#Mayor Midge

[toontastictoons]

I investigated a very suspicious shop today, and found the cog JJ and Midge told me about, The Derrick Man, inside! Oh - And possibly Mayor Flippy's long lost twin was outside, fighting cogs?

- 🦇

[alaffy]

Riverdale 7x04 - Love and Marriage (are not to be found in this episode, also spoilers)

Normally, I write these things as soon as the episode ends, but Christ on a Cracker I needed a break. This is going to be painful.

So, Jughead and Ethel are arrested for the murder of Ethel’s parents.  Veronica talks to Jughead at the station and they realize that all they need to do to prove, at least, Jughead didn’t do it is to get the Coroner's reports and find out when the parents were killed.  If it was during the dance, well, there are several witnesses to the fact that Jughead was there the whole time.  Veronica gets the reports, but no Dr. Curdle Jr. (he’s Betty’s special friend).

Archie finds out Cheryl has told her family that they slept together.  However, she tells him that her little lie is protecting her from her family and he chooses to play along.  Of course, as soon as he gets home, he finds out that his mom has talked to Cheryl’s mom and now they’re all going to have dinner together to fix this mess.  

Betty wants to have sex.  Kevin wants to wait until marriage.  They break up.  Later, Toni will take Betty to the underground Coffee Shop, where Betty will see Kevin dancing with Clay.  Betty goes home and has a talk with her mother who...fuck me...well, I was right that Alice suspected Kevin.  She’s not at all shocked about Kevin dancing with another man, says men sometimes have urges, and presses Betty to steer Kevin back in the right direction.   

Veronica gets Jughead out of jail and they go to Pop’s to celebrate.  Jughead tells Veronica that he was able to find out that, after her fight with her parents, Ethel did leave the house and...God, long story short, Julien Blossom was a witness to Ethel’s whereabouts when her parents were killed.  And Jughead convinces him to tell the truth by punching him in the face.  One of the few good moments of the show.  Ethel is released back into the care of the Cooper’s.  

Meanwhile, The Blossoms and the Andrews have their dinner.  Oh look, Clifford’s back and, apparently, he’s the Mayor.  Clifford insults the memory of Fred by saying that Archie reminds Clifford of Fred.  Then, Clifford and Mary decide that Cheryl and Archie must get married.  And, just cutting to the chase, it seems like they’re going to get married.  And then Archie thinks they can Elope and run away and maybe they learn to love each other.  And, in the end, Cheryl backs out because Toni talks her out of it.  Cheryl suggests Archie write Betty a poem, which he does.  Toni gives Cheryl a book.  And Archie goes to give Betty the poem...only to find Frank standing in the dining room.  Fuck.

Ok, a little bit of honesty here.  I checked out halfway through this episode.  Here’s why.  See, They decided Fang’s needs a storyline.  How about knocking up Midge?  Except they don’t know if she’s truly pregnant.  But don’t worry, Toni has a way to tell.  So they.....I need a moment.

They all meet in the biology room that night and Toni tells them....that the surefire way to find out if Midge is pregnant is to inject Midge’s pee into a toad and if the toad lays eggs overnight, she’s pregnant.  

Everyone, I present an accurate representation of what went through my mind at this moment.  

Seriously, this scene from RWBY Chibi encompasses everything I feel about this episode.

Anyway, to wrap this shit show up.  Betty talks with Kevin, but it seems she’s going to be a friend and not listen to her mother’s advice.  Betty starts to fight back against Alice, who demands to know where Betty got the sex book.  Ethel admits it’s hers.  Later, we find that Alice has burnt the book and sent Ethel to the Sister of Quite Mercy (Ethel can’t ever catch a break).

Meanwhile, Jughead finds his place trashed and Hot Dog gone.  Veronica lets him stay in her apartment for the night.  Then, she helps him get back Hot Dog and does an Extreme Home Makeover on his Train Car.  At the end of the episode, Jughead and Veronica end up kissing.  Which, compared to everything else in the episode, is...it won’t last, but it will be interesting.  At least, it’s one thing that’s interesting.

[reclusivedouche]

Riverdale Thoughts: 3x06

PEEP SHOW! Please, I am the Barchiest of stans so like yes to all of it. Anyway, thoughts.

Jughead is not interesting to me rn if he's not with Veronica and since that's currently over... (Also like I better see him kiss Ethel properly at least ONCE omg before Tabitha comes back ofc bc Tabitha)

What I wouldn't give to have a window's view into Archie Andrew's bedroom wow

50's Archie is honestly the best Archie, it's so good

Betty and Veronica should kiss again in the 50's as a treat.

Also, Archie and Jughead have to kiss before the show ends to complete the circle or else!!!

Surprise Evelyn Evernever is really out here saying things like "lezzie" honestly Toni should punch her.

Can you dig it?

Cheryl's face of both gay excitement and gay fear when Toni asked if she could show her some appreciation.

It lives in my head rent free forever now

I did absolutely rewind mid episode to watch that part again bc idk it was giving everything.

50's Toni is so hot

Is Fangs Elvis yet?

