#riverteen

[hitchell-mope]

Doctor who/Alice through the looking glass au

Clara. Alice

Danny. James.

River. Mirana.

Thirteen. Tarrant.

Missy. Iracebeth.

Jack. Time.

[thecooler]

Thinking about the episode in season 4 (5? I think it was 4) of Riverdale where they just all see the same therapist and the therapist is like what the fuck is going on with these teenagers. What the fuck

[bireggiemantle]

since the finale is today (SCREAMINGCRYINGYELLINGTHROWING UP) I thought it'd be fun to do a Riverdale themed ask game for the girls :)

Riverdale Ask Game

1. Who is your favorite character?

2. Who is your least favorite character?

3. Which season is your favorite, and which plot of that season do you like most?

4. Which season is your least favorite? Why?

5. What is something you wish the show would have done better?

6. Which musical episode is your favorite?

7. If you could pick, which ships would you make endgame?

8. Which ship(s) do you dislike?

9. Which character has your favorite costuming? What's your favorite outfit they wore?

10. Which episode is your favorite? Why?

11. Who do you think is the most underrated character?

12. If you read fanfiction, recommend a fic you love.

13. If you write fanfiction, recommend a fic you're proud of.

14. Which AMV is your favorite?

15. When did you start watching the show?

16. Have you ever cosplayed one of the characters? Would you?

17. What were your thoughts on Rivervale?

18. Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

19. Who is your favorite parentdale character? Why?

20. What is your favorite quote?

[saturnaftertaste]

the consensus seems to be that gay sex would not fix either of them (hiram or archie). would anything?

look it depends on who they’re having gay sex with. i think if archie had gay sex (was gay en géneral) with jughead, i think that would’ve fixed him. archie is fundamentally a representation of ideal american masculinity (white, “straight”, strong+hot) with the added on characteristic of being a Good Guy. it tracks that archie’s prime directive is To Protect. protect who? his father, his mother, his girlfriend, his friends, gay kevin, etc. 90% of the story is moved by the fact that archie wants to protect people. hell, even the thing with grundy is in the ballpark of “protect/save/rescue” because she had an abusive husband (?) (i don’t remember). mostly, each season has archie’s rescue+protect instinct running through it all times. considering all of this, it makes sense that archie usually has a girl on his arm - someone that he can “protect” (not in the way that reddit incels fantasize about putting a woman in a saw trap so they can save her, but in a genuine, sort of expressing-his-affection kind of way.)

unfortunately betty and ronnie are both pretty independent women, as are josie, valerie, tabitha and most of the other women archie encounters. which means whenever archie is in a relationship with one of these women, he’s fundamentally standing on the side unable to really do anything. it’s why reggie+veronica don’t work out either in the end, in line with the idea that reggie is essentially a darker mirror of archie.

but you know who ISNT an independent girlboss? jughead! from day one jughead’s story has been attached to archie - from the moment archie didn’t show up for the trip, jughead started seething and frothing at the mouth thinking about archie and girls. even then, jughead does not go on the trip. jughead does not do anything, actually, unless he is partnered with one of the other riverteens. betty in season one, toni in season 2, archie in season 3, betty&archie in season 4, etc. jughead, left to his own devices, becomes the wettest most pathetic boywaif ever known to man. he camps out in a drive-in theater projection box. he lives in a cupboard under the school stairs. he gets beat to near-death. he gets beat to near-death again. he gets buried alive, conked on the head, fake-murdered, eaten by rats? made deaf? and whatever the hell else goes on with jughead. jughead exists in a perpetual state of distress, a Someone Who Needs Saving.

arguably, this is perfect for archie. archie needs someone to love him completely without him having to change anything about himself, and there is no one more devoted to the idea of archie than jughead. jughead, on thé other hand, needs someone to stick by him unconditionally, without abandoning him for “something better”. there is, quite literally, no one who embodies man’s best friend (see when i say man i mean it; the instances of him cheating on ronnie are. well) better in the entire town. archie would provide jughead with someone to protect+serve, and jughead would provide archie with someone who loves him no matter how “bad” he gets. unstoppable force x immovable object ygm

