#Justice for jughead

[theindefinitearticle]

what you have to understand is every character in riverdale represents a genre and a class dynamic do you understand no wait come back

[littlefoxwithbighat]

A reflection on some complicated thoughts about being aroace in webweave form.

[dirtyriver]

Archie is Mr. Justice #1 of 4, written by Tim Seeley, interior art by Mike Norton, covers by Reiko Murakami, Francesco Francavilla, and Matt Talbot.

[jugheads-choni]

OMFG????? A NEW ARCHIE SUPERHERO COMIC????? HIS NAME MR. JUSTICE????? WE FCKING WON!! AHHHH IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS!!! 🤩🥹💪

[kevotheamazo]

ASK THE TOONS!

I wanted to do this for a while and I figured that tumblr is the best place to do it! You can ask anything things as long as it’s nice and not weird “nsfw or such like that!” Other than that ask away about me and my toons!

[weirdominate]

In this family-friendly misadventure, Archie develops a mildly irritating affectation, so all his friends and his school principal run him down and torture him for hours. (Archie, pencils by Harry Lucey, written by Frank Doyle; 1974.)

[wilsons-hotlittleprettyboymouth]

There’s one thing you need to remember about the scooby-doo kids in canon and that’s that they’re mishmashed outcast freaks. They’re absolute bitchless weirdos jughead jones style and they literally don’t even care because they have all the acceptance they need within that spray painted clunker van. All they care about is love and peace and justice and each other. And their coward ass dog.

[writingwhatiwanttoread]

Help! I've Landed in a FanFiction (Chapter 2)

Pairing: fem!OC x Justice League

Genre: OC insert, Soulmate AU, Isekai, Reverse Harem

Characters: OC, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Hal Jordan, Diana Prince, Barry Allen, Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Cassandra Cain, Barbara Gordon, John Constantine, and other DC characters as the story progresses

Warnings: all warnings not tagged, suicidal ideation, domestic violence, general violence and dark, 18+ themes, read at your own risk

Summary: Katie Smith wakes up in a new world, one out of comic books and ridiculously cheesy tropes. All she wants to do is find her way back home, but no one is helping her. Worst of all, they claim to be her soulmates. Surely it's all dream. How can she make herself wake up?

Chapter 1

Chapter 2 (This One)

Chapter 2: Is it Called Kidnapping When You're Not a Kid?

The alarm screamed in a very annoying way, and Katie wanted to cover her ears but she was still tied to the damn chair. Luthor (sure, whatever, she didn't have a better thing to call the made-up villain in her obviously confused mind) dragged her chair to the middle of the room, practically tipping her over. He grabbed some duct tape off his desk, and wrapped it around her head three times. She could almost taste the glue and it muffled her so much that she barely heard the groan as she felt it stuck to the back of her hair. It would be a pain to get off. (Why was she even considering it? She just needed to wake up. Warm bath and then maybe not sleeping again for like, two weeks.)

She felt cold metal pressed against her head and realized, a little delayed, that it was a gun. Isn't that an idea? She saw a movie once where a character killed themselves in a dream and returned to the real world. She tilted her head against the barrel, a little bit, considering. She couldn't see Luthor's face, but as he pressed in harder, she wondered what he thought.

The room was thick was anticipation. He had stopped his monologuing and the only thing Katie could hear besides her heavy breathing was the persistent wailing of the alarm.

About ten minutes later, the large office doors flew open. Several bodies rushed in, Katie taken by the bright colors. She really was the best at imagination, she thought, a little smugly. When she was younger, she had wanted to be a writer, and before Matt firmly shot down that idea ("Pretty much a waste of your time, babe, isn't it?"), she always thought she could come up with a pretty good story. Maybe when all this was over, she could figure out how to write it all down.

