#it’s the better riverdale

[ourchunkysalsa]

first kill is my new favorite show because it had lines like “it was no match for the gods of olympus. so why would i be immune to the insanity of first love?” but also “did you eat…. my mother?” and that duality is camp

[bleachersgirl]

the absence of jarchie is merely the shadow of jarchie’s presence

[uglygirlstatus]

selected daily comics

[boag]

[lesbaurinkos]

creating a riverdale post that gets a lot of notes really does feel like being jesus on the cross. idk how much more "wtf is happening on that show lol" and "i'll never watch an episode but this sounds crazy" and "every word of this could be true and i wouldnt know" i can take. every word IS true i speak only the truth delivered unto me as gospel by roberto aguirre-sacasa himself. but you wouldnt know, would you. you wouldnt know a THING. because u are depriving urself of the beautiful experience of watching true art

[mean-vampyre]

The thing is I don't hate choni, and I actually really like Toni. But this poll is really about Cheryl because she is femme royalty, she has kissed every woman in riverdale, she has been hatecrimed, she went to nun conversion therapy, she locked herself in her house for 7 years because her girlfriend left, she adopted a teenage lesbian and tried to teach her crime, she was a witch burn at the stake, she went to prison in the 1950s, she burnt her house down, she keep the corpse of her dead brother, she stopped the commet, she delivered her ex-girlfriend's baby, she hated jughead, she almost lavender married archie, she is a painter and an archer. And she did all that while being undeniably lesbian every single second of her crazy life.

[greatkateweathermachine]

in the tabronica endgame reality veronica calls tabitha "angel" both as one of her many gross petnames but also so that she can flex on everyone because she thinks dating an angel makes her the world's best catholic

[frostfairysteve]

eddie started high school knowing about the harrington family; his uncle had a few choice words to say about how they treated those with fewer advantages and how they were best avoided.

as he went through high school, he started hearing about one specific member of the harrington family in particular, from overhearing gossip in the corridors and cafeteria, from the school newspaper.

walking around school, he saw a lot of steve harrington. saw another pretty boy thinking high school popularity was everything.

and while steve never pushed eddie around or called him slurs, his friends certainly did, as steve just watched.

he always stared at him, dared steve to do anything, to help, to hurt. to end the bullying in some way.

outside those confrontations, eddie was too busy to care about steve harrington. too busy trying to keep up his grades and dealing and running hellfire and practising with corroded coffin.

so he didn't care when steve started going out with nancy wheeler.

he didn't wonder if steve could ever look at him like that. he didn't wonder what it would be like to kiss him, or run his fingers through the famous hair.

pining over straight boys that stood around watching as he got beat up could never end happily.

eddie had been forced to be good at being realistic from an early age. maybe he could get the happy ending in dungeons and dragons, but not in high school.

and he had a lot else to focus on. retaking his senior year, finding new outcasts for hellfire, making sure that wayne didn't have to carry all the weight in providing for the two of them.

eddie had no time over to think about some pretty boy, not even when that pretty boy falls from grace.

not even when the pretty boy shows up with a beat-up face. not even when the pretty boy is the subject of all the gossip he overhears.

but then summer comes.

but then his friends bring him to the new mall.

but then he sees steve in a sailor getup that is as ridiculous as it is scandalous.

and eddie might be good at being realistic when he has to, but he has always been a dreamer.

and the steve working at scoops ahoy is not the steve that stood to the side in high school.

so eddie ditches his friends to get some ice cream.

(steve's pov)

[horrorlesbion]

when i tell you i screamed and cheered

[mrsreinhart]

She’s come so far.

[dawningfairytale]

“the lgbtq+ community is over-represented in media, specifically in regard to sexuality” is a statistical error. riverdale, who confirmed 90% of its characters to be gay or bisexual by the series finale, is an outlier and should not have been counted (but should be normalised).

[femmehysteria]

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day, check my pinned post for active polls

[garbagequeer]

no it's not. watch riverdale. stop being afraid. jug your head with me in the light of day brother

[ylissebian]

caught up this week right in time for the start of season 5… we’re so back

[leotanaka]

jughead almost immediately removing himself from the musical aka the narrative the moment that someone else (kevin & clay) starts writing their own version of it and in turn, his removal from controlling the narrative ends up allowing the characters to take back control of their own narrative because when jughead writes and rewrites the story, it ends up trapping the characters deeper inside the narrative and the cycles they are desperate to escape until they are repeating the same behaviours over and over again but when kevin & clay write and rewrite the story, it ends up giving the characters back their agency because they're trying to help them which then allows them to break free from the narrative and walk away.