#Jason blossom

[carnivalls]

antigone (sophocles, trans. barish et al) // riverdale s1e5 + riverdale s1e13

+ alternate ed.

[anotherbluesunday]

✨Moodboard Teaser: In Technicolor✨

With the release of the first chapter coming in hot with its expected release being this Friday at the latest or sooner (possibly as early as tomorrow) I wanted to take the time to acquaint everyone with the primary couples in this story. Usually I cap it at two couples and have auxilary couples and characters on the fringes. But because this is a crossover between two of my favorite shows, I have expanded it to three—possibly four—couples with auxilaries (secondary) on the fringes. These couples will include original characters i.e. Wynn Galpin who is Tyler Galpin’s younger sister. There is a crossover couple that joins the Wednesday group with the Riverdale group. This couple is where I expect to receive the most backlash but idc. Their my crossover otp and I hope you all trust me enough to keep reading and join me/the characters on this journey. I have also switched some things up with one of the Riverdale characters because the ship only got screen time in the last season and it did more for their character than their actual failed relationships did the entire season. Fight me. But don’t. Or do.

Anyway, here are the couples moodboards, as promised. The visuals were inspired by Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juilet because these past few months since January I have been on a 90’s and 2000’s kick and I am dying for how that movie captured the beauty, grit, grime, and excitement of LA. So enjoy and let me know what you think! 💜

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We open with our crossover couple who are the star-crossed lovers—Cheryl Blossom, the queen of the Palisades and star tennis player and Pugsley “Lee” Addams, the king of Elysian Heights and leader of his grunge sleeze band Texca. Born second generation to a working class defense attorny and day-time caregiver to the elderly, Lee Addams has just wants to make it through his senior year of high school and hangout with his friends on the weekend. But when he and his twin sister Wednesday step a little too far over the line at their old school their parents pull some strings to have their three children—Wednesday, Pugsley, and Pubert “Bertie” attend Morticia’s former high school. There, Lee unwittingly comes face to face with the campus queen, the indomitable and untouchable Cheryl Blossom. Born into privilege with the face of an angel and the bite of a viper, she has everything and anything. Influence thanks to her parents name. Adoration by way of her beauty. And power because of her abilities to manipulate others. But what happens when a hurricane meets an immoveable force? Will they fold? Destroy one another? What happens when the pretty vicious face isn’t all it seems to be and the cutting confidence is stripped away? Who are the real people that lie beneath it all?

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Next are our second pair of the four star-crossed lovers. While it is never a good idea to fall for your twin flame, for Tyler and Wednesday it isn’t so simple. Twin flames and soulmates fused into one as if it were a sick joke, their story begins at a party—the raven haired twin sister with her face painted like a Catrina (see: Dia de los Muertos symbols and iconography) and the Galpin golden boy dressed like Sir Lancelot with the sacred heart etched into his chest plate. Like her brothers, Wednesday grew up living a modest life where nothing was taken for granted and family sits at the heart of all major decisions. For Tyler, he has forgotten the importance of family and community after starting university where his life has evolved into an endless stream of parties and hookup’s. Never struggling but also never being challenged to be better or grow, he’s hit a wall. A mid-life crisis of sorts but at the already chaotic age of 18 with his 19th birthday right around the corner. But from the moment he lays eyes on Wednesday she is all he can think of. All he breathes and dreams of—a beautiful stranger that won’t free him. Yet when this silver tongued Casanova tries to approach the dark beauty he’s shot down. Challenged to question who he is and what he truly is doing with his life that matters. What is in store for the idealistic social revolutionist and her troubled admirer? Where will they land when the walls of his kingdom come crumbling down?

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The youngest of three siblings each yet one is protected and coddled like a greenhouse flower while the other has flourished amidst hardship and bouts of poverty. Wynn Galpin is caught in a never-ending loop of compassions to her twin older siblings, Tyler and Enid. Both are straight A students. Both star athletes with Tyler winning championship after championship for swim and Enid earning a full-ride scholarship to UCLA for volleyball. Both are charming and charismatic. Both are perfect and Wynn can never compare despite how she tries. She doesn’t have the passion for swim or volleyball so she chooses cheer. “That’s not a real sport” she’s told. Her siblings get A’s but she can hardly scrape by with B’s while battling her depression and anxiety. At all times, her mind is screaming for her to just run off and disappear. And after the loss of her friend and pseudo-sister Polly, the darkness has become more persuasive. More invasive and vicious. But it is during a spiral that forces her out of the gym during cheer practice that she runs into the new kid. The brainiac junior in her senior level AP classes. Pubert “Bertie” Addams. A carefree class clown with a heart of gold and the virgin Guadalupe drawn in vibrant neons on the bottom of his skateboard. Where will this new path take them when the class clown and the beauty queen who seems to always be in tears meet to form an oddball friendship? And what happens when their hearts begin to long for more than just friendship but their worlds couldn’t be more different? How will things turn out for the greenhouse flower and her sidewalk dandelion?

