#rd spoilers

[kesleyjo]

I'm having some finale wine and I think I've got it. My final resolute head canon of Riverdale.

Keep in mind I have not watched the end of season 5 through the end and have absolutely no intention to, but I've seen and heard enough about *gestures vaguely* all of that to still stand by this.

Disclaimer: I do not believe this is what the writers intended whatsoever. This is all my imagination. I do however believe in this canon whole heartedly and its as true to me as whatever RAS's vision is to him. You choose who to trust.

Okay so first and foremost the entire series is written by Jughead. It's all his writings that are probably all sitting in a google docs draft folder.

I justify this due to the following:

He is the narrator

The entire series is obsessed with Betty Cooper for good or ill (I'll get to it)

Its all kind of sort of been alluded to that its all Jughead's writings anyway. At least in S1, again. I'll get to the why of that in a second.

He started writing season 1 in his junior year (so a year after the events of the S1). He read In Cold Blood (on his own, not for class, very important to him that you all know this) and was like "Hey my town had a murder and I have some trauma around it, so I should totes do this." And thus S1 is born.

This is why that season is (relatively) more grounded and far more realistic than the rest of the series because its based on a real true thing that happened and the real feelings and emotions of people involved. It has the least amount of exaggeration (but enough, because Jughead) and has the most coherent plot, which would make sense since Jughead isn't making anything up, he is recalling events.

This is also the only season that directly ties Jughead's narration and the plot to the book Jughead is writing on page, and thus tying them both together. Because again, its a thing that really happened.

So the characterizations, motivations, and actions of everyone in season 1 is the model of how and how these characters actually are and are a base for further exaggeration.

Seasons 2-4 are also based on true events but are exaggerations/interpretations of things that really happened, but are altered to make them more interesting to Jughead's readers (heh).

I don't want this post to be a novel so here is a brief listing of that I am thinking here for some of the main plots (but if you have a plot you want me to fit into this canon let me know):

The Black Hood: When Jughead showed Betty his first manuscript (S1) the positive constructive criticism she gave was that, "True crime is really popular right now, so this fits in with the zeitgeist." And Jughead ran with it. Fred also had his first heart attack at this time...we all know where I'm going with that so I'll just leave that there. RIP.

Making Hal the Black Hood: Hal leaves the family after the Polly debacle and finding some racy pics on Betty's computer (she sent them to Jug, she wasn't a camgirl) and decides to start his life over with a woman who is far more moral (and probably like 2 years older than Polly)

The Serpents/Class War with Hiram: Not a gang, just those under the boot of the rich that Hiram tries to eradicate through good ol fashioned gentrification. Archie and Veronica also start spending more time doing rich people shit and that drives a divide between the two main couples of the core four. But less about political plots and more about teenagers growing apart because of different interests

Season 3: Putting this all together because Jughead was having a hard time finding a plot here. So he focused on Alice's new weird young boyfriend who actually ended up taking off with Polly (leaving her twins), his newfound obsession with DnD (Betty was exhaustedly supportive of this) and Kevin's endless talk about the new megachurch he just joined. He and Betty also started watching a lot of horror films and Hitchcock at the time which leads us to...

Season 4: He and Betty go off to different schools but its because of college, not because Jug is the chosen one (again see why he is writing all of this himself). He meets a lot of pretentious people that challenge his relationship with Betty and he turns it into a mystery.

So now we have made it to 4.17. Ugh.

Okay so Jughead has written all of this, and reading everything back feels that Archie and Betty (who go to the same college now and are friends again after growing apart after he dated Veronica) have grown too close and Jug self destructs.

He self sabotages so hard and makes a story up in his head that Betty would be much happier with Archie who is doing perfectly mediocre at college while Jughead flunked out.

So he and Betty break up after a lot of frustrated fighting.

And he begins to write Betty differently. Wildly differently.

(You can't tell me this doesn't make more sense than whatever the hell happened in the show.)

Jughead dejected from his failure at school and his breakup Writes on and off for the next few years. His next main attempt is S5. His attempt at more realistic writing.

(Its also after Betty enters his life again, because at her core Betty is his muse)

He works through his fictional frustrations of Betty and Archie as a possible couple (They never dated. Archie is actually a aromantic pansexual who does not do commitment) and realized that he made it all up and they have nothing in common.

