#Val said that Kevin was so bad lol

[blueeyeddarkknight]

Val in the "wood demon" play at THE Juilliard (ft. Kevin Spacey)

[mickcedesagenda]

30.03.2023 | AUSTRALIA FP1 & FP2

Technically it was Friday in Australia but I saw the FP1 on Thursday night because of the time zone lol

FP1

RED BULL

First, I can't believe Red Bull has a new front wing. Why.

Max was doing pretty well, but in the early part of the session, he mentioned they were "dragging the rear breaks too much." I was surprised that he lost control and ended up causing a yellow flag. He recovered well, but it got me thinking about how eventful this race will be. Max finished P1 (+1:18.790s) in softs.

Checo's helmet cam showed that this track produces quite a lot of bouncing. Checo went wide several times, which happened to the others too. Checo finished P3 (+0.503s) in mediums.

In other news: Daniel cam!!!

ASTON MARTIN

Fernando started to pick up pace mid-session, and I thought he'd finish P3 again, but he didn't. Fernando finished P4 (+0.527s) in hards.

Lance had great lap times throughout the session. I think he can do well this weekend. I would have preferred it if there wasn't so much traffic cause he would have had a better position. Lance finished P10 (+0.976s) in mediums with a +0.449s gap from his teammate.

In other news: Stoffel + Scotty cam!!!

MERCEDES

Mercedes didn't bring upgrades this weekend I need to speak to Torger immediately.

Lewis was complaining about bouncing at the start of the session, but apparently, it's just the track. Lewis was coming in for a good lap but made a mistake and went wide and then through the grass. He said he's not happy with the oversteer. Still, I'm glad he had a better lap time, but I'm not getting my hopes up even when I really want him to win. Lewis finished P2 (+0.433s) in softs.

I didn't write much about George. I was glad he could improve throughout the session, but he's also having apex issues. George finished P9 (+0.909s) in mediums with a +0.476s gap from his teammate.

In other news: Toto + Mick + Bono cam!!! Toto's face after Lewis' slide didn't have to be that funny.

FERRARI

Charles was doing a flying lap and I saw a couple of sparks, which isn't unusual but is not something I've seen on the other cars during this session. Charles finished P5 (+0.588s) in hards.

It seems to me that Carlos' car was in the garage for quite a while, but I may be wrong. Carlos finished P6 (+0.715s) in hards with a +0.127s gap from his teammate.

They changed the setup of both cars during the first red flag.

ALPINE

Pierre looked pretty good but Este was way down in comparison.

Pierre finished P8 (+0.856s) in mediums while Este P16 (+1.385s) in softs with a +0.529s gap from his teammate.

ALFA ROMEO

Alfa Romeo was bad. I don't know why they were so slow for most of the session. Their times improved near the end, and they still finished nearly last.

Val finished P18 (+1.629s) in softs while Zhou P19 (+1.779s) in hards with a +0.150s gap from his teammate.

HAAS

Hulk P4 at the beginning of the session made me think of What da hell is a polar bear doing in Arlington Texas. Hülkenberg finished P13 (+1.016s) in mediums.

Kevin had several problems with the gravel, and then he was slow. Kevin's fans don't have a day off. Kevin finished P20 (+2.357s) in hards with a +1.341s gap from his teammate.

WILLIAMS

Alex had good lap times during the session but then it went downhill. Alex finished P11 (+0.976s) in softs.

Logan said at the beginning that he was "bottoming so much he couldn't see" (I didn't even mean to make a joke but now that I wrote it I can't help but laugh). In the last 5 mins, the car lost power and Logan stopped on the grass causing a red flag, so the session ended early.

Williams worries me with their typical reliability issues, I hope they do better in this race.

ALPHATAURI

Uhh, I don't have much to say about Nyck. Nyck finished P14 (+1.143s) in hards.

I admit that, at first, Yuki going back on track was kinda hot, but then I watched the replay and got scared. The car gave bouncing a whole new meaning. I think gravel will really be a problem for everyone. Yuki finished P17 (+1.609s) on softs with a +0.466s gap from his teammate.

MCLAREN

Lando spent the first 10 mins in the garage, it was apparently not a problem with the car but just being adjusted. He didn't have good lap times, but he improved almost at the end of the session. Lando finished P7 (+0.746s) in softs.

Oscar improved mid-session and looked better. Oscar finished P12 (+0.987s) in hards with a +0.241s gap from his teammate.

FP2

This session was at 1AM in my country, I was falling asleep and I hardly saw anything, but anyway almost nothing happened because of the rain. This was the least representative session because hardly anyone could do full laps due to the rain, so the position of each driver doesn't bother me. (Don't have pics yet this is a WIP lol)

RED BULL

Max finished P3 (+0.615s).

Checo finished P7 (+1.196s) with a +0.581s gap from his teammate.

ASTON MARTIN

Fernando finished P1 (1:18.887)!!! I honestly would like to see him win this weekend.

Lance finished P16 (+1.692s).

MERCEDES

George finished P4 (+0.785s).

Lewis finished P13 (+1.436s) with a +0.651s gap from his teammate.

FERRARI

Charles finished P2 (+0.445s).

Carlos finished P5 (+0.808s) with a +0.363s gap from his teammate.

ALPINE

Esteban finished P6 (+0.838s).

Pierre finished P10 (+1.319s) with a +0.481s gap from his teammate.

ALFA ROMEO

Valtteri finished P12 (+1.425s).

Guanyu finished P15 (+1.583s) with a +0.158s gap from his teammate.

HAAS

Hülkenberg finished P9 (+1.307s).

Kevin finished P19 (+2.379s) with a +1.072s gap from his teammate.

WILLIAMS

Alex finished P18 (+2.295s).

Logan's car was not ready for this session.

ALPHATAURI

Yuki finished P11 (+1.333s).

Nyck finished P17 (+1.713s) with a +0.380s gap from his teammate.

MCLAREN

Lando finished P8 (+1.289s).

Oscar finished P14 (+1.493s) with a +0.204s gap from his teammate.

[swearronchanel]

9.04

my thoughts as per usual 

“The heavens don’t always protect us. They choose on occasion to throw down challenges...”

Nonnatus faces demolition once again

Sister J will fight it tho!

Dr Turner, listen

Time are changing indeed sis, time to make some moves

Sister Mj is a hopeless romantic, felt that

Val likes a good doctor huh??👀

 LMAO that noise sister MJ made when sister J turned off the TV😂

I truly hate pigeons I’m sorry lmaoo

oof his cough is hurting MY chest

Phyllis is already annoyed LMAO, also I’m sorry I hate the way brits pronounce “schedule”

Let’s see how these 4 ladies packed in a room will go

Aww Reggie is here

A BATHROOM ROSTER, IT’s LIKE YOURS, MINE, & OURS LMAOO

Trixie looking like a bad bitch as always even in her pj’s

PHYLLIS IS SO IRRITATED I LOVE IT

FELT that though, i.e if anyone remembers how I was going to drop kick my roommate freshman year 😂 thank god she dropped out

Reggie with the pigeon 😭

Fred is going to save his place or find him a new one right?

Alright those 2 doctors are decent looking, The one has that velvety accent which I high key like 👀

The white hoops are back! And the purple top is hot, what a LOOK😍

Trixie is like Phyllis we’re not drooling over the thought of men, but there’s always a chance for a little something something 🤪

Ok Walters has a famous doctor for a dad lol and so what

“Glad to see there’s nothing wrong. with your observation skills” LMAOO PHYLLIS IS RUTHLESS AND I LOVE IT

TB? Hope not

Trixie already riding up front with a doctor, as she should LMAO

Sister Frances and Hilda are like oh boy here comes the bullshit LMAO

Vi still reigns as the blue eyeshadow queen

LIKE DOGS OUT OF A GATE LMAOOA how many kids do you have to have until they slip out ?😂

Listen I want Trixie to get the important medical/professional storylines that she deserves, but I will gladly accept a little liaison with a jr doctor 😂🤪 it’s been a minute, or 2 years - whatever

LMAO they just kicked everyone out of clinic like come back tomorrow

These doctors don’t know how to be personal 😂

Damn she really popped that kid out in no time

Phyllis’ little giggle seeing the baby is so PURE

pls give me the confirmation that Phyllis did have a baby but had to give it up @ ctm writers

No news is good news ☹️

Well there goes my stream 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

ok back from technical difficulties, once again

Respect the hustle 🤷🏼‍♀️

Goodnight Ms Higgins! Goodnight Maryellen! LMAO

Listen Patrick, Higgins said GO HOME

LMAO these men eating Nonnatus out of house and home

“Wherever it is I lay my head” No room/no food left for Phyllis and she is SICK OF IT LMAOO

SHE ISNT WRONG FOR IT THO!