hiram, on the other hand. gay sex in the hirarchie dynamic would not fix anything for either party, i fear. i do think hiram is aggressively “male”, the same way that archie is, but in a bad light. there is obviously the racial angle there: mark consuelos is mexican, and hiram is implied (?) to be cuban (?). obviously he contrasts archie very significantly, who is the all-american teenage boy, to hiram’s latam-immigrant-drug-dealer-cartel-leader thing. inherently the story says that all of archie’s “acts of aggression” are either for good, pure reasons, or they’re “mistakes”. hiram’s aggression on the other hand is always villainous - it’s the rules of the context riverdale is set in. (this is obviously in line with their character histories, i’m just pointing out the obvious, because the racial context does indeed matter.) “corrupting outsider” being a brown man does in fact get turned on its head in the last season when the thesis of the show is stated outright “the threat is here, at home, in wholesome, suburban america”. but still. hiram existing to follow genre conventions contrasted against archie who is following his own genre conventions is just interesting to me. point being that i think gay sex to hiram would be like the homosexuality of greek military legend or homosociality taken to the next level (i.e. women are for having children.) i think fundamentally he wishes veronica had been a son; i think that hermione and veronica (and hermosa) having a majority role in his life makes him long for the male-only spaces of the mob - in the sauna, in the private meetings, in that one scene where he brings archie into his study and shuts the doors on veronica. i think perhaps fishing-trip-esque homosexual relations for hiram might fix him, in the way that beating up people in dark alleys “fixed” his “disease” in s4, but between hirarchie it would only further sexually traumatise poor archie and severely depress hiram.

(i think also half the fun of archie, to hiram, is the fact that he cannot stop him, so he keeps having to take bigger swings at archie. if in-show he really did want to take advantage of archie for sex reasons alone, it wouldn’t have been hard considering archie was already very vulnerable. this is not to say that hiram did not use the same tactics as grundy - trust/secrecy/validation - but it was for a different outcome. hiram’s prime directive is competition - to have archie under his thumb so completely would have bored him.)

the inherent comedy of “mob boss in competition with his teenage daughter’s boyfriend” is really lost if it turns into something sexual; to me it just becomes tragic and has some really disturbing connotations vis a vis the racial context of the whole setup.

ANYWAY what i think would REALLY fix the both of them is daily affirmations and recreational wood-chopping. channel that “masculine rage” into something productive. go chop some firewood for the murder chalet in the woods!

[doctorcurdlejr]

11, 18, and 19 for the ask game! :)

11. Who do you think is the most underrated character?

Hmm... maybe Veronica? I think a lot of people tend to dislike her character, which I can sympathize with, watching her Girl Boss Endlessly can certainly get tiring. But I believe if Jughead can sweep the nation despite his loser boy swag, Ronnie should be able to make her gazillion annoying and pretentious references to hell and back. #WeirdHER

18. Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

Riveradults I think. Not only did we get Tabitha from it, but Archie got carbon monoxide poisoning in the mines and Cheryl got stigmata.

19. Who is your favorite parentdale character? Why?

answered - but my second fave is probably Gladys (SO CLOSE WITH FRED IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY). Like first of all that's Gina Gershon, second of all that's GINA GERSHON from BOUND, third of all she's PFLAG JARCHIE MOM, and fourth of all: HUMAN kevin

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[garbagequeer]

18 and 19

18. Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

them as adults post time jump i love them so much they're 25 they're wwi veterans they're wall street sharks they've been held captive in a well by serial killers they do drugs to write ya novels they're voluntarily exiled from society they have throuple babies they're letting their flags fly at forever half mast they're everything to me. what IF you tried to leave your hometown and be the person you're supposed to be but you could never make sense out there what if you were always headed back. and then they also get SUPERPOWERS <33

19. Who is your favorite parentdale character? Why?

i would say hiram but i feel hiram occupies a different category from the other parents (he is forever) so im saying JUGHEAD'S MOM everyone CLAP for JUGHEAD'S MOM gladys jones i love you girl you're so crazy <3 never a dull moment with jughead's mom

thanks for asking i feel like we're at sleepover talking about our crush (the tv show riverdale) <3

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[femmehysteria]

3 7 18!!!

