#bughead excited

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Take Your Cake and Beat It, Too!, World of Archie Double Digest #55 (2016). 

#bughead #jughead jones #betty cooper #archie andrews #old comics #digest comics #world of archie double digest #bughead high school #bughead winter #bughead school #bughead date #bughead flirting #bughead excited #bughead surprised #take your cake and beat it too

[imreallyloveleee]

head underwater, chapter nine

He spreads his palm across her lower back, steadying her. “It’s been a while.”

“A week.” Not that she’s been counting the days since they last fucked, or anything like that.

“A whole week,” he teases. His other hand tangles in her hair, cradling the back of her head. “How did you survive?”

read chapter 9 on ao3. (or start from the beginning.)

#bughead #bughead fic #betty cooper #jughead jones #riverdale fic #that's right! i wasn't lying all those times i said this fic was not abandoned!! lolol #i'm excited for you guys to read this one and i hope you like it!! #it's ~smutty and there are ~feelings and some burgeoning ~conflict so really it's got it all #fic #riverdale

[bugheadchemistry]

i need a new ship to obsess over

#i’ve dabbled in a few fandoms here and there #but nothing has reached that level of excitement i has during peak bughead #i had* #tbd

[betts-cooper]

suddenly i really miss reading bughead fanfic. truely nothing was better than getting an email notification that my fave fic was updated and dropping everything to crawl into my bed, cocooning myself in a blanket and reading about those two idiots

#i just finished reading king of the clouds by kj holiday #which was originally a bughead fic as u must all know #and it was one of my faves i think about it all tbe time #and obviously now it’s it’s own thing which is so exciting #but it just made me so giddy and nostalgic #anyway maybe i’ll go scroll ao3 …. just have a gander

[jancysmixtape]

I’m making so many bughead edits that I’m excited to post for the next few days. They’re so cute and pretty! 💛🥺

#riverdale #betty cooper #jughead jones #bughead #ahhh excitement #my babies #im just 🥰🥰🥰

[leiaorganicsolocup]

i’ve been working on my Riverdale rewatch for almost three weeks now and i’m not even at the halfway point 😭😭

#its leah! #i’ve gotta finish it #if i don’t watch the final episode as is comes out then what was this all for lmao #time to eat sleep and breath riverdale for the next 3 weeks #luckily i’m on the fifth season right now #while it’s not the most bingable it is one of the more interesting ones imo #and i can’t remember how the bughead death plot shakes out so that exciting too

[stonerbughead]

down at the drive-in ch 2 sneak peek

I originally had dreams of finishing and posting this investigative bughead story on riverdale series finale day but life got away from me. so, in honor of the end of the ridiculous show that brought us bughead and the beautiful fandom space we’ve all created together, here’s a sneak peek. I love you all and personally, I plan to keep writing rvd fanfic so this isn’t goodbye to our bughead family—it’s just farewell to canon, whatever the hell that even means anymore.

It’s strange to admit, but the creepy, bigoted mystery she’s been investigating with Jughead has turned Betty’s attitude around. Each day she wakes up with a spring in her step. The hunger she feels to solve this mystery is new and exciting, like nothing she’s ever done before. (And yes, she’s counting the time she streaked with Cheryl and Veronica.)

Every day that week, Betty and Jughead spend their once-quiet lunch hours in the Blue and Gold office examining evidence and talking out theories. They keep the door shut in an unspoken ritual, something sinister about the case lending itself to confidentiality.

On Tuesday, they spend the lunch hour poring over the Riverdale section of 4chan, even following a couple offshoots and more obscure right-wing forums in the area, but come up with no leads. Betty leans over Jughead to see his laptop screen, and there’s a moment when their eyes lock and she knows neither of them are thinking about the case. But the moment passes unacknowledged, and when the bell rings, they go their separate ways.

On Wednesday, they come up with the idea to put up a flier for a Young Republicans club, hoping to bait the bigot into bragging about their crimes. They even consider going shopping for more conservative looking clothing, but then….

…On Thursday, the members of Toni Topaz’s militant feminist club spend their lunchtime meeting phone banking the number on their flier in protest, flooding Jughead’s voicemail inbox with angry messages.