He doesn’t have TB, yay

who in the writing room was like listen I have an idea, a man who loves birds and we’ll reuse a TB scare but this time he’s fine

I’m sorry maybe I’m a heartless witch but I just am so indifferent to this story? Tbh none of the medical plots make me feel anything lmao 🤷🏼‍♀️

“Is that a blush I see?” OK VAL I see it👀

glad to know Trixie is still going to keep fit!

LMAO Phyllis wanting alone time is THE most relatable feeling

Tim has a “gig” LMFAOO where is he playing omg, we need details

You’re not getting any younger Pat, face it old man😭😭 you need some help at work so you can help at home

The Doctors drinking downstairs out of beakers LMAO men really are trash 😭😂

They broke a window playing fake baseball (I know what cricket is don’t worry, issa joke) omfg, PHYLLIS IS BOUTTA RIP THEM ALL A NEW ASSHOLE

SISTER MJ WHISPERING TO BE CAREFUL SJSJS

Yes! Play some calypso for Lucille!

JK SISTER J IS RIPPING THEM A NEW ASSHOLE! WE LOVE TO SEE IT!

I’m probably the only one enjoying this LMAO I knew the doctors would bring some drama!

The buckles are always cute 🥺

Oh no poor Mr Benson

Val giving the cold shoulder now lmaoo

Jk she’s over it lol. This Kevin guy seems nice tho, I like him

C’mon Kevin go tell Dr Turner right now! No one said he was always right 😂

Damn Benson has to get rid of his birds, now I feel bad ☹️

are Kevin and Val a new dynamic duo? I wouldn’t be mad

“If they’re good enough for Ms Hepburn” I don’t support smoking but good save Trix

“We make our own choices in life” !!! Trixie always makes such an impact with the (1) good scene she’s always given who to I have to pay ok the writing team for Trixie to be given MORE

Cue the mucus extractor

Phyllis finally softening up haha

He gave Reggie the pigeon aww 😭

Yes Dr Walters you had a great teacher indeed

23 months, 2 weeks, & 3 days sober 😭 I’m so proud. Also so glad to see Trix still going to AA. Wish we saw more of that though...

Angela and May ugh cuties

LMAO I JUST SAID THAT, it’s true you’re not getting younger sorry! Shelagh won’t say it but I already have

 hire a jr doctor turner !!

“We share troubles or laughter or learning...”

Wait after all that they’re just leaving?? Wack af. They made this seem like a way bigger deal than it was. I’m MAD at this😂WHY hype this up if they were only here for one episode?

“But the heavens always send us something new. A chance, a lease on life...” 🥺 ugh love that

I’m SO ready for next week, TIME FOR THE SOUND OF MUSIC! If none of the writers has written a joke on Shealgh comparing her to Maria after I have waited multiple seasons for this opportunity I will RIOT

[finnglas]

How did I not know before that you write? Anyway, please answer #25. :D

Probably because A) I keep changing my name and B) I’ve been stuck on the same goddamn WIP for the past…like….two years…. and C) I haven’t been writing much fanfic (see item B). ;) But anyway! My author blog is at @julesrkelley​ and back when I used to write fanfic I wrote mostly as mjules.

But anyway! 

25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of

I’m gonna go grab a few from fanfics that I wrote a while back, and also from some original WIPs, if that’s okay! (If it’s not…too bad? lol)

“It has become her Notre Dame, and all her hours spiral outward from it.” (from I Regret Nothing, a Remix Redux fic I wrote in the Inception fandom; I think it’s the cleverest line in the whole thing, although this bit of Eames dialogue is a runner-up: “Irony of ironies. Brokers of dreams and can’t remember our own.”)

This one’s a little long, but I like the pacing of it. It’s from “Sweet Caroline,” which I wrote for Yuletide when someone asked for a Southern Gothic-inspired take on the song “Son of a Preacher Man.” Sometimes I really think that story is the best thing I’ve ever written in my life and nothing will top it.

Mother didn’t approve of twirling, said it wasn’t ladylike.  She’d rapped Mary Alice’s fingers for it once, told her to stop showing her unmentionables to all the boys.  But there was no one to see me in the old gray house, so I twirled until I was dizzy and sick.

When I stopped, too breathless for the giggle hanging in my chest like a prism in the sun, shooting rainbows of happiness all through me, I imagined that I was a princess trapped in a tower.  The witch who’d put me here had cut off all my hair so I couldn’t lower it for a prince to climb up the tower, but he would come anyway, his boots dusty from riding miles and miles to find me.  He would kill the witch and run up the stairs. I would hear his footsteps and know –

The stairs creaked.

I held my breath, my heart beating against my chest like a moth in a glass jar. I waited, but there was nothing – nothing but the cicadas buzzing outside and the thumping in my ears.

The best first line I’ve ever written in my life: “When he was four years old, his mother killed God.” from Never Put My Hope, a Remix Redux fic in the Star Trek (TOS) fandom.

And then, a couple from original works!

This is from Out of the Woods, the werewolf WIP I’ve been working on for two years...

“Don’t fuckin’ bite me again,” he snarled, startled to findhis voice clear despite the tightness in his throat. Val’s hand lifted off hisneck immediately.

“Again?” Hestepped to the side, and Diego got his first glimpse of the man—short and muscularwith long, dark hair and full lips, dressed rather dramatically in anopen-collared flowy poet shirt and tight pants, a tangle of pendants glitteringagainst his bare chest. Even with his odd fashion sense, he was magnetic,attractive. Someone Diego would probably dance with at a club…if he hadn’t beena biting biter who bit people. “Pup, you’ve got the wrong guy. I don’t bitepeople.”

“Yeah, right. If you’re not the one who bit me, why are youcalling me pup? How do you know I’ma…” He trailed off, his voice faltering unexpectedly. He still couldn’t say it.

“A werewolf?” Val said patiently, like he thought Diego wasespecially slow. “Please, you reek of it.”

Diego jerked backfrom him, barely resisting the urge to sniff himself. “I do not!”

This is from Stars Still Fall, my attempt at a 90s f/f Southern Gothic that is on hold while I’m working on the werewolves.

“Who is it?” He stood with hishands braced on the table, his shoulders slumped, his head hung low. He lookedand sounded so, so tired. “Is it Kevin? I’d understand. He’s rich. He’d be ableto take care of you like you deserve, give you a nice wedding—”

“It’s not Kevin. You know Idon’t care about money.” I hated that Robbie might think it was anything wrongwith him when I was the one who was—not wrong, Jo said. Not wrong. Just…wrongfor him.

“Then who, Lil?” He turned hishead to look at me. “Why?” His eyes were dark, hollow, and I felt so low Imight as well have been crawling in the dirt when I realized he’d been crying.I’d done that to him.

“It’s Jolene.”

There was a long stretch ofsilence while I waited for him to call down brimstone on my head.

He snorted.

“Jolene? Lil, I told you thereain’t nothin’ between us anymore. I barely even seen her since she’s been backin town.”

“Not…you and Jolene.” I wetmy lips and reached deep for the steel my momma said was in every Southernwoman. I barely touched it. “Me. And Jolene.”

And then to wrap things up, a little line from my short story, Swelter, which is for sale! Here! (This is, like, the only NSFW part I could find to excerpt from the whole thing, lol.)

“Gracie.”

A wide, wicked grin below reflective aviators sent awelcome chill like melted ice down her spine, and she faltered, stumbling to astop right in front of a disgruntled businessman, who stepped around hersharply.

“Maya?”

Her older brother’s best friend stood leaning againsta planter, looking as cool as ever, just like she wasn’t wearing a leatherjacket, jeans, and leather boots. There wasn’t even a hint of dampness in hercasually wind-blown black hair, her gorgeous brown skin smooth and dry.

Goddamn it, Grace, close your mouth and stop staring.

“What are you doinghere?”

Maya pushed her sunglasses up on top of her head and straightened,gesturing for Grace to give her the carry-on bag. “I’m here to pick you up,princess. Should I have brought a sign with your name on it?”

