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lashamaqueshama · 10 months
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IT’S PRIDE BABYYY
happy pride month to the queers, specially all the ace bitches out there 💜 never forget we have a place in this community
(inspired by @kirvia‘s color themed pieces)
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second-runner-up · 1 year
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Lunch date for one!
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aroace-kodama-sakuko · 5 months
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comicsguy · 2 years
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archie micro agression panel. comic of all time
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mari--lace · 6 months
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bilbbolinho · 4 months
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Now that Riverdale is over I finally started watching, back in the day I only watched a few season 1 episodes while they were getting aired and decided to wait until season 1 was over to actually watch it.
I feel like the only way to make it make sense is to watch and think "oh, Jughead is bored and started to write a new story but oh, he didn't enjoy it the way the story was rolling, so he started over again and there's new characters now". Tldr; we're taking a peak at Jughead's google docs.
He is just a silly, anti-social character, that just wants to write his silly little stories, and honestly? Can relate.
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Okay so I may have gone down a rabbit hole here. But I wondered how many canon ace characters there are out there. And wow there really aren't... a lot. I mean of course I knew there weren't going to be many, of course I did. But somehow this still feels jarring to me.
And then it just makes it so much worse that the identity of possibly the oldest officially asexual character (at least in western media ig, I'm basing this solely on this wikipedia article), which is Jughead Jones of all people, was completely erased when Riverdale was adapted as a mainstream tv show. No matter how much of a joke and off the rails crazy this show became they had an opportunity here. A shot at representation that is still severely lacking in mainstream media. And they not only missed that opportunity, they purposefully erased a characters already established asexuality.
This just really pisses me off.
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inky-squid-art · 1 day
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im still alive. hi
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theafictionados · 11 months
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Every Afictionados Best Line Award (Honorable Mention)
Riverdale Episode 703: Sex Education
by the Afictionados Podcast Network
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guiltyidealist · 4 months
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got my grubby paws on some queer history today!
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autismserenity · 2 years
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Howdy, I don’t know who to send this to but can you debunk this clowns claim that Jughead was a homophobic caricature and therefore can’t be ace? This post has bother me for years: rabbittiddy(.)tumblr(.)com/post/157508044328/missvoltairine-acesarelgbtgranny
i fucking bet! let's see, i think I saw a good debunking of that....
i'm gonna end up doing one myself while i look for it, aren't i
Some of these focus on him being aro. But it's sort of a stand-in, in the comics, for him being both aro and ace. Anyway, I tried to pick stuff that highlighted the fact that Jughead wasn't a woman-hating gay-coded 'confirmed bachelor.' He was a romance-hating, often touch-averse, ace-coded 'confirmed bachelor.'
There are plenty of examples of the former, throughout popular media, during the first 75 years of Archie Comics. The queer-coding for them is completely different. The only similarity is that both types were often shown as recoiling from even the idea of relationships with women.
Some of the queer-coding for gay men included high voices, limp wrists, being an interior designer -- "feminine" attributes." Or:
"‘friend of Dorothy’, coloured handkerchiefs, or soft, pastel, violet clothing. Because film at the time was black and white, colour coding was either referred to, or often the handkerchief would be ‘perfumed.’ "In The Maltese Falcon (1941) a character sends in his business card and Sam Spade’s secretary notes it smells of 'gardenias.' A few minutes later, Spade smells the man’s handkerchief and doesn’t say anything but does raise an eyebrow high, clearly telling the audience ‘this fellow is queer.’.
"Otto Preminger’s Laura overtly coded Waldo Lydecker as queer: shooting him in a bathtub with plenty of suggestion he was interested in McPherson; playing up his impeccably dressed dandy-ness; clearly portraying him as the sharp-tongued gay-best-friend type."
By contrast, Jughead was never portrayed as anything but a clever, independent, slightly self-centered high school guy with a high metabolism and a passion for hamburgers. There was no winking at the audience. There were no gay in-jokes. There were no hints, in any decade, that maybe there was "a reason" he didn't like girls. That maybe he was just closeted.