“We should’ve invested in a burner phone,” Jughead murmurs, his phone to his ear as he empties his voice mailbox, one by one.

“I just don’t think the Blue and Gold has a burner phone budget,” Betty insists, and after realizing what she’s said, they both burst out laughing.

#bughead #bughead fanfiction #my writing #betty x jughead #down at the drive-in #investigative duo

[dorothytv10]

A love letter to Bughead shippers!

*Warning: this is very very long, so only continue reading if you have time to spare 😜

I haven’t been part of the Bughead fandom since the beginning of 2019. I watched the show in chronological order until the end of season 3, then binged season 4 during covid lockdowns, but refused to continue with season 5 onwards. But over the past few years, I have kept up with spoilers and watched s5-7 episodes sporadically. I just couldn’t take the show seriously when they had Betty cheat on Jughead, then do a random time jump and turn the show supernatural. It was jarring!

I still remember the first time I started shipping Bughead. Let’s start from the beginning:

I had seen ads for Riverdale about a week before it aired, and decided to give it a watch purely because I am such a sucker for murder mystery style shows. That was the catalyst. I also have a tendency to invest in CW shows because of how heavily they push shipping, and romance is another genre that I cannot get enough of. I remember watching the pilot episode and thinking this whole Betty & Archie storyline is just NOT compelling nor did I feel the actors and their characters had any romantic chemistry. It just felt forced and awkward, especially watching Betty get rejected. I thought she was way too good for him, and if he couldn’t see that in all the years they were friends, then he ain’t the right guy for her. But some part of me just expected them to be the main love story of the show because that’s such a predictable trope in teen dramas. So even though I didn’t feel any part of my shipping senses tingling, I decided to continue with the show for the mystery part, and accepted that the romance would just not play a factor in my interest. But boy was I wrong! The following week, I watched episode 2, and the show just felt different. Jughead was featured more heavily and finally shared the screen with Betty, even though no dialogue was exchanged. But I remember thinking to myself, “Jughead and Betty would be so cute together”. During the week after episode 2 aired, I remember their season 1 kiss from episode 8 leaked online: the one outside FP’s trailer. I saw that one scene on Twitter and was instantly a Bughead shipper. I couldn’t believe that I got my wish and Betty and Jughead were going to have a romance. Riverdale went from “a show I’ll watch when I can be bothered to a must watch show that I will not dare miss an episode of”. Episode 3 started getting promoted online a lot, and Betty and Jughead were shown to interact in the trailer; I was hooked. I couldn’t wait for the next episode! It became an obsession. I even joined tumblr and met so many amazing fellow Bughead shippers. It was such an exciting time, waiting every week for a new episode to drop to finally see them get to that ep8 kiss, which I foolishly believed was going to be their first kiss. But episode 6 threw us all a curveball and had Jughead kiss Betty and call her Juliet in the same scene. I literally had butterflies. I hadn't felt that strongly about a ship in so long!

I was a big part of the early Bughead tumblr days. We were a force to be reckoned with. Each episode, our fanbase grew bigger to the point where we were the most popular ship out of every show airing at the time.

But as much as I wanted Bughead to be endgame, there was always this part of me that worried she’d inevitably get with Archie because that was so clearly what RAS shipped in the comics. I do believe Bughead lasted as long as they did because of how big and strong their fanbase was. Also, the real life romance between Cole and Lili always played a huge role in their onscreen coupling, too. That doesn’t diminish how beautiful their love story was in the show. But unfortunately, I think it is the truth. I have seen it so many times in teen drama shows. The head writers always seem to ship the pilot episode ship: Dawson and Joey, Stefan and Elena, Lucas and Peyton etc. I’m using examples of previous teen love triangles.

As much as RAS loved Bughead, and wrote them such beautiful content, he always had one foot pedalling on B*rchie. It was inevitable that at some point they’d want to explore them, especially because they had placed little clues all throughout the first few seasons. But as long as Cole and Lili were together, the show was never going to be daring enough to go full steam ahead with B*archie. Bughead was too popular and so was the real life romance. It would have caused riots. But alas, like every CW actors who date, they broke up. And what happened? They were kept apart for the remainder of the show. It was Delena all over again :(

Whether the rumours are true about the two not being able to work together, only they truly know. But I think it’s a mix of a lot of things, including new writers who were clearly all for the other ship, or in this case, the other shit. I don’t want to insult anyone, but the Riverdale writers are some of the most incompetent writers in the industry. Their inability to maintain continuity, and all the contradictions and character assassinations they created, we had no hope in s5-7. It became a whole new show. It simply lost its spark, which was already quite dim after how they handled the cheating arc in season 4. There was a huge tonal shift, and our favourite characters acted OOC.