The room was chaotic until it wasn't. Whether this was because they saw the gun to her head or were just being cautious of the man behind her, everyone stopped suddenly. Two tall figures (most likely male?) stood in front of the rest of the group. One was wearing a black suit with a blue bird and the other wearing a red helmet. Behind them was a young man in a red and black suit, and a smaller boy? wearing what she finally recognized as a Robin(?) suit. All of them had their faces covered in some sort of mask. There were three others behind them---a young man wearing a leather jacket with spikes, a smaller figure in red and white with goggles, and a young woman with blonde hair and a W on her costume. Katie's eyes were wide as she took in the cosplayers in front of her. She figured if Lex was a villain, maybe these guys were heroes and had no idea why her brain made them up. She knew only a few characters from comics---Batman, Superman, and Lex Luthor. Wonder Woman was a comic book character, right? The Joker? Spider Man. Um...Captain America? And some guy with a burlap sack on his head that Matt always said was his favorite. Who else? Maybe Archie and Jughead would show up soon.

"Lex." The man in blue said sternly.

"Ah, Nightwing. Forgive me for my disappointment, but this invitation was not for you or the rest of the...freaks with you." Katie watched as the boy in the jacket flinched slightly. His face didn't change though---all of them were staring with a mix of stoicism and anger.

"Well," the Nightguy said pleasantly, dangerously, "we received it anyway. I'm afraid those you did mean it for are out of contact right now." His eyes flicked to Katie and back to Luthor.

The man with a red helmet rested his hand on the gun attached to his hip. His voice came out gravelly and deep, almost machine like. "What do you want, Luthor?"

Katie felt the gun press against her temple harder. No one moved an inch but she felt several pairs of eyes land on her. She looked back curiously.

There was a gasp behind Helmet Head and Nightguy, coming from the Red and Black dude. He whispered something Katie couldn't hear.

Nightguy and Red Helmet stiffened a bit. Katie could hear the sneer in her captor's voice. "As you can see," he trailed his fingers down her chest slowly, stopping at the top of her bra, "this isn't a conversation for you."

Red and Black guy stepped forward, sounding bored for some reason. "It looks like this isn't a conversation for you, either, Lex. The League is off world right now. Don't you think this would mean a while lot more if you played this game with them?" He twirled the large staff in his hand. (Gandalf! That was a comic book character, right? Katie patted herself on the back for knowing something.) He then turned his back to them, which Katie thought was kind of stupid. "Not our circus, not our monkeys, right, guys? We've got bigger things to worry about." The room was still for a moment, until the man in the red helmet shrugged. "Sure, Red. What do you say, Big Bird?"

The Nightguy nodded sharply, never taking his eyes off Katie. "If you say so. We'll pass on your message, Lex." He twirled his finger in the air, some sort of nonverbal wrap it up and turned around and just fucking walked out. Every single one of them.

Katie, who was getting frustrated with the duct tape wrapped around her face, must have managed to show enough confusion in her eyes that even the bald villain seemed to pity her. He put away his gun and scoffed, ripping the tape from her face and around her hair without any warning. She yelped and tears sprung to her eyes. Several strands were tugged out with the violent ungagging and she couldn't help but whine. Luthor laughed meanly. "Smarter than they look. I don't fully believe it, but I'll find out if they were lying soon, I gather. Go to sleep, darling. We'll try again later." The last thing she felt was a prick in her neck.

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Katie woke up in a different room than her first cell, and definitely not in Luthor's office. It was about the size of a walk-in closet and carpeted. The door was locked, but there was a small pallet with a thin blanket and a bucket in the corner. A plate with a peanut butter sandwich and a small cup with water was on a side table. She took a couple of bites and downed the water and then sat on the pallet. She had been dressed in a pair of sweatpants and large black shirt, and she was determined not to think about who changed her.

She redid her ponytail and cleaned her glasses with her shirt, and then scooted back against the wall. Slowly, she started thumping her head against it, wondering how hard she'd need to hit it to wake up. Just before she could bang it harder, the handle on the locked door jiggled. Katie made herself smaller on the pallet, scooting further into the corner of the room. She was not ready for another round, even if it was all in her head.

