#i like men!! like omg i like dudes!! i am bisexual it is literally part of the package deal

[loftwinglullaby]

hhh they should add fruity options to time princess for me personally.... i love olive, and xiaoqing and charlotte and salvia and whatever the fuck nastia had going with the mc but please.... im so fed up w the boring men.....

[reclusivedouche]

Riverdale 7x12 Thoughts

This two boys opening, where Archie and Reggie are obviously on a bisexual journey

Leave Julian Blossom in a coma tbh

Especially how Clifford wants to blame Reggie like bro your stupid kid did the thing

I think Archie should sock Clifford Julian-style bc honestly Clifford could not take Archie

Sheriff Keller really is the worst version of himself in season 7 like he is so much worse at Sheriff-ing

Juggy defending Ethel from going back to the sisters like just kiss her already omg

Alice is absolutely insane omg the way she is just like my mother where she acts like she isn't a fucking asshole

Honestly if she was gonna like fake adopt Ethel she should've given her Betty's room

The way every episode is like Archie having to ponder while someone (Reggie, or the gays) are going through it like he is a fool but like I love him anyway but

the storytelling choices

It truly never occurred to Veronica she could break into her own home like?

OMG Mrs. Thornton is so dirty for just reading Archie's poem out loud and then naming him as the author to the whole class

GIRL WHY

Archie looking so pressed while she reads it is the same energy I had when I had to sit through my own play being read at a showcase

KEVIN THINKING IT WAS CLAY WHO WROTE IT

Push him out the window

Additionally, tho, has Archie broken bread with Kevin and Clay over the gay things??

Sports where we're really saying bulldog brother in distress

this stupid comic book thing I need to know what Francis Dupont Werthers is DOING

Am absolutely loving that Ethel is actually getting story ???

Even tho like LET HER LIPS TOUCH JUGGY'S

Or another boy (or girl w/e)

Not Julian tho

That fucker

Honestly Archie should also punch Uncle Frank for being stupid

Betty looked so upset when she thought Archie and Reggie were coming over

Old white men wanting to go back to the old days??? Always a red flag

Clifford is really out here threatening to kill Cheryl as if he did not kills Jason 65 years ago in the future or whatever

Omg my friend had to tell me the song was from South Pacific and now that I know, I'm having a very visceral memory of the time I was in South Pacific (as the only non-singing part tho lmao)

There were a lot of gross men in that bc they could sing (and I mean the actors not the like characters tho...)

The choreo is so much better in Riverdale tho

Even if it involves Kevin

Like could Clay kiss a hot man? Idk

Betty getting a gay ex boyfriend like? Good for her. But like get rid of Kevin

Veronica is so thirsty and I'm so into it except when she's being a predator to out gays (to herself)

Dilton having a huge dick tho is my absolute favorite throwaway detail like yes

HUNGOVER AND STARING AT DILTON

Is this thing where Mrs. Thornton is suddenly like the teacher is bc she's the one who's gonna be accused of communism

Is that happening next week with the outings? Eek

The comic boss dude being like immediately ready to have Ethel draw like yes I love it

He's dead I mean literally you killed him lol

Very pleased we actually get to see Mary working part time at the dress shop

The way they speak to her like she is the one who curates the dresses being sold

I simply don't understand why we have to have Brett Weston Wallace but we don't also get Donna like give us Donna!

Let the boys kiss while they do the dishes

Justice for Ethel!!!

Is Jughead still drinking powdered milk or is that gone now that the milkman is dead

I better see a canon kiss between Betty and Veronica in a future episode or ELSE

THEY ARE IN LOVE

Love only getting Polly in name tho I'm sure we'll have to deal with her at some point this season

Betty is also the ultimate ex-girlfriend

MARY ANDREWS GO AWAY

LET THEM KISS

Okay tho Mary then reading the riot act to Alice, who is completely unbothered lmao

They will legitimately drag anyone to Riverdale but never Katy Keene give us KATY

I heard the good word from the bird

Jughead is wise beyond his years??? Somewhere in there is a memory of the future!

Veronica called Betty ;-;

These boys are going to WRESTLE

Just let them kiss my god

Archie asking Reggie to wear his dad's patch

BOYFRIENDS

Like Reggie knows Archie likes to write poems

Write him a poem

Also are we gonna have to see Archie at the Dark Room lmao

Ugh okay next week is gonna be a full trip I am not ready

[vaguely-concerned]

I’ve been reading the temeraire books non-stop since christmas and I’m on the third one and I have too many feelings spilling out of me to not write some of them down

- the funeral at the beginning is so atmospheric and haunting I love it

- laurence has such a heady blend of Disaster Bisexual and pure Dad energy

like he’s going to kick your ass he’s going to kick his own ass he’s going to be conflicted about the act of kicking ass b/c of Duty to his country, he’s going to go on long wonderfully unselfconscious descriptions of handsome men and he’s going to adopt a bunch of orphans along the way

