#lol reggie was the lamb

[florsial]

Spreading my 2 headed lamb Regulus animagus agenda with Black Brother angst!!!

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someone give Sirius a hug or something like damn he rlly going through it

WWE WERE BORN TO DIEEEEEEEEEEE ( i love ldr music)

As he walks, the crunching of the branches underneath his feet calms the harsh beating of his heart. It hadn't been a good day. He felt like he was constantly being watched by his parents. The entire day was spent anxiously looking over his shoulders, expecting his mother to turn a corner with a wand in hand or his father to yank his shoulder with a bruising grip when his back was turned.

He really needed his walk, at least that was what James insisted on.

For a couple of minutes, he manages to clear his head, the grip of his parents loosened, leaving his mind to heal from the harsh and bruising touch. His feet soon stopped near the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and he was able to see Hagrid's hut, he figured he might as well stop by to say hi.

Sirius takes a couple of steps before he promptly stops. With widened eyes, he takes a step back from the disfigured animal. A two-headed black lamb, a baby, but not exactly a newborn, nowhere near a sheep. Its two heads conjoined by the side of their faces, the eyes wide and watching Sirius' movement with unsettling attention. The animal was creepy and yet he could not look away.

It made a noise, from one of its heads, and its legs wobbled a bit. A small movement that makes Sirius' heart ache pitifully. Remus had a farm back in Wale. He told Sirius of animals, sometimes humans, born with more than one head and dying not much sooner because they simply were born to die, doomed from the very beginning. They wouldn't have been able to survive the harsh world with the disability, nor would their bodies be able to continue the demands of life. And looking at the lamb, he thinks of how this might be the last time he sees it.

With slow steps to not scare the animal, he approaches with an outstretched hand. A comforting gesture. He manages to close enough where he can sit down and pet its soft fleece. The animal reciprocates the action, settling down to the ground beside Sirius.

"Hey there little guy," He hums.

The lamb doesn't reply, only closing its eyes. So Sirius continues to talk, "How have ya been? Well I hope, you look tired."

"I am too you know?" He runs his fingers through the soft black fleece. The animal shifts its position, slowly maneuvering itself to Sirius' lap.

"Looks like both of us are worn out, huh?"

The lamb never replies, Sirius guesses it takes too much out of the animal. So he fills the silence with his chatter about his friends, his academics, pranks, and Remus, but soon it shifts to a bit of his parents, and some of Regulus, which leaves his eyes watery. Despite never getting a baa in reply, he feels heard and comforted by the lamb.

When he finishes, he finds his face damp. The lamb leans closer and Sirius begins to sob into the black fleece. He admits in his tears, that he misses his family. He misses the times when their mother didn't scold them for minor things and gave them a cold shoulder, when their father wasn't locked up in his office or shouting at their mother, and the times he played with Regulus while the little boy was still oblivious to the world and giggled at every little thing.

At that, the lamb finally replied in its soft baaa from one of its heads. A sound that draws a wet chuckle from Sirius.

"Thank you," he mumbles softly against the fleece, "Lulu would like you, he's always been fond of lambs."

Another baa in response that makes Sirius smile.

He isn't able to stay with the lamb for long though, because he hears the familiar calls of, "Padfoot! Padfoot!" And he knows that his friends must be looking for him. Sirius turns to the lamb who is now slowly moving off of Sirius. A clear sign that he is about to leave. He wants to tell it to stay but before his mouth can form the words, the lamb makes a sound and turns around to leave. He watches the lamb move further but isn't able to stay long enough to see it fully leave his sight before his friends jump him with a group hug. Dragging his eyes away from the leaving lamb.

For the rest of his time in Hogwarts, he doesn't see the two-headed lamb again. It's only when he takes another walk to clear his head during the war in 1979, does he see it again. Black fleece and two heads conjoined standing on wobbly legs, staring directly at him, but it didn't feel like a visit, it felt like a goodbye. A permanent one.

The next day, Regulus is declared dead and Sirius never sees the two-headed black lamb again.