Jughead and Betty get back together at the end of "Season 5" but Betty tells him that writing about their real life is what tore them apart, so he needs to not use their relationship in his writing anymore.

So Jughead decided to get weird and wildly experimental with his writing. And because Jughead is not a particularly good writer S6 and S7 are born.

Betty, absolutely running out of positive things to say about his last few writing attempts tells him that maybe these exaggerated versions of their lives that bear no resemblance to the real world have run their course, and he should try something new.

So Jughead wraps up this now unrecognizable series of writings and moves onto something new.

With Betty diligently serving as his editor. She got distracted with her new job and left him unattended for those last few seasons and look what happened.

Also I realize that Archie/Veronica/Cheryl/Toni are absent in this so briefly

Archie: He always was in awe of Archie and slightly jealous of what he perceived he had over Jughead...this is why he is the quasi-hero and also why he tortures Arch and treats him like an idiot.

Veronica: I cannot stress this enough. He and Veronica have no relationship. She is his friend's girlfriend and his girlfriend's best friend. The only thing he really knows about her is she is rich and hot. So he makes that her core personality and slaps on whatever traits fit her best for whatever plot he is writing at the time.

(This is also why almost all the women Veronica, Tabitha, Jessica, and Toni all are at some time his love interest. Self instert fan fic Jug. We see you.)

Cheryl/Toni: He and Toni are friends and Cheryl is her girlfriend who endlessly terrifies him. That is the core of her characterization.

I already regret the fact that I am sharing this long-winded mess with the world...but I can't take it back now.

Enjoy. And if you don't that is fine. It's my head canon not yours. Go make your own.

Have fun on finale night folks.

#rd spoilers #not really but for safety #head canon #this is a mess #but I stand by it #I didn't proof this and I'm a glass of wine in so be gentle

[serennes-art]

ascent

#fire emblem #fire emblem radiant dawn #fe10 #ike #micaiah #fire emblem radiant dawn spoilers #rd spoilers #fe ike #fe micaiah

[thetaoofbetty]

lol what are your thoughts on the trailer?

it looks stupid.

nothing to do with ships or anything, it honestly just looks painfully dumb to me. trailers lack context, sure, and i get that they're doing a whole new round of "something is wrong, we don't belong here" timelines nonsense but...no.

the way these writers treat the audience like they're idiots and act like they're so innovative for being the standard of mediocrity is just sort of offensive at this point.

#besos! #anonymous #rd spoilers #rd negativity #free the actors fr fr #i'm not even getting into the o/rgy thing #i cannot #i simply refuse to engage

[yukyunotabibito]

[ 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 ] : receiver is hugging a coat / cape / etc. that belongs to the sender. ( Per trade agreement, Post Radiant Dawn Tower:) )

I should hand it over to Kurthnaga and Lady Almedha, he tells himself on repeat. And yet he clings selfishly to a remaining fragment of his lord and his legacy. It is trival it would seem to anyone else, just a worn out old cloak belonging to an old dragon.

It is not so trival to Nasir. When the body of the man he had pledged his life, his very flesh and blood, to lies cold and pallid before him - taken from the Goddess' Tower at Kurthnaga's command, because he would not allow dishonour in his father's death. Is Nasir not allowed the indignity of mourning for a man who had taken up so much of his life for hundreds of years?

Nasir does not cry then, at the base of the tower. He does not cry as Gareth places a hand on his shoulder, understanding his pain in a way no one else could. No sorrow slips from him as he meets Gareth's eyes, gripping his fellow retainer tightly. Neither of them say a word, for there are no words that need to be spoken between them.

Nasir does not shed a tear on the return to Goldoa, standing firm against the wind. Ena asks if he's alright, but he only brushes aside her worries. She doesn't need undue stress right now, not anymore than she has already endured. He will be fine. He's always fine isn't he.

But once they are back safely in Goldoa, funeral rites completed and the dead put to rest for good, only then does Nasir finally allow himself to break. Not a soul is around, and he allows himself to sob out all of the tears that he had been holding back. He clings to that fragment with all of his being, breathing in the last remaining remnants of his lord's scent between his gasps for air. When was the last time he had cried so? Allowed himself to shatter into a million little pieces that could not be put back together?

Dheginsea. It didn't feel real that his presence was no longer felt beside Nasir.

But...

Ah... he was really gone... wasn't he?

