#this is from the experience 2017

[cowboyshit]

they're horrible (I love them)

[heymacy]

RIVERDALE | Chapter One: The River's Edge (January 26, 2017) ┈➤ Our story is about a town, a small town, and the people who live in the town. From a distance, it presents itself like so many other small towns all over the world. Safe. Decent. Innocent. Get closer, though, and you start seeing the shadows underneath.

[ink-the-artist]

truly not trying to detract from the very russian art of the generational trauma wolves, and i know the colors are from the ussr + russia flags, but it also spoke to me as a hispanic person. especially w respect to misogyny and how machismo tears families apart, and how trauma that comes from outside the family units gets repeated/expressed within the family unit. idk.

absolutely it applies to more than just russians, im glad it speaks to other ppl :)

[blaithnne]

Realistically speaking, Beakley would never wear something this constricting. But you’re gonna tell me you DIDN’T want to see her in this dress?

[how-queerious]

been seein lot of posts calling the cast weird for the way they/their characters are being with the whole "destined" aspect of callowmoore but like consider who does and does not seem to outwardly ship it that way.

maybe there are things and dynamics i've been missing but to me there is a clear division between which characters (not actors) are pushing it and which are not; The main people seeming to push for it are FCG, Imogen, Laudna, and Fearne. The main people just watching and not really swaying either way are Orym, Chet, and Ash. Here's my thoughts on the possible motivations for that from a character perspective. With that in mind, I have focused on the PCs here; I have all the love in the world for matt as a DM, but to untangle the intricacies of his character work in literally even just one episode at a time is a whole other post. Accidental essay below the cut y'all.

broad strokes are that the camps are divided primarily* by who has and hasn't had extensive adult romantic relationships. Laudna, Imogen, and FCG are all experiencing what seem to be their first real adult relationships, and have had notably, explicitly little experience with romance at all beyond that. Fearne herself, despite her age, also seems to have had very little experience with romance and love (remembering that casual or platonic sex is not romance). They have all been starry-eyed and naive about love in prior episodes, and Laudna in particular has a childlike view of it. To compound this, Fearne has been lonely the vast majority of her life, just her, her nana, and their companions of questionable sentience and willingness. Exhibited in some of the darker episodes, and stated by ashley (at some point), she is literally just learning how to feel as mortals do in the prime material plane. Many of us as young shippers were drawn to the allure of the "Soulmate AU" for a lot of the same reasons.

On the other side of the coin, we have the three opposed or neutral. Chet and Orym, unlike any of the others, have both experienced long-term mature romantic relationships. Though Chet often focuses on the sex, and Orym tends not to focus on anything if he can help it, both have shown in their character choices and interactions with people from their past that they have the understanding of mature and healthy(ish) romance. As a contrast to their knowledgability, Ashton has only ever been burned by what should have been love in the past, and has not experienced romance. They have spent their whole life fighting fate, and will continue to do so for at least the time being. He is just learning to let themself love platonically, of course they don't want to follow "fate" to a romantic relationship with someone as chaotic and beautiful and terrifying as Fearne. They'll do the cool combos with her, and he'll flirt and tease, but anything else is unknown territory in a field already littered with the casualties of their past attempts to trust.

Though they may seem to be pushing for this fated dynamic in a way that feels very off for CR, there are genuine and realistic character motivations for them to do so. Perhaps I'm putting too much thought and faith behind it, but I think the specificity of who is or isn't pushing speaks great volumes to the fact that these are all people who have a wealth of theatric and improvisation experience and knowledge behind them. They are all actors with more than my lifetime of hard work behind this "silly game" they play, and I think we ought to consider that.

[mimicteruyo]

Me every morning: surely my brain can't remain broken for THAT much longer.

Brain: 😷

[cliveguy]

specific yet common type of blogger on here who only seems to care about transmisogyny when it involves dismissing or making fun of trans men... like it's a little transparent to me lol

[power-handmaiden]

Tfw Chuck Tingle writes another book right after u get around to updating ur spreadsheet

[impossible-rat-babies]

re: last post about the whole of attachments like. looking back at darva is very….fun and interesting bc he is so much a product of me discovering and playing around with gender. he’s the tip toe that turned into the cannonball into the pool. he’ll always be special for that reason, even if now he feels like he belongs to a different owen.

[michaelmylove]

hey tumblr. so i just finished The Final Problem.

what the actual fuck was that.

why did i do this willingly.

i need to go cry for twelve hundred billion years.

[lizzibennet]

so interested in the person who is having a birthday party at 4pm in the neighborhood shared party room (which happens to be two houses up from mine) whose playlist consists of 90’s/00’s pop remixes, forró versions of brazilian mpb, and now is at the “2017-19 explicit funk” bit of their playlist

[ovcii-doodles]

tinfoil hat girl and some grey guy and his formally suicidal ai's Complicated EmotionsTM

[jimmerzz0905]

(in the old, creaky voice of a stereotypical grandpa character)

back in my day composer island only had staccato notes, Kayna was exclusive to Tribal Island, and Fleechwurm and Maulch were new

[zanderism]

when my friends ask me if i want to hang out

[heartual]

pictures from oomf in law. omg

[britneyshakespeare]

i found my old yo-yo the other day, like my very first yo-yo that i learned how to yo-yo proficiently with. a green duncan butterfly yo-yo i got for christmas in 2006. it still glides like a dream which is a miracle not just bc of its age but i never replaced the string. and after finding it and using it again it just brought me back to how entrancing it is, the rhythmic comfort of the string and the toy going up and down, the regular wrist motion. it's hypnotic. that's also how it feels after awhile of spamming one person with dozens of boops with my laptop mouse.