[starfxkrinc]

I love moony girls ❤️ never thought about them being oc... hummm... I see

Kitty as Katy, Courtney, Nikky

Puppy as Flora, daisy, Lily

Bunny as Desiree, Shanon, Ashley

Foxy as Amber, Brooke, kim

Lamb as Aurelia, Violet, Eleanor

soooo ur actually so spot on with kitten bc courtney and nikki were on the list along with corinne/cori before i settled on regina/reggie with nicole as her middle name

pup has hippie neo soul parents. shes erykah

foxy was the product of a teen pregnancy so i wavered between sasha and destiny. settled on destiny but her grandma calls her dez

bunny i wavered (and still do) between imani, alicia and brianna but i lean towards alicia

lamb is liana its such a pretty little dainty name

BUT IM CURIOUS WHAT WOULD YALL NAME EM like when i make them OCs theyre like. so explicitly black so i factored that in LOL

[papapoutine]

True Crime in Riverdale is a spectrum:

Josie McCoy: practicing late at school even though there’s a serial killer on the loose and the death threats against her mom have become more frequent and she just beat the shit out of the scion of a wealthy crime family (if even Archie could clock that Hiram and his business associates were mobsters by Veronica’s first communion you cannot tell me that everyone save Reggie hadn’t realized by then) and someone is breaking into her locker.

Veronica: knows that if the Black Hood came for her she has a whole dossier of people who deserve to be killed.

Fangs: interested in protecting his loved ones first but him and Sweet Pea are never without each other and are careful after Archie pulls a gun on them and tbh are more interested in the Gargoyle King than the Black Hood because they really like the Silent Hill games and the Walking Dead.

Hermione: Doesn’t like to think about it, but the second she hears Veronica could be hurt tries to track down the Black Hood herself.

Reggie: initially interested because it gives him leave to construct intricate rituals but checked out second he realized it was less Goodfellas and Fight Club and more Silence of the Lambs.

Hiram: annoyed that someone could interfere with his business plans and get the FBI involved so secretly had a whole ass scheme of hiring unassuming actors to vandalize shit publicly to try to trap the Black Hood.

Kevin Keller: truly does not care about any risk to him but highly stressed out about his loved ones.

Toni: is part of the Scooby gang as photographer until she gets tired of Bughead eye fucking and Jughead acting like Miranda Priestly and forcing them to watch Zodiac and keeps meddling in the dark room and while she would go out on her own she’s also aware of the danger posed to her as a Black-Uktena woman who is homeless and a member of a gang that the town government wants gone so if she died her death would never be fully investigated. So she goes out with Fangs and Sweet Pea.

Cheryl: only so interested as it gives her the opportunity to bring up Jason but if you discuss the particulars of the case too much she loses it and bites your head off. Randomly knows a ton about forensics and body preservation from Nana Rose.

Alice: can’t keep her nose out of anything, duh she’s invested.

Nana Rose: literally has true crime memorabilia in her house like saintly relics lol.

Archie: the interest is there but the methods are off (thinking that canvassing for every single house in Riverdale will find the Black Hood).

Bughead: detective work as foreplay

ethical bughead

[malereader-inserts]

If I Die Young

Fandom: Riverdale Pairing: Lodges & Son!Reader Summary: You had so much to live for, and just like that - you were non-existent. Word Count: 1,372 Request: “hi, so I'm a horrible person and I love your fics where it's a son!reader and he fuckin dies, so could we possibly get more of that with a lodge!reader instead? <3″ Warning: Death, blood A/n: Hell yeah, my fave type of stories. Also, I haven’t been keeping up with Riverdale, so there is no correlation to this to the plotline of Riverdale.

Veronica hadn’t noticed that you were the next sacrificial lamb of the Gargoyle King.

He should have noticed your standoffish behaviour, the way you flinched whenever you saw a hand coming towards you. You looked grey rather than the famous tan skin you had from your family. You hair stood flat, you took pride in your hair and spend at least five minutes doing it, but now you look beat.

You’ve been coming home later, leaving earlier, not eating much.

She had noticed that when you do return before the hour strikes past midnight, you would come back as if you were in the forest. Dirt spoilt over your face and your hands roughen. She discerned how you were always wearing long sleeves, she found out you had scarring on your forearm but she didn’t question it thinking her mind was playing games.

Hiram and Hermione should have noticed earlier too. You were their only boy, sure you were a bit egotistic but you were confident, the face of the Lodges Business. You were their heir, you were their boy. So, they should have noticed the way you prefer to stay indoors than hang around with Archie and Reggie. 

But, then Veronica became increasingly concerned after Jughead had mentioned some vague description of you and the Gargoyle King.

“We’ve been collecting vague hints about who he’s going after next,” Jughead was speaking, his arm over Betty’s shoulders, “No one we know fits the description.”

So, upon asking, Jughead tells the clues. All vagueness pointing to you. How you hide in the shadows but is in plain sight, your arms branded mess with words forever within your body and mind. As more as Jughead continues to blabber on, Veronica was connecting the dots.

“My brother - (Y/n), where is he?” She sat up, whipping out her phone, “I-I have to find him,”

Jughead and Betty sat up, sharing a glance before looking at Veronica, “We’ll find him, don’t worry.”

Veronica hopes to find you and when she does, she hopes you’re still alive.

