✨Moodboard Teaser: In Technicolor✨

With the release of the first chapter coming in hot with its expected release being this Friday at the latest or sooner (possibly as early as tomorrow) I wanted to take the time to acquaint everyone with the primary couples in this story. Usually I cap it at two couples and have auxilary couples and characters on the fringes. But because this is a crossover between two of my favorite shows, I have expanded it to three—possibly four—couples with auxilaries (secondary) on the fringes. These couples will include original characters i.e. Wynn Galpin who is Tyler Galpin’s younger sister. There is a crossover couple that joins the Wednesday group with the Riverdale group. This couple is where I expect to receive the most backlash but idc. Their my crossover otp and I hope you all trust me enough to keep reading and join me/the characters on this journey. I have also switched some things up with one of the Riverdale characters because the ship only got screen time in the last season and it did more for their character than their actual failed relationships did the entire season. Fight me. But don’t. Or do.

Anyway, here are the couples moodboards, as promised. The visuals were inspired by Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juilet because these past few months since January I have been on a 90’s and 2000’s kick and I am dying for how that movie captured the beauty, grit, grime, and excitement of LA. So enjoy and let me know what you think! 💜

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We open with our crossover couple who are the star-crossed lovers—Cheryl Blossom, the queen of the Palisades and star tennis player and Pugsley “Lee” Addams, the king of Elysian Heights and leader of his grunge sleeze band Texca. Born second generation to a working class defense attorny and day-time caregiver to the elderly, Lee Addams has just wants to make it through his senior year of high school and hangout with his friends on the weekend. But when he and his twin sister Wednesday step a little too far over the line at their old school their parents pull some strings to have their three children—Wednesday, Pugsley, and Pubert “Bertie” attend Morticia’s former high school. There, Lee unwittingly comes face to face with the campus queen, the indomitable and untouchable Cheryl Blossom. Born into privilege with the face of an angel and the bite of a viper, she has everything and anything. Influence thanks to her parents name. Adoration by way of her beauty. And power because of her abilities to manipulate others. But what happens when a hurricane meets an immoveable force? Will they fold? Destroy one another? What happens when the pretty vicious face isn’t all it seems to be and the cutting confidence is stripped away? Who are the real people that lie beneath it all?

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Next are our second pair of the four star-crossed lovers. While it is never a good idea to fall for your twin flame, for Tyler and Wednesday it isn’t so simple. Twin flames and soulmates fused into one as if it were a sick joke, their story begins at a party—the raven haired twin sister with her face painted like a Catrina (see: Dia de los Muertos symbols and iconography) and the Galpin golden boy dressed like Sir Lancelot with the sacred heart etched into his chest plate. Like her brothers, Wednesday grew up living a modest life where nothing was taken for granted and family sits at the heart of all major decisions. For Tyler, he has forgotten the importance of family and community after starting university where his life has evolved into an endless stream of parties and hookup’s. Never struggling but also never being challenged to be better or grow, he’s hit a wall. A mid-life crisis of sorts but at the already chaotic age of 18 with his 19th birthday right around the corner. But from the moment he lays eyes on Wednesday she is all he can think of. All he breathes and dreams of—a beautiful stranger that won’t free him. Yet when this silver tongued Casanova tries to approach the dark beauty he’s shot down. Challenged to question who he is and what he truly is doing with his life that matters. What is in store for the idealistic social revolutionist and her troubled admirer? Where will they land when the walls of his kingdom come crumbling down?

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The youngest of three siblings each yet one is protected and coddled like a greenhouse flower while the other has flourished amidst hardship and bouts of poverty. Wynn Galpin is caught in a never-ending loop of compassions to her twin older siblings, Tyler and Enid. Both are straight A students. Both star athletes with Tyler winning championship after championship for swim and Enid earning a full-ride scholarship to UCLA for volleyball. Both are charming and charismatic. Both are perfect and Wynn can never compare despite how she tries. She doesn’t have the passion for swim or volleyball so she chooses cheer. “That’s not a real sport” she’s told. Her siblings get A’s but she can hardly scrape by with B’s while battling her depression and anxiety. At all times, her mind is screaming for her to just run off and disappear. And after the loss of her friend and pseudo-sister Polly, the darkness has become more persuasive. More invasive and vicious. But it is during a spiral that forces her out of the gym during cheer practice that she runs into the new kid. The brainiac junior in her senior level AP classes. Pubert “Bertie” Addams. A carefree class clown with a heart of gold and the virgin Guadalupe drawn in vibrant neons on the bottom of his skateboard. Where will this new path take them when the class clown and the beauty queen who seems to always be in tears meet to form an oddball friendship? And what happens when their hearts begin to long for more than just friendship but their worlds couldn’t be more different? How will things turn out for the greenhouse flower and her sidewalk dandelion?

