#wasted potential character of all time. methinks

[rithmeres]

love & war & the sea in between

(rework of this piece from 2021)

[aeternallis]

Finally watched the last ep! XD Overall, 7/10 stars! It definitely had its strong moments, and the reunion between InuKag and Moroha will forever be iconic for me. I wish the Sessrin fam’s reunion could have been done with a bit more creative license, but I do understand why Sunrise chose to make the decisions they did.

For one thing, expecting explicit affection from Sesshoumaru was never going to pan out; Takahashi-sensei has never portrayed him as the physical affection type. Sunrise was definitely constrained by the boundaries Takahashi-sensei had in place for Sesshoumaru from both the manga and OG anime, so they had to get all kinds of creative for it. Lol I’ll take the small wins I guess!

Finally, it kinda goes along with one of the overall themes of the anime: demons are capable of love, just as much as humans. Their show of love may not be familiar or relatable to most humans (as they tackled in the last episode), but it’s still love.

It’s one of the rare instances that definitely highlight how although Moroha is a quarter demon compared to Towa and Setsuna’s half demon status, she understands much better how demons think and behave. Having been raised in the wolf demon tribe, Moroha understands she needed to go through taxing (some may say even traumatizing) hardships in order to make her stronger.

I think it’s why InuKag’s reunion with Moroha is made all the more utterly satisfying, because we all know in our heart of hearts that had InuKag been given a chance to raise Moroha from when she was a baby, Kagome would have doted and potentially spoiled her. Whether or not this would have changed Moroha’s character in the long run is up for speculation, but her understanding of demons is invaluable to the twins, methinks (and proven correct as shown in the final episode).

They mention it a few times in the anime how Sesshoumaru has enemies all over the place and without a doubt, it’s probably the same for Inuyasha as well. Moroha began the series as being a strong character but very lonely, and at the end of it has found the family she has always yearned for.

The Warring States era was in and of itself a dangerous time period to live in historically; it was a precursor of about 150 years just before the Tokugawa Shogunate came fully into power, so Japan was in a constant state of civil war. Looking at it from this lens, it’s not surprising that—both within the context of the anime and in real life—some people back then probably thought it was a blessing to have survived difficult challenges when faced with them. It would have gone given them an opportunity to become stronger when their lives could have been upended so easily from one day to the next.

But having said all this, I’m glad the final episode addressed the twins’ insecurities with their father. It wasn’t the capstone to the series we wanted, but I personally think it’s something we needed in order to appreciate the show’s themes!

On that note, I think what amused me a lot was the antis and their obvious relief in the show having finally been over, lol Imagine wasting time for something you hate for that long over fictional characters. Can’t relate, bestie~

[fae-fucker]

Review: Death Wind by Tara Grayce

Essie should be planning her happily ever after, not planning a war. Although they once were enemies, the humans of Escarland and the elves of Tarenhiel have allied to fight the trolls from the far north. But alliances are tricky things even in the best of times, and with Farrendel, the elves’ foremost warrior and Essie’s husband, captured by the trolls, the circumstances appear dire indeed. But Essie won’t give up, and she will make her two peoples work together to fight this war if it’s the last thing she does. One way or another, she will get Farrendel back, no matter what it takes.

Gonna be honest, didn't expect much given my lukewarm reaction to the previous two books, but this one? This one actually held my attention for genuine reasons rather than just being a light read. Because the plot involves a lot of conflict (arguably the biggest conflict possible, war), the pacing is steady, and two of the three POV characters are mostly suffering and/or being tortured, there's actually tension for once. It's a welcome change, and proves that the author is very much capable of writing it but just chooses not to in favor of boring and conflict-free family interactions.

With Melantha introduced as a POV character, we're offered a pretty buckwild concept for this series: a character that makes mistakes and has to live with the consequences. I actually found myself liking Melantha, not because I thought she was a compelling character (she wasn't) or because I felt bad for her (I didn't), but because she had what Essie didn't: flaws. There's even a point in the book where Melantha thinks about how much she dislikes Essie because Essie is so sugary perfect and everything Melantha wishes she could be, and I think it's supposed to show us how bitter and insecure Melantha is? Except she's 100% correct, Essie is literally too perfect to be a real person and I just sat there going "yeah, you're right, and don't feel bad for being shitty because literally nobody can actually be like Essie."

