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Madelaine & Vanessa filming their final scene together (June 24, 2023)

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every choni thabigail kiss: ↳ 6.22 - night of the comet [2/4]

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your post has me wondering how you'd rank the seasons for both halves of choni 👀

i actually made three separate threads for each girl and choni together sometime last year. i'll post them here too. these are from worst seasons to best:

TONI:

Season 6: despite my visceral hatred of how toni was written here, i debated bumping this up since 6a is actually pretty good for her and has two great toni eps (2, 9) but 6b is so horrendously awful & actively harmful for her character that i couldn’t put it anywhere but dead last. i’ve said all i need to say really but the complete lack of pov, the character assassination, the disrespect, the isolation, all so painful to witness/remember. we deserved to see her with ice powers and fighting percival, not in a stupid custody battle! she was gorgeous tho.

Season 4: this was peak prop to cheryl territory which is why it almost took last place but in the end, i personally prefer my fav characters being underwritten than badly written, so it ranks slightly higher. at least she was loved, appreciated and got to be funny in s4.

Season 5: i loved how involved she was when we first came back from the time jump and the different dynamics we got to see and her braids! but ultimately, i don’t think they followed through on their promises to do better by her. like, we still didn't get any kind of backstory? their attempts to retroactively right their wrongs felt inorganic, lazy and nonsensical and i obviously hated the baby plot, and if they insisted on writing it in, they should have given her more of a pov on it. also she was missing so much of it, even if for a good reason, so.

Season 2: i think people have rose colored glasses wrt s2 toni; she was as much a prop to jughead as she was cheryl. but she had many iconic moments, being attached to a c4 member gave her more screentime and her hair & style were peak. i can fall victim to nostalgia sometimes too.

Season 3: 3a sucked for her as a prop to a prop but 3b was so good. some of it was messy and nonsensical but in a more tolerable way than s5 and it just felt more organic and added more depth and development and we got to see a lot more of her pov and feelings. loved seeing her question her place in the serpents, i wish we saw more of it. 3x18 is a goat toni episode. dead girl walking makes me feel things. and as messy as the choni angst was written, i appreciate seeing toni stand her ground more in retrospect after s6.

Season 7: peak toni. i’ve waxed poetic about her writing in s7, but it was just so good. not perfect, because still no backstory (she did get to mention her parents tho!), but i loved how much personality she got to display, and how many facets of that personality we got. them getting rid of the worst parts of her story from the past two seasons was such a blessing. the nuance they explored, the agency and pov she was given, the way they mirrored and fixed their past mistakes better than s5. so satisfying. truly the toni of my dreams and fanfics.

CHERYL:

Season 5: you had to be stronger than the marines to stan cheryl during s5 and the hate was so over the top considering she only acted up in 3/19 episodes. the fan experience alone would be enough to rank this at the bottom but the writing for her and the story also kinda sucked. the writers threw her under the bus to deal with their own racism in 5a and then gave her a silly pointless ministry arc with her abuser in 5b. peak using cheryl to push other plots forward regardless of what it meant for her. she looked gorgeous all season tho and britta <3

Season 1: had a nice arc for a short season, but with her being in the closet still (while not written to be), it just feels like such a huge part of her character is missing when i watch it. also, she’s just depressed like the whole time and also, shallowly, her worst looks wise.

Season 3: struggled with the next two but i think she was kinda stagnant in s3. just a core 4 prop in 3a, then used to cause chaos in 3b. there was good character moments (heathers/the farm), but overall, not really a season that stands out to me from a strictly cheryl perspective.

Season 4: corpse plot creepy, yes, but it served a purpose and was mostly handled seriously when it mattered. therapy ep alone was great to finally see and then her getting to tell penelope off and getting some vengeance for what nick did to her and idk. overhated!

Season 2: besides the very glaring stain (predatory lesbian bs), this is such a great season for cheryl and it’s shown by how popular she became during it. they did a great show fleshing her out and making her more sympathetic & likable to the audience while still keeping her bite. just so many iconic and important moments for cheryl in s2. her coming out, the first choni kiss, her carrie moment, introduction to her bow and arrow and ending on such a perfect note of her joining the serpents, even if it goes to shit in s3. just a great seasonal arc.