There is no difference between Cheryl, Evelyn, and Midge and Regina, Gretchen, and Karen. Don't @ me

I love new Midge tbqh

I'm tired of Julian, he was only fun for like one episode lmao

Someone should top him so he can cum to jesus

Veronica is really that bitch and I am here for it like yes absolutely allow me in your room to peep on the hot carrot top next door

I need to see Veronica and Jughead hook up properly once PLEASE

Dan and Blair got to (IN AN ELEVATOR)

I am not sure what order I'm remembering all of this in

Betty not feeling the lingerie at first is me anytime I buy something different from what I usually where so it just sits in my closet for eternity

Toni and Betty should kiss also

I'm gonna need Archie and farmboy Reggie to also kiss at some point as they are actually boyfriends

Anyway, the cringe dialogue about maybe ending up in our rooms at the same time was incredible

Archie saying he's excited is too adorable

Still thinking about how he snatched Betty's teddy bear to cover his boner when she felt up his thigh

Incredible really

Oh and also, why is Frank? I'm so over him completely. He sucks. Just let Mary do all of the parenting. More Molly!

Frank was at least hot with the like beard this mustache is not it

The gifsets of Archie and Betty undressing for each other in the window are my everything rn

As are the ones of Cheryl and Toni kissing!!!!!!

Does this mean the episode where they are going to bone is coming soon?

Please say yes

Back to the window stripping - what are Frank and Hal doing that they both barged into those rooms at the same time

I'm telling you the white men in this season are up to some shit. Principal Warden Norton, Francis Dupont Werthers, MAYOR Clifford Blossom, Basketball Coach Uncle Frank, HAL

God for some reason Hal

A terrible actor

TBK should've been Hal or his twin bc he is also a blossom so like why do the coopers not have twins Hal??

It was so disappointing but whatever I digress

Even tho I hate Hal

Also save Ethel?? We just threw her back to the sisters and? We've moved onto comics from the murders.

BRING BACK MY GIRL

Give her a proper full season storyline for once ffs

You give Kevin things and he's not even remotely interesting at all

Loved and episode with no Kevin tbqh

Anyway, the ending with Archie and Betty getting caught is in my top like 3 endings rn

One is the very precious moment where Archie ASKED if he could kiss Josie (it was adorable they are my crackOTP okay)

I think I've stopped thinking about this episode and instead am thinking about the whole show

We must stop before I never stop

I hope Archie and Betty kiss soon also

[lostparadox]

Pokémon Sword and Shield (Rewrite) : Strongest characters

This will be the list of the trainers strongest to weakest (main timeline and in the Galar region)

1. ‘New Galar Champion’ Victor (6 Pokémon and G-max)

2. ‘New Chairman of the Galar League and former champion’ Leon Woodrow (6 Pokémon and G-max)

3. ‘Dojo Master and former champion ‘ Master Mustard Mishima (6 Pokémon and G-max)

4. ‘Next Pokémon professor’ Hoppleton ‘Hop’ Woodrow (6 Pokémon and G-max)

5. ‘Next shop owner’ Gloria (6 Pokémon and G-max)

6. ‘Dojo Matron’ Heidi ‘Honey’ Mishima (6 Pokémon and G-max)

7. ‘Voice of Spikemuth’ Marnie Baines (6 Pokémon and G-max)

8. ‘Brash Battler of Ballonlea’ Bede Consgrove/Rose/Lancaster (6 Pokémon and G-max)

9. ‘Tamer of dragons’ Raihan Qadir (6 Pokémon and G-max)

10. ‘Lightning-fast strategist’ Michael Growth (6 Pokémon and G-max)

11. ‘The ice-cold professional’ Melanie ‘Melony’ Volkov (6 Pokémon and G-max)

12. ‘The earth forger’ Garth (6 Pokémon and G-max)

13. ‘The hard-rock crusher’ Gordie Volkov (6 Pokémon and G-max)

14. ‘The silent boy of mystery’ Allister Callum (6 Pokémon and G-max)

15. ‘The Galar karate prodigy’ Beatrice ‘Bea’ Duncan (6 Pokémon and G-max)

16. ‘The Sky-high flyer’ Ace (6 Pokémon and G-max)

17. ‘The genius of steel’ Rhodney (6 Pokémon and G-max)

18. ‘The ever-burning man of fire’ Kabu Kaguya(6 Pokémon and G-max)

19. ‘The raging wave’ Nessa Crawford (6 Pokémon and G-max)

20. ‘The fighting farmer’ Milo Flockhart (6 Pokémon and G-max)

21. ‘The normal type of extraordinary’ Amelie (6 Pokémon and G-max)

22. ‘The bug-catcher of amazing things’ Midge (6 Pokémon and G-max)

23. ‘Steel-thorn rose and former champion’ Peony ‘Steel Peony’ Rose (6 Pokémon and G-max)

24. ‘Head of Team Yell’ Piers Baines (6 Pokémon)

25. ‘New Professor of Galar’ Professor Sonia Magnolia (6 Pokémon and G-max)

26. (Tied) ‘Bea’s parents and former gym leaders’ Lima Duncan (Psychic) and Mauis Duncan (Fighting) (6 Pokémon)

27. (Tied) Battle tower trainers

28. ‘Telekinetic trouble-maker’ Avery Kingsley (6 Pokémon and G-max)

29. ‘Pretty girl with a poisonous personality’ Klara Adkins (6 Pokémon and G-max)

30. ‘Former Galar League Chairman and Former Head of Macro Cosmo’ Daniel Rose (6 Pokémon and G-max)

31. ‘The mater of fantastic theater’ Opal Lancaster (6 Pokémon and G-max)

