#chapter sixty-eight: quiz show

[existentialqueer]

Tranny Bladder

In light of the renewed wave of transgender bathroom bills being pushed and passed, I thought I would share a relevant chapter from S. Bear Bergman’s Butch Is a Noun.  "I have a tranny bladder. You know what I mean, right? The amazing ability to go approximately forever without needing to pee? I am the person who leaves the house, has two meals with a soda and a glass of water at each, returns home eight hours later and finally pees, after having stood around several times, at least after each meal, trying not to look like a sexual deviant (you know, in the bad way) while hanging around the restrooms waiting for my date to finish up. I wait to pee until I can get to a "safe" bathroom, safe bathrooms being the kind in which I am not screamed at to get out immediately, where I am not followed in by the lurking-outside-waiting-for-his-daughter father looking to kill me slowly, and that I can use without an NYPD officer and an Army private on Homeland Security detail (just, you know, for example) being called in to look at my ID.    This mostly means waiting until I am no longer in a public place, and so I just wait. The years and years of waiting, and holding it, have taken their eventual toll, it seems. And so, like so many butches I have known, like so many of my trans-siblings, I have developed this miraculous ability to just... wait. I mean, we are also probably dehydrated. You do not see deviantly gendered people walking around with Nalgene bottles, getting our sixty-four recommended ounces as we go through our days. I am sure that somewhere there is an argument to be made that the trans community as a whole is a little cranky because we could all use a nice big glass of water.    It makes both my grandmothers crazy to the point of neurosis, by the way. They think there is something the matter with me (you know, in the bad way). They look at me with eyes full of the measuring, medical expertise that apparently comes with being a Jewish grandmother, and they shake their heads and quiz me like a six-year-old with an unfortunate habit of wetting myself.    Did you go? Do you need to? Are you sure? Did you try?    What do I say? No, Nana, I don't need to use the bathroom, and I will not for the entire forseeable future because I'm sure as hell not using a women's bathroom here in South Florida, which is populated entirely by slender blonde girls and elderly women with failing eyesight?    This is leaving aside entirely, for the moment, how angry it makes me to write about these things - drinking water, and pissing it out - as though they were not the most basic kinds of freedom, as though even political prisoners both here and abroad didn't have more and better freedom to drink water and piss it out than most of the transfolk I know do, or did at some stage. This is not engaging what it feels like to be quietly peeing in a women's bathroom and hear, after a knock at the stall, "Sir?" or pounding and then, "What the fuck?"    No matter how I pitch my voice when I answer, even when I use the most head-resonant and high-pitched voice I have available to me that doesn't make me sound like Flip Wilson on helium, I still have to open the door and show someone my ID and smile my beta-wolf smile at them, while the alpha inside me is tearing a hole in my chest trying to get out and teach them a lesson about manners and respect.    When I get harassed in the Ladies' room, or the cops are called, I can produce ID with the telltale F and add the story to my collection. Transgressing in the Gents can have its consequences, legal or chillingly illegal. Men's rooms can be more forgiving because the culture of a men's bathroom insists that men not look at the others in the restroom lest they be labeled fags. Most curious looks can be deflected with a quizzical but hostile glance that seems to convey the idea that a man looking at you as you enter might have some sort of queer gaze.    Transfolk wait for the day that they can use the restroom with members of their chosen genders without problem or comment, and swap pissing stories and methods like trading cards in the meantime. I have heard arguments made that bathroom experiences are the defining measure of trans-ness: have you ever had anxiety, apprehension, or problems using the restroom which corresponds to you assigned-sex-at-birth? Then you're transgendered in some fashion. It's not the worst idea I've heard.    The bathroom is where gender performance meets public perception with a resounding thwack, one that sometimes hurts and sometimes reverberates down my butch life in unexpected ways. It's where I have to make a public declaration and I can never be sure which one might match what people are expecting from me, and the consequences for being wrong are always so unpleasant, because the wrongness is so basic. I am wrong in the world, they're saying, wrong to have fooled them, to be a coyote among dogs and cats, to stand in gender's doorways and whistle, and they'll make me pay while my pants are down, if they can. When I use a bathroom in public, I piss with one hand on my belt buckle so I can make it into a weapon if I have to.    Tranny bladder is my saving grace."

[riverdalestoriesss-xo]

The Girl Next Door | B. Cooper

Pairing: Betty Cooper x Amelia Andrews (OC)

Warnings: violence, sexual content/themes, substance and drug use,

Genre: mystery; drama

Seasons: 1-7

Season 1: In which Amelia Andres - Archie Andrews' sister - falls in love with the girl next door.

Character Profile; Amelia Andrews

Chapter One | The River's Edge

Chapter Two | A Touch of Evil

Chapter Three | Body Double

Chapter Four | The Last Picture Show

Chapter Five | Heart of Darkness

Chapter Six | Faster, Pussycats! Kill! Kill!