However, Melantha suffers from Stupid Bitch Syndrome, which doesn't exactly make for a good protagonist/POV character. She's not intended to be dumb, the book expects us to think she was simply misguided and bitter and not, like, a complete idiot who should've known better. But her instant remorse feels less like character development and more like her suddenly realizing she’s actually a huge idiot who fell for the enemy’s nonsense, which she is. She's supposed to be an older elf, a grown woman, yet she makes such an obvious mistake and immediately regrets it and folds like a wet blanket the moment shit hits the fan. It's honestly a bit pathetic. The only reason I preferred her over Essie was because she introduced some much-needed depth to the character roster, but that depth was still about the size of a teacup, compared to Farrendel's thimble and Essie's singular water molecule. Her relationship with the troll prince was actually ... interesting? It was all mostly unspoken, which I think made it stronger than the overly telegraphed thing Essie and Farrendel have going on, and I’m sure it’ll be flattened out and become boring in the next book, so enjoy this potential before it’s wasted.

Farrendel spends the entire book being tortured and thinking about how he's being tortured. I can't blame him, but it doesn't make for good reading. I honestly think his POV could've been left out altogether and it wouldn't have changed much. Melantha is already there with him letting the reader know he’s suffering, we don’t need two POVs telling us the same thing. Oh uh, except for the part where he ... puts his magic in a soul-bond pocket. I'd mark this as spoilers but it's literally on the cover. I guess if his POV was removed then we'd never know how Essie learned to blast his power in battle at that one convenient moment, but it barely affects the plot afterward so um, yeah. I'm having a hard time justifying his POV at all. I'm still not over that part btw, how Farrendel just ... makes a "mental fist" (no, really), grabs his magic in one and his soul bond with Essie in the other and just puts them together like he's connecting two cables to an adapter. And he knew to do this ... how? It's not like we've seen him experiment with his magic before, in fact he's been shown to hate it and only use it when necessary, but apparently this tortured and exhausted man has the presence of mind to try something as vague and theoretical as ... putting his magic in a soul pocket. He spends a few pages going “I wonder if I can do this” and then it works on the first try. He does consider whether it’ll hurt Essie and decides not to try it, but as I said, he does it soon after anyway so like ... I don’t think it’s supposed to be funny or show how little of a shit he gives about Essie, but that’s sort of the implication and I thought it was funny as hell. 

Anyway, the magic pocket is about as much worldbuilding/lore as we get from this series entry, aside from the trolls having their own political intricacies and tensions, which I’m assuming the next book will expand upon. The writing itself in this book was pretty bad at times. The repetition of certain words and names was really glaring in some parts and felt amateurish. Take a shot every time the word “magic” appears and you’ll be in the grave before the book ends. Prince Rharreth and King Charvod are almost always referred to with their full titles and names for some reason? A few editing rounds would’ve helped this a lot, methinks.

The plot is mostly moved along in Essie’s POV, which is slightly less insufferable than usual because she’s the one observing the movement of the two armies and there are actually action scenes in there that, while don’t exactly made me worried about her (there’s no way this perfect idiot will ever die), still provided some tension. But it’s honestly not much, the “war” lasted two entire weeks (and that’s including the strategy, logistics, and mobilizing) and with how fast the armies travel and how little resistance they face (and how Deus Ex Farrendel-d the final battle was, the guy is apparently full of godlike destructive power despite being starved and tortured, go off king), it all felt very unrealistic and easy. Like, we have two armies marching in the middle of a mountain chain during magical snow storms, all while being regularly assaulted by the defending army, and they still get there no problem, without a single mention of soldiers struggling not to die of exposure. Aight. I guess these elves and humans are just very resistant to the cold, for some reason.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason it goes over so fast in-universe is because the author wanted Farrendel to be horribly tortured throughout his captivity, but also knew that if that lasts too long, the damage will be too severe to easily resolve in the next book. But instead of easing off the hardcore torture, because then we’d lose out on that drama and those High Stakes, she decided to speed up the whole war thing, because hey, who cares about that, anyway? We just want Farrendel back, right? Riiiight? Better hurry up guys! Don’t want Farrendel to be too tortured to fix with some strawberry-flavored medicine and vague counseling in the next book!

