#bughead condition

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Grimberry Shake It Off, Betty and Veronica Double Digest #321 (2024).

[edgarsabandonedrocketship]

Three Days of So-Called Peace, Love, and Music. Or, How We Came to Loathe Camping

In honor of the 24th anniversary week of Woodstock ‘99, here’s a little something for you readers out there!

Chapter 15: Pain Lies on the Riverside.

As conditions continue to deteriorate, a legendary musician tries valiantly to destroy his guitar. Later on, Bughead resume their sleuthing at the campsite. There’s also an amazing scene involving hats courtesy of my wonderful co-author, @middleagedresidentofriverdale. 

Start from the beginning here.

[jandjsalmon]

2022 Fanfiction Reading Challenge

September Stats

Hello everybody! How was your September?! Where I live we have a very very short autumn - so we’re enjoying our brief moment of golden trees and crisp air. Finally got our fence up and our grass is gorgeous. It’s almost too cold for hammocks, but we’re doing our best.

Thank you for being wonderful friends during my NY trip. I got SO many messages and suggestions about where to go and what to eat. I love you all for that. It was a short but amazing trip. I read a lot on the plane - and walked a LOT once we got there (47km in 3 days) - my feet were SO swollen. I saw all the things. So many bridges! It was so fun and I can’t wait until I can get back there. I have several friends in Jersey and I waved at you guys from afar. <3 <3 <3

Fandom-wise, I’m still working on my Hard (79/87) and Extreme(59/65) challenges at the @fanfic-reading-challenge​​​ - I need to read a bunch of “Fandom Event” fics. Which events should I read?  What is your favourite fandom event? 

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Also - as per usual, here are a few recs for the month. If you have any favourite stories (that you loved reading or even that you wrote - in any fandom), please let me know. I’d love to know what you’ve been reading and I never complain about new stories to read.

twenty-one rules by elanor_gamgee (21/21 - Eddie/Chrissy)

Summary: Chrissy needs a fake boyfriend so she can keep her ex away. Eddie needs to admit that he's falling in love with her. (fake dating to friends to lovers au in which absolutely nobody dies!)

Why you should read it: FAKE DATING! And NOBODY DIES! 

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The Fourth Estate by catie56 (24/24 - Fitzwilliam Darcy/Lizzie)

Summary: There are people who believe that romantic connections are the province of fate and destiny, the result of an alignment of constellations and conditions that bring two people together. Others tend to discuss falling in love as the product of rational decisions that acknowledge attraction and compatibility. Some people, however, seem to think these two seemingly-opposite perspectives are really just two sides of the same coin. Sometimes, after all, destiny just requires that two people make a single choice. A modern/AU Pride & Prejudice. 

Why you should read it: SUPER funny - and the characterizations are spot on - despite it being a modern AU where Darcy is famous and the paparazzi accidentally catches him standing next to Lizzie and think they’re together. A real delight.

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The Elusive Elenor Clancy & The Story by @darknessaroundus (Bughead)

Summary: 1. Betty's lived in Willowdale for over a decade. She has a life there, a routine filled with writing, cooking, the twins, and secretly supplementing the income of the Andrews-Brown Organic farm.If only her family didn't want that steady life to change. 2. Five times Jughead was asked about his leg, and one time he told the truth.

Why you should read it: I really really love C’s writing - and this is a really fun series. I really love Betty’s growth and Jughead is adorable. It was a seriosuly delightful reread. Do yourself a favour and indulge tonight! 

I hope you enjoy the recs and I hope you all have a wonderful week.❤️

[arsenicpanda]

“Hey, arsenicpanda,” I hear my convenient strawman asking, “why have you been so distant from the bughead fandom lately?”

Well, as they say, one bad apple can spoil the barrel…

And I’ve encountered a lot of bad apples.

So, back in March, I went from just shipping Betty and Jughead to also shipping Jughead and Tabitha (and to a lesser extent Jughead and Toni, but that one isn’t relevant here).  And it brought me a chunk of anon hate.  See, there I was, playing with a toy with all these kids I thought were my friends, when I spotted another totally different toy I liked and started playing with that one too. And then, for no apparent reason, some of the people I’d been playing with before just started throwing rocks at me.