So here’s what I really want to say:

I officially stopped watching Riverdale when they decided to jump the gun and have Betty cheat on Jughead with Archie. If you’re a Bughead shipper, it’s completely justifiable to be disappointed and sad about the way Riverdale ended. It’s like when people talk about that one person who got away, that’s how Bughead is to us: it’s the ship that got away, and never came back. To be fair, the show was no longer what it started out as. When you start off as a teen drama show promoting thriller/mystery as your main genre, only to shift gears in later seasons and become supernatural and sci-fi, there’s really only one way to explain the show in a cohesive and logical manner: it’s either all inside one of the character’s imaginations or it’s a multiverse with totally new characters who are the doppelgänger/counterparts of the original characters we knew in the beginning. So it no longer really counts. I don’t think we will ever get any definitive answers and closure from RAS nor the cast about why Bughead was completely abandoned after they broke up on the show, but I’m going to give you my take on how I think the last episode played out. Take it as you want, but I am a budding writer myself, and from a writer’s point of view, this is my theory on what really happened to Bughead in the end…

Consider the show a multiverse at this point. Remember that line Jughead said to Betty in 4x17? “in what future are we not together?”

It’s the same episode she cheats on Jughead. My theory is that the show shifted into another universe/timeline (whatever you want to call it) to show us the versions of Betty and Jughead that don’t have a future together. By her kissing Archie, she irrevocably changes the course of her relationship with Jughead. So that’s what we are shown, a new world where Betty kisses Archie and she and Jughead split and don’t end up back together again. And what is this new world? It’s really dark!

Bughead had been referred to as Romeo & Juliet, soul mates and endgame in the earlier seasons. That’s exactly what they are. But what are Romeo and Juliet referred to? Star-crossed lovers. No matter what, they could never be together. But I’ll get back to that later on.

In my opinion, there are 3 universes shown to us in the show’s run:

1 is the prime universe and original timeline in which Bughead are together and endgame. No cheating takes place. They are still in high school and will continue to date after it and make it work. But we’ll never get to see it unfold because from the end of s4 onwards we are in the other universes.

The second universe is the one where she ends up with Archie — Rivervale or Riverdale 2, but they all die in the end when the comet wipes them out of existence 👀

And the third universe is Riverdale 3.

Seasons 1-4 are set in the prime Riverdale universe.

Then season 5-6 are set in the second universe— Rivervale/Riverdale 2. My opinion is that even after 6x05, they never really left rivervale. Bunker Jughead just wrote it differently and called it Riverdale.

Then season 7 is set in the Riverdale 3 universe.

The Rivervale universe has all the magic and supernatural elements to it, which technically began in s5 with Cheryl performing magic. Rivervale is the darkest universe and timeline of the 3. Riverdale 3 universe is the most tame and fun of all the 3 universes. It’s the one where the characters behave like actual teens and don’t have serial killer fathers, cults, gargoyle kings and evil warlocks tormenting them. Riverdale 1 universe is the most realistic and grounded of the lot, albeit some weird storylines did occur during seasons 3 and 4, but it’s the universe that has both light and dark inside it like real life. Tabitha confirmed there is a multiverse in 7x19 when she said she couldn’t untangle “all” the timelines and instead made them into a single one. But even though she gave them back their memories, these versions existing in the 50s/Riverdale 3 universe are really not the original characters. This theory is proven by how a lot of dead characters are alive in this universe and how Tabitha has another version of herself living in this one.

The one single timeline she is talking about is that she gave them all the memories from every universe so they can live their lives with the knowledge of their other selves. Especially when having to navigate the 50s. They are variants (Loki reference) of the originals who now have the same memories (not all the memories) but haven’t actually lived the same lives. That’s why none of them aged and are still teens in high school; it’s also why they no longer have super powers and magical abilities. Same memories, but different bodies and souls.

