#jock development

[mrrharper]

More Loyal, More American, More The Same

Coach had been annoyed a bit lately. It wasn't because of any singular thing - a lost game or some encounter. It was more of a... vibe, as his players would say. It's something that's been nagging him for a long time.

The whole atmosphere around college football has changed. Players can now earn money, meaning they now care only about getting rich instead of sacrificing everything they've got for the team. The craze abound 'toxic masculinity' has taken hold, and as a result many guys on the team have taken up interests and activities unworthy of real men - and they are extremely public about this!

Something has been lost - some immeasurable yet vital part of college football's spirit. And unfortunately Coach's team wasn't immune to this. He has seen his younger recruits display a variety of behaviors that differed from his view of how a college football rookie should function in a locker room filled with other football players.

And Coach's opinion becomes the law of the locker room. So after he saw a few of his defensive linemen participate in a film theory seminar, and his starting wide receiver posted a picture showing him attending some anti-government protest, he knew he had to act.

He decided to tackle these issues in a few ways. He began with working on his players' patriotism. Coach knew that he needed his guys to have this base layer - respect for the great nation that they were a part of - that he could build upon. He turned to one of his most trusted tools, subconscious messaging hidden in his videos and presentations.

you are an American

you are a Real Patriot

you play AMERICAN football

you fight for America

America is the greatest country on Earth

you preserve American traditions and values

During teem meetings, the players' minds began internalizing the importance of unquestionable loyalty to the US of A, the greatest place in the world. Coach spent a few weeks working on this, and when Military Appreciation Day came, for the first time in a long time, the whole team took active part in it. He even heard a few of them talk abut enlisting after college.

Motivated by such positive results, Coach moved to his next objective. After a bit of tampering, the speakers the players used to play music in the gym during workouts began incorporating conditioning that would align their behavior with Coach's expectations.

i am a man

i am proud to be a man

i am a strong man

i do what is masculine

my manhood needs upkeep

masculinity defines me

Alongside this, it didn't take a lot of work for coach to make sure that none of his players could sign up for any extracurricular activity through the school's registration system. Not only that, they were now barred form attending anything other than the most basic of classes.

Fortunately, the results were visible here as well. The players stopped attending seminars and lectures created by a bunch of nerds and no longer showed interest in investing much time into any sort of academic work.

The last step Coach decided to undertake was meant to address the issue of money. Players, having the ability to make deals and get income from their appearance in games, seemed to have lost the true reason for playing college football. But there was a way of dealing with that too.

The new helmets that the athletics department bought recently all include a pair of speakers for the purpose of communication between the coaches and the player. In theory this is reserved only for the QB, but there's nothing Coach can't work around.

i play AMERICAN football

i am grateful Coach allows me to play

i play football for glory and to preserve tradition

the thrill of the game is enough

i am Coach's loyal football jock

During every practice, during every workout, during every game, the player's minds were being bombarded with Coach's hypnotic message. And it was working. The guys were displaying their patriotism more often - flags hanging in their rooms, tons of pro-american posts on Instagram, they stopped attending non-mandatory classes and instead added another team session in the gym to their schedules, and Coach noted a visible drop in the number of sponsorship deals the players were making.

There might have been one side effect. As time went on the players began looking more and more similar. The same hobbies, mostly working out or shooting, the same clothes, the same views, the same drive to protect tradition. And Coach had absolutely nothing against that. Who cares if they all act the same, as long as they act exactly as he wants them to.

As Coach's loyal football jocks.

#jock tf #football jock #personality change #jock development #jock

[grumpyghostdoodles]

The Almighty Sheriff!

