#down at the drive-in

[stonerbughead]

every mystery in connecticut

a potentially ongoing series of vignettes about Jughead Jones and Betty Cooper’s journey as an undergrad couple at Yale University operating a mystery-solving business on the side

a down at the drive-in coda for Bughead Appreciation Week 2024, Day 1, Tropes - Investigative Duo (even tho this is late for day one but better late than never!) Shouts out @bugheadcentral!

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Hi bughead friends and comrades! I originally wanted to post a different fic idea for Bughead Appreciation Week but then the fic outline in question got out of hand (typical me am I right) and I decided I needed more time with it before I show it to the world. So, instead, I decided to expand my down at the drive-in universe as I'd previously considered doing!!! Happy Bughead Appreciation Week and Happy Valentine's Day to all! xo Maria

#bughead appreciation week #bughead #bughead fanfiction #down at the drive-in #every mystery in connecticut

[inkskinned]

what is with men being mad any time a woman raises her voice where did that even come from. someone posted a video of a small electrical explosion, and the top comment was of course the woman screams. the second comment is women try not to scream challenge, level impossible. i had to go back and watch the video again. there is, somewhat fainty, a little gasp emitted off-camera, more of a yelp than a scream. it is mostly lost in the crack of the explosion. afterwards, you hear her voice, shaken, say, are you okay?

i am helping one of my friends train her voice pitch lower, because she wants to be taken seriously at work. she and i do each other's nails and talk about gender roles; and how - due to our appearance - neither of us have ever been able to be "hysterical" in public. we both appear young and sweet and feminine. she is cisgender, and cannot use her natural voice in her profession because people keep saying she appears to be "vapid". we both try to figure out if our purposeful voice lowering is technically sexist. is it promoting something when you are a victim to it?

a storm almost sends a pole through a car window. in the dashcam, you can hear the woman passenger say her partner's name twice, crying out in alarm. she sounds terrified. in the comments, she is lambasted for her lack of calm. how is that even fucking helping?

in high school, i taught myself to have a lower voice. i had been recorded when i was genuinely (and righteously) upset; and i hated how my voice sounded on the phone speakers when it was played back. i was defending my mom, and my voice cracked with emotion. it meant i was no longer winning the argument: i was just shrieking about it.

girls meet each other after a long summer and let out a little joyful scream. this usually stops around 12-14, because people will not tolerate this display of affection (as it has the effect of being passingly annoying). something about the fact that little girls can't ever even be annoying. we are trained to examine each part of our lives (even joy) for anything that could make us upsetting and disgusting. they act like teenage girls are breaking into houses and shrieking you awake at 3 in the morning. speaking as a public school educator: trust me, it's not that bad, you can just roll your eyes and move on. it does not compare to the ways boys end up being annoying: slurs in graffiti, purposefully mocking your body, following you after you said no. you know, just boy things.

there's another video of a man who is not allowed to yell in the house, so he snaps his fingers when he's excited about soccer. the comments are full of angry men, talking about how their brother is unfairly caged. let him express himself and this is terrible to do to someone. eventually the couple has to address it in a second video: they are married with a newborn baby. he was trying not to wake the infant up. there is no comment on the fact women are not allowed to yell indoors. or the fact that it could have been really alarming or triggering for his wife. sometimes i wonder if straight men even like women, if they even enjoy being in relationships with them.

for the longest time, i hated roller coasters because it always felt inappropriate and uncomfortable for me to scream. one of my friends called me on it, said it was unusual i'm so unwilling. i had to go to my therapist about it. i don't like to scream because i was not raised in a safe situation, and raising my voice would have brought unsafe attention towards me. even when i am supposed to scream, it feels shameful, guilty. i was not treated kindly, so i lack a basic form of self-protection. this is not a natural response. it is not good that in a situation of high adrenaline - i shut up about it.

something very bad is happening, i think. in between all the beauty standards and the stuff i've already discussed - this one feels new and cruel in a way i can't quite express. yes, it's scary and silencing. but there's something about how direct it is - that so many men agree with the sentiment that women should never yell, even in an emergency - it feels different.

is the word shriek gendered automatically? how about shrill or screech? in self defense class, one of the first things they tell you is to yell, as loud and as shrilly as you can. they say it will feel rude. most women will not do this. you need to practice overcoming the social pressure and just scream.

most women do not cry out, even when it's bad. we do not report it. we walk faster. we do not make a scene. what would be the point of doing anything else? no matter what we do, we don't get taken seriously. it is a joke to them. an instagram caption punchline. we have to present ourselves as silent, beautiful, captivating - "valuable."

a woman is outside watching her kids when someone throws a firecracker at them. she screams and runs towards her children. in the comments, grown men flock together in the thousands: god. women are so annoying.