So going back to endgame talk: in Riverdale 3, the universe which all of season 7 takes place in, including the final, Betty and Jughead weren’t technically endgame, but they were treated as star-crossed, just like Romeo & Juliet. They couldn’t be together because all of their memories from every other universe/timeline they existed in were now a part of them and it was too convoluted of a situation to actually make sense of in their heads, so they just all dated one another. In this new Riverdale 3 universe, Betty has feelings for both Archie and Jughead because she has the memories of both universe 1 and universe 2 Betty inside her, so she can never really choose between them. Instead, she chooses herself.

Jughead never marries because the girl he has always loved in every universe didn’t want to get married, so he didn’t want to settle for just anyone. Archie moved on because Betty was never the love of his life in all 3 universes.

Ask yourself this, why did Betty tell Reggie that she remembered what being with Jughead felt like, and that’s why she chose to be a part of the quad? Why didn’t she feel this way about Jughead in s6 (Rivervale/Riverdale 2 universe)? Wasn’t it strange that she just seemed to forget she was ever with him? It’s because it was a different timeline/universe, one in which Betty only loves Archie. That is why Jughead has that moment in season 6 episode 14 with that flashback montage of him and Betty, it’s him remembering their relationship from universe 1, something he isn’t really aware of in the Rivervale/Riverdale 2 timeline. The reason for them not remembering is because Bunker Jughead from Rivervale has written them to forget their past together. My theory for why he did that, is after the bomb went off in 6x05, part of the deal was that bunker Jughead make Betty forget being with him completely just like she had to forget that he sacrificed himself to save the universes. He retconned their story so she could move on and he could continue writing away from her with no distractions. Rivervale’s Bunker Jughead loves Betty, as confirmed by Ethel. Which brings me to the final part of this theory…

I think bunker Jughead is the same Jughead that appears to Betty in the final episode as her guardian Angel. He’s OG Jughead and has been writing an anthology all along. There is a reason the show is so heavily focused on Betty. She is the main character in Jughead’s story! In S1-4 he is chronicling his love story with Betty, kind of like an autobiography or diary of them and how they’re an investigative duo. In S5-6 he ventures into writing sci-fi and supernatural stories. Finishing up in s7 with historical fiction.

The angel Jughead in the series finale is the writer, the narrator and the version of Jughead that Betty loved most as evidenced by what he wore. He exists in all 3 universes, like a time-traveller of sorts. He’s the writer and narrator in Universe 1, the bunker writer in universe 2 and the guardian Angel in universe 3. But he took his version out of the story these last few seasons to show the audience a future with no Bughead, and instead wrote a version of Jughead that doesn’t pine after Betty and one that had a different girlfriend. That’s why when universe 3 Betty asks him on the park bench if he regrets never getting married, he says sometimes. Because he sometimes regrets never writing the two of them getting married in this universe. But he couldn’t because his version of Jughead wasn’t the main Jughead he was writing about in this story.

In the end, his universe 3 story wasn’t about Bughead, it was about Betty and wanting to give her everything she dreamed of, even if that didn’t include him. He wrote her a world where she didn’t have a serial killer father, where her sister was still alive, where she and Veronica were best friends, where Betty could enjoy her youth and explore her sexuality without having to choose between the two boys she was always torn between. He wrote her as a writer and a successful career woman rather than an FBI agent chasing down murderers and putting herself in danger. He wrote her as adopting a daughter that wasn’t at risk of inheriting the serial killer gene. He wrote a world where she got to be a normal teen and not have to investigate homicidal maniacs all the time. She got to go to school dances, drink milk shakes at Pops and hang out with her friends. She was able to repair her damaged relationship with her mum and find peace. She was a liberated woman with a strong voice who made a difference in the world.

So why did the show end with this version of her? Because it’s a way to show Betty finding peace and strength, and also not having to choose between Jughead and Archie. It makes her more than just a girlfriend who goes back and forth between two best friends.

