#I mean i like betty

[no1deahow]

The Revolutionary Army in a nutshell

[tumbke]

This was actually the original idea, but i wimped out and wanted to see the happy end AUs be real

[arcadeplayer-nickonz]

''Can we stay like this for a little while longer?''

[pepperpixel]

Wanted to try drawing Simon in a diff style! Cuz I feel like.. so far I’ve been using this sorta amalgamation of adventure time style and my own.. (aka I’m drawing adventure style but w extra details and my shitty sketchy line work lol) which! Is fine! I actually think that looks ok! but! In the last picture I drew I totally didn’t even try doing adventure time style. It was just my own. BUT! I didn’t actually… put any thought into. What he would actually LOOK like??? Like what features he should have? I just translated his design straight into my style. W the super round face and stuff…. But! That’s just the freakin style of adventure time!! and I realized it ended up looking weird. So! I wanted to experiment more! W drawing him in my own style. In a way I like! And I actually think these turned out really good!!! Like I’m really happy w them! Which is! Awesome!!

[volatile-shorty]

pretty bird, pretty bird, i know youre hurting but so am i

[moomeecore]

here's that essay i accidently hyped up (sorry) on how fionna & cake did a poor job of concluding betty & simons characters + story in the final 2 episodes. sorry it is so insanely long. i don't know what my deal is. sometimes a show just does such a bad job of handling your favorite characters that you have to write 19k+ words complaining about it, i guess. im linking it as a pdf bc i DO NOT want to have 2 copy & paste this all over to tumblr & i kinda don't think tumblr would be happy with me making a post that long.

[penelope-kat]

So I'm a little dissatisfied with the ending of F&C (btw totally fine to disagree, this is just my opinion. Also it's just a show ok let's all be mature here).

Let me be clear: I don't hate the ending; I think the rest of the show is amazing, AND while I LOVE the message of Simon and Betty moving on from each other and being able to be ok without each other, it felt really disingenuous for the show to say that Betty was more obsessed with Simon when they're clearly both complete freaks for each other?

Simon's whole thing in the original show whenever he was lucid was about how much he missed Betty, how fixated he was on her, and how he'd do anything to get her back, or at least be able to talk to her one more time. Marceline is always talking about how Simon was constantly obsessed with finding Betty again when she was little, and Ice King's whole character and obsession with kidnapping princesses stemmed from Simon desperately wanting to find Betty again.

All relationships have flaws, but I feel like this wasn't the right flaw to give their relationship. Simon and Betty's relationship was flawed because they were super obsessed with each other, not because Betty was more obsessed with Simon than Simon was with her. I guarantee that Simon would have done all the same shit Betty did if the roles were reversed and Betty had put on the ice crown instead, like I have not a single doubt in my mind.

It also makes Simon look a lot less emotionally intelligent and empathetic, which is like yeah, people don't always see how they hurt their loved ones, but you're really telling me he NEVER ONCE did anything Betty wanted to do? Never?? And Betty is a strong-willed woman, we always see that. She's unhinged. I love her. I feel like Simon would have picked up on her wants, too, especially since they were implied to have been together for a long time given, you know, they've co-written books and explored the world together and all. Simon ADORED Betty, and he's always been shown to be very empathetic and insightful, even at his worst during F&C! I highly doubt after all that time with Betty he would have never even considered doing her stuff. Do you really think Mr Semen Peggtricock over here, the final-boss of pathetic submissive twinks, took the reins on every aspect of anything they did together? I know that man gets his bussy destroyed three nights a week by Betty's 12 inch strap and whimpers under her weight m'kay there's no WAY he never ever once listened to what she wanted to do.

I do appreciate that the show doesn't make Simon or Betty out to be monsters or bad people or anything, and I do think in the context of Simon and Betty's stories, them going different ways makes the most narrative and thematic sense since their obsession with each other did end up severely negatively-impacting both their lives. Also, it was heavily implied that Betty reincarnated after blowing Simon sending Simon back to Ooo, so she won't be fused with Golb for all eternity in infinite loneliness. Uh that also makes me feel way better about the ending too lol.