#ic: do not be afraid of what lies beyond. forge ahead #supports: the gap between the laguz and beorc has been bridged #support: dheginsea #//does it count if he's already dead- #rd spoilers #inbox: i will do what i am able #oldscalebag #//taxes...

[ayoedebiris]

choni spinning bed scene ✅ bi archie ✅ klay klaine moment ✅ beronica canon ✅

#DID I MISS ANYTHING :D #rd spoilers

[frauleindermorgen]

@amitieos sent:

Mulled Wine and Hot Cocoa - They say there’s nothing like sharing a warm drink by the fire the shake off any holiday ennui you might have. So grab a mug and a buddy, and toast to the quiet moments. They sit across from each other at the table, which would usually be far more comfortable than it feels tonight. Elincia's gaze is drawn to the personalities on either side of Micaiah. There's trouble in the air, so heavy it threatens to oppress her senses. She can only imagine how it feels for her friend. Elincia shoots her a sympathetic glance before getting up and walking to the other side of the table. "Care to join me for a glass of mulled wine by the fire? You deserve a moment of peace and quiet." Elincia already has two glasses in hand but she inclined her head to a table at the side of the room. "Or we could go for hot cocoa - as long as I get plenty of whipped cream on mine!”

Micaiah has dined like this before, but only the once after Daein’s celebration of independence; she supposes she is used to the flow of it— the appetizers, the conversations, and perhaps she should be taking notes seeing how well the Chalphys do it and how one day it will be she and their position but right now it is, a bit... well. Her gaze catches Elincia’s for perhaps the fourth time that night and she barely suppress a sigh. It is a bit stifling sitting between two men with over five centuries of history between them, and somehow when the conversation ebbs her going over the royal families of laguz, and their recent changes (while an important habit to upkeep) in her head does not bring her any peace.

Suffice to say when Elincia comes to her side, Micaiah, gazing up at her can imagine how the Queen’s people must see her — gallant and seraphic, an angel of protection who looks down from on-high with caring eyes.

She is also, as ever, Micaiah’s friend.

“I should like that very much,” she says, taking care not to rise too quickly and to say her goodbyes before following Elincia to a small coffee table closer to the fire. She does let out her sigh then, small as sit is, and laughs with a grateful glance back to Elincia as she reaches for one of the two glasses in the other women's hand. "Cocoa sounds delightful. Will you show me how you dress yours? I think I am in need for the change, and for once I do not think I will mind the sweet! Never when it is your kind, after all."

#amiteos #toabaldrsbounty #(TRULY ELINCIA UR AN ANGEL) #(also aww they r doing cocoa and i think theyre first thread was a tea part? call backs....) #rd spoilers

[andsmile]

Do you know if RiverdaleLAT is a reliable source at all? That’s where a rumor that a major character who’s not Archie or Jughead is coming from but how would they know about an episode that just started filming and do they have any kind of track record?

they've gotten info from the veronica latam dubber before, but this is almost always about max one or two episodes ahead. that being said, i don't think it's impossible for a character to die, but i also think this time rvdlat doesn't have any info (since this episode just started shooting) and is just throwing this out there to get some engagement from people.

either way, i know veronica is safe cause they'd never care about her enough to kill her and have other characters react to that 🙏 hsshhdhd

#rd spoilers #if anyone still cares

[bugheadchemistry]

Hi !

We still don't know who's Betty's emotional anchor, do you have any theories ? (I'd love to assume it's Jughead, but it would be weird considering all the traumatic things w/ TBK, the black hood, Polly etc...)

-Please excuse me if something's wrong, my English is everything but perfect

Have a good day!

Hello, lovely! First of all, your English is great. No worries there. 😊

Do I have theories? I can’t say that I do. I haven’t watched any episodes since 5x05 (I think 🤔) so my knowledge of what’s going on now all comes from posts I see on tumblr. That said, I’m not sure who else but Jughead could fill that emotional anchor role for Betty. It certainly isn’t Alice. Polly is a possibility, I guess, since they had to have been close at some point. I honestly don’t know. I’m hoping for Jughead, though, based almost entirely on this gif:

#ask replies #anonymous #bughead #rd speculation #rd spoilers #sort of

[peeta-mellark]

MARIE MOREAU & JORDAN LI GEN V (2023—) 1x06 “Jumanji”

#marie moreau #jordan li #marie x jordan #jordan x marie #limoreau #mariejordan #gen v spoilers #gen v #1x06 #gen v amazon #genvedit #jaz sinclair #derek luh #theboysedit #mine #* #rd goodnight im out lol

[riacte]

Ren: I'll happily munch on some Iskall thigh

????? AND REN CALLED IT JUICY?? AND ISKALL SAID REN KNOWS ABOUT MY THIGH?? AND MUMBO WAS LIKE I'LL GO GIVE YOU SOME PRIVACY???????

