#gay-archie originals

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fag hag is the ideal companion role

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Was reminded of an interview I was reading yesterday which I would highly recommend reading as it’s fantastic and touches also on topics of race which are of course still prevalent:

James Baldwin “Go The Way Your Blood Beats” Interview with The Village Voice, 1984

perhaps one of my hotter takes as a queer person but i’m never coming out again. you can figure it out or live in pure ignorance but either way it’s not my problem. the worst thing society ever tried to teach us was that coming out is an obligation. it’s not. it’s a privilege for you to know the depths of who i am, my sexuality included.

[dxnyarya]

roberto agurre sacasa is never letting anyone forget that riverdale is his magnum opus, his most beloved piece of work, his babygirl

[tripecake]

☆ THOBIAS ☆

I've never taugth on bring him back again but here we are

Btw This time I didn't draw him with grounder as I have always done or what his interaction with other characters would be like i'll do that later(If i even remember hima again).Oh and sorry if the “archie“ one looks kinda ugly it's my first time imitating it's arstyle(Or at least my favorite)But it was fun to experiment

(So this can be more sonic related)

[ragtagravenart]

Drew more archley art bc i love them and gotta put them in situations (i was also encouraged by my partner to draw these bc what else would we do than instigate eachother)

[veronicalodgefaghag]

🙄🙄🙄 literally most horror movies have such different FEELINGS because like op said there's horror to be found in so many different things

So I just started watching horror relatively recently so I can't give a ton of examples and slashers are my favorites honestly, but like the Babadook (fantastic movie, absolutely phenomenal, great metaphor, scared the crap out of me) was absolutely nothing like most other horror movies I’d seen; it was more of a haunting than like someone out to kill or whatever.

idk what my point is but like ok I think maybe people think of horror movies as people making a lot of stupid mistakes when they should just be getting away; missing that the literal point is almost always that they CAN’T no matter what they do!! Like in Scream, not two scenes after Syd says she doesn't like horror movies cause they're always about some girl “running up the stairs when she should be going out the front door” she does exactly that herself and I don't think that's just a joke about horror movies, it's cruel irony, it's her proving herself wrong; either way she'd gone she couldn't have escaped it; the killer would've come back because the horror is somebody so close to her own life and has been for longer than she's known!!

Anyway. I don't really feel like we need to defend horror to this type of person; it's pointless; a lot of horror is camp and if you don't get it you don't get it, if you’re not willing to buy into things that’re like heightened to the nth degree (and also if you’re unable to see any meaning in/beyond that), that’s your problem, not the genre’s.

people who don’t watch horror movies are SO confident that they know everything there is to know about the genre. like it’s okay to not know things. it’s okay if you don’t like friday the 13th or whatever. i promise you don’t need to make an ass out of yourself on the internet about it

[nolanhollogay]

benjamin's lived in blessed valley for his entire life. it's all he's known and all he'll ever probably know, if he's being honest with himself. he'll die there like the rest of his family and end up in their long line of gravestones.

blessed valley never changed. it was always the same shit. the same rundown shops, the same row homes, the same people breathing down your neck wherever you went. or at least that was how it had been. until archie.

archie, who appeared one day from a town that's name kept changing, with their painted fingernails and drugs that benjamin's never even thought of, let alone heard of. they were a mixture of indiesleazecool and weird as all hell, and they didn't think benjamin and his cynicism were off-putting. with them around, he feels alive for the first time he has in years.

there's just one catch: archie fucking eats people.

[artsyboy90]

"𝑀𝓎 𝒮𝓊𝑔𝒶𝓇 𝓉𝓊𝓂' -𝓉𝓊𝓂 . . ." 💜

Even after Titanic-Voyage is all said and done for the year, I cannot get these two out of my head! Literal brainrot. 😭😂

"𝒮𝑒𝒷𝒷𝒶𝓇𝒸𝒽𝒾𝑒" - Sebastian Blanchard and Archibald Willamette will forever live rent-free inside of my brain. And I know that my friend who portrayed "Sebby" will completely understand where I'm coming from with this - especially since we created these two - as we like to refer to them as - "Gay Idiots." 🤣

Anywho, I hope y'all are enjoying life, making art and having good times! Love to you all! 🥰 PLEASE note that I take a lot of time to render/and or draw my work. So please do not post this elsewhere unless you’ve my permission to do so. Thank-you so much!