The door opened slowly. But instead of Luthor, it was the small one she saw earlier, with goggles.

"AwesomeIknewyouwouldbehereItoldRedRobinthatIwouldfindyoufirstIcan'tbelieveitareyouok?" The words rushed out and Katie had a hard time keeping up. The kid looked at her, bouncing up and down from foot to foot.

"Um. Yes?" She hadn't caught the question, really, but hoped it was the right answer. Judging by his smile, it was.

"GreatI'mgoingtopickyouupnowandwearegoingtogetoutofherebeforetheplacegoesboomSuperboydecidedhe'ddothehonorsthistimetakethatLex!"

And before Katie could decode any of that, the guy grabbed her hand, tossed her on his back (despite how much bigger she was than him) and flew? ran? teleported? away. Katie actually didn't know what was happening because one moment she was in the weird closet and the next she was on top of a skyscraper watching a building across from her blow up. Her stomach lurched and she threw up.

"Impulse, did you even warn her?" Katie wiped her mouth with the bottom of her shirt and looked up. The young man in red and black was shaking his head in exasperation, while the other young man in the leather jacket was flying (!) next to him. Red stepped forward, his hand extended.

"Sorry about that, we had to work fast. I'm Red Robin. What's..." But Katie didn't hear the next thing because at that moment the tattoo on her chest flared in pain and she sunk to the ground. All she heard before she fainted were the shouts of surprise around her.

[bpdjennamaroney]

cary dubek gets cast in a rwrb-esque film and he wants to do justice to the part & he sees a therapist to talk about his lingering trauma & pours his heart and soul into the craft & learns queer history & reads de profundis & then finally he meets his costar who is best known for playing a bully on cw’s short-lived jughead spinoff and the first thing he says is “dude can you believe gay guys can bone missionary style”

[powderblueblood]

POWDER. 29. SHE/THEY. WRITER. SCORPIO. 18+ ONLY.

i love all my children equally but bold are characters i am always super keen to write, italicised are characters i have less experience writing but am always happy to explore. this list is constantly evolving.

STRANGER THINGS — eddie munson, robin buckley, steve harrington, ronnie ecker, al munson, nancy wheeler RIVERDALE — veronica lodge, jughead jones, cheryl blossom JUSTIFIED — raylan givens, boyd crowder THE BEAR — carmen berzatto, sydney adamu, richie jermovich POKER FACE— charlie cale SUCCESSION — roman roy THE VAMPIRE DIARIES — bonnie bennett, damon salvatore, katherine pierce

SHIPS I'LL WRITE FOR — every single one of the characters above x reader, ronance, platonic!steddie, platonic!stobin, platonic!rennie, boydraylan jeronica, choni, sydcarmy, sydrichie,

TROPES I GO FERAL FOR — enemies to lovers, partners in crime, divorced couple energy, reluctant soulmates, grumpy + sunshine, pathetic lovedrunk moaning men, high status cunt women, mischievous little bastards, witches, vampires, ghosts, psychics, religious trauma, low-rent criminal enterprises, parental issues that are almost biblical, small towns with secrets that are too dark to keep

WHAT I WRITE — snark, angst, smut, fluff, dick jokes — i'm certifiably canon divergent in... almost everything

WHAT I DON'T — rpf, anything non-con, ddlg (but i'm not opposed to a reasonable age gap let's be real), m x m smut (couldn’t do it justice, could just do it dick jokes)

FIND PROMPTS HERE.

[fave-fight]

ROUND 1: FIGHT!

I’m keeping the order a surprise. :) I’ll update as each poll is posted.

This tournament is Round Robin, which means EVERY CHARACTER WILL GO UP AGAINST EVERY OTHER CHARACTER! So, don’t worry when you’re voting. Your blorbo will be here for every round. You will get to vote against Elon Musk every round.