32. (Tied) Restricted Sparing trainers

33. ‘Professor of Galar’ Professor Constance Magnolia (6 Pokémon and G-max)

34. ‘Brash archeologist’ Bray Zenn (6 Pokémon)

35. ‘Careless archeologist’ Cara Liss (6 Pokémon)

36. ‘Scary secretary’ Oleana DeVito-Rose (6 Pokémon and G-max)

37. (Tied) ‘Reformed elites’ Edward ‘Sordward’ Arthur/Gilbert ‘Shilbert’ Arthur (6 Pokémon)

38. ‘Schoolboy’ Marvin (6 Pokémon)

39. ‘Former electric gym leader’ Berto (6 Pokémon)

40. (Tied) ‘Oleana’s elites’ Group of Macro Cosmo employees

41. ‘Normal Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Yue

42. ‘Flying Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Kent

43. ‘Ground Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Dunne

44. ‘Grass Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Pia

45. ‘Fire Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Phoebus

46. ‘Water Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Vega

47. ‘Electric Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Corvin

48. ‘Rock Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Cher

49. ‘Fighting Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Deneb

50. ‘Ghost Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Wei

51. ‘Ice Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Izar

52. ‘Flying Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Kent

53. ‘Dragon Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Terry

55. ‘Bug Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Polaire

55. ‘Steel Type Gym Challenger Specialist’ Theemin

56. ‘New head of Team Yell and New Galar League Manager’ Gym trainer Joshua (6 Pokémon)

57. ‘Mum’ Ally (6 Pokémon)

58. ‘Mayor of Freezington’ Mayor Percy (6 Pokémon)

59. ‘Darlin Daughter’ “Nia” Peonia (6 Pokémon)

60. ‘Diggin’ Pa’

61. ‘Diggin’ Ma’

62. ‘Older brother of the Digging duo’

63. ‘Younger brother of the Digging duo’

64. ‘Young boy genius’ Hyde Mishima (6 Pokémon)

65. (Tied) Dynamax adventure partners and Max Raid Adventure partners

66. (Tied) Macro Cosmo employees

67. (Tied) Gym Trainers

68. (Tied) Battle Cafe employees, Hairstylists, Clothes shop owners

69. ‘Interviewer Reporter’ Gillian

70. ‘Cameraman’ Cam

[tomorrowedblog]

Friday Releases for April 14

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for April 14 include Renfield, SAKRA, Glorious Game, and more.

Renfield

Renfield, the new movie from Chris McKay, is out today.

In this modern monster tale of Dracula’s loyal servant, Emmy nominee Nicholas Hoult stars as Renfield, the tortured aide to history’s most narcissistic boss, Dracula (Nicolas Cage). Renfield is forced to procure his master’s prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there’s a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency.

SAKRA

SAKRA, the new movie from Ka-Wai Kam and Donnie Yen, is out today.

Based on the classic wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Louis Cha (known worldwide by his pen name Jin Yong), SAKRA stars Donnie Yen as Qiao Feng, the respected leader of a roving band of martial artists. After he is wrongfully accused of murder and subsequently exiled, Qiao Feng goes on the run in search of answers about his own mysterious origin story—and the unknown enemies working to destroy him from the shadows.

The Pope's Exorcist

The Pope's Exorcist, the new movie from Julius Avery, is out today.

Inspired by the actual files of Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican (Russell Crowe), The Pope’s Exorcist follows Amorth as he investigates a young boy’s terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.

Rare Objects

Rare Objects, the new movie from Katie Holmes, is out today.

A young woman with a traumatic past seeks to rebuild her life when she begins working at a New York City antique shop.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, the new movie from Pierre Földes, is out today.

A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives in the animated feature Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

Mafia Mamma

Mafia Mamma, the new movie from Catherine Hardwicke, is out today.

MAFIA MAMMA is a hilarious, action-packed comedy about a suburban American woman who inherits her grandfather’s Mafia empire, and guided by the Firm’s trusted consigliere defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.

Waco: Aftermath

Waco: Aftermath, the new TV series from John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, is out today.

WACO: THE AFTERMATH focuses on the fallout of the Waco disaster: the trials of the surviving members of the Branch Davidian sect and the rise of homegrown terrorist, Timothy McVeigh.

The Last Thing He Told Me

The Last Thing He Told Me, the new TV series from Laura Dave and Josh Singer, is out today.

This gripping limited series follows Hannah, a woman who must forge a relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter Bailey in order to find the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared.

Queenmaker

Queenmaker, the new TV series from Moon Ji-young and Oh Jin-seok, is out today.

After a tragic accident, a powerful fixer uses her skills to transform a civil rights lawyer into the next mayor — and take down her former employer.

Blindspotting S2

The second season of Blindspotting, the TV series from Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, is out today.

Six months after Ashley and Miles’s prison wedding, Ashley is navigating the chaos of her life in Oakland alongside her family and doing her best to be a fun mom for her son… with mixed results.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel S5

The fifth season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the TV series from Amy Sherman-Palladino, is out today.

In the fifth and final season, Midge finds herself closer than ever to the success she's dreamed of, only to discover that closer than ever is still so far away.

Glorious Game

Glorious Game, the new album from Black Thought and El Michels Affair, is out today.

[einsteinsugly]

From the depths of Newark suburbia, are Bob and Midge. Young Bob and Midge, and their love story...

