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Teen media cycle

50's Archie comics -> Happy days & Grease -> High School Musical -> Glee -> Riverdale -> repeat ad infinitum

#each of these things is parody of ots predecessor but ultimately are about archie comics #truly archie is the ur teen storyscape #riverdale

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did i ever post this

#slay tbh

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#riverdale

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okay Riverdale post simulator go

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hey guys i've been feeling pretty bored with the way this narrative has been unfolding tbh... what situation should i put my friends into next? haha

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Does anybody else feel the Darkness encroaching?

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You guys seem to think I am joking. This is not a joke. It is in the room with me.

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Honestly it is off-putting in a fashionable way. What do you guys think?

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haters will say my delusions are negatively impacting my life but all this lesbian sex i'm having suggests otherwise. it's all about the Gothic Femme mindset, you lumpen ne'er-do-wells.

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🎵 notsoallamerican follow

I really admire their friendship! Wish my guy friends wanted this same type of bond

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they were both bisexual and without a doubt fucking

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What's bisexual???

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I'm just a classy woman looking for the Eduardo to my Mark. Literally WHAT is so unreasonable about this...

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It's really hard being a sensitive straight guy. I love my friends, but they just can't understand what my life is like. New novel idea maybe? :/

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Jughead :(

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can you invent a real problem you ghoulish closet case? some of us were sent to conversion therapy

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How did you do this to my post?

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Narrator Jughead, typing on typewriter: Cycles won

Betty: yeah sure but is there bisexual sex in the cycles?

Narrator Jughead: um well yeah I guess sometimes

Betty: great, point me to Veronica

Narrator Jughead: but the darkness-

Betty: WHO gives a shit. Now point me to the GAY SEX

#haunted house town

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BETTY COOPER APPRECIATION WEEK 2021 day 3 → favourite underrated dynamic ☆ betty & tabitha

#they had sexual relations #<prev exactly

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House M.D 5x05 “Lucky Thirteen” // Riverdale 6x22 “Night of the Comet”

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Referencedale

No show can replace Riverdale, so let’s watch it again! For the next year I’m going to watch each episode directly after the movie it’s named after. I created a google calendar (or google sheets if the calendar bugs out), in case anyone wants to follow along. Tap each event and you’ll get the info about what movie to watch.

Episodes that aren’t named after movies are marked with as asterisk. Some are named after books, and some are completely original. Most of my information comes from fizzlehead’s list on letterboxd.

Happy watching!

#oh this is genius! i was just thinking about how many references are packed in and this is a very clever way to look at them

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slumping over in my seat and sighing loudly until someone asks whats wrong. “town won,” i say. they ask me to elaborate, and i make some sort of weak gesture which clarifies nothing. i take a long drag of a cigarette. “town won,” i say again, shrugging. town always wins. what can you do

#riverdale #haunted house town

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It's a shame that the show, by way of saying it's fond farewell to the show (of which we are rightfully fond) instead of focusing on the end of the story, we got a "happy" goodbye where it's pops forever and you are never ever sad. The ending, if read as "happy" (which I believe to be the intended reading) undermines the message of the show: that Americana, and highschool, and the 50s, and nostalgia are not good - they are harmful and maintain the straight white patriarchal status quo. This whole season saw that struggle play out because by removing the horror element that was so prominent in the first 6 seasons, the 50s version of Riverdale does come across as the "happy" and "wholesome" version. Societal ills are played straight (pun not intended) instead of being couched in lush metaphor and extensive subtext, in a way that tells the false narrative that progress is a straight line forward (something that the show itself disproves!).

However, if one views the end through that horror lens, it becomes more cohesive in its narrative. There are two ways about this: the first is the haunted house model, in which the house loves you so much it swallows you whole and you cannot leave even in death; the second is a bit more obscure - the pops diner we see is not heaven, but rather, hell. Betty was once denied access to heaven, so who's to say she wasn't denied again? I know highschool forever sounds rather hellish to me.

Regardless, while the ending fell a little flat, I'll still remember Riverdale as a fantastic television show, and I'm happy it existed! It was weird and funny and bizarre and very very earnest. Goodbye Riverdale :')

#riverdale #haunted house town

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riverdale series finale mantra You are polyamorous in the NOW. you are dead in the FUTURE. you are gay FOREVER.

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there is no escape even in death <- this post is about the cw’s riverdale do not derail

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Well in the end, the town won out. You never really leave Riverdale, not even in death.

#haunted house town

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Betty never got married wooooooo!!!!!

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"I wish we could stay in Riverdale forever" ME TOO BETTY

#riverdale