#archie (mmfd)

[finn-nelson-for-the-win]

Not sure if anyone is gonna care about this as much as I do, but I’m throwing it out into the MMFD Fandom ether here on Tumblr just in case.

So…Let’s discuss: My Mad Fat Diary character Zodiac Signs✨

I’ve done a bit of research (aka rewatching certain episodes lol) and some of their signs are confirmed:

Izzy is a Cancer (her birthday is near/on July 10th according to S1E1 when Rae meets the gang for the first time and Izzy is celebrating her 16th birthday at the pub)

Rae is a Sagittarius (she says this in S1E2)

Archie is an Aries (Rae says this in S1E2)

Chloe is a Scorpio/Sagittarius Cusp (her 17th birthday party in S2E5)

And I have a theories about what Finn and Chop might be but I can't recall if there’s ever been anything confirmed or any proof in the show...does anyone else have thoughts/theories or am I the only one that thinks about these types of things when I'm rewatching the show for the Nth time/reading or writing fanfic lol 🤪

[flirtmcgirt]

Why I hate MMFD Series 3, Circa 2015.

Ok, like I said, i randomly found this in my phone. It is extra, it is wild, it all holds up lol. It’s embarrassing, but who cares? S3 was embarrassing. It’s VERY long. Laugh, cry, mock me, fight me, enjoy yourselves. I’ll never get over it.

1. The whole series has a bleak feeling almost immediately that doesn’t let up. I don’t just mean plot, I mean color palette and vibes. It has this washed out feeling I hate.

2. I don’t side with Rae on her interview. I don’t. She didn’t take it seriously.

3. Rae wants to go to uni because..? Rae chose Bristol because..? Rae has no backup schools because..?

4. Rae says she’s happy. Cool. Why? What’s been happening? How’s treatment been going? The most elementary rule of storytelling: show, don’t tell. I feel like we got told for 2 hours, with no fill-in of the gap.

5. The end of season 2 felt like the jumping off of the beginning of something: Chloe healing emotionally, the relationship with Rae and her mom, Rae and Finn, attempts at taking therapy seriously. We spend the next 2 hours digging into NONE of these things. I’m not dumb, I know time was limited. But we needed more exposition, flashbacks, more SOMETHING. Why should I believe things are going well, especially when they’re about to collapse.

6. Flashbacks (this blows my mind): Rae shows us what we think are flashbacks talking about her happiness. They’re not-they’re flash forwards. And all of them are after Rae starts being dishonest and backsliding. That has always upset me as a viewer. We NEVER see Rae progress in this series in retrospect.

7. Why are Rae and Finn hiding major life decisions from each other?

8. Chloe’s doing well! Cool! Again, how and why?

9. Look, I was young with a boyfriend once too. I get there’s limited time between school, work, and family, and you want to spend the time you have taking off each other’s clothes at that age. But there’s no emotional intimacy here and it spits in the face of earlier seasons.

10. “I love you.” Enough said. But fine. Let’s take it at face value. Why are they not expressing themselves ? Are they happy, are they unsure around each other, are they coasting on lust? We don’t know, bc bad storytelling.

11. We’re right back to “let’s only discuss my boyfriend in terms of his looks.” Bo-ring, no growth, and not to get too explicit, but you don’t have repeated, committed sex, and not get past some of this. Embarrassing things happen, funny things, you open up emotionally and get real with yourself and each other. You’re telling me these two never made weird noises or weird faces or sweated horrifically all over each other?

12. I’ve always seen Linda as someone who cares for Rae, worries, and is observant, but often doesn’t do the best thing because of her own issues. She is out to lunch most of the series and I hated it.

13. The car crash. I hate it for so many reasons. It sucked up the plot time we needed not to make the whole series feel disjointed. It was too dramatic for me. One of the things I always loved about MMFD was it felt like a relatable show that featured teens, not necessarily a teen show. This was a teen soap stunt.

14. Rae is ostensibly happy when she gets her acceptance. Why does she immediately discard the idea? Why no inner dialogue about her actual desires?

15. KESTER. We’ve said it all. Kester telling her what to do instead of working through her feelings? Irresponsible. Lying? Irresponsible. Not properly transitioning out of therapy? Irresponsible? The mental health messages were disgusting overall. Add another therapist COVERING and letting her dump her meds was even worse. Kester’s choices were all about covering his own ass, and he’s ultimately pathetic.

