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How many times did Belly say no? How many times did she walk away from Conrad? She threatened to scream bloody murder if he continued.

And he continued.

He didn't give one shit about what she wanted. His confession wasn't romantic. It was narcissistic. He's still in love with a woman he hasn't spoken to in four years?? He doesn't care for Belly's feelings! He doesn't care about what she wants or what she's going through. He wants a fucking gold star and a cookie because he thinks he did a Good Job™.

Who gives a shit that he "let her go" four years ago? That's in the past! Who gives a shit that he's still in love with her? He even says that he knows it isn't his place to say it. He should've stopped there. Because it's NOT. He's sticking his nose where it doesn't belong without any regard for anyone else.

It's the fucking Conrad show and nobody else matters!

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RIVERDALE 6.15, Things That Go Bump in the Night

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Riverdale season 1 episode 4 / Riverdale season 7 episode 7

idk guys i think this tv adaptation of one of the oldest comics franchises might actually be about the cultural perceptions of different mediums and how they change over time

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Be me: Hey [writing partner] you need to do your second edit on chapter three. We're like two weeks behind.

Writing partner: I already did it. But I'm getting eye strain because I can't believe I wrote this mess in chapter 6.

Me looking at the obviously unedited doc: Um, you sure about that?

WP proud because they finished chapter seven and wants to start on chapter eight: Oh... Fuck... I really didn't do my second edit on Chapter 3.

Me 2k words into chapter nine: Ummm... That's okay... We're not fucked. ...yet.

@elizacinnamon

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Jeremiah is not at fault for the decisions Belly makes. And Conrad is not the magical answer to everything.

"But Jeremiah is keeping her from Paris!" No he's not. He didn't manipulate her or use abusive tactics to change her mind. Also being with Conrad won't make her automatically go.

"She won't have a normal senior year!" Says who?? And Conrad LIVES in California! Why would she have a better senior year if she was with him and he's across the country?

"She's not having the wedding she actually wants." Not Jeremiah's fault. Belly has the agency to say NO. She has exercised it. Jeremiah isn't forcing his wants onto her. The show made the wedding planner be SO UNPROFESSIONAL and then had the audacity to make the audience blame Jeremiah for HER behavior.

Also, do you REALLY think there won't be any compromise with a wedding to Conrad? Oh. I get it. Her making compromises for Conrad is "mature" and what people in a "loving relationship do".

I'll wait for your synapses to make the connection...

Still didn't figure it out?

THAT'S WHAT SHE'S DOING WITH JEREMIAH

"But it's rommaannncceee" literally nothing between Conrad and Belly is romantic. Almost cheating on your fiancee is not romantic. Infantilizing and lusting after your ex-girlfriend is not romantic. Throwing away a four year relationship because of a misremembered memory isn't romantic. And that peach moment? Gross and purely one sided.

This is not a love triangle. It's a girl destroying the relationship between two brothers.

This fucking show is supposed to be romantic? Be so fucking for real right now.

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The rest of TSITP is going to be written like a Riverdale fanfiction where the author was like "I'm going to write a love triangle between Archie/Betty/Jughead and prove that Bughead is the ultimate endgame" but ended up writing a better Barchie story and is now trying to shoehorn the original BH ending.

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this could happen again. with your help

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Me when people start Riverhating

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Jughead's moniker comes from the nickname for Marines "Jarhead". Like all of Archie comics, everything is just a little bit tilted. There's been several stories about how he got it. The prevailing one being that when he was a kid he put a moonshine jug over his head and it got stuck (as did the name).

His real name is Forsythe Pendleton Jones III and his little sister Jellybean? Her name is Forsythia Pendletonia Jones. (Forsythias are yellow flowers.) No, I'm not kidding, they have the same name.

getting my sister to watch riverdale today

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Laurel is THE WORST.

It's not Belly or Jeremiah or even fucking Conrad's job to make sure Laurel and Belly have a relationship.

IT'S LAUREL'S JOB. AND SHE'S FAILING AT IT.

All she's cared about is Belly doing what SHE says and following HER plans. Whenever Belly gets an opportunity outside of Laurel, Laurel does everything she can to trash it.

Laurel why do you care so much about Conrad's happiness and what he says over YOUR OWN FUCKING DAUGHTER?

Laurel caring about Conrad’s happiness is really pissing me off

You didn’t care about belly’s happiness when she was begging and pleading with you to come to her wedding

You didn’t care about Jeremiah’s happiness when he sat you down and explained why they both wanted you there

So why do you care so much about Conrad happiness?

Why do you like Conrad more than both your kids?

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‘When do you get to be happy’

WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT HIS HAPPINESS

he ruined his chance to be happy four years ago

And if the only way he can be happy is by dating belly, his ass really needs to go back to therapy and start dating again

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It's called "golden child" and "scapegoat" syndrome. Just because someone is the golden child doesn't mean they're the best and the scapegoat doesn't deserve the mistreatment. Usually it's the opposite!

