in my mind veronica and katy keene are the kinda friends who only see each other 3 or 4 times a year but they’re always texting back and forth and on each other’s socials so one day post-season 5 they’re having a girls’ chitchat and veronica is filling katy in on all her archie & reggie relationship drama and goes “but enough about me, how’s your dating life?” and katy’s like “well… i haven’t told anyone about this yet, but i recently started seeing this new guy. he’s older, divorced, but not a mr. big type, more rugged and working class. he wears a leather jacket and rides a motorcycle, every bad boy cliche in the book. i like him a lot and we have fun together but i don’t see us getting serious or anything because he has an ex-wife and two kids” and veronica’s like “girl he sounds hot, send me a pic of your darling new dilf” and so katy does and veronica is like oh no fucking way…
i come from the 8tracks generation where you weren’t allowed to just dump three and a half twee indie folk/tswift records into a fanmix and call it done. on 8tracks you had 8+ handpicked songs in rigid chronological order and an accompanying mission statement and thesis defence detailing exactly why each one applied to your derek x stiles coffee shop au AND cover/track-list art hodgepodged from stolen pinterest/tumblr aesthetic photography, and all of this was done under constant threat of death because it was the DMCA wild west and the site was in a constant state of gradual collapse.