Sorry this took me so long! But I got, uh, caught up narcissi-reading my own stuff, lol.

[nanyoky]

Someone’s stomach still hates her, so it’s BREAD NIGHT instead of sushi night but HERE WE GO

lol cheryl. for just one tiny moment, i bet a couple kids were ready for a columbus style defamation and dressing down, but not our cheryl. nope. she’s just taking another opportunity to be the live action pacifica northwest.

“the southside kids are fine, but their parents are FURIOUS.” i’m gunna need more than that mayor mac- why? are the southside kids studying too hard now that they have real books? does sweetpea’s mum have to drive him all the way across town to his new school every morning? if the city shut down the school and absorbed these kids into the other district, the district buses would have to come to them, yes? so why would Mama Sweets driving him??? I NEED MORE DETAILS MAYOR MAC.

a neighborhood party for both north and southside. but the serpents are hired as security. do you see the problem here folks???? i mean- obviously not every single southsider is in the gang, but they are a good chunk of the people you’re trying to integrate into the community. so..... what’s really happening.... is a party of northsiders........ with southsiders as The Help. ......great plan i can’t wait.

there’s something really hilarious about the marked height difference between archie and hiram and archie is enjoying every inch of it- deep, deep down inside while he tries to figure out what the fuck is happening in his dining room.

me @ Hal: you’ve got the personality of a brillo pad go out in the garage or something

chic is chillingly cavalier, which is just how i want him, but betty brining up  the “cresent moons” on her palms was ham handed and awkward come on we were doing so much better with dialogue recently

this guy can’t possibly be legit there’s no way a trained agent of anything would trust archie with a can of pringles

there is just so much in the gang checking out betty’s picture of chic. kevin thinks he looks hot and maybe familiar because kevin likes pretty, hooded eyed bad boys who probably have a switchblade in their back pocket ((me too bro it’s okay)). veronica calling him “the omen.” betty sort of expecting but not knowing how to react to her friends thinking her long lost brother is a babe. also summarizing her current home life perfectly in how alice is being awkwardly infantizing and how hal is being definitely not chic’s biological dad and pissy about it. excellent. all excellent.

betty’s “hanging out with toni? cool. that’s cool” face is just... so betty.

“oldest living serpent” SHUT UP i bet he’s adorable i can’t wait

“your dad doesn’t like me” “what? no!” veronica is suddenly a worse liar than betty and that is SAYING something

veronica references the movie “foxcatcher” which i both want to see and don’t want to see and have been waffling about for over a year. anyone care to swing me on it?

varchie is lying to one another and it is all going to blow up so terribly

hoooooolllllyyyyyyy shhhiiiiitttttt. i see. this is a topical episode. and tangentially personal. i went to school near the dakota borders. i have friends who spent weeks at the pipeline protests. but also um.... why do i get the sense that for some bizarre reason, this is going to be jughead’s narrative....... *SIGH*

i need about twelve drinks right now. but also did i nail it with that columbus reference or what?

((fun fact to lighten the mood: my city is working on getting a statue of christopher columbus replaced with one of prince because he was from here and he “represents us better”. bless this midwest))

*HEFTY SIGH* mayor mac. i genuinely want to see more of your adulterous but charming affair with papa keller but you keep fighting tooth and nail to stay on my shitlist

kevin’s porn watching has solved a mystery that shouldn’t really have been a mystery to anyone? i thought fantasy fulfillment was pretty fuckin clear. also, kev, WHY ARE YOU WATCHING PORN IN POP’S WHAT THE FUCK BRO WHO DOES THAT

Archie: *jake peralta voice* why does everyone keep touchin my butt?

IS THE SHERIFF THERE TO WATCH KEVIN’S TRYOUT HELP MY HEART DON’T YOU *DARE* BE SHADY PAPA KELLER DON’T YOU BETRAY MY BOY

KEVIN’S GOOD. KEVIN’S A GOOD WRESTLER. MY LITTLE HEART.

none of these boys better make ANY comments about kevin wrestling or i will come after them with A BAT

this is a much needed self esteem boost for kevin- being better at something traditionally masculine than archie, the all american boy and I SUPPORT HIS PRIDE I JUST WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY KEV EVEN IF YOU LOOK AT CAM BOYS AT A PUBLIC DINER YA WEIRDO

this is an A+ sweater from betty holy jeez contender #1 for outfit mvp

bets did you watch a bunch of your brother’s sexy vids? holy jeez i need to feel better so i can have a drink ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS ESSAY I KNOW YOU ARE

kevin’s writing a gossip column now? i both love and hate this. give me a sample of it and i will swing one way or the other

“this is a story we need to tell” close jughead. this is a story you need to help the right people tell. as support. not the main voice. please tell me that is on its way. (i doubt it)

also i feel like the writers came up with this history of the gang, shall we say, quite a ways after casting of the gang.... not that the gang has to be all direct descendants of the tribe but.... still. 

kevin’s going to help archie practice cuz he’s the best of all of us. also it’s going to make him feel good about himself and i don’t begrudge him that in the slightest.

“you don’t really think this could be long term, do you?” chic you were living in a hostel where people get stabbed/their stuff stolen- how is that long term?

it’s a repeat but i think this is the first time this season we’ve heard a character’s original song? i miss the pussycats. i miss “we tell our own story” divas of color. i honestly kinda miss “i wanna be a musician” archie tbh. the music in general has taken a definite turn this season and i like all the retro but god the s1 soundtrack was SO damn good and atmospheric

Hiram has mastered the painfully overt backhanded compliment in a way i would have scoffed at two years ago but honestly i know people liek this now and it’s a nightmare.

lol veronica and archie turn this into the cold war of in-law relations. “i’m glad you’re not man enough to wrestle archie makes me feel like my daughter’s virtue is safe with you” “oh yeah well i think archie is hot” “yeah and we are TOTES comfortable kissing in front of you because our relationship is TOO HOT TO CONTAIN SO THERE”

*long, loud groan* oh my gggaaaaawwwwddd hal

that being said i kinda feel the same way about the narrative doing this weird displacement where Chic replaces Polly as the Problem Cooper and Sweetpea and Fangs are splitting up the threads of Joaquin’s storyline like come on writers either get your actors back or write something new- don’t just rework existing threads of character and plot for new faces.

kevin stop looking so eager we know hiram is a babe okay but that’s your friend’s dad

kevin and chuck both know enough about wrestling to know hiram is being a dick and not demonstrating for the sake of demonstrating. i mean- i don’t know shit about wrestling and i could tell that- but i have the benefit of knowing the narrative

“Get the message?” no hiram i think you’re being a tad too subtle. try farting on him.

TONI. THAT’S MY GIRL. FINALLY. THANK GOD. i was so scared this storyline was going to let jughead be this painfully white without acknowledgement but here we go. thank god. jughead has been whiter than i am recently and that is SAYING something.

okay so josie’s mad at veronica now which means we don’t get a pussycat reunion? DID THEY LOSE MELODY AND VAL TO OTHER GIGS??? JESUS RIVERDALE HOLD ON TO YOUR CAST ((i’m just assuming. i don’t know if polly and joaquin and melody and val and smithers all have other acting jobs keeping them from doing riverdale- it’s just it doesn’t make sense narrative-wise so i assume it’s a scheduling thing))

“cameras aren’t here, jackie o” that’s my girl

“the old ways die hard it seems” SOCIAL COMMENTARY

i love this wrestling plotline for many kevin reasons, but one of them is it gives and opportunity to show kevin interacting with a male friend. they’re obviously making a better effort to make him more than the “sassy gay friend” but this is one i feel a lot of people would miss. we’re used to gay men befriending women and being romantically involved with or lusting after men exclusively. but kevin and archie are friends! and we love them both! kevin jokes around about archie being hot and neither of them are uncomfortable! archie goes to kevin for help with something kevin has more knowledge/skill at! if i remember right archie was the first one to call joaquin kevin’s boyfriend! they are bros! and this is just really nice!

also how did i not notice kevin is ridiculously buff before? did he beefcake up between seasons or did those sweaters just slim him down a lot somehow? woops better go back and rewatch season one again to check. god what a chore.

chic is AGGRESSIVELY questioning betty’s intentions because we aren’t aware enough that he has TRUST ISSUES

i still don’t know how i feel about any of this and i keep swinging back and forth on “dark betty” from episode to episode depending on what they’re doing with it

“i took care of her while you were in prison” “excuse me” OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT HERE LIES ARCHIE ANDREWS DUMB BOY GOOD BOY SWEET BOY

i really need to know what veronica knows about her parents and how she is biding her time and handling it because the writers are just not throwing her a goddamn bone lately other than to occasionally call out toxic masculinity

honestly i feel like i don’t understand hiram. maybe because i’m not a blindly competitive douchenozzle. but like- surely laying things out so bullheaded and aggressive can’t be a better strategy than lying in wait and learning what you can? he could pretty easily wreck their relationship- those two keep screwing things up between them anyway. it can’t be that hard to be subtle buddy ((hiram is a gryffindor. nell is a slytherpuff. nell does not understand lion people.))

we see more hints of veronica faking the koolaid drinking with her parents. but is that truly what hermione wants? who is real? season one or two hermione?! i must know!!!!