Harassment over a ship is annoying, I know this from the B/As, but harassment over a ship from members of one of your own fan-communities is just...it hurts, somehow, even coming from random strangers.  It’s mostly died down now, but there were around two months where I got a serious, concentrated amount of asshole anons every time I opened my mouth to talk about Jughead and Tabitha or posted a gif set of them. I’d immediately get hate in my inbox in a way that says “I hate your opinions but I also have you on notifications.”  Once I turned off anon and got someone who made three sockpuppet accounts to continue to send me hate.  Sometimes they’d take their interpretations of my opinions over to other blogs on anon in hopes that I’d be dunked on without being mentioned by name.  And it sucked, a lot.

I was largely left alone otherwise, but I felt as if there was an implicit message of “If you fall in line, you can stay, but otherwise get the fuck out,” and somehow that part hurt most of all.  Maybe because I’d thought this was a safe space, but in reality it was only safe as long as I didn’t say anything that most of the fandom would take issue with. Still, I didn’t answer them and I kept quiet because I didn’t want to give them the satisfaction of getting a rise out of me, and I didn’t want to answer that kind of hurtful shit in the first place; I did keep screenshots though because I always like to have proof of things.

It’s eaten at me somehow, left a bad taste in my mouth about the bughead fandom; I felt, and continue to feel even, unwelcome in my own fandom.  We like to pretend that we are never the aggressors, never the assholes, and something about getting concrete proof that that’s not the case bothers me.  I know every fandom has assholes, but I didn’t expect the assholes to eat their own, which is very “I never thought the face-eating leopards would eat my face,” I know, I know.  Riverdale itself tried its hardest to ruin bughead for me, but it never succeeded, not really; the bughead fandom, however, really kneecapped my ability to enjoy it somehow.  Perhaps it’s the nature of anon hate, that there’s no one to direct your ire to when you get it; it just comes from the void, and at best you’ll have a vague direction to be mad at, but that’s not very satisfying, now is it?  I don’t even know how many people this is, if it’s one or two or ten or more, if it’s really bughead fans or if this is some bizarre false flag operation from the B/As, and it’s so frustrating.

I still ship bughead, by the way, and I’m 99.9% sure it’s endgame, and I’ll enjoy that when it happens; I like Jughead/Tabitha and bugabitha though, and I’d be down for those as endgame too (canon Jughead/Tabitha would require Betty having her own romantic endgame, just one that wasn’t Archie).  I don’t make much bughead content because all my ideas would work best with footage of their reunion, something we know we’re getting in 5b; I just have to wait it out, and I will.  I make a lot of Jughead/Tabitha content because I have ideas for them, and I also probably have all the footage for them I’ll ever be able to use, so there’s no reason to wait for more; it’s also a small ship, and someone should do it, so why not me?  Be the change you want to see in the world and so on.

So why talk about this now, you ask?  Why do this when it’ll just put a target on my back and invite the harassment back in?  Because it bothers me, mainly, and because I just want to post the proof of the bughead fandom’s bullying that I can refer back to should I ever need to.  Maybe I just want to shame the fandom into better behavior.  Maybe I just want to get it off my chest.  Maybe I want to say, “Hey, don’t send hurtful anons, because odds are someone else already had that idea, and they really add up,” and encourage people not to perpetuate this behavior and energy in the Riverdale fandom or carry it into other fandoms they’re a part of.  Maybe I just want to explain why I haven’t been around, even though I’d like to be.  I don’t know.

But this is why I’m consuming less bughead content these days, this negative association.  And it’s frustrating because I’ve met some really great people here and read great fics and seen great art and gif sets.  I’m not leaving, and I’m certainly not shutting up about my opinions on anything; I’m not giving anyone that satisfaction.  But I am stepping back some in terms of engagement, I suppose.  I’ll keep making the content I’m inspired to make, share the opinions I feel like sharing, including ones on bughead, but I’ll just consume less content.  Hopefully this won’t be a permanent condition because that would just suck so much because, as I said, there are some awesome people here and they make some awesome content and have some awesome opinions.

tl;dr Fandom can suck, including the bughead fandom, which I’ve experienced first hand, and now I’m stepping back a bit but not leaving.