Conrad is doing this shit for attention. He wants people to ask him what's wrong. He gets off on being elusive.

also did they think making adam constantly kiss conrad’s ass and treat jeremiah like dog shit would somehow make me like… conrad more???? adam, who is the biggest piece of shit in the show by a mile (which is saying something for this show’s standards) and cheated on his dying wife? adam favouring conrad their whole lives because conrad is the most like him while jere was always most like susannah?

like the narrative has been constantly bending over backwards to justify conrad’s poor behaviour for two seasons and now it’s showing adam and laurel further favour conrad and think he’s an angel come to earth compared to jeremiah, and i’m supposed to NOT sympathise with jeremiah???? jeremiah who defended conrad when conrad never did it for him? conrad who’s supposed to be the older brother taking care of jeremiah, who has lied to him, gaslighted him about susannah, and is now withholding another significant piece of information that concerns jere’s life? because he thinks he’s *checks notes* protecting jeremiah.

meanwhile not ONE TIME has conrad’s inability to communicate ever actually helped or actually protected jeremiah. the only person it serves is conrad. so every time there is some Grand Reveal of conrad knowing these secrets, all the characters can treat him like a goddamn martyr for bottling in these hard things :( poor baby. yes, let’s praise being a shit communicator and emotionally unavailable even more, right tsitp writers? if it’s hard to bottle up alone, whose fault is it really? when jeremiah has expressed time and time again a desire for conrad to communicate with him. but no, instead we get this biased narrative acting like conrad withholding things makes him a saint.

all it’s making me do is sympathise with jeremiah even more, think conrad is the world’s biggest failure of an older brother and that jere deserves better than all of them. i hope he crashes out and leaves his awful family behind

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I wish Belly would've kissed Conrad

Not because I think they belong together (the opposite actually). But because it would've FINALLY cemented her as the villain of this story.

The show should've been about Jeremiah and Conrad and their family's trauma. The selfishness of Susannah, how Adam is the worst asshole imaginable, coping with cancer and then death, etc, and making Belly the side plot.

Seriously! Look at how this episode went. Adam cancelled the seafood restaurant because Conrad likes steak. Jeremiah pointing out that Conrad is a false martyr. Laurel (bleh) asking Conrad when he'll be happy. NONE of it was to show that Conrad is the right choice for Belly. It's just to remind everyone that he's the golden child.

All the while, Jeremiah is defending Belly against Adam, trying to get a leg up in the company while still trying to keep his promises to her. He's being a good and dutiful son and fiance and what does he get in return? Nothing.

The family is being ripped apart because of her. There's NO love actually happening here. Sure Jeremiah says he loves her but Belly is now questioning her love for him because she misremembered a memory? (Which, btw, wouldn't have happened because Anika would've had the right answer immediately. You get these answers from the groom.)

The writers had a good story going (poorly written) with its own narrative that was working. Now they're doing a 180 to shoehorn what happened in the books? Why? There's been NO love or tension built between Conrad and Belly. Once again nothing that happened was Jeremiah's fault or reasons to question her affection towards him.

Making her nervous about taking the last name Fisher means absolute shit. Proper etiquette says that Mrs Edwards needed to get confirmation about her married name before getting stationary. A wedding coordinator wouldn't be guilt-tripping the bride! And what was the anatomical heart ice sculpture about?? (Seriously let me know what I missed because that came out of left field for me.) And Conrad convincing Laurel support the wedding doesn't mean anything.

ALLLLLLL of this is just conjecture. It doesn't have any significant meaning. The writers are trying to force the book ending instead of letting their story continue on its natural course.

But Conrad supporters are happy and really that's all that matters isn't it? Making sure the golden boy gets what he wants and ignoring all the shitty stuff he did along the way.

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if you cross me, i'm just like my father // veronica lodge

daughter by beyoncé x riverdale

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Reblog if you are a fanfiction author and would like your readers to put one of your fic titles in your ask + questions about it

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🧸 Oh God — The Childhood Flashbacks?? HELP.

The show really dropped a scene of (like what 6?) 6-year-old Belly and the boys biking and him stoping for her like that was supposed to move me???Like… what are we doing here?

This isn’t proof of some unshakable soul-deep love.

It’s just more evidence that Bonrad shippers are stuck in the past — just like the pairing itself.

Let’s be honest:

👉 If your only argument for “endgame” is something that happened when they were literal children…That’s not romance. That’s nostalgia.

Jeremiah is her present. Her choice. Her now.

Conrad? He’s a memory. A flashback. A feeling from another lifetime.

You can’t build a future on beach sand or biking pedals from age six.

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God I hope so! Because this has been my internal question since season 2.

the summer i turned pretty is just ragebait and everyone knows that

right?

RIGHT?