And notably, when the series introduced a gay character, they did NOT go for Jughead. They had to invent a completely new person.
If they had ever been hinting that Jughead was gay, he would have been the obvious choice. It would have raised a lot of questions, and probably a lot of concerns, for them to introduce Kevin Keller instead -- or, at least, for them to introduce him and not imply that he and Jughead were going to end up together.
Honestly, the true test for any of these bigots who claim Jughead is gay should be, "Can you really picture him with Kevin Keller?"
Instead, mainstream pieces at the time said things like, "Jughead came out as asexual which explains why he’s never seemed interested in anything except for cheeseburgers."
Here are some good examples from older canon:
"Twelve Cent Archie references a story from Jughead 119 (April 1965) in which a machine built to identify Jughead’s perfect romantic partner inevitably self-destructs due to the impossible nature of its task."
"And though he wasn't a 'confirmed aro/ace' in the original comics and a few issues tried to explain away his behaviors with random back stories, over the course of hundreds of issues it was made obvious he preferred food to woman and constantly avoided romantic interactions and relationships and loathed such endeavours."
"What is it about aromanticism that makes showrunners pretend we don’t exist and fellow aces turn their faces when we say we do? What’s so bad about saying no to love that an aromantic asexual character is allowed to say he doesn’t like sex on TV, but not to say he doesn’t like romance? What is the difference? Why is it here where everyone draws the line? Why is it okay to not feel sexual attraction in this case, but not okay to not feel romantic attraction?
"I will tell you why. I’m not available to anyone. Neither is Raphael and Jughead, and lots and lots of aroaces, some of us not even as queerplatonic partners. There aren’t love stories to be told about us or sold about us. If Jughead and Raphael are made ace and aro, their ships sink, unless their fans are okay with queerplatonic relationships and most aren’t. For many people, for most people, if you take the romance out of someone, that someone loses its meaning, its interesting aspect. That’s how focused on romance our society is. Ships can survive without sex, but in a society so focused in romance that it can’t even comprehend queerplatonic relationships, they can’t survive without romantic love.
"There is also the little matter of we aroaces being considered too weird, too different. Cis allo straight people can’t relate to us the way they can relate to you, alloromantic aces. After all, romance is universal, right? Except it isn’t. And if we are in the picture, we are reminding everyone of that, and some people just don’t like that, don’t like us."
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[image transcription: a page titled "Archie in The Look of Love - script: frank doyle; pencilling - dan decarlo jr; inking - jim decarlo." Archie and Jughead are walking down the street, and have the following conversation over several panels. Archie: "Got a question for you, Jug! Do you believe in love at first sight?... Jug? Did you hear me?" Jughead: "I heard something! But I'm sure you didn't say what it sounded like you said!" Archie: "I asked if you believed in love at first sight!" Jughead, to the reader: "He did! Did you hear? He actually asked that question of ME!"]
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[image transcription: the second page of the comic continues their conversation. Archie: "Stop talking to them and answer my question!! Do you believe in love at first sight?" Jughead: "Not hardly! Twelfth, maybe, or forty-eighth... or more likely, nine hundred and sixth! What's with you, Arch? You know girls are not my thing!" Archie: "I wasn't thinking of girls!" Jughead, his hat flying off in shock: "WHAT!?" Archie, hearts flying around his head: "With me it's that little red convertible in Bedell's auto showroom!" Jughead: "Oh! - Love for inanimate objects! Now you're in my ballpark!!"
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[last three panels. Jughead: "Y'know how those surfer guys travel the world, looking for the perfect wave?" Archie: "I saw the pic! But who--" Jughead, head surrounded by many, many little pink hearts: "Exactly! I search for the perfect burger! Now that'd be my love at first sight!"]
