#but the work is its own reward

[biblicalhorror]

Thinking about how Pete used to be a priest and Kevin's (unnamed) mom was a nun. The fact that Pete was clearly stripped of his title. And we don't hear anything about Kevin's mother beyond the fact that she's dead. Thinking about how Diane says that she thinks of Pete as her "creepy uncle" and hates him. Thinking about how Kevin being born was likely a huge scandal for Pete and his mother and led to him being kicked out of the church. Thinking about how Pete doesn't seem to have any remorse at all for the potential abuse of power that occurred which led to Kevin's conception. Thinking about how Pete was the one most likely to make jokes objectifying women with Kevin. Thinking about how Kevin was likely raised believing he was some sort of miracle or chosen one, destined for great things solely because acknowledgment of the shame surrounding the circumstances of his birth would require Pete admitting fault. Thinking about how normalized it must have been in his childhood to see women being talked down to, objectified, sexualized and made into nothing more than plot devices to powerful men. Thinking about the sense of entitlement he must have had baked into him, and the deep fear hiding underneath all of it that one day everyone is going to realize he's his father's biggest skeleton in the closet. Thinking about this show having one of the most nuanced and complex portrayals of the cycle of abuse and patriarchal violence that I've ever seen!!!

[valtsv]

the appeal of VALshrue as a hypothetical relationship (platonic, romantic, aromantic, undefinable, idgaf) is that it's about carving out a space where you have the autonomy to choose for yourself, but that choice only exists in the first place because of the nonconsensual circumstances that gave rise to it. pursuing it, in the choice to be kinder, to stay, and to live, means both challenging and reckoning with the heinously abusive origin point. the cruelty and the compassion are inseperably conjoined. you could even say they're married to one another.

[wallbeatjournal]

Are true riverdale fans of the opinion it is a very good and nearly flawless show or does being a true riverdale fan mean being able to mock writing choices

it's long-running serial television plotted a season/half at a time so definitely not even "nearly" flawless.

BUT. i'm not doing combat with the writing team. i'm not actively reading against the text the way i have to in order to enjoy something like supernatural or the 90s robin comics or the fucking sopranos, which are patriarchal christiancore copworld rapeworld white supremacist horrorshows that hate their minority audiences, with like 2 good creatives involved and martyring themselves to fight the good fight on sparse rare installments if you try to approach them sincerely.

riverdale writing staff are like a favorite smart problematic tumblr mutual to me. I don't always like what's on their blog or who they're referencing. but we're in the same community and i'm interested and inspired and i trust their agenda overall, even when i see shit i wouldn't have fucking posted. but bc i'm not being condescended to or actively spited i'm not gonna condescend to or spite them, you know?

i expect rvd to age like twin peaks (another very uneven, highly referential serial juggling a couple of intensely cool metanarratives on top of its core story). and twin peaks fandom mocks twin peaks all the time. twin peaks includes some CLUNKY shit. it's kitsch. it's camp. it has a second season that is largely ASS. james is there. and on top of that it also includes some genuinely offputting-to-me stuff that just bothers me to sit through, even though i feel like i understand and respect what they're going for with it. i just don't want to watch someone sweep the fucking bar for minutes and minutes as entertainment. OK!!?

...so yeah. mock riverdale but in the right spirit. is that an answer? do i sound like i'm chugging the flavoraid koolaid fresh-aid? probably.

[resuswhore]

💞 would love to open a handsome boy's lifeless mouth, finding it grey with hypoxia, and clip a pulse ox monitor right to his tongue like he was my pretty puppy 💞 feeling the chord and the hard plastic as I press my warm, hot mouth over his cold, limp, grey one to give breaths 💞 using the clip to pull his slack tongue out of his mouth and airway, so I make sure all of my air reaches his pretty chest 💞 doing compressions and watching the clip bob, taking his tongue with it, as his body spasms under the effort 💞 maybe I get to slide a tube down his throat, using only my hands of course, getting to guide it down is airway and into his lungs all on my own, no scope, the process intimate, my hands digging around and manipulating his tongue and jaw to get it in place right 💞 getting to take that tube down and use it, kissing around it, forcine air through it 💞 maybe I get to see some fluid drain out of it like a spout as I do compressions or turn him on his side 💞 getting to see his mouth full and used 💞 getting that pretty puppy mouth all pink again so I can kiss him softly 💞 what a dream 💞

[bonefall]

Is there a cat in cannon who got a good death who you think didn't deserve it? Especially if they committed crimes?