Master Post

Rounds

Harry Du Bois vs Obi-Wan Kenobi

Cutting an onion vs Plato

Kirby vs George Costanza

Spiders Georg vs Medic

TBH autism creature vs fave-fight

Archibald vs Candace Flynn

Oliver vs Cecil Palmer

Diogenes the Cynic vs Kokichi Oma

Utatane Piko vs Jonathan Sims

Kaz Brekker vs Isabelle

V1 vs Jerma

Goose vs Arven

Magikarp vs Jesus Christ

Proinsias Cassidy vs You, the Voter

IT’S ME BOY IM THE PS5 vs a lot of spiders

Kanatsune Ame vs Nana Hiiragi

Elon Musk vs Groundskeeper Willie

Reigen Arataka vs Vi

Inigo Montoya vs Franziska von Karma

Little Mac vs Volo

Yuzuki Yukari vs Dick Grayson

Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz vs Rainhaze

Elaine Benes vs Harley Quinn

Alejandro Burromuerto vs Stanley Pines

Wheatley vs johnsonofdonut

Dr. Coomer vs Floyd Leech

Your mom vs vFlower

Kiryu Kazuma vs Minamoto Tiara

Perry the Platypus vs Inej Ghafa

Jughead Jones vs Finfin

Alex Louis Armstrong vs Howard Hamlin

Apollo Justice vs Connecticut Clark

Cave Johnson vs Ea-Nasir

prinxe-with-no crown vs The Knight

Peridot vs Susie

Ace Trappola vs Kanade Yoisaki

Guzma vs Mr. Rogers

Kim Possible vs JJ McGermanotta

Gomez Addams vs Fukase

Half Light vs Miss Piggy

L Lawliet vs a horse

Peri Dubois vs Sam Vimes

Sakurai Haruka vs socks-wizard-money-gang

Chuuya Nakahara vs Kevin

David Xanatos vs Light Yagami

Odysseus vs Miette

Duck Newton vs Mei Dragon

Nino Lahiffe vs Goose

“Me” The Aspiring Anime Character Puncher vs Sunny

Conan Edogawa vs Domovoi Butler

[rythmicjea]

On the last day of summer vacation... The Writer and His Muse

Full disclosure, I wrote another version of this last night. It was... factually correct. But it just wasn't good. So I saved it and took a few steps away and realized what I was supposed to be writing. I apologize now this is going to be long.

When I came up with the idea to write this series, I wasn't sure of the structure. If I'm honest, I still don't know lol. And after being called the "Riverdale Analysis Auteur" (thank you @storkmuffin ❤️), I promise to do the utmost to put forth only my best for you. There isn't going to be an uploading schedule so follow the tag "Code Word Jeronica" to see when I post.

My intention with this is to show that from the pilot there has always been the opportunity for Jeronica. I know what you're saying "there's an opportunity for ALL pairings."

And, yes, while you are correct. There were some possibilities that were more feasible than others (Sorry Jarchies!). For the skeptics out there, the showrunners did chemistry tests with so many pairings. Cole even admitted that he did one with Cami and he was open to a Jughead/Veronica relationship "It's the CW, anything can happen"! Coding isn't always intentional or needs to be taken seriously. And that's okay. As a writer myself, I understand the "side character curse" all too well.

With all of that being said, I will only be focusing on the evidence we get in the show itself. I may reference the comics sporadically (like how Jughead and Veronica have been paired up/dated several times in the comics, throughout the comic's history. Below is a picture from Pep #154 in 1962!) but I'll never reference anything outside of the source material as evidence.

The Writer and His Muse

It's established from the pilot that Jughead is a writer, an aspiring novelist. All writers need a muse. Something that inspires them to put pen to paper. In Greek Mythology, Muse was a Greek Goddess who gave inspiration to all. Often, a muse is referred to as a beautiful woman but it can be anything. The show Riverdale is the muse for fanfiction writers who write in the universe. Jughead has several muses throughout the show. He goes through various tribulations with his writing. We see him suffer with writer's block, make a deal with the devil (both Jugheads in Rivervale), and we know that the story that put him on the map was a telling of him and his friends.

