #HappyHour within your ask

for those that reblog, if you’re inspired to start your own, please feel free to copy my rules and guidelines, but please just link back to this/tag me so I can see all the positive! 🩷

tagging some no pressure moots: @thetriumphantpanda @hellishjoel @goodwithcheese @secretelephanttattoo @psychedelic-ink @fuckyeahdindjarin @janaispunk @swiftispunk @joelscruff @mrsmando @morallyinept @lavendertales

#happy hour with jo #fun games #jo’s thoughts #positive ✨

[totaled-drama]

Super rough sketches for the Flying Fish coaches & Sky!!!

Bowie wants to be just like Sky when he grows up!! He thinks she’s so cool (and she inspires him to wear jewelry like hers when he gets older)

#total drama #td 2023 #td spoilers #marsh’s td art #total drama spoilers #total drama 2023 #total drama bowie #total drama sky #total drama emma #total drama josee #total drama jacques #td little league au #Jo is the assistant coach for the flying fish #but she’s basically their main hockey coach because jacques is always more focused on the skating aspect #jacques is SO jealous that josee got the skating job and he got stuck with the hockey job #the only reason jo didn’t get the main hockey coach position is due to a lack of experience on the ice #lightning makes sure to hold that over her head

[suchacomet]

jess being the shortstop is driving me insane. like they don’t really show it onscreen (which is a shame! but runtimes i get it) but shortstops are literally the heart of the team. they’re the ones calling out the pitch count and reminding people where the play is. more often than not they’re the cutoff from the outfield. they back up the pitcher and the third baseman AND they cover both second and third. second base is the most stolen base bc it’s the furthest from home plate and therefore the hardest to throw out, and shortstop usually covers second when a steal is being made. most right hand batters pull to left field so they tend to get the most action. due to being between second and third if there’s a double play being turned they’re usually a part of it one way or another. they get hard liners and grounders as well as the occasional easy pop-up so they’re always on their toes and usually fielding the most difficult hits

also the pitcher/shortstop dynamic is soooo important. yes pitcher/catcher dynamic we get it but most of the time pitchers are too focused on pitching to be able to field well, especially because any ball that comes their way is gonna be hot due to the fact that pitchers are the closest fielder to the batter. shortstop covers the pitcher when they don’t have time to pull out of the pitch follow-through. they charge the ball when a bunt happens bc the pitcher doesn’t have time to react quick enough. they’re the one who reminds the pitcher where they’re at in the count and encourages them. it’s easier for shortstop to get to the mound than the catcher so often shortstop is the one going to the pitcher to reassure them if they’re having a hard time. they’re the fielder for the pitcher so that the pitcher only has to focus on throwing strikes. do you get what i’m saying. jesslupe nation are you picking up what i’m putting down here. do you understand why i’m going crazy about this.

basically what i’m saying is jess being shortstop just makes sense bc she is always there looking out for everyone and backing everyone up (but especially lupe), casually covering the most ground without thought, simultaneously light on her feet and a solid brick wall as the occasion calls for, covering the hole, leading the team from behind. you can’t be a shortstop without being a team player, and you don’t have a team unless you have a strong shortstop on the diamond 🥲

#blah.txt #jess mccready #aloto #a league of their own #i just want people to call jess shortie is that too much to ask. especially one particular person. who happens to pitch. or something #i have so many feelings about the players’ positions and how they impact/influence/reflect their characters #i have to work but when i have time i have a whole essay in my head analyzing the pitchers (lupe and max) in contrast to carson as well as #talking about greta and jo as first/third besties. like y’all if you don’t know the game you have NO idea how fucking GOOD it is that #they’re first and third. like it’s the dynamics of it all #source: i’m a softball playing dyke :)

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Forever S01E08 The Ecstasy of Agony.