This whole theory is further evidenced by beanie Jughead appearing outside Pops in the final scene and then hearing his typewriter as the show fades out. This was Jughead’s story all along, and the main character was Betty. It’s always been about Betty. The reason Jughead and Betty didn’t have any romantic scene in the series finale is because this wasn’t beanie Jughead’s Betty. This was the version of Betty that ends up with no one. It’s the last version of her that Jughead wrote in his book. The version of her that’s truly happy and at peace with herself and her life. He wrote her saying goodbye to Archie because that was not her endgame. Archie was just a childhood crush that existed in a fantasy world filled with magic and unrealistic scenarios like sewing on decapitated heads and bringing people back from the dead. Rivervale universe was never real and never made sense, just like Betty and Archie never made sense. And guess what happened to Betty in universe 2? She died, just like B*rchie did in the finale 😉

The only version of her that is still alive is the original one from Universe 1 that ends up with Jughead. We didn’t need to see their endgame on screen to know it happened. Their endgame is in the subtext. Jughead always loved Betty, and his story was about her. In universe 1 they are endgame, in universe 2 they are soul mates as bunker Jughead is able to do the impossible and contact her in Riverdale from Rivervale. And in universe 3 they are Romeo and Juliet. She spent her last day on earth with him, and died the day after finding out he died. They were star-crossed and couldn’t be together. The writing is on the wall.

As much as I would have loved an I love you, a kiss or even just a conversation discussing their history in the last episode, I take comfort in knowing that the characters I fell in love with in season 1 were completely different people in season 7. And from where I stand, the only explanation is it’s one big multiverse of madness concocted by a sardonic writer who was always in love with the girl next door, and spent most of his youth writing about her only to end the story with them both forever being 17. That is the same age they were when they were together and in love. It’s the same age their iconic duet is about. They just wanted to be 17, and that’s exactly how the show ends for them. Screams endgame to me :)

Just remember, nothing lasts forever. The greatest moments in life are the ones that don’t last long but leave a lasting impression. It’s the reason why we are so enthralled when we see a shooting star. It’s something so beautiful, yet so rare, so fleeting and near impossible to see with the naked eye that we stare in sheer wonderment at a dark sky full of dead stars waiting and hoping that such a spectacle will reveal itself to us again. So don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. And never lose hope; it’s the only voice inside of you strong enough to silence fear.

Thanks for the memories, Bughead family! Even though I haven’t been around the last few years, it’s an experience I’ll never forget, and I’ve made met people on here that I will be friends with for life ❤️❤️❤️

#bughead #betty x jughead

[lovedinapastlife]

Six Sentence Saturday - Soulmate Edition

Whenever Betty eats Pop’s burgers, she thinks of him. Or her. Whomever her soulmate happens to be. “He” is just how Alice refers to Betty’s “taste bud,” so it’s kind of her mental default setting. The greasy food inspires joy in him. Betty can taste it. Only when he’s truly ecstatic, of course. And her soulmate seems to be excited, almost desperately eager when it comes to food. ~~~

A soulmate bughead AU coming to SunlitGarden’s AO3 this season

#bughead #bughead fanfiction #bughead appreciation week #soulmate au #my works #bughead fanfic preview #betty cooper x jughead jones

[theshortangrylesbian]

I

Do

Not

Care

HOW insane the writing of Riverdale got

I still love that show so much. And I am still not ready to say goodbye, even though it is now over.

I'll never see Cole Sprouse as Jughead again

I'll never see Camila Mendes as Veronica again

I'll never see Lili Reinhart as Betty again

I'll never see KJ Apa as Archie again

I'll never see Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl again

I'll never see Vanessa Morgan as Toni again

I'll never see Casey Cott as Kevin again

I'll never see another promo again

I'll never get the feeling of excitement again when a new episode airs

I'll never get to see some random ass new plot ever again.

This show has been my home for years. I found it when they were half way through season three.

There will never be a show like Riverdale ever again

There will be no cast like the Riverdale cast again

I'll never see new Choni scenes again

I'll never see new Bughead scenes again

I'll never see new Barchie scenes again

I'll never see new Varchie scenes again

Riverdale is over, and never returning. I won't get to wait a year or so, and be excited for a new season. No. There will never again be a new episode.

I'll admit, some of the ending was amazing, some of it was not.

Kevin and Clay got their happy ending, which was amazing.