16. The Gang. Just so much why? Why are Izzy and Chop forced into being stupid? Why does no one give a shit about Finn? Why is everyone grappling with major life changes but only Chloe and Rae have to bear any drama. Why is Archie not in uni? Why does everyone clearly know Rae is suffering and doesn’t even try to help; more importantly they mock her? That last piece makes me legit angry.

17. I like Rae and Chloe’s friendship growth. That it came at the expense of Rae’s guilt, fear, and shame is just disappointing.

18. Finn looks..tired, even before the Katie business. He looks overwhelmed and unsure and scared, and like he’s spent two years biting his tongue. I don’t doubt for a second he loves her, but is it healthy? It didn’t look healthy, and again, why? You’re getting paid to TELL ME A STORY.

19. Rae never uses anything she learned in therapy all series.

20. No one but Rae gets a real storyline and that stinks.

21. Katie. Faye Marsay is better than this. Lost more plot time for a teenage Single White Female retread.

22. The cheating. Out of character, we never get clear resolution on what happened, and most importantly to me, it’s the main reason for a breakup that has so many other tells simmering in the background, imo. That Rae is condescending, doesn’t own up to her parts, is just. Yeah. Why should I believe this person is ok? PS-We know he bought her that “you’re the milk to my cookies” shirt, it only makes sense. Ma’am you did not act like it.

23. Katie’s entire voodoo speech burns me up because we never get confirmation Rae doesn’t internalize and/or reject this. I actually think a conversation about the ripple effect of mental health is so important, and deserved better than whatever the hell this was.

24. Rae’s whole A-level experience. She gets saved and coddled so she can go somewhere they won’t play that game with her. How does this help her or show she’s ready?

25. No chippy. Fine, whatever, but I miss it lol.

26. Everyone perving on Finn, come on, this was cringe.

27. The look Chloe gives Finn at the pub. I don’t understand it, but I don’t like it.

28. No Baby Bouchtat time, wtfffff.

29. Rae never comes to a realization we hear about why she wants uni. She gets her back against the wall because her mom has to leave and everything else is falling apart. Great.

30. Speaking of, why is Linda still at home 2(?) months after she said she wanted to leave, halfway through her husband’s contract? I thought it was so damn important.

31. Rae’s dad..more plot time wasted. I honestly barely remember this. PS-hey Rae, I bet Finn Nelson would’ve heavily related if you said your shitty dad popped back up and you were struggling.

32. It seems like Rae cuts everybody out after the ball. This is not real life. You lose touch, people fade away, sure. Over months and years, not by cutting bonds off at the knees.

33. Town only being the background to Archie’s plot was such a waste.

34. That tub scene was sickening and irresponsible as fuck. Every other mental health episode in other seasons had inner dialogue to help the audience. That they played it as straight and left the audience dangling that long was reprehensible.

35. Everyone on this show got to develop an outside life we knew about away from Rae except Finn and he deserved more.

36. The going it alone message is terrible. You always need support and love from people around you.

37. Petty, but that dress did Sharon no favors, please dress our queen properly.

38. The last song being Creep is so lyrically bleak and sums up this entire dumpster fire.

39. “The bullshit goes with me?” GOODBYE. Please.

40. The train scene: kind of nice! Reminiscing! Tix! But also weird. Why do Kester and Chloe look so serious? Why does Finn only look like he wants to fuck her? Why is Liam even there? Whatever.

Please add more lol. Or don’t, because this is out of control. I roast because I loved and knew what it was capable of once.

[girllookingoutwindow]

Izzy from MMFD

You know after so many years answer about Izzy it feels weird. I don't know if I'm going to do it right.

My NOTP for them: Finn Nelson (it feels weird)

• My BROTP for them:

I would loved to see and interaction between her and Tix

• My OTP for them:

I'm going to say Chop, but I never was sure about them. I understand them, it's a good match and they're cute.

• My second choice pairing for them:

Ummmm, I dunno. Honestly, I don't have a clue.

• My fluffy pairing for them:

Chop. But if you watched Derry girls (thing I recommend) I think James would me cute.

• My angsty pairing for them:

Chloe. Just to add some conflict on it.

• My favorite poly ship for them:

Chop and Rae

• My weirdest pairing for them:

Archie

[theres-nothing-holdin-me-back]

Sto facendo il rewatch di MMFD e onestamente quasi tutti i problemi della protagonista mi rappresentano, tranne i problemi riguardante i ragazzi.. perché nessuno mi guarderà mai o mi vorrà come Finn guarda Rea...

Non avrò mai un Finn.

Ma soprattutto non avrò mai un gruppo di amici come i suoi, non avrò mai nessuno si preoccupa per me come loro fanno con lei.. non avrò mai una Chloe, un Archie, un Izzy o un Chop non avrò mai nessuno di loro nella mia vita..