Chapter Seven | In a Lonely Place

Chapter Eight | The Outsiders

Chapter Nine | La Grande Illusion

Chapter Ten | The Lost Weekend

Chapter Eleven | To Riverdale and BAck Again

Chapter Twelve | Anatomy of a Murder

Chapter Thirteen | The Sweet Hereafter

Season 2:

Chapter Fourteen | A Kiss Before Dying

Chapter Fifthteen | Nighthawkes

Chapter Sixteen | The Watcher in the woods

Chapter Seventeen | The Town That dreaded Sundown

Chapter Eighteen | When a Stranger Calls

Chapter Nineteen | Death Proof

Chapter Twenty | Tales from the Darkside

Chapter Twenty-One | House of the Devil

Chapter Twenty-Two | Silent Night, Deadly Night

Chapter Twenty-Three | The Blackboard Jungle

Chapter Twenty-Four | The Wrestler

Chapter Twenty-Five | The Wicked and the Divine

Chapter Twenty-Six | The Tell-Tale Heart

Chapter Twenty-Seven | The Hills Have Eyes

Chapter Twenty-Eight | There Will Be Blood

Chapter Twenty-Nine | Primary Colors

Chapter Thirty | The Noose Tightens

Chapter Thirty-One | A Night to Remember

Chapter Thirty-Two | Prisoners

Chapter Thirty-Three | Shadow of a Doubt

Chapter Thirty-Four | Judgement Night

Chapter Thirty-Five | Brave New World

Season 3:

Chapter Thirty-Six | Labor Day

Chapter Thirty-Seven | Fortune and Men's Eyes

Chapter Thirty-Eight | As Above, So Below

Chapter Thirty-Nine | The Midnight Club

Chapter Forty | The Great Escape

Chapter Forty-One | Manhunter

Chapter Forty-Two | The Man in Black

Chapter Forty-Three | Outbreak

Chapter Forty-Four | No Exity

Chapter Forty-Five | The Stranger

Chapter Forty-Six | The Red Dahlia

Chapter Forty-Seven | Bezarrodale

Chapter Forty-Eight | Requiem for a Welterweight

Chapter Forty-Nine | Fire Walk With Me

Chapter Fifty | American Dreams

Chapter Fifty-One | Big Fun

Chapter Fifty-Two | The Raid

Chapter Fifty-Three | Jawbreaker

Chapter Fifty-Four | Fear The Reaper

Chapter Fifty-Five | Prom Night

Chapter Fifty-Six | The Dark Secret of Harvest House

Chapter Fifty-Seven | Survive The Night

Season 4:

Chapter Fifty-Eight | In Memoriam

Chapter Fifty-Nine | Fast Times at Riverdale High

Chapter Sixty | Dog Day Afternoon

Chapter Sixty-One | Halloween

Chapter Sixty-Two | Witness for the Protection

Chapter Sixty-Three | Hereditary

Chapter Sixty-Four | The Ice Storm

Chapter Sixty-Five | In Treatment

Chapter Sixty-Six | Tangerine

Chapter Sixty-Seven | Varsity Blues

Chapter Sixty-Eight | Quiz Show

Chapter Sixty-Nine | Men of Honor

Chapter Seventy | The Ideas of March

Chapter Seventy-One | How to Get Away with Murder

Chapter Seventy-Two | To Die For

Chapter Seventy-Three | The Locked Room

Chapter Seventy-Four | Wicked Little Town

Chapter Seventy-Five | Lynchian

Chapter Seventy-Six | Killing Mr. Honey

Season 5:

Chapter Seventy-Seven | Climax

Chapter Seventy-Eight | The Preppy Murders

Chapter Seventy-Nine | Graduation

Chapter Eighty | Purgatorio

Chapter Eighty-One | The Homecoming

Chapter Eighty-Two | Back to School

Chapter Eighty-Three | Fire in the Sky

Chapter Eighty-Four | Lock & Key

Chapter Eighty-Five | Destroyer

Chapter Eighty-Six | The Pincushion Man

Chapter Eighty-Seven | Strange Bedfellows

Chapter Eighty-Eight | Citizen Lodge

Chapter Eighty-Nine | Reservoir Dogs

Chapter Ninety | The Night Gallery

Chapter Ninety-One | The Return of the Pussycats

Chapter Ninety-Two | Band of Brothers

Chapter Ninety-Three | Dance of Death

Chapter Ninety-Four | Next to Normal

Chapter Ninety-Five | Riverdale RIP(?)