Hiram and Hermione almost had rushed up to the police station to file for a missing person, as Veronica called them during lunch a crying mess. Through her inaudible words, they could make out what she’s been saying. And their stomach dropped, the heart was beating ten times louder and they felt vomit rising. 

The house, the apartment seem so much quieter than usual. The knowing feeling that you were missing and perhaps the next target for death was unsettling for them. Hermione had to open a new bottle of wine as she sat down at the dining table - lost in her thoughts. 

She could imagine you right here, home, safe and happy. You just sitting directly on the far end, opposite to her. Typing away on your laptop and your school notes spread around the marble table. Your presence was comforting, you didn’t speak but the fact you were in front of her made her feel better. Now, she didn’t know where her little boy was.

Hiram sat around in his office, his chair facing away from the door and facing the painted portrait that was of you and your twin sister. To him, it seems like it was months ago since he had last seen you smile when in reality it had only been a few weeks. 

He promises to bring you home.

It haunts Veronica for the whole day, she’s scared that she’ll find you dead. She knows how to plan your funeral, ever since you’ve moved into Riverdale and how dead lingers in this small town, you couldn’t help but be so morbid.

You love satin, she would have known you would beg to be buried in a satin suit, a three-piece perhaps since you would love to go all out. A black three-piece or you have concern your favour over navy blue suits, shiny and perfect as you would lie still.

You would love to be extra, as your sister would tease, a red rose in your hand, against your chest. After all, Veronica knew under your jerk persona you have expressed adoration for nature. 

She couldn’t bring herself to think about it - you being dead made her stomach churn. So, when she had found you in the forest against a tree looking dead, she could throw up.

She screamed, so loudly that everyone turns to the source of her distress calls. Jughead, Betty and Archie were investigating the plan of the Gargoyle King, alongside them as FP, Hiram and Hermione. The Lodges felt their breath caught in their throat because Veronica was screaming, she sounds like she was about to cry.

Veronica falls to her knees as you open your eyes.

“Ronnie?”

Veronica chokes up, her hands grip the side of your face. Your eyes were glazed over, unfocused as you were tired. You had blood dripping from your mouth, almost like you were choking on the thick red liquid. Dirt was painted over your face, and your clothes were torn. She looks down and sees a sharp knife embedded within your gut. Your soiled hands grab one of her wrists, her blurred vision looks at you, you still had the soft smile gracing your lips.

She knows you’re trying to reassure her, but her world was crumbling, her twin was dying and suddenly she understands what Cheryl was going through.

“I’m here, (Y/n), you’re going to live-”

“No, ‘m not,” You mumbled, “I’m dying, Ron, you know that.”

She does, and it’s breaking her heart. She doesn’t realise how she wants to pull you in close. Hiram and Hermione find their children, and my god, the scene they stumble onto is a nightmare on repeat. 

Hiram knows he wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight or in the forthcoming of nights. Hermione wants to hope this was her mind tricking her as both she and her husband found them situated next to their daughter.

“Hey, mijo, we’ll get you home...” Hiram soothing speaks, he speaks softly almost afraid you’ll flinch at his voice. He places a hand on your shoulder.

You had let go of Veronica’s wrist as she drops her arms to hold your hand. Hiram runs his thumb over your hair as Hermione’s soft torn eyes gazed at your dying state, she caressing your cheeks. All of you know you weren’t surviving as you cough out more blood, gargling a breath as you were just trying to spend a little longer with your family.

Your eyes were threatening to close, but you sharply look at your family, all the verge of tears.

“I’m not worth crying for,” You mumbled, coughing and spluttering more blood, “Save that for somethin’ that matters.”

“You matter to us, Mijo,” Hermione coos, wishing she could take away your pain as you writhe in agony when you try to lean closer to her touch, “We love you, my boy.”

You smile, lazily and it drops an instant afterwards - you lack the energy. Your head almost lols over before Hiram keeps your head up straight, “I love you too, remember that.”

“You make us proud,” Hiram continues, you blink yourself awake wanting to savour your last moments, “You’ll always be in our hearts.”

You could manage a soft chuckle, “I’ll be in every rainbow, you’ll see, looking down at you from up above. I’ll be in your hearts, forever.”

Veronica burst into more tears when you had softly uttered out your last words.

Forever.

Hermione holds her daughter, tight as tears threatened to fall as well. Hiram lets out a shaky breath, closing your dull eyes. He did not want that etched into his mind as he engulfs his family to an embrace.

Funny when you're dead how people start listening.

Veronica knows how you want your funeral, send you away with the words of a love song. The words of you saying “If I die young,” echos in her head. Because, this was the reality and now, she is an only child. 

