krytella

I have too many thoughts...

The mid-s2 theme of interlopers in your home and not feeling safe was bizarrely close to home as I was dealing with a RAT in my HOUSE at the time. Did you know rats can chew through plastic plumbing really easily? 3 plumber visits! 1 weekend with the water turned off while we tried to evict the rat because what's the point of getting it fixed only to have it chewed through the next night...
I saw someone online describe this show as "what if Glee thought it was Twin Peaks" and yeah
I feel like I could read so much meta on race in this show. The combination of random spurts of wokeness in dealing with stuff like slut shaming, rape culture, and colonialism while also casting the marginalized Southside as whiter than the Northside power players is... interesting.

I don't care much about het ships except when they have Strong Femdom Vibe and then it's always like everyone agrees with me that it's cool, sure, but no one is actually writing the fic with that dynamic. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is like that. So anyway I cannot believe no one else (ok like 2 people) understands that the best and truest way to explore dark!Betty is that she stumbles into the way hurting people gets her off and she's sure it makes her a bad person but slowly explores it with someone who's understanding and learns to integrate that part of herself and trust herself again. BDSM fic that centers a top's journey and point of view is uncommon and I tend towards the other POV myself even though I am a top but in this case I just want to see how Betty's feeling. Plus, the most obvious person to have her do this with is Jughead and he's such a perfect woobie that I don't think I could restrain myself from getting unrealistically over the top with how much I'd torture him, so.
Budding Fascist Archie in s2 is so hard to watch. I don't know quite what they were going for. His slide into right-wing authoritarianism based on fear is borne out by research on emotion and political beliefs, but then there's the whole thing where the tough on crime authoritarians are also mobsters idek.
I have a hard time getting into canon f/f ships, or f/f fic in general, probably because internalized misogyny or whatever, but I almost do want to read Cheryl/Toni because their relationship is so minimally sketched on screen.