Season 6:

Chapter Ninety-Six | Welcome To Riverdale

Chapter Ninety-Seven | Ghost Stories

Chapter Ninety-Eight | Mr. Cypher

Chapter Ninety-Nine | The Witching Hour(s)

Chapter One Hundred | The Jughead Paradox

Chapter One Hundred and One | Unbelievable

Chapter One Hundred and Two | Death at a Funeral

Chapter One Hundred and Three | The Town

Chapter One Hundred and Four | The Surpent Queen's Gambit

Chapter One Hundred and Five | Folk Heroes

Chapter One hundred and Six | Angels in America

Chapter One Hundred and Seven | In The Fog

Chapter One Hundred and Eight | Ex-Libris

Chapter One Hundred and Nine | Venomous

Chapter One Hundred and Ten | Things That Go Bump in the Night

Chapter One Hundred and Eleven | Blue Collar

Chapter One Hundred and Twelve | American Pyschos

Chapter One Hundred and Thirteen | Biblical

Chapter One Hundred and Fourteen | The Witches of Riverdale

Chapter One Hundred and Fifthteen | Return to Riverdale

Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen | The Stand

Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen | Night of the Comet

Season 7:

Chapter Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen | Don't Worry, Darling

Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen | Skip, Hop, and Thump!

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty | Sex Education

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-One | Love & Marriage

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Two | Tales in a Jugular Vein

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Three | Peep Show

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Four | Dirty Dancing

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Five | Hoop Dreams

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Six | Betty & Veronica Double Digest

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Seven | American Graffiti

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Eight | Halloween II

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Nine | After the Fall

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty | The Crucible

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-One | Archie The Musical

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Two | Miss Teen Riverdale

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Three | Stag

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Four | A Different Kind of Cat

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Five | For a Better Tomorrow

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six | The Golden Age of Television

Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Seven | Goodbye, Riverdale

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Riverdale (2017-2023) [I]

Episode length: 41-50 min.

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Language: English

Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

Season 1

Episode 1: Chapter 1: The River's Edge

Episode 2: Chapter Two: A Touch of Evil

Episode 3: Chapter Three: Body Double

Episode 4: Chapter Four: The Last Picture Show

Episode 5: Chapter Five: Heart of Darkness

Episode 6: Chapter Six: Faster, Pussycats! Kill! Kill!

Episode 7: Chapter Seven: In a Lonely Place

Episode 8: Chapter Eight: The Outsiders

Episode 9: Chapter Nine: La Grande Illusion

Episode 10: Chapter Ten: The Lost Weekend

Episode 11: Chapter Eleven: To Riverdale and Back Again

Episode 12: Chapter Twelve: Anatomy of a Murder

Episode 13: Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter

Season 2

Episode 1: Chapter Fourteen: A Kiss Before Dying

Episode 2: Chapter Fifteen: Nighthawks

Episode 3: Chapter Sixteen: The Watcher in the Woods

Episode 4: Chapter Seventeen: The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Episode 5: Chapter Eighteen: When a Stranger Calls