Tom the Wifebeater and his redemption death. No question. It's not even close.

Not only do I reject to the "redemption death" on the grounds of it being Tom the Wifebeater who is bullying others until his dying breath, even taunting Thunder about Turtle Tail is dead and the kits must be very torn up about it, but I reject "redemption through death" entirely. I don't like it in stories. It's a theme I deeply object to.

And again it's fucking wild that every time a character is a father, even if they are a wifebeater or a child abuser, the writers think that it bestows a glimmer of goodness into them which every abused child is forced to appreciate and cry about. Breezepelt, Thunder, Tallstar, Tom's children, all of them forced to reconcile and admit how much they wuv their papa.

Abusive dads in WC regularly get redemption deaths, too. Clear Sky dies saving his grandchild, Sandgorse died saving a rando in a tunnel, Tom the Wifebeater saving his daughter.

But Tom the Wifebeater is the worst example of it. Hands down.

[brb-on-a-quest]

Hot take: professors should not encourage us to go to things outside of class/homework if they don't offer extra credit.

[puppyeared]

adhd comix

[thetimelordbatgirl]

New school attendance rules (that are stupid as fuck) being published has me learning people didn't even know that the UK fines people for their kids not being in school unauthorized???

[girderednerve]

all the movie-cover editions of wicked remind me of the time i tried to read that book as a third grader because i loved the musical, and my mom took it away from me on the grounds that i was too young for it (plausibly true, but also it is just not a very fun read) & when we discussed it she said that gregory maguire is a bitter old queen and i could read it in middle school (did not do that, but i did steal it back & hide it under my bed on principle)

[here-there-be-drag0ns]

me, giving my dog a bowl of ice with treats frozen inside it that will occupy him for a While: haha silly dog with your silly enrichment toy. surely we have nothing in common!

me, not even ten minutes later: oh boy genloss!!

[mejomonster]

You ever confronted by how much fear is holding you back on even little daily things? ;-;

[misty-missdee]

it's the 3 year anniversary of the day I realized I was trans. I have a few thoughts to share regarding how I'm more than pleased with how far I've come.

that night, and the first year and a half I was shattered I'm not going to lie to you. preparing for some hard truths like the rejection I was expecting from family, which sadly ended up being correct to prepare for. as well as some crippling dysphoria that i had always faintly recognized in my chest and forehead (metaphorically speaking) that hurt 100x worse fully realizing what those feelings were.

year two was defined by adjusting to hormones, and a new state of being since my prior persona as a human was mired with an aloofness and false bravado in order to try to fit in with male peers. in retrospect I would say for my levels of comfort, and who I truly am I may have overcorrected in order to feel girly and femme. I now find solace and peace in lesbian masculinity as I had taken note of from the trans woman who posted the "wearing a dress doesn't make you a woman" tik toc.

now I sit here today honestly in a pretty good place. despite rejection, despite displacement. I find myself a good mix between the two "personas" of mine. I guess that's what a normal person might call feeling like yourself. I do feel like I'm finally me too :) I feel like me! and I couldn't be happier.

[yoiku]

suddenly consumed by the mad crafty creature's lust for carving. I don't even have any ideas but my brain wants to carve a piece of wood or a lino sheet or something lol. i want the feeling of doing it instead of any grandeur ideas of what i'd carve. ya'll know what i mean right?

[cheswirls]

once again on my bs thinkin abt making ywr/iwf a physical book

[puppyeared]

i am playing professor layton and the curious village on my ds. very fun!!!

I don't know if i'm very far in because most of the time spent in that game was me being confused and bad at puzzles. it's fun though.

!!! im glad to hear youre enjoying it!! its one of my fav titles and honestly such an underrated series, id love it if more ppl gave it a try!

the puzzles can be difficult but very rewarding!! i used to dread them as a kid but now i find them nice and challenging. the math ones are still hard, but if u speak to Flick at the cafe he'll give you chess puzzles which i think were my favorite ^_^

[ruvviks]

the fractured anthology is genuinely one of my finest works. if i'm being honest