So yeah, the plot moves on speedily, but at what cost? Mainly depth. Again. And once again, Essie suffers the most from being a bland caricature of a person and dragging the whole thing down. The author’s GR bio says she writes “spunky and tough” leading ladies, and I guess having no other things in your brain except sparkly kitten gifs is a certain kind of toughness in an “immovable object” sort of way, but “spunk” implies a of counter-culture edge that sweet widdle Essie simply does not have.

There was one small section where Essie felt bad over how the human and elven warriors were going to die, how many mothers and sisters and daughters would suffer just so she didn’t have to, but then we don’t find out the death count, the casualties are never even mentioned, and Essie moves on from this without even a single thought questioning the morality of a monarchy or her own position of power. Now, I get that that’s not the focus of this series, but it just adds to how Essie’s worries are always surface-level and never justified by the plot, how she never has to do any introspection and is never allowed to not always be annoyingly positive. Whenever she even begins to think something negative, she instantly, almost compulsively changes trajectory and just decides not to worry about it, and then it never comes up again anyway. This would’ve been like, an interesting take on toxic positivity and how Essie represses her own emotions, but no, the book never goes there, she’s just that perfect and wee and optimistic, even during a war and when her husband’s being tortured to near-death. It’s kind of insulting to read, honestly.

Oh yeah, that’s another thing that annoyed me. Even when she loses Farrendel, she takes it surprisingly well and focuses mostly on keeping a positive attitude for his sake, so he doesn’t feel her sadness through their “heart bond.” I never really felt her loss, her love for him, when she so easily could just decide not to feel bad “for his sake.” I want her to feel bad, I want her to miss him and to ache at his absence and to fear for what they’re doing to him. But no. That would just upset him more and hurt him more. So Essie doesn’t get to experience any negative feelings because it might upset her husband. Essie doesn’t get angry and determined to fight, she just keeps being her cheery little Stepford Wife self because being nice will keep everyone’s spirits up and make them hope and fight harder to preserve that hope!! :)

It just comes off as really flat and moralistic yet dishonest at the same time, because nobody would fucking react like this IRL. Essie might be a good person in-universe, but she drags the entire series down just by being perfect, cheery, and never, ever challenged or even allowed to challenge anything herself. Essie isn’t allowed to have any negative feelings because it might affect her husband, and yet we’re supposed to find this empowering somehow? We’re supposed to believe she’s spunky and confident and a sweet little firecracker of a redhead?

Eugh.

At least Melantha is an idiot, I guess. One whole female character gets to have a flaw, and she’s the almost-villain who needs to be fixed with love.

Idk man. The sexism in this series is like a constant undercurrent that grows stronger with each installment as our “understanding” of this world expands. All of Essie’s brothers, including the king, are at the front lines because they are manly men “have to” be there, while the women who aren’t Essie or Jalissa stay behind to be mothers and caretakers. It’s never expanded upon and just sort of accepted as part of both human and elven society and the narrative treats it like this obvious thing that even Essie doesn’t really bother noting how unfair and/or weird it is. There’s not even a single comment on it. Essie is in the war not because she can fight but because Farrendel needs her, and Jalissa is there because ... Um. Because ... she. Uh. She needs to be there when they confront Melantha? She’s Farrendel’s sister? Idk. Jalissa’s main point in this series so far seems to be the ship tease between her and Edmund that feels awkward and one-sided as fuck.

So yeah. The pacing and plot flowed along really well, but the characters and the writing and worldbuilding are all just really undercooked, which, at three books into the series, feels more glaring than ever.

But hey, at least it was a quick read!

[rudolphsboyfriend]

naruto for the fandom ask game??

OK so imma keep it real w u i have never actually uh. Watched shippuden </3 i know the story and stuff that happens but 500 episodes is wayyy too much fr me to actually sit thru lmao. That being SAID. I did watch Naruto the first series so I'll try my best :")

Blorbo: my boy, my fav, Naruto. It is criminal for anyone else to be the blorbo of this show methinks

Scrunkly: he may be a cold blooded murderer and criminal etcetc but sasuke is scrunkly and you cannot change my mind. I am wrapping him in a handkerchief and putting him in my pocket for safekeeping

Srimblo bimblo: Tenten. All I'm sayin is that she had sm potential to be interesting having two Amazing characters as teammates n i wanna know more abt her. she deserves more love (and screen time!!!!)