Save a horse, ride a cowboy~

#respecfully sir: AWOOGA arf arf bark AWOOGA #If this gets 30 notes I'll take his shirt off for yall lol #with his top surgery scars Of course #Ive seen that's a super popular HC for him and I think thats great! Good for him! #Farm boi #no fr working in a farm makes you develop muscles that you didnt even know you had #having flashbacks from highschool when they made us work in the garden for two hours under the scorching afternoon sun #I went to a highschool that was all Ooo we are green thumbs and we shall teach the young ones how to plant and harvest their own food #and my god that shit was so physically demanding mate #i didnt had my diagnosis on how horribly mangled my body was So I had to work in the farm thing like all the others and try not to pass out #even the jocks that were fit and always running and playing football during all the recesses were dead quiet after working outside #and all that those classes did for me was to create a hatred for working in any type of gardening activity so they failed spectaculary lol #SO ANYWAYS my point is Starlo can defo deadlift bags of 70kg\150lbs with one arm without breaking a sweat #undertale yellow #uty #Starlo #Starlo uty #north star uty #myart

[doodlingwren]

I'd like to try this challenge, it might be funny to draw something different. So, to the 4 people that follow me, which are my art style traits? If I have any lol

#evil art style challenge #wren draws stuff #memes #art challenge #let's try alright #like I asked a friend which art style traits I have and she said that my drawings are very round and soft #well actually she defined it like “very delicate and feminine” #which BTW she is right #when I was a teen I used to draw only magical girls that later developed in the “I can't draw boys” fr #I'm not jocking #I started to actually to learn how to draw them after watching JoJo #I'm 😔😔😔 #also that one friend told me I should draw more rendered stuff #and when I asked what she meant she answered with “y'know like the jelly artstyle” and I didn't know what to answer

[ultimatepeter-man]

Rewatching the spider slayers arc & am I the only one who thinks Ghost Spider is giving off autistic vibes?

Just saying that the chances of a spider being neurotypical is little to none.

Major autistic vibes! Then again, most, if not all, of the spiders give me some form of autistic vibes XD ADHD for Peter as well, because his brain is always on the run and I feel that so DEEPLY into my soul.

Anyway, all the spiders are actually neurodivergent, hope this helps <3

#hahah serious though #if I had to pick one spider to be neurotypical it would be flash #he's neurotypical but he's also a himbo #he's just big muscles and a big heart #well #his character development was growing from jock to himbo #asks #anonymous

[somuchfuckingsalt]

One thing I think the Duffers dropped the ball on is not using Steve in a leadership role within the group dynamic because he 100% has the skillset for it and it would also round out his character arc very nicely without diminishing the roles any other characters play.

And when I say Steve has the skillset I mean he played team sports and was in a leadership role on those teams. As someone who has played team sports before, the best captains are the ones who are not just physically good at playing the game, but also the ones who are able to coach others into improvement without making them feel like idiots, participate in strategizing and communicating those strategies effectively to the team, leading the team in the absence of the coaches, having good sportsmanship, being able to work with opposing teams without causing problems, etcetera.

Which is my long winded way of saying the best leaders are those who are good with people. Of the many characters on the show - particularly the teens/kids - Steve is arguably the most emotionally intelligent and he is genuinely the best with people. I don’t think we see as many examples of it in the show as we could because 1) I think the Duffers don’t see Steve as any form of intelligent because the Everything about how they write their jock and jock-adjacent characters displays a lot of prejudices and biases about the “dumb jock” stereotype and 2) the Duffers have definitely dumbed Steve down even more throughout the seasons to the point where he is The Protector and the Joey Tribbiani, so dumb he’s become comic relief. 

(playing sports also would give Steve a lot of experience with strategy, both preplanning and in making split-second decisions in the moment but being a good leader isn’t contigant on being good at strategy, I just wanted to point out he could and should be good at it)

Narratively, season 2 would have been an excellent starting point for building Steve’s leadership role since he spends the back half of the season in charge of the Party and, essentially, leading them. That would build through season 3, settle in season 4 as this is the role he has (especially since they were operating without Joyce or Hopper), and then be able to expand on his capabilities in season 5.