But they put Jughead, Archie, Betty, and Veronica in the quad? For zero reason. That was irritating.

I think the death of Betty was beautifully portrayed as well.

But my favorite part of the ending?

Cheryl and Toni got their happy ending. After season five and six, I am so happy. They even had a son, named Dale. Hell, I will never get over them using Vanessa's son River to play a character named Dale. Absolutely genius!

Goodbye, Riverdale...

#incorrect riverdale #riverdale choni #riverdale #jughead jones #incorrect choni #choni #betty cooper #incorrect bughead #riverdale bughead #bughead #lili reinhart #cole sprouse #cheryl x toni #cheryl blossom #madelaine petsch #toni topaz #vanessa morgan #varchie #betty x jughead #betty x archie #betty x veronica #incorrect varchie #kevin keller #archie andrews #archie comics #kj apa #veronica lodge #camila mendes #goodbye riverdale #the end of an era

[backtothestart02]

I Remember You - 1/1 | bughead fanfiction

A/N: I couldn't get this idea out of my head. Hope my fellow bugheads enjoy.

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Synopsis: 7x20 - Betty and Jughead's first time during their senior year.

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That night after their double date with Jughead and Veronica, Archie dropped her off at home. He kissed her sweetly on the lips, their fingers tangling until it was time for her to walk up those steps she knew so well and open the door to her house. She chatted with her mom a little and then went upstairs to her bedroom.

It had been a good night, a fun night. Archie had been a perfect gentleman, and sometimes a little bit of wild poet when she needed him to be. But she’d be lying if she said he was the only one she thought about during those quiet moments in her bedroom.

There’d been that spark between her and Veronica even before their memories had been returned at the tail end of junior year. Something still sizzled between them for sure. But tonight Vee wasn’t the one she was thinking of either.

She might’ve spent two lives in love with Archie and months building up tension with Veronica, but there was another person she felt a connection with, that in a previous life she’d really, truly loved. She loved him hard and deeply, until it consumed her. And then she’d ruined their relationship in the heat of the moment with Archie, and-

Well, she couldn’t stop thinking about it.

Was it right of her to confront him about a relationship that only the two of them knew the good and bad about? The fights, the betrayal, the pain that came with teenage drama? Jealousy, competition… but such a deep love too, and a fierce loyalty despite the mistakes.

It had been eating at her for months, and she knew it now. She couldn’t resist the pull she felt every time they were in the same room.

Re-dressing herself, she snuck out of her house an hour after her beloved Archie had left and made her way to Jughead’s train car on the other side of town.

Climbing the rickety steps, she knocked lightly on the outside door.

“Betty.”

He looked confused and then immediately following, concerned.

“I- Is everything okay? It’s late.”

He folded his arms, and she started to wonder if this was a mistake.

“Yeah, sorry, I- I know it’s late. I just…” She pursed her lips.

“Do you want to come inside?”

Her eyes locked on his, and relief flowered inside her. She nodded, smiling hesitantly but gratefully.

Jughead stepped back to allow her inside. She slipped out of her jacket as soon as she was inside and set it over his chair by his typewriter. She let her eyes linger, and then her fingers brushed over the elevated keys.

“I remember when I gave you this…” she paused when she remembered how very weird their lives were. “I mean, not this one. But-”

“I remember too,” he finished for her, and they shared a smile. “That typewriter was special.”

The moment built, not tension but something more, something exciting and unspoken.

“I-I suppose you’re wondering what I’m doing here, on your doorstep at half-past 10.”

He shrugged innocently.

“I’m so sorry, Jughead, for cheating on you with Archie.”

“Betty, that was a lifetime ago.”

“No, I know, but it’s been eating at me that I never really said it. Those memories…we watched them like they were a movie, but I remember them like they happened to me yesterday, all of them at once. And Jughead, I loved you so much.”

“I loved you too, Betty.”

“I just can’t believe I let you slip away, and I just moved on with Archie, got engaged to Archie, and you moved on with Tabitha. But we never really…we didn’t talk. We didn’t…” Her mouth ran dry, struggling to find the words.

Tears slipped out between her eyelashes and trickled down her cheeks, one on each side.