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What’s the worst that could happen when you fall in love with your best friend? What happens when you think they love someone else? When you think they could never see you the way you see them in return? Do you stand there and wait for them to turn around? Or do you walk away while piecing together your heart that will never know real closure? Reggie has asked himself these questions nearly every day for the past six years since his family moved to the fringes of the Palisades and enrolled him in the affluent junior high nearby. Archie Andrews was his first friend at his new school all those years ago. The first one to get up during lunch time and sit down next to him. The one who didn’t care that his parents weren’t from money and had only recently come into their fortune. The one who didn’t care that he didn’t have the newest clothes, phone, or hairstyle. Like a guardian angel come to save him from perpetual solitude, Archie befriended Reggie with a bright smile and a silly joke. And since that day, Reggie has kept his love for the redhaired boy wonder to himself. Has been the picture of what a bestfriend should be. Has supported Archie and defended him. Joined their high school swim team with him just so that they could live out Archie’s dream of being the one’s to break Tyler, the former captain’s, record and win more championships than him and his team did. Reggie has lived a beautiful but painful lie for nearly a decade and the cracks have begun to show. The devotion now agony. The love a barbed dagger twisted liettle by little every time he has to play third wheel on Archie’s dates with his girlfriend Veronica. But one night their eyes meet across a sea of moving bodies at a house party. Archie kissing Veronica but can’t stop looking at Reggie. There’s a spark. A sadness. Hope. But is there truth? Is there a willingness to be honest? To accept this attraction that has been there waiting from the start? Does Archie know what real love could be like if he just turned around? Or will the lovefool angel look away once again and leave the poor friend and saint in the dark?

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Stay tuned for more because this is only the beginning. Next will be the auxiliary couples, characters, and family boards for the three main ones at play. But the next next post that will be following this one will be the official titlecard for Chapter One. Can’t wait to see you all again there. 💜

Wonderful 1966 space-rock novelty, available on Ace's superb (one of three such) compilation Would She Do That For You?!

re: elvis and black women- there was also darlene love of the blossoms who gave interviews about elvis hitting on her during filming change of habit. he told her "you know, i really like you and i've never been with a black woman..." and she replied "well, you're not about to be with this one either", which made him burst out laughing, lol.

oh my gosh I’ve never actually heard this story before so thank you so much for sharing because I absolutely love this 💀 like Marty Lacker really expected us to believe that the biggest ladies man of all time didn’t flirt with every beautiful woman he saw, bffr 😭

and it’s always funny to me whenever elvis got humbled a little bit because I think he expected most girls to fall at his feet and whenever a girl didn’t, I think it would make him want her even more (like the story of how he met Dottie Harmony and how she ignored him until he got on his knees and basically begged her to go out with him lmaooo)

darlene is a stronger woman than me because imagine having enough will power to deny him when he’s looking like that 😩

People for years share cropped photo (on the Left) of #StephanieSpruill w/#ElvisPresley ... (Usually saying something generic) like - "Stephanie Spruill & Elvis at Caesars Palace after Tom Jones show 1974"....

But nothing else. However the Uncropped, Original photo (in Middle) says so much more, & is a far Better story.

(Obviously 3rd photo on right is Stephanie today)

Stephanie Spruill is a #LifetimeAchievementAward recipient 🏆& also a multi- #GrammyAward winner.

Stephanie tells a wonderful story of night in 1974. Elvis was in #CeasersPalace, #lasVegas visiting w/Tom Jones & others. She was determined to meet Elvis, & also get photo w/him. Just as he showed up she realized her camera had no film. She took off running (literally sprinting through the building), to find film, then sprinted back just in time.

Elvis was happy to pose w/her... Plus, 2 members of the legendary Soul group "The Blossoms" Fanita James & Jeannie King (they worked w/Elvis in his 1968 TV Special, & also in his 1969 film) asked if they could join in photo w/them.

(Incidentally, Stephanie would temporarily take Jeannie King's place in The Blossoms, after she passed away in 1984)

She said she & Elvis squared off in Karate fashion where he invited her to throw punches at his hands held up (Like a boxing coach talking to trainee). The crowd was cheering them on.

Stephanie was taken aback by Elvis' incredible aura, & "the most beautiful eyes" she'd ever seen....and said she - "rather would have liked to kiss him" - (😂LOL) instead of play punch around.

It was quite a special fun memory for Stephanie & all present

She herself quite a special person. Still out there actively doing her thing. Keep on keepin' on to Stephanie Spruill❗

(Info from her Book - "17 Points To Longevity In Showbusiness: Staying Focused on Your Vision")

And Beautiful (1969) is a forgotten all-Black television special starring Redd Foxx, Della Reese, Letta Mbulu, Wilson Pickett, The Blossoms, Jerry Butler, and the Watts 103rd Street Band.

The Blossoms are an American girl group that originated from California. During their height of success in the 1960s, the group's lineup most famously consisted of Darlene Love, Fanita James, and Jean King. Although the group had a recording career in their own right, they were most famous for being the group to actually record the No. 1 hit "He's a Rebel" (which producer Phil Spector credited to The Crystals), and for providing backing vocals for many of the biggest hits of the 1960s.

the prettiest girls and the dirtiest water

📸💌🎀⚡🍄🎫🦷♥️

Darlene Love  *July 26, 1941

Posting old art, Powerpuff girls but they’re cyberpunk robots

Cherry blossom axolotl 🌸

長谷寺 Hase-dera / 壺阪寺 Tsubosaka-dera

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by Gurumustuk Singh

"Can't two guys be just friends?" If they stop looking at each other like that then sure