In season 4 specifically, Steve insisting Nancy not go alone should’ve been taken as him taking charge in that situation because he was correct, they should not be doing anything alone. I also think doing something small like just inserting a line where he’s asking for ideas on the plan instead of straight jump cut to them going planning how to get supplies would’ve been great.

I also think moments like having Steve’s voice be the voice over leading up to them executing their plan and Steve being the one to be Vecna’d instead of Nancy (which would show that Vecna viewed Steve as integral enough that fucking with his head wold affect the group) would have put an importance to Steve and put him more into that leadership role in to the audience without needing overt displays and adding to run time (since the Duffers tend to cut out a lot of moments where leadership would’ve been evident to save time). By using these 'important’ moments though would’ve been great ways to set up Steve in a genuine, established leadership role in season 5, especially since there’s going to be a time skip. 

I also don’t think that making Steve the leader would be taking anything away from the other characters - at least not the other teens/kids. For starters, Dustin, Lucas, and Max have never been the ‘leaders’ - that’s Mike. Furthermore, the only other person really sitting in that leadership position among the teens is Nancy but she is already academically gifted, the journalist, the detective, etcetera. She also is not the best people person (competent, but it’s not her strongest feature) and she has the tendency to get fixated on things, which isn’t the greatest trait to have as a leader. 

Anyway, I think the Duffer Brothers Joey Tribbiani’d Steve’s charcater and they 100% could have been doing a lot more with him than they are if they weren’t looking at him through biased “dumb jock” glasses. 

#the duffers have definitely fallen off when it comes to ensuring every character gets properly developed every season #they also have a very blatant bias towards 'jocks' and jock-adjacent people #otherwise steve would be more than the tank and dumb comic relief at this point #steve harrington #stranger things

[1moreoffkeyanthem]

I've been listening to my old playlists on spotify thinking about how south park fandom used to do amvs set to pop songs using deviantart fanart of the ships in the fandom this was years back I don't think they do this any more

anyway they had a bunch of style amvs set to you belong with me but they were all from nerd kyle's pov with jock stan and wendy was painted to be a villain which to all of that: omg corny lame boo tomato 🍅 tomato 🍅 tomato 🍅 I'm throwing tomatoes 🍅!

I think a better pov for that song is stan he's the one that I could easily see pining for kyle in 10th grade or something relating to the song as a boy in love with his best friend

My guy I am RIGHT THERE WITH YOU!!! Tomato indeed that trope is TIRED AS HELL!!! The amount of Jock Stan Nerd Kyle Villain Wendy out there is ABYSMAL! Like to each their own or whatever but CMON give the homies some personality! One of my biggest pet peeves is fic writers or artists sticking the SP kids into a box and one-noting them; there is so much potential to explore and y’all out here writing tired angsty high school aus? At least switch it up! (Worth noting that I’ve read some incredible fics set with the kids in high school I’m not shading ALL hs AU’s I swear, y’all know I’ll read pretty much anything I got a super open mind w fic)

ALSO!!! Stanley Down Bad Marsh INVENTED pining!!! I will never stop saying it that boy is a SIMP!!! I love both Stan and Kyle being secretly down horrendous for each other but Stan has been in love with his sbf since he knew what beauty was! He’s a huge loverboy boyfailure in all relationships and he absolutely overthinks every interaction with Kyle because he is!!! hopelessly in love!!! And (personally) I feel like that’s the difference between Stan and Kyle; Kyle can (sort of) articulate what he feels, and Stan just fully is *heart eyes* lmfao. Neither of them communicate it bc they’re loser teenagers plagued by self doubt but once they do it’s all “wait you like me too?!” “dude was it not obvious?” Dumbasses I would die for them

Also on the note of animatics/art videos I may not be an enjoyer of stankylewendy angst but I could lowkey get down to one set to Mr Brightside