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What’s the worst that could happen when you fall in love with your best friend? What happens when you think they love someone else? When you think they could never see you the way you see them in return? Do you stand there and wait for them to turn around? Or do you walk away while piecing together your heart that will never know real closure? Reggie has asked himself these questions nearly every day for the past six years since his family moved to the fringes of the Palisades and enrolled him in the affluent junior high nearby. Archie Andrews was his first friend at his new school all those years ago. The first one to get up during lunch time and sit down next to him. The one who didn’t care that his parents weren’t from money and had only recently come into their fortune. The one who didn’t care that he didn’t have the newest clothes, phone, or hairstyle. Like a guardian angel come to save him from perpetual solitude, Archie befriended Reggie with a bright smile and a silly joke. And since that day, Reggie has kept his love for the redhaired boy wonder to himself. Has been the picture of what a bestfriend should be. Has supported Archie and defended him. Joined their high school swim team with him just so that they could live out Archie’s dream of being the one’s to break Tyler, the former captain’s, record and win more championships than him and his team did. Reggie has lived a beautiful but painful lie for nearly a decade and the cracks have begun to show. The devotion now agony. The love a barbed dagger twisted liettle by little every time he has to play third wheel on Archie’s dates with his girlfriend Veronica. But one night their eyes meet across a sea of moving bodies at a house party. Archie kissing Veronica but can’t stop looking at Reggie. There’s a spark. A sadness. Hope. But is there truth? Is there a willingness to be honest? To accept this attraction that has been there waiting from the start? Does Archie know what real love could be like if he just turned around? Or will the lovefool angel look away once again and leave the poor friend and saint in the dark?

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Stay tuned for more because this is only the beginning. Next will be the auxiliary couples, characters, and family boards for the three main ones at play. But the next next post that will be following this one will be the official titlecard for Chapter One. Can’t wait to see you all again there. 💜

[coinsweepermaster]

Pro tip: if you are a fictional character, do Not be named Jason. you will either die young in a brutal way or have a semi-cursed adult life that ends with you dying in a 'full-circle' kind of way

[liveactionproblematicotd]

Today's problematic ship is Jason Blossom and Cheryl Blossom from Riverdale

Brother/sister incest

Lesbian/man

Necrophilia

Requested by me

[riverdale-retread]

Cackling at the realization that Cheryl asking, "Are you scared, Jason?" is the first line of dialogue spoken in Riverdale, ever. Jason shakes his head, but he should be. Immediately after that he is killed (his dad shoots him), buried in a watery grave, discovered, buried in soil, hallucinated by Jughead AND Cheryl, dug up, mummified, hauled around by Cheryl, partially eaten by a rat, buried again, dug up again, worshipped by his mother as a god, cremated, is in heaven the whole time, resurrected, then killed a second time (Cheryl sets him on fire).

[graceygraicigracy]

those who are dead are not dead - NOW LEAVING RIVERDALE

valeria luiselli - faces in the crowd, dalton day - exit, pursued, william goldman - the princess bride, patrick strudwick - buzzfeed, john berger

[dirtyriver]

Archie Comics: Judgment Day #1 of 3, written by Aubrey Sitterson, interior art by Megan Hutchison, colors by Matt Herms, covers by Megan Hutchison (A), Francesco Francavilla (B), Jae Lee (C), and Reiko Murakami (D)

Yeah, I don't know what to make of this one either.

[rivercule]

Bringing back Jason Blossom for a blink-and-you-miss it cameo as the doorman to heaven was iconic and beyond reproach

[jugheadvarchoni]

Finished my Riverdale season 1 rewatch!!!

Some quick random thoughts:

I find Alice to be utterly INSUFFERABLE in this first season. Wow. I don’t like her in general, but I fcking hate her in S1 lol.