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[an old panel in which a shocked crowd of high school students is hearing Jughead's voice, over the loudspeaker, saying: "I am in no way a romantic! I stand by my ways as a lover of food only! The only girls I like are Swiss Miss, Mrs. Butterworth, Little Debbie and Sara Lee!"]
AHA YEP I HAVE FINALLY FOUND THE POST I WAS THINKING ABOUT!
[jughead and archie are coming out of a movie theater. jughead says, "That's what I dig in a movie - a happy ending!...The girl didn't get the boy!" Archie reacts with heterosexual surprise and confusion/]
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hannahcbrown · 11 months
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Now I want a picture of Sonic and Jughead fistbumping while in their other hands Sonic holds a chilidog and Jughead holds a burger.
Aroace icons unite!
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second-runner-up · 2 years
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happy pride, have a parfait to celebrate!
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aroace-kodama-sakuko · 6 months
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jugheadthelesbian · 2 years
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my core four headcannons lol
tw: mentioned ed, mentioned intrusive thoughts, trauma, and internalized homophobia
archie:
good and sporty boy bi.
works out when he’s stressed.
shadow boxes as a stim.
he has a hard time eating and will work himself to the point of exhaustion bc of his time in prison.
he used to play guitar all the time but now he has trouble remembering it all.
he/him and didn’t really understand pronouns until jughead and veronica explained them to him.
he doesn’t cry easily and you can tell how mad he is if he cries.
hiram gave both him and vee horrible body issues.
he’s neurodivergent, probably ADD or ADHD.
has such a hard time with tone, bless his soul.
everyone thought he was the token straight friend of the group before he and jug dated.
he’s had a crush on jughead since they were kids.
came out to his dad right before his dad died.
jughead:
sad and poetic ace/gay.(he's canonically ace in the comics so i need that rep)
has a tumbler called yesihadanmcrphase and cheryl follows it but doesn’t know it’s him.
he wishes he wrote happy stories.
has horrible intrusive thoughts all the time.
really bad at showing emotions(has kanner’s syndrome).
he has ocd and kanner’s syndrome(which is under the autism spectrum) but was never treated for either up until fp got a stable job as the sheriff.
has always liked men and had a crush on archie(that is why his mom thought they were dating).
cries himself to sleep at night and has horrible night terrors.
secretly obsessed with harry styles and taylor swift lol.
he/they but doesn’t really care.
read a lot of lemony snicket books as a kid.
came out to his parents when he was like eight but didn’t come out to archie until junior year.
betty has known since eighth grade.
veronica guessed it.
betty:
preppy lesbian who likes nancy drew a little too much.
she has high masking BPD that was mistaken for psychosis disorder.
blames herself for what happened with the black hood and couldn’t look anyone in the eye after it was revealed to be her dad.
she loves true crime documentaries and the board game clue.
used to pray to be normal bc she grew up thinking liking girls was bad and that your brain shouldn’t work differently than others.
she got over that and jughead was the first person she came out to(polly was the next person).
she doesn’t know how to reject men so she just pretended her and jug were dating and now everyone thinks they are.
hates when people refer to them as #bughead bc she’s her own person.
she/her but doesn’t mind they/them.
penelope scott
veronica:
mafia queen bi girlboss.
really likes playing poker but their dad didn’t let her play it as a kid bc they’re a girl.
really hates being alone and likes being around people.
physical touch is their love language.
has body issues and anxiety from living with her dad and all the problems he caused.
really good at manipulating but also really easy to manipulate.
has depression but doesn’t talk ab it and prefers to act like everything is fine.
pronouns are they/she and their parents don’t know she’s bi or demigirl.
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sockhatingsapphic · 7 months
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ok i can't believe this but the final season of riverdale is... good? like it's in the 50s, everyone feels more like their comic selves, and there's still a murder mystery but it fits. and so far jughead has been himself and focused on burgers and comic books and he is believably asexual (obvi not canon and i assume they fuck it up later but so far it makes me so happy). i just wish the show had always been this, its so much more fun
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