Seablings first finding each other through Lizzies birthday party, Lizzie going red after her failed party attempts and then breaking the canary curse, Jimmy wanting to throw a party because he wasn’t the first to die but then being the second to die…oohhhh I am thinking so many thoughts right now…
Archie Andrews and Jeff Winger are two sides of the same fucked up little coin and I know that sounds insane but hear me out!
They both start out falling, pretty much at first sight, for women who they know little to nothing about - they just think these girls are attractive and that’s about it.
However they both get to know these women and form a real bond and deep relationship with them over time
But they eventually grow bored of these women and instead move their attentions towards the romanticised version of their female friend that lives in their heads. These friends for a long time pined after both of them and framed themselves as “the one who was right in front of you all along”.
However these women were more in love with the idea of them than actually being with them and to Archie and Jeff these women represent their fear of the future more than anything else.
And in Archie and Jeff’s fantasy versions of their lives - which we see for Archie in S6 Ep19 and for Jeff in S6 Ep13 - they’re with their romanticised versions of these women, living out a white-picket-fence lifestyle.
However this life isn’t something either of these women want. Maybe they did once but they don’t anymore, they’ve grown and changed and they want more from their lives, and they haven’t shown any actual wish to live this life for a long time.
But it isn’t just their relationships with their love interests that make these characters similar - it’s their relationships to their friends in general.
What’s probably a more important part of both of their fantasies is the fact that they’re with their friends, forever - in Archie’s we know that Veronica and Reggie (and we can guess the rest of his friends) all live on the same street as him. In Jeff’s we see him and all of his friends as teachers at Greendale, no matter if that’s what their friends want that or not. Veronica and Reggie don’t want to be in Riverdale forever, they can’t wait to get out. Annie and Abed don’t want to stay at Greendale anymore, they’ve grown and are ready to move away and get on with their own lives.
But they have different reasons for the ways they act and why they want these things - it’s Jeff’s brains that leads to him being manipulative and careless whereas with Archie it’s…look I love the guy but he’s not exactly the brightest bulb in the box. Archie is inherently a selfless and giving person but his naivety is his downfall in so many situations.
However Archie is still a likeable character, much more traditionally likeable than Jeff, because when he does something stupid you can’t stay mad at him for too long cause you know he doesn’t really mean it - Archie is the “likeable leading man” that Abed talks about in S2 Ep1, which is something Jeff can’t ever be.
Crazy Craft:
I predicted this btw. It was me. I am sister
Me and my sister were talking about the Ahsoka trailer and she was like “what if we get a parallel to Kanan cutting his hair with Sabine?” and I-
If anything like that does happen I will be spending the next 3 to 5 business days crying
Mandalore is like the William Afton of the Star Wars universe
If we are all agreeing that Lizzie and Joel actually reunited at some point and Lizzie regained her memories that also means at some point she remembered Jimmy and realised she left her brother again and this time she probably won’t get him back…
Realising I’m not always gonna be a teenager with little to no responsibilities who overanalyses minecraft videos in her spare time…
Have I ever said that I am actually the smartest person ever and I know everything and I am the only person who understands this show?
The most annoying polycule you’ve ever met
Finished watching Mad Men for the first time or as I have renamed it The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Prince
My sister (@3llen) is upset about the fact that she can’t get Marcy’s journal yet and is planning to fly off of the island we live on to get it. She is made the decision that the best way to do this is to find a way into a real life End and get herself some Elytra. To do this she will also need to journey into a real life Nether and is searching for some Minecrafters to join her team. Any interest?
Tabitha Tate is officially gone and she never got to kiss a girl. Not even Betty during their weird high homoerotic dance sequence. This is an outrage