#asks #w take tbh the nerd Kyle pining for jock Stan gets old af #they’re literally both dorks and multifaceted in their extracurriculars like c’mon yall #I do in fact feel strongly about this #south park #style #them #also my soup did not cure me I had like 2 bites of noodle my flesh prison is a gd disaster #anyway #y’all cut it out w the cookie cutter hs AU’s and actually develop the boys into people #and quit doing my girl Wendy dirty

[starsapphire]

koncassie is so phenomenally boring like they had absolutely zero chemistry for their entire 5 years of writing. frankly not even a hint of interest. the most flirting-with-cassie that kon did wasn't even kon! it was his evil clone. and then literally out of nowhere someone was like "oh you know what would be groundbreaking. if the blonde wonder girl was dating the brunet superboy. that would be caraaaazayyy omgggg" and we were forced to watch the two most stereotypically cisheterosexual cardboard cutouts of a meathead and Blonde Girl #4 kiss for like the next 8 years

#geoff johns era was such a fucking disservice and we know this but oh my god #even ignoring the geoff johnsery koncassie was probably the worst possible thing for their character development #maybe it's because they were so ugly during and after the johns era but... it's so fucking boring #oh wow another vanilla skinny blonde x brunet jock heterosexual couple. this is so novel. i am shocked. #p

[moondal514]

Man I would’ve read the Captive Prince trilogy so much sooner if someone had told me how many similarities it shared with AFTG

#like ok obviously they’re completely different stories with completely different characters #but they have A LOT of similarities #in terms of my personal reading experience #(aka I finished the whole thing in less than 24 hours cuz the 2nd book SLAPPED) #and elements of the stories themselves #the relationship development of the main couple is kinda the same #when they 1st meet they hate each other’s guts/want to kill each other #but then they ultimately fall for each other because they encounter something in each other that they haven’t been able to feel #anywhere else: mutual understanding #mc is hiding his real identity #mc’s love interest is a heavily traumatized problematic blond stone cold bitch #(seriously Damen and Neil are only similar in that they’re both jocks but Laurent and Andrew were made in the same factory) #it’s just funny to me that these series would feel so similar #considering they were both written around the same time #but they are completely different genres #anyways I’m sure I’m not the 1st to point this out #aftg #capri

[moregraceful]

Oh my…the bunson and beaker meme! (My fave muppets!) I’m intrigued by your tag- who is who (ozzy and Thom)??

[post in question]

Ohhh I wish I could take credit for this one but it's actually from the tastemakers of our community @whoredeleau and @tofumilanesa calling Ozzy and Thom in this gifset "Beaker and the round one." So Ozzy is Beaker and Thom is Bunson.........and they are having the weirdest office romance of all time.

Like many things I have experienced coming out of Sierra and Ko's brains and blogs, it is entirely unforgettable and shifted my worldview a little to the left, but truly mostly in that way where I see Ozzy and go lol, that's a muppet

#sharks development camp aka a summer camp for gay jocks that desperately needs a makerspace for the adhd kids (tristen and goosh) #so that they can make puppets to enact psychological experiments on thom and ozzy in the hotel they're all staying in #cage replies #anon

[mrrharper]

The Rookie's Figuring It Out

Going back to my dorm room, just had a meeting with Mr. Bridges, and he-- wait, who's Mr. Bridges? Anyway, just came out of a meeting with Coach, went great bro, got all the details figured out. Now I can go back to my place and relax, that was an exhausting day.

As I enter the dormitory building my phone buzzes. I take it and see I got a text from Jamie asking about... wait, what study group is he-- damn, some nerd got his numbers mixed up, I ain't joining no lame study group, no way bruh.