[askandsmile]

i got all y'all's messages and i do think i have more to say, but at the same time i'm just like 🥴️🥴️🥴️

this season isn't great, but this episode was terrible. evan is a terrible writer. he's also a fucked up troll. he likes that he's the b*rchie king, he likes b*rchie, he projects onto them. and truly, the less we try to explain anything about this, the better.

i think i need to wait and watch what comes next (from better writer's hands tbh) until i say anything else regarding canon.

but long post ahead, cause i've been wanting to address something that it's not even coherent, but it's just making me insane lol.

we have 6 episodes ahead of us. 6 weeks. if you guys freak out with every single thing that happens, no one is going to enjoy anything anymore.

i don't have spoilers. all the spoilers i had, from when i was in the clubhouse with evan, i gave to you. the way i read the interviews, i told you. i don't have anything else to add. i never had inside info or anything like that, all my speculations were based on rumors going around *and* the bts we got.

all that i could speculate i already did.

"oh, but what if--"

well. when s4 ended, i said, "if they're gonna make veronica look like archie's second choice, i'm not going to watch s5 live". i carried on watching because they didn't, they made it quite clear that veronica is archie's first choice seven years later.

i'm saying it again, "if they're gonna make varchie go through some b*rchie drama/bullshit again, i'm not going to watch s6 live."

if i do watch it, it'll be the same by the end of it if they get a s7. you have to go episode by episode with this show until the entire journey makes sense.

that's all i can do! that's all i can control. that's all you guys can control: the time and dedication you're willing to give to this show.

(i write a fic that's never-ending and even with roughly 4 readers left, i am pushing through because i want to finish it. this is the time and dedication i'm willing to give to this show, writing this fic to those who still enjoy it and to myself, and to varchie.)

so my suggestion now is, let's watch the episodes. it's 6 weeks. are you going to be anxious for 4-5 out of 6 weeks because of something that maybe, possibly, perhaps will happen? are you going to try to make me and other people anxious because you are? i'm choosing, at this point, to trust my ship and the story they've been telling about them.

i know it's harder for bugheads at the moment (reminder that i, myself, am not one although i did love them back in s1 and do support their relationship in the core four context) because they've been dealing with another love interest, on top of cole and lili's breakup, on top of not getting a lot of content, or bts, etc, etc.

but as a varchie shipper...guys, i've been there!

i have seen reggie tell veronica they could be endgame. i have seen archie dance a duet with josie saying he'd fight for her. i have seen archie writing a song to someone else. i have seen veronica getting married to another guy, and then possibly sleep with him after sort of maybe getting back together with archie. trust me, no one in this fandom knows better what you guys are going through right now.

so yes, maybe jabitha will date, or maybe they won't. maybe bh will get back together this season, maybe they won't. it doesn't mean the end of bughead, not at all. look at all the shit other ships have been through (even b*rchies, really). you guys are fine.

is the show good right now? no, it's not. i thought it wasn't so bad until 5x08 (even with the b*rchie thing) but then it just went downhill, and 5x13 was the worst episode ever. no wonder it had 0.7 ratings. but like, does that mean it will stay so bad? i don't know. i haven't watched 5x14, 5x15, 5x16, etc. i don't know what's coming. it might be great! it might suck.

and you guys don't get it, half the varchie fandom left in s3 because there was no sight of varchie anywhere, and then we were pleasantly surprised with the best build up ever in s3C. but you know what? sometimes i wish varchie hadn't gotten back together then! so we would see more of that buildup, some actual reaction from archie seeing veronica choose reggie instead of him, etc. it would've opened a sea of possibilities for a good story.

and whether you like it or not, this is giving more space for other characters to be around. they're not developing them. they're not writing them well. but you can't deny that we have seen more of toni, reggie, fangs, even kevin and cheryl, than ever since...ever.

and it's okay if you just watch for your ship. but the show, and the writers, are not worried about you shdhshd. i think there has been a misconception about that. the ships exist within the show, and this season feels so weird because the core four is apart and bh is apart, but the show is ultimately about the characters and their good/bad decisions.

so, thinking about the characters, ask yourself: is archie in conditions to be with veronica right now? is betty in conditions to be with jughead right now? jug and archie are in their way to healing, it looks like, but betty still isn't. is veronica in conditions to be committed again atm? i don't know. will this change in a couple of episodes? maybe!

and it's same for other characters. choni are going through the exact same thing bh is, they just don't have the impending doom that is b*rchie hovering above, but i guess no one doubts choni.

but imagine if they get back to choni and just give them a few throw away lines and boom, it's all magically fixed. wouldn't they feel betrayed? don't you enjoy the aspect that bh is taking time for this reunion after they were completely shattered? i know i would've written varchie differently if i could.

anyway. it's useless to think "oh, zalben said this, evan said that, ras said this" when we can't control what they say, or how they think. we can only interpret it (90% of the time i've been right about them but whatever) and we can only watch the show in front of us and absorb something from that.