- oh no tharkay just showed up... I’m sorry literally everyone else in this series it’s been one hell of a ride these last two books but none of you turned up with a falcon, a look of wry cynical amusement and the very real sense that you’re continually pretending to have no feelings while actually having All The Feelings going on under the surface so uh. what can you do

every wry smile is a wonder every time he proves yet again to be the most competent person present and is snarky about it is a joy etc. he tells temeraire stories and teaches him dragon language. I am helpless 

- also it’s such a fucking tease b/c MASTERFULLY he’s not mentioned that much to begin with even though we know he’s around, presumably because Laurence doesn’t care that much at first (though he does realize he’s strangely disproportionately upset at the thought that Tharkay might have betrayed them huh... *chinhands*) and also he’s keeping deliberately emotionally distant, so I’m just continually turning the pages like ‘but my boy tho. what’s my boy up to’

- laurence has a lot of endearing traits, but I think the time he was literally embroiled in a day-long desperate battle behind an improvised barricade and still took a moment to wash and dry his neckcloth takes the cake. he’s such a nerd about his clothes I love him

(I also like the character development just from the first book to this -- he can still unthinkingly be a dick sometimes, but you get the feeling he’s shed a lot of bad shit he learned from his awful dad as well as the navy b/c like. he’s a good. he’s a good good boy at the end of the day and he had to learn to be a dragon’s dad real quick. Temeraire gets completely blown by him being strict ONCE in throne of jade and knows instinctively how much laurence loves him. can u imagine how much he is NOT like his dad after all. Y_____Y)

- I’m so sorry your human is such a glorious dummy, Temeraire. 

- noooo tharkay’s birb D:D:D: rip u magnificent little murderbird 

- this post-fleeing-headlong-through-the-sewers scene is so charming... laurence FINALLY getting his head out of his ass about this man and realizing he’s saved their bacon again and again (seriously he’s SUCH a shit judge of character I can’t... you initially looked at RANKIN and was like ‘seems like a decent chap and a gentleman’ and now you’ve spent half the book thinking THIS dude is going to betray you... shaking my head at you laurence)... tharkay having a brief moment of being emotionally honest before going back to sardonically sweeping all his feelings under the carpet but it’s too late laurence is already like ‘OH’... honestly this poor man had no chance laurence just had to go and be Very Earnestly Laurence at him, no one could be expected to withstand it

- “Tharkay looked at him, a queer uncertain expression briefly crossing his face... he reached out his hand with a jaunty air; but there was nothing whatsoever insincere about his grip” afdshfddgd fanfic brain engage how much do you want to bet that’s what happens the first time laurence kisses him too, just a split second before he accepts that he means it and smiles... I... am so emotional... I love him so much already and it’s only been 170 pages of brief appearances apparently he’s in more of these books I am going to DIE

“He closed his mouth on anything further, though his customary seeming indifference looked now a mask imperfectly put on” falsdfjaslkdfjsdakl I knew... I knew I was going to suffer about him from the moment he stepped onto the page and here I am

- Lien is SO CREEPY in this speech but also ‘I had to know you understood b/c you’re very young and stupid’ made me cackle aloud in a public place. that’s a burn huh

- I am very sad about temeraire being sad a lot in this book :( I hope he gets his revenge by lovingly preaching his radical politics to this egg and making the hatchling a born firebreathing rebel

- tharkay startled to realize temeraire has adopted him as one of His Humans and not letting him fling himself into danger......... my heart

you’ve been teaching him dragon language and all kinds of stuff tharkay what did you expect that’s like how temeraire bonds (b/c he’s a wonderful nerd the size of a hillside)

- so is laurence like... hot for napoleon. b/c that’s kind of what this description reads like. that went from ‘he’s taller than I expected’ to ‘lean and glitter-eyed’ and ‘handsome’ real fast wtf laurence 

- ...this whole prussian affair isn’t going so well is it?? (also poor granby he always suffers the most)

- a) the hatchling is amazing, omg, b) I’m just continually in stitches over temeraire’s reactions to her and also the ongoing saga of laurence trying to teach him about property rights. like the thing where dragons mature quickly but still stay young for quite a long time basically means poor laurence is stuck parenting an incredibly intelligent and earnest teenager the size of a barn for years to come.  

- actually I really enjoy how the author has managed to set up the complexity and authenticity of the dragon/captain relationships? it’s a very strange mix of two-way parental & child dynamics and a life partner and you just accept it completely, to the point that you find it sympathetic even in the bad guys. it’s so well done.   

- uuuuuuuuuuuuh laurence spacing out for a while there is really harrowing, this whole part is very stressful to read

- THARKAY 

THARKAY DID YOU JUST

HE DID

LAURENCE WAS NICE TO HIM  O N C E  and he went back halfway around the world to get twenty dragons for him without even saying shit except that he was leaving... I can’t... he’s... too good.... coming in like a radiant beam of hope in the darkest hour like gandalf in that lotr movie except marginally more low-key b/c he’s a sneaky fuck but also arkady...

 william laurence you marry this man immediately

- thank you laurence I’ve spent the last hundred pages going ‘...but ol’ bonaparte is just demonstrably better at this tho. why are none of you suckers using dragons for anything but throwing them into the meat grinder in battle’, it’s good that was happening under the hood with you too. (I have this same problem in lord of the rings sometimes -- the orcs are just smarter about warfare? the humans almost deserve to lose in the face of all that creativity and nerve? like pls gondor honor is all well and good but please use your brains instead of doing the same stuff your great great grandfathers did. I realize the orcs literally symbolize industrialized warfare but could the humans and elves come up with some defensive innovations pls) 

[jennawynn]

Critical Hit: Chapters 17-20

Kris is upset at Barkley because she thinks he got her dad sick. :/

So she reveals James is sick, reminds Lacey that she’d rather cancel or move the location than have a sick person there, then doesn’t cancel or move the location of the game?

