#now by Jr. Serpent Toni

[raymondebidochonlifechoices]

To summarise:

Barchie’s pregnancy test turns out negative. Betty is relieved but Archie regrets the opportunity to bring a new life a few days (months?) before the Apocalypse. “My dad loved being a young dad”, he tells Betty, whose mother was an even younger mother (cough!Charles!cough!).

To make sure the viewers got it, Veggie break up again.

Meanwhile, Tabitha is away in Albany working to get Pop’s declared a historical landmark, while Jughead is working at RHS working at Pop’s waiting at home typing away on his computer. Wait, I thought he couldn’t write without his music and was into drawing cartoons now … ?? My mistake.

The mayor of Riverdale goes door-to-door accompanied by the armed deputies of the sheriff’s department sans Keller Sr (who, unlike Keller Jr, is not a regular of the show) to collect overdue books borrowed from the Public Library, which is soon to be converted into a(nother) hotel. Here come The Six Seasons!

It seems our heroes have been less than diligent about returning their books: Jughead owes Kafka’s Metamorphosis from his junior homeless days (not to be confused with his adult homeless days), Betty owes Small Engine Repairs that she borrowed when she was 12 but never returned, Veronica aka the Black Widow of Wall Street owes Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Archie Songwriting From The Heart, Cheryl … Flowers In The Attic (oh boy …) and Reggie a book about dyslexia.

To add insult to injury -with the exception of himbo of my heart Reginald Mantle- our heroes don’t even know where their books are.

It transpires that Kevin hasn’t returned a book either: it’s Lord of the Flies. Percival asks for it. I thought he was already on Percival’s side?

Percival claims that the late fees for the overdue books are “in the thousands of dollars”, although the Guinness Book of Records (the very same one featuring Archie as the toughest man in the world) says the the world´s largest fine for an overdue library book is $345.14.

This is, of course, but a cunning ruse, to allow him to collect various other items as “collateral”, i.e. Jughead’s copy of the first Baxter Brothers book (first edition), Betty’s journal, Hiram’s portrait (Veronica), Archie’s guitar and Cheryl’s brother (in a trunk rather than in the attic).

It must be noted that, at this point, Jason’s adventures as a corpse far surpass his adventures whilst alive.

I have so many questions about this villain who knows exactly what to take under the guise of “collateral” but who hasn’t yet taken over the town …

Cheryl briefly threatens to burn Percival but he says that if he gets even a flush, the sheriff’s deputies will shoot her. Instead of burning the deputies first, then Percival, Cheryl lets him take Jason (and the trunk).

It must be the weekend or something because Kevin is strolling around Riverdale with Percival instead of teaching at RHS.

Meanwhile, the Serpents are apparently illiterate, because neither Toni nor Fangs are asked to return any books. Or maybe they went to Albany too?

Our heroes meet to discuss Percival’s interest in their borrowed books. Cheryl’s witchy mind reels at what he might do with the “secret forbidden knowledge” of what they read during their formative years aka the registry of the library that Percival already used when calling upon them.

Meanwhile, Percival is not interested in the books but in the items he collected as collateral. He lights a black candle, mumbles some latin and asks for the “books” to reveal their secrets. Archie’s guitar, Hiram’s portrait and Jason-in-the-trunk are not books but, yeah, whatevs, Perce.

The w/e must be over, because RHS is in session and Archie’s back at school for the first time since … season 5??

Nope, sorry, I take that back. The English Lit teacher is spending the morning on his laptop at home again. Confused yet?

Percival’s chanting has caused everyone to experience their deepest trauma: FP III is afraid of turning into FP I, Betty’s unlocking hidden memories of serial killer Hal from when she was 12 (canon reset #1), Archie’s seeing Grundy, Veronica is on her way to becoming Spiderwoman, err, venomous like a black widow, and Reggie suffers from his first on-screen episode of dyslexia.

Betty confides her trauma to Archie. Archie, who was disappointed by the negative pregnancy test, lies about his. Manpain must be endured in manly silence.

Instead of buying a new book to remind himself how to read (because this is how dyslexia works in Riverdale), Reggie goes to Percival, who mind controls him into taking a Glamergé egg to Veronica, that is going … to unlock her venomous powers? This is the most unnecessarily convoluted plot ever.

Smithers returns! (Only to swiftly depart again)

Kevin discusses Lord of the Flies with Moose for one whole minute.

After walking 2.445 km, on an average of 25 hours per day, the homeless of Sketch Alley, Riverdale N.Y., have reached Venice Beach, California. Which is where Doc (who is in possession of Jughead’s book) is.

Jughead learns all this from Hank, who is still in Sketch Alley, which is still in its same abandoned condition. Did Percival remove the homeless just to spite Archie?

Canon reset #2: Cheryl has always dabbled in the supernatural.

There is another scene with Archie at school. Maybe the RROTC program is the only class offered at RHS?

Kevin, says Percival, is a gorgeous man, who deserves what his heart desires. Kevin, who has -so far- never had a problem getting what his heart desired (be it Joaquin, Fangs, Moose or a premium spot in a cult), agrees. For good measure, he makes out with Percival. He has now joined his ranks. That Lord-of-the-Flies discussion served no purpose whatsoever. I want my minute back.

Archie comes clean about his trauma. Betty dutifully consoles him. He can now play the guitar again.

Veronica has a fling with Geraldo, who turns out dead the next day.

Himbo of my heart Reggie, who has been left out of the loop all this time, figures out what’s going on. “Are you a wizard?” he asks Percival. “No”, replies Percival, “I’m a magic man”. 

With only 6 minutes left in the episode, Jughead tracks down all of our heroes’ books in a bookstore in Pennsylvania. Sure, why not. Percival gives them back what he took as collateral.

Instead of getting Hiram’s portrait back and disposing of it herself, Veronica leaves it with Percival, in order -one assumes- to facilitate some future plot.

Cheryl proposes to burn the items because they are polluted. Jason -already burned once- is, she claims, excepted. Jughead also keeps his grandfather’s book, since it’s the only thing left of him. That and all the other copies of the highly successful first book of the Baxter Brothers. At least Archie’s guitar is burned. Small mercies.

Geraldo’s death “seems sealed with a kiss”: Dr Curdle Jr must have been spending some quality time with Jughead, as he’s now favouring the same over-the-top narrative vein as the author of The Outcasts. I wish Dr Curdle Jr a very happy career writing crime novels.

Had Percival’s shenanigans no purpose at all or was all this a dastardly plot to unblock Archie’s love for singing? Could this be Percival’s undoing? As the Inferno flames of the Ultimate Battle™ engulf the town, will Archie, armed with a smore stick and a new, purified guitar, sing Kumbaya until Percival’s ears bleed and he explodes in a million supernatural smithereens, thus saving Riverdale? Only time will tell.

Toffee was not in town during this episode, because Toffee has no overdue library books, bitch. She hitched a ride with Tabitha to visit Albany.

[riverdale-retread]

Riverdale S3 E22 Finale (Spoilers!) 

- Life would lose its meaning, if I lost you, my love is the song lyric that sends us out of Season 3 and I kept thinking about S5a. This lyric is the expression of the central tragedy of this show, namely, Jughead and Veronica, the person with the biggest heart and the biggest brain, respectively, yearning to have their love  & devotion properly reciprocated by Barchie, and not getting it. (I hate this place. I hope S5b takes me somewhere better).

Toni is the True Serpent Queen

- Toni assembles everyone and their weapons so quick, both the Serpents and the Poisons, and they know what’s what and follow her command. 

- But first, she gets drugged. Toni Topaz I feel like wouldn’t have been into Harry Potter, maybe because she would’ve figured out Rowling’s issues faster than everyone else.  Nevertheless, if she had, Toni would have known better than to accept food or drink from Penelope Blossom, especially when Penelope calls it ‘calming tea.’  When I first saw this I was convinced that Penelope had straight up killed Toni, but I am so glad she didn’t. 

- Toni is awoken by the ever wonderful Grandma Blossom who always knows whatever the hell is going on.  Grandma Blossom wants Toni to participate as a side player in the Main 4′s plot but Toni is very firm:  I NEED TO SAVE CHERYL.  Because you know, the main four always do that to Choni. Go Toni with your proper priorities.  Because when Choni do come to the rescue of the main four, NOBODY SAYS THANK YOU. 

Sidebar: Girlfriends well met, because after her valiant self sacrifice for her lady, Cheryl saves her own self, more or less. She also runs, several miles, in the dark, in heels, holding a baby, and her hair is still perfect at the end of it.  Cheryl Blossom is a witch, nobody can tell me otherwise.  And I very much enjoyed the multiple archers.  Yeah, a solo archer is really of limited utility, but I agree that a gang of archers can be all that.

I also liked the very brief, very tiny, Alice and Cheryl scenes.  They both  have snappy bitch energy. Alice answering the question from Cheryl about Why should I trust you! with What choice do you have? is the most persuasive anyone has ever been with Cheryl.  Betty could learn a thing or two. 

So then Alice stays for Polly and wants Betty to be safe from the Farm.  So it’s sometime AFTER she married Edgar that she met Charles and became the secret mole? Alice hates herself, so she can’t love her daughters and that’s why Charles’ intervention works.  I would feel bad for her, but she’s so shit.

Penelope Blossom is a Terrific Villain

-  Penelope, like a good madame (I assume?) lets people be who they are.  That has to be the key to her success as a sex worker. She understands people.  Penelope Blossom understands that Edgar’s greed for money outweighs his need to indulge in his various perversions, and so she buys all of Betty’s organs, in bulk.  (I am a sicko for finding this funny, but I mean seriously, Penelope has a way with words). She got Dagwood (Jason Jr. The Second)  because she understood that Edgar really only wants to keep girl children and gay boys. 

The total filth and lack of any sort of hygiene at the Farm’s organ harvesting surgery room gives me absolute heebie jeebies.  Edgar is such a pervert, but it’s useful that perverts in tv and film are such ornate, fussy people because otherwise he’d just straight up murder Betty and there’d be no more show.

- By the way Penelope doesn’t want to rescue Cheryl, just Betty, even after she knows Evernever is harvesting organs. Damn that is cold.

- Penelope has been observing Jughead very closely during their repeated interactions this season, so she knows that Jughead loves to give Poirot monologues, and she lets him!  And Jughead just has a whole selection of these speech openings in his head, all the time, to pull out whenever.  Use quote from Conan Doyle re: Impossible, Improbable, Truth, In Real Life, now crossed off the Jughead Master To Do List!  Oh and Jughead talks to Hal Cooper for the first time in his life, and so calls him Mr. Cooper because Jughead politeness compulsion is so ingrained.

- Penelope only wears her long opera gloves on her left hand because that’s the site of the worst injuries sustained in the Blossom Fire. I want to know where she keeps all the right handed gloves.  

- Penelope also understands that Betty is basically Alice in a Gothic Wonderland, and knows that she will, without question or attempt at escape, just obediently follow written instructions that say “Put This On, Come Downstairs.” Especially if you make the gown pink.  (Pause here to say, OMG Betty is so! very! beautiful!  Penelope voice to purr:  Elizabethhhhh Pretty~~~~)

-  Penelope is the OG Game Master.  Penelope is a homophobe but I mean she is all about that drag queen showmanship. She juices up the game like a grown up: ALL OF THE CHALICES WERE POISONED. It’s just  slow acting. And maybe there is an antidote which might work and maybe there isn’t. Or maybe it was never poisoned to begin with. LULZ  you just have to finish the game!   The singsong delivery of the line:  Tick To~~ck is so fan.tast.ic. 

Hal Cooper Is A Gormless Woman Killer

- Hal Cooper is not scary. Once more - Hal Cooper Is Not Scary.  He just isn’t.  No disrespect to the performer, but he just isn’t threatening, at all.  Chic is unsettling and weird, at least, but Hal Cooper is not scary.    What he is though, is hateful.   

I find it hilarious that Hal Cooper’s final benediction, delivered by Penelope, is:  YOU WERE A TERRIBLE SERIAL KILLER.  This neatly echoes Alice Cooper bursting out in hysterical laughter when Betty first accuses her father of having killed Jason Blossom - The man is just not capable teehee.  And it’s true that if Hal had been tasked with killing Jason Blossom he wouldn’t have succeeded, but not for the reasons Alice thinks.  Hal is a woman killer, not a plain serial killer.

Hal’s a misogynist with control issues about women,so  his heart was only in it when he was out to kill women, and that’s why he fails so badly at killing men.

Compare to Sister Agatha, who killed all of her sister nuns to tie up loose ends, and to Penelope Blossom, who mostly kills men who have directly harmed her or get in her way.

Mary Andrews Gave Her Obtuseness To Her Son, Who is Just Not Bright 

- Does Mary know who Veronica’s father is?? Fred Andrews was often a little bit uncomfortable around Veronica. He didn’t openly approve of the Varchie relationship the way he did Valerie, for example.  FP, Failure Father Jones, expressed grave concerns when his child went into business (for a bit) with Veronica Lodge, but Mary is like, So Archie, are you and V endgame? Where do you stand?  I mean, she herself is queer, so that must be why relating to her straight son (if he is) (all his most important emotional connections are with boys and he keeps needing to find Jughead replacements soooo....) are so awkward.

- Archie, going off to fight the Bear Man, asks in the most super casual way that his friends tell his parents that he loves them, if he dies, and then adds as a total afterthought, “You guys too.”  This little bit reveals everything there is to say about Archie being both so, so dumb and yet so loveable.

Sidebar: Giant Unexplained Man who is willing to wear a bear head hat and beat a teenager to death in the woods (what was the wanted ad for this job like?)  is so Riverdale.

- Archie has played two whole rounds of live action  G&G with real death stakes and still doesn’t know that it’s Gargoyles and not Gremlins because that boy is just not smart.