She wasn’t a sister anymore.

She wasn’t a twin anymore.

But, she and your parents will look up to the skies when they are grey, in hopes to find a rainbow hiding away.

[floggingink]

Riverdale, “Chapter Forty-Seven: Bizarrodale”

Jughead eats: QUICK SHOT OF BRUNCH

the print on Josie’s bomber jacket? confounding

“If there’s no wedding reception, it means the Gargoyle King has won.”

Ms. McCoy in bright blue? confounding

have Moose’s eyebrows gotten thicker? he...he fine

Cheryl’s sheaths: like a true gay icon, Cheryl wears both a satiny demi-cup bustier and a flannel in bed with Toni, who’s rocking a sort of cottony Aerie bralette

Hermione’s earrings look like divining rods, which makes sense

“dangerously unhinged,” in this day and age? UNHINGED?

Cheryl is “legacy” in Riverdale’s version of Smith College

Cheryl’s pins: in her droopy 1920’s lady-reporter tie, Cheryl has a pin that is probably a bee but is POSSIBLY a giant frightening moth like in the Silence of the Lambs poster

Moose’s hair is longer or something and he’s like? I don’t know but I’m a gay boy all of a sudden, like let me at All That

I like how he pauses but goes in for more kisses after Kevin tells him he wants to ask him something

he’s like…..so tall….and he has this a little mole on his cheek….

(RIP Midge)

I’m writing a scene where it’s gay.: you look me in my pale astigmatic eyes and tell me the little snitch canary “told you they were in here sir” smug Malfoy stool pigeon ISN’T a pillow queen and I’ll give you this money RIGHT NOW. THAT thin-lipped smirk? with THAT cleft chin? he’s a gay, your honor

Sexy, aesthetic Southside: oh fuck!!!! Sweet Pea has a VERY vulnerable, soft-masculinity speech about his heartspace and emotional boundaries and he’s so fluffy-haired and trying to be gentle with himself……….SWEET PEA……..

Best costume bit: don’t miss the two-second shot of a Prostitute in a turquoise pencil skirt and red velvet blazer and pearls AND GLASSES leading a man by the tie down the Maple Club hallway

“Damn good coffee”: also this jazz music and Cheryl’s short pantsuit

WHERE CAN I GET CHERYL’S MINI BACKPACK

The Blossom spawn: I know Penelope Blossom is not out here suggesting there are no lesbians in what I assume is a women’s college. I remember when I got into My Women’s College one of the nuns at my church was like, Ha ha! Don’t let the drug-dealing lesbians get you! and I was like, How do you already know the plot of Riverdale season 3? but then I was also like, Ma’am why did you join this monastery?

Fifth period is AP English: “THIS IS THE PRICE OF SALT.”

Lawyer McCoy is right, Ex-Sheriff Keller IS a snack and this bitch’s blood sugar is low

I love Sierra and Whatsit playing Lawyers in bed because it happens to be my thing too and I want to be there with them

Certified pedigree: his name’s Tom right? he’s SO HANDSOME. everyone is so handsome right now!!!!!!! (I’m ovulating)

this is the same fancy hotel room Jughead and Betty stayed in when he sort of proposed to her? this is just the upscale version of the sex bunker

Kevin eats when he’s stressed, as you will recall from the drive-in S1 episode

“an epaulette to cry on”

Cheryl’s hair: and Cheryl’s sleeves!!!!!!!

Sixth period is Intro to Film: “looking like a community theater production of The Talented Mr. Ripley” is the SECOND time handsome bicurious Tom Ripley has been name-dropped (also the drive-in S1 episode)

“I can’t go back to Fox Forest” is like the most tragic thing. HE CAN’T GO CRUISING AGAIN

“Oh, sullen, tenderhearted Kevin.”

Cheryl’s a chaos angel from hell: “RAPTUROUS”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like that Cheryl continues to use words like “whilst” and “amongst”

is Moose wearing a denim Henley? MOOSE?

the closed captioning renders it “O shutterbug of my dreams.” “O,” LIKE CHERYL IS SHAKESPEARE

I absolutely buy that Cheryl would ask if this was their first fight mid-fight

only Toni among us could wear that many necklaces at once

I did get a little confused when Toni confronts Cheryl in the bathroom, like at first it was about how you shouldn’t out people but then it was about her not being in the Serpents? let’s focus, ladies

The 2001 Josie and the Pussycats movie was a masterpiece: Josie’s commitment to keeping her eyeshadow coordinated with her jackets over her commitment to boys is aspirational

Every triangle has three corners, every triangle has three sides: I LOVE ARCHIE’S SIDE-EYE, LIKE………“SWEET PEA?”

