#omg tumblr crashed while I was posting this I thought I lost you forever my friend. never fear

[rivercule]

archie and cheryl married but not toni and cheryl?

I made separate categories for “married/engaged/had kids (pre epilogue)” and “dated” because overall the former category seemed to be deemed less important narratively to the plain old “dated” category. The pre-epilogue qualifier was added specifically to keep them out of that category, actually, since Dale would have put them there even ignoring the common-law-marriage vibes. Archie and Cheryl were engaged (for all intents and purposes) but obviously in a very different way than Cheryl and Toni were together

There was an “endgame” line initially but I was running out of distinct colors and was worried that might invite discourse. I also didn’t want to do multiple lines in the same place and wanted to minimize distinct labels for the lines where I could

Because that chart is such a visual disaster already (that’s why I left of Joaquin et al initially. I was going to include them but I got burnt out then. I had something to avoid doing earlier so I was eager to get back to Riverdale Charts).

[taylorunicorn13]

I ALMOST MET HER

I ALMOST MET HER Disclaimer, it's a very long story guys, it contains a lot of emotions, regret, happiness and sadness in just one post. 15th of October, 2017 One of my mutuals on twitter, changed her name to "Taylor Nation" and sent me a confidential DM (msg usually sent by Taylor Nation to all deserving swifties who got luckily invited to Taylor's secret session") I really thought it was frickin real and i even sent her my complete address and legit included "PHILIPPINES" on it. Little did i know, she was just playing around and messing with my feelings (but she is my friend tho, and i cant hate her cause she's one my fave mutuals ever) but damn guys, it really wrecked my whole damn life, i thought Taylor wants to me too 😔 i thought Taylor knows my name and how i look like. And after few hours, i was able to get my composure back and already accepted the fact that I WILL NEVER EVER MEET Taylor Alison Swift. I've been a twitter stan for a very long period of time, and always complain on how Tay put so much attention on tumblr swifties, and never appreciates twitter swifties (sorry) and since using tumblr confuses me a lot, i decided to stay on twitter and use it as my major fangirling tool lol Then lately, Taylor has been joining instagram live of some lucky swifties, so i tried my luck on IG again and made myself look like an idiot by going on IG live just to get Taylor's attention, but after 3 attempts of trying, I gave up. Then last Wednesday, 18th of October, 2017 ONE DIRECT MESSAGE ALMOST CHANGED MY WHOLE LIFE. At around 11:54AM, i got a notification again from Taylor Nation, saying "CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE" damn babe, it's just so funny how i literally ignored it for a min bc i think someone is trying to make fun of me again, but SHIT JUST GOT REAL!!!!! GUYS!!!! I clicked on the account, and yeah, confirmed! TAYLOR NATION JUST SENT ME A DM!!!! It took a while for me to absorb everything and reply on their dm cause I was literally shaking, crying and screaming the whole frickin time bc it was frickin real and no longer a prank. I even woke all my relatives up and they thought that something bad happened to me lol and yeah it took me 4 frickin mins to send all the personal info that they need from me. And you know the drill guys, cause once Taylor Nation sends that so called "CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE" you already know what will happen next, *internally screaming* "SECRET SESSION" babyyyyy!!!! And after getting their DM, i was so happy, it felt like I was in cloud 9! Ive never felt that genuine happiness before, added to the fact that i was also completely unstable, i wanna scream and tell the whole wide world that I am so close to meeting Taylor Swift but I cant. So i just spent the whole night and day waiting for their reply and thinking of happy memories that I am soon gonna be making with Taylor. Then Thursday morning, 19th of October 2017. My phone rings, it was a very unfamiliar yet too familiar, international number! My heart beats faster and my voice starts to tremble as I answer and say hello to the happy girl on the other line! "Heyyy Camila, ohmygod, it feels so nice to finally be able talk to you, wow" OHMYFUCKING GOD !!! THE SINCERITY AND HAPPINESS