Veronica is the Smartest of the Main Four, says the Show

- Veronica keeps saying sensible things that are directly contradicted by Jughead and I don’t like this.  I saw this in a really well put together film commentary once - that women often ask questions in movies that are answered by the nearest man, that women posit things that are sensible but then the nearest man shows  them to be wrong by saying the opposite thing that comes true. And this exact thing keeps happening to Veronica by Jughead here and it does them both a disservice. Jughead listens to women (all people really, but especially women) very closely and carefully, you know? And Veronica is the smartest one of the main four, the all-rounder.  I know Betty gets the best grades but come on, she’s not the smartest.   

Example 1:  Archie says “The invites say not to tell anyone or bring our phones,” to which Veronica explains, to Archie, “So it’s a trap.” Archie’s face is like OMFG WHAT I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT but Jughead glares at Veronica like she’s stupid and snaps, “What that ever in doubt?”   Um. Hey now.

Example 2:   Veronica, who has never played any version of G&G, is the one to say,  “We don’t even know where to go!”  and immediately, Jughead answers, “Actually, Enchantress, we might.”   Let me reiterate, Archie has played the real life version because Warden Norton and Hiram Lodge forced him to from when he was in prison and he knows the rules enough to hallucinate the game when he has Bear Claw Fever, but he still doesn’t know what the game is called!  Betty must’ve gotten a quick tutoring session between when she didn’t know anything about the game and when she moved into the Farm and was comfortable addressing Jughead as Hellcaster. So there is no justification for Jughead to be so irritable with Veronica for her questions.

Example 3:  When given the Poison Roulette game, Veronica at first refuses to participate, which is also a sane response, and yet again, Jughead, who was waiting for her to object,  then reads her the rest of the instructions.  Jughead, why are  you being so mean to Veronica? 

Example 4: In the throes of the game, Archie wonders aloud WTF  is going on because he’s slow, and Veronica says, as she’s dying of poisoning, that maybe they can figure out the whys and wherefores later, which is a sensible thing to say, and then Jughead goes, Nope, figuring out how all this is connected is the answer!

Example 5:  Jughead then goes on this Bible infused ramble (Did FP put Jughead in Sunday school at some point?) - Jason Blossom death begat the Black Hood  which begat Gargoyle King, but our Cafeteria Catholic Veronica isn’t having it because it is wrong, and so she points out that Black Hood existed before the Blossom murder, and Jughead goes, in essence,  Oh oopsie but I am still right.

BUT!  After all that, the Show realizes that in order to shoehorn Charles into the story, and make the character turnaround for  Alice have at least half a chance and  establish that law enforcement does sort of exist in this universe, they have  to have Veronica say, “Actually, it kind of tracks.”   This is a signal to the audience that since the smartest person in the show has accepted that this tracks so we all need to just fall in line. 

Performance sidebar: Betty’s chuckle of surreal disbelief is a golden piece of acting genius in this show and I love it, and Jughead’s mind getting wiped completely clean as he figures out that he shares a half sibling with his girlfriend is just as classic. 

Jughead Loves Archie & Betty, in this order

-First up, Jughead loves Archie more than Veronica does.  I love how the one reaction you see of the remaining three when Archie gets slammed by the Bear Man is Jughead, and Jughead’s legs just give out from under him when he sees Archie take the blow.  Both of the girls are dry eyed, but Jug definitely starts to cry.   It’s dark and it’s hard to see, but I swear.  The Archie POV shots are fascinating too.  He does look at Veronica first, and that helps him decide to fight harder, so he grabs a big branch.  Then he gets flung in a way Archie does not get flung, and this is when he seeks out Jughead, and his eye contact with Jughead is what gives him the critical second  wind to win.  

-  By the way, is Bear Man dead?? Is he the second man Archie has killed?  

- Before Betty’s solo challenge, Jughead tells her he loves her.  (Betty just doesn’t do that for Jughead. I know, it’s petty, but girl, learn to take a moment.)  Anyway, they share a long kiss, in the dark, and I am annoyed because I can’t see. Show me!  And when she’s drinking the poisons he doesn’t take his eye off her for even a second.  Oh Jughead.

Veronica Loves Betty & Archie, in this order

- ‘K so ... grabbing and downing a goblet that you both think is full of cyanide that will make you die a gruesome death immediately, and declaring that you did it BECAUSE I LOVE YOU is the most piercingly romantic thing anyone has ever done for anybody on Riverdale.  I feel like this is neck and neck with Jughead making that final phone call to Betty before letting himself get Aslan-sacrificed by the Ghoulies in the S2 Finale.  You’re my best friend... and... and  says Veronica and my heart is breaking and so is hers because she can’t finish the sentence. To which Betty says, I love you too.  

OK primal howl break here to ask Betty how could you! How! Could! You! How!!!! And WHY???  And what did it get you?

- Oh golly I am so upset. 

- Veronica is supposed to choose her closest companion, and Betty volunteers.  So Betty knows that Veronica loves her most.  Note the very careful wording of this - Veronica has to choose the companion she feels closest to. Betty knows. 

- And fucking Archie, after witnessing how much Veronica loves Betty, and how golden and perfect and whole Veronica’s love can be for a person, picks the worst possible fucking time to say he loves Veronica. Sure you do Archie. Yup. Uh huh.

- Oh, and then we find out that nothing happened with Reggie after Archie cockblocked him that night after Reggie gave up everything for Veronica once again. Veronica is committed to Archie and wants Archie, and I love Veronica so I want her to get what she wants (even though I know she’ll never get it - sob!), but also, justice for Reggie when?

Chic v Jughead. 

- I absolutely love Jughead’s WTF disbelief throughout the final quest.  When Penelope announces, Let the final quest... Begin! in the same theatrical way he himself had when he was gamemaster, he quirks his eyebrows at her like, Is that the best you can do?  

Sidebar:   Penelope’s very gender traditional ways of thinking are revealed - the girls have to poison themselves and boys have to fight off an attacker.  

- Jughead learns that learning the motives of a serial killer are unilluminating.

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I mean, this is the Wow, OK, heard ‘round the world.  The single best delivered line of meta commentary in a television show ever. No, just, ever, ok? No contest. Just accept it.

The Farmies

- When Cheryl first finds them in their room at the Farm, Kevin and Fangs are doing some sort of hand holding, loving-eye contact type of semi-dance ritual, and ... but for the cult context this looks so adorable.  The fact that they both overcome this experience enough to be in a long term stable relationship, both finish college, both work out a stable (enough) adult life, and want to start a family together is so heartwarming to me. (And yet sad, because it just breaks apart in S5a.)

- The Worthy ascended and we’ll never see them again. Dun dun. Except they just.. moved. What does Kevin thinks has happened?   The Ascension of the Farmies is a weird misdirect, because Ascension just means We Move Houses. Farmies are such drama queens.   Riverdale is down in some sort of valley, right?  So they just literally ascended to a house geographically higher up!

Set Up for Season 4

- I mean obviously, the S4 set up is the Is Jughead Dead but that was never a true cliffhanger, to begin with, and now I know Jughead lives into his mid twenties at least, so Betty insisting the other two stand naked in the forest burning the beanie was just her being very dramatic.  And her pronouncement about ‘We never speak of this ever’ is contradicted immediately because they involve the entire village almost immediately.

- Cheryl has Jason all to herself, finally. Cheryl discovering Jason’s corpse and her horror at it contrasts nicely with how casual she is about this corpse in the next season. 

- Hermione arrested for attempted murder of Hiram.  Oh, and Mad-Dog Monroe and Archie want to create a community center. 

- Meanwhile, Preppy Jughead was my jam so I am very hyped for S4 retread.

[lilibetts]

If you're down for answering my random question, please tell me: if you had full creative control of the show, how would you run season 5? You can pick and choose whatever leaks you want to include.

Well for starters, I’d roll up to the writers’ office with sunglasses on and a venti iced caramel latte in hand, and write one thing on the whiteboard:

RIVERDALE REBOOT: BUT THEY’RE ALL IN COLLEGE

Jason gets to be alive, but we still never actually hear him say a word.

Betty and Jughead investigate crimes around campus, and then discover they like investigating each other too.

Veronica and Cheryl are unholy terrors on the sorority circuit.

The only bears Archie fights are the kind in the gay bar he frequents without realizing it’s a gay bar because he’s a honest-to-god himbo, and it’s not so much ‘fights’ as it is ‘wrestle half naked’ if you get my meaning.

There’s a whole sub-plot that harkens back to season two, where the poorer Southsiders are often denied scholarships/admission to the college. Toni leads the Serpents in an effort to change this.

College parties. Lots of college parties.

Everyone’s parents are completely off-screen. The actors who used to play the parents, as well as other ‘adult characters’ (i.e. Charles, Dr. Curdle Jr) are now completely different characters who work around the campus. Professors, etc.

Finals week is murder. Literal murder.

[cardest]

San Francisco playlist

San Francisco  - my favorite city in the world! The bands, the music, the songs are all here, in this playlist I created. I threw in a bit of Sac and went south by San Jose, Monterrey and up past Sausalito. Can we make it to 250 songs? Let me know what bands/songs I left out.

Have I left out a song or a band in this San Francisco playlist? Let me know! Cheers! 

Play the songs here at this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1-HLG9q5rZLsqs8EYh6bhu- San Francisco