#forever abc #henry morgan #jo martinez #molly dawes #mike hanson #ioan gruffudd #alana de la garza #hilarie burton #donnie keshawarz #nothing quite like your partner catching you in a compromising position! #i ADORE this scene #if only for henry's EXCELLENT face when he realises it's jo #and then jo's as well #excellent excellent #ghostly'sgifs

[c-kiddo]

gave maself a tattoo 👍

#its a spiral above my ankle #1st one evar #apart from the dot i did last time #kiddo say #my leg will fall off now bc i have wierd hypermobile hip joings n was sitting in sorta of crazy positions to do it haha #i will show when its more healed and if i dont die from gangrene #ok exhausted now. was hyperfocus n didnt eat snack but now i did and am sleepry. mams friend gave her a palette of straberyw theyre so good

[signoraviolettavalery]

i feel like we should, idk

somehow send some positive messages to Bojan and JO and show them that not all their fans are crap and we love them and support them and want them to be happy and healthy and how much joy their music brings us

and just infuse some positivity into all the negativity Bojan says he saw on social media

#joker out #idk maybe positive messages to the official JO instagram account #im' sure the other guys would show bojan

[asexualaromanticblog]

Special for women: Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. - Jo March, Little Women

#ace #aro #aroace pride #aromantic #aromantic pride #asexual #asexual pride #lgbt #lgbtq #little women #jo march #josephine #march sisters #lgbt pride #pride #lgbt positivity #lgbt problems

[fraudulent-cheese]

Think you would change any of the finalists of any of the seasons? Think you mentioned a Pahkitew redo or something, would that be a part of it?

OH BOY THAT IS. A QUESTION IN A HALF

I'll start off by giving my opinion on all the finalists of each season!

TDI: Honestly, i wouldn't change it. Both Gwen and Owen are pretty relevant characters, they're fun as the finalists and it makes sense they'd make it that far tbh. I wouldn't swap them out for anyone else this season outside of maybe Leshawna if her elimination wasn't so cheap? That or change it to be like "oh yeah we should make them stay in this nice resort instead of that shitty summer camp" as motivation for nominating someone during Haute-Campture. Idk. Id be more in favor of finalist Leshawna if Fresh TV, you know, gave her more relevance outside of being Gwen's bestie towards the end? And just gave her character depth? Or an arc on her own? But she's the only other candidate in my eyes

TDA: I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN: THE FINALISTS SHOULD'VE BEEN LINDSAY AND HAROLD. why was Duncan a finalist. Literally why. What does he do that's interesting enough to justify keeping him for the ENTIRE SEASON. If you wanted to do the Courtney list plotthread, just introduce it earlier on in the season and kick Duncan then! Or better yet, make one of the early rejoins be Courtney instead and have Duncan get eliminated pre-merge and Izzy come back post-merge! Im less against finalist Beth, but her character's plotlines aren't compelling to me at all this season :/

Lindsay on the other hand has a full character arc this season of coming into her own and trying her hand at leadership, has a rivalry with Courtney, and she still keeps her character throughout! And honestly i just think Harold's an entertaining character and him making it further than Duncan for at least one season would've been great!

TDWT: As the season is written? I wouldn't change the finalists at all. Heather and Alejandro are the most important characters of the season outside of the Love Triangle and Cody + Sierra and if you want my opinion, none of them should've been finalists. Now, if you do rewrite the season, i'd say Courtney (or even Eva if you make her rejoin mid season) deserved at least to reach the final three. Don't have much to say here.

ROTI: JO. OMG JO. JO SHOULD'VE BEEN A FINALIST. Again, i've made a post about this earlier (which i CANNOT FIND. WHY) But Jo should've been a finalist! They didn't need to give Lightning a vilain arc in the last two episodes just because! Im not super against Cameron being a finalist, but i don't like Lightning being one. Granted you could argue for different characters making for good finalists if you're going to rewrite the entire season (Anne Maria maybe? Or Zoey)

TDAS: Oh boy, TDAS. Sweet, sweet TDAS. Listen. Listen. In an alternate universe where Total Drama is a good show, Mike and Zoey could be good finalists. Unfortunately for them there is a large, looming Courtney-shaped shadow over that idea, made even worse by how both Zoey and Mike were used throughout the season.

Yeah if you couldn't tell by now, Courtney 101% SHOULD have been a finalist! TDAS should've been her season! It's the only season where she makes it past Duncan! She's a strong competitor, a compeling character, she's been put through shit the entire series, hell she could have interesting interactions with all the cast members! But no, Sundae Muddy Sunday happened instead.

As for possible finalists? Lindsay. And Jo. Yeah look if they're not gonna be finalists in earlier seasons you may as well make them finalists here. You could still make an argument for Zoey if the season were rewritten, but otherwise yeah this is probably the worst season for canon finalists :(

TDPI: Honestly with the direction they took, im... fine, with Sky and Shawn being the finalists. They're relevant characters, they have the more important arcs and outside of Scarlett and Jasmine, some of the most competent characters, enough to get here.

