Coping ❤️

I started watching Oli TheOrionSound when I was 9 years old and now, at 16 years of age, I finally watched him properly finish a series. It is a big day for me

Idc what everyone says JOELS FINALE WAS COOL!! I think some people just have to accept that some empires creators don’t feel as comfortable doing a lot of in depth lore and that’s fine!! Personally I think empires is about the creators giving us something to run with and make our own by making silly head-canons or writing our own stories based off the world and characters they’ve given us. If you really want in depth lore watch someone else but let other people be a little silly with it. Also as a hardcore jeremyism lover I’m just glad we got more jeremy

Realising I’m not always gonna be a teenager with little to no responsibilities who overanalyses minecraft videos in her spare time…

Happy one year anniversary to the greatest scene in television history <3

Crazy how nature wives still won. Crazy how they are both still alive and happy and weren’t cruelly separated from each other in the end. Isn’t that soooo crazy

Saw this on twitter and immediately knew what had to be done

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.

just finished Chaos Theory season 2 and Brooklyn should have been more evil actually. Let her loose with a gun and a pet dinosaur.

Empires ending, 1 year amphibiversary coming up, whatever is going on with Taylor Swift right now. Everyday I clock in for my 24 hour autism shift

Me watching everyone in riverdale destroy each others lives and then get in a polycule with each other