Oh, my gosh, I cannot figure out how to make this camera and video be straight,
but, then again, I'm not straight either so I guess this is just fitting, right?
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Hello and welcome back to the channel and Vlogmas.
Today, because it is Wednesday, and what does Wednesday mean?
Well, if you are a CW fan and a Riverdale fan,
you know that today, tonight is a new episode of Riverdale, I think.
I think it's still airing.
Alright, I'm gonna be honest, I stopped watching it as it aired because I couldn't focus
and I would just prefer Netflix, but, still, I wanted it to be fitting.
So, because of that, I just want to talk about how much I love Cheryl Blossom.
In fact, I love her so much that I was her as a Serpent for Halloween.
So, if you don't know who Cheryl Blossom is and you're not really aware of Riverdale,
it's a show that is based on the Archie comics,
which I will admit and be honest, I have not read.
Riverdale is about a bunch of teenagers that...
It's like watching a soap opera, a soap opera in really, really, really high-quality HD,
and Cheryl Blossom, aka Cherry Bombshell, is kind of a character that you...
Well, to be honest, when I first started watching it, I kind of really hated her.
Well, not hated her, I loved and hated her and I still almost kinda do,
but she has a brother named Jason, and, you know what, let's not spoil it.
But, anyway, she's kind of like the head bitch in charge
and the mean girl at school, which...she is kind of mean.
She's a character you cannot ignore, a character that you cannot forget,
and this goes for both her looks and her personality.
So, I want to go over the reasons why I just really love Cheryl Blossom.
I kinda already mentioned this but the fact that she's just not boring.
Like, I'm gonna be honest, I'm not too much of an Archie fan himself.
I don't dislike him and I don't hate him.
But I just...
I kind of find him forgettable,
which shouldn't really happen if you're the main character of the show, right?
But when I watch him and whatnot, I just...
I kinda don't really remember what goes on in his life,
unless it's like a really major plot point.
But with Cheryl, man, there's always something wild going on in her life.
You know, she's the main person in the show that's just, like, really dramatic
and just all this obscene stuff happening in her life, and it's just...
You can't forget her.
The signature look with the red hair and the really thick lashes and the red lips.
As you can see, I was kind of trying to channel her look today.
I just... I don't have red hair.
Every time she comes on the screen, my eyes just move over.
Every time she comes on the screen, it's just...
it's too hard not to look over at her because she's just so mesmerising.
OK, not to be a Debbie downer, but the second reason
is the fact that I can relate to her when it comes to having an abusive parent.
Now, is Cheryl Blossom an angel? No.
She's done some pretty...
She's done some pretty wild things in the show but I understand it.
It's like a defence mechanism.
When you've been abused all of your life, you have to do whatever it is that you can
to try to protect yourself, especially if the threat is still ongoing.
Every time, when she feels really upset, when she's getting beaten down,
you know, verbally and whatnot from her mother, I feel that.
I feel that very much, and I think the fact that, OK, her dad wasn't anything too great either,
but, since her mom is more in the picture now, it's just...it's so much more relatable,
and I think that's just one of the things I really enjoy seeing,
a character that goes through the same experiences that I had to go through,
and I just want to, like, go into the TV screen or the laptop screen
and, like, you know, just give her a hug.
The third reason being that she is also a bisexual woman.
It was confirmed by Madelaine herself,
so I don't recall if they say that outright in the show,
at least not since the last episode that I've seen, and, if they did mention it,
it might be completely just...it might have disappeared from my brain and my memory.
But I was looking it up when I was making my list and Madelaine said herself that,
yes, Cheryl is bisexual, and hi - bisexual woman myself, so, heck, yeah.
Also, the actress herself is vegan, as well,
and so I'm going to assume that Cheryl Blossom is, too,
so let's just throw that in there.
And the last reason that I really like her,
or more of that I can really relate to her, is the fact that, you know, she's a loner.
You know, you see her as this person who's, like, the most popular in school,
and the cameras, the writing make it seem like she's, you know, very popular,
and, of course, Veronica was kind of taking that place a little bit.
But, regardless of her being, like, the head bitch in school and whatnot, you know,
that girl is a loner.
She doesn't really have any real friends.
Now she does.
As you get more and more into the show, into the third season,
she's starting to develop friendships with the Serpents and she's dating Toni, you know?
But, really, before the end of season two, all she really had was Jason.
And, well, she doesn't have Jason anymore, so she's just feeling very alone.
Her parents are abusive and, well, let's be honest, OK, Cheryl's not perfect.
Cheryl is...
She has a mean streak, and, so, yeah,
if you've got a mean streak, people don't really want to be friends with you all that often.
So, you know, she's been trying to change that.
She's been doing better with her personality.
She still has her moments.
I don't think Cheryl will ever get rid of her moments
and I don't think I even want that to really happen
because that is what makes Cheryl Cheryl.
Just don't go too overboard with that, right?
All she really wants is a family and friends and whatnot.
She just wants connections with people,
and I think, because of the defence mechanism
and all the shit that she was dealing with with the abuse from her parents,
she doesn't really know how to not be so defensive and not be so mean,
which is a situation, a thing that she needs to work on, because,
if she doesn't work on that, then, obviously, it's not gonna work out really well for her.
You know, I feel that, I felt that in high school.
You know, I had a couple of friends
but I didn't really feel like I had a real connection with anybody
'cause, you know, while we'd be friends at school or whatever,
it's like, outside of school, nobody really wanted to connect with me all that much,
not in the way that I would see other people be connected.
I mean, even now, like, with YouTube, friends and whatnot,
like, I don't really feel like I have a real strong connection with as many people
as I like to think that I do because connection is like a two-way street, you know?
If one person reaches out but the other one doesn't really on their own time, it's like...
Maybe I am the forgotten one and I...people don't really want that connection with me.
Like, I feel those same feelings that Cheryl has
and I understand the desire to try to make connections so, so badly,
because being alone and feeling alone really, really sucks.
It really does.
I'm not saying that Cheryl Blossom is a completely perfect character.
Nobody is. It is Riverdale.
Nobody in Riverdale is perfect.
That's the whole show.
Everybody has their deep, dark secrets and whatnot, right?
I've had my own issues in the past.
I still have my issues in the past.
Even just yesterday, I was probably doing something really crappy
and I'm gonna learn from it,
and, you know, it's not just me, it's everybody else on this planet, nobody is perfect,
and that's probably why I love Cheryl so much,
through all the...
with just how messed up she is because I relate and I just...
She is that one character that is going through so much growth.
It might be slowly but it's happening.
She's going from someone that just wanted to take care of herself,
it was just me, myself and I,
or she felt like that was just how she was gonna have to be, like it was just herself,
but now, working with the serpents and, you know, being a serpent
and how she was standing up for people,
even people she didn't really know all that well.
Jughead and Toni, you know, she knows them pretty well, but, just...
I feel like, if you haven't seen the show,
you have to see the show to understand what I'm talking about.
That's why I love Cheryl Blossom.
If you are a Riverdale fan, let me know who your favorite character is.
Tell me how you feel about Cheryl.
You don't have to love her as much as I do.
That's fine.
But let's have a conversation about it because I really want to talk more about it.
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