#Jo Beverly

[calianyl]

He'd forgotten those promising curses.

A nun or not a nun, that was the question.

Then again, not all nuns were virtuous.

A saint or a sinner? Could a person be both?

[d0ttt]

My take on Gen 2 genderbend!

-DOT

[youroldfriendmurkyaura]

It's interesting that when we first meet Greta and Jo, Greta is overstepping and Jo is meaninglessly protesting. Greta always has needs that are too big, and Jo always has to live with it. It's kinda amazing that Jo put up with it for so long. Always being on call, Greta's feelings always trumping Jo's.

Jo would probably be better off without Greta, but Greta needs SOMEone and doesn't have anyone else. And Jo can't exactly trust Greta with herself, or anyone else with her. So Jo's just this... caretaker. And has been for, what, 20 years?

I'm glad that circumstances got significant enough to drive them apart, I don't know what Jo would've seen as a worthy excuse to begin living their own life otherwise. This show really has a lot of the people beginning to live their own life, really. Jo. Carson. Lupe. Max. Greta? Maybe Charlie, soon. And so many guides. Bev, Vi, Jess, Bert. And buddies figuring it out together.

[peachesunited]

Day 3 of ALOTO meme week brings to you:

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[abwwia]

11 Female Artists Who Were Pioneering Minimalists, by Meredith Mendelsohn

Mary Corse (born 1945) is an American artist who lives and works in Topanga, California.

Nasreen Mohamedi (1937—1990) was an Indian artist best known for her line-based drawings, and is today considered one of the most essential modern artists from India.

Anne Truitt (March 16, 1921 �� Dec 23, 2004), born Anne Dean, was an American sculptor of the mid-20th century.

Noemí Escandell (1942–2019) was an Argentine postwar contemporary artist. 

Carmen Herrera (May 31, 1915 – Feb 12, 2022) was a Cuban-born American abstract, minimalist visual artist and painter.

Agnes Bernice Martin RCA (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was an American abstract painter known for her minimalist style and abstract expressionism.

Jo Baer | Josephine Gail Baer (née Josephine Gail Kleinberg; born Aug 7, 1929) is an American painter associated with minimalist artist.

Beverly Pepper (née Stoll; Dec 20, 1922 – Feb 5, 2020) was an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remained independent from any particular art movement.

Edwina Leapman was born in 1934 in Hampshire, England and studied at the Slade School and Central School of Arts in London. She was drawn to abstract painting in the late 1950s, but her interest in abstraction was informed by painting from New York of the late 1960's and early 1970's.

Mary Obering (1937 – July 29, 2022) was an American painter focusing mainly on geometric abstraction.

11 Female Artists Who Were Pioneering Minimalists, by Meredith Mendelsohn

www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-11-female-minimalists-you-should-know

[dizzybevvie]

what was the aaron and jo video w "i just think of little stuart" "STUART LITTLE???"

[polniaczek]

I knew I shouldn't have let Andy go out at night with someone that irresponsible.

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Releases! (August 29th, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

A Tall Dark Trouble by Vanessa Montalban

Pride & Prejudice & Pittsburg by Rachael Lippincott

Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt

After You Vanished by E.A. Neeves

The Reunion by Kit Frick

My Father, The Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang

What Happened On Hicks Road by Hannah Jayne

Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim

The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu

Night of the Living Queers by Various

House of Marionne by J. Elle

All You Have to Do by Autumn Allen

I Feed her to the Beast & the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea

More Than A Thief by Beverly Patt

Let's Never Speak of this Again by Megan Williams

New Sequels:

Never A Hero (Monsters #2) by Vanessa Len

The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games #4) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Reign (American Royals #4) by Katharine McGee

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Happy reading!

[ray-vnn]

Some ALOTO charts for meme week!

@peachesunited

[duncanseyebrowpiercing]

characters who i can never decide if theyre transfem, transmasc, genderfluid, agender, nonbinary, demi(girl/boy) etc etc

HAROLD.