Non sono pazza ma a volte credo di sì e che ho bisogno di parlarne con qualcuno ma l'unica cosa che posso fare e piangere quando resto a casa da sola o quando mi chiudo in bagno..

[lullabiestoparalyze]

aaaaaaah i can't believe it's been ten years already! i didn't watch it until after s2 wrapped up, which i both appreciate (no waiting) and regret (less time with the active fan-dem). i got tumblred into watching via gifsets, and i'm still thankful i decided to give it a shot 💜

as for my personal fave episode, Don't Ever Tell Anyone Anything will always be my most treasured episode - there are so many great scenes during the sexy party, from archie and rae sharing a glance during spin the bottle to finn plopping himself down next to rae to the heartbreaking hug when finn heard about his nan to everyone's favorite "and i don't like talking to anyone". then the cleanup with archie becoming comfortable with his sexuality (and the ass smack, lol), chop giving danny his hat afterwards showing exactly how tenderhearted he really is.... i could go on about this ep forever. it's the one that really cemented The Gang for me and i'll always love it

i could never pick a favorite fic because the emus produced SO MANY great fics! we had such a high concentration of excellent writers for such a tiny fandom. i really need to go revisit the mmfd category on ao3

(i was/am an obviously inexperienced writer, lol, but i still think about finishing my 6yo wips someday. they still live in my head, especially You Never Have to Knock.)

as for characters, there are very few that i don't like at all. even characters that are supposed to elicit some level of dislike (chloe, linda, the non-stacey girls in the popular clique) have facets that i empathize with. my favorites outside of the gang are kester and karim, though.

anyway, i miss the emus so much. i hope i see more of y'all around!

— laura (aka @holochromatic, aka @raernundo)

It's TEN YEARS since the first episode of My Mad Fat Diary aired!

🎧📀📕🍻🍕🩱🎸🛵

Were you watching in the early days or did you discover it later (or even recently)?

If My Mad Fat Diary means something special to you, it'd be lovely to hear from you, either below or in an Ask. Memories of the show, favourite cast members, outfits, songs, or scenes, and the fanfics or fan art you loved.

Kristen (Genuine 1990s Teenager) xx

Tagging all the Emus my peri-menopausal memory will allow: @flirtmcgirt @lilaviolet @endemictoearth @rockinthebeastmode @kneekeyta @bitchy-broken @late-to-the-sexy-party @justagirlnamedkayla-blog1 @nurseollie @blobwithagob @darlingdiver @rae-nelson @raernundo @rae-as-in-rachel @adventureswithrae @inlovewithnicomirallegro-blog @greenangelheart @teastaindiary @slitherouter @how-ardently @beatum @stagecoachjessi @beccabluebonnet @aggressively-lamps @tinakegg @finn-nelson-pls @fizzezlikecherrycola @mmfdstuff @mymadfatdiary @mmfdblog @raefinnxo @areyousad8118 @woww-e4 @who-iss-stan-ford-blog @girlwithapumpkintattoo @girl-that-no-one-knows @girl-looking-out-window @madfatgifs @madfatty @otherlil @aspiringpolymath @everythingnicomirallegro @hey1tskat1e @i-love-mmfd @itsnicomirallegro @ultimate-slice @pudgebug @facephase @fanningon @fantasticab @themushroomblues @audisodd @audreyoppar

[blog-historymaker]

"The gang"

From My mad fat diary

"there is no gang without you Rae"

Paz, historymaker 💛

[buddyhollyscurls]

i miss rae and finn so so so much

[bringiton]

“Right, OK, so when you have the ketchup bottle, you can ask Rae a question about it.” My Mad Fat Diary (2013-2015)

[gallagher-teas]

I miss them

[vangoghs-moved]

best of my mad fat diary: 3/?

[punkbouquet]

My Mad Fat Diary was so so underrated, what an elite show

[twinklystar]

[looking-over-my-shoulder]

[cheersmdear]

The second chapter of Flower in a Hailstorm is done! I really enjoyed writing this one, I hope you’ll like it! As promised, there is a Finn/Rae reunion, and the gang get back together for an early Christmas celebration.

Please do leave a comment, it means a lot to me and it gives me motivation to keep writing.

[mystiika]

   so i’ve been listening to lovejoy & ngl they gives off the vibe of if archie & finn started a band in their youth. the accent is wrong but everything else fits them well

[i-dream-of-emus]

mrdancohen Lockdown selfie 🤳

19 February 2021