(which is hard when the episode sucks, but it's what we can do).

all this freaking out is making me stop enjoying the show, and the fandom. it's not giving anyone any joy. you guys have to calm down and i'm not being dismissive of how much a tv show can bring anxiety, but the only thing you can do is trust the process.

bughead has been a solid thing for 4 seasons. it's their first major problem. varchie has been not that solid but very, very present for 4 seasons. b*rchie has been whatever it has been for 4 seasons. jabitha is a new ship, but it's around now... but hasn't even really happened yet. like, all these characters have their stories to tell among them, and if we don't enjoy the road they take, we can only try to detach ourselves.

okay, i guess, that's it. i'm not sure if i make any sense, but i'm so exhausted of people not trusting what's being shown to them and only thinking about zalben, bdaily takes, evan, ras, yadayada, who the rvd writers liked on twitter, like... c'mon.

[thetaoofbetty]

Come on, we all know RD is a slow burn masterpiece leading to Jugeryl, TTarchie, Beggie, and Faronica endgames at the end of season thirteen, with Kevin officiating the weddings as a celibate priest. The slower the burn the better, right?

okay okay okay, hear me out, if jugeryl and beggie is gonna be endgame but cheryl is also a lesbian how can i connect reggie to moose so bughead can still win?

i feel like the terms and conditions on that still ends up with me sitting through a musical wedding tho.

...i'll take it.

[bugheadchemistry]

[tentatively] taking requests

If you’ve been following me throughout this hiatus, you probably have noticed a sharp decline in new content from me. Over the last few months, I have struggled with a creative block which has pretty much wiped out my desire to make any gifs. So as a way to hopefully combat this, I am opening up gif requests with the following conditions:

Must be Bughead related. I may decide to take general requests later, but right now I just want to focus on Bughead.

Please be patient while waiting for your request to be filled. I will do my best to get any requests done in a timely manner, but as I’m trying to break through this block it may take longer than normal for requests to be filled.

Anyway, I think that is all. You can respond to this post with your request, send it via messenger, or drop it my ask box.

I appreciate all your patience and understanding!

[thepointoftheneedle]

Bughead appreciation week

Prompt- headcanon

In my head Jughead is interested in cooking, Betty bakes but Jughead is the chef. I decided to try postcard fiction for this one so it’s 250 words. This is set in my Recognition universe.

She leaned back against the door once she’d pulled it closed behind her. Her feet burned from the walking and her bag had cricked her neck. She was, to use the technical term, pooped.

“Did you get it?” he yelled from the kitchen.

“I guess,” she replied, pulling the baggie from her pocket and eyeing it suspiciously. She’d rarely seen anything that she was less keen to eat.

He appeared and snatched the bag from her hand. “You’re wonderful. I’m going to make you this amazing Matar Chi Usal but I need the Kalpasi to make the Goda Masala.”

“I’m pleased if you’re pleased,” she said. “Even though I had to walk twenty blocks for it. The first place I tried was all out of weird black scrapings so the guy sent me to his cousin’s place over by Tompkins Square Park.”

“It isn’t weird, it’s lichen. It’ll only grow in these very particular conditions in Tamil Nadu. If we didn’t live in the city we’d never get hold of it.”

She didn’t point out that “we” hadn’t got hold of it at all. “What does it taste like anyway?”

“Oh, nothing. It’s flavourless,” he said blithely, turning and heading back into the kitchen.

He served a kind of pea stew with rotis that he’d made himself. She had to admit it was great but then she was starving. He grinned across the table at her, “The best seasoning is hunger Betts. All that walking really gave you an appetite.”

Feel like doing some cooking? Here are recipes for the spice blend, the flat bread and the pea curry.

[go-ldy]

Riverdale 5x01

Hello from Canada where Riverdale comes to me a day later. Here are my belated thoughts on the premiere!

The episode was enjoyable  but also weirdly anti-climatic? I think it’s because we have spent about 10 months speculating on the emotional fallout from 4x17 and the ramifications seemed so huge and massive and then onscreen, it was kind of like.... oh. But also of course it was. Riverdale has never been a show about huge emotional ramifications (aside from a few exceptions).