001 The Dillinger Escape Plan w/Mike Patton -  When Good Dogs Do Bad Things 002 Night flight Orchestra - California Morning 003 Quincy Jones - Call Me Mister Tibbs OST (Main Title) 004 James Taylor Quartet - Dirty Harry theme song 005 Faith No More - Seperation anxiety 006 Streets of San Francisco TV show theme song 007 Santana -  Evil Ways 008 High on Fire -  Electric Messiah 009 Metallica - Disposable Heroes 010 Hammers Of Misfortune -  Dead Revolution 011 Buddy Guy -  Hello San Francisco 012 Faith No More - Jungle 013 Isaac Hayes - Shaft 014 Orange Peels  - Back In San Francisco 015 Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids - Message To My People 016 Thee Oh Sees - The Dream 017 Merle Haggard - Here In Frisco 018 Audrey Horne -  California 019 Journey -  Lights 020 Death Angel -  Hatred United / United Hate 021 Mel Tor Me - Got The Date On The Golden Gate 022 Duke Ellington -  Tourist Point Of View 023 Sons of Anarchy  - This Life (Sons of Anarchy Theme Song) 024 Larry Graham's Central Station - Earthquake 025 LARD - I Wanna Be A Drug Sniffing Dog 026 Machine Head -  California Bleeding 027 Neurosis -  The Doorway 028 KING WOMAN - Utopia 029 Lalo Schifrin - Magnum Force OST  Main Title 030 Forbidden -  Adapt Or Die 031 DBUK - In San Francisco Bay 032 Jack Name - Werewolf Factory 033 John Carpenter - Theme from "The Fog" 034 Khiis - Saboor 035 Richie Havens -  San Francisco Bay Blues 036 Metallica - Battery 037 Autopsy - charred remains 038 ExTREMITY_-_Crepuscular_Crescendo 039 The Otherside -  Streetcar 040 Quincy Jones - Ironside (TV Theme) 041 Megadeth -  Back in the Day 042 Sly and the Family Stone - Stand! 043 Faith No More -  From Out of Nowhere 044 Willie Hutch-Vampin (The Mack OST 045 Orchid -  Mouths Of Madness 046 Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt OST - On The Way To San Mateo 047 Vince Guaraldi - Woodstock's Dream 048 Fantomas -  4-11-05 049 Violation Wound - Fearmonger + State of Alarm 050 Primus - Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers 051 The Flower Pot Men - Let's Go to San Francisco (Part.1-2) 052 Bosse-de-Nage - Crux 053 Rod McKuen - The Beat Generation 054 Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose 055 The Watchers - Sabbath Highway 056 Possessed - the eyes of horror 057 Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (Be Sure to wear flowers) 058 Tower Of Power -  Oakland Stroke 059 Big Trouble In Little China OST - Pork chop express 060 Vio-lence -  Calling In The Coroner 061 Black Oak Arkansas - The Big Ones Still Coming 062 Mr. Bungle - Love Is a Fist 063 VUUR -  The Fire - San Francisco 064 Testament - The Haunting 065 Electronicat - Frisco Bay 066 Y&T - Mean Streak 067 Thee Oh Sees -  Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster 068 Sweet - California Nights - Promo Clip (OFFICIAL) 069 Sadus - Swallowed In Black 070 Chuck Berry - San Francisco Dues 071 Sammy Hagar - Keep on rockin' 072 Fuzz -  Sleigh Ride 073 Otis Redding - Sittin' on The Dock of the Bay 074 Pleasure Leftits - The Gate 075 BL'AST - Sometimes 076 Santana - Samba de Sausalito 077 Acephalix - Upon This Altar 078 Sun Ra    - Lady With The Golden Stockings 079 Chris Isaak - San Francisco Days 080 Pointer Sisters - How Long (Betcha' Got A Chick On The Side) 081 High On Fire -  Carcosa 082 Will Haven -  When The Walls Close In 083 The Coup -  Laugh/Love/Fuck 084 King Khan - Teeth Are Shite 085 Deafheaven -  Irresistible 086 Glitter Wizard -  Blood of the Serpent 087 Jefferson Airplane -  It's No Secret 088 Cannonball Adderley - This Here 089 The Warlocks -  Can't Come Down 090 Squirmy Sax Man - I Still Believe 091 Acid King - Coming Down from Outer Space 092 George Duke - Sausalito 093 The Lost Boys - Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys OST) 094 Betty Davis - [They Say I'm Different] He Was a Big Freak 095 Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls 096 The Dillinger Escape Plan w/ Mike Patton -  Pig Latin 097 Build Them to Break - Lucky Strike 098 Montrose - Rock Candy 099 PRIMUS - THE TOYS GO WINDING DOWN 100 Joe Satriani - Big Bad Moon 101 Sleater Kinney - Jumpers 102 GRUESOME - Dimensions Of Horror 103 Sly & the Family Stone - Everday People 104 Huey Lewis and the News - Back in Time 105 Hammers Of Misfortune - 2 17th Street 106 Jerry Fielding - Prologue _ Main Title (The Enforcer OST) 107 Metal Church - The Dark 108 Deftones - Ohms 109  John Lee Hooker - Frisco Blues 110 DRI - Go Die 111 16th & Valencia Roxy Music- Devendra Banhart, What We Will Be 112 MC Hammer - Too Legit to Quit 113 Dead Kennedys-Police Truck 114 Rancid - Adina 115 San Francisco's Shiver - Up My Sleeve 116 Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo OST - The Bay 117 Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow 118 Blackburn & Snow -  Stranger In a Strange Land 119 The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes 120 The Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia 121 Cab Calloway - San Francisco Fan 122 The Charlatans - codine 123 Buck Owens - Want To Live In San Francisco 124 Sleep - Dragonaut 125 Death Angel - 5 Steps Of Freedom 126 Neil Young - Heart of Gold 127 Vastum -  Reveries in Autophagia 128 Dead Kennedys -  Moon Over Marin 129 EchoBrain -  Colder World 130 Riz Ortolani    - Lombard Street   131 Waylon Jennings - San Francisco Mabel Joy   132 Con Funk Shun - Confunkshunizeya 133 Chic - Hes the Greatest Dancer 134 Peace Creep - Radio Free Alcatraz   135 ABBA - Santa Rosa 136 Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - San Fransisco 137 Together Band - California Curl California Girl 138 The Hellers - It's 74 In San Francisco 139 Pat Todd - No Place Like Home 140 Nancy Wilson - I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco (And I Don't Drink At All) 141 Anathema -  San Francisco 142 Blue Cheer -  Fool 143 Exhumed - Gravewalker 144 Darondo - Let My People Go 145 Exodus -  Blood In Blood Out 146 Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry OST - Scorpios Theme   147 Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues 148 Wild Light - California on my mid 149 Herbie Hancock - Man-child -  Hang Up Your Hang Ups 150 Fantomas -  Spider Baby 151 The Lord Weird Slough Feg -  Headhunter 152 The Animals - San Franciscan Nights 153 Twilight - Dance with Me 154 THE POINTER SISTERS - Yes We Can Can 155 Residents - Hello Skinny 156 CCR HEADCLEANER - Eat This Riff 157 LEON WARE  - Thats Why I Came To California 158 Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You 159 Comorant - The First Man 160 Bosse-de-Nage  - The Trench 161 Hell Fire - Free Again   162 Riz Ortolani  - Golden Gate Bridge 163 Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun 164 Uther Pendragon - San Francisco Earthquake 165 Melvins - Zodiac 166 La Luz - California Finally 167 The Wyatt Act - Push 168 Santana - Soul Sacrifice 169 Cheap Trick - On the Radio 170 Electric Wizard -  Venus In Furs 171 Led Zeppelin -  Misty Mountain Hop 172 Tommy Castro - Callin' San Francisco 173 Viscious Rumors - Digital Dictator 174 Ghoul-Off With Their Heads 175 Diesel - Sausalito Summernight (Single Version) 176 Sheila E - A Love Bizarre 177 Starship - Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now 178 Jeffry Osboune - I Really Don't Need No Light 179 Nazareth -  Alcatraz 180 Freak of Nature - Rescue Me 181 Metallica - Crash Course In Brain Surgery 182 10000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac 183 Faith No More -  Get Out 184  URSA -  Wizard's Path 185 Jefferson Airplane - Aerie (Gang of Eagles) 186 Tower of Power - Just Enough and Too Much 187 Fred Hughes - san francisco is a lonely town 188 Mamaleek - Eating Unblessed Meat 189 Moby Grape - Naked If I Want To 190 Exodus - Metal Command 191 Pig Destroyer - Alcatraz Metaphors 192 the Donnas - You Make Me Hot 193 Hot Tuna - True Religion 194 Heathen - Opiate of the Masses 195 Fanny - Come and Hold Me 196 Sadus - Hands Of Fate 197 Negative Trend - Meathouse 198 Forbidden - Forbidden Evil 199 Spazz - Crush Kill Destroy 200 Testament - The Preacher 201 HEXX - Morbid Reality 202 Vio-Lence - Phobophobia 203 Dead Kennedys - One Way Ticket To Pluto 204 Tom Waits - Get Behind The Mule 205 CRETIN - It 206 RAMONES - Judy Is A Punk 207 Full House - Intro 208 Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band - Kerouac 209 Primus - Dirty Drowning Man 210 Wooden Shjips -  Motorbike 211 The Tony Williams Lifetime Ego - Clap City 212 Middle of the Road - Sacramento (A Wonderful Town) 213 Green Day - At the Library 214 Slayer -  Gemini 215 Tetema - Cutlass Eye 216 Defiance - Death Machine 217 Brisco County Jr theme 218 Doug McKechnie - Crazy Ray 219 Ulthar - Furnace Hibernation 220 Mr. Bungle -  ANARCHY UP YOUR ANUS 221 Dirty Ghosts  - Let It Pretend 222 They Might Be Giants - San Francisco (In Situ) 223 Metallica - The Shortest Straw 224 OM - Unitive Knowledge of the Godhead 225 Laaz Rockit - City's Gonna Burn 226 Autopsy - Skullptures 227 Mordred - Spectacle of Fear 228 Sly & the Family Stone - Luv N' Haight 229 Possessed - Seven Churches 230 Machine Head - The Rage to Overcome 231 Thelonius Monk - San Francisco Holiday 232 The Units - The Mission Is Bitchin 233 Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Mistadobalina 234 Arnocorps - Dead lift 235 The Grateful Dead - The Golden Road 236 DRI - All for nothing 237 Jim Martin - Disco dust 238 Thee Oh Sees - I come from the mountain 239 Death Angel - Discontinued 240 Starship - We Built This City 241 Captured! by Robots - Endless Circle of Bullshit 242 Pins Of Light - My revenge 243 Sun Ra - We Travel the Spaceways 244 Faith No More - caffeine 245 David Lee Roth - Just like paradise 246 San Francisco Fog Horns by Golden Gate Bridge 247 Abscess - Tormented 248 Mortuous - Bitterness 249 Dead Kennedy's - California uber alles 250 Twitch Angry - San Francisco 666 Neurosis - Water Is Not Enough

So, hop on a cable car, grab ice cream at Swenson’s or bark back at the seals down by Pier 39. Catch a Bear’s game at Berkeley and do some squirmy sax moves in the Haight after you down some beers at the Toronado and play my San Fran playlist! Here are the songs in the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1-HLG9q5rZLsqs8EYh6bhu-

[photolover82]

The Masked Singer Season 4 Episode 2: Group B kicking it off... with a twist!! Guesses and Commentary

Hello my fellow Masked Singer guys and gals! It's that time of the week again (albeit I am a bit late, but let's go with it), time for Ana's Masked Singer recap woohoo! *insert fanfare here* This episode was such an insane one not gonna lie, Group B came in with a bang like wow... let's just get into it because it's a crazy episode in it of itself.

Firstly, I gotta point out the contestants of Group B, which this time were 6 unlike A and C which only have 5 contestants total.. and those 6 are (order from left to right, top row first then bottom row in the image below) Crocedile, Gremlin (the purple fluffy guy), Seahorse, Whatchamacallit (the blue and red hair cousin It thing), Baby Alien, and Serpent.

Alrighty so this elimination is gonna be a bit different than usual because it isn't the norm of what usually happens with these sorts of things (I'll tell you what I mean in a sec)...

So the first contestant unmasked for Group B actually wasn't eliminated (I know what you are thinking... "whaaatttt Anaaaaa that makes no sense")... but actually he unmasked himself (whatttt?! yeah you read that right, he legit was hot and suffocating and he seemed super over it and just took it off by himself... yup, that happened like what mind blown!

Anyways the mask who did this was...

*DRUMROLL PLEASE*

THE GREMLIN

Performance: He sang Stand by Me by Ben E. King and honestly it was meh, it was really breathy as if he forgot some of the words, I don’t know if he was overcome with emotion (because he dedicated it to his friend who passed away) or what, I felt kind of bad but I low key feel like he was going to go home regardless, but on the bright side I love the costume and it was a great song choice for his range. He has a very raspy voice... like almost like a smoker’s voice and I can kind of tell that he’s an older man, but I couldn’t recognize the singer. 

So the Gremlin ended up being revealed to be.... 

*DRUMROLL PLEASE*

MICKEY ROURKE 

Ugh this upsets me because I don’t know who he is so I really couldn’t guess him correctly. I searched it up and apparently he’s an actor and director and was in Iron Man 2, which I’ve never seen like ever. But yeah, he did good, he looked kinda drunk not gonna lie and I guess he was suffocated and got over it. 

Alright now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to my favorite part, the remaining 5 contestants: 

1. THE SEAHORSE

Performance: I really love Seahorse, she’s one of my favorites of the night and so far in the season in general. Her performance of Rihanna’s Only Girl in the World was amazing and I definitely knew who that voice is...

My guess and I am so sure about this guys is singer, songwriter, American Idol alum... 

TORI KELLY 

Dude like that voice is so recognizable... but also because of the clues: 

Emotion Ocean= she’s super emotional when it comes to songwriting, like she legit said in an interview that she cries a lot

Tea Party= she hosted tea parties with her fans in 2019 (well before all this ofc) 

Rainbow Frog= sang Rainbow Connection with Kermit the Frog 

Judges’ Guesses: 

Jenny: Halsey (say what now? This doesn’t sound like her... is Jenny ok? This episode she’s been messing up with guesses more than Ken... you’ll see what I mean) 

Nicole: Hailee Steinfeld (meh, that’s ok I guess, but not quite) 

Robin: Bebe Rexha (he was onto something when he said country but then he said this, but this is the closest guess of the 3)  

2. THE SERPENT 

Performance: This one is my other favorite of this group. His performance of “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers was absolutely stunning, I got chills! If it is who I think it is, I love him (partially because I think I know who it can be) 

I think the Serpent can be actor of the iconic Broadway sensation Hamilton aka Aaron Burr, Sir:

LESLIE ODOM JR. 

Dude like I feel pretty good about this guess because of the voice and the clues:

Map of the Caribbean= reference to the beginning of Hamilton where Alexander Hamilton is from

Jr. References= he’s a jr. 

Between medicine & music= he played a doctor on Murder on the Orient Express in 2017

Number 31118 (this was from the Sunday before the premiere but still worth noting)= 3 albums, 11 stage productions, 18 years on Broadway OR bible verse Romans 3:11-18 which was written by Paul, a character he played on Rent

Judges’ Guesses:

Jenny: John Legend (See what I’m saying? Jenny, what are you doing man? That is not John Legend, like they don’t sound alike at all) 

Ken: Daveed Diggs (Wow! Ken got it kinda close, I’m proud, that’s an achievement for him we gotta give it to him) 

Nicole: Leslie Odom Jr. (WOOOO!! Yesss Nicole!!) 👏🏼

3. THE CROCODILE 

Performance: I also really liked Crocodile and his performance of It’s My Life by Bon Jovi was great! I feel like I know who this is, and I am pretty familiar (well, more or less) with 90s and early 2000s boybands and this one is someone in that realm I am so sure of it... 

Ok so being more specific, I think it’s boybander from The Backstreet Boys: 

NICK CARTER 

The voice and the clues were a dead giveaway:

The Vegas vibes in the clue package= he performed in Vegas with Backstreet Boys 

Water clues (the water slide and happiest in water)= he was born in Orlando, FL home of the theme parks and FL is also some of the Gators so it would makes sense with the costume

Grew up in Hollywood= moved there when really young

Judges’ Guesses:

Ken: John Hamm (and he’s back, that was a terrible guess)

Nicole: Nick Lachey (so close, but not quite)

Robin: Donnie Wahlberg (um, Jenny agreed, how does she not know that this ain’t your husband?!) 

4. THE WHATCHAMACALLIT

Performance:  His performance of “I Wish” by Skee-Lo was good, not my favorite, but I didn’t hate it. I am kind of feeling that it’s an athlete due to the height and also how he speaks. 

So this guess is an idea I got from the Internet (subject to change because I have no clue about sports players): 

Rashad Jennings?

The only thing I got from the clues was:

Dancing with Stars= he won DWTS 

Clues IDK

Orange Jelly= ?

The clock with the Bear Mask on the 5= ? 

Swinging Keys= ?

Judges’ Guesses:

Nicole= Swiss Beats (meh idk) 

Ken: Damon Lillard (I like this guess, tbh.. I kinda agree with it being a sports player)

Robin: Tyler the Creator (that would be cool but I don’t think so) 

5. THE BABY ALIEN

Performance: His performance of Faith by George Micheals was good too, better than I expected for the costume ngl. I had pretty low expectations but I am pleasantly surprised. He isn’t my favorite by any means and I am also a bit stumped by him especially because of that fake Russian accent, but I am in between 2 people at the moment....

The 2 people I am in between are either Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham or actor 

JASON SEGEL 

It kinda sounds like him and the clues are a bit confusing but there’s one I understand too:

Tony Awards Reference= he’s been on Broadway 

The mask’s a puppet and Segel is a big fan of puppets (He was also in the Muppets movie) 

CLUES IDK 

Space clues= ?

Friends Reference (2nd Gear)= ?

Ferris Beuller references= ?

Judges’ Guesses:

Jenny: Ralph Macchio (meh I guess that’s good) 

Nicole: David Schwimmer (not bad, but idk it doesn’t really sound like it)

Ken: Freddie Prinze Jr. (ya, no) 

Alright so that’s it! I am so sorry for it being late, but better late than never... I’ve been pretty busy so hopefully this weekend I will have tonight’s episode recap up... THANK YOU FOR READING AND I WILL SEE YOU IN THE NEXT ONE *blows kiss* byeeee! 

[arsenicpanda]

Let's get some positive fandom engagement going! 💖 Answer this ask (don't forget to tag it #bughead) and then send a positive fandom ask to five of your fellow bughead fans. Here's your question: you get the phone call informing you that you're now in charge of Riverdale. What will season five be like?