Robert "Bob" Joseph Pinciotti (born February 5, 1942)

Also known as Bobby. Bob's parents, Joe and Marie, are one of the very few in his school that are divorced. Maybe he has a chip on his shoulder about that, or about the plethora of half-siblings who run circles around him. His mom's kids are brazen overachievers, and his dad's kids are brazen ragamuffins who often run amuck.

Leaving him...there. With his cat Josie and his Elvis and Sinatra records. And a Ford delivery van, a perk to working at his dad's cousin Sal's corner deli. Well, that and all the hoagies he could ever dream of.

But despite the perks, he's still an outcast. He's mostly a chip off the 'ol Pinciotti block, despite an outgoing disposition and an occasional temper, but he looks like his mom. Well, his mom's ugly sister Louise, who lives in Wisconsin and he spends a few weeks in the summer with. He feels at home there, at least, with his cousins Jay and Bill...

Margaret "Midge" Maria Rossi (born September 8, 1942)

Midge lives with her parents, Enzo and Helena, and with her siblings Carla, Larry, and Deb. Her dad works in construction, and her mom is a homemaker. And that's all she's destined to be, if she listens to what her dad has to say.

Her sister Carla's willful and brash like their dad, though, and doesn't like what he has to say. While her mom's meek and accommodating, a sweetheart without a backbone. And Larry's loud and obnoxious, but without their father or sister's sheer will or discipline.

And she's just...there. Watching her little sister Deb, with her Elvis and Sinatra records. Dreaming of the Pacific waves, instead of the murky Atlantic ones, well...until her classmate Bob Pinciotti delivers some hoagies at her front door.

*****

The spring and summer of '59, and beyond...

So, maybe Midge likes the murky Atlantic waves, as long as she's with Bobby. Sneaking off to the city, and maybe to Coney Island too. In his delivery van, sticking out like a sore thumb. Rocking around the clock, all night. 'Til broad daylight.

At least they've been openly dating for awhile, though. She's still vaguely popular, as always, because Bobby's mom's family has money and rules the roost (quite literally, since Marie's cousin Henry is the mayor of Newark). Bobby may be a little bit of a loser, but he's nice enough to appease her friends and her dad. Until she's at the cusp of seventeen...

And she finds out she's pregnant. She can't bring herself to go to a dark alley and end it, and her condition soon becomes...apparent. Her parents (well, her dad) want to send her to a mother and baby home. And the Pinciottis aren't particularly receptive, either. Especially as it eventually becomes apparent that another half-sibling of Bobby's is arriving, a few months after their bundle of joy.

Marie's the only one to take them in, and they're eternally grateful. Even if Bob and Marie are constantly at odds with each other, because no matter how hard Marie tries? Bob's got that chip on his shoulder. Because his mother's too liberal, too smart and savvy, and she's only a woman. And she's way, way smarter than he could ever dream of.

But as their daughter, Donna (Bob wanted to name her Robin or Alison, because he wanted a Robert Jr, a son), arrives on the scene, it's readily apparent. Donna catches on quick, with a proud beacon of light dancing in her blue eyes. Like her grandmother, and Bob's elated. And horrified, simultaneously.

So they've got another Marie on their hands. Not just with a fiery spirit, but with fiery red hair to boot. And as time elapses, and Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me" blasts throughout the house, they need to run away. Again, with a little help from Marie and Louise...as Wisconsin inevitably becomes their home. For good, perhaps?

-Donna Pinciotti, a summary. Of the first part of her hesitantly personal autobiography, 1981 (blame her English non-fiction course).

[full-pockets]

Makin some simple banners for my towns. Not set as Midge for my New Horizons mayor.

[mayor-rosie-of-riga]

Favourite HHP Interiors - Part 5/?

- Hippeaux’s Statue Garden - Raddle & Lucky’s Experiments - Midge’s Salon - Kyle’s Club -

[poorlydrawnriverdale]

give the people what they want

[forasecondtherewedwon]

So the entire town of Riverdale has been pretty chill over the fact that Hiram Lodge handpicked their new sheriff, has gotten him to endorse a bunch of vigilante teenagers, and LITERALLY whispers in his ear in the public halls of the police station before the very eyes of Fred Andrews, potential future mayor.

Plus, there’s that little matter of arresting Fangs for TALKING to Midge (I can’t believe it was really about the knife) and basically saying “good luck, suckers” when Jughead pled with him for a safe release for his Serpent brother.

If I were Archie, I wouldn’t be too worried about my (possibly ex-?) mentor paying the Dark Circle. I’d be more worried about him paying the sheriff.

[sweetdollfromhell]

Riverdale tonight

Well, no choice boys, Archie and Jughead you need to kiss!!!!!!!!!

When Hiram says: I send Andre to look after you what he really mean is I send Andre to look after you so don’t put your dick inside my daughter.

You know it bad when Jughead think you are creepy.

Damm, my mother also makes jalapenos sangria!

Please put Penelope in fire. And what's this shit about being impossible to like? Even cancer is more love than you, mama Blossom!

Poor Cheryl...bad Cheryl!

That me or Betty was turn on by Veronica and Jughead kissing?

YES! Cheryl, Kevin and Josie are important again!!!!

Hey, Toni try to be nice!

Moose what are you trying to do?

YES, Kevin x Joaquin remains possible!

It really random but is that Kevin has two younger sisters like in the comic? Just curious.