Bughead actually started out so sweet, I liked them together this season. Why did they have to ruin it?! Their “I love you” in the finale… 🥺

FP Jones & Joaquin DeSantos, you both deserved so much better

Why did Kevin have more chemistry with Joaquin than any of his future love interests until Clay…? Justice for Joavin!

My Varchie babies UGH

I like Hermione in the beginning of the season, but as soon as Hiram is said to be coming back into the picture, BOOM, she sucks. Another reason their relationship is trash.

I love the Jughead-FP stuff, genuinely heartbreaking

Cheryl’s meanness never made me hate her, even before Toni came in & calmed that bitchiness down. Her “crazier than a serial killer on bath salts” line had me ROLLING.

Archie was such a wh*re this season omg. He dated, kissed, or had something romantic with almost everyone, like damn boy.

Fred Andrews will ALWAYS be the best adult character on this show (Pop’s is a close 2nd). Just a wholesome, good person ugh.

Archie fckin’ up his hands trying to save Cheryl from the ice got me really emotional, actually. Shoulda made them besties, idc!

“Believer” by Imagine Dragons playing while Archie/Veronica get BUSY, Jughead/Betty almost have sex, Cheryl burns down her house, and Jughead starts his journey to becoming a Serpent is… MWAH. Chefs kiss! 💋

I’m so fcking obsessed with the aesthetic of this season and the way the mystery played out. SUCH a good season, goddamn.

[sumeria]

Eat Your Young

[jhsharman]

"You're All Wet"

No happy threesome anymore.

Wiping out the shiny line on her shorts.

[anotherbluesunday]

✨Fic Release: In Technicolor—Ch. 1: Hell in a Handbasket (Pugsley + Cheryl)✨

____________Pugsley/Lee____________

Just past the shopping center that housed the Erewhon Wednesday silently hissed at and Bertie audibly boo'ed was our new school. A glittering beacon of narrow-minded thinking disguised as liberalism if I'd ever seen one, I'd read up on the place. Had Jug and Reggie fill me in on what to expect and it wasn't good.

Insidious racism veiled as social work and fundraisers. Sender students being made into charity cases to make donating families and businesses feel better about themselves while they donate to political campaigns for politicians who couldn't give two shits about the working class. I could see it in the way they looked at us as we pulled up into the student parking lot and hung up the parking permit from the rearview mirror. They were sizing us up. Knew without having to ask that we were from somewhere else. Somewhere where it wasn't commonplace for sixteen year old's to have access to their parents Amex Black card.

Eyes down on the steering wheel for a moment as the girls to our right sat in their brand new canary yellow Jeep Wrangler "whispering" loudly about how dirty the truck was, Bertie reminded me it was only for a year and that chances were not everyone would be as bad as I was making them out to be in my head. Wednesday snorted a laugh from the backseat and I shot her a glance through the mirror saying "Probablemente sean monstruos chupadores de sangre." With a hard reluctant sneer, I forced myself to unbuckle. Grabbed my backpack from the backseat, slipped on my sunglasses, and heaved sigh.

"I can't believe we're actually doing this."

Shrugging her backpack onto her shoulders, Wednesday stood beside me staring at our new prison. "Just close your eyes and count to ten. It'll be over before you know it."

"Promise?"

"No."

Should have known better than to ask. But it made me laugh nonetheless. And that was the only upside here really. I wouldn't be going at this alone. I'd have Wen and Bert and a couple friends if Toni made it through the testing process since her mom made her apply too. We'd be okay. Not great. Not fine. But we'd be okay.

We'll survive.

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____________Cheryl____________

Routine on repeat like some b-rate film that used timelooping as a metaphor for repeating the past until the main character righted their wrongs, I put on my morning music playlist as I stepped into the spacious en suite bathroom that had been warmed to seventy-two degrees for me. My shampoo and conditioner never seemed to run out. My bodywash was always in supply. Shaving razors never dulled and toothpaste never emptied paste the halfway point. The only thing I was burdened with was remembering when to restock my skincare items which, even when they did run out, it was never a problem because there was nothing that couldn't be handled with a quick call.

Perfectly controlled and acclimated. It was like a dollhouse inside of a greenhouse.

Everything's monitored and privacy is a privilege.

You missed practice this morning. It was from dad, the message brightening the screen of my phone as I stepped out of the shower. We'll double up tonight's session and split it for before and after dinner.

Staring at the message, I hesitated. Could hear the small scream itching at the back of my neck like nails dragging down the nerves hidden beneath my skin.

