1st September 1976 Back To Hogwarts

Holy SHIT dude

If you think Taylor isn’t looking out for her fellow artists you haven’t been paying attention.

I’m not crying, you are 😭❤️❤️

A thousand live bats fluttered from the walls and ceiling while a thousand more swooped over the tables in low black clouds, making the candles in the pumpkins stutter...

Preach that message !!!! Go dad !!!

This dad penned an open letter to Ariana Grande following the devastating Manchester bombing. 

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Riverdale at SDCC info

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SPOILER ALERT FOR THE PILOT AND FUTURE EPISODES

Jughead narrates the entire pilot and possibly the rest of the series

Jughead and Archie have had a major falling out, but Jug is still willing to help Archie out with something

Betty has ADD

Cheryl calls Jason her “soulmate”, twincest details will be gradually revealed over the course of the season

A body (probably Jason’s?) is found in the pilot

Veronica is very supportive of Betty

Josie and the Pussycats play at the school dance and have an additional musical number in the pilot

the pilot includes a threesome, spin the bottle, and a dance montage

Betty and Veronica kiss (many viewers seem to think it was just for show but that is TBD)

Veronica and Archie play 7 minutes in heaven and kiss/makeout

Archie is generally boring/a jerk/cheesy according to many people who saw the pilot (classic Archie)

Jughead’s beanie is “pronged” to stick with the classic look but in a more modern fashion

Jughead and Betty are going to be investigating the murder(s?) together

Betty and Veronica may kiss again 

episode 7 includes a “taboo slumber party” in which many of the kids will be kissing

Midge will be in episode 2 and she is Moose’s girlfriend

Moose has a thing with Kevin (possibly meaning Moose is the closeted character that has been mentioned in a previous interview)

Sabrina will be brought in at the very end of the season as an escapee of a cult

KJ says Archie will be more decisive than in the comics and that he will choose between B&V by the end of the season, but also mentions that he’s pretty sure it won’t be permanent, as this is Archie Andrews we’re talking about here

There is going to be love triangle with the grown ups

KJ prefers having orange hair now, he and his cast mates think it looks weird now that he’s got it back to black

There will be a big halloween episode that will be a sort of homage to Afterlife With Archie

Archie writes a song about his relationship with Ms. Grundy in the pilot

The show will film for 6 months starting in September

“Josie is a very driven and stern character. We’ll find out why she’s like that and why she doesn’t let men specifically get in her way”

Cole says the show will have a lot of film noir genre elements

the showrunners teased that almost every character will be involved with each other at some point

UPDATE 7/24

Roberto says that the show wasn’t directly inspired by the New Riverdale comics and was set up before the comic reboot was announced

There are currently no plans to follow comic book storylines but that may change as season one progresses

Expect more of a B&V friendship than a rivalry

Cole and KJ are most excited to explore Archie and Jughead’s relationship, and their introduction was KJ’s favorite scene to film for the pilot

Madelaine was drawn to the project due to Cheryl’s “villainous nature”

Cheryl’s vulnerabilities and cracks in her façade will be revealed over the course of the season

There is a yet to be disclosed “insane hairstyle” for the Pussycats which Ashley loves

There are plans to write original music for the Pussycats that will hopefully be released as an album at the end of the season

Luke is incredibly impressed with all the young actors on the show

The show really wants to focus on being an ensemble rather than focused on just Archie

There will be other classic side characters brought in

Cole thinks it’s really important that Jughead is asexual in the comics

The show is working off the Mark Waid comics where Jughead does not have a defined sexuality, so that is still unclear for the show

Cole thinks Jughead will be a romantic interest/pursuit, but that first and foremost his love is for food

Jughead is a budding writer, a photographer, and an amateur sleuth

Jughead’s main concern is what’s going on in the town

Jason was shot

Jughead has been viewing everyone’s reaction to the murder from the outside, taking pictures, and asking “weird, piercing questions”

Cole says the show is very similar in tone to Rian Johnson’s film Brick (sidenote: fantastic movie, everyone should go watch it) and that Jughead is very much like Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character in it

Roberto says the show is inspired by Twin Peaks and Fargo and the aesthetics of The Virgin Suicides and Heavenly Creatures

The show has also been compared to Pretty LIttle Liars and Friday Night Lights

Cole watched a lot of film noir to prepare for the role and says he tried to mimic Morgan Freeman’s narration as best he could

Roberto’s favorite character is Betty because she is good in the middle of the chaos

Betty will be coming into herself and discovering her voice in season one

KJ has to dye his hair every week while shooting to keep the color

Roberto is hoping for a January 27th release, but that is TBD

i’ll update when/if more info is released! 

Goodnight Tony Stark. You can rest now. With no distractions or anything keeping you up at night. You no longer have to go to sleep in fear of having nightmares. You’re in peace now. Don’t worry, you’ll continue to inspire me everyday. I love you 3000, Iron Man, forever and always.

so let's talk about the first and the last conversation in this episode shall we

first, we have those two actually admitting, point blank, that they're worried about each other. doom is confused and angry, because she could've died and why the hell would she do something so stupid and useless if she knew he cannot die? she retaliates, not by being defensive and immediately saying she didn't think it through and she would've done the same for anyone, but by expressing worry and empathy. and then she adds that she actively wanted to do it and what's more, she doesn't regret it, even with the knowledge that he cannot die and she almost did.

he's angry, and of course, we could suspect that he's worried over her almost dying because, as he says later, without her he cannot end the world. but then, she points out something important. he says he killed that man, and she shouldn't sacrifice herself for him with no reason because he is not worth it. she replies, I'm sure you did it for a reason.

the thing is, she is right. but their later talk circles around that idea, maybe he did it because he is punishing people? maybe it is his work? but his work was done when he prolonged this man's life so that he would suffer. now, why would he kill him, then? it wasn't work, it wasn't punishment, it was personal retaliation. doom saw this man attack and almost kill dong kyung, even if unintentionally. he saw her caring enough to jump in and foolishly try to save him and felt enraged enough to ditch the bigger plan because of it. a lot of personal, human emotions were involved.

now, throughout the episode, he observes dong kyung, trying to figure out her own reasons for acting the way she did. and the conclusion of his observations is in the last conversation. yes, he managed to read her in the subway, but more importantly, he had a revelation about himself.

he had an opportunity to feel like maybe, just maybe, he was worth something to someone, that he mattered enough for someone to risk their own lives they otherwise want to desperately preserve. he felt genuine care as she empathized with him and tried to understand instead of reacting with fear or anger. he had his opportunity to also express care, do something good instead of destructive, in the subway, and at the beach. he wanted her to cling to him and she literally did, grabbing his sleeve and asking to go with him. so his conclusion?

he wants to be loved by her. she is the one human in existence who was able to see through the bad and notice him, make him feel like he was something beyond death and destruction that (quite literally) follows him. he was sure he cannot be loved and now he is basically pleading her to try and love him, with vulnerability he hasn't shown before, the shooting star visually confirming his wish was genuine.

now, it is not to say that his personal journey is done or that he's changed his mind about ending the world completely. but these two things are strongly connected and him voicing his desire to be loved by her is a huge step on the road to realize his personal identity and separate it from what is now a projection of his self-hatred onto the humankind. it's not over, folks, it's bound to get more interesting and dramatic for sure.

 Night in the Shrieking Shack