“And I know I’m with Archie now, and you’re with Veronica, and we’re happy that way. Tonight was great and fun and like old times but not.” A laugh burst out of her. “But I…I still…” She sighed, her breath catching when he wiped away her tears and tilted her chin up so she could see the tears welling up in his eyes too.

“I still too, Betty. I still.”

And then he was leaning down, and their lips caught on fire. Betty moaned into him and caught her hands around his face as he did the same to her. It was a dragging, drugging, lustful kiss, but there was so much love there too. A love that both of them had tried to deny existed anymore for years.

“I’m sorry, Jughead. I’m so-”

“I forgive you, Betty.”

He unbuttoned the buttons dotting the top half of her dress and pushed the fabric over her shoulders.

“I forgive you.”

And then all words were lost in the rush of undressing each other and moving to his bed, a bed that had been hand-designed by Miss Veronica Lodge, Jughead’s girlfriend. But Betty’s mind was hazy. No one existed for her then except for the young man kissing her like she’d forgotten she could be kissed. Jughead traced her skin like he was memorizing it, in case this never happened again, or even if it did. He treated her like a precious jewel he was lucky enough to behold.

And when he moved inside her, their skin coming alive, the air in their lungs exhaled on a chorus of hallelujahs. Betty wrapped her arms around him, clinging to him like a vice, inhaling his scent, threading her fingers in his hair, pulling him tightly to her as if this was the first time. And in a way, it was.

Tomorrow they would go back to their significant others, her to Archie, and he to Veronica. But they wouldn’t forget this night, and it might even happen again.

She didn’t regret it, and she felt in her heart that he didn’t either.

Not when they laid together, their fingers intertwined over their beating hearts after they’d finished. Not when their foreheads pressed together, and they traced the lines on each other’s faces.

As luck would have it, that same night Archie had slipped away to see Veronica, and they’d had a very similar experience. The four of them wouldn’t discuss what it all meant for a few weeks, and not until Betty and Veronica had a sizzling encounter of their own, but one thing was for certain.

Some connections couldn’t be broken. Not that easily. Not by time or erased memories. Not forever, and not this night.

“I love you, Betty,” Jughead had whispered when her eyes were closed long enough that he thought she was asleep. It was the only time he said it that entire year, but there was no mistaking the genuine realness of it.

And Betty carried that with her.

#bughead #fanfiction #bughead fanfiction #backtothestart02 fanfiction #i remember you #one-shot

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Numero Uno, Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica #336 (1985).

#bughead #jughead jones #betty cooper #veronica lodge #old comics #digest comics #archie's girls betty and veronica #bughead high school #bughead chase #bughead spazzing #bughead excited #numero uno

[imreallyloveleee]

multiple friends tagged me in multiple ask thingies that overlapped so i'm combining them into one mega-ask! thanks @stonerbughead & @onlyalittlebookworm & @sullypants <3 <3 <3

last song I listened to: all-american bitch, i've been having an olivia rodrigo moment lately

currently watching: mr & mrs smith. my husband loves this show. i think it's fine? the first episode was very promising and there have been highlights along the way (parker posey!!) but they've been speed-running the relationship in a way i don't find very believable or compelling. the last ep we watched was the one set in italy and i won't spoil anything here but the ending of that one made me very WTF in a way i don't think they intended?

currently obsessed with: take a WILD guess what i'm obsessed with rn

three ships: mcwexler, bughead, everlark. the holy trinity.

favorite color: red

currently consuming: nothing, but we will be ordering mexican food for dinner shortly

first ship: maria & michael on the og roswell. (sidenote: NO ONE in this world was as excited as i was when brendan fehr showed up in two episodes of bcs. no one)

relationship status: married <3

last movie: american fiction. liked it, didn't love it, REALLY wished it had more tracee ellis ross.

currently working on: a "five times" fic centered around kim wexler's 40th birthday. i will probably have a very long author's note about this when i finally finish it, but for now i will say: i find it really difficult to think up canon AUs from better call saul because pretty much all of the key turning points come from decisions the characters make, and not circumstance. and they are just so well-written and in-character that it's really hard for me to imagine them making different ones. (especially different ones that lead to the specific scenarios i want to explore.)

so, it's an interesting challenge i've given myself, to figure out how kim might still be living in nebraska at age 40, or stuck it out to finally become a partner at HHM, or still sharing an office with her ex at Wexler-McGilll, or...or...