Reggie on kneecapping: “Does that really happen?”

Reggie’s voice cracks me up. he’s just a big gorgeous squeezable side hustle dummy bro, so down for the ride, remember when he slugged Jughead? neither does he

REGGIE HONESTLY HONEST-TO-GOD IS JUST LIKE….RONNIE YO YOU NEED SOME MONEY?

“You can be my Baby Driver” uuuuuugggghghhhhhkkhhhhhhhhh REggggeieiee

“JUST PLEASE DON’T SCRATCH MY CAR” has more sexual energy than I think Archie has ever manufactured with anyone EXCEPT BETTY when they kissed that one time you know?????

why do you think Reggie is such a good doofus boyfriend while Archie was such a bad doofus boyfriend? is it because Archie tried to think for himself? or has Reggie just not been given the chance to fuck something up yet

I like Penelope bringing up Sierra and Tom getting married not to shade them but to just be like, They should be happy if they want. I was like, Damn, Penelope! You’re right!

“He is a vicious and petty god.”

lol oh yeah Hiram got shot

Gay?!: as has been discussed, Veronica is reading some classic lesbian pulp fiction for no other reason than I suppose she fucking likes it, and that is BDE

Summer + Blair = Veronica: Veronica would wear those shoes to baby drive

SOMEONE TAKE ME ON A “MAD SAPPHIC CAPER”

Archie > Dawson: Archie is a hot-or-cold boyfriend but he is an EXCELLENT beard!!!! GOOD, ARCHIE

I’ve seen Brick like thirty times: Reggie takes the same positive attitude towards getting shot and surviving that I hope I would have, which is “at least I can say I got shot”

Moose is like, out and THEREFORE dtf, as if they couldn’t have secretly been having sex this whole time

Toni conceded to Highsmith’s business formal dress code insofar as she wears a black vest over a plaid tie and that’s it

“WHOEVER YOU ARE, PLEASE BE CHILL.”

Veronica’s blue plaid coat SHOCKS me

Veronica was rich: Gladys admires Veronica and Reggie’s gumption showing up with only half the money

is it a coat or is it a miniskirt with a matching jacket?????

God bless jingle-jangle Moose: Moose is so excited that he just absolutely tells Cheryl he’s finally going to have sex. I know the show needs him to say it so Cheryl can tell him to BYOS, but it’s still cute of him, himself. is Moose kind of precious?

remember when Moose got gunned down in that car? Christ

HE BROUGHT A LITTLE RED CANDLE!!!!!

I love when people take off their whole belt, as if you can’t just undo it and still take your jeans off

dope deer skull! plus: everyone’s fucking

Mädchen Amick, MÄDCHEN AMICK: I’ve lost track a little bit of whether or not Alice KNOWS Betty and Jughead are literally/colloquially sleeping together in Betty’s bedroom, or are they taking advantage of her being gone?

The female gaze: Reggie’s chest is the new Archie’s chest

“NIGHT HAG”

“KEEP YOUR BOW CLOSE.”

Moose is MASSIVE like, do you see those arms?

Fwoopy hair is the best hair: HIS BEAUTIFUL FLIPPY HAIR ON THE PILLOW

Dilton Doiley Ethel Muggs The Gargoyle Children: the RROTC guy is Chris Cooper in American Beauty???

Gay.: Sierra was halfway right about “the jealousy thing”

even FP, conducting his interview in his flannel, is like, bruh

These students are legally children: his “Man, the Sisters did a number on you” feels like Riverdale’s version of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s “The Catholics really fucked you up”

Jughead doubts it: Jughead makes a good point. is there one costumes everyone keeps using or is it that easy to DIY your own Gargoyle King?

“UR-KING,” JUGHEAD, PLEASE

oh I can see Jughead about to be disillusioned by his family coming a mile away

Archie’s soft soft sweater? confounding

at least Moose isn’t moving to Toledo, am I right

CHERYL’S SLEEVES?????????

What damn high school in America: Cheryl’s girl gang is 100% Teddy girls and I love them

THE WHITE STRIPE ON REGGIE’S SWEATER and the little black birds on Veronica’s shirt!

Gladys & JB are already a more powerful duo than FP & Jughead could ever hope to be

ARCHIE ASKS HER IF HE COULD KISS HER. THAT’S VERY SEXY OF YOU, ARCHIE. GOOD, ARCHIE

wait Moose is moving to Glendale? SABRINA-GLENDALE? MOOSE WAIT A SECOND?

NEXT WEEK: Gladys tells Veronica to pray, OH BOY

[starlightafterastorm]

11 Questions Tag!

I was tagged by the lovely @theheavycrown​. Sorry for getting to this days later!

