#even Jughead and archie

[diltonsstrangescience]

[wallbeatjournal]

archie defining what pursuing beat poetry means to him in rvd 7x16-19:

betty summarizing The Official Narrative on what happened in archie's future, after he leaves riverdale to experience life and write poetry:

and polly amorous (within the archiereggie stag film episode), about how often the sexuality is there covertly:

in conclusion,

i'm being soooo normal about this hill i'm dying on

[springsolitaire]

riverdale ending with poly rep was not on my 2023 bingo card

[kiwinatorwaffles]

no but like what is up with the wider shipping community and their way of allowashing clearly aspec-coded characters. or hell. even canon confirmed aspec characters. this amanormativity shit is making me tired. does a character really need to wear a giant shirt that says “i’m asexual” or “i’m aromantic” or “i’m aroace” in all caps and flaming text to tell everyone not to ship them the same way allo characters get shipped. we are not a monolith but i know i can sure as hell say our experiences will never be the same as an allo person’s

[liege-of-the-bees]

OK but the way that the Musical itself seems to reflect the comics characterisation more then the show (Re-instating the love triangle, Jughead constantly bringing up food and seemingly having no interest in women, Cheryl supposedly being into Archie) and then the show characters actively reject those characterisations and one by one leave and/or strive to change the Musical (Betty and Veronica change their song from a love song about Archie to a love song about each other and kiss, thus subverting the love triangle and meanwhile Archie, instead of protesting this, decides separately to end the love triangle to focus on himself, Jughead leaves the Musical after the first number deeming it beneath him, Cheryl alongside Toni campaign for a queer love song and leave when it isn't added.) Hell, Archie isn't even in the Musical by the end, literally symbolising that the Archie in the musical isn't Riverdale Archie, thus separating Riverdale further from the comics canon and restating that while on paper the show is based off of the Archie comics it is in name only for the most part and in practice basically none of these characters could (or should, in the eyes of the writer's in all likelyhood) be considered the same as their comic counterparts—

[garbagequeer]

loving the vibe of people who havent watched riverdale and havent watched the finale posting to complain about how they had a very normative ending because it reinforced the idea that characters have to be in relationships to be interesting. like my man fuck 86 year old single mother by choice and feminist magazine editor with no regrets about never getting married whose dying wish was to see all her old friends again betty's entire life just because she was in a quad for a year 67 years ago i guess. it's not enough that narrator jughead erased her whole shit now people on the internet who dont even care about betty my friend betty are doing it too. and the core four arent even in set relationships in the big pop's in the sky because they're juniors again. but you dont get the big pop's in the sky you don't care about the big pop's in the sky. i do

[theultimatewildcard]

You said it was a great love One for the ages But if the story's over Why am I still writing pages?

[fadeintoyou1993]

this makes me crazy .

[ot3]

by establishing from the baseline that their show was completely ungrounded in reality, either that of the original archie universe's or our own, they set the precedent that everything was on the table and they are in fact following through on that. that's more integrity than you get from most television these days. you guys are afraid to open your hearts to riverdale but riverdale has never been afraid to show its heart to all of you.

[diltonsstrangescience]

[godheadjones]

idk. canon aro jughead brainrot

[veronicas-reading-glasses]

Riverdale Characters as Lyrics from Clancy by Twenty One Pilots:

Archie Andrews / Next Semester

“it’s a taste test of what I hate less

i don't wanna be here

start fresh with a new year

can’t change what you've done

start fresh next semester”

Betty Cooper / Routines In The Night

“so beautiful, the space between

a painful reminder and a terrible dream

i’ve been here before and i’ve got time

i’ll give you the tour, show you why i-”

Veronica Lodge / Snap Back

“have i burnt all the bridges?

bite the hand that helps me, give it finger stitches

backlisted from forgiveness

fool you once, it’s been twenty-five times”

Jughead Jones / Backslide

“‘is that a stain? you should change

are you doing good? did you solve all of your problems?’

thanks for asking, in a way, but

accidentally uncovered a new one yesterday

what happened to what i brushed under the rug?

i used to be the champion of a world you can't see

now i’m drowning in logistics”

Cheryl Blossom / Paladin Strait

“i would swim the paladin strait

without any floatation

just a glimpse of visual aid

of you on the other shoreline

waiting, expectations

that i’m gonna make it”

[thisischaostragic]

archie got attacked by a bear that one time and now he wants to get Attacked by a Bear

[roykiller07]

im having urges....... urges to create my own archie version............ the voices... jughead jones your autism will not go erased...... you will be queer like crazy like the good lord intended and nobody in their right mind will ever even entertain the concept of quote unquote "bughead" that sacrilegious monstrosity that destroys the queerness and complexity of practically every main archie character..... jughead i love u jughead ur me but also betty ur me but also veronica ur me archie hmmm idk maybe i havent read archie since i was like 12 or something idk i always had a general distaste for him which in retrospect was simply the lesbianism and i feel in my heart that if i looked back on the comics he would be revealed to be a silly guy™ and i would heart him.............. archie... archie thoughts......

[rythmicjea]

Them: What's your favorite season of Riverdale?

Me: Season 7!

T: Why?

Me: Okay. So after they fail to stop a comet hurdling to Earth they time travel back to 1955-

Wait... What?

Okay, so in Season 6 they get superpowers...

How?

Okay, let me go back a little, at the beginning of season 6 we're introduced to a parallel universe called RiverVale and that leaches into a Riverdale.

... How is there a parallel universe?

Oh, so at the end of season 5, Hiram Lodge detonates a bomb under Archie'a bed while he and Betty are about to have sex.

OMG! Why would he do that?

Oh! So, that's because after everyone graduates and moves away Hiram basically destroyed the town so he could make money off a real estate development scam and when Archie found out he brought everyone back to stop him.

I thought they were high schoolers...

Okay, so they graduated at the end of season 4 after spending most of the year trying to figure out who tried to kill Jughead for a third time. Because Jughead goes to this private school called Stonewall Prep.

A THIRD TIME?

Yeah. See, at the of season 3 Coke Sprite didn't want to practically be naked at 4am during a Canadian winter so they wrote him out of the scene and people think that the writers based the whole plot around that.

When was he almost killed the second time?

Right, so in season 3 they do an homage to the Satanic Panic surrounding DnD by creating a game called Gryffins and Gargoyles that asks you to gamble your life on drinking poisoned Kool-Aid. And that's completely separate to the organ harvesting cult that tried to suck in Betty through her mom and sister. Also this is all happening while Archie is in juvie-

Good guy Archie is in Juvie??

Yeah. So, in season 2, Jughead joins a gang (and this is the first time that he's almost killed because Hiram basically sends him off to be slaughtered but he survives) and Archie doesn't like that he did that so he joins ranks with Hiram because he's dating Veronica and thinks he can play both sides (he can't). And when Veronica chooses Archie over her dad, Hiram frames Archie for murder.

I thought it was about Archie Comics...

The show is about a town. A small town. And the people who live in that 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...

[nikkiruncks]

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