#parentdale stan

[garbagequeer]

19 for ask game!

19. Who is your favorite parentdale character? Why?

i answered 19 before here but i would say my ranking of riverparents might have alice on top actually. alice is crazy alice is constant alice is a mom with a sexy past on the wrong side of the tracks one week and mrs reagan the next alice loves her children the most and alice is an abusive mom alice married a serial killer and told him off for sucking at the serial killing alice is too afraid to break out of the nuclear family and she always had bastard children and infiltrated cults and lied on tv. she committed to the bit all 7 seasons and never missed a crazy plotline elevating her to the category of being forever. and her emotional arcs with betty are always great and resonant on top of that

so i would say hiram/alice/gladys are my top 3 riverparents actually because they're the most crazy (penelope is obviously crazier than them but cheryl is my favorite rvd character with the saddest brown eyes on tv history so i cant stan her evil mom fully even though she so obviously deserves it sorry penelope)

thank you for asking!! <3 and sorry i got to this one late i was grieving our beautiful beautiful riverdale's passing

riverdale ask game

#and if we're considering grandparents in parentdale then forget those other bitches nana blossom is top dog for life #riverdale #answered

[riverdalecompliments]

Just want to take a moment to appreciate the queens who run dailymadchenamick they’re truly a God send and I love them both dearly ❤️

@dailymadchenamick

#parentdale stan #compliment #thanks for sending!

[ginalover]

Never Forget, She’ll Cut A Bitch

#gina gershon #gladys jones #riverdale #rivermilfs #riverparents #parentdale #badass #we stan a queen #bring your fine ass back to town and claim your wife

[reneestrapp]

one gifset per episode → S01E11: To Riverdale and Back Again 

#riverdaleedit #alicesmithedit #alicecooperedit #parentdale #riverdaleladiesdaily #riverdale #alice cooper #alice smith #ogpe #* #im no parentdale stan but she looked exquisite in this scene

[archieism]

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kim!! the loml!!!!! we honestly haven’t talked all that much but i always read ur tags so hdskdv it sometimes feels like we’ve chatted more than we have BUT i have to start with your love and appreciation for hal cooper because it is Inspiring ! you’re one of the big three parentdale stans who’ve warmed me up to different riverparents that bounce around in my head but i have such specific feelings about hal cooper now and i’m both bitter and happy about it whenever i rewatch season 1. but aside from parentdale your general takes are always golden to me and ur one of my favorite people in this cursed fandom and i’m always delighted to see u in my notifs and on my dash <33

mutuals send me a 🍓 and ill compliment u!

#halcooper #answered #u just seem super chill and nice and following ur commentary for riverdale over the years has been nothing but an amazing experience kdsk #i feel like i've followed u since first watching the show tbh?? so ur blog feels super comfy to follow and it's wild to me we're mutuals #i respect u !! #like most parentdale stans u intimidate me but it's in an undeniably good way jvsd especially as someone who's. relatively new to parentdale #better late then never i suppose! #ANYWAYS i've rambled but ilu thank u for sending this <3

[eg515]

Riverdale is a stinking pile of garbage, but there are so many possibilities for great storylines. The Serpents literally living in tents in the forest; the Sisters of Quiet Mercy and whatever the hell they've been doing for generations; the Midnight Club; Hiram Lodge and his mob; Cheryl kicking out her abusive mother and moving in with her Serpent girlfriend; Dr Curdle Jr, and his father's hidden files; literally anything the three Hot Dads of Riverdale™ do.

So many possibilities, and yet we're stuck watching the unnecessary drama of the core four, with repeating stupidity, good actors left with mediocre acting and badly written characters, unnecessary and forced sex scenes that doesn't make any sense, and zero adult supervision over minors at any time.

#how do they even pass school? #do they even still have school? #just give me the interesting side stories #not another varchie sex scene like a day after he was literally stabbed and almost died #i feel like varchie and bughead stans will come after me for this #even though this isn't against them #just get your shit together riverdale writers #i'm hatewatching this show at this point #just catching up on 3x06 3x07 and 3x08 #so much bullshit #riverdale #southside serpents #sisters of quiet mercy #cheryl blossom #toni topaz #choni #parentdale #midnight club #riverdale 3x06

[nadjaofstatenisland]

someone: I dont like *insert any riverparent*.

me: Wow. Hardcore can't relate.

#this fandom is ugly #and stans the wrong parents #riverparents #parentdale #hal cooper #alice cooper #fp jones #fred andrews #hiram lodge #hermione lodge #penelope blossom #mary andrews #tom keller #clifford blossom #sierra mccoy #gladys jones

[ziggory]

Riverparents in Their Youth (16/?): Mrs. Klump

#finding out this actress was on a 90s Nickelodeon show was a trip #Riverdale #Riverdaleedit #this is basically a bashing edit #I'm sorry Mrs Klump stans #parentdale #riverparents #Robyn Ross

[archeriexriverdale]

She actually DID that 😏

#riverdale #cw #madchen amick #alice Smith #hot #sexy #yas #honey #💖. #stan #cast #parentdale

[afterlifeoftheparty]

parentdale stans are so weird

#sheila is exempt from this but i think the rest of you are freaks #julie.txt

[riverdalecompliments]

Fredheads is one of the best writers in the fandom and everyone should check out her stuff!]

@fredheads

#parentdale stan #compliment #thanks for sending!