Episode 6: Chapter Nineteen: Death Proof

Episode 7: Chapter Twenty: Tales from the Darkside

Episode 8: Chapter Twenty-One: House of the Devil

Episode 9: Chapter Twenty-Two: Silent Night, Deadly Night

Episode 10: Chapter Twenty-Three: The Blackboard Jungle

Episode 11: Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wrestler

Episode 12: Chapter Twenty-Five: The Wicked and the Divine

Episode 13: Chapter Twenty-Six: The Tell-Tale Heart

Episode 14: Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Hills Have Eyes

Episode 15: Chapter Twenty-Eight: There Will Be Blood

Episode 16: Chapter Twenty-Nine: Primary Colors

Episode 17: Chapter Thirty: The Noose Tightens

Episode 18: Chapter Thirty-One: A Night to Remember

Episode 19: Chapter Thirty-Two: Prisoners

Episode 20: Chapter Thirty-Three: Shadow of a Doubt

Episode 21: Chapter Thirty-Four: Judgment Night

Episode 22: Chapter Thirty-Five: Brave New World

Season 3

Episode 1: Chapter Thirty-Six: Labor Day

Episode 2: Chapter Thirty-Seven: Fortune and Men's Eyes

Episode 3: Chapter Thirty-Eight: As Above, So Below

Episode 4: Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club

Episode 5: Chapter Forty: The Great Escape

Episode 6: Chapter Forty-One: Manhunter

Episode 7: Chapter Forty-Two: The Man in Black

Episode 8: Chapter Forty-Three: Outbreak

Episode 9: Chapter Forty-Four: No Exit

Episode 10: Chapter Forty-Five: The Stranger

Episode 11: Chapter Forty-Six: The Red Dahlia

Episode 12: Chapter Forty-Seven: Bizarrodale

Episode 13: Chapter Forty-Eight: Requiem for a Welterweight

Episode 14: Chapter Forty-Nine: Fire Walk with Me

Episode 15: Chapter Fifty: American Dreams

Episode 16: Chapter Fifty-One: Big Fun

Episode 17: Chapter Fifty-Two: The Raid

Episode 18: Chapter Fifty-Three: Jawbreaker

Episode 19: Chapter Fifty-Four: Fear the Reaper

Episode 20: Chapter Fifty-Five: Prom Night

Episode 21: Chapter Fifty-Six: The Dark Secret of Harvest House

Episode 22: Chapter Fifty-Seven: Survive the Night

Season 4

Episode 1: Chapter Fifty-Eight: In Memoriam

Episode 2: Chapter Fifty-Nine: Fast Times at Riverdale High

Episode 3: Chapter Sixty: Dog Day Afternoon

Episode 4: Chapter Sixty-One: Halloween

Episode 5: Chapter Sixty-Two: Witness for the Prosecution

Episode 6: Chapter Sixty-Three: Hereditary

Episode 7: Chapter Sixty-Four: The Ice Storm

Episode 8: Chapter Sixty-Five: In Treatment

Episode 9: Chapter Sixty-Six: Tangerine

Episode 10: Chapter Sixty-Seven: Varsity Blues

Episode 11: Chapter Sixty-Eight: Quiz Show

Episode 12: Chapter Sixty-Nine: Men of Honor

Episode 13: Chapter Seventy: The Ides of March

Episode 14: Chapter Seventy-One: How to Get Away with Murder

Episode 15: Chapter Seventy-Two: To Die For

Episode 16: Chapter Seventy-Three: The Locked Room

Episode 17: Chapter Seventy-Four: Wicked Little Town

Episode 18: Chapter Seventy-Five: Lynchian

Episode 19: Chapter Seventy-Six: Killing Mr. Honey

Season 5

Episode 1: Chapter Seventy-Seven: Climax

Episode 2: Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Preppy Murders

Episode 3: Chapter Seventy-Nine: Graduation

Episode 4: Chapter Eighty: Purgatorio

Episode 5: Chapter Eighty-One: The Homecoming

Episode 6: Chapter Eighty-Two: Back to School

Episode 7: Chapter Eighty-Three: Fire in the Sky

Episode 8: Chapter Eighty-Four: Lock & Key

Episode 9: Chapter Eighty-Five: Destroyer

Episode 10: Chapter Eighty-Six: The Pincushion Man

Episode 11: Chapter Eighty-Seven: Strange Bedfellows

Episode 12: Chapter Eighty-Eight: Citizen Lodge

Episode 13: Chapter Eighty-Nine: Reservoir Dogs

Episode 14: Chapter Ninety: The Night Gallery

Episode 15: Chapter Ninety-One: The Return of the Pussycats

Episode 16: Chapter Ninety-Two: Band of Brothers

Episode 17: Chapter Ninety-Three: Dance of Death

Episode 18: Chapter Ninety-Four: Next to Normal

Episode 19: Chapter Ninety-Five: Riverdale: RIP (?)

Watch on Netflix

See the Riverdale post II post for season 6-7.

[kenetijamesupdates]

Let Ted’s words sink in for a bit. 

We feel so grateful that Ted works on Riverdale and takes extra care to make the actors feel comfortable. 

That’s how it should be. 

[madebyleftovermuses]

The one with the Quiz Show

Chapter Sixty-Eight: Quiz Show 

Veronica, Cheryl, and Toni are on the quiz show team

Frank is foreman

Archie giving Frank Fred’s tool belt for his first day

Like did betty just waltzed in Stonewall Prep to see Jughead?

Jughead mentioning Bret

Jughead forgot to tell Betty that he got accepted into Yale

Bret bumping into Betty

Fuck you, Bret

Bret rubbing the fact that he got into Yale

Yes, let’s just ask our chemistry teacher if he drinks rum during the school day

They want Jughead to write a new book because they think the boy in the river is soft….THE BOY IN THE RIVER WAS KILLED BY HIS FATHER!

Really, they want serial killers.

I’m sure you can use the idea of the Gargoyle King or the Black Hood for the book

Jughead going to big bro for ideas

Thank you, Charles, for reminding him of the local serial killer

Aw, he doesn’t wanna bring Betty’s life into it

Now we know what Tom Keller has been doing since he quit the police force

Damn, Archie, you never told Keller he was being replaced?

Tom doesn’t like Frank

Quiz Show time…. Jimmy Platt? Is that you? I thought you were in hell

Veronica would know geography

Toni is really good with math

Really? Cheryl calling Toni a savant?

Everyone knows what the powerhouse of the cell is…I’m sure everyone is like “FINALLY GOING TO USE THIS DRILLED IN KNOWLEDGE”

Frank Lloyd Wright designed Thornhill odd knowledge

Riverdale won! Like no shock there

“As long as it doesn't involve shallow graves and lye.” Really? That was FP’s doing

Charles knows Betty didn’t get into Yale because Alice told him

So, Betty has a point higher GPA than Cheryl

Jughead explaining his serial killer

DuPont saying use your personal experience

Guess we’re using Black Hood

Really, Brown Hood?