Glup Shitto: I mean they're not exactly obscure?? But uh Kiba and Akamaru r so cute n fun. They might get more screen time in shippuden idk but in the firsy series they were more so background chars

Poor little meow meow: does sakura count?? I know that alot of people rlly just hate her and. I mean i kinda get it but also i don't. I personally think she's cool and, like Tenten (and all the other female characters tbh 😐💔💔) had sm potential that just. Was wasted. 😒🙄

Horse Plinko: Kakashi. Also Shikamaru. Love them. I'm also throwing them into a dishwasher to see what happens

Eeby Deeby: all those adults in konoha who treated a Child like absolute shit till they realised "oh he's actually useful!" Also Danzo.

[wordsmith-storyweaver]

Once Upon a Season

Okay, so a very smart friend of mine said something rather brilliant the other day related to the last season of Once. For those of you who love the current season, I want you to know that I am in no way mocking your faves or trying to convince you to NOT dig whatever you’re digging. But if you are in any way easily offended, you might not want to continue reading...

So, @xhookswenchx said that because of how things ended in season 6 and how disconnected from the rest of the seasons 7 felt, she’s basically treating it as a spin-off. And I thought that, in a lot of ways, each season (or half season) is kind of like its own “spin-off”. So, I have decided that we should refer to them as such from now on, conveniently ignoring the sections of canon that we don’t really like. (Because if A&E can pull all of their rule-breaking and fuckery on us, we should be able to do whatever the hell we feel like to canon.)

Season 1: Once Upon a Time in Storybrooke.  Yes, we do see a lot of the Enchanted Forest, or rather, Misthaven, during flashbacks, but a lot of the present storyline happens in our world in Storybrooke.

Season 2: Once Upon a Time in Misthaven.  Again, most of the action takes place in Storybrooke, or the Land Without Magic, but we do get a lot of EF action thanks to Emma and Snow getting sucked into the Hat. We also see Wonderland, Victorian England, and Neverland, but we don’t stay there for anything longer than an episode.

Season 3A: Once Upon a Time in Neverland.  Thanks to the pod format they introduced during this season, the names are fairly self-explanatory from here on out.

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.  Alas, we knew ye so little, and have yet to get you on DVD and Blu-Ray!

Season 3B:  Once Upon a Time in Oz.  Okay, so we really don’t spend a lot of time in Oz, but it has a better ring than OUAT: Mommy Issues Edition. Or OUAT: Let’s Throw Out the Established Rules Edition. Or OUAT: What Happened To Emma’s Character Development...

Season 4A: Once Upon a Time (with Frozen).  While I wasn’t a fan of how the writers didn’t really do anything different with the characters from Arendelle (except give them a homicidal aunt), I really missed them as additional cast on the show because the friendship between Elsa and Emma was just so well done. For all that the writers kept trying to convince us (unsuccessfully, imo) that Regina and Emma could be and are friends, JMo and Georgina had really great chemistry and their characters’ friendship felt so much more natural.

Season 4B: Once Upon a Time in Villain-Brooke. It’s the same old Storybrooke, but with more villains. In fact, let’s just dump on the pairing that we relegated to the background and then were surprised when people lost interest in them, but now we want to make them seem “edgier” and “more realistic”, so we’ll make them do something Eeee-vil in the name of spicing things up. And we’ll throw in a really bad writer and make his super villain name The Author, because we’re obviously mature adults who are in no way threatened by the superior writing talent of unpaid fan fiction writers.

Season 5A: Once Upon a Time in Camelot, or How I Became the Dark One and Learned To Love Psychotic Dark Hook.

Season 5B: Once Upon a Time in The Underworld.  Also known as the story arc that had the greatest potential and tripped over the writers’ ineptitude and fell the hardest. Keeper of the simultaneously the worst and best two CS episodes perfectly designed to break shippers’ hearts in twain.