[ginalover]

That’s Gladys Jones & Alice Smith

#gina gershon #madchen amick #gladys jones #riverdale #parentdale #riverparents #rivermilfs #here for this #we stan two hotties in lust #season 5 baby lets make this happen

[hayscodings]

Wait what’s the parentdale randos drama 😳

*gossip girl voice* that’s a secret i’ll never tell

#jk it’s not really drama i’m just tired of seeing rank takes from people not in parentdale #or people who think they’re parentdale stans but aren’t #ask #message #fandom ask #riverdale ask

[kenology]

thoughts on jughead + his dynamic with gladys or fp if u have them </3

yes i DO thank u <3 i ended up writing a wholeass novel about this (unsurprisingly) so im throwing it under a read more

like a lot of other things in rvd, i feel like the whole jones family’s interactions could have had a lot more depth, but unfortunately fp and gladys have just sorta been used as pawns for whatever purpose they needed to serve for the plot.

i feel like in s1 we got a really solid picture of their circumstances - fp had fallen off the wagon so badly that gladys and jb left, and jughead didnt feel safe/comfortable living at home anymore, but he started to slowly piece together his relationship with his dad again and was able to start living at home again (until fp went to prison again and all that).

i think i tend to overexaggerate the canon depictions of fp as abusive, but at the same time, ive noticed a lot of ppl tend to forget about/not address it at all (not that i can blame them, bc the writers have too). s1 really sets up fp as an unstable father who wants to support his family but is struggling so much with his own issues that he isn’t able to be the kind of father he wants to be for jughead or jb. throughout s1 (and some of s2 iirc) we get to see several instances where fp is borderline (or explicitly, depending how you define it) verbally and physically abusive w/ jughead -- off the top of my head im thinking of a few instances where fp yells at jughead and physically shoves him around, and these incidents make sense in the context of s1 - fp is unstable, struggling, trying to be a parent but struggling to balance his anger issues and alcoholism, and all those factors contribute to jughead leaving the trailer. on one hand, i do write these incidents as being more serious in my fics and stuff, but on the other, i think a lot of folks ignore them or underestimate them - i mean, they were serious enough that jughead would rather live in a closet at school than at home, so. yeah.

i have parentdale stans to thank for indirectly encouraging me to think about fp as a more complex character, rather than just using him as a prop to set up jughead’s difficult life circumstances. the closest rvd ever got to Saying Something about the cycle of abuse was in 304, where young fp is like “i don’t want to end up like my old man, downing six-packs in my double-wide...at least i won’t hit my kid.” i think that bit of backstory makes fp’s character a lot more compelling and meaningful, and makes it even more tragic when the episode ends w/ him sitting down with his dad and cracking open a beer, and inevitably ending up where the viewers know he does -- in the same trailer, struggling w alcoholism, and taking out his anger on his kid. the writers could’ve turned that storyline into a deeper exploration of how the cycle of abuse and class conflict lead to repetitions of the same cycle, but in the absence of that development, i still think that episode develops fp’s character, backstory, and motivation in ways that were crucial to my ability to understand him as a similarly complex character. in the end, he is trying his best, but dealing with a lot of shit on his plate that renders him, at times, incapable of being the kind of father he wanted to be.

wrt gladys (specifically the s1 phone call), i think the writers needed to establish jughead as having difficult family circumstances and nowhere to turn and all that so that the blow of fp’s confession hit harder, but i don’t think they managed to actually integrate any kind of explanation for her rejecting jughead in s1 into her characterization later on. as far as i remember -- although i could be forgetting something -- we don’t ever learn Why she told jughead he couldnt come stay with her and jb in toledo.

i really would’ve liked to see gladys given the time and space to become a realistic character with her own set of motivations before she got shoehorned into s3 as a villain. despite all the emphasis on the joneses ~being a family again~ we don’t actually get to see them be a family for very long. i don’t have as many thoughts about gladys as i do about fp, because i feel like she never got that same level of development, although i wish she had. i think they started off with a solid basis for her character -- thinking of the details abt her going to night classes to get her GED while taking care of jellybean, and the little hints we get abt her life in toledo, but ultimately i think the writers rushed into using her for plot development before ever really making her into a solid independent character.

#myrvd #i have a lot of thoughts thank u jean for enabling me #in which i ramble about the joneses for way too long #i have a lot of thoughts about fp specifically but gladys has/had so much potential as well #also i wrote this without proofreading it so forgive me if it doesnt make sense or if i have runons lol #naivety #ask

[anyataylorjoys]

Riverdale fandom will be like: “I hate Cheryl because she kept her dead brother’s corpse in her basement and is mentally ill from trauma and abuse”

But they stan Parentdale.

#FKSDJFSKDJ #alright you do you #its not just the fact that every character has been problematic or done something morally grey #but also how you hate the kids for displaying symptoms of trauma but love their abusers? #riverdale is so dumb that I waste no time hating any of the characters<3 #but just saying some of yall have some screws loose in your head and that's fine figure it out #but also stop interacting with my content thnx u #💭

[archieism]

archie stans are the most oppressed second only to parentdale stans 😔

#listen i'm making jokes to hide the fact i am actually upset whskd #i'm annoyed that i'm actually annoyed by what ppl are sayin i thought i had Evolved #but i have not #i am still a mortal man.......... #i can only take so much.............. #ppl saying archie's always been selfish and stupid but betty's always been interesting and ppl care more abt her arc.......... #like we- #i GUESS #like ppl do care more abt her arc but it's bc ppl hate archie for no reason 😔 #WHY AM I ANNOYEEDDD #i've done this song and dance before u'd think i'd be tired of it by now.. #maybe i should #blacklist some things....... #but people never tag their archie hate anyways so :/ #2020 rly be like this #riverdale