Ahahahaha, oh my god, you guys would be so screwed.  Ok, to be fair, the real plot of Riverdale I’d want to do was suggested and then shot down in season 3, so I don’t know what I’d do, exactly, but, as a fan of Riverdale’s brand of chaos and also the (unfairly) maligned season 2, I think you guys would be Displeased.

So, with no idea about the general plot because I do not possess the level of raw madness required to helm Riverdale, here are things I would do:

- Make it a gap year instead of a time skip.  We can save the time skip for season 6, which will probably be the last season, that way we don’t have to make up more than one reason for everyone to come back. We can, idk, give the kids day jobs and say they’re earning cash or something while Archie is finishing school

- Bring back the Serpents and #ganglife

- Lots of crime

- So many crimes

- Betty and Jughead commit crimes to investigate crimes

- There is at least one instance where Betty and Jughead going to violent extremes ends with them being gentle with each other ala 2x19

- Betty vs. Hiram, she’s the only one of the core four to not fight him, and I find that unfair

- The return of Gladys, Penny, Dr. Curdle Jr., Evelyn, Ricky, Bret, and Donna, although not together, obviously, that would be madness even for this show

- ACE ATTORNEY SIERRA MCCOY

- Jones family feels (minus Alice but including Betty)

- Friendship, definitely, but include some crime in there.  Friends who commit crimes together stay friends

- Veronica goes full junior mob boss and stands in front of her portrait ala Hiram

- Jughead goes full Lelouch at least once

- Toni’s personality comes back from the war and she gets to talk to non-Cheryl people

- Someone explicitly states that they dislike being attracted to Jughead because of his personality. I know this is true, I just need confirmation.  Betty is baffled, his personality is the best part.

- Jughead proposes to Betty for his own reasons (namely that he’s been wanting to since like season 1), but Jughead and Betty get married when they do so they don’t have to testify against each other

- Increasingly dark power couple bughead

- But they’re still also being mega cute?  Like SUPER cute

- At least one truly bananas thing happens per episode

Do you see how you might not want this?

[xserpentlife]

3.19 Reactions - Spoilers

Raw Reaction. No editing to this so so it may not be grammatically correct and spelling is not checked. I just write while I watch the show.

poor jellybean 

Oh fuck he died shit 

Fred 🖤🖤

Oh yeah elio you had nothing to do with him taking drugs okay 

Fuck yes Gladys 

Fucking playing G&G

Fred 🖤🖤

I’m sorry your actually trying to move your dad 🙄

Oh shit Archie 

Oh fuck 

Gladys better get that fuckin marble, But she won’t cause it’s riverdale 

She got it like she gonna say the truth 

She better say it 

OH FUCK OH SHIT FINALLY FINALLY!!

YES ANGRY FP YES YES YES YES 

“Big wedding” wtfffff

ADOPT THEM WHAY 

There’s goes Veronica 

Oh fuck you elio 

Betty snooper 

Bruh I’m just saying what if Evelyn isn’t Edgar’s actual daughter also like I just don’t feel like she’s truthful cause like idkkkkkk

The lighting and thunder 😂😂

Awwwww poor pops 

I really don’t think Kurtz is just an addict or a cook like I really damn wel feel like he has some type of psychiatric problem 

I thought Archie had a car?? Or wait his car had no roof right idk 

PRETENDING TO BE 17 bitch what 

WAIT HERE ME OHT WHAT IF SHE IS PRETENDING AND SHE ISNT HIS DAIGHTER MAYBE ITS HIS SISTET OR WIFE

Yeah let’s just wear your leather jackets if I pops to commit a robbery cause that’s not weird 

Also do with that gun okay hi bitch if that’s your fun issues to you let’s not use that 

OH FUCK I KNEW THAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN GUCK 

FO GOT SHOT HE GOT SHOT 

YES JUG YES! 

Hal is still a creepy mofo 

auntie 😂😂

I’m sorry your leaving one uh no no fuck that 

Jason jr bitch what 

Oh fuck Archie 

The riverdale reaper wow real original 👏🏼

A killer yeah okay 

Oh yeah let’s show your mom the bunker the one place she probably didn’t know about 

Leave Riverdale HA 

I mean she did kinda destroy it not gonna lie 

WHAT WHEN DID ARCHUE AND JOSIE LIKE REALLT GET TOGETHER LIKE THAt WHAT WHAT!

Awww was Josie but you still hurt my boys feelings so i really don’t care 

Archie poppin outta no where 

Elio was like oh got me nowwww

A battlefield FUCKING PENNY HOLY SHIT 

I knew she wasn’t fucking dead 

BITCH WHAT IS GOIN ON 

JOSIE STOP WITH THE SINGING 

Kurtz has me cracking up tho tbh “let the battle begin”

this battle scene 👏🏼👏🏼

So now penny has a limp and a missin eye HA 

I CALLED THAY SHIT I LITERALLY CALLED THAT AHIT 

And now 1 

Jug is not fuckin havin this 

i’ll drive Bitch what 

Ms Robson cryin 

Okay so what about Archie and Josie though

Toni always looks so hot👏🏼

part of me doesn’t trust Toni like butch I’m sorry I just 

THEY BETTER NIT GRT CSUCHT OH FUCK 

I FUCJING KNEW IT I KNEW IT 

ABOUT BETTY WHAT THE FUCK 

HA JOIN YOU 😂😂😂

Catch her 😂

DRIVE AWAY BITCH 

does jug really think he’s just gonna get jelly bean like 

Idiot 

Wow that phone call was real quick it’s called a prerecorded message jug please I swear to fuck don’t believe that shit I swear to god

IDIOT

Get out Jug 

Gargoyle king I’m just gonna say it again what if the gargoyle king isn’t s king and it’s a queen *cough* Gladys 

Archie and Josie we knew they was coming 

Jugheads like you ain’t taking my sister 

Okay wait when jellybean and fuckin Gladys came jelly bean was like I got dad wrapped around my finger so like did she not know her mom was a drug dealer or

Jug tryin to keep his fam together 

Oh they let mark keep his tattoo on also ngl he’s fuckin jacked 

The smirk 

Gladys b gone 

Wtf is goin on 

HAL ESCAPED HE ESCAPED HE GONNA GO AFTER EDGAR 

WAIT NO SURVIVORS WHAT butch I bet you he is still alive 

Also fangs wasn’t in this episode and neither was Pea and I feel robbed.

THE TRAILER, THE TRAILER FOR NEXT WEEKS EPISODE WHERE IN THE FUCK IS SWEET PEA, WHERE IS MY BABY. THERE WAS A SERPENT HUDDLE AND I DID NOT SEE SWEET PEA WHAT IN THE HELL WHERE IS HE  

[pinkxperfectionisms]

   Betty Cooper was the absolute worst human being to grace the face of the earth. A thirsty succubus that couldn’t seem to stay away from Antoinette Topaz, drawn to her like an addict desperately in need of a fix. Like a starving beast craving the sweetest blood from the most glorious pray; the unattainable one. And though she was the one that continuously shoved a wedge in the idea of what could be, here she was, waiting for her chance to ambush the poor Serpent. The inspiration had struck out of nowhere, forcing the blonde to detach from her beanie wearing boyfriend to create the silly little mixtape. It was a rushed attempt at gifting her the feelings and words that Betty was too terrified to reveal herself. Watching with wild foresty hues, the blonde darts out from her hiding spot just in time to cut the Goddess off from her escape route. “Toni.” Her name tastes as delicious as her lips, her heart fluttering uncontrollably just from the aura that radiated from her stunning Snake Queen. “Look, I know now isn’t the time-” And if she’d sent a text, would she have even replied? Could she blame her either way? “-but I needed to give you this.” Frantic digits reach out to scoop up one of her perfect hands, twisting it over to shove a decorated cassette against her flawless flesh. “Listen to it... alone. For me, please.” And without allowing her a moment to deny her request, she leans in and presses a hungry kiss. Her entire frame is set ablaze, her heart clawing for more. To reach out and encase her, to share all her secrets with the one person who seemed to have all the answers. Who made her fears feel like nothing more than the shadows playing tricks on her. Toni Topaz was home. Her safety and salvation. Her Nirvana... It was just a shame Betty wasn’t strong enough to commit to the one thing in her life that made sense. “Please...” the word is whispered against her lips, before the ponytailed blonde is spinning away, darting for the nearest exit.  // - @southsidelover because I was randomly inspired?

1.)  Katy Perry - Thinking Of You  ‘ You said move on, where do I go? I guess second best is all I will know, cause when I'm with him, I am thinking of you.’ 2.) Alyson Stoner - FOOL ‘ I miss you. Yeah, I'm just waking up feeling lonely as fuck and I want you. On the floor, on the chair, I don't care, anywhere. ’ 3.) Leslie Odom Jr - Without You Cover ‘  Without you; The seeds root. The flowers bloom. The children play. The stars gleam. The poets dream. The eagles fly. Without you; The earth turns. The sun burns, But I die without you. ’

4.) Of Monsters and Men - Silhouettes ‘ A thousand silhouettes dancing on my chest, no matter where I sleep, you are haunting me. But I'm already there, I'm already there. Wherever there is you, I will be there too, ’ 5.) Regina Spektor - Fidelity ‘ Suppose I never ever met you. Suppose we never fell in love. Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft. Suppose I never ever saw you. Suppose you never ever called. Suppose I kept on singing love songs, just to break my own fall. ’

[southsidewrites]

Boyfriendzoned (Sweet Pea x Reader)

Summary: When Jughead transfers to Southside High, the two of you immediately bond in your shared English class.  Little do you know that your long-time best friend Sweet Pea isn’t okay with that.

Word Count: 2207

Requested: by anon “can I request sweet pea imagine where you have been his bestfriend since you were kids and when Jughead moves to south side high you befriend him and sweets gets jealous and possessive finally telling you that he doesn’t want to lose you to jug?”

A/N: Please excuse how much my nerdiness shows in this one.  Seeing as I’m not actually employed with my English Teaching degree, I suppose I can put it to good use here.  As always, let me know what you think!

Requests are open! || Masterlist

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"Shut up, Pea," you laughed, shoving him. "It's not my fault that I didn't realize he was into me."

Sweet Pea gave you a skeptical look. "Oh, really?  Y/N, he asked you to tutor him in Physics—you suck at Physics."

You rolled your eyes. "I do not suck at Physics.  I'm just not awesome at it.  Even a B student tutoring you is better than nothing if you're failing."

"Yeah, but he wasn't failing.  Admit it, Y/N, you're just oblivious to social cues."

You rolled your eyes and started eating lunch.  It wasn't your fault that you never seemed to know when guys were flirting with you.  In your defense, it didn't happen often at all��spending a lot of time with Sweet Pea and Fangs usually scared off all but the bravest guys.

"Real talk, Y/N, are you planning on staying single forever?" Fangs joked, trying not to laugh.

You groaned, wanting to drop your head onto the table in exasperation. "My god, you guys are brutal.  I'm focused on school right now, okay?"

"You've been saying that as long as I've known you," Sweet Pea replied, grinning. "Which was like kindergarten."

"Why do I even hang out with you guys?  Aren't friends supposed to be supportive?"

"This is called tough love, Y/N," Fangs said with a smirk. "My mom swears by it."

I looked up at him, your smirk mirroring his own. "What?  Does she want your single ass to get a date too?"

Fangs gripped his chest like he'd been stabbed, dramatically throwing his head back. "Right in the heart."

Shaking your head, you gave Sweet Pea an amused look. "At least I know that I won't die alone, right, Pea?"

He winked. "Thirty-five, babe."

"Seriously, you two have a marriage pact?"

"Abso-fucking-lutely," you replied, holding up your fist.

Sweet Pea instinctively bumped his fist into yours. "It's our generation's version of a will, Fogarty.  Gotta make sure you don't die old and alone."

Fangs cocked an eyebrow, shaking his head.  He may have been Sweet Pea's best guy friend, but even he didn't quite comprehend the depth of the relationship between the two of you.  Growing up next door to each other, you already knew everything.  You never had to talk about your painful pasts, because you already knew then.  You had been a part of each other's stories since the moment they'd been written.

The bell ringed, and the three of you groaned in unison.

"Back to work," you groaned. "I'm so not in the mood for English today."

"You're always in the mood for English," Sweet Pea replied, walking with you to class. "Why not now?"

"We're reading Thoreau, and I fucking hate Thoreau."

Sweet Pea gave you a skeptical look. "Can't say I've ever read it."

"You're in the same class a different hour, Pea."

"Oh, yeah...definitely haven't read it."

You bit back a laugh, trying not to roll your eyes. "Literally you'd never pass this class without me."

"And that's why I love you, Y/N," he laughed. "See you after school?"

"Always." You turned to walk into your classroom but were shocked to see a new kid in your seat.  He was thin, with dark hair and a beanie that looked like a crown.  You walked over and placed your hand on the desk. "You're in my seat."  

He looked up at you with a shock. "Oh, shit, I--"

"Relax, dude." You dropped your stuff on the floor and sat down in the desk next to him. "I'm Y/N."

"Jughead," he replied.

Your eyebrows rose.  This had to be Jughead Jones, aka F.P. Jr. "Nice to meet you, Jughead."

His shoulders slumped, and he looked shockingly defeated. "Man, not even a Serpent and you know who I am."

"Everyone on the Southside does," you replied apologetically.  You smiled softly and reached out to squeeze his hand briefly. "Don't worry—I won't hold it against you."

He laughed. "Thanks."