*jughead continues to make this about him* toni: “i thought you were apologizing.” thank god for tony. give her her own narrative and stop making her only scenes be about jughead one way or another. she’s got such potential

for all that i still think the narrative is still going to find a way to keep jughead’s feelings at the forefront of this plot thread, there was some good delivery on “i had no right.” a kid realizing for the first time that just because he feels really strongly about something, does not mean he’s universally in the right on the subject. i know so many grown ass adults who don’t know this. i’m just really hoping not just jughead as a character takes a step back for a bit, but the narrative lets him and uses the room he makes well.

of course hiram invites veronica thinking archie isn’t going to make the team

slap his butt ronnie

so which chuck are we getting today god only knows because his redemption never saw any continuation or closure beyond gettin flirty with josie so i have no idea if it was genuine

Me, who knows nothing about sports of any kind beyond that i like it when Klose does the flippy: Wrestling is an aesthetically stupid sport

we’re all acknowledging how very uncomfortable and surreal this is for veronica right? watching her boyfriend grapple with the guy who publicly humiliated and harassed her a few months back? but in like- a “sportsman behavior” setting? very weird.

was that archie realizing he was being tested? is dating a lodge like converting to judaism? gotta be denied three times and persist?

alice is being so painfully stepfordy and i’m frightened and intrigued by the moment when the other shoe will drop and chic sees the alice cooper we all know and love to hate and hate to love

again- i’m really shocked that like- no one read between the lines on what chic’s livelihood came from

“he has to go and you know damn well why” *clutches pearls* oh good heavens hal what reason could that possibly be??? i haven’t the foggiest

PENELOPE IS LIKE AN AMALGAMATION OF EVERY DISNEY VILLAIN EVER IN THIS SHOT I’M DYING

OH SHIT. OH SHIT. VERONICA AND THE PUSSYCATS.

like on the one hand, that was a fucking power move and i kind of just have to give props for the sheer audacity, but on the other hand PEOPLE NEED TO STOP CUTTING JOSIE OFF FROM ANY AND ALL SUPPORT SHE’S JUST BEING MANIPULATED AND ATTACKED ON ALL SIDES AND I NEED HER TO BE OKAY BECAUSE SHE HAS FAR TOO MANY FEELINGS IN HER BIG BROWN EYES

oh god oh god this is too fucking real i need a drink but i’m still sick fuck this is real. fuck. toni’s face. cuz honestly she’s tough but you can tell she’s not used to the spotlight and it took all her courage to get up and be the voice of the protest only to be derailed and minimalized fuck let this girl have more to do than occasionally be the voice of reason to jughead and the serpents. 

BAHAHAHA is hal going to sleep with penelope to get back at alice for having a kid with fp back in highschool jesus christ this show

i’m reserving judgement on the chic plotline until it progresses more but right now i’m just kinda “....huh.” about it

oh betty. oh honey. oh babe.

“That was the old me” archie has been through five “new me”s in the past month. i mean this is obviously to get on hiram’s good side, but still it’s hilarious.

oh of course. they couldn’t just let this fucking go could they. gotta frame the serpents for something else. or not! maybe it was the serpents! doesn’t actually matter. either way mayor mac, lodges and papa keller are going to be the absolute worst about it.

can we get back to being a gothic mystery show next ep? please?

Episode Scorecard:

Number of Sick Beatdrop editing sequences: none. it seems they’ve abandoned this, sadly, along with the rest of the season one soundtrack and editing style. which is a shame.

Do I Still Miss Joaquin: please just imagine wrestling matches with Joaquin dragging all the other teen serpents along with to be the loudest, rowdiest, Team Keller-est cheering section riverdale has ever seen. Kevin is equal parts pleased and mortified. cheryl and toni are dating by now, so cheryl makes them all tshirts. they all have no fucking clue how wrestling works. they love it.

Episode Hair MVP: jughead’s bangs were corkscrewing again- like mine do when my hair air dries just right. i live the curly/wavy combo life too juggie. i know it’s hard.

Episode Outfit MVP: betty’s felted floral sweater- tho i’m still perplexed by the collars on this show. someone in wardrobe has a signature and i don’t begrudge them- i’ve just never seen collars on any outfit anywhere like these ones

[wishhbones]

Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 -- 1:11 am

I type this as she is asleep beside me. 

I believe I met her at a swim meet during junior year of high school. I was a 15 year old boy. Hungry for attention and eager to please for it. This is our love story.

It doesn’t matter who I was around or which other girl I was attempting to flirt. I knew I wanted Valerie the most. Fuck, I think everyone knew that. The night of the swim meet we skyped for 7-8 hours into the night about Metallica and my bucket list. She has strict parents so this fact means a lot to me. I texted her everyday and like a fuckboy would say my “goodnight sweetdreams” and “good morning <3″. I wanted to get in her pants and thought I was being sly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But the more I talked to her I realize I had finally met my match. She’s funnier than me, smart; and not to mention, stunning. I’m sure of I’ve been caught a numerous amount of times staring. Just. Staring. The best part was, she would just.. stare back. I could feel the energy oscillate between us telling me that she wanted what I wanted. 

But what do I want now.......

.

I want her to be mine. 

I can’t let any other person take away this opportunity.

But

She wasn’t ready. 

.

.

And I lost it. I wanted beg... and I probably did ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

She wanted to stay as friends. That’s not what I wanted to hear. I assumed I’d be kept on a leash and be forced to watch her kiss another man.

So I left.. And she resented me, but at the time I don’t think she understood why. Through rumours I know she called me a bitch and such. okay :/

Time passed and when I would hear her name my heart would skip a beat. An equivalent to when its about to be your turn to present your project to the class. I swear I had arrhythmia too (I actually went to see a doctor about this, anyway I want to believe but I cant prove that she is the cause. o well)

She ended up dating a teammate from my swim team. Fucking hell. Of course it’s the fastest guy on the team. Of course she doesn’t want a mediocre fuck like me. This is what she wanted the whole time I thought. I hate her.

I think there was a time here where we felt interest for each other again, but she was still with him. It wasn’t right for me to take a woman away from her man. She knew it was immoral to keep flirting with me. 

It’s time for me to move on. I hated myself for hating myself. I stopped talking to Valerie. I found a girl who went on to became my lover and prom queen. And on Prom day, guess who came crying. Not my girl lol. I did feel bad. No one deserves to cry after this much preparation and in front of this many people, but I don’t think she would have let me approach her (I asked her recently, she said I should have lol).

There’s something I want to confess. Even though my prom queen was lovely. I had Valerie on my mind. All the time. I left her for the purpose of wanting a new opportunity, and guess who I went to right away. You guessed it. Val. She had newly become single and I wanted her like always.

Valerie wasn’t ready. Again...... And again she went off with someone else.......... I should have learned the first time :c

The summer after that year, I was able to witness her on the day she left that man. I’d pay good money to see that shit, but I saw it for free instead. I made her laugh that day with my awful singing. That’s a (+1) for my ego.

I want her. I crave her. I am desperately curious to know what she tastes like.

One time she actually let me come over to catch up on life. It was around the time where she had recently let go of her best friend (and mine at the time). I truly remember this distinct moment where we walked through her kitchen and I wanted to kiss her by her fridge. I didn’t. Also when she invited me to her room and I sat on her bed. God, I wanted to grab her and kiss her passionately like in the Notebook. I didn’t.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

After leaving, I texted her about how I felt a connection again and that I wanted more. I think she went along the lines of, “we’ll see how life turns out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”. Yeah, I asked her out like 3 times in a 6 month span after that. All “No”s.