In the overall show we know of five big stories that Jughead writes. Jason Blossom's murder, The Red Dahlia, Killing Mr. Honey, The Outcasts, and Bend. Towards. Justice. All follow a pretty basic plotline. Something happens, a group of teens have to investigate, there's a surprise twist, and then a resolution.

But, through all of these he has one muse that is constant. Would you believe me if I told you it was our fair Veronica? Because it is. Before you ask "What about Betty?", let me ask you the same. What about her? She is a character in his stories. Sometimes she's the main character. But being the main character and being a muse are two very different things. Veronica's presence in his stories symbolize different major elements to a story. More than any other Riverdale character.

Throughout the series we see Jughead struggle with his writing. His father tells him to keep writing as a way to get out of Riverdale and not get caught up with the Serpents. We see him have profound writer's block, plagiarize another author, change the way he writes due to his disability, and physically lose his ability to write. His writer's block, and the complications with it, start in season 5 and aren't resolved until season 6.

Here's an unexpected bonus from helping Veronica...

...I started writing again.

She is, and has always been, his muse. This is the first time he acknowledges it, but the clues have been there since day one.

Jason Blossom's Murder

The first story begins with the pilot's very first scene. It also introduces the audience to a concept called "The Center of a Story". The center of a story is just how it sounds. It is the element that brings everyone together. However, while this can be the main character and what that character goes through, it can simply be a person or place that has very little interaction at all with the main story. In a murder mystery, which Season 1 is, the center of a story can be the murder victim. In telling that story we can either have flashbacks of the person's life up until they are killed; or, they are simply the reason why everyone comes together (and not even just to find out why. Sometimes the why isn't necessary).

Jason Blossom is the center of the story. It's all about finding out who killed him. But the muse of the story? The hook? The character's entrance that actually connects everyone together? That's Veronica. "On the last day of summer vacation, a new mystery rolled into town." Jason's murder is the B-plot of the season. It might have kicked everything off, and the action might be connected to him, but it's not the entire reason why Jughead is writing this book. In fact, the opening soliloquy says:

Our story is about a town, a small town, and the people who live in the town. From a distance it presents itself like so many other small towns all over the world. Safe, decent, innocent. Get closer though? And you start seeing the shadows underneath. The name of our town is Riverdale.

The story was never about Jason Blossom.

The Red Dahlia

I'm not going to touch on this much, because I have a whole post planned just about this episode. But, I want to point out that out of all of the stories we see him write, this is the only story that focuses solely on one character. It's completely about Veronica. She, like Jason, is the catalyst. The difference is that, unlike Jason, she plays a major role.

Killing Mr. Honey

In his last story to submit to the University of Iowa, it's about how seven teenagers try to get rid of their unethical and overbearing principal. We have known up to this point that Jughead loves horror. He likes to write "Lovecraftian" style stories. The difference between the two are HPL rejected morality. He considered himself a "Morality Atheist". Jughead, on the other hand, loves morality tales. (In 1955 there's a whole episode about it.) This is most evident in this telling. Each character represents an architype. Veronica, arguably, is the most important architype. She represents morality. She's the only one who really challenges what they are doing. Specifically, Jughead. At face value someone can go "Well, Jughead and Veronica aren't friends so it makes sense". First off, no, they very much are friends. But, second, if they weren't, why put her in such a place of honor. In actuality, given his character in the show (and the comics), Archie should be the moral compass of the story.