I know people have complained but I can not find the use of Love Simon that bad...and that look like a good movie.

I’m weirdly happy for Josie and this mom. 

Oh poor poor Cheryl, that so sad. And Toni, I love you again!

I love how much romance is not the first world probleme in that show. Bravo CW!

Ok, so the concierge is the black hood, that canon? damm it was a waste of time

Oh Ronnie, you’re clever and gorgeous girl!

Archie, I don’t like you’re so casual about murder even for asshole.

So the foursome gonna be official? Please, don’t be a tease about it, Riverdale!

[wonderlandleighleigh]

Noah and Astrid visit the Schneiders and Noah seems to know a surprising member of the community, a friend from the office. Noah has an old CIA colleague living in Stars Hollow! Pick a town person of your choice. Midge and Lenny know about what Noah used to do before retirement.

Midge walks arm and arm with her brother around the town square, taking in the early fall foliage and the bustling scenery.

Noah's health hasn't been too great lately, so it's been nice, having him and Astrid stay for the week, and really get to spend some time together.

"What do you think?" Midge asks.

Noah nods, grinning. "Nice. Very picturesque. Good place to get some writing done on the new book."

Midge grins and nods. "Yes, the book."

Noah chuckles and nudges her gently. "Still stuck, huh?"

She pouts. "So stuck. Damn book."

"You'll figure it out, you always," Noah says affectionately. "My sister is a creative genius, after all."

"Stop!"

"You're an EGOT, Midge. You're gonna have to come to terms with being a genius at some point."

"What about you, Mr. 'I don't know what you're talking about, I just work for the State Department.'"

"Shush."

"Big Brother's got eyes and ears everywhere, huh?"

"Those bushes over there look suspicious," Noah jokes, making her laugh.

They head into Luke's Diner, and grab a table, Noah looking around.

"This reminds me of the diners back home in the old days," he says. "They got good patty melts?"

"They got great patty melts," Midge smiles.

"Don't tell Astrid, she's had me on a strict diet of fish and vegetables," Noah jokes.

"Secret is safe with me."

"Miriam."

Midge looks up and smiles. "Oh! Harry! Noah, this is the Mayor of Stars Hollow, Harry Porter. Harry, this is my big brother, Noah Weissman, he's visiting from out of town."

The two men look at each other in silence for a long moment.

Midge frowns. "Uh..."

"Harry."

"Noah."

"Nice to see you."

"See you?" Midge repeats. "Wait, how do you two know each other?"

"We don't," Harry says abruptly.

Noah shakes his head. 'Never met."

"Sure," Midge says sarcastically. "I believe that."

"Miriam, please tell your husband to stop confusing Kirk," Harry says, turning to her finally. "It's cruel to make him believe, in his early twenties, that there really is a Santa."

"I'll try, but it brings Lenny a lot of joy," Midge tells him.

Harry rolls his eyes and walks off, and Midge turns back to her brother.

"What was that?"

"What?"

"That!"

"Nothing. Patty melt?"

"Ugh."

[tibby]

don’t understand how people can say riverdale is confusing like what’s so hard to understand. penelope blossom was the gargoyle king but she had chip (betty’s half brother that her mother had when she was a high school that turned out NOT to be her real brother, he just was dating her real brother who he claimed to have murdered, but her REAL brother is actually alive and an fbi agent but he’s dating the fake brother, and also he’s also jughead’s half brother, and betty and jughead are fine with dating despite this) dress up in the costume and also dyed his hair red and called him jason to cope with the loss of the real jason, her son who was murdered by his father. now the reason penelope was the gargoyle king was because she wanted to get back at the other riverparents for not caring when she told them she was a child bride when they got detention together in high school and formed a gryphons & gargoyles team. she murdered their principal that night because she really intended to kill one of them but they all swore to take it to the grave because everyone was high on fizzle rocks and so nobody would ever know the truth. however she also needed to get revenge because none of them gave her sympathy when jason died so she created an elaborate recreation of g&g to kill off all their children, that also involved working with hiram lodge but not really, and a cult of demon worshipping nuns who ran a psychiatric facility slash home for unwed teenage mothers slash conversion therapy. now the REASON that penelope started working with chip is because of betty’s serial killer father, hal, also known as the black hood. although hal initially intended to kill chip for the sins he committed he decided to spare his life when he realised they were kindred spirits and took him under his wing. now even though hal was jailed for his crimes shortly after gang warfare broke out between the serpents and the ghoulies and the northsiders, he got betty to transfer him to hiram’s prison, only to cause the bus to crash, killing everyone else on board and cutting off his hand so that everyone would think he also died. he gets away with it because fp, jughead’s dad, is the sheriff, and fp is kind of stupid. fp is the sheriff because tom keller was bullied into resigning after he failed to figure out that hal was the serial killer, because they all thought that the school janitor was the serial killer and tom shot him dead. and they thought it was the janitor because HIS family was murdered when he was young and everyone thought he wanted vengeance but it turns out that hal’s dad was actually the murderer. now, because penelope wanted to kill betty as vengeance, she bought her off chad michael murray, who ran an organ harvesting cult, right before he was about to perform a lobotomy on betty. betty was captured by gay kevin and fangs, who felt guilt over midge being murdered during carrie the musical, and got sucked into the cult by chad michael murray’s wife slash fake daughter during a production of heathers the musical, where she initiated them while they sang love is god. betty’s mother and sister were also part of the cult, but betty eventually found out that her mother was an undercover fbi agent trying to take the cult down from the inside. betty’s mom, alice, helped cheryl escape from the cult so that she could help save betty from penelope. cheryl was manipulated into joining the cult after they convinced her she was talking to her dead brother jason, only for cheryl to find out they had just stolen his mummified corpse from his grave. cheryl ended up stealing the corpse back and kept it downstairs in the family chapel, and would talk to him on a daily basis. however, a doll named julian soon appeared, and cheryl’s grandmother nana rose claimed that julian was cheryl’s would be triplet, only for her to absorb him in the womb. cheryl’s attempts to purge the spirit are all failures, and she begins to think she’s going insane. however, she undergoes a test to see if she did absorb julian, and it turns out she didn’t. cheryl gases her house to find out who’s been gaslighting her, only to find out that it was her mother, penelope, who had been hiding in the house ever since her failure to murder archie betty veronica and jughead. cheryl traps her in the sex bunker, which the teens stole from dilton doiley after he died, and used it to hide archie when he was on the run from the police after he was falsely jailed for a murder he didn’t commit and was forced to participate in an underground boxing ring. penelope is eventually allowed out of the bunker, and tends to the former brothel turned rum store that cheryl and veronica opened. penelope used to be the head mistress at the brothel, where she used it to murder more men under the guise of the red dahlia, but veronica and cheryl use it to their advantage, having created a rum to rival hiram’s. since hiram is mayor after being released from prison because he hired his secret daughter hermosa as a private eye, he uses this to shut down veronica’s speakeasy, hence why she needs the former brothel. and also jughead died but not really. see? simple.