Season 6A: Once Upon a Time in The Land of Untold Stories.  Also known as the vaguest Realm name ever, and runner up for the title of most wasted potential for a storyline. The concept was great, but when an entire realm is predicated on the Author’s characters basically staging a mutiny and leaving their own stories behind?? Methinks there be a metaphor in here somewhere.

Season 6B: Once Upon a Time in The Looney Bin.  Because really, at this point, it’s like the writers took every insane idea to be shared in the writers’ room and put it into play, and zero fucks were given.

Season 7: Once Upon a Time in Seattle.  Again, the “present” story takes place primarily in the suburb Hyperion Heights. But really, by this point, zero fucks were given by most of the core, dedicated audience and not much of a general or new audience was generated thanks to the incomprehensible acrobatics of the writers’ logic.

[sweetwatersound-blog1]

Riverdale S2E7 Review

So sorry this is late. And for the length. And for the way I flip out near the end.

CHAPTER TWENTY: TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE

 Well, well. Look who’s trying something new. Riverdale experimented with tone and style in the seventh episode of this season. As a storyteller in my own right, I appreciate the effort for variety. Of course, there were things about it that worked for me and things that didn’t, but let’s get to that in a minute.

What exactly were we all watching Wednesday night? A young adult anthology penned by Stephen King? Or was the dark, tingling quality in the show’s atmosphere a byproduct of fanfiction fumed with Queen hits?

Huh, you say? Let’s break down that observation, in order.

 Bert and Ernie Archie and Jughead

Lawyers in general earn a mixed reputation for their practice. I grew up hearing of comparisons to sharks and parasites. But Penny Peabody has carved herself a special box of awfulness here. After all, every snake is a serpent but not all of Riverdale’s Serpents are snakes.

After Riverdale received a message from the Black Hood (his basic blah, “sin and die” stuff) the whole town reacts by…ahem, business as usual?

Betty, evidently distressed by her failure to keep Jughead’s drug-dealing English teacher alive, spent the night in her boyfriend’s arms. He did his best to console, and I could have gone for more than that, but then his phone sang the song of eternal damnation, and he had to run off to appease the Snakecharmer.

Penny, using Jughead’s concern for his father’s welfare in prison to her advantage, promised she can get FP out if Jughead did one little job for her.

Which led to him making a midnight drug run, with Archie as his co-pilot, his conscience torn between his determination to support Jughead and his passive desire to stop him.

Overall, the night was full-moon freak worthy. Jughead and Archie met a man on the road whose interest in the Black Hood suggests that the masked killer has been sending fan mail in the wrong direction. The boys also randomly encountered a set of deer, one bloody and the other bloody-dead. Poor Jug had so many jumpscares, I was surprised that it didn’t end with Archie checking him into a mental health clinic.

But they were in a hurry, after all, and like the song Headlong says

It ain’t no time to figure wrong from right, cause reason’s out the window, better hold on tight – you’re rushin’

  Josie

 Oh, good, a character who deserves more attention has finally got some! I always loved Josie’s friendship with Cheryl before, and now there are layers to go with that slice of cake. Granted, when you go a’ explorin’ the foundations of friendship, you might not always like what turns up from the dirt. But even if I don’t have quite the same love for Josie/Cheryl anymore, I am definitely more intrigued by them.

So, this is the (long overdue) spotlight on Josie McCoy. Pussycat by day, the next Whitney Houston by night. Might I add Ashleigh Murray’s pipes are fabulous, and I could fall asleep listening to Josie play the piano. No one knew she was composing alone except for her bff Cheryl, who is paying for studio time. Because the beginning of their story intersects with Jughead and Archie’s, we get the pleasure of hearing Cheryl snap at them as “Bert and Ernie” TWICE while chatting with Josie. Then Josie opened her locker to find a stuffed animal with a stalker-note attached. She rolled her eyes and tossed it, assuming it was from a secret admirer. Because it wasn’t like there was a Ra’s al Ghul wannabe ready to waste a town that day. At least Cheryl was wary, but her devotion to Josie seemed more intense here than it had been in previous episodes.

Then Josie encountered Chuck Clayton. Instead of skirt-chasing for the sake of humiliating his dates, Chuck goes to church. Chuck takes art classes. Chuck is ready to start going by Charles now.

There was in fact something softer about him in this episode, enough to leave both me and Josie hoping he’d changed. That dance between them at the diner was so cute.

