#choni icons

[petschstuff]

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[noelkart]

Cheryl and Toni 50s outfits have a hold on me 🐍🍒 choni endgame of course

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[billiesbabygirl]

I'm saving the hell out of those pics that's for sure.

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[chonidale]

Cheryl and Toni in Halloween (4.04) & Halloween II (7.11)

[jugheads-choni]

OBSESSED with these Bite Sized Archie icons??? 🤩

Also with the fact that Cheryl & Toni’s icons are the inverse of one another?!?! Like, Toni has pink hair + red background while Cheryl has red hair + pink background. CHONI, ALWAYS. 🥹🤏

[stonerbughead]

I just realized what the Jiara first kiss reminds me of: Choni’s first kiss!!!

It’s the Sisters of Quiet Mercy / Kitty Hawk rescue to finally kissing the love of your life pipeline

It’s the rescue plotline to bad lighting for your first kiss pipeline

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

she is everything to me

just failed the try not to say mother for a minute challenge

[paceywittters]

#nbd just choni mirroring one of the most iconic teen drama love confessions of all time

[monstrous-femme]

so of course, the poly ending of Riverdale was #iconic and #probablychangedthefaceoftelevision or something, but....

[zenon-karr]

Okay I wanna say sth so in the new episode …SPOILER:

So Betty actually wins the pageant according to the judges but Alice reads and crowns Ethel winner instead because she thinks the opportunities will help someone like Ethel. So I was thinking about the potential endgame ships in relation, now a lot of people aren’t understanding Beronica but I think in RAS’ mindset giving endgames for example to ships like Beronica and jarchie or Reggie and Archie would help queer representation in different ways than Choni and Kevin etc. As they’re the core 4 of the main characters - usually they would not be queer in any other show leading from friendship to romance. Usually in shows ships like these would never be endgame. Or even have a chance. But Beronica happening has changed this. I made a joking post before about how in most shows barchie would be endgame but in riverdale anything is possible. But I think there’s more meta to this after this pageant episode. Idk just musing..

Thinking this is inspired how Archie comics wouldn’t let him make Archie gay in his musical and how that influence the comics plot about censorship and then talking about the enemy is us not the red scare/communism etc the enemy is within wholesome, conforming America critique. Yes this is the milkman but it’s what riverdale is. It’s poking about this All American Archie mindset. It always has been. They’re pulling the curtain and telling you what riverdale is this season and that’s how it ties to the rest of the series. This then means they used the main ships to critique their tropes and what they mean. This concept of Alice giving Ethel the pageant win made me think how RAS might view th queer ships like jarchie or rarchie and Beronica. How normally they wouldn’t have a chance but then giving them a chance to be endgame is not something queer community is used to. For me it’s something different than the representation found in choni and the ships with Kevin. Which choni is amazing! Watch for them because they’re one of the best ships out there btw!! But Beronica and jarchie - these characters are the main icons of Archie comics and to end that classic love triangle in the queer way would be unique.

[petschstuff]

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[xxxjarchiexxx]

something something riverdale and the great gatsby as texts both about being trapped as queer people in the time you came from, riverdale by literally transporting them to the 1950s where they have to lose their queer expression eventually to live because its the 50s and the very symbol of their inversion of the American dream (archie) ends up knocked off his pedestal and forced into heterosexual marriage even though his dream and his heaven is with his polycule because he doesn't get to have his happy ending as he's beholden to the myth of americana and the 50s and that's his undoing while in the great gatsby the main characters all just want to be able to live the American dream but who they are and who that dream needs them to be are inherently at odds and lead to their own downfall until they're trapped by conventions of americana heteronormativitiy via death or traditional heterosexual marriage or forced institutionalization for deviance

jarchie being doomed by the narrative because it was always going to end with archie living out the american boyhood he's always represented even if it takes everything he loves from him because the narrative deems it so the same way gatsby is doomed by the narrative because for him to live his dream the bootstraps mentality of america would have to be true and a poor conman would have to be able to become rich and happy so he has to die and miss out on his heaven the same way archie has to settle with some unnamed nobody away from everyone he's loved and missed out on his heaven. in both cases the left in a lurch/abandoned other has taken the mythology of the tragic american hero upon themselves and have become the narrator, jughead is the narrator of riverdale and nick is the narrator of the great gatsby and in both they're searching for meaning in the failures and downfall of the man who was forced to lose everything because of the endless grind of the American dream

they are all victims to americas self mythology!!! to live truly and happily they would have to not be themselves as symbols and instead be themselves as people but the idealism is endless and to lose out on hope for the dream would be impossible!!!! and all that's left behind is their nonsymbolic mirror, left to tell their story and ensure their place as an icon of americana because otherwise it was all for nothing!!!!!!