ON HER VOICE WERE SURREAL I AM TALKING TO TAYLOR NATION ON THE THE OTHER LINE She keeps on saying WOW lol so i finally said, "Hi, are you Taylor Nation? And ohhh, I'm not Camila, it's actually Cristina" (LOL GUYS, I'VE BEEN USING CAMILA'S NAME ON TWITTER FOR SO LONG, I THINK THEY THOUGHT THAT IT WAS MY PET NAME OR WHATEVER) so that's how our conversation started, she also introduced herself and i was so stupid for not remembering her name for being too hyped. All i remember was these lines "TAYLOR IS INVITING YOU TO A VERY SPECIAL AND EXCLUSIVE EVENT" "IM TELLING YOU THAT THIS IS A BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO FINALLY MEET HER" FUCK FUCK FUCK TAYLOR WANTS TO MEET ME TAYLOR KNOWS ME TAYLOR IS NOT IGNORING ME AND ALL THIS TIME, TAYLOR HAS BEEN STALKING ME AM I DREAMING? Then, i caught myself off guard when she said "I know it will really take a long journey for you, knowing that you're from the Philippines, but are you willing to take it?" I said YES (cause bitch i love taylor so much and of course ill do anything to meet her) So i asked her, "when and where" And she said "It's actually this coming Sunday in Los Angeles, can you make it?" The happy tone of her voice was still there OKAY, GUYS IM DONE MY LIFE IS RUINED I AM A TOTAL MESS "I DONT HAVE A PASSPORT AND VISA" How can I make it in L.A in three motherfucking days? I AM SO DEVASTATED So thereeeeee, she was explaining a lot of things and the only thing i could recall was "looks like you're not going to make it" and i can hear the sudden regret and sadness in her voice. I AM SO SAD. FROM BEING IN CLOUD 9 TO GODDAMN HELL REAL QUICK But before we end our conversation, i asked her one last question. "HOW DID YOU GUYS FIND ME?" I hear her laugh on the other line before she answers me "We have our own ways, we have our eyes, and we've been monitoring you for a very long time, you're such a great fan, and we love how you show your love ans support on Tay even when she's on break and especially during her TRIAL, and i really love your account" OMG WHAT TRIAL? YOU MEAN HER CASE? SO ARE THEY REALLY STALKING ME IS TAYLOR REALLY STALKING ME DID TAYLOR ALSO HANDPICK ME? THE THOUGHT OF TAYLOR STALKING ME WITHOUT ME KNOWING SOMEHOW CHANGED EVERYTHING. SHE KNOWS MY EXISTENCE. IT MADE ME FEEL BETTER I LOVE HER SO MUCH AND IT HURTS I HATE MYSELF FOR LOSING THE BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY OF MY LIFE I AM FOREVER CARRYING THIS BURDEN Also the pictures, I've been creating in my head, of me happily spending the best time of my life with Taylor in her apartment in LA, with Meredith and Olivia, was G O N E. Like G-O-N-E. GONE in just like that. My world literally crashed after the phone convo that I had with TN, it changed my whole perspective in life and also as a swiftie, i thought that I will never ever get this chance. I even told myself that if Taylor would ever invite me to her Secret Session, i would legit do anything just to be there with her. But what the fuck did just happen? I'm almost there! I've been waiting since forever. It was already Taylor who's inviting me and I just put her down 😔 This is the worst thing that could ever happen to a huge and dedicated swiftie like me. My family and friends used to say that "your time will come" and i guess that's it. That's how it works, that's how I lost the chance. The opportunity was already there, but the timing wasn't right. Ive been keeping this sadness all alone cause i made a promise to Taylor and TN to keep it until the LA Secret Session was over. And yeah, btw to all my fellow swifties who hasn't been noticed by Tay yet, don't lose hope. And also, just a quick reminder to all international Swifties especially Filo swifties, guys don't ever say that she's being unfair for not giving chances to us, i am telling you guys, she's giving equal opportunities to all her swifties and really doing her very best to meet all of us 😊 And if your time hasnt arrived, then it's not your time yet. And to Taylor Swift, i know you can't wait to meet me too and I am sorry I could make it this time but I am never losing hope, you know how much I love you, and if today's not our day then it's not our day yet. See you soonest buddy!!!! I love you with all my heart. I lost the chance to meet her at the Secret Session but at least Taylor Alison Swift knows me and somehow that was everything. Love, Cristy/TaylorUnicorn13 Supposed to be one of the LA Reputation Secret Sessioners @taylorswift