I wanted to throw up and I hadn't eaten anything yet.

I'll have homework. I told him.

You can do it afterwards. Slacking off once leads to habitual laziness Cheryl. No excuses.

My stomach knotted. Worked itself up until the familiar aftertaste of vomit ghosted itself on my taste buds.

The cold sweats that came with it.

The dizzying nausea.

Looking at myself in my vanity mirror, I dissected the bags under my dull brown eyes. Examined my hairline to see if it had thinned anymore than what mom had pointed to over the summer when we went on vacation to Portugal. "It must be from the stress. You should sleep more darling" she had said. At least my lashes had grown back after my nervous snap over spring semester.

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*IMPORTANT NOTE!: Please do keep in mind while reading that the characters Pubert and Pugsley have nicknames that they go by and will go by for most of the story. For Pugsley, his nickname is “Lee” and for Pubert, his nickname is “Bert” or “Bertie.” Wednesday sometimes goes by “Wen” but I feel like that is a known in the Wednesday fandom but I wanted to mention it quickly for readers in the Riverdale fandom so that they’re in the loop.

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[dearest-lady-disdain]

jason blossom is not a speaking role. the only time we hear him speak is when he appears in an alternate universe where cheryl doesn’t exist, she is abigail, where he hasn’t been murdered etc. he has been silenced by death, by his father, by the narrative and we, the viewers, don’t hear him speak even in the afterlife or when he was temporarily resurrected via his sister’s phoenix powers, so it makes sense that this christ-like figure cannot be soiled by speaking, therefore by existing in the mundane reality of everyday life in riverdale, which is exactly why it is julian who exists in 1950s riverdale

[obssessed-with-fictional-men]

So Cheryl and Jason are twins, and Polly and Betty are sisters, ONE year apart! Cheryl and Betty are both in the same grade as each other but also Jason? While Jason and Polly are both in the same grade together????? What in the world is happening and I don’t know if can survive another twin being better than he/she’s twin (coming from a twin who has faced the pain)

[riverdale-retread]

which riverdale ships do you find most fascinating? not even necessarily shipping them but just finding the concept interesting.

1. Cheryl and Jason. It's fascinating because it's shrouded in mystery. Cheryl announces to the whole world that her brother is her soulmate. She wants to be around him, literally, for ever and ever, in any iteration of him that is available, to the extent of carrying his corpse around her house after she's exhumed him. What the heck was it for Jason though? We never quite find out. He impregnates Polly, then hatches a whole cockamamie plan to deal drugs to make money then run away with her to a cult etc. When he is resurrected from the dead he tries to kill Cheryl. What's going on?

2. Jughead and Betty. I went from being Bughead to not to nebulous (at this point, given my major flip from anti-Archie to Archie-Lamb-of-God I don't know what I think about anything anymore), but their relationship is actually fascinating if you take off the (factually wrong, unsupported by canon) goggles that it was a good and lovely relationship. It wasn't. Bughead is actually quite a dark, twisty relationship with some very lovely moments in it. They keep their major pain points secret from each other so much of the time, in service of the joint delusion that they are each of them being wonderful, ideal romantic partners for the other one. Betty has a seething, simmering resentment about Jughead for years, especially after he moves on with Tabitha.

3. Veronica and Reggie. This relationship goes through so many phases. Reggie's being so besotted with her, crying "I need to matter Ronnie!" as a boy but he grows up to be a man who smirks at her nastily as he uses the patriarchy of satan!!! to steal her casino business out from under her. Her going from objectifying him and using him to calling on him to hold her hand during the apocalypse. Their being minorities in a pretty white town but never addressing that issue for themselves or each other. His father actually beats him and with such impunity as to leave visible bruises right on his face, and her father is, uh, Hiram. His being her father's semi-adopted son the way he tries to adopt (and fuck?) all her boyfriends (right?) but his father never even seems to meet Veronica. There's so much there, in Veggie, including the ship name, which I think contains with in it commentary about how red blooded and beefy Archie is.

[veronicas-reading-glasses]

which riverdale incest ships are more intriguing to you?

finally answering and posting the asks that have been sitting in my inbox and my drafts.

anyway, cheryl/jason.

honestly just cheryl/jason. their dynamic is so interesting and everything about it is so sad. i could write an essay dissecting their entire relationship tbh. also not riverdale related but they are in an abusive one-sided relationship sort of thing in the afterlife with archie comics and i might make a post about that in the future.