[curetapwater]

I've already read all the issues that feature Anti-Sonic/Scourge, but it'll be fun to see his appearances organically in a straight read-through of the comics like I'm doing now!

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love this!! based mostly on what episodes i tend to go back to a lot; more than 10 cause i couldn’t help it: Father’s Day, Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel (mickey💞💞💞), Impossible Planet/Satan Pit, Smith and Jones, Gridlock, Utopia, The Fires of Pompeii, The Angels Take Manhattan (not really a finale, is it?), Dark Water (clara throwing away the tardis keys SCENE OF ALL TIME, “do you think i care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?” !!!!!!! the kiss with missy—LIFE changing), The Eaters of Light, World Enough and Time

what i really really love is a good sci-fi/time travel concept and really good, heightened interpersonal drama, i looove cybermen, we’ve got four whole cyberman episodes on here

i really haven’t done enough rewatching of certain seasons (matt smith’s entire run) but i feel like my opinions on a lot of doctor who stuff have been changing lately and i’ve gotta go back and give a lot of stuff another chance. i also have not seen 13’s run yet. looking at these episodes, i think when you get down to it, martha, clara, and bill are my favorite companions. nine and twelve are my favorite doctors, but that’s nothing new

something im curious about - reblog this post with your 5-10 favorite modern who episodes (in tags or not!)

EXCLUDING: any specials, season finales, the empty child, dalek, blink, silence in the library, midnight, vincent and the doctor, and heaven sent.

what episodes do you love that aren't the most popular?

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Do you guys get it? Does this make sense or do you need to have listened to Ghost Quartet for years and be obsessed with the “was that us or was that a movie?” line from Riverdale and the “it is happening again” line from Twin Peaks and the part in Jesus Christ Superstar where Jesus calls Judas a Judas and then Judas says “Christ” as if he’s cursing and subsequently the similar part in Ghost Quartet where Scheherazade is called “a real Scheherazade” and the shot in The Jughead Paradox when Betty and Jughead go back downstairs and all their friends are standing around the table and it just feels so very fake happy ending—do you need all that to get this? Anyway;

It Is Happening Again: Twin Peaks, Riverdale, Ghost Quartet, Jesus Christ Superstar: Prophecy and Repetition

Twin Peaks 2.7/ Riverdale 3.1/ Jesus Christ Superstar “The Arrest”/ Ghost Quartet “Bad Men”/ Jesus Christ Superstar “The Last Supper”/ Twin Peaks 2.?/ Ghost Quartet “The Camera Shop”/ Twin Peaks 2.8, 1.1/ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me/ Twin Peaks 2.7/ Ghost Quartet “Usher Part 3”/ Riverdale 3.4, 3.2, 1.6, 6.5/ Ghost Quartet “The Camera Shop”, “Midnight”/ Twin Peaks 2.7/ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me/ Twin Peaks 2.?/ Ghost Quartet “Usher Part 3”/ Twin Peaks 2.7

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Honestly it's INSANELY funny that a post is going around rn about the Life of Faith dolls cause I remember when they were being sold. My conservative Christian mom even said "Hmm. That might be a bit culty for us. Also the Elsie Dinsmore books are racist trash," bought me a pretty journal from the local Christian bookstore, and that was that. Me and my friend Annie did a deep-dive on them a few months back just in our own DMs so for those curious about how bad this gets, here's some fun facts:

The company was started by Christian Homeschoolers™ (not "homeschoolers who are christian." Christian Homeschoolers and all the stereotypes that entails) in the mid-90s but went bankrupt in 2010. They based them around the old Elsie Dinsmore books, starring a girl who was so pious she would rather die than not pray to God or smth like that. The dolls hands can be clasped in prayer and they all came with mini Bibles

The dolls were Elsie Dinsmore, the daughter of a fucking plantation owner; Millie Keith, her cousin whose doll was a clear ripoff of Kirsten Larson; Violet Travilla, Elsie's daughter; Laylie Colbert, a fucking slave doll (but it's ok because the white girls converted her to Christianity); and Kathleen McKenzie, a Great Depression bitch.

This is a screencap from the defunct official site. Note how only Laylie looks like she could be from pre-90s LMAO.

Elsie Dinsmore books were originally published between 1867-1905. They are generally considered so bad that even hardcore Evangelicals consider them boring at best. The doll line EDITED the books to be less racist actually. Yes, the doll line that calls the slaves "Plantation-Dwellers" actually edited racist shit out of the books. I recall a bit where Elsie told a slave girl that she would be white in Heaven. They also cut out a bit where her Dad beats her with a riding crop.