Jughead you better tell Betty right away that you’re kinda forced to write about Hal

Frank called it a day, but Keller stayed behind

Keller doing the books

No one got their Christmas bonuses 😮

Fred got into a pig pen and tried stealing a pig only to realize he couldn’t get out of the pin

“without missing a beat, my brother says, ‘I got the bacon. You got the eggs?’”  ❤

Hiram looks kinda proud that Veronica created her own rum

Bret got dirt

Bret’s daddy paid for someone to take the PSATs and paid his way into Stonewall Prep…I knew Bret’s dad paid his way into Yale

Really, Bret? Throwing Jughead under the bus

Damn it, Jughead! I told you to tell her right away!

Really? A dance club?

FANGS!!

Really? Grind’em?

Fang’s apologizing to Kevin

They both were brainwashed

Fangs wants to go on a date with Kevin

Jughead did throw something out there but he was never going to actually use it

Uh-oh is bughead on the rocks

Repairing the drainage system in the prison would be good money

But Archie doesn’t wanna take the job

That would really limit your clientele if you did business with people you like

Keller and Frank obviously don’t like each other

You’re newly found family so you really shouldn’t get much of a say

Pretty sure Frank is gonna fuck that up

FUCKING HAL FUCKED UP BETTY’S CHANCE TO GO TO HER DREAM SCHOOL

Poor Betty. She really wanted to go to Yale but of course daddy had to go kill people

“I thought you were supposed to be watching my back, - not stabbing it” it’s Bret, Jug

“Wait, look, I didn't do this to hurt you, Jones. I did it to get under Betty's skin before the Quiz Show finals.” You’re a shitty person who is ok with exploding someone’s relationship to get the upper hand

Sledgehammer to daddy’s headstone

Alice comforting Betty ❤

Someone on the crew knows about the government job

Yeah, Archie. Go back to construction work

“Videotaped yourself getting tickled?” the fuck

“Why does every date I go on have to get super weird?” because you’re using a fucking app

That’s a lot of money for such a weird ass video

Total beefcake? FANGS?

Jughead came home and Alice told him why Betty didn’t get into Yale

Jughead knows that Betty is gonna win the Quiz Show

Sheriff’s department for a bust

It’s a raid, Veronica

Technically, they aren’t selling their rum, they are giving free samples

Can Hiram just do that?

Not Fangs

Get out of their Kevin

It was a stupid idea to use La Bonne Nuit as base of operation….Thistlehouse is the most logical place

“What if we keep this location open as a nightclub as a distraction? Get him to focus on La Bonne Nuit while we relocate our rum business elsewhere.” Smart idea

Bet that was awkward for him

Kevin is gonna bring Fangs into this

Cheryl using Penelope’s maple club

Cheryl and Veronica calling up Penelope’s clients

So, its senior year. Cheryl has cheerleading and the rum business and Veronica has cheerleading, the rum business, and La Bonne Nuit…its amazing they have high GPAs and the energy to get shit done

Cheryl has the perfect candidate for the live-in manager

It’s her mother!

Keller was just waiting for Frank to fuck up

Keller is leaving

WE DO NOT PUNCH TOM KELLER!! WE RESEPCT HIM IN THIS HOUSE!!

FUCK FRANK!!

Tom quit

Tom about to create his own construction company

Archie is pretty pissed that he stood up for Frank and Frank stole

Frank gambles…no shock there

Jughead brought the Yale recruiter even though Betty has already been rejected

Alice excited that Betty gets another shot at Yale thanks to Jughead

Alice! No! bad mommy!

“If the limit never approaches anything, - the limit does not exist.” Mean girls reference

Stonewall Prep and Riverdale tied and its down to the last question

Its car mechanics, Betty’s got this

Bret didn’t know the answer he just blurted the first thing that popped into his head

RIVERDALE WON!!

“Well, you're gonna to solve every mystery in Connecticut, and we're going to eat a lot of pizza.” ❤

I’m curious did Betty look at the answers or did she already know them…. I hope she didn’t cheat

Betty won fair and square which I’m pretty sure Alice knew Betty would rip the answers up and throw them away

Frank turned $200 into 10 grand

Honey doesn’t look happy

They found the torn-up answers

Alice tried to help but only caused more problems

Alice got put on leave for trying to help Betty

No one believes Betty ☹

Why not do a rematch? Or wait until the investigation to prove she didn’t cheat

Betty got suspended

Kevin going to Fangs for the tickling videos

Keller should have stayed foreman and Frank should have been on the crew…just because he’s family doesn’t mean he deserves that responsibility

So, is that a no for Keller coming back?

