so grab your tea and listen bitches
(people who arenāt a part of the lgbtq+ community, that donāt stan choni & donāt understand why such a big fuss is being made, please read this. Thereās a lil note for you at the bottom<3)
SO apparently choni donāt have ANY scenes together in this weeks up coming episode and let me tell you why this has T R I G G E R E D me.
We love to gush over choni and their cuteness and make edits and reblog the same gifs of them, which in our head creates more content than has actually been given.
If you really stop to think about it, choniās relationship has had VERY little development and has been given VeRy V E R Y little attention to detail. I donāt care what the writers say, itās fact and hereās why;
Firstly, all of choniās scenes together are about 40 - 60 seconds long and thereās very few of them. Even with the iconic kiss scene, we only saw them together for around a minute. Also thatās the only kiss weāve ever gotten from them and due to the lighting it feels like itās censored.
Second of all, they havenāt actually confirmed their relationship AT ALL in the show. If it werenāt for madelaine saying they were in a relationship we wouldnāt 100% know and fans who only really focus on the core 4 wouldnāt even bat an eyelash at them. The confirmation from madelaine means something to us because we were looking for it and we thrive off any representation given to us. However, the point of representation is also to get through to people who arenāt a part of the community the point that queer relationships are as awesome as straight relationships and not just something for the lgbt community to stan, but for everyone! Love is love and letās face it we all love a good love story.
We had to ACTUALLY RALLY to get one of the cut choni scenes from the Carrie episode and even then, despite the one we got being amazing, we only got one of two. The other being really crucial to the story development of their relationship (confirmation of being girlfriends) and we still didnāt get it.
The fact that Cheryl & Toni are BOTH in the next episode but donāt have any interactions is painfully unrealistic and frustrating as all hell. The other realtionships are attached by the hip and ALWAYS have at least one scene, one kiss, one soft moment or actually just ANY MOMENT together per episode.
I donāt know if the writers realise that choni appear to be a sort of very undetailed sub plot to whatever the core 4 are up to and to the community that feels condescending as hell. Weāre not asking for Riverdale to be all about choni, weāre literally just begging for a little extra moments of screen time. Cheryl is supposed to be one of the main characters after all. Like when Varchie kiss for the 626383 time itās not too much for the writers to think āHm maybe this scene isnāt really important to their story. Maybe we should use this time to develop another fan favourite story.ā And thats not me shitting on Varchie. Theyāre great, but I would like to see other characters and relationships get more attention. Ones that could use the exposure e.g. Choni.
It kind of feels like theyāre dangling choni in front of our faces and calling it representation. Yes, Iām over the moon that a mainstream show as big as Riverdale has touched on sexuality and now has a queer couple but theyāre literally giving us the bare minimum when they could be giving us so much more. However, theyāre not and I truly donāt understand why. Itās so upsetting and actually makes me want to cry.
For anyone who is not a part of the lgbtq+ community, doesnāt stan choni and doesnāt really understand what all the fuss is about, I understand. I understand that it can be hard to put yourself in someone elseās shoes. Itās tricky to see things from a different perspective and to try and see the bigger picture. Please know that this is definitely not an attack on your own ships, nor am I asking for attention to be drawn away from them cause hey, theyāre important to the story of Riverdale too! This is simply a plea for you to sympathise with us and that, for members of the community, this goes far beyond choni being ājust another shipā. For a show with such a vast array of audience members, such as Riverdale, to incorporate a queer couple is huge for us as we finally get to see ourselves represented on screen. It fills us with that little bit of confidence (especially amongst younger queer folk who may feel theyāre wrong for feeling the way they do) that weāre not āabnormalā or ādisgustingā for the way we were born and the way we feel because we actually see ourselves in characters like Cheryl and Toni. It fills us with hope that representation like Choni, if done correctly, will inspire a better future where I wonāt receive glares for holding my girlfriends hand or giving her the smallest of pecks. Where there could be more than just one lgbtq+ couple in a show, a movie or maybe even them being the main characters! Because you have had that representation in every movie you grew up with, which promoted and nourished your feelings of love. We never had that. But we hope to!
Thank you so much for reading! Please, no hating on each other on this post. We only allow love and/or respect towards each other here. X
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