But, why did she still talk to me... Does she only like the attention give to her. Thats probably it. When she’s lonely she comes to me for attention, gets high from it until she finds someone else. (This is actually what I assumed at the time).

Well, during May 2016, we clicked again. It felt real. She even said over the phone that she missed being friends with me. (idk how to insert a crying emoji here. i dont use a macintosh). We were due for a Blink 182 concert in a few months, except I had to buy my ticket separately from her and her friends. I was pumped, were finally taking off.

Well, hold your fucking horses because I was supposed to see her one weekend back from Ottawa and she stopped me. In fact, she didn’t want to continue what we had going on because she wanted to work on herself. She said she couldn’t produce her own happiness and I while I do agree that this is a very valid reason, I was fucking disappointed again.

A month goes by and I send her a regretful essay over text pouring my heart out and saying something along the lines of, “dont even msg me on my birthday, youre gonna ruin it :’(”

Another month goes by and I learn that she invited my best friend, Jeremy to go to the Blink 182 concert. She had an extra ticket. Another month goes by and I learn that she has a new boyfriend..................... 

just fucking kill me now.

It is September 2016, I fall into a deep depression. Stay high in my room. Skip class and eventually drop out of school like a fucking miscarriage. December rolls in and I find myself at home. A disappointed family surrounds me at the Christmas lit dinner table. Everyone is quiet and afraid to ask me how things are going. No one asked me actually.

My aunt gave me a self help book as my Christmas gift and I learned a very simple and great lesson. “Awareness is the first step towards Change”

I wanted to get better. I wanted to change from what I had become.

I applied to work at the pool.... which happened to be the same pool Valerie would supervise at... I carefully picked hours when she was not there. I dreaded that I would see her... but I was also sad that I didn’t see her. Strange. Anyway, I needed to reset my work ethic and picked all early bird shifts Monday to Friday. I invested over a thousand dollars into recording equipment to jump start my life as a musician. I rehearsed songs to play at open mic events. I flirted with girls again. I got back in shape doing cross fit. Soon after that, I got my first step into a job related to my field of study. I began working for Hibar Systems, an engineering firm dedicated to building high quality pneumatic pumps and assembly lines, as a Jr. Project Manager.

My life began to pick up again. Things were going great and I felt like I was finally moving on from Valerie....

One day, I decided to text her over Instagram probably about how dumb she looked in her profile pic. Apparently, it was great timing. I soon learned that she had gone through a life changing event just recently and wanted to break up with her boyfriend. I tried hard to act as a neutral body and give support.

On July 16th, Jeremy had tickets to go see Metallica. This was my first ever show and was ready to shit my pants. He had extra tickets though. So who did I hit up? ... Valerie.

And she said “yes” !

That night she told me that she only listened to Metallica because of me.. and that she thought at some point in the night that she was in love with me. Ain’t no drug can me higher than that. We had some great closure that evening. I learned that she was afraid to date me in case of the consequence that our breakup would mean the end of seeing me. That at least when were not together, I come around periodically (when im not ghosting on her) and thats better than never seeing me again.

A few days later on the 18th, I drove her back to her apartment from a get together with her friends. 

That night she broke up with her boyfriend. 

That night I kissed her. 

That night she told me, “Thanks for never giving up on me.”

It has been 6 years since I first met her. Now, I type this on her laptop as she is asleep beside me. I love her.

-Kevin ‘Konkon’ Chung

[irate-pirate-bi-27]

Thoughts during Riverdale episode 9

• Damn it, all this talk of maple syrup is making me crave pancakes. • Why is most of the Blossom family red heads? It’s either a disturbing case of inbreeding, or they all have a weird obsession with the colour red. • Damn it Alice, why’d you have to barge in while Bughead was making out?! • At least Alice seems to approve of Jughead. • “Maybe, maybe not. But it will make me feel better” this is my new favourite Alice Cooper quote. • Yes, Hermione. You have made a mess of things. • I kinda felt sorry for Cheryl when she left the music room after Archie rejected her. Is that weird? • I love that during Ethel’s poem everyone seems at least a little interested and was paying attention, except Jughead who’s just leaning back lazily and eating chips. • Yes, more Kevin! He needs way more screen time in my opinion. • So Penelope Blossom is a cougar now. She just gets creepier and creepier every episode. • I love that Archie and Betty are so friendly after everything that’s happened. I friendship-ship barchie, if that makes sense. • Archie and Veronica giving each other nicknames is adorable. • That’s all Cheryl had to do? Hit the tree with a hammer? Archie’s right, you can do it in your sleep. • I can never take the show seriously whenever someone says ‘Archibald’ XD • For some reason I loved seeing Archie stand up for Cheryl. • Wow, Fred is not a happy camper. • Poor Alice. She’s trying to act like she doesn’t care that Polly’s with the Blossoms, but deep down she probably feels betrayed and hurt. • A couple that interrogates Cheryl together stays together. • The way that Jughead looks so proud of Betty while she’s interrogating Cheryl is so cute. • So Grandma Blossom was right about Polly having twins. • I wonder if Cheryl knew Jughead was a hobo when she called him one. • Lol Cheryl said Luke Perry looked 'dilfy’ • “The ice-woman cometh” is my favourite sarcastic Jughead quote from this episode. • That was a petty move Hal. Firing Alice just because she kicked you out. • Woah, Dark Alice. Kinda like Dark Betty during episode 3. • Also, I agree with Alice. Hal is a bastard. • That motivational speech Jughead gave Betty just gave me so many feels. • That Bughead hug was also adorable. • Poor Ronnie! • I love the beronica friendship. They’ve literally only known each other for a few weeks, and already Betty’s comforting Ronnie in the bathroom during a mental breakdown. • I knew it! I knew Polly couldn’t be stupid enough to choose the Blossoms over the Coopers! • Wow, Mrs. Muggs was so salty when she found out who Veronica’s father was! • But I agree. Hiram should be punished for the lives he destroys. • That kiss was seriously so awkward though. • I don’t blame Archie for wanting to leave. • Is it bad that I’m kinda glad that Val broke up with Archie because I lowkey ship Archieronnie? • Poor Hermione. • I love that Betty and Jughead were instantly on the same page when Archie told them about what he heard. • Polly’s definitely in danger right now, guys.

[lostinafictionaluniverse]

Riverdale 1x10 thoughts

Under the cut, bcos as usual it’s long and boring - lol 

Jughead’s narrative talked about order and chaos and also control and we saw elements of all these in the episode. It was kind of jarring that there was hardly any advancement as far as the murder plot was concerned, and it derailed things for me a bit, but then the episode had a lot of Jughead and Bughead, so I’m not complaining.

Archie telling Betty about Jughead’s birthday was sweet, but was that him taking the initiative and being supportive or was it clouded in something else Archie-like? I was having a discussion with @blueandgoldd and going by what was mentioned in the synopsis about Archie trying to make amends with Val and Betty hijacking his plans, I wonder if Archie’s insistence on Betty going to the movies didn’t have something to do with the fact that he was going to use that time to reconcile with Val? Was that his plan since Fred wasn’t going to be around and Juggie would be away with Betty? If that was the case, I’m sure he could’ve told Jug and he would’ve understood and supported him. Or maybe it’s the classic Archie conflict between being selfish and doing the right thing.  

Betty called FP ---eeep. OMG! She’s adorable!

Jordan said that Chuck was truly apologizing to Ethel. Does that mean Betty coming at him triggered him to turn nasty? He flips so much – he was like Relax Betty, till she doubted him and then he went – oh are you going to go dark Betty on me? It’s like she provoked him and he provoked her. Even at the party he started out saying that what Betty and Ronnie did totally ruined his chances and then when Betty was unapologetic, he turned lechery and nasty. But no one can convince me he went to party with no bad intentions, he was smirking when Cheryl asked him to join her in destroying their arch-nemesi! Yeah sorry, Jordan, Chuck is evil!

The gang discuss the party, and Archie takes a look at Val at the next table and changes his mind about it. What in her look made him do that when he was against it moments before? He had judged correctly that Juggie wouldn’t enjoy it. Is this classic Archie side-stepping– deflect aka ignore what’s going on by pretending everything’s ok & having a good time. He forgot all about Juggie in that moment and decided he wanted to have fun.