"So, do you happen to have any strong feelings about Thoreau?"

~~~~~

Over the course of the next week, you spent more and more time with Jughead.  While you initially bonded over your shared hatred of Thoreau's pretentiousness, you quickly realized that you had a lot more in common than just literary preferences.

"Of course you like Poe," you teased, doodling pictures of little birds in Jughead's notebook. "He's all dark and menacing.  Exactly the kind of drama you live for.  Hell, if Poe was writing today, I'd bet he'd go for the same melodrama as you."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, hate on me for liking the literary equivalent of an aggressively punk teen." Jughead rolled his eyes. "Better than liking Dickens.  That guy was paid by the word, you know."

"First, you are an aggressively punk teen.  I mean, look at you, dude.  You practically live for your aesthetic." You laughed. "Second, every one of those words was totally worth it.  Dickens is a master" You snapped his notebook shut. "Change of topic: I take it we're going to be partners for the unit project?"

"Depends, can we do it on Poe?" He smirked, his eyes brightening.

"It's about transcendentalism, Jug." You gave him a puzzled look. "Since when is Poe a transcendentalist?"

"Well, I'm sure as hell not doing it on Thoreau," he replied. "That would be too obvious, not to mention, way too painful."

"Tolstoy?"

He shrugged. "Sure.  Want to work on it tonight?"

"I'm down." You double-checked the calendar in your phone to make sure you weren't working. "Your place or mine?"

"How about yours," he drawled. "Mine's not exactly homework-friendly."

"Works for me."

~~~~~

"So, Y/N, coming to the Wyrm tonight?" Sweet Pea asked, joining you as you left school for the day.  He had pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and was twirling it absentmindedly as you walked.  You smiled—the habit was always a sure-fire sign that he was in a good mood.

"Sorry, Pea, can't tonight," you replied, shrugging apologetically. "I've got a project to work on."

"Oh." For a moment, he was silent as you walked into the parking lot together.  You didn't notice as he tucked the cigarette back in his pocket. "Need a ride home?"

"Nah, I'm good." You smiled at gestured at Jughead.  He was standing by his bike talking to Toni.  When he saw you, he smiled back.

"Jones?" Sweet Pea asked, his voice icy.

"Yeah." Your eyebrows rose as you looked at him. "What?  We're in English together, and the unit final is a group project."

Sweet Pea shoved his hands in his pockets and shook his head. "Nothing.  Will you be at the Quarry tomorrow?"

"Of course I will, Pea." You grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him in for a hug.  You were one of the few people who could get away with so much physical affection in public. "Love ya, skyscraper."

"Love ya too, ankle-biter."

Laughing, you turned to walk towards Jughead. "See you later, Pea."

~~~~~

"No way," you were laughing so hard you almost cried as Jughead told his story.  In addition to being a great writer, the guy could make anything funny. "I swear, the Northside is fucking nuts."

Jughead shook his head, still laughing softly. "A little."

After working on the project for an absurd amount of hours, the two of you moved to Pop's for a midnight snack.  By this point in the night, you were both done eating, but neither of you really wanted to leave.  You were having too much fun just hanging out, getting to know each other, and swapping funny stories.  

Behind Jughead, the bell on the door jingled, and you looked up to see Sweet Pea, Toni, and Fangs walk in.  

"Guys!" You called. "Over here!"

Grinning, Fangs led the way, leaping into the booth next to you.  "Y/N, glad to see you finally have a social life outside of Sweet Pea." He shouldered you playfully.

Rolling your eyes, you punched his arm. "Shut the fuck up, Fogarty."

Toni sat down next to Jughead, and Sweet Pea pulled up a chair at the end of the table.  Unlike his friends, he seemed unusually grumpy for a Friday night.

"So, Y/N, Jug, how'd the project go?" Toni asked, stealing one of the fries left in the basket between us.

"Awesome." You grinned. "We're definitely going to get an A."

"You know it." Jughead held his fist up, and you bumped it. "That teacher won't know what hit her."

Sweet Pea's jaw tightened.

"How was the Wyrm?" you asked.

"Fine." Toni shrugged. "Even though Pea seems to have some sort of massive stick up his ass tonight." She nudged him, laughing.

Sweet Pea forced a smile, but it looked a whole lot more like a grimace. "I think I'm just tired."

You gave your friend a concerned look.  He had been off after school, too.  If you were alone, you would have asked why, but you knew that he'd hate you for doing it in front of everyone.

Over the next hour or so, everyone trickled out of the diner except you and Sweet Pea.  Staying at Pop's that late was a bit of a tradition for the two of you.  As soon as you were old enough, you used to ride your bikes to the diner late at night.  You both had home lives that you'd rather escape sometimes.

Within minutes of everyone leaving, you jumped on your chance to talk to him alone. "So, skyscraper," you asked. "Care to tell me what's up tonight?"

"Not really." He leaned back in his seat and ran a hand through his hair. "It's not a big deal, Y/N."

You didn't buy it. "Fine.  Don't tell me.  Just know that now I totally think it's about me."

"Wait, wha—no." He leaned forward on the table to look at you. "It's not you."

"Then what is it, Sweet Pea?" You were starting to get really worried.

"It's just--" He cut off, looking around the diner like he wanted to make sure no one would overhear your conversation.  His brown eyes were clouded with worry, and he looked like he would rather jump out the window than finish the conversation.

"Just what?" You were about ready to punch him. "Pea, we've been friends forever.  What could possibly be going on that you can't tell me?" Your voice had risen to a somewhat desperate pitch.  

He took a deep breath, clenching his hands into fists on the surface of the table. "I don't like you hanging out with Jones so much."

"What?"

"I know, I know—I'm an asshole, and I have no right to dictate who you spend your time with.  I should have said something sooner, should have made a move before it was too late, should have told you this a long time ago, but no, I put myself in the goddamn friendzone for literal years--"

"Wait, what?" You cut him off, not sure you were hearing him clearly.  Was Sweet Pea, your best friend for as long as you could remember, admitting feelings for you? "What are you saying, Pea?"

"I really like you, Y/N." His shoulders slumped like the wind had just been knocked out of him. "And I've really liked you for a long-ass time.  I've never said it, though, because I didn't want to ruin our friendship.  It's too fucking late now, though."

Your eyes were wide, and you had no idea what to say.  Instead, you let your body take over.  Throwing caution to the wind, you nearly dove across the table to press your lips into his.  Sweet Pea reacted immediately, cupping your face and pulling you closer to him.  His lips gently parted your own, deepening the kiss.

You could feel the hard table pressing into your hips, and it took all the self-control you had not to just leap over into his lap.  Breathing deeply, you pulled back.

"Y/N, I—what?"

"I don't even know where to start, Pea."  Your breath was heavy and your cheeks flushed. "First of all, Jughead has a girlfriend who is certainly not me.  Second, I've liked you forever.  I just--" You cut off. "You and Fangs are always giving me so much crap about being single, and I guess I just assumed I was more like one of the guys than a potential girlfriend."

"Wow, I have fucked up." He let out a harsh laugh. "I'm such a moron, Y/N.  I always thought I never stood a chance with a girl as awesome as you." His voice softened. "I thought I'd just be lucky to be your friend, maybe marry you when we're thirty-five."

You laughed harder, reaching across the table to take his hand in yours. "Well, I'm definitely not in the market for a husband right now, but I wouldn't mind having a boyfriend." You smiled, meeting his warm gaze with your own. "What do you think?'

"I think I would be thrilled to be your boyfriend."

Smiling, you leaned back over the table and kissed him again, slowly and more deliberately. "Well then, consider yourself boyfriendzoned."

"Boyfriendzoned?"

"Hey, you're the one who agreed to date me." You grinned.

He rolled his eyes. "Wouldn't have it any other way."

~~~~~

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New Resident / Scream x Riverdale Crossover | PT. 4

*originally requested by anonymous

*part 4 was requested so many times

*in which yn is getting all the backlash, and none of her friends nor family are okay with it - even jughead.

*warning: swearing, angst (this is a continuous thing lmfao) , a bit of fluff

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the whole week, everyone stared like y/n was the new murderer out to kill, that she was the new Black Hood because of fp. sweet pea, fangs and toni stayed by her side whenever they could, telling off the assholes who were staring at her.

sweet pea being the most protective over y/n, his arm always around her. some of the teens at Riverdale High where intimidated by sweet pea, so they left y/n alone if sweet pea was around her. but if he wasn’t around, they’d always make comments about y/n, her mom, jughead and fp. she tried to show that it didn’t bother her, but she went to the bathroom every period and cried.

how did her life get this hectic? the three of them were doing so well without a father, and now that he comes back, he comes back with a sign that says “murderer” on the back of his serpent jacket and “killer” on his forehead, and stapling “killer’s daughter” on her back.

she was the victim of this whole thing. everyone knew she was the most vulnerable, so they picked on her because they knew she wouldn’t snap. everyday y/n rode with sweet pea, leaning her head on his back and crying quietly, the wind drying her tears, so sweet pea never noticed she had cried, until he felt it on day when he wasn’t wearing his jacket.

he parked the bike at her house and before she could walk away, he grabbed her elbow and twisted her to look at him. she fell on him, hands on his chest.

“there’s no need to cry, because i’ve got you” he put his index finger under y/n’s chin, making her look at him. his thumb rubbed over her cheek, giving a soft smile. “i’ll always have you, y/n”

she leaned up, her breath fanning over his lips, a smirk on his lips before he leaned down and connected their lips. y/n’s fingers gripped his shirt, pulling him closer. he grabbed her waist, and she never wanted this moment to stop. but sadly, it had to. y/n pulled away slowly, her breathing heavy. she wraps her arms around his neck, hugging him tightly. 

“thank you, sweet pea”

it kept going. it was a half way through the week, and still people were making fun of y/n, writing on her papers, everything. but that friday afternoon, where she thought everything had died down - got even worse. 

y/n walked into school with fangs and sweet pea close next to her, glaring at anyone who tried to say something - but no one did. she was happy. finally, the assholes at the school forgot about it. as she looked around, y/n noticed that not many of the students were in the hall, and class was about start.

“where.. is everyone?” she asks and her friends shrug. they turn the corner, and everyone was crowded around her locker. she pushed through, and everyone pointed their cameras at her and laughed.

in red spray paint, ‘killer jr.’ was written on her locker, with the mask that he wore and his old photo in the news paper. her head spun, vision blurred, chest tight and heaving up and down. this was her nightmare, and it was coming true.

“hey.. hey! who the hell did this?!” jughead screamed and fangs held y/n, trying to calm her down.

“i did!” reggie pushed through the crowd and got in jughead’s face “maybe you and your little sister over there need to be scanned so you don’t go on a killing spree just like your father” jughead clenched his fists, swinging and reggie and hitting him square in the jaw. everyone backed up but were still recording, reggie and jughead hitting each other. sweet pea jumped in, fangs giving y/n to archie. archie rubbed her hair, kissing her forehead as he rubbed y/n’s back. he picked her up and brought her to the lounge, holding her face and breathing with her.

“y/n? y/n, breathe with me, alright, babe? inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale” he gave her his water bottle, and her hands shook as she took tiny sips. archie’s hand rubbed y/n’s thigh, wiping her tears with a tissue with his other hand. 

“thanks arch” she whispers and sit on his lap, his hand rubbing her back. she put her head on his shoulder, playing with his fingers as he softly hummed. 

meanwhile, sweet pea pushed reggie away from jughead and got in his face. “you stay away from y/n, or i will bring my brass knuckle into this next time and kick your ass, northside scum” sweet pea spit and brought jughead to the lounge. she stood up from archie’s lap, running over and standing in front of him.

she looked at him for a moment, darting her eyes back and forth between his that had fire ignited in them. y/n reached forward and softly touched his face, tears in her eyes.

she hadn’t spoken to him in a couple weeks. the both of them got into such a huge argument, he went to stay at archie’s. she never looked at him in school, never spoke to him, hell, never breathed in each other’s directions. 

“juggie” she breathed and wrapped her arms around his neck, fingers in his hair. his arms tightly secured around her waist, and she never wanted to let go. 

“i’m sorry i’ve been such a shitty brother” he whispered and she let out a laugh through her nose. 

“i’m sorry too, jughead” she whispered, pulling away. she grabbed a tissue and dabbed away the blood on his face. “you’re an idiot”

“but i’d do anything to protect. we all would. no matter how small some of us may be” you two turn to toni and she puts her hands on her hips. “we still got each other’s backs”

“and no one is going to mess with you anymore, y/n. i’ve got it under control” veronica said and y/n smiled. 

she looked around. she was happy she had friends from both north and south side to help her out. no matter how bad things might have gotten, they were there for her. 

she focused on the positives. there were people who cared for her, people who don’t hate her. she wanted to focus more on them, and not the bad. 

she focused on the rainbows, and not the storm. 

[yourjughead]

Loyalty

Sweet Pea x Reader 

Part 2

Synopsis: an alternative point of view to Athletes in which Reader is the boss Serpent Jrs and she has eyes for Sweet Pea but he had eyes for a cheerleader who only dates athletes.

A//N: not sure about this storyline or if it will have a second part, let me know if you like it. It's quite long and the time line is over many weeks if not months.

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“I hear she only dates Athletes SP”

“So an athlete I will be Fangs”

“Oh god, I don't think they take delinquents on their prissy basketball team Sweet Potato”

“A bit of positivity ynn-ie, please" you rolled your eyes at your best friend who was ogling at the cheerleader across the quad. And not you.

“It's neeeever going to wooork” your voice teasingly taunted as you slipped off the table you were perched on and sauntered off to your locker.

“Dude I thought you were crazy about yn?”

“I am but she's...I don't know it's complicated”

“Hmm a girl in our gang who we all love and respect, who can handle herself and is smarter and handier with ammunition than any of us combined likes you back, wow you are the definition of tragedy pretty boy” Sweet Pea shoved him off his end of the bench and he went laughing.

“No it's more complicated than that, she's our superior and she's...ugh it's easier if I just leave it and besides, Sarah over there will make a nice distraction”

~

Sweet Pea went to tryouts, dragging Fangs along. You and Toni sat on the bleachers watching them run up and down, doing all of the things that was required of them and it wasn't just your interest that was peaking. Sarah was enthralled by your bad boy basketball best friend.

Coach announced that same day that both boys made it onto the team. You being the first to see the list with their names.

“Pea!” You called happily to him running down the hall to meet him, seemingly forgetting his reasons for joining in the first place. You went to take him in a hug but instead you almost skidded into the back of a cheer uniform.

“Names Sarah Weatherbee, vice cheer captain, congratulations on making the team. C’mon, walk with me” you looked her up and down from behind before going to say something, being cut off by Sweet Peas goofy grin. She linked her arm through his and hauled him off. Toni joining your side with Fangs.