#warm up #writeblr #this one has bothered me for a bit #any time a woman does something even passingly annoying we treat it like a fucking crime #hey man. women are allowed to be annoying. everyone forever is allowed to be passingly annoying #as long as they aren't hurting anyone/thing #like u wanna know something? i find it super annoying that men don't wear seatbelts #why arent there thousands of comments on driving videos thats just like : men try not to die in a car crash challenge #''this briefly annoyed me''. okay??????? AND????????????????? go get ur self a cookie and calm down about it #ur not entitled to control other ppl's experiences and emotions just so u can maintain ur own peace #if being briefly annoyed ruins ur whole day! you! need! therapy!!!! #men try not to become immediately angry about nothing challenge: level impossible #ps author is nonbinary. we didn't even get into the gender presentation thing #the fact men think it's SEXY that my voice is on the lower end....

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

#good omens #´hello friends!! how are you!! #I hope you're doing well! ( ´ ▽ ` ) #I have a big cough but otherwise I am good! It's nothign bad I am just very slimey #usually I am not a cough person I am not sure where this is coming from #most of the time I just get a stuffy nose #has my nose gotten stronger #but there are good news too I have already found a VERY good chestnut to put into my pocket this autumn!! its very small! (❁´▽`❁) #it's been a very warm autumn in Germany so far so it has not really felt like fall yet #but yesterday it was all rainy and stormy and I had two new books and it was the best day possible to have a slimey cough (: #and now I feel SO much autumn I am close to buying a set of window colors #I do not know what I would to with the window colors I just have this strong urge in me to buy a window color set #the last time I did a window color was at the birtday of a class mate I think she turned 9 and I made a deer #but for some reason we did this craft 5 minutes before we all had to leave so we had to carry our window color deer home wet #unfortunatly for the deer and me I fell down the stairs of her house and smeared the deer all over me and i screamed the entire drive home #which wasn't very long but it probably felt very long for the mother who had a screaming child covered in window color deer inside her car

[woodelf68]

Listen to the songs under the cut!

#polls #poll #classic rock #cars and driving #highway star #deep purple #prince #little red corvette #the beach boys #little deuce coupe #chuck berry #no particular place to go #radar love #golden earring #born to be wild #steppenwolf #convoy #c.w. mccall #the doobie brothers #rockin' down the highway #bob seger #making thunderbirds #music

[phddyke]

Do you know what I love about Hazbin Hotel though?

That the angels are clearly sinners too.

Not only the fact that Adam curses all the time and talks about casual sex (which, he’s possibly even cheating on his wife then??) but also, the angels kill demons and Adam even admits they enjoy doing so. He calls it entertainment.

And Vivienne’s making an excellent point: when you do something bad to a group of people who are considered beneath them, minorities, everything else…

What you do to them suddenly isn’t bad. It’s okay now, it’s righteous, because you’ve dehumanized these people.

And then when they try to fight back? Like the single slain angel exterminator? Well then magically it’s a problem.

When Lute said that “the only reason [Charlie’s] still around” is that Lucifer gave her and all the hell-borns some kind of pardon or protection from being killed in these exterminations, I was like ok, that makes sense. I was starting to wonder/assume that the extermination was something that only applied to sinners because it didn’t seem to affect any of our Helluva Boss cast.

But then I was like, wait, why would they want to kill hell-borns anyway? For sinners you could argue that they “earned” it through their bad deeds, but hell-born have no choice but to be born there? And they seem to have a functioning society, just one that’s “edgier” than human society. Also, plenty of the hell-born are good people?

But THEN, I remembered that is a fundamentalist Christian belief: that you can already be born bad, and that the same deeds can be good or bad depending on who’s doing them. Lute taunts Charlie that her life doesn’t matter…that’s a sin, right? Except no it isn’t, because of who’s doing it and to whom.

I love queer people’s takes on Heaven and Hell, they’re always great.

#im glad my joke about the imp cast driving down I-95 in the van and being like #‘what’s with all the blood today? oh right that extermination thing’ is still canon #hazbin hotel spoilers #hazbin hotel #helluva boss #hellaverse #vivziepop #lucifer #adam #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin hotel adam #lute #hazbin hotel lute #charlie morningstar #hazbin hotel charlie

[sleepanonymous]

Legend has it if you listen to this soundcheck on repeat it will clear your skin, water your crops, and cure your depression. I hope this heals all of you like it has healed me.