💛 💙 Riverdale themed questions!  💙 💛

My 11 questions for you are…

1. If you could see Cole & Lili act their parts of Bughead in any movie AU, what would it be?

This is a tough question because that is exactly the plot of my next Bughead AU fic “TOP SECRET TITLE HAS BEEN REDACTED FOR SECRECY”

I will say that it is a movie that has been featured heavily on my blog before and is one of my favorites of all time. 

OTHER THAN THAT. I’d love to see Cole and Lili/Betty and Jughead in a real noir classic. Casablanca or The Big Sleep. I’m also very partial to Key Largo. Something with Bogie and/or Bacall in it. 

2. If you could switch two characters positions in Riverdale, while maintaining their personality, which switch would you want to see?

I think I’d love to see any of the Core Four switch. How interesting would it be to either the girls or the boys switch roles in terms of economic status and circumstance? Or all four of them switch around? 

Also, an interesting switch would be Kevin and Reggie. Can you imagine sassy, cocky, and not the brightest bulb in the box Reggie as Betty’s closest guy friend and confidant vs Kevin, totally out of the closet and peppy but slightly antagonistic and Archie’s football rival? 

3. Bughead is getting married - describe the wedding. (Colors? Flowers? Theme? Cake? Decor? Readings? as ideas)

Here’s the thing. Betty and Jughead wanted to elope. They TRIED TO ELOPE. Multiple times. But something happened every single time. When Veronica found out she immediately demanded she be allowed to throw them their wedding. And Veronica goes all out. 

I’m thinking a sky blue color scheme matched with soft peaches and cool pastels. It’s held in a garden and Betty has some peach colored roses, so pale they’re almost white, wrapped with a blue ribbon and dotted with crystals as her bouquet. 

Everything is all delicate white lace and rose petals and Betty has flowers weaved into her hair. 

The cake is a giant 7 tiered monstrosity Veronica had ordered from a famous chef with chocolate layers and vanilla layers and a strawberry layer and even a lemon layer somewhere in the middle. It’s decorated very simply with sugar flowers tumbling down the side and golden crowns and stars mixed in. 

4. What is Jughead’s favorite food that Betty makes?

French toast with berries and powdered sugar and syrup. It’s the kind of breakfast Alice would make but then monitor Betty’s portions. The kind of breakfast that Jughead only ever got if he had enough cash to spare at Pop’s  or if Fred was feeling fancy after Jughead slept over. It’s not super elaborate but it’s fiddly enough that it’s not an every day kind of breakfast. French toast is for luxurious saturdays or lazy sundays. French toast is for pampering sick days or silly breakfast-for-dinners. French toast means sharing a plate piled high and fighting over the last berry and sweet kisses that linger for hours. 

5. If Jughead could have any superpower, what do you think he would choose?

I think Jughead would choose telekinesis. So often Jughead has so little control over his life that I think he would choose telekinesis, a power that allows you to physically control the environment around you. 

6. What do you think Betty’s favorite romcom would  be?

Legally Blonde. Betty has a weakness for Reese Witherspoon in general. Sometimes it’s a “Just Like Heaven” night. Sometimes she feels like “Sweet Home Alabama”. (Jughead complains but he honestly really loves Sweet Home Alabama too. He uses the “So I can kiss you any time I want” line all the time. Also he sulks when Betty won’t let him try to make glass sculptures during thunderstorms)

7. Bughead is going on their honeymoon, if price was no object, where would they go?

They’d go on a food tour through Italy. Sitting in the sun, walking through the vineyards, and eating all the pasta they could possibly stand. 

8. If Betty had a tumblr, and she could have any url, what would it be?

nightmarewithlipstick (which is actually a real tumblr though it seems to be empty?)

It’s based off of the Toni Morrison quote “A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick” from her novel “Love”. I’ve not read it but I plan on it and I have no doubt Betty has read it. Something about that quote just jumps out at me and I love the phrasing of it and the darker hints of duality that I think would appeal to Betty

9. If you could hang out with the Core Four for the day, what hang out activities would you want to do?

Eat at Pop’s. lol. Do they ever do any other hanging out activity? Watch a movie at the Drive-In probably. Somehow convince Veronica and Betty to go all out in a shopping spree complete with spa treatments afterwards. (No seriously what other normal teenage hanging out activities are they allowed to do?)