The Outcasts

The Outcasts is really the only story that we have very little knowledge of. I freely admit that for evidence, it's the weakest of the five. It presents coded details for the audience to infer their meaning. Jughead is the Viper Leader, the Serpents are the Vipers, but is Betty The Homecoming Queen? Most likely. The co-ed he takes home tells him that he wrote a "very sexy book" in regards to the Viper Leader and the Homecoming Queen. However, in his drunken voicemail, he lambasts Betty. One line in particular stands out "You're a cold, fake, duplicitous bitch. And once people read my book, everyone's going to see that". Now, we don't know what is in the book (Kind of wish they'd released it) and it could end with the Homecoming Queen cheating on the Viper Leader with the Football Captain (I'm inferring that that would be Archie's character). Or, they could have lived happily ever after. Or... using the ambiguity to stretch the possibility... the Homecoming Queen could have been Veronica.

Why? Well, there's a reason why the Enemies to Lovers trope is so popular. What better way to get back at your ex for cheating but to immortalize their best friend (who was also cheated on by your best friend) as the true-love-fairy-tale-princess of your wildly popular NYT best seller?

Bend. Towards. Justice.

The last story we see Jughead write is when they've been taken back to 1955. 7x01 is very reminiscent of the pilot. But, for Jughead and his writing, it's always been in the details. Season 7 is my favorite season, and trust me, I have a lot to say about what happens. So, I'll keep this brief. Even when he describes Tabitha it's very factual. There's no emotion. He lists who she is and the reason why she might know what's going on. Please don't take this to mean that at this point he isn't still in love with her, because he very much is. When he sees her, he doesn't know the 1955 version isn't his girlfriend. He keeps all of his emotions bottled up until he can figure out a plan. And to spare her from any craziness because her memories also might be gone. Up until this point, everyone's description is "This person is here, and this is who they are". Including himself.

For starters I live in an abandoned train car with Hot Dog which... actually tracks... Betty and Kevin aren't merely friends, they're dating. Cheryl's twin brother is alive, but he's not Jason, he's Julian. No sign of a Reggie yet. But Archie exists and he's pretty much a teen Charles Atlas... I've been waiting to reconnect with the one person who might shed some light on our predicament because she was both Chronokenetic and the town's guardian angel. My girlfriend, Tabitha Tate.

He mentions that all of this information is "overwhelming, heartbreaking". But he doesn't say why because there are many reasons why. His best friends don't remember anything. Do they even really know him? With one one question he realizes that the person he loves doesn't love him back. But he breaks this way of introducing the "characters" when he introduces Veronica. It's all emotion. There's even a sexy jazz trumpet riff announcing her.

"Damn..." His thoughts whispered to him breathlessly. "Even in 1955, Veronica Lodge still knew how to make an entrance." He goes from boredom to attention. He straightens his shoulders, he sits up to see her better, and he doesn't blink. Like everyone else, and very unlike him, his whole attention is on her.

THE PILOT

Now that we've gone through the five major stories we know he writes, let's go back to the end to see the beginning. The last episode of the entire series ends with a typewriter. All of the stories mentioned above are stories written within the main one. Riverdale itself is a story (possibly Archie Comics fanfiction) written by Jughead.

The pilot itself, as all TV shows, has a narrative woven throughout. There's characters, conflict, plot, etc. Though the episode opens with Jason's murder the pilot was never about that. Hell, Jughead is barely featured in it. We see him two significant times. The first time is two minutes in, where he's drinking his coffee writing his story. And he says the classic line, "We were still talking about the Fourth of July tragedy on the last day of summer vacation, when a new mystery rolled into town." We are introduced to Veronica Lodge, by Jughead, right after we're introduced to him. At this point he's only named Cheryl and Jason Blossom as that is the impetus for this show/season. "There needs to be a dead body".

The pilot is about Veronica. She moves to Riverdale, she meets Archie and Betty, she mentions Our Town, and her desire for Archie is established. Compared to Veronica, it takes 8 minutes to mention Jason again and 10 minutes to bring him back into the plot. Then nothing significant happens with him until the very end of the episode! But even after that brief interlude it's only 5 minutes later Veronica is given her first conflict. And by the halfway point, she's thoroughly decimated said conflict.

