#riverdale preference

[blackhholes]

teen wolf meme: [2/4] families -> the hales

Killing doesn't run in a family. Maybe it does in mine.

[cantgetworsethanthistbh]

dumping more of my stancest feels here because i cannot NOT think of them. i read journal 3 for the first time this week and its great because Ford acts like stanley's biggest hater which is pretty fking funny (if not absolutely infuriating at times because omfg stfu you smug prick)

but the moments like this get to me

Ford being blinded by his quest of grandeur, accolades and praise for world changing discoveries, so obsessed with greatness, being the first name people remember, and all the other things his npd-isms tells him he wants.

And then there's "reminds me of camping with my brother. i wonder what he's up to..."

i mentioned in my previous post that stan acts quite a lot like the anchor to ford's boat, keeping him grounded and most importantly, safe from both the bitter and the sweet kinds of evils. but he also represents something so much simpler to ford too: the simple desires he represses so much because its not "good enough" for someone special like him.

he resents stan so much because he represents a "block" against that percieved good enough success he wants, the obstacle that made it impossible to get in a fancy college, become the world renowed researcher, the one who wanted to destroy his journal's and lifes work (even though it was the better, safer option if Bill really WAS that dangerous, which he was) that could still make him famous. because if ford's not "praised and weird" then he's just "weird" and being "weird" was nothing but a pain his whole life that kept him rejected and isolated from the masses. and stan prevented him from that.

(btw "maybe he can prove himself to me" is nasty work my god ford is a douche lmao)

a lot of his projections of something greater comes through with how he treated dipper in the show (his whole spiel in damvtf) and fiddleford in journal 3 where he looks down on the happy life that fiddleford had with his wife and child and saying he was "wasting his talents" making computers. and like, we all know by the way he takes them on high stakes adventures they're not as prepared for compared to him (and end up causing more trouble than not by doing so), he's trying to fill a gaping hole left by someone else. we all know this obviously, we all know what we ship here, but what i came to appreciate the most about it is how much that gaping hole exists in the low stakes

everytime ford is thinking during the "down time" moments, his thoughts always drift back to his childhood, and one person who represents it.

childhood memories, making fun of stans favorite snack, scribbling out a design of the stan o war, whenever Ford lets his mind wander it expresses such an intense yearning for the past before he became obsessed with wanting something more. these are his most utmost and most unfiltered thoughts, which is why he scribles them away or and writes in code. and the fact that he directly says they are about NOT getting married, followed with "wondering what he's doing right now", painting the picture of what his most ideal idylic life is. wanting a return of something lost. wanting Stan back more than anything.

he finally accepts that his dream never really changed, just the same as stan's and so they saild off together for the rest of their days, in ford's own words (which ironically sounds like a marriage to me either way so tough shit ford)

[dippersguidetotheunexplained]

man i remember back years and years ago when you were joking about gritty falls . and now the book of bill ended up producing the same kind of effects. but never as predicted. crazy shit

this can still happen

[ladyculebras]

tagged by @streussal! Thanks for tagging!

make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favorite

I tag @alaynestone, @hearthouses, @vincenzides, @augustmourn, @comebackali! And anyone else who wants to do it.

[liege-of-the-bees]

OK but the way that the Musical itself seems to reflect the comics characterisation more then the show (Re-instating the love triangle, Jughead constantly bringing up food and seemingly having no interest in women, Cheryl supposedly being into Archie) and then the show characters actively reject those characterisations and one by one leave and/or strive to change the Musical (Betty and Veronica change their song from a love song about Archie to a love song about each other and kiss, thus subverting the love triangle and meanwhile Archie, instead of protesting this, decides separately to end the love triangle to focus on himself, Jughead leaves the Musical after the first number deeming it beneath him, Cheryl alongside Toni campaign for a queer love song and leave when it isn't added.) Hell, Archie isn't even in the Musical by the end, literally symbolising that the Archie in the musical isn't Riverdale Archie, thus separating Riverdale further from the comics canon and restating that while on paper the show is based off of the Archie comics it is in name only for the most part and in practice basically none of these characters could (or should, in the eyes of the writer's in all likelyhood) be considered the same as their comic counterparts—

[onthesubjectofanything]

something deeply real and homosexual and frightening happened to those two after reggie got home from basketball camp, after archie spent the summer keeping that home safe

and whatever it was it scared archie so bad he ran straight to his little quad and then all the way to california into the arms of a nameless wife and he never fucking looked back, he couldnt look back

[chasecordelias]

This is what Riverdale should have been the whole time. Season 1 was a very competent whodunnit murder mystery and then from season 2 onward it just kept getting more and more ridiculous. And the thing that makes it most ridiculous though - they always lean a little bit into how “oh it’s demons, oh it’s flying babies, oh it’s magical cults, everyone’s disappearing” but then they always explain it away like “well actually it was all just jingle jangle and it was the special paint they were using in the school and he didn’t come back from the dead, it’s actually his secret cousin’s twin who we just found out about who looks exactly like him”. With this miniseries, it’s like "La Llorona shows up, yeah the devil shows up, yeah ghosts are real, Sabrina’s real, magic’s real" it was actually like almost more believable because in a world today where everything’s superheroes and vampires and werewolves I kind of wish Riverdale was just that. The fact that they’ve been trying to keep everything realistic just makes it more ridiculous. Like I kind of wish it was just like “yeah demons are real dude” it makes it so much more easy to digest.

Alex Meyers

[dykejugheadjones]

archie intensely bores me as a subject. like all archies r boring its just such a boring name. i am talkinh abput archie andrews. the best thing in his chracter was his constant unionizing and the sexual tension him and jughead had in the earlier seasons

[coldbam]

tbh the only things i want to talk about for the next week are eddie diaz and riverdale and if you think those are mutually exclusive you are wrong

[blahaj-blastin]

Big fan of that one weirdly specific trope that’s like:

All our parents have a secret past where they were involved with some cult/organization/crime and we, the teen protagonists, are now collectively wrapped up in the actions/mysteries we had no idea our families were hiding.

[salaciouscrumbb]

this episode just reminded me how all i want is for betty to be killing & fucking.

[naivety]

i don't think i'm strong enough for barchie endgame u guys

[arsenicpanda]

if jarchie were to become canon, it would make Kevin Smith a prophet

[cas-backwards-tie]

This really makes me think I need to watch those things, H 💕 it’s weird bc idk if I really have any… but if I did, I’d probably put these down:

• Allison Argent (Teen Wolf) through & through

• Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf) bc she grew so much

• Elena Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries) how could I not? relatable

• Padme Amidala (Star Wars) how could I almost forget her?

[If I had to add]

• Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things) only the first few episodes

• Violet Harmon (American Horror Story) relatable, and based off the edits I’ve saved

• Sabrina Spellman (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) based off edits

• Patty Bladell (Insatiable) also based off edits

• Betty Cooper (Riverdale) for the most part

After that it’d be all animated characters probably 🤷‍♀️

what are some of you guys woman/girl blorbos. like female characters you are utterly obsessed with

[userlaylivia]

after s6 aired they said skeet was coming back and now I find out he's not that he was offered to come back and chose not to and I respect his decision I do but I wanted my falice endgame so badly ugh and now apparently their not even leaving the 50's which makes what tabitha said in 701 kind of pointless because I thought the whole point was to eventually go back to some present-ish timeline like ugh srsly I'm so ready for this show to end so I can move on to better shows because every show is better ugh lol