10. What do you imagine the first song Archie attempted to learn on guitar was?

Ok bear in mind I never played guitar but I did play piano and my best friend plays guitar. I think Archie would have chosen something super simple like a children’s song. Mary Had A Little Lamb. (For the feels: It also reminded him of his mother, Mary, and how she used to sing that song to him as a kid)

11. If a theme song played whenever Veronica entered the room, what would it be?

I thought I had the perfect song for this and then I realized that song would actually be more perfect for Cheryl. For VERONICA, I would have to say either “Barracuda” by Heart or “The Wicked Ones” by Dorothy. I love me that classic rock feel and I feel like Veronica needs something with some edge. (tbh I’d pick something with some rock feel for all the girls)

Thanks for the tag! Gonna tag @raptorlily, @burberrycanary, @lusterrdust, @createandconstruct, @smoochmejuggie, @jugandbettsdetectiveagency, @lizzy92rc, @somebooksmakeusfree, @coledemort, @writing-as-tracey

My 11 Questions for you are 

1. If you could change one thing (and ONLY ONE THING) about season 2, what would it be? 

2. If you could steal one thing from a character’s closet what would it be? (ex. Veronica’s pearls, Jug’s beanie, Cheryl’s spider brooch, any of Betty’s sweaters, Archie’s... letterman jacket?)

3.  Would you rather take a ride on Jughead’s motorcycle or have Archie serenade you with a song he wrote himself?

4. Who’s your favorite secondary/minor character? (Trick question. The only correct answer is Pop) ;D

5. Favorite song they’ve used on Riverdale so far?

6. What would you have named Polly’s twins? (Juniper and DAGWOOD? Really Polly?)

7. Favorite line from the whole show?

8. What song do Betty and Jughead choose for their first dance at their wedding?

9. What are Betty and Jughead’s patronus’s?

10. What is Jughead’s guilty pleasure movie? What is Betty’s?

11. FMK: Reggie, Sweet Pea, Hiram Lodge. 

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No Fun League: NFL Players Must Embrace NBA’s “Softer” Masculinity to Survive

Roger Goodell and the National Football League have rightfully received significant criticism for giving lip service to the issue of player safety but not really doing anything about it. Money has been suggested as the root of that nonfeasance. Goodell doesn’t exactly cover himself in glory on this issue, either, when he says stuff as dumb as “There’s risk in life. There’s risk in sitting on the couch.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but no one to my knowledge has ever been speared by a 280-pound middle linebacker while binge-watching “Stranger Things” in their living room.

Because it is so obvious that the league really doesn’t care all that much about player safety, it has to fall to the players to fix this problem themselves. If recent evidence is any indication, today’s NFL players are still doing a horrible job of taking care of each other.

The optics of Pittsburgh Steeler Ryan Shazier’s spinal injury from Monday night were really troubling. Shazier made the fateful error of not seeing what he hit, leading with the crown of his helmet while tackling Cincinnati Bengal Josh Malone:

Steelers LB Ryan Shazier was rushed to the hospital after this scary hit. http://pic.twitter.com/qnksXFemCd

— Sports Vortex (@SportsVortex_) December 5, 2017

Watching Shazier immediately grab for his lower back and observing that his legs clearly aren’t working is hard to unsee. Still, this play is the most basic example of the insane risks football players take with their bodies in the normal course of play. Shazier’s hit wasn’t dirty, or late. And while initial reports on Shazier’s condition were encouraging, as time passes and no news of an anticipated full recovery comes out, the ramifications of this play seem more and more likely to diminish the quality of the rest of Shazier’s life.

Football players can do next to nothing about the brutal violence inherent in the game when it is played correctly. It’s the brutal violence stemming from “borderline” (read: dirty) hits during play and straight up cheap shots after the whistle that the players can and should do something about. Again, based on recent evidence, they’re going the other way and making things worse.

After Shazier’s injury — in the same game — two more players delivered unnecessarily wicked hits to opponents that led to one-game suspensions (one of which was rescinded).

Here they are:

Still can't get over this nasty hit on Vontaze Burfict by Juju Smith Schuster last night.

Lights out. http://pic.twitter.com/e0UtIf0rsa

— Chris Stewart (@CStewartWPTV) December 5, 2017

Unreal. Bengals respond with a brutal hit from S George Iloka on Steelers WR Antonio Brown. http://pic.twitter.com/DoLMgjHuqi

— Clint Lamb (@ClintRLamb) December 5, 2017

At least those plays happened during the game. New England Patriot Rob Gronkowski was suspended for this cheap shot against Buffalo Bill Tre’Davious White:

#Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski has been suspended for one game by the league for his dirty hit against the Bills. #FantasyFootball http://pic.twitter.com/9YpKOjPItX

— Roto Street Journal (@RotoStJournal) December 4, 2017

How Gronkowski evaded a stronger sanction than a one-game suspension defies logic. Gronkowski is listed at 6’6″, 265 pounds on the Patriots’ roster. White is listed at 5’11”, 192 on the Bills’ roster. To summarize: Gronkowski (wearing a WWE-style elbow guard on his left arm) attacked a prone opponent, seven inches shorter and 73 pounds lighter than him, after the whistle, driving his head into the turf and putting that opponent into concussion protocol. Again, the players would be foolish to trust the league to do anything meaningful to protect them from themselves.