Mumbo: the fanfictions are being drawn up as we speak... the elybeatmaker romantic song is being formed

MUMBO FANFICTION JUMBO????

#hermitcraft #renskall #fucking hell #the rd difference #rendog #iskall85 #mumbo jumbo #hermitcraft spoilers

[red-dead-sakharine]

So, I translated the infernal script on Haarlep's "outfit"...

Dunno if someone else has looked at it already (probably), but it's actually very clever:

"1000 lovers"

"in 1 body"

The other side is the same text but mirrored.

#bg3 #raphael #haarlep #infernal #incubus #act 3 spoilers i guess #house of hope #raphael the cambion #raphael baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 raphael #raphael bg3 #bg3 raphael #rds #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3

[hiphopcherrrypop]

i have a class in like 2 minutes so i had to get this done fast so i didnt forget

#i’m redrawing tonight bc i literally spent not even a full 3 minutes on this #total drama #td #total drama island #tdi #total drama 2023 #td wayne #td raj #rd bowie #rajbow #also i drew them from memory im sorry i had no time to find refs #HASHTAG GAY RIGHTS!!! #td spoilers #total drama spoilers

[yukyunotabibito]

📋

Name: Sephiran (Lehran? Does he still go by that name?)

Age: At least over 1000, to my knowledge.

Gender: Male

Class: Seems to affiliated with town surround Garreg Mach

Notes:

Of all of the people I would have expected to see here at the academy, he is the last one that I would have wished to see. I believe we are cut from much of the same cloth, though his past is far more sordid than my own. I know too much, to trust him in blind faith, but he has never seemed overtly cruel. I cannot imagine how it must have felt to lose his powers, to lose a very part of himself. It must have broken his heart. And to leave those that he loved too because of this... well, I can sympathize with that much at the very least. My own child is long gone, but that pain, whether they have died or you have had to leave one, is one that always rings in your heart. I can feel nothing but pity, no matter how much I distrust him, for poor Lehran.

#ooc #nasir's shitlist #rd spoilers #//again thanks nasir for just knowing shit

[pinkgibbon]

#the fact that i had to make it lalo and howard bc jimmy has practically no one in his life who cares about him anymore 💀💀💀 #funny show!!!! #better call saul #bcs #jimmy mcgill #saul goodman #lalo salamanca #howard hamlin #i daren't tag this as lalow*rd but good god thats like the funniest ship ever. tumblr never change. #mcwexler #implied lol #better call saul spoilers #bcs spoilers #bcs s6 #my art #fanart

[ayoedebiris]

“do you like archie” “i do. but i like you more”

#WHAT THE FUCK OH MY HFO #RD LB #RD SPOILERS

[lostboywriting]

Huh. Just noticed something--the date on the police file about TMAGP 3 is April 3, 2009. Setting aside the weird thing where the journal entry isn't dated until several months later--that is curiously close to April 23, 2009.

April 23, 2009 is the date when, in her universe, Anya Villette went to the house on Hilltop Road for a cleaning job.

I had guessed Norris was just searching back through everything in the database, looking for stories that resonated with certain themes --loss of a loved one while still being haunted by their voice, terrible guilt, isolation, loss of humanity, maybe some murder along the way. But if (and I'm holding out hope, but still in camp 'at this point it's only an if') something of him is conscious in there and has enough control to try to communicate / investigate--what if he was originally searching for cases in that specific time period for other reasons? What if he was looking for evidence of Anya's disappearance in this universe--either to understand if that is the reality he's now in, or to try to warn his listeners about Hilltop Road, or both?

#this one's probably a reach... but those dates are so close I can't quite believe they're coincidence #when i think it's the ONLY ep in TMA prior to the end where it's very clear someone has moved from one reality to another via hilltop rd #tmagp speculation #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp 3 #tmagp norris #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol spoilers #tma spoilers #(kinda)