Varchie got much of the heavy emotional lifting and Cami was heartbreaking. And also completely gorgeous? Each scene she was in this episode was a look. Her singing Carry the Torch was painful but I am obsessed with the dress she was wearing, what a babe.

Veronica’s dedication to Archie and continuing to be Riverdale’s Best Girlfriend was just :(((((((( baby, come into my arms :((((((((

I still dunno if I really understand where Archie’s head is at re: Betty. It felt true to character that he would want to come to clean to Veronica about what happened. But is he feeling guilty because he loves Veronica and regretting what happened with Betty? Is he still feeling torn or confused about his feelings? Did he use Betty as a crutch or an excuse to keep from, in his mind, holding Veronica back? All three?

Betty’s look in Archie’s direction during Carry the Torch was so funny/awk, it was the look of someone who was like: “YOU JUST LEFT THIS LYING AROUND YOU FOOL.” the whole situation is awful but also, nobody throws a dirty look like B. Cooper.

Veronica was way more mature and understanding in the circumstances than I would be, and while it tracks, I also would not mind seeing her get mad? Girl, you can be mad about this.

I know that Hiram is overplayed, but  Mark Consuelos is such a delight. He just KNOWS what show he is on, you know? Him asking Archie to be deputy mayor (LMAOOOOOOOO WHAT) followed up by him lurking in shadows at the end and plotting Archie’s demise was incredible, A+ acting. 

lmao @ the Navy having one spot left and deciding the only way to determine who gets it is a boxing match between two teenagers. That’s how that works!!

Archie and that KO guy from Katy Keene having a sleepover and talking about their “girls” while Archie stared guiltily into space was so fucking funny. Normal teenage boy stuff, Riverdale nails it again.

To the surprise of nobody, Toni’s much promised “backstory” was very much “oh okay.” This Nana we have literally never met before or knew Toni had any connection with suddenly has the power to break up Choni because she hates Blossoms? Fine.

Bughead were such a delight in this episode!  Choni and Varchie are having these big emotional scenes and Bughead were delighting in making a snuff film lmao. Which got them NOTHING in the end! But boy did they have fun doing it, these absolute insufferable weirdos.

I loved that Betty had her father’s serial killer conditioning video in her back pocket in case the snuff film was revealed as a fake. Ruthless Betty Cooper is one of my favourites. Please come again any time, my love and light of my life.

The return of Jughead punching people because Betty. :))))))))))) A delight!!

Betty’s prom dress was indecent. I loved it.

I wanted more Betty and Jughead slow dancing and nuzzling each other at prom, how very dare the auteur take this from me, rude.

It did make me laugh that despite all the “adult” chaperones at prom, Betty and Jughead were the only ones who thought to take steps to stop the auteur’s snuff prom video. Typical adults of Riverdale stuff I guess.

I love that Riverdale, a town of a population of what? 15,000? 20,000?? is apparently big enough to have this entire underground rave/snuff film culture. Okay! Cool!! 

Are we buying JB’s excuse that she just happened to get invited to a snuff film rave or.....? 

Whoever re-created the Mr. Honey murder needed to have access to Jughead’s Killing Mr. Honey story which is... a small handful of people. And the auteur is probably not Alice.

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From There's the Rub, Archie's Pal Jughead #109 (1998).

[theao3feed-bughead]

we melt together (like the falling snow)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3Ebl5jv

by ElizabethJonesIII

Betty Cooper has been in and out of hospitals since the day she was born. Born with an incurable heart condition, the doctors told her parents she wouldn't live to see her first birthday. She lived to see that birthday and seventeen more, perhaps something to do with her desire to see the first snow every year. It seems, during the fall of her eighteenth year, for the first time, she won't be able to see it. With her attacks coming more frequently the doctors say she might not live to see the end of the month. Enter Jughead Jones. An enigma. A vampire. On the eve of his nineteenth birthday, he was turned against his will and left alone to fend for himself. The only one of his kind to have compassion in his heart, he refuses to drink blood. One night, the two of them meet by chance, and the two feel an instant spark. When Betty finds out about his true nature, she begs him to drink her blood, so that she can live to see an eternity of first snows. Jughead refuses. But what happens when he discovers how much danger she is truly in, and how long can these two ignore the immediate attraction that they both feel the moment their eyes meet? - Or a "Millennium Snow" AU, which no one in the world asked for.