Season 7: i was really worried about how they’d write her going into this season because they love to regress her and never care about making her fuck up for the plot, and there was a LOT of room for that, but she was just an absolute angel from start to finish? closet arc was hard to watch but was over quickly and i think it was worth getting a more nuanced coming out plot. it meant a lot to see her right her past shortcomings in how she handled things with toni. the perfect culmination of all her growth over the show. also so cute!

Season 6: crazy to think we went into s6 so sure they were going to further villainize her only to give her so much great, organic development and basically make her the hero. the show felt like they stepped into a cheryl plot for the season and it benefited her development so much. also def the season she felt the most like part of the gang, which warmed my heart after feeling like an outsider for so long. also she was so hot and funny, almost completely away from her abuser and abigail slayed. comeback of all time!

CHONI:

Season 5: it started out so well. so much good angst and an excellent exes to lovers story set up perfectly only to be shit all over and ruined in just 2 episodes. some really great scenes, but also a couple of the absolute worst. the most depressing time to be a choni.

Season 6: maybe their most important season & two of their best eps, but in large, very few actual scenes, nothing to work with from toni’s side and just a lot of wasted potential. so many opportunities to give us crumbs to build up to the soulmate reveal and they ignored every one. but the parts that were good were absolutely excellent and it ended on such a good note it’s easier to look back on in retrospect. and again, it added so many insane layers to their love story and despite all the wasted potential, it still managed to salvage the mess S5 made

Season 2: some iconic moments & there’s a large amount of nostalgia but i didn’t watch most of them live like every other season so it just doesn’t hit as much as the other seasons for me. not to mention how much they were ignored after they got together and how much of it we know was cut. still iconic tho.

Season 4: corpse plot was questionable but the domesticity we got in s4 is so loved by me and i think people ignore that part when they think of the season. especially considering we never got to see them together as adults, this was as close as we got. they were so soft and loving and supportive and insane and also funny! toni killed a man for cheryl! also always appreciated that they did more with them in 4b when they didn’t have a plot than they did in 3a. nobody could ever make me hate s4 choni.

Season 3: 3b is choni's best, but 3a was so nonexistent, it brings the ranking down. obvs there’s some annoying and messy miscommunication, but the payoff was worth it, for the iconic sex scene but also the toni pov we got and the heart to heart in heathers. so many iconic scenes and such great material and again, toni pov. i maintain that the farm is their best arc, the way it illustrated what both of them were willing to do for each other? we love acts of true love.

Season 7: we fought so hard & suffered so much and s7 was our reward. the nuance, care & screentime put into their story this time around was so good. the fact that they were the undisputed highlight of the season makes it even sweeter. choni always hits hardest from toni's pov imo. the organic way they mirrored past issues & handled them so much better was so cathartic. so many gorgeous new shots for edits and gifs. i’ll always be disappointed we didn’t get the convos/closure we deserved but they still found ways to prove that it was always cheryl for toni and the way they erased the most damaging and annoying things they did to them in the past two seasons so they could have a blank slate and second chance was kinda amazing. after everything, it was so relieving to be able to leave the show satisfied with what mattered most to me.

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CHERYL BLOSSOM 5.07, Fire In the Sky

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TONI TOPAZ 2.17, The Noose Tightens

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a little choni

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CHERYL BLOSSOM & TONI TOPAZ — Riverdale, 5.01 “Climax”

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the concept of fighting with your girlfriend and then having sex with her after she tries to rob the bar you work at and then breaking up with her and then having a threesome but hallucinating her the whole time so you run back to her. and you sing seventeen from heathers the musical.

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every choni thabigail kiss: ↳ 6.22 - night of the comet [1/4]

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RIVERDALE | 6.18

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post finishing riverdale season 2 doodles

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every choni thabigail kiss: ↳ 6.04 - the witching hour(s) [2/2]

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CHERYL BLOSSOM 2.06, “Death Proof”

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— via knjfedog

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you're my cherry blossom honey bear ♫

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Josie McCoy in 3.14 Chapter 49: Fire Walk With Me