#sleep token #vessel sleep token #vessel #song take me to church #take me to church #hozier #hozier cover #hozier take me to church #okay the caption is cheeky but this is pretty amazing #i wish the audio was better/longer but this was recorded outside a venue on a cellphone #the mp4 is in my google drive #in the rituals folder #it's literally a 30 second video of a wood door #but you can see the videographer get excited and thats kinda cute #because i'd be the same way fam #i wish i knew who actually recorded this so i could give proper credit #but its one of those things that's been passed around like crazy on the down-low #i know the person who *claims* to have recorded it is from ny or nj #so this might be from september 10th this past na rituals tour #i couldn't find this door on google maps #but i also couldn't get around to the back of the building to be 100% certain #i also tried checking union transfer the palladium and rams head live! but had no luck there either #if anyone has any more info on this soundcheck or the unedited video #(you can see and sort of hear it jump at the first “i'll tell you my sins”) #please please please tell me

[riverside--wren]

I like to believe every member of the batfamily THINKS they’ve had an experience with sleep paralysis demons, but in actuality none of them have. They just all have a bad habit of breaking into each others’ homes in the middle of the night, silently standing at the foot of their family member’s bed, and then leaving without saying a word.

#batman #batfamily #batfam #the worst offenders of this are bruce cass and dick #yes dick WILL drive down from another city to do this to his family #and bruce does the same to do it to him #it’s how bats show love <3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl found dead in a hidden room.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan xichen #jin guangyao #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #qin su #EDIT: Tumblr published an earlier draft with only half the notes I wrote so: late entry on my JGY thoughts. #Unlike the mystic powers of the stockmarket (what the OG meme is referring to) I think this situation calls for more active investigation. #qin su is such a deeply tragic character to me and I really wish we got a bit more from her. #Love everyone who sent me messages about her after the last time she appeared. #I think she needs a spin off of her being a transmigrator SO badly. #MDZS has so many interesting characters - but it sometimes fails to give them the proper room to really develop past a role in the plot. #That's just the consequence of writing a story like MDZS. Not every character in a book *needs* to have a rich inner life and backstory! #To do so would bog down the story and obliterate any notion of pacing. It's just not possible. #Jin Guangyao (nee Meng Yao) is unfortunately not free from this leeway rule. He is the culprit of this murder mystery plot #and thus NEEDS to encapsulate the themes of the book. And personally he's a 7 out of 10 at best on this front (in the AD). #MDZS is about rumours twisting reality and working towards truth. And about how people & situations are rarely ever black & white #JGY has his motivations. He's well written in regards to his actions making sense for his character. #What started as good traits (drive to succeed & improve his image) became twisted over time (do anything to maintain his image) #and it's a good parallel to WWX! He has the same arc (with different traits)! Bonus points for IGY in that regard. #but man....by the time we confront this guy for murder there's not a lot of grey morality. He's just...deep in the hole *he* dug. #There's a beautiful tragedy to it! More on JGY in later comics - this is getting pretty long already!

[smash-chu]

Long distance loneliness

#my art #doodles #smash-chu's art #not having the luxury of being able to just drive and see someone i know and love #having all my human connection come from digital screens when not visiting my family once or twice a year #it makes your heart sink down into a place that is hard to get out of #a place of acceptance that i will just have to live with being lonely #i love my friends #i just wish they weren't so spread out away from me #in a way i was left back here cause i was the only one that didn't move back to their parents #and now i struggle alone being comforted via keeping in touch online #but it can never replace seeing face to face #getting to be right there next to someone #touch starved is a understatement #but for now that is just how it has to be #anyways #my period is frying my brain making every feeling feel more intense so i feel super fucking alone right now #it's fine it'll go back to being numb soon enough #but sometimes you just need to let stuff out

[aheavenofhell]

Love “do you need a lift somewhere?” because it implies that Crowley just chauffeurs Aziraphale where he wants to go without even being invited. Like yeah angel lemme uber you over to Sutton. What time should I pick you back up.

#they are so silly #crowley will just take any excuse to be with him for even 5 minutes #Ten minute drive down the road with the love of my life 😍 #and you know what #I get it #good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens season 2 #go2 spoilers

[arealtrashact]

You look lost...