“Word is spreading faster than a fire at Thornhill.” ❤

La Bonne Nuit got raided again

Penelope wearing a mask and an ankle monitor

Where did Toni even get the ankle monitor?

There is nothing honorable about Bret

Duel! Duel! Duel!

THREAT! HE JUST THREATENED JUGHEAD!

BRET KILLED JUGHEAD!

Please, no! Jughead is dead that doesn’t mean Archie and Betty can be a thing

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Title:Riverdale Episode Title:Chapter Sixty-Eight: Quiz Show Episode Air Date:29 Jan 2020 Runtime:45 minutes Genres:Crime, Drama, Suspense Networks:The CW

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RIVERDALELADIESDAILY’S ADVENT CALENDER DAY ONE→ Chapter Sixty-Eight: Quiz Show

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Riverdale Season 4 - Episode 11: Chapter Sixty-Eight - Quiz Show AirDate: January 29th, 2020, 08:00 PM

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little women dir. greta gerwig (2019)

riverdale, chapter sixty-eight: quiz show

andrés muschetti (2019)

riverdale, chapter sixty-seven: varsity blues

us against you by fredrik backman (2017)

riverdale, chapter seventy-seven: climax

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CHONI + the Quiz Show S04E11, Chapter Sixty-Eight: Quiz Show

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The Roommate

Chapter 5: The Lair

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The next day, Jay woke up to an empty dorm. Not that he noticed. He barely noticed anything all day. The only thing he could find in himself to do was count down the hours until five o’clock.

It was 11:17am. Psych 101. Five hours and forty three minutes. Three hundred and forty three minutes to go. Twenty thousand five hundred and sixty five seconds. Sixty four seconds. Sixty three seconds. Be ready for a quiz in your discussion section on Friday. Twenty thousand five hundred and forty eight seconds. Forty seven. Forty six.

It was 1:42pm. Inquiry-Based Writing for Science Majors. Three hours and eighteen minutes to go. One hundred and ninety eight minutes. Eleven thousand eight hundred and seventy nine seconds. Paper due next Tuesday. Seventy seven seconds. Do a peer review. Seventy five seconds. Seventy four. Three. Two.

It was 2:01pm. Intro to Ectobiology. Two hours and fifty nine minutes. Guest speakers coming in on Monday. One hundred and seventy nine minutes. Doctor and Doctor Fenton. Ten thousand seven hundred and forty seconds. Come prepared with questions. Ten million seven hundred thirty eight thousand milliseconds. Might be a pop quiz on their lecture content. Two hours fifty eight minutes and forty three seconds. Don’t forget to read their latest paper. Fuck that. Ten thousand seven hundred and three seconds. Probably gonna read it anyway. Two hours and fifty eight minutes and one second. Biased bullshit, but they’re still leaders in the field. Gonna need to know what they’re working to be able to prove them wrong. Ten thousand six hundred and seventy two seconds. Seventy one. Seventy.

It was 4:37pm. Ectobiology discussion. Twenty two minutes and twelve seconds. Oh look at that. Secretary of the Ghost Hunter’s club decided to show up today. Twenty two minutes and nine seconds. Jerkwad had the worst attendance out of the whole class. One thousand three hundred and twenty seven seconds. Six. Five. Θεους, αυτη η ηλιθια. Why the fuck is this sort of stuff acceptable in this class. One thousand three hundred and twenty seconds. The TA is nodding along. Twenty one minutes and fifty six seconds. Προκατειλημμένο γαμ. Isn’t their job to facilitate discussion, not just agree with the leading (only) voices in the field? Twenty one minutes and fifty two seconds. Fifty one. Fifty.

It was 4:58pm.

Jay was sprinting across campus. He had two minutes (one minute and forty seven seconds) until Danny was expecting him in the basement of Moore Hall. The Ectobio discussion had gotten out late. He was supposed to have ten minutes to make the seven minute walk from the chemistry building to Moore. Instead, he’d been given three. Now he was down to two (one minute thirty three seconds). He wouldn’t let himself be late.

He kinda wondered what he looked like to the rest of the people meandering around campus, clutching his bag to his chest and sprinting across the quad. It was the end of October. Anyone foolish enough to schedule two classes this close together in buildings this far apart had long since stopped trying to show up on time, he knew that. He also knew that most people didn’t bother taking direct routes, even if they were sprinting to class. Most people would walk around the brick walls lining the paths, or maybe climb them with care. They were only three feet up, holding back the mounds of dirt from where hills had been excavated to make walking easier, but most people didn’t feel the need to go over them. Jay was not most people, and found himself leaping over them without stumbling or slowing. Three feet up was nothing. He’d been a jumper in high school. Track and field for two years before the old coach got hired by a better school and the new coach was a total asshat. He landed the jump and immediately went into a wild dodge to not trample through a tour group.