Drums are beating about whether football will survive if the game cannot be played without so much malice. The answer, of course, is that it won’t. Parents are already holding their children out of football by the thousands over concerns that the sport cannot be played safely. Fans of the sport at the professional level are also considering whether just watching the game is morally or ethically acceptable.

It doesn’t need to be this way. If NFL players want to know how to make the necessary transition from barbaric spectacle to entertainment, they need only look to their peers in the NBA.

A generation ago, NBA players were just as malevolent and recklessly violent as today’s NFL players. Some of the footage, viewed in the light of today, is insane:

So what happened? Why aren’t NBA games still littered with clothesline fouls, pushes in the back, undercuts beneath the basket, et cetera? Without question, the suspensions and other discipline that followed “The Malice at the Palace” in 2004 informed player behavior going forward.

Ultimately, though, no matter how much control the NBA would like to think it has over player conduct, the simple truth is that it’s the league’s players who decide whether or not they are going to play hard and clean or, in the alternative, with the intent to injure. Based on this season’s disciplinary record (and those of recent years), the NBA’s players are leaving behind the days of “proving their manhood” with violence and concentrating on delivering entertaining athletic performances.

Why is this happening? As usual, when you follow the money the answer readily reveals itself. Ananth Pandian’s column for CBSSports.com analyzed how and why NBA basketball evolved from the thuggish, gladitorial “basketbrawl” of the 1980’s and 1990’s to the comparatively balletic presentation of today. Money is the root cause:

During the late ’80s and most of the ’90s…(p)hysical defense reigned supreme, which resulted in low-scoring games as offenses were restricted by the body bumping and hand checking that was common place. The NBA has since shifted dramatically from those days, hand checking is illegal and teams with fast-paced offenses, like the Golden State Warriors, thrive. Because of this shift, a lot of former players frequently think that the current NBA is soft and simply not tough.

One of those players is former Sonics great Gary Payton, who Pandian described as “a ruthless defender that would take great joy in talking trash to an opponent.” Pandian notes that if Payton played today, “he would constantly be fined for his hard-nosed and aggressive play.” Payton apparently agrees.

I could never play basketball in this soft era. All of my contract money would go toward fines. Lol

— Gary Payton (@GaryPayton_20) February 20, 2016

So we see that NBA players of today have fiscal incentives to keep their games clean. The natural byproduct of those incentives is that NBA players are simply doing less violence to each other than they have in the past. It’s regrettable that this evolution in the NBA hasn’t caught on in the NFL. The years have passed, but as you will note below, almost nothing has changed in football.

Eagles fans have fond memories of the explosive hit Sheldon Brown delivered on Reggie Bush in the 2006 NFC playoffs. Here are Merrill Reese and Mike Quick waxing nostalgic about it:

My memory of that play is more informed by an article Tim Layden wrote for Sports Illustrated chronicling that hit, and others like it, in July of 2007. The article closes with a quote from Brown’s then-teammate Lito Sheppard:  “I don’t want to hurt anybody seriously, and I don’t want to get hurt seriously. What we’ve got to do is find a way to play this game without killing each other.”

That was more than a decade ago, and NFL players still haven’t found their way.

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I debated having my Lamb to the Slaughter AU be Bartylus or Jegulus but I think it might fit Bartylus more

So! James who is married to Regulus, tells him one night he is seeing someone on the side, Regulus becomes so upset at the information that he kills him with a frozen lamb's leg. He covers it up by making dinner and cooking the leg. He runs around getting ingredients and setting up an alibi.

Aurors come to his house and he is questioned but no one actually suspects he could've done it since he was out, he is Sirius' brother, who was defending him quite hard, and James and Regulus' marriage seemed loving from outside accounts.

Everyone brushes past him except one. Barty Crouch Jr.

Regulus insists that everyone eat the cooked lamb since only James eats meat and Regulus is a vegetarian. They eat the murder weapon without realizing it.

But once more, everyone except Barty. Who doesn't touch the lamb and instead has taken to staring shamelessly at Regulus. He doesn't rat the man out, of course, Barty finds the entire thing hilarious.

After everyone left, Barty corners him.

"You did it," he leans closer, "didn't you?"

Regulus hums, his eyes tracing down the other's body, "He was a fool."