“Well, he's joined the darkside...oh and congrats on making the team Fangs” your somber tone was not lost on your friends as you slipped off to be alone.

~

You and Toni attended every basketball game you could, with Serpent work getting in the way sometimes. At first the change in Sweet Pea was subtle but then he asked Sarah out and she began changing him entirely. He no longer wore his Serpent gear unless at meetings, his hair was different, he didn't drive his bike opting for his car instead however the most significant change was he was simply never around anymore. At the start you’d all always go get dinner after games, now you were lucky to get a goodbye from him. This hadn't gone unnoticed by any of you.

“I wonder how he plays basketball with that stick stuck up his ass”

“Easy ynn you know he's just going for the girl”

“Yeah well he's got her and she's changed him into Malibu Ken” the three of you watched him, now on the other side of the quad, eating lunch with her.

“You still have me, I've not gone rogue”

“If only” Fangs threw a ketchup packet at you in rebuttal, the three of you laughing which seemed to catch Sweet Peas attention, if only for a second before it was dragged back by Sarah.

After lunch, Sweet Pea dug around his locker and you threw yourself against the one alongside his.

“Hey Sweet Potato we have a job tonight so cocktails at Buckingham Palace will have to wait till tomorrow”

“I have this family garden dinner thing at Sarah's so I can't"

“You can and you will” your tone went from playfully to blunt. Cutthroat, angry with anything that moves kind of blunt. He stood up to look you in the eyes for the first times in weeks. He really looked different, more polished.

“Is that a threat?”

“I'm sure you wouldn't want to find out. 8pm. Docks.” You pushed off the locker moving to leave but he caught your forearm before you could.

“Yn. I can't, I have this thing wit-”

“With the Serpents? Yeah it's called loyalty, remember that? Now I know you think a look out job is below your ranks and it's certainly below mine as your boss but I'm doing this to help YOU get back in good with the Seniors because they're not happy with your recent...alliances and besides, I can't do look out by myself” you pulled your arm from his grip, your voice dripping cold, you were over his ignorance and as you walked away he attempted the last dig.

“Can't do a little watch job by yourself?”

“Not that I can't, I shouldn't have to” the last dig was yours and you delivered it to him with you back turned. He knew the rules, no Serpent no matter their ranking was allowed do lookout by themselves, there's always strength in numbers. As soon as those thoughts entered his mind, they left it as Sarah made her appearance. He was falling for this girl who was honestly a witch and he didn't know how to break it to her that he couldn't go to her family's outdoor dinner.

~

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Sweet Pea POV

I just had to go to that dinner. I did. Sarah wanted me there, I didn't have a choice. Yn will understand...I mean she might be a little annoyed I turned my phone off on her but she'll get over it.

“Sweet Pea!” Fangs came running into the private gardens, Serpent gear and all, what is he trying to do?! He's going to embarrass me!!

“Dude! Get out of here before someone sees you"

“What the fuck is that supposed to mean?!”

“It means keep your voice down and unless it's important, leave” yes I was harsh but I was around important people and I didn't want to make a show of myself.

“Yeah? Well YNs car was ambushed and because of you she was there alone and now she's in the hospital so is that important enough for you Mr. Wall Street?” I thought I was going to be sick and Sarah being Sarah, chose the wrong time to come over and ask Fangs to leave.

~

Third Person.

You sat up in the hospital bed, it's cold steel frame burying in your back. A bandage over your forehead, eye threatening to close, lip crusted in uncleaned blood, a forcibly broken arm in a cast. Your one good eye focused on the wall and you jumped when your the door violently swung open and your body howled in pain for the movement. Sweet Pea put a hand to his mouth and seemingly stumbled to your bedside, collapsing on his knees to the floor next to you. His Serpent jacket gracing his shoulders for the first time in weeks

“Y-yn”

“Save it”

“No yn I have to apologise”

“Well apologizing isn't going to transport us back in time to before I was beaten with a metal bar now is it?” you cocked your head to one side sarcastically and tried not to show the pain the movement caused.

“I...I brought you this teddy, it's dressed like a nurse and-”

“A FUCKING STUFFED ANIMAL?! I WANT YOUR FUCKING LOYALTY NOT THIS” you took it from him with your slightly better hand and tossed it to your feet.

“Okay there's no need for all the swearing I know you're hurt but-”

“NO! NO FUCKING BUTS! YOU HAD AN OBLIGATION TO THE GANG TO BE THERE! You had an obligation to me!” Tears began to threaten your cheeks.

“They could have killed me tonight Sweet Pea, I've got internal bleeding and a cracked rib to name some of the stuff you can't see but you know what?! You not being there for me hurt way more than that beast breaking my arm over his knee. Just fucking leave me alone, you're so good at that" Sweet Pea stood slowly biting the inside of his cheek and moving for the door.

“You know yn, I will live with the guilt of what happened tonight for the entirety of my life and I hope I do because it's the least i deserve and I'm going to find the people who did this to you.”

“Alright Liam Neeson, take your special set of skills somewhere else” you went back to showing your anger instead of hurt.

“What can I do to help fix this yn, what can I do to being to fix this?”

“Go back to being the old Sweet Pea” you looking him in the eye for the first time since he came in. And although he was kind of blurry, you held as much focus as you could.

“What's that supposed to mean?”

“It means go back to the Sweet Pea who cared about his friends and his family and didn't try to reprimand me for fucking swearing. Go back to the Sweet Pea who had not only my back, but everyone's”

“what you mean break up with Sarah?"

“I never said Sarah. You came up with that one on your own” your naturally blunt tone was easily a match for his new forced one, even that had become a struggle in his new change and because timing was not her strong suit, in she came.

“Sweeties come on, I'm sick of waiting in the car can we just go alre-oh yn, umm you look umm...hi yn” you just narrowed your eyes at her before waving her off and sinking back down into the bed. Sarah didn't seem phased and caught Sweet Peas hand to pull him out.

“Oh wait Sweeties” you called after him sarcastically and he turned quickly, naively thinking you had a change for heart.

“Leave your jacket, you won't be needing it” once again you got the last dig in. He grunted as he tugged off the jacket and threw it on the hospital chair, Sarah then achieving in taking him away. You let yourself cry then, no longer able to keep up the idea of being strong. Soon you found yourself teary but in the arms of Toni and Fangs who got into the bed next to you to comfort you. Sweet Pea had once again left you but you always had them.

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Riverdale Roundup 20x21: “The Killing of A Sacred Deer”

So Riverdale was on last night. I confirmed did not watch. I couldn’t watch it on my tv and I was far too lazy to get a stream up so like here we are. I go into my PVR to watch it this morning and it’s like “ no information found” and i’m ready to fume but when I pressed on it it still played so it was just god playing a little funny on me. Anyway, when I went on the internet last night people were like shitting their pants about this episode so i’m expecting something good. I’ve got my tea. Lets go.

Apparently I forgot about every single thing that happened last episode because their little recap has me straight shook. Like Reggie shot fangs? In what world?

So the Black Hood rolls up at Cheryl's house fitting to kill her and I’m just down for that. I’ve recently decided to stan Cheryl. I love the villian with a heart of gold. Please see season 1-3 Alex Karev.

So the black hood is coming after Cheryl with a casual axe because he apparently misplaced his gun, and he hacks up her lovely bedroom door. Cheryl goes all hunger games and whips out her bow and arrow and shoots the guy. I mean she could have done us all a favour and killed the guy so we can all move on to greener pastures. Like they aren’t going to drag this shit into season 3 are they? I don’t need another pretty little liars 7 seasons of dealing it, A, or the A team, or charles or whatever that stupid show morphed into.

Cheryl is the most casual girl ever. She just calls up Betty and is like “ yeah so the black hood just tried to kill me and i’m going to go hunt him in the woods. Want to do brunch on saturday?”

So Reggie didn’t shoot Fangs. I mean I guess it makes sense. Reggie was on the ground and Fangs got shot in the stomach so that would have had to have been quite the angle.

Hiram Lodge is like giddy about this whole riot. It's like christmas morning for the little guy.

Betty is uber convinced that her Daddy is the black hood and is worried that someone is going to murder him since Hermione is offering up a casual million dollars for the blackhoods head on a platter, preferably silver. Preferably polished.

So Veronica sees Midges mom wandering on the streets looking coked out as fuck and plot twist she was the one who shot fangs. I mean she thought he murdered her daughter but I mean that evidence is so damn thin.

Reggie is hiding behind a dumpster because bitches are out for him. He calls Mr Lodge and is like “ Daddy help” but Hiram isn’t his daddy anymore. He’s got to deal with this ish on his own.

All the football players + Kevin are out looking for Reggie. They end up at the high school where Sweet Pea and his boys are fitting to burn the place to the ground. Seems a little extreme but SP is cute so I probs would have allowed it.

Principal weatherbee shows up with like a bat or something and is like “ What the fuck? All you skanks better leave rn or i’m flip.” Honestly it’s very Mean girls with the principal and and the bat and i’m honestly surprised he doesn’t send them all to the gym for a seminar on confidence. He will keep them there ALL NIGHT. He can’t keep them past four. He will keep them there till FOUR.

Eventually the gang finds Reggie at Pops and honestly no one should be surprised because there are only ever 3 places anyone could ever be in Riverdale. It’s shocking that Pop had to call Archie to tell him that Reggie was there. They had basically knocked every other possibility off the list.

Betty gets a call from an unknown number and she thinks it’s the black hood, but I mean come on. Her annoying ass ringtone didn’t go off so we all know that it wasn’t going to be BH. It’s FP calling from a pay phone being like  

“ My bitch ass little son is a slithery lil snakey snake and ran off. Is he with you? Also your dad is in the ER.”

Betty promptly gets shook because she knows that Cheryl shot the black hood with an arrow so if Hal is bleeding from the shoulder shit is about to go down.

A bunch of crazies roll up to pops and Archie is pissed that Jughead hasn’t reigned in all his little friends but get shook guys. It’s the Goolies or whatever they’re called. I honestly forgot about them. It seems like decades ago since everyone put on their favourite vintage outfits and went out to watch the street race.

So the football players are trying to barricade the shop and poor pop tate is triggered. The guy has been through enough. Wars. Riots.The whole thing. But he knows how to deal with this ish. They going to lite this place up.

The Goolies are ready to take some names but boom. The Sheriffs cruiser appears out of nowhere and the silver fox fires his gun into the air sending the goolies running.

Hot dads for the win. FP and Keller are everything. Fred is there too but everyone needs a duff.  I would like to make it clear that I audibly out loud said “ yas hot dads unite” before Kevin mentioned anything about the trio. Just want to put that out there.

Betty goes running to the hospital and into her dads room but oops get shook. Hal isn’t there, but Dr Mcstuffins is dead. Poor guy. Asked too many questions. Sounds like every single one of my relatives and neighbours.

The phone beside the hospital bed rings because the black hood just magically knows that Betty has arrived in the room, and he’s like “ listen bitch, it’s past your bedtime. Get your skinny ass home or ima kill your mom. Okay. see you in 10. Byyeeee”

Jughead is brooding at the bar when his phone rings. It’s freaking Alice Jr, Penny Peabody.

She’s all like “ Hey babe. Listen i’m still kind of pissed at you so I kidnapped your girlfriend and was thinking that i’m cut her up into little pieces if you don’t come meet me by the docks.”

Jughead is all like

“Omg no not Betty!”  but Penny is behind on the times and just has Toni. At this point Jughead is just like

“Lol sorry bitch. You’re barking up the wrong tree. Maybe call Cheryl.”

Betty comes home and Alice is just chillin on the couch, enjoying her evening. Betty is like

“ We gotta go right now.”  but Alice already has popcorn on because Hal is going to show them home movies.

So Hal’s real name is Harold? What’s sad is that I find that to be the most shocking part of this. So Hal's dad murdered the conway family because they were sinners? What did these bitches do? Not recycle? So Hal went up to lil janitor before he became big janitor and convinced him that it wasn’t Hals dad who killed the guys family but some rando.

So Pappi Cooper killed Papi blossom and became Pappi Cooper as a cover. Does not make sense to me but okay. I feel like someone would done their ancestry tree and put this ish together but whatever.

So the Conway family knew the truth about this shit and blackmailed the Coopers about it. So those bitches need to die.

Hal has darkness and Betty has got it too so watch out kids. Elizabeth might kill next. I mean she already sent Chic to his death ( maybe)

Hal is like “ say it Betty. Say it out loud” and she’s like “ a vampire” jk. He’s the black hood. BUT there’s another black hood. Are they working together or is this just some random hoe? TBD.

Oh heck BH 2 is attacking Archie! Thank God Fred was there to take the bitch down. BUT makes the fatal mistake of not unmasking the guy when he had the chance.  Fred gets shot AGAIN but thankfully ex Sheriff Hot pants gave him a bulletproof vest.

Alice and Betty are confused about why Hal is telling them all this and why he wants it recorded, and he’s like

“So everyone will understand when we’re gone, or what happened to us” or some bullshit like that. I don’t remember the exact words but it was very menacing. So like is he thinking a double murder suicide type thing or? That’s the vibe i’m getting tbh.

Jughead shows up to the docks and Penny has the Goolie with the heavy eye make up with her. He’s like fitting to taze Jughead but Juggie brought Katniss with him so they Gucci.

Penny just wants to live her life and sell drugs. If they don’t let her do that then the Goolies and the serpents are going to rumble, not a midnight, but at dawn. You know. To keep things fresh.

I forgot about this small fry guy and that he’s coming after the Lodges. Also forgot all about Veronica and Hermione shit talking Hiram while he’s out. So like Hiram is going to expose Freds affair with Hermione but Fred was separated at the time and i’m pretty sure he’s not divorced. So really it was Hermione who was cheating on her spouse. I mean yeah it’s not great for Fred but he wasn’t going against HIS family.

Veronica and Hermione are still fighting when Small Fry breaks down the damn door and is like “ your daddy killed my daddy, prepare to die.”