I enter my room and as I put my things away I feel my body aching. But i can't really say why, cause I didn't really-- dude, my muscles are, like, burning bro. Coach dragged me through a nightmare of a workout earlier, ya know, to see if I am worth putting on the roster.

i jump on the couch, now's the time to play some madden bruh, huhuhuhuh... dude, what are those books laying on the table? Intro to anthro... antrop... pology... that is, wait, I... I know, that's like-- huhuh bruh, that's some nerd shit here dude. dunno how it got here but i know where it'll go dude - straight into the trash, where it belongs bro.

bruh, where's my ps4 bro, dude? how am i s'possed to crush random losers on the internet when i don't have that fuckin' console-- dude, gotta prep some food for tomorrow, gotta get that protein huhuhuh, or Coach will get mad-- Coach says to eat enough calories and get enough protein. Coach's word is law. Coach is always right.

so i'm lookin' at my schedule, yeah? and we gotta practice 'morrow for like 4 hours or so, but here i have, in my calendar or whatever, and there's some college shit like dude, like classes and shit, like damn, i gotta tell Coach that i have some conflict in my schedule-- huhuhuhuh damn bro, got some fuckin' class in muh schedule during practice. fuck, what pussy goes to "ancient history 101" like, what a fuckin' idiot dude

wait bro, wait... so im a football bro, yeah, right, but i play college football, and college means, uhhh... like, what was that shit dude, damn... a major, right... college means havin' a major bro, and my major's something like... bruh, its like... oh wait-- huhuhuh dude, who gives a shit about some nerd shit bro, am here to play ball and bro out BRUH!

i 'ave Coach takin' care of all that boring ass shit dude, yeah, he's takin' care of all that smart bullshit and im just workin' out and tacklin' dudes bro. fuck yeah, dude, that's right bruh. im a fuckin' football dawg, born to play and to crush every goddamn dude who stands in my way bro, not to care 'bout any of that lame pussy shit bro. ya wanna go get those guns pumped, bro?

#jock #jock tf #nerd to jock tf #jock development #personality change

[pegglefan69]

top 3 sports I would love to do are archery, pole dancing & fishing but only one of those is particularly amiable to somebody whose muscles hurt for no reason & who needs to sit a lot so catch me by a lake this summer,.perhaps....

#i really really loved soccer as a kid & kickboxing as a teenager but neither of those are really possible for me anymore #i might be able to do a *little* backyard soccer but i Highly doubt i am roundhouse kicking anything again lol #in another world in another body i mightve been a jock LOL #when i was like 10 i discovered i get Fun Autisms about developing balanced workout routines & then ended up NEVER using those skills LMFAO #dial p for post

[scoopstrooptm]

there is definitely something i want to say at some point about how, in the absence of mike from the party in s4, dustin very much became the de facto leader of the younger teens

#&. which star wars? / the one with the teddy bears duh ( ooc. ) #not of the older teens because y'know. nancy is right there #and the only reason dustin probably took on the leader role is because he is the loudest and most obnoxious #(not discounting erica who can also be loud and obnoxious - but she listens to and respects dustin lmao) #but it's interesting that the last time he was teamed up with nancy was in s2 where it was the full ensemble #and importantly mike was there #to s4 where dustin has developed very close bonds with steve and robin since and is now very much a driving force to almost match nancy #a lot of that driving force is because dustin is set up as eddie's staunch defender from the very beginning #even when max and lucas are either wavering a little or off with the jocks in lucas's case #but still

[sunsis]

im sorry but mike and especially lucas being reduced to el and max’s boyfriends this season...i don’t like that 

#please give them something important to do #please give lucas some more character development because the jock thing is overdone #stranger things #stranger things s4 #mike wheeler #lucas sinclair #eleven #max mayfield

[marshmellowpaint]

I’d like to know more about Jock if that’s alright

Oh my god, hi Hailey!!!!!! Sorry for the late response akjdwahsdo ANYWAYS-

Jock Chapman: -They're 5'8" -Goes by he/they pronouns, and will literally wear anything. Has and will again wear both the male and female outfits to official tennis competitions and no one can stop them :P -Has a tattoo on their forearm!! (designed it themself 😤😤😤) -He's an only child, with their mother working as a Physician and their father working as a Librarian! -He DOESN'T have a good relationship with them ://////// -Hark and they have been friends since year 7, and Hark is one of four people they'll listen to without immediately dismissing them -He and Len don't get along (yet 👀)

