tragedy enjoyer

Argentina players could straight up bring a gun on the field and the refs would be like 🤷 its normal play

Assad Zaman in a crop top talking about how fun the butcher's shop was, save me Assad Zaman in a crop top talking about how fun the butcher's shop was

you are my mutual and to some extent my wife

veronica lodge will always be the best character on riverdale. die mad <3

Dark (2017) is so funny because they keep telling and showing the viewers that EVERYTHING is connected but then there's a murder from 33 years ago that's brought up again and again and it turns out that it's actually completely unrelated to everything else that's happening

the thing about riverdale is that its laura palmer is both jason and archie. and while jason gets to be this personal that is both preserved in teenage innocence and dissected for his secrets because he is dead, archie is subjected to the same treatment alive. his personality is reduced to the traits others force onto him (to jughead for example he is the pinnacle of heroism and selflessness and therefore he must live up to those standards) or the secrets they tear him apart for (cheating, organized crime affiliation, violent tendencies). every action he takes is grandiose and reveals more about the town at large/the people surrounding him than it necessarily reveals about himself because archie is more of a concept than a person to the other characters. archie died at sixteen, preserved as the sexually motivated but pure-hearted center of the town, and every thing he does is either in service of that image or a direct betrayal of it, causing him to question his own identity/self-worth and letting down all of his friends and family. archie and jason occupy similar roles in the narrative, but archie is alive to endure the pain that comes with this forced archetyping.

and everybody thinks they know archie best and will make grand claims about what is good for him and what his intentions and desires are but rarely if ever do they ask him any of these things. his voice does not matter because a corpse cannot speak. a corpse does not want anything beyond what other people want for it. a corpse cannot know itself. but the people around it can know it. and can claim increasing degrees of closeness and understanding to it. riverdale is about what other people want for archie. the threat they see in archie. the hero they admire in archie. he can be romanticized, idolized, vilified, etc because in death you do not need to have nuance. and oftentimes you are not afforded nuance.

this is also why the "critique" of rvd for being too mature/dark/not reflective of the og comics is silly to me because a major part of the story is about how archie (and Betty and Jughead and sometimes Veronica when they remember to give her screentime) are held down by the archetypes forced upon them and how that idealization is actually harmful and causes the exact violence it attempts to condemn. nuclear families are toxic and the American dream is toxic and that blind patriotic romanticization limits people and hurts people and leads people down violent paths while also justifying those paths which is what the show is about!!! no it isn't perfect at conveying its themes all of the time but when you get that it's a satire and a social commentary and both a mockery of and a love letter to its source material then it all makes dollars and cents !!!!!! you are doing the same thing that every character on the show is doing to archiekins !!! you are forcing him to be somethig he is not !!!

audrey horne kill your father and you will be reincarnated as a lotus flower