Words: 3065, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Riverdale (TV 2017)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Betty Cooper, Jughead Jones, Alice Cooper, Hal Cooper, Jellybean Jones, Adam Chisholm

Relationships: Betty Cooper/Jughead Jones

Additional Tags: Vampire AU, Pining, Mutual Pining, there are like whispers of angst, probably like two sentences of smut, Alice is a bad mom, POV Multiple, Jughead's pov consists of sonnets about Betty's smile as is usual for me, there is a lot of talk of death here, Betty isn't "suicidal" more like tired, the beginning interaction of bughead feels like twilight and i'm sorry

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3Ebl5jv

[like-romeoandjuliet-love]

Bughead Drabble Challenge June Edition

Day 3: Fatherhood

He cries when she goes to sleep that night. Watching her sleep, with tears streaming down his face, he looks down at his hand placed on her stomach and thinks of all the plans they had made before today. And he feels a little selfish for even thinking of it. Maybe in time he’d learn that it’s okay to mourn what could’ve been. Because this was definitely not in their plans. Their plan for next year was college, it was maybe going on a nice vacation to celebrate the end of high school the summer before college. Maybe not every plan has to change, maybe they can still do some of the things they wanted to. But their priorities would be different now.

Thinking of the life inside her, the life they created terrifies him to an extent he was never ready for. He’d never imagined himself as a father. For him, the word father often brought bad memories, no matter how many times he’d reminded himself that things had changed, that his father had redeemed himself, there was still that scared little boy inside him. A beer bottled smashed on the counter, the sound still sharp, his father passed out of the couch, the yelling.

Betty is pregnant. She’s pregnant and she wants to keep it because she can’t imagine getting an abortion and she can’t possibly give it up, live with the same feeling her mother lived for decades.

It was unfair that they were both so deeply conditioned by their parents’ mistakes. That it played such a big part of all their fears. And now, all his mind can think about is how the timing is just wrong. Everything was seemingly going according to plan, they were happy and now...he feels guilty for even thinking it’s wrong, for even mourning the life they were living up until now.

“You’ll never be like your mother.” He’d whispered when she voiced her fears. Fearing that she’d end up just like Alice, that this kid would hate her, that she’d screwed up because they were so young. They’re so young, there’s so much they wanted to do before this chapter of life began. Her mother never meant to hurt her and she still did. What if it happens again? “If you really want to do this, then we’ll do our best. And we’ll learn from their mistakes. And we’ll never make this baby feel unloved.”

But his mind short circuits when he’s alone. He hadn’t voiced his own fears, too worried with how panicked she looked, how much she was shaking and crying in his arms. All he wanted was for the world to stop, stop hurting her. Why did the universe have it out for them? What cosmical forces conspired against them in the beginning of time? Stop hurting her. Fuck. It’s not fair. Nothing about any of this is fair.

When a sob escapes him, he covers his mouth to muffle the cries but Betty stirs beside him. She wakes and she opens her eyes and he can’t hide it. As much as he wants to reassure her it’s okay, that’s he’s fine, that everything will be okay, he can’t, because he’s never been able to hide much from her.

“Juggie,” She whispers and she pulls him to her, his head nestles into her chest and he thinks of what it’ll be like in a few months when their baby lies on her chest like that and his chest tightens, he tries to focus on her but all he can think about is the bundle of cells between them.

“I’m sorry.” He chokes out.

“No.” She breathes out, pressing a kiss to his head, holding a little tighter and then as if she knows, because she does. She knows every bit of him. She murmurs in a steady voice, steadier than it was hours ago. “We’re not like them.” He’d reassured her of that before and now he needs it to. “You’re not FP. You can never be like him. You’re already a better father than he ever was.”

“How- how do you know?”

“Because I know you. And I know you love me and I know you’ll love this baby. You’ve been my safe haven all these years. I never questioned your love for a second and this baby will never question it either because when you love, Juggie, it’s real. And that never stops.”

“What if love isn’t enough?” He whispers.

“We’ll never be like them.” She promises. “You’re right. I will never be Alice. And you will never be FP. Their mistakes aren’t ours and we’ll do better. We’ll give this baby what we deserved our whole lives. This baby will never feel unwanted.” She sounds as if she is reassuring him as much as she’s reassuring herself.

It’s a few minutes later, they’re both wide awake but he isn’t crying anymore and her breathing is calmer that he allows himself to picture them as a family. And he finds that there’s one reassurance he knows will never fail, no matter what happened he had her.