But whether this was a one-shot tale or a to-be-continued setup, we’ll have to wait and see. Because while Josie did have a stalker in this episode, it wasn’t the Black Hood. It wasn’t Chuck.

Cheryl, you break my heart.

In honor of Josie’s rollercoaster of a trip, I give you The Invisible Man.

 When you hear a sound that you just can’t place, feel somethin’ move that you just can’t trace, when something sits on the end of your bed. Don’t turn around when you hear me tread/

I’m your meanest thought, I’m your darkest fear

But I’ll never get caught, you can’t shake me, shake me dear

 Veronica & Betty

 The last story goes back to what Betty did after saying goodbye to Jughead. While talking to him about the teacher murdered in Sheriff Keller’s station, a lightbulb sparked in her brain – who could find it easier to get into the cell than Keller himself? Not one of her better ideas, I feel, but she ran ahead with it. She told Veronica, who insisted the Sheriff was just exhibiting the signs of practicing infidelity. Still, the girls agreed for Kevin’s sake they would have to be careful. While Betty worked her Veronica Mars magic at the department, Veronica invited herself to a sleepover at Kevin’s house. Being the warm treasured heart he is, he taught her how to dominate his favorite fantasy board game. Taking a break, Veronica took a call from Betty. (virtually the only time I’ve ever been truly disappointed in my girl – more on that later.)

Betty learned from V that a bunch of doors were locked at the Keller house. She bobby-pinned them open until she found Sheriff Keller’s evidence office. Crime scene pictures here, letters from the Black Hood there. Betty was just picking up the black mask that Keller had confiscated from Archie earlier this season, when the Sheriff showed up.

However, when the scene bounced to Betty and her father sitting, facing Keller, he wasn’t enraged. He seemed quite understanding of her suspicions, and downright sad she had them. He promised her he wouldn’t tell Kevin, because she and his son were so important to one another, and knowledge of this incident would break his heart.

But for relentless Betty, it wasn’t over. She wanted to know where Keller was sneaking off to at night. Tailing him alongside a reluctant Veronica led them to a motel. Keller knocked on one of the doors, and out stepped Mayor McCoy – Josie’s mom – into his arms.

The girls swore a pact they’d never reveal the truth to Kevin. I felt like they also should have promised each other to never investigate with Veronica’s Cheat-Buster’s intuition. This was one secret that would have been better left uncovered.

 Because Kevin remarked upon “the pressure” his dad was facing so much, here’s Under Pressure.

Pressure pushing down on you, no man ask for

Under pressure that burns a building down

Splits a family in two

Puts people on the streets

  Odds and Ends

 These are a few of my other Darkside observations, pros and cons:

We had a break from Toni. Yes I know some still like her, and yes I know she’s not a bug mucking up Bughead’s windshield. For the record, though? I wanted to like Toni Topaz. Really. I was so hoping she’d be the Toni from my South Side Story fic. That Toni took a stand, had integrity, and had a kind-of-crush on Betty. She was interesting, and I was hoping Vanessa Morgan’s version would at least have some interesting lines. Sadly, something fell flat for me along the way, and with this absence I hope the writers have thought of a new way to make her more appealing as a person.

 Bert and Ernie. BERT AND ERNIE. Though I see Jughead as more the cynical-ish Bert, and Archie is more the rubber ducky type methinks. Still, never getting old.

 But unfortunately, I have some nitpicks now.

 Archie owes Jughead? You know, I’m not entirely certain Jughead would have won that race with the Ghoulies. And if it had been a clear loss...Jughead clearly needs glasses if he’s that shortsighted. Archie bailed him out of a high-risk situation. If it had been me in that fix I daresay I would be treating Archie Andrews to burgers and milkshakes for a month.

Even worse friends are the Pussycats. Setup or no, I just wanted someone to point out to High and Mighty Valerie that cutting Josie out for working on songs by herself when just a few months ago she was crushed for writing songs with Archie seems either very petty (if revenge) or hypocritical.

I hate to bring up hypocrisy now, but let’s examine Betty’s actions when her boyfriend’s father was under suspicion for murder. She. Would. Not. Have. It. Everyone, from Archie and Veronica to her own damn mother wanted her to look a bit more closely beyond Jughead’s words that FP was innocent.