Then Betty deflects – this is classic Betty, she wants an outlet to pour all her energy into. And now Juggie’s party has become her latest project and she will leave no stone unturned to make sure it’s a success, right from the shape of the cake to the list of party supplies to the invitees and the crown T- shirt that she wears. “There’s a lot I can’t do, a lot I can’t control but I can make sure my boyfriend has the best birthday party ever.” Oh Betty! That “control” word!

She’s back at it again convincing FP to come over and she’s so earnest and persuasive that he cannot say no. She rarely, if ever, gives up. But how cute and how naïve Betty is for thinking that FP being there would be special for Juggie? Maybe she’s right in a way, Juggie’s always yearned for “normal” things, like a happy, united family because it’s something he could never have. His pushing FP to get a job and clean up his act is mainly because he wants to see his family together (even if said family wasn’t the happiest from his talk with Archie). Which means all of his family’s troubles were because of FP’s alcoholism. If Juggie believes that one act of FP quitting his drink can bring his family back, then it certainly must be the single-most driving force behind his mom leaving and also all those fights that he said happened all the time.

This episode showed the actual side-stepping behaviour of the core four. Betty does it by engaging in something else and making it her project, and Archie turns to something that distracts him or makes him happy – some frivolous pursuit. And Juggie does it by short circuiting, by lashing out, and by his sardonic humor. He was pretty non-confrontational till the last episode but this episode clearly triggered him – the party and everything else associated with it and brought to the fore his real fears.

Ronnie, by far, I think has the healthiest side-stepping behaviour, she actually talked to Archie about her fears, but I feel maybe that make-out was partly a diversionary tactic? I mean, she does like Archie romantically, we’ve seen that, but she’s never been compelled to do anything. Plus she’s never been jealous of him and Val or him and Cheryl which makes me wonder if she really thought about being with him or it was just the spur of the moment thing to start with but later snowballed into actual feelings?

Alice is great about Betty falling for this “Jones boy” but her advice to Betty not to share everything with him kinda sucked. Which led me to wonder what she told Hal that he used against her? Things about herself that she struggled with? Like her identity as a serpent? Did Hal believe that Alice killed Jason? Is that why he stole the evidence from Keller? Because he was worried Alice’s background and her hatred for the Blossoms could make her the prime suspect? If he did that, I think that works in nicely with Lochlyn saying Hal has good reason to be over-protective.

It’s quite interesting that they made Ethel to be a polar opposite of what she is in the comics physically. Which means that her character might be a polar opposite of Big Ethel too – like clearly she’s not interested in Jughead. She may not be interested in boys at all.  But we’ll see. Didn’t they say we’ll see Ethel with someone quite different?

Which brings me to who told Cheryl about the shindig at that chowderhead Archie’s house??? I made a post about this earlier. Cheryl’s lackeys weren’t around in the lunch room when the four of them were talking (anyway she’d dismissed them but didn’t they show up at the party? At least I definitely saw Tina) and only Ethel was invited outside of their inner circle. Also, Joaquin but does Joaquin even know Cheryl? Only Val was close, she could’ve heard. Is she close to Cheryl as an extension of Josie being her friend? Why would she agree to gatecrash the party anyway? She wasn’t friends with Jughead and she’d just broken up with Archie. And from what we saw of Val in the last episode, she seems like a girl of integrity. So her being at the party was just plot driven?

Juggie actually sees Archie telling Betty about his birthday as primal betrayal! Which makes that PTSD all the more believable. Poor kid must’ve had it so bad. Juggie must’ve had a really high EQ even when he was younger, if he could feel this way. He was always so attuned to his emotions and what he felt, he couldn’t ignore them. So he deflected in other ways. By not making a big deal, by hiding stuff and keeping secrets, by pretending everything was normal – which we’ve seen him do too when he lost his home. So him saying that his birthday was the family pretending to be normal and him feeling lonely is actually quite ironic since he does it too now. But at least he acknowledges that it sucked and made him feel lonely which is admitting to feelings instead of brushing them the under the carpet.

Ronnie found out that the Blossoms made large payments to the Lodges starting 75 years ago and it only stopped when Hiram was sent to jail. This must have something to do with the Maple syrup feud with the Coopers and great- Grandpa Blossom murdering G-Grandpa Coop. Maybe Grandpa Lodge uncovered some truths, that proved the Blossoms weren’t the rightful claimants to the land, and he was paid to keep his mouth shut. He may have negotiated a perpetuity for his family that continued for 3 generations.

Hermione (and the lawyer) thinking it’s a good idea to keep the info from the lawyers bcos her husband might become a murder suspect when he’s already languishing in jail for a crime he did actually commit – ummm? Really??

The dance-off? I think Ronnie’s open belligerence to Cheryl after having shown her willingness to be friendly after Cheryl was repeatedly mean to her because she saw in her a mirror of her own self, had to do with her finding out that info about the Blossoms. They’ve becomes shady suspects again, implicating her dad and Cheryl is part of that scam too.

Archie taking to drink the minute something unpleasant happens – classic Archie side-stepping move. And I think this is what prompted him to invite the gang over with the kegs so he would have the opportunity to drown his sorrows some more. Poor, misguided sap! He drunk dialled his dad too when Val threw her drink at him. He’s just so needy, he doesn’t know how to deal with stuff on his own and that shows his emotional immaturity. I hope he doesn’t end up just using Ronnie as an emotional crutch.

Where is Fred BTW? Did he drive to Chicago? Is that a rented car?  

Hiram Lodge’s letter to Ronnie – omg. He has no scruples – I’m loving it. I want him on the show now!

Bughead at the movies! Juggie being the caring and concerned BF wondering why his GF was so upset at the cafeteria and wanting to know more! Betty deflecting (Alice’s advice is working now)

“I didn’t think you were an American Werewolf kinda girl”

“That’s where you’re wrong. I’m all about the beast within”

That smile! I’m dead!

They left early because Betty pretended to be scared. How adorable!

Juggie is clearly uncomfortable from the get-go. And drunk!Archie hugging him must’ve been such a trigger! “Oh its Kevin”, Yes we know Juggie – we also know you feel like disappearing in a hole under the ground. And you immediately started to look for your wife. He seeks her out the minute he feels discomfort because she’s the only sanity in all the madness! I cry!

The cake! Her singing! That cheek kiss! “I wish it were only the two of us right now” I know that line wasn’t romantic, but it felt like it.

Poor Ronnie, she realized her dad had threatened her and her mom could be complicit too! Jughead came in realizing he was interrupting a moment.

A glimmer of the fight that will happen later can be seen in this argument. I have never seen Juggie this uncomfortable. He went to the baby shower and that wasn’t his scene either, but he was okay and here he isn’t? Clearly because here HE is the centre of attention, there he could just blend into the background. That’s why this party is so not him. His -I’m not wired to be normal- made my heart shatter! 

The gang arrives and everything goes to hell. Archie’s drink-addled brain affected his decision making abilities which weren’t great to start with. How in the hell do you agree to let Chuck and Cheryl into your house Archie?

Ronnie and Betty were never dancing at the party – only Archie was. Is it because Juggie is the narrator and he was hiding out in the garage, which makes him an unreliable narrator? Or were the scenes in the beginning exaggerated to depict the chaos Jughead was talking about? And there was no recreational drug that Cheryl brought in like they said in the synopsis. Wtf?

“Valerie just got here, you think she wants me back” – See, Archie was still entertaining hopes of reconciling with Val and yet he makes out with Ronnie a few hours later. This is why I find it hard to take Archie-Ronnie seriously. And why was Val even there in the first place?  

“As my blood brother” – was that line necessary? He could’ve just said brother? Are more secrets going to come tumbling out?

Archie trying to pin it all on Betty and trying to make it sound like Jughead will have to go along with whatever Betty dictates because he was her boyfriend? Sure you’re not salty Archie? But idk, I didn’t really get jealous Archie vibes in the sense of him wanting Betty, but maybe salty Archie bcos his two BFFs are together and he’s alone?  Maybe subconsciously he was trying to wreck them by creating trouble. Like he knew Jughead would be upset at the party and he was being unfair making it all Betty’s idea, but maybe he wanted them to be in trouble? Idk

“Whether you want one or not”

“She knows what she wants that one”

Yeah I can understand Juggie’s head getting twisted with all that Betty wanting things and getting them, when he doesn’t want them, that makes him even more upset.

Ronnie finds out about FP being Jughead’s dad. “The plot thickens”. They inserted a Joavin kiss - yayy! Kevin who have you been down to Sweetwater River with besides Moose?? I’m dying to know!