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I found my missing copy of Animal Crossing New Leaf!  ;_;  Apparently, one of our naughty kitties knocked it under the washing machine!  So me and my three favorite villagers got to play hide and seek together tonight!

[zonax-bylarnsolo]

[  Día del Rock • Live Aid 1985 ]

Hace 35 años, un 13 de julio, se dio un evento musical sin precedentes y sin exagerar, un hito en la historia de la música y el rock desde Woodstock. Era 1985, y en aras de ayudar a las poblaciones de Somalía y Etiopía, que pasaban por una sequía devastadora y la hambruna había arrasado con ambos países africanos y alrededores, el músico y activista Bob Geldof ideó reunir a todos los artistas posibles para un concierto benéfico, un concierto sin precedentes, que habría de desarrollarse en simultáneo tanto en USA (el estadio JFK en Philadelphia) como en Gran Bretaña (el estadio Wembley en Londres).

Geldof, recordado como líder de la banda británica The Boomtown Rats (para mayor referencia su canción más exitosa “I don’t like mondays”, que hacía referencia a un tiroteo en una escuela de USA), junto a su amigo Midge Ure (vocalista de la banda Ultravox), tuvieron esta sensacional idea, que fue a la postre un antes y un después para muchas bandas y artistas de habla inglesa. Originalmente se generaron dos colectivos de artistas para sacar un single cuyas ventas fuera de carácter exclusivamente caritativo, pero a la vez, permitía a sus participantes una vitrina no sólo mundial, sino mostrar ante su público su lado humano, solidario y filántropo. Así, los norteamericanos guiados bajo la producción del “rey midas” Quincy Jones, y con la composición de Michael Jackson y Lionel Ritchie, grabaron la canción “We are the world”, firmada como USA for Africa, mientras que su contraparte británica grababa “Do they know it’s Christmas?”, escrita por Geldof y Ure, firmada como Band Aid. Ambas canciones, que presentaron varios inconvenientes para su grabación, a su vez terminaron siendo el tema final de concierto en cada escenario, correspondiendo al lugar de origen.

Sin embargo, para cuando se hicieron las coordinaciones para el concierto, que se vendía bajo la idea que “todo artista que era ‘alguien’ debía estar allí”, fue más complicado que juntar tantos artistas para una sola canción. Cuando la cartelera de los conciertos vio la luz, muchos de sus participantes que originalmente habían participado en las grabaciones de los singles, terminaron por no asistir por diversas razones. Bruce Springteen por motivo de agenda y Tears For Fears por renuncia de músicos de la banda. Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Diana Rose y The Pointer Sisters decidieron boicotear el evento por no considerarlo de igualdad de oportunidades para artistas de raza negra, siendo Sade y Tina Turner las únicas artistas negras en aparecer en cartelera y en el escenario, aunque también apareciera B. B. King, Patti Labelle, Billy Ocean, Teddy Pendergrass (apareciendo en silla de ruedas luego de quedar parapléjico en un accidente de auto), o Lionel Ritchie, Dionne Warwick entre otros, cuyos nombres no aparecieron en la promoción.

Asimismo, y como mencioné, fue un antes y después para muchas bandas: Para Bono Vox y U2 significó la catapulta al estrellato, aunque sólo tocaron 2 de los 3 temas programados, pues empezaron con “Sunday, bloody Sunday” generando furor en la audiencia y para cuando tocaron “Bad”, Bono tuvo que bajar hacia el público, y llevó a una chica al escenario. Originalmente se pensó que ese acto era para invitarla a estar junto a él, pero luego se aprecia en la grabación que la joven estaba prácticamente siendo aplastada por el público. Esto hizo que la canción demorara más de lo debido. Pero mientras U2 había afiatado al mundo para que reciba con los brazos abiertos a su cuarto álbum (el exitoso «The Joshua’s Tree»), otras bandas terminaron por descender en la preferencia pública.