But the specific point of "Simon didn't appreciate Betty enough".. it just doesn't sit right. That man spent collective decades mourning the loss of Betty, his princess, and all he really wanted was to be with her. He understood how brilliant she was, he loved her for it. Yes, he almost gave up her sacrifice that made him Simon again, but can you really blame him for that? He was super depressed and genuinely believed it would be the best thing to do in order to protect the little gay people in his head. He wasn't doing it to punish Betty, he'd never do that. Tbf I haven't seen many people claim he did it to punish Betty, I can just see that being a reachable conclusion for someone watching who already wasn't too keen on how their relationship had been portrayed thus far.

Betty was right: they did make their choices. And that means her choices too, choices that she literally took ownership of in the same breath, so it's weird for the show to imply only she would have gone to the lengths she did in their relationship.

Honestly the topic of overcoming obsession makes perfect sense to explore for BOTH of them. Betty having had time to think about it for 12 years as a chaos god, and Simon still being hung up because he blames himself for everything that happened. They were both equally obsessed with each other, and that mutual obsession destroyed both their lives. Now they need to be able to move on and, in Simon's case, keep living, even though Betty isn't around anymore, because his life as Simon Petrikov MATTERS.

Also before anyone brings up Temple of Mars that episode SLAPS it's GREAT and yes it is about Betty's obsession with Simon, but I always found it to be more of a "wow things became so screwed up. It's a shame Betty didn't go on her trip but the happiness she had with Simon was clearly worth it to her, it's just crazy how something like her missing a trip to be with him evolved into her time traveling into the future and losing her mind trying to save him". It wasn't really an episode about how bad Simon was for her in the beginning, it was like "holy shit girlie we need to get you on mood stabilizers ASAP cuz this shit is CRAZY".

Yeah I dunno how to wrap this up. Didn't mean to make anyone upset: I'm still shaky about how I feel on all of this and just wanted to get my thoughts out there. Opinions are valid! Even if you don't agree, I hope you can see where I'm coming from :)

Have a good night!

[simon-eriksson]

Betty Cooper & Jughead Jones on RIverdale 7.03

[cathchicken]

Stuff from today

Waiter! More Joxter on my ceiling please!

[antennatoheaven]

wait actually why did betty say "goodbye petrikov" when he was telling his story but then when he thinks about her at the end of the episode she says "goodbye simon" wHAT DOES THIS MEAN OLD MAN?????

[aria-greenhoodie]

Guess who spent 6 hours of their life yesterday making their First Ever Edit. It’s Petrigrof btw.

!!MAJOR FLASH WARNING!!

They’re in my BRAIIIINNNN

Also give it some attention on TikTok too maybe I don’t want this to flop I spent too much time and effort on it LINK HERE

[god-mouths]

Find who I am Remind me who I am

[imreallyloveleee]

i want an 8000 word essay about how perpetually defining Betty Cooper as "the girl next door" means she always exists in relation to someone else (next door to whom?), never fully as an independent self

and I want Anne Helen Petersen to write it

[spicy-buttfuck]

Simon could have a monster wife if the writers aren't cowards. they could pull off a theme of "everything stays, but it still changes" by having one half of this couple finally accept the other as their monstrous and weird self and that's how these two both end up happy if they aren't fucking cowards.

[pepperpixel]

More petrigrof!!! First a set of pics I didn’t fully finish of these 2 in sexy sweaters. And secondly!!!! The last / bonus picture of a set of nsfw petrigrof I posted on my nsfw twitter! The rest of that art… is here. If you want to see it lol

[feathery-fall]

HELO CAN U DOODLE SOME LEE SIMON FROM FIONNA AND CAKE… HES JUST…SO SILLY I LOV HIM

HEEHOO ofc you can :D

i drafted this then forgot abt it my bad-