#Elvis Presley #my art #I was obviously inspired by the hall of mirrors scene but also Fabrica's Craw Fever clip compilation #something about seeing 1950s EP across from 70s EP... #we know what 35 year old Elvis thought about his younger self ('I was just an itty bitty guy with itty bitty sideburns') #but what would 50s EP think of his future counterpart... #it'd be like those 'this would kill a Victorian child' memes #poor corn-fed down-home truck driving 'yes ma'am' 'no ma'am' Elvis-Aron would simply not be able to comprehend Vegas Elvis

[stonerbughead]

down at the drive-in chapter two

Later that night, Betty lays in her bed, silently begging sleep to come. She has a mandatory AP History study group in the morning that she’s barely prepared for, so consumed by the investigation, and she can’t face it while also sleep deprived.  Her mind wanders back to the Blue and Gold earlier that day, at the way Jughead had commanded the room during their interrogation. At the same time, he’d given her room to ask questions and had easily bounced off her. Her face flushes as the thought crosses her mind: we make a pretty good team. After Dilton had finally left the office, Betty had collapsed onto the beaten up couch. “Is it weird to say I’m kind of pumped with adrenaline right now?” Then she’d looked up and caught Jughead staring at her, this goofy grin on his face that made her heart literally skip a beat.  “No,” he had replied. “It’s not weird at all.”

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-me throughout wedding planning and making my podcast on a shortened timeline: i miss writing

-me when i finally have time to write again: finishes a chapter i had half-finished in a weekend! we are so back 2k24 <3 love y'all! xo Maria

#down at the drive-in #bughead #bughead fanfiction #betty x jughead #my writing #i also can't believe i wrote half a chapter this weekend yet here we are

[pumpkinrootbeer]

Haymitch as a character drives me a little bit insane bc like I always see people say haymitch survived his games bc he outsmarted them or cheated the system which is true, but that's only how he survived the final fight. The rest of it he survived because he never trusted anything or anyone except THE TIME HE DID TRUST SOMEONE she dies. Because of him. because he figured out something he wasn't supposed to know. And then everyone he loved was killed because he had survided. And then he has to escort 48 kids to their death and he knows all their names, and then finally finally they break the system. And then like, they win right? but all his friends are still dead and he's still drinking and like, I don't know! I don't know how you keep living in a world post everything, in a world that is now asking you to trust that things will get better and are better and safe now like how do you get yourself to trust when the only reason you even lived in the first place is because you never let your guard down.

#haymitch abernathy #the hunger games #like this sad miserable alcoholic drives me actually insane. #I have to chew on drywall whenever I think about him I need to lie down #:v

[semi-completely-original]

a twitter mutual of mine and i recently became fast friends and started up a minecraft server together as hkv (not as a roleplay thing but more of like. a gimmick. a gag perhaps. they're just our skins) and let me tell u. some of the interactions we've been having are canon as Fuck

#oh he is so lucky i chose to depict this #and not the moment when it was nearing nightfall so i (the kaveh) got out of the boat to set our beds down #and he (the haitham) didn't notice AND JUST FUCKING LEFT ME THERE #JUST BLISSFULLY ROWED AWAY #incredibly canon tho #haikaveh #kavehtham #haikavetham #genshin impact #also the only reason that i wasn't in my own boat was a refusal to drive w the shitty boat controls #which also feels canon to me #iykyk #minecraft #my art

[scootkiddo]

it shouldn’t be glossed over just how empathetic Joel is. he expressed empathy towards Ellie given her dire case of being a child within the confines of a cruel, unforgiving-apocalyptic world that supplants what should have been a habitual childhood for her. he offered an apology for scolding Henry and calling him a rat without initially reconciling the benign intentions behind his actions. he pleaded for the elderly sniper on the outskirts of kansas city to put down the rifle so he didn’t have to kill him. it all accentuates just how against his nature he must be to survive in this world. he can’t always spare people, he can’t always shed sympathy. but he wishes he could, and even on occasion tries. it’s the very context he once stooped to the level of the hunters in his past that makes this point pang all the more. he isn’t apathetic. he isn’t exclusively selfish. he isn’t rigid. he is open-ended. Joel is more than a hammer that sees all problems as a nail to be forcefully struck without finesse. He values compassion and preserving life, and any ultimatum that cements the opposite only elicits a last resort of violence and numbness. the silver lining is more desirable than conforming to cruelty

#thinking about this makes me realize how much the firefly hospital is going to mess me up #joel isn’t sadistic there’s no sick pleasure in killing or demeaning people #he cares so so very much #he wants life to thrive and he is willing to accept when he’s wrong #god this iteration of joel makes me wanna chug down wet cement #drives me stir crazy he really does #the last of us hbo #the last of us #the last of us hbo spoilers #tlou spoilers #joel miler #pedro pascal #ellie williams #bella ramsey

[domwitch]

Men are like prey animals to me. The moment he's vulnerable, I'm gonna pounce on him like a cat and bite him on the neck and claim his body as mine.

#my post #lately ive been going kind of stir-crazy over men #my predator drive is all over the place i need to bite and stratch a man to calm down