I'll take this as an opportunity to say i haven't landed yet on finalists for my PI rewrite? I know for a fact i want Sammy to be one, but im unsure about the other. All i know is that i don't think it'll be Shawn or Sky.

TD2023 S1: Nothing wrong with Bowie and Priya as finalists i'll be real! Priya might be a bit predictable, but it opened up alot of avenues for different things to be explored within her character (that the show never took rip), and she honestly deserved to get far for this cast's first season. As for Bowie, he's pretty relevant all throughout the season and seeing a more antagonistic character make it to final two is really nice to see! No complaints!

TD2023 S2: ALL OF THE COMPLAINTS! ALL OF THEM! The final 3 kind of sucks this season because every option has at least one gapping flaw in it due to the writing over the season: Wayne is barely a character for half the season and only gets interesting moments before the finale, Caleb has the most dragged out and annoying romance subplot in all of TD (not just because it was boring and artificial but because it dragged down and arguably ruined one of the most interestin characters of it's cast) and Julia's just magically gotten amazing at everything, INCLUDING playing the game because these teenagers just keep! beliving her! and telling her things! for some reason! Urghhh

If i had to rewrite the season entirely i'd have an MK vs Raj final 2. You'd get the antag/vilain rep for a finalist position, and hopefully a more interesting character than Wayne (fuck you Raj's more interesting of the two by default.) Maybe Scary Girl could be a 3rd curveball option. Nichelle or Axel if they were given actual arcs. And characters. Whatever.

Sorry for ending this post on such a sour note! i just really don't like reboot season 2 everytime i think about anything outside of the Finale or Mkulia!

#Mozzaskrella #tdpi rewrite #i am saving the scary girl final 3 idea for my Scariya S2 rewrite AU btw. Love the idea #tdi #tda #tdwt #roti #tdas #tdpi #td 2023 #td gwen #td owen #td lindsay #td harold #td jo #td bowie #td priya #td mk #td raj #only tagging the characters i talk about positively #string cheesing

[graphicsgirlie]

if i Speak.

#doctor who #classic who #classic doctor who #third doctor #jo grant #caroline john #jon pertwee #if i speak if i SPEAK i swear to fucking GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #MISS MA'AM THERE WAS NO NEED TO DO THIS!!!! #giggling kicking my feet and twirling my hair rn #she leaned in and then he leaned up and listen. i'm not 100% a jo grant/third doctor truther because #i genuinely believe that intimacy and affection do not equal like. Sex Or A Ship but i SCREAMED when she leaned down #wish that were me #his fucking ribcage is huge tho this man is LARGE and she is so fucking tiny!!!!!!!!!! she can barely be in this position without laying #on top of him!!!! but she Did That and i am very grateful for it. #editing these screencaps is taking a chunk out of my life but by god he is worth it #my edits.

[kingkatsuki]

I just updated my navi. Someone tell me I'm doing a good job.

#we won't talk about my masterlist #I don't even want to LOOK at it #or wonder how the fuck I'm supposed to update it #I'm positive its coming up to two years since I last updated it SIGH #But on the plus side I keep finding old things I forgot I wrote #I need to work out a better tagging system SIGH #jo talks

[unicornofthemidwest]

Not to be transgender on main but. Jo March being so opposed to marriage of her sisters because it means growing up, and childhood is the last way that Jo can just be Jo. Jo March and tying being a woman to her hair, and then cutting her hair off. Jo March marrying someone from far away so that she can create a different life. Jo March saying she wishes she’d been born a boy. Not to be transgender on main but Jo March.

#Little women #louisa may alcott #arghhh there’s this fantastic nyt article positing that Alcott was trans #American classics kid to queer adult pipeline #Not okay about Louisa May alcott #And like obviously we’ll never actually “know” #But there is trans meaning in little women even if it wasn’t intentional #Or even if Alcott wasn’t aware of it #They didn’t have words for it etc you know the spiel #Lit #Jo march #transgender

[undercoverpena]

okay, as someone who loves to help, I am intrigued, about what the best piece of advice you’ve been given is! it could be writing, could be life or anything!

let me know either in the comments or send an ask! ✨ let’s spread some positive! we never known who needs to hear your words 🩷

I’ll go first: do it because it makes you happy + it’s okay to go at your own pace

(depending on how many i get, i can always make a post sharing them all)

#life quotes #jo’s thoughts #drop some positivity ✨ #jo: advice thread

[liamlawsonlesbian]