So, Miss Auteur, why are you bringing this up?

Because Riverdale was supposed to be about Archie. But by the end of the first half of the first episode Veronica is the only character to have a full plot arc and even an epilogue! More importantly, she is immediately woven into the fabric of the town. Even though the Varchie romance is introduced we must remember how the episode is being framed.

If you compare the narration to the writing on Jughead's laptop, it doesn't match up. Cole Sprouse might have read everything on said laptop and it was shortened for time. But, I wouldn't read too much into the discrepancies. I mean, the previous two pages are exact copies of each other lol. And while there might not be numbered pages it's at least four and I'm baffled about what he could have written prior to the opening lines. Also, as a writer, there are the things we think we're going to write and the things we actually do write (For example, I wrote a 16 chapter 100k+ Zack and Cody fanfic, and I didn't know the show existed! The Suite Adult Life). Our thoughts vs our words carry weight to a story. An argument can be made that either position is the most important. Is it better to write out that which we keep so closely guarded so it may live on in infamy? Or are the most profound thoughts those we keep closest to our chests?

Though one little line stands out when I do read it...

"See, the Blossoms had their tendrils wrapped around the entire town - no one wanted to make enemies of them."

Who is the person not wrapped up in their tendrils? And who immediately made an enemy of Cheryl Blossom?

Bisous, Bisous... Votre Auteur.

[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.

[jugheads-choni]

Oooooooh this is SO exciting!!!! The first issue is going to center on JUGHEAD!!!! 🤩🙌

And each issue will be through the eyes of someone in Riverdale! 👏

[hbogirls]

Riverdale characters as sex and the city characters?

jughead is carrie, of course. the narrator who's writing the entire show while also living it

veronica is samantha. she knows what she wants and she's not afraid of what people think of her when she goes for it. also bisexual but no one ever says that explicitly lol

archie is charlotte. they represent tradition, the american dream, etc but that keeps getting turned on its head in unique ways. for instance, charlotte gets diarrhea twice and archie turns to vigilante justice.

betty is a miranda because she's very serious and kinda negative and also i do believe betty too would be gay at 55. this one is hard for me because i love betty and miranda annoys me, but the truth is the truth.

cheryl is big. rich, causes problems, hot.

kevin is stanford and fangs is anthony

uncle frank is berger because i hiss and boo when they appear on my screen

ethel is bitsy von muffling. shows up every so often and does some memorable work.

toni is randomly steve i think? very sweet and can't quit a redhead who is occasionally weird to them

tabitha is aleksandr petrovsky. shows up late, makes a big splash, reorients things in a necessary way, leaves early.

alice is the woman whose baby shower leads to the theft of carrie's manolos and then carrie makes her buy her new ones because she judges carrie's lifestyle choices. a woman's right to shoes.

hiram is aidan. frustrating, ultimately not good for our main character(s), but wow you can't help but be won over sometimes.

joaquin is trey, and this actually allows me to continue my archie/charlotte comparision by arbitrarily likening the prison stabbing to post-wedding erectile dysfunction. isn't that fun?

reggie is smith i think. beloved and people love when his shirt is off!

i can't figure out who harry is. maybe clay? a late addition with a lot of good will towards him?

[peacerisendove]

Big Ethel Energy and S2 (Series Finale) Final Overall Thoughts On the Series (Thank God.)

It's obvious from the last three episode of Big Ethel Energy that this was a rush-job ending for a failing webcomic. However, despite being a potentially forced rush-job to conclude the series that doesn't excuse the multitude of sins the webcomic has committed in both writing and art.

First and foremost:

Big Ethel Energy is definitively the worst piece of fiction I have ever read in my life.

(I read it so you don't have to.)

My reasons as to why:

1.