Así, Judas Priest llegó con altas ventas al escenario, pero su presentación no fue de las más acogidas. Led Zeppelin, después de la muerte de su baterista John Bonham, se reunía sin previo ensayo y fue una presentación para el olvido, ya que Robert Plant y Jimmy Page estaban tan alcoholizados (y algo más) que ni la voz ni los acordes, fueron los esperados, considerando además que en la batería estaba Phil Collins, quien aprovechó el evento hasta la última gota: no sólo se puso en la batería de Led Zeppelin (sin atinar a un solo ritmo), sino que fue el único artista en presentarse en ambos escenarios a la vez, usando para ello al ahora extinto avión supersónico Concorde. Collins, ya líder de Genesis ante la ausencia de Peter Gabriel y promocionando su carrera solista, además de sus propias canciones, también participó en cuanta canción ajena podía.

Por otro lado, Live Aid también desnudaba los quiebres de algunas bandas: Sting aparecía sin The Police y nunca disimuló su cara cuando tuvo que cantar las canciones que popularizó junto a Andy Summers y Stewart Copeland, a diferencia de su performance junto a Dire Straits, donde incluso sonríe haciendo ese mítico coro en la canción “Money for nothing”. Wham!, el dúo pop formado por el finado George Michael y Andrew Ridgeley, sólo tuvo presencia a través de Michael, quien curiosamente, canta junto a Elton John la canción “Don’t let the sun go down on me”, que años más tarde, en 1991, terminaran realizando juntos nuevamente en un concierto de Elton John. David Gilmour aparecía sin Roger Waters anunciando la disolución de Pink Floyd, y participó como músico de apoyo para Bryan Ferry, ya separado de Roxy Music. Para Duran Duran, que llegaban con récords de ventas, terminan haciendo una presentación muy criticada cuando Simon Le Bon, su vocalista, desafina más de una vez y en palabras del propio Le Bon, la performance fue de la más vergonzosa en su carrera. Madonna, que no aparecía en la cartelera, estuvo en el concierto lanzando la frase lapidaria “Esta vez no me desnudaré.”, respondiendo a la crítica que fieramente decía que ella valía más por vender su físico que su talento, mientras que su “rival” musical, Cindy Lauper, no apareció en el evento. The Cars dejó de ser tan preponderante como Spandau Ballet o Simple Minds. Mick Jagger parecía más forzado que motivado a pesar de presentarse junto a Tina Turner y contar como apoyo nada menos que al dúo de Daryl Hall y John Oates. Los otros Rolling Stones (Richards y Wood) por cierto, se presentaron aparte como músicos de apoyo, Y Bob Dylan aprovechó la oportunidad para espetarle al público que antes de pensar en ayudar a otro continente, deberían ver la pobreza en la que viven los granjeros norteamericanos. Pero vamos, que no todo era tan malo: The Who se reunía después de muchos años, y dice la anécdota que en el escenario había una luz roja que avisaba al artista de turno que su tiempo acababa para dar paso al siguiente, pero Pete Townsend, siempre desvariado al momento de tocar, dañó esa luz y por ello, la banda encabezada por Roger Daltrey alargó su presentación. Black Sabbath se reunía nuevamente con el Príncipe de las Tinieblas: Ozzy Osbourne (valga decir no tan tenebroso con un look más de luchador de la WWE), y nos regalaban una vez más su mega–éxito “Paranoid”. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, también se rencontraban, y no decepcionaron, y claro: Queen.

Mercury y compañía llegaban al evento con la etiqueta de “banda en decadencia”, y se especulaba que más iban a ser de “relleno” que de carácter protagónico. Y una vez más, Mercury hizo que todos se traguen sus palabras y caigan rendidos a sus pies haciendo pleitesía, para honrar el nombre de realeza de su banda. La participación de Queen fue, de lejos, la mejor de todo el evento (y por todo me refiero a ambos escenarios). Se dice que durante el concierto en Wembley, los problemas de sonido sucedían a cada instante y Geldof se encontraba en labor de hormiga de una lado a otro intentando solucionar las cosas, pero cuando apareció Queen, él y todo su equipo dejó de trabajar. Nada más importaba, como en el último verso de “Bohemian Rhapsody”: era Queen, y había que paladearse cada instante. David Bowie, gran amigo de Mercury, les siguió y además de mantener el estado febril del público con su éxito “Heroes”, detuvo a todos a pensar pasando diapositivas del estado de la gente en África, para no olvidar el motivo fundamental de los conciertos, más allá del disfrute del momento.

Pretenders junto a Chrissie Hynde, Sade, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Rick Springfield, y Huey Lewis & The News tampoco desentonaron, así como Sir Paul McCartney, quien interpretó el clásico “Let it be” junto a Bowie, Townsend y Alison Moyet. Entre las performances que no fueron altamente destacadas, pero merecen toda nominación honrosa están las de Paul Young, Kenny Loggins, REO Speedwagon, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Santana y Eric Clapton (que por cierto sufrió una descarga eléctrica mientras tocaba “White Room”). Ausencias muy sentidas, junto a los nombrados fueron AC/DC, Deep Purple y Frank Zappa, quienes contarían luego que estaban escépticos con respecto al evento. Culture Club, que afrontaba en esos momentos la lucha de Boy George contra su adicción a la heroína. Paul Simon, Billy Joel y Rod Stewart, quienes manifestaron no conseguir banda de apoyo. Se dice que The Kinks quiso participar pero para Geldof “no eran lo suficientemente famosos.”, Frankie Goes to Hollywood rechazó la oferta y su vocalista diría en el futuro que fue el mayor error en su carrera, y el dúo Eurythmics había aceptado en un principio, pero por motivos de salud Annie Lennox no pudo estar por lo cual terminaron sin presentarse.