B(everly)

Gwen

Trent

Zoey

Jo

Harold

Harold

Harold

Eva

Izzy

[wipbigbang]

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[pretty-little-fools]

[d0ttt]

Random ships of ROTI!!!

-DOT

[youroldfriendmurkyaura]

I am once again thinking about Jo in jail, after having a good time at the bar, after having a bad time beaten by the cops, thinking about life. And Greta. Knowing she’d be worried. Knowing everything she would say.

And knowing she made it out on the other side of the things they’d been running scared from all this time, more or less in one piece. Would recover. Would be fine. And Greta would never accept that. And Jo maybe couldn’t live on Greta’s terms anymore.

Where did Bev negotiate with the cops? Was Jo there? What did Bev say to Jo? How much did it cost to bribe the cops? Jo must’ve been so relieved to be greeted by such a good situation. Beverly definitely had a different perspective than Greta did, and advocated for Jo. And then Jo advocated for Jo.

I don’t think Jo ever intended to not be in touch with Greta, but definitely had the confidence and whatnot to not throw her life away again for Greta that day. (For her.)

[spookyfoxdreamer]

[will80sbyers]

Mileven is endgame, proof (let's see if you dare to respond):

1- Mike was scared of losing Eleven, that's why he made that face at the end of s3, he is so in love he cant even handle it!

2- Mike tried to help el when she got bullied and went looking for her, until you know who decided to make that moment about him. When El hit Angela, he was in shock, but the next day he tried to apologize empatizing with her and forgave he for lying inmediatly

I do think Mike likes Will, but he is in love with Eleven and that is a fact

Be honest are you a Byler pretending to be a mileven?

Because even for a mlvn there's no coherent train of thought here in any way so I hope it's someone saying random shit lol it's actually a trainwreck of "logic" from start to finish to the point that it's funny

Baby, if Mike "likes Will" then byler is endgame 100% because writers don't write bisexual characters or make a character like another if they don't intend to do anything with it, if you think in any capacity that Mike is bisexual then mileven is done lol

1) You're right, Mike is scared of losing El from his life, that's why he's still clinging to her even if the relationship is not good for them anymore... and I don't think he has realized his feelings for Will consciously yet, he's still trying to repress them, in the season 3 finale the reason he makes that face after the kiss is because he's shocked and they wanted to replicate the kiss in the IT saga between Bill and Beverly, note that they have also made a OBVIOUS parallel between byler and benverly...which will both be endgame 🌈❤️🤗

If you were talking about this shot right here

this is because he also has feelings for Will and it's directly connected to Will because that's his house and we had another shot before of Mike looking at the cars go away so they didn't need to repeat a shot of Mike like that, it wouldn't make sense if it was for Eleven, it's pretty obvious Byler is being constructed and mileven is being destroyed and it's been a few seasons of this...

They even made him find her choice of breakfast weird for literally no reason at all except focusing on how much they aren't really that much compatible as a couple

+ not liking her milkshake, not liking skating, not liking the pizza with pineapple, dressing up in a completely different style only because he feels so insecure with her that he feels like he needs to pretend to be cooler than who he really is and being with her makes him feel like he has to be in the "boyfriend role" instead of being just Mike... like El feels like she had to lie for months about her whole life just because she felt like Mike wouldn't love her if she wasn't normal enough... They don't understand each other fundamentally anymore and it's okay, you grow and you change and relationships stop working sometimes!

2) At rink o mania MIKE is the one that starts their argument taking away the focus from finding Eleven... just because he's pissed that Will wasn't acting happy that he was there being a 3rd wheel for their date... And Will clocked that and asked him to explain himself lmfao

Mike doesn't know what true love is yet... exactly like Laurie from Little Women didn't know shit about true love and was idealizing Jo

Mike is doing the same to El because he's a 14yo kid... He'll understand as he grows up 😚