Hermione is a terrible shot and misses the first 7 times but she gets the bitch eventually.

So Sweet Pea and Jughead are fighting about what to do about the Goolies when FP walks in the tells everyone that Fangs died. The poor baby. They vote about what to do and they decide they’re going to fight the bitches. So I mean, shit it bound to get lit.

Although Alice just found out her no good rotten husband has murdered like a ton of people she can still verbally assault him. GOD HAL YOU ARE SO STUPID.

“Are you going to kill everyone who has ever jay walked?”

And damn, bringing out FP. That cuts deep. Kill it Alice. Oh shit Hal don’t kill Alice! Betty beats him over the head with a fire poker!

FP is stressed! So there are serpent reserves? Who would that be?

So Jughead calls Hiram and is like “ Hey buddy. I know you’re the one making all this shit happen so like let’s make a deal.”

Hiriam comes home and baby boy Andre is dead! He runs upstairs all freaked out that he might have to say rip to his fam but they’re just at the table, waiting for him to come home and clean up the dead body in the study. That’s a blue job.

So Hal is being arrested and Archie is like “ omg he just tried to shoot my dad like 20 mins ago” and Betty acts all shook like she doesn’t already know that there’s another black hood. Pull it together sister.

She gets a call from Jughead and he’s like “ I love you bitch. I ain’t ever going to stop loving you biiiitch” and then he says he’ll see her soon. COULD YOU JUST EXPLAIN YOURSELF REAL QUICK PLEASE?

Oh Hell. Jughead is giving himself over the Penny and the Goolies?  So they’re just going to beat him to death and then murder all the serpents come morning? That seems extreme.

Hiriam took care of the body with the less hot ( but still hot) more crooked sheriff and Veronica is done with his shit.

Oh hell. FP carrying jugheads body? He isn’t dead. The bitch can’t be dead can he? It’s only the second season.  Well damn guys. Guess we’ll have to see.

I’m once again not reading this over because I have things to do today. Thank you and goodbye.

[renaroo]

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Larry Cohen: 1941-2019

Since the creators of B-movies generally do not have such luxuries as famous actors, familiar properties and large budgets to work with, they have to rely more heavily on an ingredient that is just important but much lower in cost—a great idea. Not just any great idea, of course, but the kind of idea that makes you stop in your track and think “Man, I’ve gotta see that.” The problem is that, in many cases, even if they do manage to beat the odds and come up with that killer idea, they don’t always have the resources or talent to do it justice. 

One B-filmmaker who never had that problem was Larry Cohen, who passed away this weekend at the age of 77. He may have never had the same level of name recognition as such contemporaries as George Romero or John Carpenter, but his films, in which he took often outrageous premises and built upon them with witty dialogue, incisive social commentary and colorful characters, were among the best genre films of their era and continue to pack a punch today.

Cohen was born on July 15, 1941 in Manhattan and from a young age, he developed a fascination with movies. In an interview I did with Cohen a couple of years ago, he professed a special fondness for the films produced by Warner Brothers during that era. “It was a great studio—they had really ballsy movies and political movies … They were shot at a fast pace with a lot of action and fast talk, as opposed to MGM movies, which were a lot slower and more luxurious. He began his career as a writer for television, first by writing for such shows as “The Defenders, “The Fugitive” and “Rat Patrol” and then by creating such shows as the 1965-’66 Western “Branded” (sorry fans of “The Big Lebowski”) and the 1967-’68 paranoid sci-fi saga “The Invaders.” Watching the shows that he created today, one can actually see the ideas and conceits that Cohen would embrace throughout his career—especially in the mixing of standard genre tropes with sly commentary about what is going on the real world, including the blacklist and the Red Scare—coming together in distinctive ways that set them apart from a lot of what was going on in television at that time.

He then began to make the move into writing feature films in 1966 with “Return of the Seven,” a largely forgettable sequel to the hit Western “The Magnificent Seven,” “I Deal in Danger” (1966), a spy film comprised of the first four episodes of another series he co-created, “Blue Light,” and the psycho artist horror film “Scream, Baby, Scream” (1969). Later in 1969, he would come up with what would prove the first great example of his kind of audacious storytelling that would eventually become associated with his name. In “Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting,” on which he cares a co-writing credit with Lorenzo Semple Jr., Cathy (Carol White) arrives from London to live in San Francisco and immediately meets and falls in love with the seemingly nice and clean-cut Kenneth (Scott Hylands). She soon becomes pregnant but then begins to discover that Kenneth is deeply disturbed and elects to not only break up with him but to have an abortion as well. Some time passes and Cathy has now married a rising politician and given birth to their child when Kenneth turns up again with a shocking demand—Cathy must kill her baby to even the scales for having aborted his child. Channeling real-world concerns into a thriller framework, this was a truly startling screenplay (one that almost certainly would not pass muster today) and if the execution did not quite do it justice—although the screenplay required a daring test pilot of a director to do it justice, Mark Robson, fresh off the success of “Valley of the Dolls,” was strictly United material—it certainly promised better things to come in the future.

"Bone"

Like so many screenwriters, Cohen tired of directors messing with his material and finally moved into the director’s chair in 1972 with the bizarre dark comedy, “Bone.” As the film begins, Beverly Hills couple Bernadette (Joyce Van Patten) and Bill (Andrew Duggan) interrupt their latest round of bickering when they discover a strange man (Yaphet Kotto) on their grounds and invite him in, assuming he is an exterminator. The man, Bone, isn’t and takes the two hostage but soon discovers that his captives are not as rich as they appear to be. Nevertheless, he sends Bill to the bank to get more money and threatens to do great harm to Bernadette if he doesn’t return. While in line, Bill gets distracted by a sexy young woman (Jeannie Berlin) and decides to abandon his wife. While all this is going on, Bernadette gets increasingly drunk, seduces her captor and launches a plan for them to murder Bill and collect his insurance money. Making the most of what were presumably limited resources, Cohen devised an ingenious work that tackled racial, sexual, and class concerns in a manner that pulled no punches and got great performances from his cast to boot. Although closer in tone to something like “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff?” than anything else, the film ended up being sold more along the lines of a straightforward exploitation movie—one wonders what the typical grindhouse crowd must have thought when they encountered this instead of the usual junk that they were presumably expecting.

Cohen was then contacted by Sammy Davis Jr., who wanted to do a film where he was the central character for a change, and the idea of doing a contemporary version of the Warner Brothers gangster films of the Thirties came up. When Davis couldn’t pay for the script for “Black Caesar” (1973) due to tax trouble, Cohen ended up selling it to American-International Pictures and wound up directing the film as well with Fred “The Hammer” Williamson in the lead. Charting the rise and fall of Tommy Gibbs (Williamson), who begins as a kid struggling to survive on the streets of Harlem, becomes the head of the black crime syndicate and wages a war against his enemies that leads to his downfall, the film was fairly conventional in its structure, Cohen added any number of twists that are still startling to observe today—in perhaps the most infamous bit, the adult Tommy gets the drop on the racist cop who beat him as a child when he was doing shoeshines on the street, smears the guy’s face with shoe polish and forces him to sing before beating him to death with a shine box. These wild bits, coupled with Williamson’s undeniable screen charisma and a driving soundtrack by James Brown, helped make the film a hit and AIP clamored for a sequel despite the fact the central character had definitively died. 

Needless to say, that didn’t stop Cohen and by the end of 1973, he had “Hell Up in Harlem” in theaters with Williamson again in the lead. Like most rushed sequels, this is a relatively undistinguished programmer but it does contain one magnificently inspired sequence in which Tommy chases an attacker through the streets of New York that seems to end when his quarry eludes him and boards a plane taking off for Los Angeles. That doesn’t stop Tommy—he boards the next flight to L.A., spends the next few hours flying out and lands just in time to finish things up at the baggage claim at LAX.

"It's Alive"

Not wanting to be pigeonholed solely as a blaxploitation filmmaker, Cohen made his shift to the horror genre where he would achieve his greatest fame. His first effort there, and one of his most famous films, was “It’s Alive” (1974), in which he took one of the squirmier premises in screen history—a woman gives birth to a monstrously deformed baby that slaughters anyone unlucky enough to cross its path—and embroidered upon it with a narrative that managed to make its so-called monster somehow sympathetic in the manner of Frankenstein’s Monster, presented some extremely pointed commentary regarding the pharmaceutical industry (who devised the pills the mother took that presumably caused the mutation and who need the child killed in order to cover up their culpability) and included moments of jet-black humor as well as well as impressive contributions from makeup maestro Rick Baker and famed composer Bernard Herrmann. Completed in 1974, the film was released by a regime at Warner Brothers that did not get it and thus the film only received a limited release. Three years later, the film was re-released with an inspired new ad campaign (“There is only one thing wrong with the Davis baby. It’s alive.”) and became a box-office hit that would inspired two Cohen-directed sequels, “It Lives Again” (1977) and “It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive” (1987) and a 2009 remake that was so bad that Cohen claimed that the head of the studio that made it actually apologized to him for it.

From this point, Cohen embarked on a series of wildly ambitious films (especially considering the low budgets that he was working on) that continued to join together familiar genre tropes with increasingly pointed social satire and commentary. In “God Told Me To” (1976), he tackled religion with a story of a New York cop (Tony Lo Bianco) trying to solve a rash of bizarre violent crimes perpetrated by people who claim that God told them to kill and stumbles upon a cult whose leader (Richard Lynch) inspires some startling revelations about his own past and possible connection to the increasingly bizarre happenings. “Q-The Winged Serpent” (1982) involves a giant flying serpent that is flying around decapitating New Yorkers and a small-time crook (Michael Moriarty) who happens to discover the beast’s hiding place and tries to trade that information to the police in exchange for a big payday. “The Stuff” (1985) was a broad satire target crass commercialism and corporate indifference in telling the tale of a brand new dessert treat, known as The Stuff, that sweeps the country and turns those who eat it into addicts. An industrial spy (Moriarty) hired by the now-struggling ice cream industry investigates and it turns out that the Stuff is a living parasitic organism that is essentially eating the very same people who are eating it—a minor fact that those selling the substance seem blithely unconcerned with in their quest for profits. In “The Ambulance” (1990), a comic book artist (Eric Roberts) investigates the disappearance of a woman he just met—after collapsing on the street, she was picked up by an ambulance but never made it to any hospital—and uncovers the expected mad and elaborate conspiracy.

Among genre movie fans, the films that I have just cited, with the possible exception of “The Ambulance,” are justly famous, not only for the films themselves (which expertly blend the comedy and horror genres with style and ease) but for the stories regarding their productions. In “God Told Me To,” there is a scene in which someone dressed as a policeman begins to shoot up New York’s St. Patricks’s Day parade. Considering the number of elements that would be occurring, there was no way that he could possibly get the required permits to film during the actual parade and recreating it would cost far too much money. Instead, he just took his actor—a then-unknown Andy Kaufman, just to add to the weirdness—and stuck him into the parade and filmed without any permits. As for “Q,” that film came about when Cohen was fired from another movie that he was directing, a big-budget adaptation of the pulp classic “I, the Jury” and decided to conceive another movie to do instead—not only did “Q” beat “I, the Jury” into theaters, it cost only a fraction of that film’s budget and wound up being a bigger hit to boot.

"Full Moon High"

Although these horror/satire hybrids would be the films that he would become most associated with, Cohen would occasionally change things up with unexpected forays into different types of filmmaking. “The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover” (1977) was an ambitious biopic that centered on the 40-year career of the former FBI director (Broderick Crawford) but which also served as a corrosive look American history during that time. Although the budget limitations are a little more obvious this time around, the film hit more than it missed. “Full Moon High” (1981) was a sweet-natured comedy in which Adam Arkin plays a teenager in 1959 who is bitten by a werewolf while on a trip to Romania—rendered ageless by this attack in addition to the usual side effects, he returns to his old high school 20 years later to reenroll, this time posing as his son. Although it had the misfortune to come out in the midst of a mini-glut of werewolf movies (that included “The Howling,” “An American Werewolf in London” and “Wolfen”) and disappear from view, it remains a charming work that suggests what the later “Teen Wolf” might have been like if it was actually good. 

Cohen then returned to his early thriller roots with two 1984 films that he shot back-to-back. In “Special Effects,” Eric Bogosian plays a filmmaker driven mad by a massive flop who accidentally films himself murdering a one-night stand (Zoe Lund). After discovering a lookalike (also Lund), he elects to make a movie about the dead woman utilizing that footage but when it gets destroyed, he becomes convinced that he needs to recreate it. In “Perfect Strangers,” a Mob hitman (Brad Rijin) discovers that a young, pre-verbal boy has seen him committing a murder and is ordered to kill the kid but before he can, he finds himself getting into a relationship with the boy’s mother (Anne Carlisle). “Wicked Stepmother” (1989) was another overt comedy but one perhaps better known for its own oddball behind-the-scenes story—after filming for a couple of weeks in the title role, star Bette Davis suddenly left the production  and rather than shut everything down, Cohen rewrote things so that her character would suddenly change her appearance so that the rest of the part could now be played by Barbara Carrera.

Although it would become harder over time for Cohen the director to get work—especially since the studios were now specializing in expensive versions of the B-movies that he specialized in—he still found work as a screenwriter and his name turned up on the screenplays for such films as “Best Seller” (1987). “Maniac Cop” (1988), “Body Snatchers” (1993,” “Guilty as Sin” (1993), and “Cellular” (2004). Of his work as a pure screenwriter during that time, his best-known project is probably the 2003 hit “Phone Booth,” a thriller in which a fast-talking publicist (Colin Farrell) with a messy personal and professional life impulsively answers a call at the last phone booth in New York and finds himself targeted by an unseen sniper who threatens to kill him if he attempts to leave. Cohen originally pitched the basic idea for the film to no less than Alfred Hitchcock but it was abandoned when they could not conceive of why the guy would have to remain in the phone booth. 