Lacey finally reveals HER parental drama (cause parental drama is the Gay Experience). Her folks are religious and were clinging to ‘bi’ hoping that means ending up with a man (totally not relatable here), and trying to hook her up with nice single Christian boys. Our biphobic heroine says “If it meant so much to them--” “Why didn’t I just find a guy to fall in love with? Eh, the heart wants what it wants and all that. Plus it made me so fucking mad. Even if I did end up with a guy, I think I’d still be out of contact with them.”

Kris gets a call from Wizards. They want her to head a whole project. She used Lacey has inspiration for a badass female warrior set of images and Wizards wants “to create an all-female campaign. Set in Forgotten Realms. Men have disappeared, women rule the jungle. Like the Amazons.... Less hero more heroin. Love stories, adventure, politics, diabolical schemes.” Why do men have to disappear to give women power? And why bother getting rid of them anyway? Kris has a moment where she thinks about how this is her dream job- better representation for badass women in practical armor. Catch? She has to fly to Washington for a few days and can’t afford a hospice nurse for her dad.

She feels like it’s wrong to ask Lacey for money, so she decides to ask for advice instead. 

Lacey meanwhile is staying at her house this weekend to tend the yard because she lives in a “not that snooty” neighborhood, so Kris will come over there. She’s panicking because... she’s too rich? Not rich, just comfortable enough to have a house with at least three bedrooms and a BMW. Dreams of turning a spare room into an artist’s studio after dad dies... then she remembers her ex lived there and omg what if she finds the evidence? Because that’s what her ex would have done- freak out about her past.

“I’ll admit, it’s probably more house than a single lesbian needs.” Wait, wait, wait, WHAT? No bi girl I know calls herself a lesbian. Most of us will correct people who call us lesbians. SHE has corrected people for calling her a lesbian. Lesbian’s not like “gay” where any queer girl can use it. It’s a very specific identity label, not an umbrella. So why?  “Oh? A single lesbian? What am I, chopped kale? Get it? Because you don’t eat liver?” So Kris gives her shit about the single part but doesn’t mention the lesbian part. Cool cool cool cool.

Then she mentions and ex and Kris says ‘why did you break up with HIM’ even though the lesbian thing literally just happened. “Why did you assume it was a guy?” Kris’s face scrunched. “That was dumb of me. Whenever I hear ‘bisexual,’ I just assume it’s a chick who likes dudes but wants to feel cool making out with me.” OH HO HO we’re getting to the good stuff now, right?

I mean trans is about who you are not who you love but I’ll let this one slide because I’ve been screaming in my head for a scene like this where her biphobic bullshit gets called out. And then Lacey marvels at how awesome Kris is that she apologized instead of blowing up. Jenny must have really been a bitch.

“You wanna know something embarrassing?” “Of course.” “I didn’t want to date you because you were bi.” /sigh

“Wow. So this bisexual has more lady experience than the turbo lez?” Kris laughed. “Turbo lez? I love it. Sounds like a superhero.”

“Honestly, despite you defining bisexual for me, knowing you’ve been in a long term relationship with another woman is reassuring.” /sigh

“But it sounds like, while Jenny was draining you emotionally, you kind of let her.” Oh good, we can add victim blaming onto the list!

After dinner and what seems to be several sexings, Kris finally tells her the good news! But that she’ll have to turn it down because she can’t afford a nurse and she doesn’t want to leave her dad with strangers. When Lacey feels like Kris isn’t asking for money (like Jenny would), she volunteers to stay at Kris’s place and watch the house and her dad for her. 

‘baby’ always struck me as a weird term of endearment. ‘babe’ doesn’t bother me as much, but ‘baby’ kinda... ick.

“My favorite part is that it isn’t a spiteful campaign. It’s seriously just a world that’s absent of penises, you know? Like no one was killed off or anything. These women just figured it out.” Wait, what? Like first, there’s that biological determinism again. Penis = man. Second, how do you have a world absent of penises? How the hell do they procreate? How do you have an absence without killing off ‘or anything’? And what did they ‘figure out’?

Here’s the real catch... they want Kris to move to Washington. She can’t and won’t move with her dad or away from her dad, and now would she leave Lacey behind? Lacey who has a nice house and a good job?

Kris is being negotiated for... multiple teams want her, but this campaign ‘won’ the right to pitch to her.

Then Lacey calls. “Babe, you need to come home now.” (I mean... not to be rude to a dying fictional character, but if he died, at least she could move to Washington. >.>)