3. Which season is your favorite, and which plot of that season do you like most?

Ooh they're all perfect but season 4 with stonewall prep, bret weston wallis and donna sweet and that whole secret history esque storyline. and who could forget cheryl and jasons corpse

7. If you could pick, which ships would you make endgame?

This current season im loving reggie/archie but the best best relationship in all of riverdale imo is fangs/toni theyre both beautiful and perfect and they both deserve better than kevin and cheryl

18. Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

Riverteens are a classic, whats better than a teenage girl at war against her father, a teen boy who does vigilante justice and like the riverteens are actually all friends and in each others lives in a way that the riveradults arent although i do love fbi betty and what war was archie even in

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[horrorlesbion]

14 18 20

14. Which AMV is your favorite?

@theultimatewildcard hirarchie would've could've should've vid makes me INSANE. screaming crying throwing up every time. that's my baby boy :(((

18. Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

i don't care for 50sdale but it's a hard choice between the riverteens and adults. i suppose at this point the adults because they're my age? and there was a lot of good payoff for the #cycles but it's pretty wrapped up in which storylines i prefer and that varies between the individual characters.

20. What is your favorite quote?

"it burns me that there are people in this town that still believe being gay is anything less than rapturous" she was real for that

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[cuchabra]

3, 4, 5, 17, 18, 19 y 20 del ask game de riverdale hala dale

3. Which season is your favorite, and which plot of that season do you like most?

SEASON 3!!! Unmatched energy, organ harvest dnd cult evil nuns jingle jangle the bear...... woah. Closely followed by season 6 and Rivervale.

4. Which season is your least favorite? Why?

Probably 7... Like. I know what it was trying to do but. But the worst thing riverdale can do is be boring and it WAS mostly boring.

5. What is something you wish the show would have done better?

Oof...... probably the whole grooming Archie thing. They eventually admited the teacher was grooming him, but only to bring her back in season 7?

17. What were your thoughts on Rivervale?

MY BESTIE RIVERVALE. I loved it sooo much. Most shows should learn a lesson or two.

18. Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

Riverteens! OG core four have my whole heart. Riveradults are cool too, I love how dark the town gets, they bring home the cycles of violence and abuse for sure.

19. Who is your favorite parentdale character? Why?

Hiram!!!! He is the Most Fun I think. Im sorry, Im not immune to pathetic mobster having beef with a 16 year old boy.

20. What is your favorite quote?

Off the top of my head:

"A public execution? What are you, my executioners?" - Hiram

"Bro, I know all the secrets of this universe" - Archie

"What are you?... a wizard?" - Reggie

"I am an unwed mother carrying my cousin's babies" - Polly

"I bough it on e-slay" - That one true crime fan

"For I am Cheryl Blossom, queeeeen.... of the beeeees..." -Cheryl

[theultimatewildcard]

3, 9, 15, 18, if you want to 🌠🐕‍🦺🥤🐝🛼

those emojis.... roberto is that you?

3. Which season is your favorite, and which plot of that season do you like most?

i already answered this one here but i am going to give a different answer now <3 i really enjoyed the gang defeating evil bisexual cross-dimensional british wizard percival pickens with the power of trade unions in season 6 :)

9. Which character has your favorite costuming? What's your favorite outfit they wore?

answered this one here :)

15. When did you start watching the show?

i started watching in october 2018! i watched the whole of season 1 in one day and then watched season 2 at a slightly more reasonable pace and was then fully caught up and watching week to week by the season 3 midseason finale (december 2018 i believe?)

18. Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

they all have a certain appeal to me. i'm going to say the riveradults :)

[userlaylivia]

10, 11 & 18 for the riverdale questions

10. which episode is your favorite? why?

it's between 1x01/1x13!! 101 because it was the first episode and it was so good such a good pilot! and 113 because it was just so intense and the acting was A+!!!!!!! plus bhva we're amazing in it!!

11. who do you think is the most underrated character?

veronica and josie!!!! I love them both so so so much and they deserve more love!! the hate veronica gets makes me sick and it's almost always when she interacts with archie ugh

18. do you prefer the riverteens, the riveradults, or the 50's riverteens?

the riverteens no question!!!! I love them so much I want them back tbh lol I know they remember and stuff but lol I love the riveradults too though at least fp and fred lol

[blackhholes]

4, 10, and 18 :)

4. Which season is your least favorite? Why?

gotta go with season one. it's enjoyable but knowing what comes in the following seasons just makes it seem kinda lackluster for me

10. Which episode is your favorite? Why?

THE JUGHEAD PARADOX amazing showstopping masterpiece of a television episode. the perfect ending for the in my head emmy winning event that was rivervale. also the two reggies? the multiple jugheads? the bro i know all the secrets of this universe?

18. Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

i have suuuuh a soft spot for the riverteens like they're my children they're my best friends i just wanna bundle them in blankets. they were also just sooooo unserious a lot of the times truly the best people ever.

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[thecooler]

I love the musical episodes of Riverdale. Ppl say they're the worst ones and idk what ur watching the show for but as far as I'm concerned there's nothing better than a bunch of actors who can't sing desperately trying to tie unrelated songs to the plight of the Riverteens and also they can't use real drug names they still have to call them jingle jangle and fizzle rocks

[newengland-alligator]

For the RVD asks: 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20?

Thank you!

9.) Which character has your favorite costuming? What's your favorite outfit they wore?

So I really dig Jughead's Season 3 look with the leather Serpent's jacket on and the flannel shirt around his waist. I dressed like that in hs (but in a preppy way because my school had a "business casual" dress code) and I've always stayed fond of the look.

10.) Which episode is your favorite? Why?

Season 2, episode 18, "Chapter Thirty-One: A Night to Remember". Also Season 3, episode 4, "Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club". They're both fun and have a lot to do with Alive Cooper (don't like the character but I've had a crush on Mädchen Amick since I watched Twin Peaks as a teen sooooo ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯)

11.) Who do you think is the most underrated character?

Tabitha Tate I guess? I know she's popular with the users I follow but I know some of the fandom hates her for being with Jughead and not being a white girl. Also Agent Drake. We should have had our Hannibal wannabe serial killer Betty and FBI agent gf Drake. Instead it will live only in my mind.

16.) Have you ever cosplayed one of the characters? Would you?

I have never cosplayed as a character from Riverdale, but if I did it would probably be Season 5 Jughead. I can work the sleezy writer + glasses look.

17.) What were your thoughts on Rivervale?

Took me a minute to get into it, but once I did I enjoyed it overall.

18.) Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

Hmm, I haven't seen the newest season with the 50s Riverteens yet, so I'm going to go with the og Riverteens.

19.) Who is your favorite parentdale character? Why?

Hiram Lodge. Also FP Jones and Season 1 Hermione Lodge!

20.) What is your favorite quote?

"In case you haven't noticed, I'm WEIRD. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in, and I don't WANT to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on?" (Jughead Jones, Season 1, Episode 10, "Chapter Ten: The Lost Weekend")

"Archie: If we weren't here, we'd be in high school joining clubs, trying out for sports.

Ghoulie: Not me. I dropped out in the fourth grade to run drugs to support my Nana.

Archie: That means you haven't known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football." (Archie Andres, Season 3 Episode 2: "Chapter Thirty-Seven: Fortune and Men's Eyes")

Link to the original post & questions!

[lezarus]

10 11 18 :))

hi levi!!!

10. Which episode is your favorite? Why?

ultimate fave has to be the great escape just bc ive watched it over and over and its always SO much fun. jughead getting addicted to dnd. archie/joaquin judas kiss. cheryl shooting that can on jugheads head. monica posh. the g&g mission narration paralleling archies escape GOD that episode is so good i wanna go watch it now.

the jughead paradox is right up there as well!!! i love u weird meta episode of the weird meta show

11. Who do you think is the most underrated character?

not super underrated but i loooove reggie so so much one of my faves for sure. and tabitha i love her so much!!! ALSO JOAQUIN I MISS HIM EVERY DAY. oh also i rly enjoyed julien this season i thought he was so fun

18. Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

i love the 50’s riverteens i think theyre so fun but i will always love the og riverteens so much. those are my best friends

[natsudragneelgf]

18 for the riverdale ask game :P

Omg heyy

18. Do you prefer the Riverteens, Riveradults, or the 50s Riverteens?

This is. A loaded one actually (watch me say this about any of them) um!

I think Riveradults. I was very curious about how a timeskip would pan out and I loooooovvveee them in seasons 5 and 6 so so so much. Dysfunctional adults! They were teenagers an episode ago! They look the same! I love them forever