Betty confronting Chuck and reminding him of the consequences was great, I did think she went a tad overboard when she tried to drown him but that’s the point isn’t it? Dark Betty would do something twisted and intense, what’s what makes her dark. Betty doesn’t understand it even, it’s something overwhelming that takes over her and makes her do crazy things.

Hiram and FP had business, yes Hiram hired FP to trash the drive-in land so he could buy it and he did. That’s over. Do they still have something going? Hiram being suspected in Jason’s murder affects FP how?

Now the Big fight!

“You and Archie are my friends, everyone else, including Kevin and Ronnie I would’ve actually shunned”. Okay, Ronnie- I understand. I don’t see why Juggie has to even consider her a friend, they’ve literally had no interaction with each other one-on-one. They don’t talk except in a group and this is the first time they had a one-on-one interaction. Yet Juggie would’ve been okay with the four of them at Pop’s. He’s accepted Betty’s friend, Veronica as part of their gang. He’s okay with it.  But Kevin? He’s known Kevin for probably as long as Archie and Betty have known him, but he has obviously not connected with him. It broke my heart that he had no friends outside of Archie and Betty and when Betty was away and he’s had a fight with Archie he had no one! My poor baby!

Everything about this fight was so honest and real. Like, it hurt my heart, but it was so needed. They had to have this talk about their insecurities. Clearly Jughead feels insecure about why Betty is with him, he’s weird and he doesn’t fit in, he’s a loner, an outsider from the wrong side of the tracks, they’re different on a cellular, DNA level (or so he thinks), she’s a cheerleader, a straight A student, the perfect girl next door (I loved Betty’s “I hate that word” here). She’s seen as perfect because that’s what she strives to be and that’s what she shows to the world. Her best friend thought she was perfect. And now her boyfriend thinks she’s perfect too. But she’s just battling her own darkness within while projecting this image of her to the world possibly because of pressure from her mom. Her mom has to have drilled it into her to look a certain way and act a certain way and Betty does follow that, at time she rebels too – the incident with Chuck is one where she did, but Juggie doesn’t know any of it.  This reminded me what Lili said about Betty being attracted to Juggie because his darkness is on the outside and Betty’s isn’t.

He thinks they’re on borrowed time and he doesn’t want to be one of her projects. Betty is immediately contrite, and she wants to reassure him, she reaches for him to cup his face and he pushes her hands away angrily. God Juggie! And then came the lowest blow – oh god Juggie – can’t you see how much this girl adores you, she’s wearing a fucking crown sweater! She’s wearing a part of you! And you think she still has feelings for Archie? But I know Juggie isn’t thinking rationally at that point. He immediately realizes he’s gone too far, but he cannot undo it. And her walking away, means she’s ending it. That’s what he thinks till FP forces him to go back to her. He thinks they have irreconcilable differences and he’s crossed a line and that they can never go back from here. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back for her too, she just walked away because it hurt too much that he would say that. Yet he did. Because it’s something that has always been on the back of his mind. They may have evolved to being a couple after he took initiative and kissed her, but he still has doubts as to why she’s with him. Low self-esteem? Never been in a relationship before? And the fact that he feels inadequate compared to Archie – the popular football and music god who has no trouble finding girls to like him? And the fact that Betty was crushing on Archie was well known to Juggie. Of course he was insecure. Which takes me back to when he first kissed her. At that point I don’t think Jughead thought beyond that moment, he didn’t even plan on it when he first got there. It was just pure instinct. He knew Betty was moving on from Archie, she’d dated Trevor. He was possibly feeling these feelings for a while and he just acted upon them without thinking about the consequences. He didn’t think that far ahead on what Betty would think or feel or do. If she had chastised him, he would’ve accepted that, but she didn’t. She went along and in the next episode she kissed him. Even then he wasn’t sure what he was to her. He didn’t say anything to Archie and only upon him asking did he reveal they’d shared a moment and he didn’t say anything at all to his dad. He wasn’t ready to label it yet because he was unsure. Only when Ronnie officially calls him her boyfriend and she beams approvingly at him does he allow himself to think of him as her boyfriend. Still unsure of how she’d feel at the reveal that his father is a Serpent. I think only when she shows that she’s fully invested in the relationship and wants to be with him and know him does he let her in.  But there must have been a semblance of some doubt still lingering. Else he wouldn’t have exploded the way he did.

Do they really play games like secrets and sins at high school parties?

Anyway, Archie getting exposed for the Grundy thing was cringe-worthy and I felt sorry for him. I was actually applauding Ronnie for calling Cheryl out on her twincest but seeing the real tears Cheryl shed, I’m thinking maybe it was a bit much. Anyway it was all speculation whereas everyone else’s secrets were actual facts.

Juggie now knows that Ronnie’s dad is the one responsible for the drive-in, but he holds no grudge against Ronnie for it. That moment when Jughead’s face was changing from shock to disbelief to realization to anger was so well-played by Cole. That simmering rage in his eyes and then when Chuck turned to address him , he couldn’t take it anymore. That punch he got was well-deserved but Juggie barely managed to make a dent, in fact, he ended up getting it worse than he gave. But it was great to see the anger boiling inside Juggie and all that pent-up rage finally finding an outlet. He still had that rage when he got out after the party broke out and FP accosted him. “What? You want to give me some advice on my right hook?” FP finally showed his worth by being the dad Juggie really needed by giving him some sound advice.

“You have something really good here” and “Man up, she needs you”. Juggie’s face here was yet another revelation, because earlier when he said “It’s not gonna work out, irreconcilable differences”, he really believed he and Betty had broken up. His voice cracked, almost as if he was gonna cry when he said that. What wouldn’t I give to hear that conversation he has with her before they make their way to Pop’s, when he goes inside and finds her!

I do wish we had seen more before the scene at Pop’s, they went from angry and hurt to benign and teasing and that was quite a jarring transition for me. That said, loved the heart to heart they had at Pop’s. Betty’s gentle teasing, and Juggie’s response about him having layers and then sobering up to open out about why he pushed her away for doing something nice for him because he was afraid of being rejected for being himself. I love that although Juggie thinks he’s weird and doesn’t fit in, he doesn’t want to (he’s truly a rebel without a cause) and he’s comfortable in his own skin and who he is, he’s so self-aware this boy and I’m so proud of him. He’s the right person to guide Betty through her shit bcos she does not understand what’s happening to her. She’s overwhelmed and scared by it. And he not only understands, he empathizes. It doesn’t freak him out or scare him, he just accepts it calmly as part of her. Him kissing her hands was a show of that acceptance. And it was just so beautiful! I wanted Alice to witness that moment and realize what a gem of a boyfriend her daughter has! (I think she already knows!) I wish they’d talked about his accusation that she was just slumming it with him till Archie changed his mind. I know her shocked (I’m totally done) reaction should have offered him (and us) assurance that it was ridiculous for him to feel that way, but sometimes talking it out in the open is so much more satisfying. Especially when they talked about literally everything else. I’m hoping that comes soon, I don’t want another scene where Juggie accuses Betty of having feelings for Archie. I hope this is done and will not be addressed again.

Coming to Alice and FP and I know a lot of people ship this couple already, but I kinda want the Coopers to be a strong family unit at least. All others have troubled families that are breaking apart, it would be nice if one family stayed together. Also, I admit it would be weird for me if Betty and Juggie are dating and their parents are too. Which is why I couldn’t get behind Varchie till Fred and Hermione were a thing.  I can’t deny the chemistry bw Madchen and Skeet though. So Alice was a Serpent and I get the sneaky feeling we’re going to see a not so stick-in-the-mud Alice pretty soon! Besides, FP, you didn’t see that brick she hurled at her husband’s office or you wouldn’t be calling her that!

Archie and Ronnie- well, Idk how I feel about them hooking up honestly? They’re sweet and I think Ronnie’d be very good for Archie but is this truly the right time for them to be getting together? Clearly they like each other and are attracted to each other but not a few hours ago Archie was harbouring hope that he’d be getting back together with Val. Also I really need them to talk to Betty about what she feels for Archie because clearly it’s a point of concern for both Juggie and Ronnie. Why else would Ronnie be tiptoeing around Betty after spending the night at Archie’s (and lying to her mom about it!) Usually, if you lie to a parent about where you are, you also ensure that the friend who you’re supposed to be with is also in on the lie to back you up, which Ronnie obviously did not do and took a chance there!