So, Jock is a super blunt and direct person, to the point where half of the time whatever they're saying will hurt the other's feelings (and he, most of the time, will just be telling the honest truth, but without considering the other's feelings). He has anger issues, that over time have gotten better (he used to explode as a kid, fists flying and all, but nowadays he just makes snippy comments and exercises it out later) and he also has a lot of anti-social tendencies, and with their usually scowling expression that tends to ward off everyone hehe. That being said, Jock is a loveable and warm person to people he cares about and WANTS to be caring to (e.g: he's not the biggest fan of kids, but MAN they are gonna be nice either way) and that's why he, Jón and Rossi get along, because being in the same tennis club for a long period of time - along with Rossi having zero shame when talking to others, and Jón just being liked no matter what - means they didn't have a choice BUT to get to know the other two 💖💖💖 As stated in the info section, Jock doesn't get along with his parents AT ALL. Although they act very kind, and are constantly giving them gifts, paying for things (such as school) and anything he might want, they are pretty traditional and strict in the sense of gender and gender expression, and after year and year of Jock trying to build up the courage to tell their parents, the minute he does they shut it down, and bring it up, and critic it, and question it, and that just destroyed any sort of relationship they did have (it was always tense between them cause they would spout their opinions and Jock just kept his mouth shut). So, he usually is either living at Hark's place (6 out of 7 days) or just in his room avoiding his parents at all costs.

ANYWAYS ANYWAYS a fun fact! Jock knows how to surf! He really really enjoys it, loves the beach and getting to wear fun outfits, and they find some sort of calm and peace when out on the water. Their favourite time to be in the water whenever he just wants to sit is the late evening, when the sun starts to set!

#THANK YOU HAILEY!!!!!!!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖 #he's actually one of the less developed characters so this definitely helped to solidify their character a bit more!!!!!! love Jock so much #i get to put them in lots of fun outfits too so I guess he's also pretty fashionable!! #my ocs hhhh #my art hhhh #ask #thank you for the ask!! #heyhellohihowareyou

[legionofmyth]

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[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

The funny thing about the PJO cabin system is that everyone's always all 'oh the twelve' this and 'the twelve' that but that's absolutely not even remotely accurate. To start, right off the bat it's thirteen, not twelve, because they don't count Hades. But not really because before Percy, there were no big three kids, so we're down to ten active cabins already but it's actually eight because Artemis and Hera don't make demigods.

And of those eight, Mr. D is stuck at camp (thus not really making new demigods all that often) and his only two kids don't even sleep in a cabin, they sleep in the Big House with him.

So, pre-Percy, there are seven active cabins at Camp Half-Blood:

Glee club, the Jocks, the Nerds, the Geeks, the Farmers, the 'Sketchy Kids' and the Popular Kids.

Or, in other words, the Apollo, Ares, Athena, Hephaestus, Demeter, Hermes (and the unclaimed kids) and Aphrodite cabins.

What's cool is that you can already see the cabin dynamics in the show. For example, the Athena cabin allies with the Hermes cabin for the numbers. The Hermes kids plus all the unclaimed kids? It's the biggest cabin in the camp by far. It's a battle strategy. Luke and Annabeth's close relationship is just the cherry on top for Annabeth. It'll be really cool to see how the show develops the differences in the cabins during the series.

#pjo tv show #pjo series #if i remember correctly it's the Hermes cabin then Ares and Apollo in terms of numbers. Aphrodite would probably be next. #but the Athena Hephaestus and Demeter cabins were always under twelve kids. #they state exact numbers in one book... and if you don't want spoilers turn back now #but after the war theres only three Hephaestus kids left so like.... the numbers go real fucking low #the entire camp population plummeta #iactually really fucking depressing watching this camp filled with small tiny children knowing that only a very small fraction of themlive