Ethel in no way is a compelling, strong, or even a likeable main character that you are capable of rooting for. Now you might be thinking that main characters don't have to be likeable, and you are absolutely correct on thinking that. Unlikable and flawed characters are interesting because of their flaws, they feel real, and they make for complex and fully recognized characters. However, those flaws have to be consciously recognized and utilized by the author to make them effective and interesting.

The author of BEE does not do this and instead Ethel is consistently portrayed in the right or that her opinions are right, and that other are wrong or have wronged her, and that she is always the victim. Consistently her tone is woe-is-me.

The way she is portrayed and presented, along with the narrative, shows there is no self conscious attempt by the author to make her a purposefully flawed character.

She is consistently narcissistic and believes she is better than her high school peers and Riverdale as a whole (the small town she came from, in contrast to New York where she currently lives, which comes up multiple time and vaguely reeks of classism), she has a consistent victim-complex, constantly is portrayed in the right when the reader can see she is wrong, never takes responsibility, and more.

2.

The writing is sophomoric and shallow as it uses LGBT+ and serious topics to prop up its cis, white, privilege main character, and creates the illusion that she has personality and character (it's a weak attempt of making her seem good by helping the helpless lgbt+ people in this story. They have nothing to do with Ethel's story or her own character like being socially conscious it's just padding). (ex: Her helping Noelle, the one trans character in the story).

The writing and narration is also leading in a way that it does not allow for dissension in opinions. It tries to tell you what to think of Ethel and her character (that she's perfect and wonderful), and it also tries to reinforce her, her actions, and opinions as being in the right constantly. She comes off as a Mary-Sue character who can do no wrong. Additionally, the secondary character also serve the purpose of padding Ethel's character and propping her up on a pedestal at times by complimenting her character throughout the story or that she is the only one who could possible do the things that she does in the webcomic.

The fawning over her character by secondary characters is obnoxious and shows how weak the writing is overall. When your main character’s character can’t stand up on their own you know that they're even flimsier than cardboard.

3.

The art does not do the issues regarding body-image justice at all. Specifically the writing surrounding how Ethel is described as tall, being a plus-sized or a 'fat' woman, and overall implied to be an unattractive woman. Ethel despite being describes as essentially the ugly duckling who was made fun of for her weight and size in high school is inconsistently portrayed.

The writing is aphobic as it vilifies Jughead, an implied asexual/aromantic/aroace character by making him the primary source of conflict for Ethel and her character because he identifies as ace/aro/aroace and didn't know it when he had consensual sex with Ethel when they were eighteen and he never contacted her again after that. It literal vilifies his existence and makes his existence a conflict which is so SHITTY and offensive to aroace people. The comic also never explicitly labels his sexuality/romantic identity despite how it VERY STRONGLY implies he's ace/aro/aroace, which I argue is aphobic because there are other LGBT+ characters who are explicitly identify as LGBT+. There's also an attempt to retcon his Season 1 strongly implied ace/aro/acearo identity.

4. The ending

Lastly, the ending. The ending is flippant and soulless and even more immature and over-dramatic from how it displays Ethel's relationship with Moose to how it ended over it being long distance to her rushed reunion and suddenly entering into a relationship with Seth (which will also be long distance. Like how is that going to work if you couldn't get it to work in the past???). (Over-dramatic as in, WOW, Ethel and Seth spend a whole entire night together and watch the sun rise together.)

It continues to put Ethel upon a pedestal. She's so great at her job, she's so successful at dating, she's traveling all over the world~ WOWEE ZOWIE~ SHE'S SO GREAT AND SUCCESSFUL AND SHE SOMEHOW MEETS THE GUY SHE ACTUALLY LIKED WHLE SHE WAS DATING HER BOYFRIEND FOUR YEARS PRIOR???

I could vomit.

Honestly, this all feels like just the tip of the iceberg of everything wrong wrong with this webcomic, but I've given you the broad strokes.

It's a failure as a work of fiction and offensive to boot.