Cut to today, when she doggedly pursued the father of one of her closest friends, and someone she’s been quite frankly more familiar with over the years than FP Jones, for his potential ability to walk into a jail cell and shoot someone. And for Veronica to remind Betty that investigating Kevin’s dad would hurt their friend, only for Betty to keep gunning for him like the Kellers meant so little to her.

*I’d like to think I know what this is about. Betty has been traumatized by the Black Hood. She’s so freaked Dark Betty has had to come out of the woodwork. Dark Betty is colder, a bit more obsessive than the Girl Next Door version. She’s probably determined not to rest until the culprit can’t hurt her or her friends anymore.

I see this possibility. Of course, I could be dead wrong.

 But now that I’ve mentioned the Black Hood, I’m going to say what I should have said the last time:

Where tf is the FBI?

I mean, there’s a psychopath in a mask that has declared war on an entire town. When he starts sending encrypted messages vowing to erase all sin from Riverdale, Jesus sorry but that’s when you send in the Feds.

 Riverdale has forty-eight hours to stop sinning or he’ll kill again. Doesn’t anyone take this threat seriously?

Obviously not, including the very people he’s threatening. WTF kind of a test is that anyways? A town without sin, wow, really? He might as well come for all of us.

  With this theme song:  Innuendo

 show yourself, destroy our fears – release your masks

[giantchasm]

BE! MORE! CHILL! i mean. be more chill.

Send me a fandom and I’ll tell you… 

Character I first fell in love with: God this is probably the same answer everyone, their mother, their grandmother, and their fuckin shoelaces gives: But Michael. From the very start he’s just so charming. What a good boy!Character I never expected to love as much as I do now: RICH. God. I LOVE RICH SO MUCH YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND I WANT TO PICK HIM UP AND SQUEEZE HIM AND TOSS HIM LIKE A GODDAMN RAGDOLL. LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT. He’s just. My Type. Obnoxious, loud, insecure, dyed hair, canonically lgbt and a fucking arsonist.Character everyone loves but I don’t: I’d say Chloe but I’m pretty sure everyone else also agrees Chloe is a complete piece of shit. Oh! OH. I have one: The Squip. Don’t get me wrong. I think he’s SUPER intriguing. But I need to say the same thing I’ve said here for every single one of these memes. DON’T. FUCK. HIM?? DON’T FUCK THE TIC TAC. DON’T FUCK THE EMOTIONALLY ABUSIVE TIC TA- … Too late. You. You fucked the Wintergreen Tic Tac. Character I love but everyone else hates: I’m. Pretty sure this fandom doesn’t hate anyone. They love all these goodgood kids!Character I used to love but don’t any longer: If you think my opinion on characters ever changes then you are dead wrong my famCharacter I would kiss: I’d give Rich like a smooch on the forehead and a hair ruffle methinks. Character I want to slap: JEREMY. Mostly right at the end of Act 1. HOW COULD YOU MY DUDE?? Like that is the most brutal I’ve ever seen someone be to their ‘friend’. I love Jeremy. But at the end of Upgrade he needs a nice boot to the face. A pairing I love: Boyf riends good? Stagedorks good? …Three Player Game best. (Obv as a polycule rather than a full out polyamorous relationship. We all know Micheal’s gay. He and Christine are bros tho)A pairing I hate: Pinkberry. I. I don’t get it. Chloe… Isn’t very nice. She’s like. Why Brooke always feels the second best and insecure. That’s not good friendship. And that’s not a good relationship either. FOR CHRIST’S SAKE SHE TRIED TO FUCK BROOKE’S (AT THE TIME) BOYFRIEND BECAUSE BROOKE WASN’T ALLOWED TO HAVE ANYTHING FOR HERSELF. If… If you wanna ship Brooke w a cute girl why not put her w Jenna or even Christine? I also don’t hate it but I don’t really. Get. Richjake. Or at the very least I think the way it’s done is wasted potential. I always just kinda see generic fluff and “look at my small boyfriend ahaha”. What the fuck guys. RICH BURNED DOWN JAKE’S HOUSE AND BROKE HIS LEGS. I. I imagine there’d be a little bit of conflict there. Guys. My homies. My bros