#riverdale text

[hayscodings]

riverdale went from alleging that hermione was a right nasty cunt in high school in s1 and revealing her to be a mob wife pulling her own strings in s2 to claiming that she was some sweet catholic school girl in s3 whose mom worked as a maid

[leotanaka]

the whole "it's boring to have the characters end up in heaven at the end" like, no it's not a boring ending and it's not what happened. they aren't in heaven, they are back inside of jughead's narration. they're teenagers forever. they're inside the story again. this whole season has had each and every character fighting their way out of the narrative they have been trapped inside, that jughead trapped them in, let them finally achieve that and gain their freedom only to die and end up back in the narrative again. they are back where they started.

[redysetdare]

It's all "you guys need to understand how SUBTEXT and CODING are usually the only confirmation of representation queer people get in media especially in older media" but once that subtext and coding is used to say a character might be aro or ace coded/have aro/ace subtext then suddenly it's not a valid way to claim representation. Then it's only "headcanon" or "not confirmed" like do you all hear yourselves? It'd be so much easier to say you hate aro/ace ppl at this rate!

[charliexspring]

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[wallbeatjournal]

Are true riverdale fans of the opinion it is a very good and nearly flawless show or does being a true riverdale fan mean being able to mock writing choices

it's long-running serial television plotted a season/half at a time so definitely not even "nearly" flawless.

BUT. i'm not doing combat with the writing team. i'm not actively reading against the text the way i have to in order to enjoy something like supernatural or the 90s robin comics or the fucking sopranos, which are patriarchal christiancore copworld rapeworld white supremacist horrorshows that hate their minority audiences, with like 2 good creatives involved and martyring themselves to fight the good fight on sparse rare installments if you try to approach them sincerely.

riverdale writing staff are like a favorite smart problematic tumblr mutual to me. I don't always like what's on their blog or who they're referencing. but we're in the same community and i'm interested and inspired and i trust their agenda overall, even when i see shit i wouldn't have fucking posted. but bc i'm not being condescended to or actively spited i'm not gonna condescend to or spite them, you know?

i expect rvd to age like twin peaks (another very uneven, highly referential serial juggling a couple of intensely cool metanarratives on top of its core story). and twin peaks fandom mocks twin peaks all the time. twin peaks includes some CLUNKY shit. it's kitsch. it's camp. it has a second season that is largely ASS. james is there. and on top of that it also includes some genuinely offputting-to-me stuff that just bothers me to sit through, even though i feel like i understand and respect what they're going for with it. i just don't want to watch someone sweep the fucking bar for minutes and minutes as entertainment. OK!!?

...so yeah. mock riverdale but in the right spirit. is that an answer? do i sound like i'm chugging the flavoraid koolaid fresh-aid? probably.

[lover-of-small-things]

jarchie as text posts but it's a roller coaster between silliness and utter sincerity

[ohlittlearchie]

did people seriously hate cheryl with heather bad enough that the show broke them up? bc i’ll tell you rn im furious bc i LOVE them. i haven’t even gotten to their breakup yet but i got it spoiled and im dreading it because they’re ??? so perfect ??? the way cheryl is actively being a better person and finding a part of herself that she’s never known when she’s with her is so beautiful to watch, and like it reminds me so much of season 2 choni before they got all toxic and weird. i’ll firmly stand by the statement that cheryl hasn’t been that happy since season 2 and she deserves to have that joy and experience a healthy relationship like the ones she’s perceiving around her (okay so One. barchie. but like i digress). give my girl something to grow for damn stop having her regress by chasing after someone who doesn’t want her

[vlasdygoth]

Silly

[theultimatewildcard]

But what would you do if I went to touch you now? What would you do if they never found us out? What would you do if we never made a sound?

[hayscodings]

every single one of those rivermoms got their phd in cuntology and then ras went ahead and stripped them of it because he was a coward

[leotanaka]

70 years ago, jughead was radicalised at the work halloween party by a guy dressed up as a devil who told him america is a fascist state!

[variousqueerthings]

the nature of being a johnny lawrence fan, is that it is often indistinguishable from being a johnny lawrence hater, and I don't think I have that with any other character. usually I'm very protective of my faves (including in cobra kai, daniel, sam, kreese, and tsilver), but johnny, I very much enjoy reading all the reasons people dislike his character, nodding along like "yeah what an inconsistent mess, you're so right, carmen pls u deserve better narrative to work with, terry silver was telling the truth when he mocked his fatherhood abilities, but alas the writing will never support it"

[nocakesformissedith]

[glawencurr]

Following Riverdale through Tumblr gifsets and trying to figure out if Archie likes guys now...

[lover-of-small-things]

your honor you weren't even there

[ohlittlearchie]

betty loved archie before he “got hot,” before he was just some intriguing “flavor of boy.” she loved him through the most awkward time of their life, after sickening, manipulation-fueled rejection, and across timelines. even when their feelings turn into something tangible and the threat of being wrong for allowing them to do so is looming, it’s never a question of whether or not they love each other; it’s simply a matter of trying to convince themselves not to. but that’s useless, as would be every other attempt, because even after five years of no contact, of flings, of losses, of others flitting in and out of their lives, the two of them find each other for good, and they do and will in every single timeline.

all of that is to say the ending is ooc and therefore NOT real. the show ended with season 6 and season 7 was just choni fanfiction no one else was in it thank you and goodbye.