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#toto saying that JOS VERSTAPPEN has 'clear values' after pretending to care about the safety of women in f1 re: christian horner #fuck that #fuck toto fuck jos fuck christian fuck helmut!!!!!!! #sorry i just saw that quote and feel like i'm LOSING MY MIND #that man has been accused of dv by multiple partners #it is good that jos wants christian out but he didn't take that position bc of his 'values' ffs #ok sorry rant over #christian horner #redbull racing #< for blacklists

[queerlyloud]

Hey, bestie, you doing okay? Yeah, you've just been using a lot more tone indicators and apologizing than usual, have you taken your meds? Oh, good. Water? Awesome! Food? You're doing amazing, sweetie. Sleep? I'm so proud of you! Gold stars for everything you did and silver for anything you tried but didn't. Stars of your favorite color for not attempting anything you don't have the spoons for. Being disabled or chronically ill is hard and fucking sucks, but I'm proud of you. You're doing great 💕

#mine #jo is talking #chronic illness #chronic pain #disability #disability positivity #encouraging words #spoonie #spoonie things

[todayisafridaynight]

This might not be anything, but while writing about your fics, the way you have the characters' mannerisms down PERFECTLY got me thinking about mirroring...

There's a lot of it in 7 (Horii is a directorial genius etc etc), most of it more intentional than these probably are, but there's something so interesting about mirroring that takes the tone of a (relatively) fond memory, a familiar gesture, and inverts it in the way shown here.

OH I'M GLAD YOU'VE NOTICED THESE TOO I think I mentioned it months back (or I drafted a post 'bout it but didn't think it was anything noteworthy) but I always really did like how the Arakawa Family mimicked each other's mannerisms (also circling back to how Jo and Masato calling Ichiban 'Ichi' presumably after picking it up from Arakawa)!

Aoki actually does the same sitting gesture too! I went back to double check and skim through the rest of the game's cutscenes, and as far as I could tell unless I skipped a scene, it really is only these three that do this specific pose:

It's such a small detail but I love it immensely and it really does highlight their connections with each other and it drives me insane

#snap chats #the fact aoki holds his left fist with his right like jo..... im gonna be sick... (crying) #potential hints that aoki really does favor jo and/or spends more time with him... or i might be delirious. could be both even.. #focusing on how jo mimics arakawa though i dont think i have to say i love how it is inverted intention wise #like of course in arakawa's situations he's in a position where he's helping ichi and speaking calmly with him #while with jo Evidently each interaction is more tense and antagonistic #really is a cool way to emphasize that whole 'step parent' angle if that makes sense #OH BUT THANK YOU ON MY WRITING that's a huge compliment: i'm glad you think i have their mannerisms down ! #accuracy is a big thing to me... in case we haven't picked that up yet.... i should relax a little tbh-- #BUT i'd like to think my brain's good at visualizing things and i think i've 'studied' enough to get an acceptable result in what i show #it's like... if i can't see it in my head clearly or it doesn't look right then i wanna keep trying until it DOES look right yk #dont want a Hello Kitty Wouldnt Do Xanax moment... only on occasion.... a lil xanax wouldnt hurt as long as its not too far gone ☠️ #alright im. DELIRIOUS. #to end this off i watched the first episode of Sailor Suit and Machine Gun ! #my japanese is. HORRENDOUS BUT the art of inference and context clues and stray knowledge got me through it #i'm excited to watch the next episode even if i'm only really getting half the impact from the dialogue #BUT THE FEELING'S THERE... the emotion's there #embarrassingly i almost cried when izumi was crying in the theater over her dad while she was eating cause like Girl Me Too ☠️☠️ #ill go one day without mentioning my dad i promise... todays not that day tho ☠️ #IN ANY CASE. thank you for droppin the episodes on me !! i can't stress never tiring of having new things to watch #ill watch the next episode tonight probably. i was gonna go out to get lunch buuuut my moms home #so there goes that plan.. at least my bro got me food while /he/ went out today lmao

[alltheoutsinfreeeee]

i got curious from all ur isat-posting that i started playing myself and it is actually the cutest thing in the world. thank u for the brain worms. i am so excited

OMG that makes me super happy to hear!!! You're very welcome for the brain worms, this game irreparably changed something in my brain!!! I'm also excited that you're excited!!!

#have fun!!! its super cute and charming but also remember to take the content warnings seriously!!! #this game is a lot!!! (positive) #in stars and time #when a jo speaks #pontarei