#veronica from archie

[fangomusic]

Falling Backwards song by Fairground Attraction (1988).

[theindefinitearticle]

what you have to understand is every character in riverdale represents a genre and a class dynamic do you understand no wait come back

[dirtyriver]

Archie Comics: Judgement Day #1, cover by Fernando Ruiz

Homage to the cover of Archie's Pal Jughead #79, December 1961

[imreallyloveleee]

i want an 8000 word essay about how perpetually defining Betty Cooper as "the girl next door" means she always exists in relation to someone else (next door to whom?), never fully as an independent self

and I want Anne Helen Petersen to write it

[diltonsstrangescience]

Outfit appreciation post (girls edition) part 4

[girl-archie]

riverdale is about becoming your father - (hard times by ethel cain)

[wallbeatjournal]

anon, your enthusiasm means so much to me. in three parts:

one: "percival/kevin had what hirarchie wanted" agree and disagree. obviously in the metatext percevin (sorry) IS a comment on the villain/henchman authority/grooming/abuse dynamics of the earlier seasons. it does enrich the hirarchie narrative by pulling back the veil on the exploitation inherent in hiram's hench relationships. it does. hirarchie makeout subtext becomes percevin makeout text.

but i'm also going to say that i don't think hiram would be satisfied mind-controlling archie. one of the things that makes archie unendingly interesting is that he gives hiram an outlet for the punishing, dominating, masculinity-affirming violence that he doesn't have in his conflicts with the women of his family. and if archie is unable to act out and challenge him, archie loses his luster.

two: "percival reminds archie of hiram" i mean. yeah absolutely that's like his whole deal, testing archie's ability to cope with another hiram type of guy activating all of his trauma responses. they even box. they even box. can we talk about how they even box, they do-over the 3x21 boxing plot????

and. you can't tell me archie offering percival "do whatever you want to me. starve me. chain me up" as punishment/collateral isn't coming out of his hiram-attuned instincts. you just can't. sorry.

three: "percival should have been hiram" yeah and no imo - mark consuelos would have served as hiram in this story position. but i do think it's impactful to the riverdale #cycles and #trauma narratives to show the riveradults encountering their childhood abuse&exploitation tools being used by a different guy. "are they still as vulnerable to these tactics and dynamics as they were in their teen years, or have they healed and grown enough to find a different way through it" is a question i liked seeing an answer to. i loved superhero-teamup-as-metaphor-for-peer-support-and-community-solidarity in contrast to the way they all got alienated from each other due to trauma in their teen years.

and i loved the various reflections on white supremacy in usamerican media that having a white villain like percival unlocked - mark consuelos as hiram in the percival position wouldn't have done that for us for obvious reasons.

[sethcohnn]

veronica lodge:

[platonicsoulmatesstobin]

is anyone still into Riverdale or has that fandom died out already?

[shewhowantsmouseears]

[spritemachine]

[sudamaniparva]

the archies movie is set pieces moving across the screen in coordinated dance moves while halfway decent music plays in the background.

[jhsharman]

global troubles

Henry Kissinger is off again, trying to smooth things over in the Near East. I am not sure what nations are designated "near east", not how the newspaper could not get enough space and was forced to use his initial. The digest cover spells it out as "Sec of State" when I guess had it followed the initial guideline it would have gone with "S" for George Shultz. But maybe everyone knows who "K" is but would not know from "S".

[dirtyriver]

Archie & Friends: Thrills & Chills, variant cover by Dan Parent

Homage to the poster of Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954

[antisisyphus]

i wish we got more of the parents side of things from riverdale. is there ever an ep where the cast plays their parents as they went to hs?

[diltonsstrangescience]

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