Yes, she does marry her Dad's Friend. They did not cut this part out.

DINSMORE, YOU BRUTE

Millie's books were somehow both more and less racist. Millie and her family were abolitionists who helped runaway slaves but also one of her brothers marries a Mexican girl after the two of them were, and I quote, "captured by Indians and presumed dead."

IIRC, Elsie and Violet happen to be in Europe when the Civil War happens and they just kinda stay there to avoid the consequences of their actions. When they come back they are threatened by the KKK but I don't remember why. I DO remember that they spent Elsie's money on rebuilding plantations, because clearly THAT is where our priorities have to lie

The Violet and Laylie books are fanfiction. I don't think Kathleen's have anything to do with Elsie at all.

Oh, did I say books? Laylie only got one book, one nightgown, and some accessories for her collection. Kathleen, who was released a year later, got a shitton of stuff. Like, a mountain of stuff. I wonder what the difference between them is

I'm pretty sure Laylie's book does involve her escaping slavery but I never read it so idk. I do know that it plays heavily into Millie as her White Savior™ teaching her about God and how to read or whatever. I think Millie also teaches her about abolition which is fucking wild. Imagine a white girl explaining abolition to a slave

It's like they took everything American Girl did right when making Addy and said "we need to do the opposite of all of this"

Kathleen is both a ripoff of American Girl's Kit Kittredge and Girls of Many Lands's Kathleen (yep, same name and appearance).

The reason this line exists is the original Christian Homeschoolers considered American Girl to be pro-lesbian and pro-abortion. No American Girl didnt have any references to homosexuality or abortion at the time. Their first canon queer characters were in 2021 (Kira's gay aunts). As @jabberwockypie put it, everyone flipped out because AG partnered with Girls Inc "to fund after-school science programs and stuff" and god forbid, amirite?

And, yes, the red eye defect persists. It is SO funny

Here's an archived site about the collection, and another post about it by @dollysattictreasures. Anyway if anyone was given a Laylie doll as a child by your overly-religious parents, go give her a hug for me. And a gun

[thankskenpenders]

I saw some talk on twitter about there being a trans character in the Lara-Su Chronicles, but didn't see this mentioned in your post, so is this really true or just a rumour? I'm trans and just like to see more trans characters in ANYTHING

Believe me when I say you do not want trans rep from Penders lmao. Please love yourself

Anyway: Ken loves to pat himself on the back on Twitter for planning to put Representation in his stories, but it's really just an ego thing for him. It makes him feel important and progressive. None of it is actually present on the page in TLSC: Beginnings despite his many declarations of how progressive these books will be.

For example, he made a big deal out of the fact that Espio's daughter Salma is autistic now and how big of a deal that is for autistic Sonic fans everywhere, but she's not actually in either of the stories here. She is on the endpaper illustration if you want to look at her godawful new design, though!

He's also spent years making a big deal out of the fact that Rotor/"The Emissary" and Cobar were supposed to be a gay couple in M25YL and how that really broke new ground for comics etc. etc., but in this book all that really results in is a single panel of the Emissary holding Cobar and going "Goddess, don't let him die on me."

And, yes, Ken did, in fact, announce on Twitter some time ago that he plans on including a trans character in The Lara-Su Chronicles. It's apparently even a character we've already met, though whether this means he's retconning a returning Archie Sonic character to be trans or it's one of the new characters is still up in the air. It's presumably an echidna based on Ken's statements about how in the new universe "Echyd'nya" society is so totally progressive and they're "not hung up on gender identity the way humans are" and transitioning is "as common as the air 1 breathes," even going as far as implying that they can spontaneously change sex like amphibians. And yet at the same time this character being trans is a secret in-universe "for reasons that will rock someone’s world."

Exactly none of this is conveyed in any way, shape, or form in the book we got.

I don't really know who the trans character is supposed to be, honestly. My first guess was Dr. Zephyr/Zephur, because their design is slightly gender ambiguous, no one every refers to them with pronouns, and they have no data file to clarify their gender. But no, it can't be them if it's supposed to be an Echyd'nya, and also Zephyr/Zephur is probably just a guy because if they were a woman Ken would've given them an hourglass figure. Maybe... Remington? Given all the shit about his unknown origins, is the Big Twist supposed to be that he was DFAB? I don't know. I just know that, whatever it is, if the story containing the reveal of who the token trans character is even gets published, it's not going to be good.