[salzspektrum]

2/2: i think my real problem with rhaegar is this prophecy hocus pocus. if you fell in love w/ lyana b/c he saw her defend howland reed against those bullies and then sang a song at the feast that made her cry, fine. go with that story. it's shitty, and you're shitty rhaegar, but it's not the WORST thing. (although leaving elia and your children to the mad king's "protection" totally is) but grrm/rhaegar's trying to have it both ways. it was personal emotions ~andd~ selfless prophecy.

can you believe that i wrote a huge fucking meta on this and tumblr just decided to crash and i gotta write it all again? (: @tumblr FIX YOUR SHIT YOU ASSHOLE.

anyway, let’s start over. i mean grrm obviously wanted to leave this story open so that the fandom can debate whether they actually were in love or they felt like they needed to fulfill their duty to the world and birth the prince that was promised. from a personal view, i don’t care much about all the prophecies anymore. i know they are essential in asoiaf and i definitely see their purpose but i used to obsess over OMG WHO IS AZOR AHAI and now i’m more like “yeh it’s probably a bunch of people, most notably dany and jon). so i’m chill about those now. ok let’s view this thing from different perspectives:

1. rhaegar. dude grew up with aerys as his dad so sure something had to be wrong with him. bro was obsessed with prophecies and thought for a big part of his life that he was THE CHOSEN ONE^TM (kinda arrogant imo but well dude was really obsessed). i absolutely agree with you, that grrm and rhaegar tried to have it both ways, personal emotions and selfless prophecy. but i just have so many issues with this dude lol. i don’t hate him, he’s a very interesting character and i enjoy comparing jon to both his parents (radio westeros did a really good episode on rlj, if you haven’t listened to it, i recommend it, even tho it’s pretty old so probably everyone in the asoiaf fandom listened to it by now lol). is he the worst character in asoiaf? obviously not. but he’s still kind of a douche lol. i mean shit went kinda bad for him and “he died with a woman’s name on his lips” or something along the lines is hella poetic and does kinda suggest that he did love lyanna, assuming he meant her, which is very likely.

2. lyanna. she always fascinated me bc she comes across as such a wilfull and smart woman. like…i love her a lot. she seemed to be a really tough girl, arya-style, but she still had that romantic side to her, sansa-style. i mean i could write a whole post comparing lyanna to the stark sisters but i won’t do that, i gotta watch the tlj trailer lol #priorities. people will forever speculate whether she went willingly or not, i doubt that we’ll get any actual confirmation for that. ***short break: prayer circle for howland reed to appear in twow*** has it been confirmed?? idk. i mean i totally admire her. she came to that tournament, saw a dude being bullied by assholes and fucking defended him. honestly, #legends only. i guess this was an important thing that attracted rhaegar to her? to see such a wilfull and passionate woman. it’s so hard to analyze things from her perspective but to me she didn’t seem like the kind fo person to be totally emersed by prophecies and shit. i may be wrong tho, correct me if i am.

3. elia. i feel so sad for both elia and lyanna. they both had shitty deaths and i mean they weren’t direclty caused by rhaegar but he did fuck up. big time. i mean she probably felt insanely lonely, betrayed and lost, alone in the red keep while rhaegar was out impregnating another woman. i have to disagree with people who say that she was 100% fine with what he did. i totally don’t believe that. she didn’t have much of a choice to speak up against it but i absolutely think that it bothered her a LOT. this was her husband, nonetheless. as far as i know, he didn’t like love her but idk how she felt about him. also how fucking terrible must it feel to be “thrown away” bc of her sickness? everyone thought she was useless bc she was sick and that rhaegar had good reasons to leave her for lyanna like??? fuck off?? just look at joncon, completely disregaring elia. i mean yeah he totally had a crush on rhaegar and all but brah how fucking biased are you lol. also her death was so terrible, i wanna cry. she didn’t deserve AAAAAANY of this shit and honestly, @house martell: TAKE OVER.

4. aerys. dude just wanted everyone/everything to burn, honestly i relate.

5. ned. my poor man, loved his sister so much he fucked over a big part of his life. he will never fail to make me feel intense emotions, fuck you @grrm.