#ask meme

[lazydaizies]

Cautiously excited 🤞🏼

You know…me too lol I don’t know if it’s because Riverdale is done, or because I had decided to not write Bughead anymore but it’s like my brain went…. “Nah bitch, here’s about 5 more ideas…and also, write the shit you’re been promising…”

Who am I to go against my brain? 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s much more pleasant around here with nobody freaking out about the show….

[jandjsalmon]

2023 FFRC - September🍂

Hello friends! I hope you've had a wonderful September. We've started my daughter's senior year with her choosing to join the high school football team instead of the soccer team (to the shock of everyone - including her soccer coach). Therefore, we've been spending every Friday night at the field - and she scored a touchdown in her first game - so that's exciting.

My 2023 @fanfic-reading-challenge is nearly complete. The challenge has various completion levels - and if you're looking for something to help motivate you to read new things or expand your range - or even if you just want to challenge yourself, you should join us. You don't have to wait until the new year to start - and there are a bunch of us on the Discord server and it's a really nice and encouraging place to be.

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September 2023

I read 58 new stories this month - and nearly 300 chapters. I'm closing in on 17 million words, so my year-long goal of 20 million words still isn't out of the realm of possibility. I also did a few podfic recordings... and was highly critical of all of them so I didn't post them. Maybe after I get more practise. lol.

Anyway, I’ve gathered a couple recs. I hope you enjoy them. 💖

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before i knew which life was mine (3 fic series) by @smc-27 (Harry/Allie - The Society)  Summary: She’s got this weird feeling that everything with him is so natural and normal that there’s no way to imagine them not eventually ending up friends. Which is a fucked up thought, because prior to all this, all they had ever shared were barbs back and forth, or her calling him out on being a jerk to her sister. Notes: Okay - so this series is three separate fics that feel like they're unconnected - but really they are completely connected. They're like different dimensions or universes where Harry and Allie were friends (and they don't stay just friends). These are the "other worlds".

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The Percy/Jenna Anon Collection by Anonymous (Percy/Jenna - RPF - All E) Fic 1 - Howlin’ For You - A night of drunken UNO leads to explicit actions between two friends who have been secretly sleeping together. Fic 2 - Lonely Boy - A surprise visit between two friends, a phone call, and a splash of angst. And sex. Fic 3 - Gold on the Ceiling - When Jenna tells Percy it’s over she’s not sure what that means for either of them. And she doesn’t even begin to understand the gravity of her choice until she’s forced to put work on hold for the actor’s strike. Has she even been living? Or merely existing.. Light angst, heavy sex? But it’s introspective? Notes: Okay - so RPF isn't for everyone. It is for me though. This series was written by the same Anon author (it's very clear that it's the same author) - I don't know who it is, but they deserve a huge cookie. I cried during the third one. And then had to fan myself. It's an odd conundrum. The writing is amazing. I would read a million more stories by this author - rpf or fandom or whatever. If I can only figure out who they are. 😉

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three conversations about one thing by @imreallyloveleee (Bughead - T)  Summary: He’d known there would be consequences when he made this decision. But he hadn’t realized how quickly they might steamroll right over him. (Jughead & Veronica & Cheryl & Betty & memories of the future. Set post-7x19.) Notes: An absolutely lovely post-script on the final season of Riverdale.

#jandy's fanfic reading challenge adventure 2023 #reading fics with jandy #fanfic reading challenge 2023 #2023 fic reading challenge #2023frc #long post #to save your dashboard

[fisbiscwits]

I REALLY REALLY REALLY wish youknowho hadn't been unalived at the end of Riverdale's most recent episode.

THIS HAS STOPPED US FROM GETTING DETECTIVE BUGHEAD ON THE CASE. I will never forgive the writers for this.

They have time for wishywash b*rchie who are about as exciting as watching paint dry, but can't give us DETECTIVE BUGHEAD WHICH THEY USED IN THE FIRST 4 SEASONS!!?!

#bughead #probughed #betty cooper #jughead jones #i miss bughead #anti barchie