It was 4:59pm. Jay slammed through the back door of Moore Hall at top speed. He had less than a minute (seventeen seconds). Two people threw themselves out of his way, leaning into the wall to avoid his wild flight. He took a sharp turn at speed, almost barrelled over a kind-looking older woman with a cane, did a tight spin around her, bounced off the wall, and rebounded into the stairwell door. He took them down to the basement two at a time, jumping the bottom four at once. A brief stumble, almost falling to the ground, then he was up again and through the doorway labeled MAINTENANCE. The door crashed open, slamming into the wall with a clang as Jay dove through it, turned to his left, paused, kept turning left back past the door he’d just come through and– there! Oh yeah, Danny had said it was to the right, oops.

It was 5:00pm (and thirteen seconds). Jay took a deep breath, ran a hand through his hair so it looked slightly less like he’d just sprinted the third of a mile across campus that he actually had, and opened the door.

“–swear to god, Ember said– oh hey Jay!” Danny called across the room, raising a hand in greeting. “You’re right on time, dude. C’mon over. I wanna introduce you to some people.” Jay took a moment to survey the room as he walked to his friend.

It might have once been a classroom, but had definitely been left alone for a few years since then. There were a few desks left, the little rickety ones only designed around righties with the half-sized writing surface attached to the chair, but they had all been shoved against the walls. At the end of the room Danny was occupying, there were a number of bean bags and lightly-battered rocking chairs in a little circle. The wall behind them had a little folding table with a baby toaster oven, an electric kettle, and a microwave; what was either a large minifridge or a small regular fridge sat in the corner next to the table. A tall wire shelf at the other end of the table was jam-packed with bags of chips, boxes of protein and breakfast bars, more coffee than even Jay could consume in a month, a few loaves of bread, and a pile of microwave popcorn bags. The smaller shelf next to it held a rather distressing first aid kit, all neatly organized in labeled plastic boxes. One of them appeared to be full of nothing but bandaids, which felt pretty standard, but at least two of them said IF STABBED in large, blocky letters, and another simply said BULLETS.

Those were jokes, right?

“Welcome to The Lair, Jay.” Danny had stood up to give Jay a good solid Bro Hug. Jay wasn’t sure when they had reached that point in their friendship, but he didn’t dislike it. “Everyone, this is Jay. He’s my, uh, he’s my coffee friend. Jay, this is everyone.” Danny gestured to the small group spread out across the bean bags, rocking chairs, and the floor.

“Hey, I’m Val.” An imposing black woman stood to offer Jay her hand. She was shorter than him by at least half a foot, but Jay would honestly say that she looked like she could bench more than he could. “Glad you could make it. Danny’s– well, let’s just say he’s told us a lot about you.”

“Nice to meet you Val.” Jay glanced at Danny. “All good things?” Val snorted.

“Honestly? Mostly no. Not until yesterday night.”

“I– what?” Jay stared at her in confusion.

“What Val should be saying,” another voice piped up, “if she felt like at least pretending to be polite, is that we had heard you were with the Ghost Hunter’s club.” Jay found himself facing a girl who looked surprisingly similar to Danny. Roommate Danny, that is. Same hair, same eyes, same height, same curve to the nose except hers didn’t look like it had been broken multiple times. “We don’t really like the Ghost Hunter’s club.”

“That’s fair. They suck.” The girl laughed at that, a deep full-body laugh. Once she’d taken a second to collect herself, she also offered her hand out to Jay. He shook it, and almost winced at her grip strength.

“Danielle. Danielle Walker. If I decide we can be friends, you’ll get nickname privileges.”

“It’s nice to meet you Danielle. Hey this is totally random, but are you by any chance related to Danny?” Jay could have sworn someone else in the room giggled, but he wasn’t sure who.

“Am I related to Danny? I mean–”

“Ack, wait, sorry to cut you off. Shit, this is gonna be confusing. Not– not Coffee Danny. Roommate Danny. Fenton Danny. Wait, no, Danny Fenton. Are you related to Danny Fenton? You look a lot like him.” Whoever had been trying to hide their giggles had given up on that and just let loose with full laughter.

“Coffee Danny?” Danielle turned towards Danny over Jay’s shoulder and gave him an amused look. “Is that your name now?”

“Not the worst I’ve gotten,” Danny hummed.

“Fair enough,” Danielle winked at him. “And to answer you, Jay, yes we are related. Cousins, on our mothers’ side. Well, sort of. It’s complicated.”

“Yeah yeah, everyone knows all the Dannys, good for you. Now move over, Ellie. I wanna actually meet the new guy now.” Another voice spoke up, and Danielle got shoved lightly aside with a laugh by a tall white guy with bright red hair who also looked suspiciously like Roommate Danny. “Wes Weston at your service.”

“Wes… Weston?”

“My parents think they’re funny.”