Cohen’s final film as a director was “Original Gangstas,” an entertaining blaxploitation revival that brought back some of the genre’s greatest icons—including Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Ron O’Neal, Richard Roundtree and Pam Grier—to kick some young punk ass. However, while he wasn’t doing anything new, his legacy continued to flourish. A member of an informal club of genre filmmakers known as the Masters of Horror, he would go on to direct an episode of the horror anthology series by the same name in 2006. He had reportedly been working with JJ Abrams on a project anthology series for cable television. 

"Q: The Winged Serpent"

His oeuvre returned to the spotlight in 2017 with the release of “King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen,” a wildly entertaining documentary in which Cohen looks back on his crazy career and which features additional testimonials from friends and coworkers as well as a slew of mouth-clips that will make you want to see the full features immediately. Among students of the genre, Cohen’s influence as a storyteller cannot be denied.

Of course, any discussion of the works of Larry Cohen at this site cannot conclude without mentioning an anecdote that Roger and others would often cite. In 1982, “Q” screened at that year’s Cannes Film Festival under the original title “The Winged Serpent.” As those who have seen the film know, the movie is largely dominated by a brilliantly out-of-left-field performance by Michael Moriarty, the kind that might have earned awards had it not been included in a film where giant creatures tear the heads off of topless sunbathers. Anyway, after the screening, there was a luncheon and the following conversation was said to have taken place between Samuel Z. Arkoff, the B-movie legend who produced “Q,” and film critic Rex “Myra Breckenridge” Reed.

REED: Sam! I just saw “The Winged Serpent!” What a surprise! All that dreck—and right in the middle of it, a great Method performance by Michael Moriarty!

ARKOFF: The dreck was my idea.

A great story, of course, but the genius of Cohen—and I do mean “genius”—was that he took concepts that others could have easily reduced to dreck and transformed them into witty, provocative works that pushed all the right buttons. As a filmmaker, Larry Cohen was a true master—not necessarily of horror alone. For film fans who have long sparked to his offbeat output, his passing will prove to be a great loss.   

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10 Reasons Why Choni Is Totally 'Shipworthy'

Welcome to Shipworthy, TV lovers!

Each week, ET’s resident small-screen romance expert, Leanne Aguilera, will be traversing the high seas and investigating one of TV’s most swoonworthy ships. Sail along to relive the sweetest moments, hottest makeouts and more -- and then head over to Twitter to let us know what you loved and which ships you’d love to see more of!

This week’s ship: Choni, aka Riverdale's very own Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) and Toni Topaz (Vanessa Morgan). The Bombshell and the Serpent may have seemed an unlikely pairing at first, but as the CW drama's second season unfolded, it became clear that they had more in common than it seemed -- including a growing understanding and affection for each other.

"I think they're really real. I think they bring out the best versions of each other," Morgan recently told Leanne Aguilera of the couple's connection. "They're both these strong, confident girls, and they both lets their walls down with each other and allow each other to be vulnerable. I think there's something so beautiful in that."

Here's a look at just a few of the reasons Choni makes such a "Shipworthy" pair:

1. Toni saw through Cheryl's "Bombshell" bluster right from the start.

Cheryl came hard with her patented snark from the pair's very first encounter -- "Not today, Cha Cha!" -- but Toni wasn't buying it. 

“Why don’t you tell me what’s bothering you, because clearly you’re in a lot of pain,” she offered when she walked in on Cheryl in full sabotage mode in the Riverdale High bathroom. The offer wasn't well received, but it broke the ice for Choni's developing bond.

 2. They had an adorable, impromptu movie date...

When both girls found themselves flying solo to a screening of Love, Simon, Toni offered another olive branch.

 3. ... that turned into a heartfelt moment of acceptance.

After the movie, Cheryl opened up to Toni about just why Simon's onscreen coming out had affected her so deeply, telling the story of how her mother "destroyed" her first love with a girl named Heather.

"You have to know that your mother's wrong," Toni assured her. "You're not loveless. You're not deviant, OK? You're sensational."

 4. Toni continued to support Cheryl, despite disapproval from her "nightmare" of a mother.

The pair's sympathetic bond didn't end over milkshakes at Pop's. Toni also stayed by Cheryl's side for "emotional support" during the reading of her father's will, regardless of the disdainful looks from Penelope Blossom.

 5. Their almost-first kiss left us all wanting more.

Fearing her Uncle Claudius' ominous intentions, Cheryl invited the Riverdale High ladies to Thistlehouse for a sleepover, but later confessed that Toni was the only one she really wanted to spend the night with. Unfortunately, their moment was interrupted by Nana Rose taking a tumble down the stairs -- perhaps pushed by some of the more sinister members of the Blossom family -- because we just can't have nice things.

 6. However, their real first kiss was pretty epic, too.

After Cheryl's mother sent her away to the Sisters of Quiet Mercy for her "deviant" behavior, Toni -- along with Veronica and Kevin -- staged a full-on rescue operation, which culminated in Choni's swoonworthy first smooch. Who needs a knight in shining armor when you have a Serpent princess in a catsuit?

 7. They totally upstaged the core four with their "You Shine" reprise.

The Choni duet may have been a deleted scene from Riverdale's musical episode, but the pair's musical moment -- in which Toni assures Cheryl that she's strong enough to stand up to her mother -- was a shipper scene for the ages. "No doubts / No more fears / I see you shine and the dark disappears." 

 8. And Cheryl got her chance to save Toni, too.

When Penny Peabody kidnapped Toni during riot night -- in order to pressure the Serpents into selling drugs on the southside -- Cheryl went full-on Robin Hood, showing up with her bow and arrow to threaten the Ghoulies into giving up her lady love.

 9. They finally made it official -- when Cheryl became a Serpent.

And, listen, if you weren't already sold on this ship, just look at Toni's face when her girl got her own Serpent jacket. I MEAN.

 10. There’s so much more to come.

"We're not rushing it too much," Morgan said of Choni's scenes together in season two -- some of which were left on the cutting room floor. "I think now that the fans have had a little taste, [in] season three they can really get into the Choni relationship."

"Oh, and she's going to be on the back of my motorcycle," the actress added. "I think everyone is going to want to see that!"

We can't wait!

See more on Choni in the video below, and hit us up on Twitter for more swoon-inducing Shipworthy content -- and to tell us about your favorite pairs! Happy shipping!

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Movies I Saw In 2017 (January - June)

Here’s a list of all the films I’ve seen (for the first time) so far this year. 

January

1. Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016, Mexico/Taiwan/USA) 2. Shinjuku Swan (Sion Sono, 2015, Japan) 3. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder, 2016, USA) 4. 9 Souls (Toshiaki Toyoda, 2003, Japan) 5. Sleepless Night (Frédéric Jardin, 2011, France/Belgium/Luxembourg) 6. Too Late for Tears (Byron Haskin, 1949, USA) 7. High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Kenny Ortega, 2008, USA) 8. Reform School Girls (Tom DeSimone, 1986, USA) 9. Woman on the Run (Norman Foster, 1950, USA) 10. Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi, 2016, USA) 11. Freaks of Nature (Robbie Pickering, 2015, USA) 12. La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016, USA) 13. Shinjuku Triad Society (Takashi Miike, 1995, Japan) 14. Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Lucio Fulci, 1971, Italy/Spain/France) 15. The Mutilator (Buddy Cooper, John Douglass, 1984, USA) 16. Split (M. Night Shyamalan, 2016, USA) 17. Teenage Cocktail (John Carchietta, 2016, USA) 18. Blue Jay (Alex Lehmann, 2016, USA) 19. xXx: Return of Xander Cage (D.J. Caruso, 2017, USA) 20. Rainy Dog (Takashi Miike, 1997, Japan) 21. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974, USA/Mexico) 22. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016, USA) 23. Outlaw Gangster VIP (Toshio Masuda, 1968, Japan) 24. 5 to 7 (Victor Levin, 2014, USA) 25. Jackie (Pablo Larraín, 2016, Chile/France/USA) 26. Seeding of a Ghost (Chuan Yang, 1983, Hong Kong) 27. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933, USA) 28. The Wailing (Hong-jin Na, 2016, South Korea/USA) 

February

29. Just Jim (Craig Roberts, 2015, UK) 30. Massacre Gun (Yasuharu Hasebe, 1967, Japan) 31. Miss India America (Ravi Kapoor, 2015, USA) 32. The Trust (Alex Brewer, Benjamin Brewer, 2016, USA) 33. The LEGO Batman Movie (Chris McKay, 2017, USA/Denmark) 34. Trash Fire (Richard Bates Jr., 2016, USA) 35. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016, Germany/Austria) 36. Loving (Jeff Nichols, 2016, UK/USA) 37. Girl Boss Guerilla (Noribumi Suzuki, 1972, Japan) 38. Time and Tide (Tsui Hark, 2000, Hong Kong/China) 39. Girlfriend’s Day (Michael Stephenson, 2017, USA) 40. John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski, 2017, USA) 41. Ley Lines (Takashi Miike, 1999, Japan) 42. I Am Not a Serial Killer (Billy O’Brien, 2016, Ireland/UK) 43. 20th Century Women (Mike Mills, 2016, USA) 44. Fences (Denzel Washington, 2016, USA) 45. Clockwatchers (Jill Sprecher, 1997, UK/USA) 46. Operator (Logan Kibens, 2016, USA) 47. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Macon Blair, 2017, USA) 

March

48. Logan (James Mangold, 2017, USA) 49. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973, USA) 50. The Greasy Strangler (Jim Hosking, 2016, USA) 51. Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki, 1964, Japan) 52. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017, USA) 53. Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2015, Japan/France) 54. Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts, 2017, USA) 55. Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins, 2008, USA) 56. Ashura (Yôjirô Takita, 2005, Japan) 57. A Silent Voice (Naoko Yamada, 2016, Japan) 58. Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016, France/Germany/Belgium) 59. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016, UK/USA) 60. My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai, 2007, Hong Kong/China/France) 61. Deirdra & Laney Rob a Train (Sydney Freeland, 2017, USA) 62. The Intervention (Clea DuVall, 2016, USA) 63. The Untamed (Amat Escalante, 2016, Mexico/Denmark/France/Germany/Norway/Switzerland) 64. The Boxer’s Omen (Chih-Hung Kuei, 1983, Hong Kong) 65. Lovesong (So-yong Kim, 2016, USA) 66. Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike, 1999, Japan) 67. Free Fire (Ben Wheatley, 2016, France/UK) 68. Dead or Alive: Final (Takashi Miike, 2002, Japan) 69. Power Rangers (Dean Israelite, 2017, Canada/USA) 

April

70. Maggie’s Plan (Rebecca Miller, 2015, USA) 71. Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (Atsushi Mihori, 1973, Japan) 72. Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2 (Keiichi Ozawa, 1968, Japan) 73. Raw (Julia Ducournau, 2016, France/Belgium) 74. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kenji Misumi, 1972, Japan) 75. Win It All (Joe Swanberg, 2017, USA) 76. The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2015, USA) 77. The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray, 2017, USA) 78. 99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani, 2014, USA) 79. Southbound (Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath, Radio Silence, 2015, USA) 80. Pete’s Dragon (David Lowery, 2016, USA) 81. The Belko Experiment (Greg McLean, 2016, USA) 82. Frank & Lola (Matthew Ross, 2016, USA) 83. Tramps (Adam Leon, 2016, USA) 84. Southside with You (Richard Tanne, 2016, USA) 85. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn, 2017, USA) 

May

86. Catfight (Onur Tukel, 2016, USA) 87. Phantasm II (Don Coscarelli, 1988, USA) 88. Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (Don Coscarelli, 1994, USA) 89. Phantasm IV: Oblivion (Don Coscarelli, 1998, USA) 90. Phantasm: Ravager (David Hartman, 2016, USA) 91. Tampopo (Jûzô Itami, 1985, Japan) 92. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, 2015, South Korea) 93. The Similars (Isaac Ezban, 2015, Mexico) 94. Lost in the Mountains (Hong Sang-soo, 2001, South Korea) 95. Lifeline (Johnnie To, 1997, Hong Kong) 96. Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017, UK/Australia/New Zealand/USA) 97. Bloodsucking Bastards (Brian James O’Connell, 2015, USA) 98. Hard Times (Walter Hill, 1975, USA) 99. As the Gods Will (Takashi Miike, 2014, Japan) 100. Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo, 2016, Canada/Spain) 101. Joe (David Gordon Green, 2013, USA) 102. Sunny (Hyeong-Cheol Kang, 2011, South Korea) 103. The Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell, 1988, UK) 104. Shrew’s Nest (Juanfer Andrés, Esteban Roel, 2014, Spain/France) 105. Detour (Christopher Smith, 2016, UK/South Africa) 106. Trespass (Walter Hill, 1992, USA) 

June

107. Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017, USA/China/Hong Kong) 108. The Incredible Jessica James (Jim Strouse, 2017, USA) 109. The Big Sick (Michael Showalter, 2017, USA) 110. Daughter of the Nile (Hsiao-Hsien Hou, 1987, Taiwan) 111. Sorority Row (Stewart Hendler, 2009, USA) 112. Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (Emily Ting, 2015, USA/Hong Kong) 113. Crime or Punishment?!? (Keralino Sandorovich, 2009, Japan) 114. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970, Italy/West Germany) 115. Everlasting (Anthony Stabley, 2016, USA) 116. The Burning (Tony Maylam, 1981, USA/Canada) 117. Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers (Miki Satoshi, 2005, Japan) 118. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Jack Sholder, 1985, USA) 119. Adrift in Tokyo (Miki Satoshi, 2007, Japan) 120. Serpent’s Path (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1998, Japan) 121. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017, UK/USA) 122. Wolf Guy (Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, 1975, Japan) 123. Zoom (Pedro Morelli, 2015, Brazil/Canada) 124. Instant Swamp (Miki Satoshi, 2009, Japan) 125. Okja (Bong Joon-ho, 2017, South Korea/USA) 126. Smoke (Wayne Wang, 1995, Germany/Japan/USA) 127. Come Early Morning (Joey Lauren Adams, 2006, USA) 

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