also choni has a kid named dale

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[dashiellqvverty]

and the reason i hate CHONI is well. there are many. they are victims of riverdales soulmates/endgame problem where it’s like. they broke up for good reason and are better off for it but ohhhh even their ancestors were in love and they have to put their spirits in a jar so their ancestors can fuck in their bodies and have a Moment about it even though they were both doing great with their new partners. toni and fangs were both still bisexual and proud members of the lgbtqia+ community!!!!

and then also i just grew very very tired of the way toni was treated like i LIKED THEM when they got together i really really did. the conversion therapy plot was iconic. but after so many episodes of them just kind of Being Together it got boring. for me!! and on top of that it was the WAY them Being Together really meant. toni is cheryl’s sidekick who loves her soooo much for some reason and is there for whatever she’s doing. and cheryl was pretty shitty to her over time in a way that was partly the writers sidelining toni and treating her as an accessory but ALSO when there was the plot about the blossoms being colonizers and cheryl being like well i don’t know what to do about this toni……. and then locking herself in a house because she was so overcome with guilt….. it was all just handled very uncomfortably and poorly and would’ve been a perfectly good reason for toni to break up with her for good but noooooo. they were already getting so old by that point and yet they stillll had to get back together. and in the 50s they were just boring from the jump bc cheryl wasn’t even mean.

[chonidale]

what are your top 5 choni scenes and why

was cleaning out my inbox and found this from 6 years ago lmao back when this would have been a lot easier to answer because they had a LOT less scenes. i really tried to sit and narrow it down to just 5 scenes, even if i couldn’t rank them, but it was really hard without setting some limits, so i’m going to make myself only pick one scene per season and list them in chronological order.

season 2: first kiss. just iconic, perfectly set up and executed. best first kiss on the show, hands down, was never topped. cinematic. honorable mentions to the scene at the bijou and their almost kiss.

season 3: their reunion in the finale. it’s a short scene, but so sweet. toni gathering the cavalry to save cheryl, the ‘baby?!’, the running hug and kiss, the sheer relief and emotion in toni’s voice, so good. honorable mentions to the 3.12 bed scene purely for how cozy it is and cheryl sacrificing herself to save toni at the farm, also so cinematic.

season 4: the couch cuddling scene post thanksgiving dinner. so comfy and sweet. i love a good cuddling moment, but add in a cute i love you exchange and a kiss? i’m happy. honorable mentions to the 4.08 pops scene and cheryl telling toni about nick, so much better than the garbage suicide attempt convo from s3 that was all about archie.

season 5: the pops convo from 5.05, nobody could ever make me hate that scene, the emotion and history and understanding and love there, just so good. forever mourning the excellent angst of those first two time jump episodes. what could have been if the rest of the season kept that tone. honorable mentions to the whole flashback sequence in 5.04 and the convo in 5.18. i do like their break up scene too but i’ll always be bitter about how much better it could have and should have been. deserved a last kiss or cuddle at the very least.

season 7: the music room convo in 7.10 is just so perfect, absolutely no notes. really sweet and mature and well written as a stand alone resolution to the plot in that episode, but even more satisfying and meaningful from a larger stand point, showing their growth from s3 and how they’re doing things right this time, etc. honorable mentions to the scene outside the school in 7.08 for some reason and the photoshoot, i think, but there’s so many i really love.

(no scene selection for s6 since i had to cut a season to narrow it down to 5 and most of the choni content in s6 is thabigail, but the bed scene from the finale is very excellent and bittersweet, even if i retroactively wish they had given us more since it ended up being the last interaction in the og timeline and there was a lot of opportunity for more closure there than what we got. and i think if they’d known they weren’t going back to the og timeline back then, we would have gotten more, but alas.)