Live Aid, además, permitió vio satélite transmisión desde Austria, Japón, Holanda (desde donde transmite B. B. King que estaba de gira) y desde Australia, quienes presentaron a una banda consagrada en sus tierras pero desconocida para el mundo, pero que sonó tan, pero tan bien, que muchos productores mostraron interés en promocionarla. Sí. Eran Michael Hutchence junto a INXS, otros de los grandes “ganadores” en su carrera gracias al evento. Y sí, me faltan nombrar a más, muchos más, como Adam Ant, Neil Young, Thompson Twins, Joan Baez y es por ello que Live Aid de 1985 es tan relevante como importante en tanto conjunción de la pléyade musical, así como punto de inflexión para la carrera artística de muchos. Es por esta relevancia que los 13 de julio se celebra el “Día del Rock” y que obviamente no podría pasar desapercibido para un ángel Caído.

Ahora, lo más difícil, es tomar una canción, una de tantas, que no hayan visto ya, como la mítica performace de Queen, o la versión de “Don’t you forget about me” de Simple Minds, o “Money for nothing” de Dire Straits junto a Sting, o la performance de U2 con “Sunday, bloody sunday”… Así que les comparto la performance del británico Elvis Costello, exponente del pub–rock de los 1970s, que incursionó también con el pop, el new wave y el country, pero que a diferencia de otros artistas, salió sin banda de apoyo, sin coros, sin nada más que él, y su guitarra. Costello, cual mítico caballero de cuentos de hadas, enfrentaba sólo a ese dragón o Leviatán que era un público hambriento de rock. Y así, sin más que su solitaria presencia, empezó a tocar la canción de The Beatles, “All you need is love”, haciendo que todo Wembley, antes de desgañitarse con Queen, ya empezara a cantar con el corazón, usando sus voces como reemplazo de los demás instrumentos y músicos que no estaban al lado de Costello. Porque al final, de éso se trata todo… absolutamente todo: Amor. © [ Zᴏɴᴀ X ] Lᴀʀɴ Sᴏʟᴏ Lima/Perú • 13/jul./2020

[rainbowfoxes]

Just finished season 2 of Riverdale, and I have Thoughts.

- I feel like they reset Veronica's character development this season? Like she did the whole "my dad is a bad person" thing in season 1, and then she comes back and is swayed to his side rather easily? It felt like they did that just to set up Archie's involvement with Hiram and the mob.

- Jughead's commitment to the Serpents is, to me, because they're the first people who have ever given him a true sense of community and belonging, and he'd literally rather die than give that up. I think it's very telling of his character and how devotional he is. Once Jug is in something, he's in.

- Cheryl is an absolute delight and I would watch an entire show of just her doing her thing. The Carrie moment? Iconique. Her hunting outfit? Someone call Oliver Queen and tell them there's a new archery hero on the block. Her interactions with Josie remind me a lot of a 12-13 year old girl obsessing over her crush (with some Blossom extraness, of course), so I was able to see her coming out ahead of time. Her and Toni are v. cute together, I love her custom jacket. I hope she gets to shoot more people.

- Speaking of Josie: I feel like she has her own show going on in another universe and I desperately want to see it. The way she handled things with Kevin irt to their parents was top tier, and I really like how she pulled one over on Veronica.

- Betty and her mysteries are carrying this show so far. She's the big picture gal, and her (and Jughead) are the ones that push the plot forward while Archie and Veronica kinda have the plot happen to them. I really like how much initiative she shows and how determined she is to not only do the right thing, but to clean up her own mistakes when she makes them.

- I hope that Veronica gets to drive the plot more in season 3 like is hinted with the finale, she's very reactive and it makes her sections of the story hard to get through at times. I think this isn't helped by the fact that for a good chunk of this season and the last, I had no idea what Hermione's motivations were, which in turn made it difficult to figure out what Veronica wanted.

- Archie is the definition of "pure of heart, dumb of ass" and he's so head over heels for Veronica that he misses the dangers of Hiram until it's too late. Which is a good character flaw! But kind of frustrating to watch. Thankfully it looks like we're done with that now, so we get to see him make new mistakes.

- Fred and FP are A+ parents, but Alice is the holder of the braincell most of the time. When she doesn't have it, Sierra must be on screen and has it instead. I hope she gets more screen time in the future as more than the group lawyer now that she's stepped down from the Mayor's office. and I want to see more of Kevin's dad too!

- Speaking of Kevin - I kinda like the conflict he had with Betty about cruising? because that's a struggle a lot of queer folks have faced in the past and in the present, the conflict between personal safety and being able to be yourself and feel loved for a few stolen hours. All his interactions with Moose are also top notch and I hope we see more of them together. We could have had a nice Kevin/Moose/Midge triad going if Moose had remembered he had two hands in time, but alas. RIP Midge you will be missed.