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exactly exactly exactly exactly. like it’s pretty explicit that you’re not even supposed to be happy for shawn but cory and topanga?? CORY?? i mean he hasn’t had a day of true happiness in his life because he’s a repressed homosexual with exclusively conservative and sometimes homophobic authority figures

i think boy meets world is a tragedy played as a comedy, because why when i think about it do i get sad

[wallbeatjournal]

Pour one out for Reggie, always second choice for the Lodges after Archie

SECOND CHOICE FOR EVERYONE. like literally it is so hard to evaluate reggie (especially w/r/t the lodges) without bringing in The Tragedy Of The Side Character Rival-Foil who exists in the narrative to experience B-plot versions of the A-plot in miniature

riverdale-the-metanarrative is so blatantly full of guys who are different versions of archie and where his character could go in the story if he didn't have to be the protagonist-hero - munroe as the jaded star fighter with the same nickname hiram originally used on archie as an endearment, who could get out of this damn town if he commits to sports. eric jackson as the disabled vet with unmanaged ptsd who betrayed his unit for a manipulative man in authority who just gets to be a respectable figure in society while his groomed victims suffer (and he could speak up and get justice if he's willing to handle the social impacts of being labeled a survivor). kevin as the openly-gay damagingly-impulsive, validation-seeking, people-pleasing, insecure joiner with a nice-but-emotionally-distant dad who keeps trying to find happiness through in-group conformism. julian s7 as literal understudy, and the guy who died in war (also got targeted and negged by s7 reboot hiram lodge in the s7 reboot version of wrestling. dramatic monologues).

reggie is like. the most powerful and tragic of all of these archie analogs bc he's sometimes a rival, too. so his jealousy and inferiority complex towards archie exists both inside and outside of the narrative! all of those other archie reflections aren't also competing with him and comparing themselves to him and constantly getting handed his leftovers and cast-offs and feeling that that is what's happening. but reggie is :\

anyway. so tragic. love u reggie

[amuseoffyre]

The more I write of my OFMD speculative S3 fic, the more I realise how much the writers were constrained for writing S2, by budget and executive interference about content and the limited time given by 8 episodes with reduced duration caps - I hadn't realised how much shorter some of the S2 episodes were than S1.

It makes me spit tacks thinking how much they could have done with the full 10 episodes, how so much of the stuff that felt rushed or pruned down or even fully cut was because too many CEOs spoiling the broth and forcing them to speedrun (and censor) so much.

We know they had:

a reunion scene with Jim and Olu - Samba mentioned it in WJW. Roach bringing them the soup and Olu crying on Jim's shoulder.

scenes setting up Zheng and Olu in the Republic from the press stills so it wasn't just hacked and slashed down to "you're the break in my day"

Wee John had more scenes with a through-line through multiple episodes about being tired of just being the Big Guy/muscle.

the entire planned polycule during episode 6 that was fully vetoed to the point that the cast and writers had to resort to slipping in coded references ("we've shared before" / "he's my anchor")

episode 6 originally meant to be a wedding episode where Ed actually pays for Lucius and Pete's wedding which again, vetoed, and we were only given a 2 minute ceremony tacked on the end - the fact that "Calypso's birthday" is literally "something you just made up as an excuse for a party" because they had to rewrite the episode

Ed and Stede actually spending episode 6 with them both not dealing well with "going slow" but it also being vetoed because Heaven forfend showing positive sexual desire between gay characters. But sure, lets show them being tortured instead. Max likes that.

Related to this is the 24 sexathon. Originally, it was meant to be Jim/Olu/Archie but it was shifted over to Lucius and Pete. Look at S1 when we had naked Olu and Jim snuggled post-coitus and Lucius drawing dick-pics and flirting shamelessly, 'we don't belong to each other'.

By comparison, S2 was pared back to a handful of kisses, one fade to black and a 60-second wedding. Nothing says sterilising the queer sex experience like having two people standing two feet apart, fully-dressed and not touching while saying "Oh yeah we had so much sex" 😤 THEY COULD HAVE BEEN CUDDLING IN BED. WE DESERVED CUDDLES. THIS GOES FOR EVERYONE.

But no. You may only have [this] much open queer affection in this show and then we shall destroy it because we never wanted to give you S2 in the first place.