“Well it’s nice to meet you, Wes.” After a pause, Jay decided fuck it, he had to know. “Um, are you also related to Roommate Danny?”

“Nah. I’m convinced we’re like second or third cousins or something but he says no dice. Probably for the best. I don’t think I could deal with any of the Fenton-level crazy for more than a few hours.”

“Weakass!” Danny yelled from his perch on the back of a rocking chair. Wes held up a hand in pause, patted around his pockets in confusion, seemed to find what he was looking for, reached his other hand into the pocket and pulled it out to flip Danny the bird while he stuck his tongue out. Danny glared back, but the effect was ruined by the fact that he had fallen off the back of the rocking chair laughing. Turning back to Jay with a laugh of his own, Wes continued.

“Anyway, it’s good to have you down to The Lair. Despite what Val may have implied, Danny has spoken pretty highly of you.”

“But only in the last day?” Jay raised an eyebrow.

“Well… I mean yeah, but by Danny’s standards it was pretty high praise.”

“Oh. Um, thanks, Danny.”

“Of course, dude.” Danny had recovered and was now standing next to Jay. “We’re friends. I, uh, I was kinda scared to get too close with you before, but I’m really glad that we talked last night. Ghosts are–” Danny winced. “They’re a bit of a hot-button issue around here, and you’ve said you’re an ectobio major and I just kinda assumed, well, heh, y’know.”

“Yeah, no, I get it. I mean, I don’t blame you. For assuming. I haven’t met anyone else in the major who thinks ghosts are anything other than the scum of the Earth. Besides you. I think. But you aren’t in the major, so I’m not sure it counts.”

“Nah, none of us are ectobio,” Danny said with a smile.

“But!” Danielle jumped in. “We are all an itty bitty teensy weensy bit more sympathetic to ghosts than most folks around here. On account of, well, some stuff.”

“Do… do I get to know what that some stuff is?”

“Maybe,” Val answered for Danielle. “But that’s for later. For now, welcome to the Ghost’s Lair, glad to have you in the squad, and can we all please sit down and shut up? Pha– Danny over here was telling an absolutely riveting story about the time Ember bitch-slapped him last week.”

“She did not bitch-slap me!” Danny cried, throwing himself across the rocking chair. “It was a good, solid, musically-powered punch. A respectable punch.”

“Really? Cause the way Ember tells it, she walked right up to you and just– pop! Right across the face.” Wes joined Val in egging Danny on as he sat in a beanbag across from him. Val grabbed a thing of doritos from the snack shelf and sat next to Wes, offering the bag.

“It was a mistake introducing you two,” Danny deadpanned.

“Personally, I’m disappointed in you,” Danielle piped up, having taken up position lying upside down on a beanbag on the other side of Val. “I had twenty bucks that you’d at least try to dodge.”

“Wait what? Crime and Punishment you were betting on me? About this? With who?!”

“Ember and Kitty. They wanted to see who could ‘earn your trust’ or whatever first. E figured this would be some pretty definitive proof she had won.” Jay took a seat of his own on the other side of Wes as Danny erupted with cries of betrayal and treachery.

This little group of four–no, make it five now–was certainly odd. Jay wasn’t sure what to make of any of them, not yet. But, Danny was his friend. And Wes, Val, and Danielle? They were Danny’s friends, and it was obvious the four of them were close. There was something about them, the way they interacted, that Jay just knew came from years and years together. Jay was the outsider here.

Wes snatched the dorito’s bag from Val and held it out to Jay. She immediately dove across Wes to try and grab it back. Jay took the chance while he had it and grabbed a handful as Wes continued to fight Val off with just the one hand. Watching the two of them fight over the chips as Danny and Danielle fought over her business strategy of winning money off his misfortune and pain, Jay realized he didn’t want to be the outsider here. 

These four playful, funny, snarky, ghost-sympathetic friends? Jay liked them already. And as Val finally managed to wrangle the bag out from Wes, pin him in a chokehold, and hold it open to Jay like he hadn’t just grabbed a handful already, Jay was pretty sure they liked him too.

[anyataylorjoys]

Bughead ⇨ 4x11: Chapter Sixty-Eight: Quiz Show 

[tandv]

Chapter Sixty Eight: Quiz Show

[kenetijamesupdates]

Here’s a question, how many times will we see this scene over the next week?

Any guesses?

Devon posts the end of the scene in her story to Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings”

[miapinescloset]

Riverdale Chapter Seven: “In a Lonely Place” 01x07 - March 9, 2017

And

Riverdale Chapter Sixty Eight "Quiz Show" 04x11 - January 29, 2020

I miss dressing up and going out dancing. Lockdown is making me go insane.

So I am living vicariously through Riverdale. What do you do to stay sane?

[alina-starksov]

cheryl blossom in chapter sixty-eight: quiz show