“Not everything is bad.”

“What?”

“I like the thought of having a baby with you.” He confesses. “Even if it’s this way. We’ll be a family.”

She manages a small smile. “I like that. A family.”

[stillbewondering]

Betty and Jughead vacated their apartment for the afternoon. A heat wave struck, and their humble abode lacked air conditioning. To cool off, they ventured to the local park.

Betty halted at a fountain. “Make a wish.” She instructed Jughead, handing him a penny.

“I wish for this heat wave to cease.” He tossed the coin into the fountain and joked, “The temperature being as hot as you are should be a crime.” Betty blushed.

“You told me your wish. Now it won’t come true.” She teased.

Jughead grinned. Little did she know, he wished for endless days with her.

Bughead & Friends Drabble Challenge: June Edition - Day 1

Prompt: Heat Wave

[dsbrownie4eva]

Even though I am a bughead shipper, but season 5 belongs to Varchie thoroughly. The foundation, the setting, the plot.. everything is going for Varchie. Archie being guilty, Archie being confused, Archie being Lost.. Archie is going to blame himself for Veronica’s condition.. Varchie becoming friends and starting things together is a major sign.. from season 1 till season 4, they never got a chance to start their relationship as it should be.. season 5 is their season where they will go with the right pace and you can’t change my mind

[thetaoofbetty]

I’m all about people liking or not liking any character, but seeing some Bugheads who now multi ship Jabitha, being *now* mad at Betty because she is selfish and her lack of remorse it’s very weird to me. Looks like now, that’s the reason why Jughead fans can say they don’t like her, and protect Jughead, cause you know she is horrible (did she cheat? Yes, does she have to own up to that and probable have a conversation? Please! But why are some people acting like she is selfish or didn’t say she was sorry?), I guess what bothers me is that these people didn’t have this problem until this week?. I get not liking some of her actions now (though I would love people to try and see why she acts like this since the show is not subtle, but I get people being mad at her working for the fbi), but some people are now just throwing things at her all of sudden while saying it’s not about Jughead, or the ships? Really? Hmm.

i really don’t know how she can have a definitive lack of remorse while we’re still mid-season. but since they haven’t seen it on a timeline that they set for the show, the ship, or themselves, they assume it must be true. that’s...asinine. if betty says, by the end of the season, “i don’t regret any of that.” then be mad. being mad because something doesn’t happen when you want it to is pretty childish. 

i’m really sorry for them that they have to endure betty having been kidnapped, tortured, and her sister missing/possibly dead for the last few episodes instead of following jughead around every day but they’re doing an exes to lovers arc and they’re whumping the both of them upside the head with plot while they do it. if they really don’t care about betty’s stuff at all, then why are they even into bughead? 

and i really don’t know why they think she didn’t apologize. she says it multiple times when she tells him about it. (i watched the scene again to confirm, you all owe me money for that pain). 

if i had to guess, i think they thought that j/t would happen and they’d get jealous betty out of it and then some of them would feel like she “earned” him back or something. a lot of those “betty should have to watch him date other girls” posts got lost to the void right after 4x17 and the leaked article but they also got dropped in my inbox a good bit so i know that was a much loved idea for a while there. this just feels like another version of it. 

or maybe it just bothers them that jughead’s love isn’t as conditional for her as theirs was. and there are just some people who only ever cared about betty when she was with jughead. let’s not forget that people said she cheated with archie in s2 while they were all single. so, that’s what you’re working with here, you know? 

i don’t care that people multi-ship, tbh. ship away. enjoy yourselves. it does bother me when people insist on telling me how to ship for myself, tho. funny that that the people who want to control how betty acts also want to control how we act too, huh?🤔

[petalsmooth]

I’m not committed to watching the new season of Riverdale. It’s really a toss up from watching to rooting for its cancelation and it entirely depends on the shaky premise of RAS admitting his error and engineering a course correction that can save Betty as a character/Bughead. Both conditions that appear to not be entirely within his grasp and no RAS...I’m not willing to tolerate your usual teasing. If you do that to hold onto the 2 Barchie fans then count me out. Trust is earned and I have none left with you.

Still, I’ll be here either way this year. Either to drag the show to its eventual grave or show the Barchies the nearest exit. It’s just one road  will give him viewing/streaming and one will road will not.