#Archie's All-American

[joe-iconis-banger-bracket]

Banger Bracket Round 1 Match 13

Rules:

Please have heard each song in the poll before voting.

Vote for the best song, not your favorite.

Propaganda welcome :)

Links to songs:

Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang

The Goodbye Song

Archie's All-American

Social Worker

[teenbeachmovie3]

do you guys remember the good old days? back when archie would go left....... then subsequently he would go right.........

[bleachersgirl]

the thing that people who hear about the core four polycule via an article they saw on twitter will never understand is that it wasn’t like a crazy twist for shock value it was very much set up throughout the season

[onthesubjectofanything]

julian blossom didn’t just go on a random path, he followed the road not taken by one all american archie andrews.

julian took over archie’s role in the musical—the fictionalized tale of his literal life, taking up the torch as the classic red-haired all star—and then wandered aimlessly as a “lost soul” (indecisive, unsure What His Story Is About) until eventually following the fated footsteps of Fred Andrews by enlisting and dying in the war

a life for a life. julian took on the narrative to try and set archie free.

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

Don could be utterly charming, the life of any party. He was handsome, bronzed up well when Oregon’s sun allowed, and stayed lean and taut swimming early morning laps. In some ways, he was straight out of Hollywood. Once, when Sharon was fishing with him on the Deschutes River, he saw something to her side, told her, “Don’t move,” pulled out a pistol, and shot a rattlesnake. He sang some great Sinatra, flirted shamelessly with younger women, and preferred what he called “forties girls”—thin waists, shapely legs, high heels. He was never short on confidence—at least outwardly. It wasn’t uncommon for him to tell people, “I was the best-looking guy in Easy Company.” And he had no patience for liberal politicians. Malarkey was a slim Archie Bunker. Each evening Irene delivered his dinner on a tray as if she were his own personal waitress, and sometimes a second dinner for their neighbor Ralph, who often joined him. He favored shows that made him laugh, The Three Stooges, Carol Burnett, The Honeymooners, and, yes, All in the Family after it debuted in 1971. He also watched the news.

~ Bob Welch

[garbagequeer]

whatever happens we must always remember. archie going left archie going right

[disabled-battlekukku]

remember when archie sonic made the echidnas british colonizers and not only were n*zi echidnas introduced but the guys they were actively being racist against (the dingoes) were portrayed as pissy bad guys, "appropriated" the echidna's technology (despite the echidnas themselves appropriated their land) because they "couldn't create technology of their own" and also more n*zi caricatures too

and then the spirit of one of their colonizers banished them to desert superhell

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

I know I have a series on my ao3 account called "my tiny ass fandom fest" for small fandoms but I feel like I should have another one titled "absolute fucking rarepairs" because I have some ships for fandoms that over 30k fics but I'm writing a pairing so small they have below fifty fics (some all the way to BELOW TEN bc I'm the only one writing them).

...all of which is to say I don't know how my Riley/Ivan/Chase fic got so popular in the Dino Charge fandom because up until a few months ago I was the ONLY ONE writing for them.

[wereh0gz]

If it was common for mobians to get a typical education like ppl irl do I can totally see rue being a high school dropout. They wouldn't even get to college they'd pass middle school and by the time they're like a sophomore they'd be like "I have had ENOUGH" and just leave

It's not like they don't understand the material (most of the time, anyway), it's just that they find typical classes to be boring and totally unfufilling

They would also be the type that would take spanish as an elective in the time they're in school bc they already speak it and it's "basically a free A" but still get like a B-. Girl would *not* do their homework

[deductions-and-magic]

On the perimeter of the Int.

so I just watched Interior Chinatown and discovered Archie Kao (and proceeded to start watching his entire filmography as you do) (also i think i really need to read the book Edit: finished the book!! might write a new post)

And I think it is so poignant that he is Uncle Wong

The ABC (American Born Chinese) who has a foot in both worlds (the first to realize the dangers involved and believes it’s his responsibility to protect his people!), who says

"I was born here. In this city. I've been here my whole life."

and yet is so grounded in both cultures

who finds the victims of the systematic violence resulting from the police procedural

is performed by the ABC who was raised on an American farm, who did not know Mandarin when he moved to China a few years back to find his roots and pursued acting there, who is now back in the US (source: his Int. Chinatown interviews), who has always tried to help. to change things (even if small)

In his interviews he talked about how he spent most of his time in Hollywood on procedural dramas

And parallels with Willis Wu who as a "Generic Asian Man" could not be the hero, the lead (on CSI: Enhance! On Chicago PD: Detective but tech guy — so many parallels)

So he, like many Asian Americans, IS Willis Wu (like Uncle Wong was Willis but even more similar)

but more importantly, his path of America -> Asia -> America is the path of so many people who are unsure of “self” and where they stand, thinking about where they come from and what that actually means

What being American Means, What being Asian Means, What being Asian-American Means

so I think it's likely this show represents a culmination of his journey of self discovery

As a Chinese American

And what that means to him.

Not at the intersection of two cultures but Cape Horn -- a confluence

Where oceans crash together and people get submerged

where there is a distinct divide but you can’t see it when you’re in the water

In Chinese there's a saying: "见山是山，见水是水；见山不是山，见水不是水；依然见山还是山，见水还是水", which roughly translates to “Seeing mountains as mountains, seeing water as water; seeing mountains not as mountains, seeing water not as water; still seeing mountains as mountains, water as water"

like you're back where you are before, and it's the same

but it’s different now

Which applies to so many things here.

[teenbeachmovie3]

as always

[pineapplepond5]

what Indian 'The Archies' could have looked like:

what we got instead:

[familyabolisher]

mar made me watch archie's all-american mind the other day and i'm now sooo insane over how it's literally archielita.....