Jughead’s approving of Ronnie with Archie struck me as odd because he’s this clear-thinking rational individual who’s not afraid to call people out on their shit especially Archie. Idk if it registered with him that Archie was looking to get back together with Val, but still thought it was ok for him to be with Ronnie so soon after breaking up with Val. One, it could mean he really likes Ronnie and thinks she’d be good for Archie and 2) It’s his insecurity raising its ugly head again and Archie being with Ronnie means he cannot pursue Betty. But I really wonder how it was so easy for him to agree to keep this a secret from Betty bcos that sucks. After she just told him her darkest secret, he’s once again accepting hiding things from her? I know it’s not his secret to tell, but Betty is their friend and she would be happy for them. Or maybe he thinks Ronnie would tell her? Idk. I hope this is resolved soon in the next episode cos I would hate to have them drag it out.

I just hate the trope where misunderstandings happen because of someone keeping something from the other person and unfortunately it’s the most visited trope in writing. Riverdale has been pleasantly surprising me there and I hope they continue to do that.

Next episode promo:

- FP gets arrested (probably) and the core four think he’s innocent, so work to free him

- Is Betty pissed with Varchie because they’re working with her mom without her, or is it something else? (Varchie being together, singing a duet) I hope to God it’s the former

- What did they lie to Juggie about? (I do not want more Bughead drama, donotwantdonotwantdonotwantdonotwant (sending out cookies and candy and sacrifices to the Riverdale Gods)

-  Luke said all the secrets with the parents will come out in this episode and I’m really excited to know all about their past

-  I think Cheryl threatened Polly because she thinks Polly killed Jason. I think we might see them getting on the same side and Cheryl actually becoming an ally when that revelation (whatever it maybe) comes to light.

- The wig room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Is Hal going to be reconciled with Alice?

- I’m so scared for my poor son Jughead, what makes him break down like that? I’m not ready!

- I think Hiram is going to make an appearance (they did tease that he &/or Gladys will be appearing, on much earlier than we’d expect, although it could happen that Gladys is the one to come, because of FP getting arrested)

[lydias--stiles]

Thouhts on Riverdale 1x06

I have a complete seperate post on the Bughead kiss so if you want to check that out click HERE.

- I loved how the theme of this episode was fear. Fear is something we all live with. Some a lot, some rarely. Riverdale really tries to connect with the troubles of real people: family issues, fear of failing and rejection. 

- The breakfast scene GAVE ME LIFE! Also, very stealthy of Betty and Jughead to plan that all out. Jug goes to the bathroom so Betty can find out where Polly is. 

- I felt so bad for Archie. I don’t have stage fright (quite the opposite haha) but I know a lot of people who do and I just wanted to give him a hug. His friendship with Val is something I adore (the fact that they kissed in the end made evrything much cuter)

- It did made me think how fast he... moved on from Grundy. (remember her? Ugh.) Archie is still young, he probably mistook sexual attraction for love. I think Val and Achie together is a fun relationship. Bonus: she is a POC. (with gorgeous green eyes oh my god.) 

- I feel like I pitied Archie a lot this episode because I also felt bad for him when  he tried to converse with Jughead and Betty and they blatantly cut him off. I mean I get it, since he’s out of the loop (and has a completely different storyline now that Grundy is gone) but it’s just sad. A few episodes ago he was still Betty’s best friend. Now she kind of pushes him aside.

- Kevin is so mad because Archie got a spot. I wonder why... 

- Veronica got through trouble to get Archie a spot on the show, even though she angered Kevin with it. I wonder if she likes Archie romantically and if so, I’m curious of her reaction in 1x07 when she finds out that Archie and Val are (probably) a thing. 

- Josie (or Josephine, I might say) has so much weight on her shoulder and I just wanna give her a good hug. Famous jazz singer dad and pressuring mayor mom. Fun...  But, she should not have taken out her anger on Val, that wasn’t right. 

- #ProtectVeronicaLodge Her father is in jail, she needed to start a completely new life with a new view of living (not the rich bitch anymore) and then her mother (who really needs to cut her hair, it looks ridiculous) kisses with the father of her best friend. Her mother is cheating on her spouse and Veronica needs to live with that. Hermione is so sneaky and mean and I do not like her. 

- Also, then Archie drops her for Val like dude you clearly don’t get how this works. 

- But then Veronica walking through the halls like the queen she is and that confidence she oozes is everything I want. I also liked how she calmly said how she was very angry and needed to be put into something positive. Ronnie is smart. 

- Betty tightening her ponytail is something so small but so unique to her and it makes her character come to life. Also, I never realised that Cole Sprouse isn’t really that tall. 

- Elizabeth... l love that name. Better then Polly lol. Reminds me of Polly Pocket, those little dolls for girls. 

- I’m glad they really looked for someone who resembled Lili. The girl who plays Polly is very similar. Same blonde hair, green eyes, not a big height difference. 

- Polly is very... interesting. How she told Betty about their plans and how she freaked out... probably because of what happened to Jason but still, she wasn’t entirely fine as she claims to be. Definitely when we see in the end she broke out of her room and the car was filled with drugs. (From whom it was, we don’t know) I also think Polly put the car on fire. Something tells me it’s her. 

- Betty’s mom is so mean but I do feel like she knows more than she lets on and actually has a valid reason to keep Polly there. Besides her hatred for the Blossom’s. 

- Now that I think of it, Cheryl wasn’t in this episode. 

- That arranged dinner was so weird. It had Archie and Fred, Veronica and Hermione, the mayor and her spouse and Josie all in one room. The combination just made everything so awkward and tight and Josie’s father needs to chill for a second, god damn. Your daughter is a sophomore. She’s 15/16. And Fred was so hopeful to get that contract while Hermione is just sitting there all smug winning over Fred’s heart. Ugh. I think once Fred finds out about everything, he will be completely dismayed by Hermione. Also, I think she has a hidden agenda we don’t know about yet.  

- The bedroom scene with Betty and her parents made me almost cry. Not only because parents in TV-shows usually are put in the back and they never talk to their kids, but because of how they treat Betty. Definitely her mom, laughing and crying at the same time over the fact that Betty thought her dad killed Jason, meanwhile also insulting him? 

- But, that means Betty’s parents are both innocent. Meaning they didn’t kill Jason, but they are definitely not sinless. 

- Betty cannot cry. I can’t handle that. 

- Ronnie and Josie bonding with food in Pop’s is so real and fun and sad at the same time and I love everything about it. 

- Also, (nerd me activates now) the way everything is shot so cinematic (colours, angles) is just so beautiful.

- Yeah, just be a fraud Hermione. Fake your daughter’s autograph. Go fucking ahead.  

- “Hey Juliet”, kill. me. now. There is a ladder next to my window, but does a boy come to my house like that? The answer is no. Jughead is so soft yet only shows it to Betty and it’s just... *sighs*

- I get Betty’s doubts and frustrations. Needing to live in a household like that must be hell. It is hell.  

- Betty’s not crazy but... are we going to forget about that little split personality thing that happened when they wanted revenge on that guy a few episodes back? Was that just for shock? Cause, that was something major. 

- “Also...” had he wanted to something but then suddenly looked at her lips and blanked? I say yes. 

- And then they kiss... I have a post, like I said. 

- “The car!” (yes make out in the car!!!) 

- Kidding, great thought Betty. Detectives Betty and Jughead on the go!

- The dad of Josie can go die in a hole. I’m so salty oh my god. But I mean, this is your daughter’s performance in a school in a small town like WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM HER? He is the child here, not Josie. If you can’t sit in a chair for two minutes than you need to get checked up mister. 

- Is that attire... appropriate for school? I mean, Veronica’s boobs were literally on display. Remind you they’re fifteen/sixteen. 

- I’m sorry, Archie’s song was quite lame. (I got the message, don’t worry, but it was just... plain.) With Val’s voice it wouldn’t been better but Archie had to be the good guy here. 

- So, the getaway car story was accurate. But whose drugs was it? And why was Jason’s letterman jacket already in the trunk? Why did he even had it with him? That doesn’t make sense. 

- Someone is spying on them whilst they investigate. Polly? Cheryl? Kevin? A parent? 

- The one that spied on them lit the car on fire just as the cops came... and Polly broke out of her room pregnant. Did she get help? Did she just got out and made it look like she escaped through the window for a diversion? 

Those are my thoughts for this weeks episode!