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Medieval island: Le Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France.

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Oh i think he hangs out with the Guys but realistically they aren’t having an Archie jughead plot when they could do Archie Betty or Archie Betty Veronica etc,

Oh for sure I agree! Although I do think they should touch on Jarchie just for a minute.

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Hi, do you have good Bughead fic recs of their reunion after all those years?

you bet i do!

these are all a) complete and b) have a happy ending, but as always, mind the tags.

Adventures with Uncle Hobo series by @edgarsabandonedrocketship

An Antonym for Serenade by ForsythiaRising

Consent to Cuddle by @lovedinapastlife

I Miss You More Than Life by @middleagedresidentofriverdale

no greater gift by @heartunsettledsoul

only good things happen here by @sweetsoundsofignorance

seven years by @thetaoofbetty

to excavate by @stillscape

we sit in your car (and our love is a ghost) by @thesunflowerx

you'll always be my favorite ghost by @heartunsettledsoul

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To kick off Bughead Appreciation Week, I wanted to celebrate so many people in this community who make it what it was: fic writers, editors, commentors, fellow shitposters gif makers, and of course, fan artists.

Below, I’ve linked the all winners for the Bughead Fanfiction Awards Volumes 4-9 & every winning post has a link to the nominee masterlists. You’ll also see a link to work for the winners of Volumes 1-3 (the ones I was just chilling in the background lurking for & before we had the BFFA blog). Basically, it’s a one stop shop I’ve compiled for endless quality fic reading, who to check out for art, gifs, & edits. Happy Bughead Appreciation Week, everyone!

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Five Years - Final Chapter (Coming Soon)

Chapter 12 (Preview)

Betty stood off to the side of the porch, shivering as she watched the crime scene techs and federal agents flooding the old farmhouse.

The images of Svenson’s murder were still playing behind her eyelids every time she closed them and she just wanted to get as far from this place as possible, never to see it again. 

She honestly hoped someone would just do the world a favor and burn it to ash. Too much misery and horror happened at this place, monstrosities that would stick with her forever.

The whole scene reminded her too much of the day the feds had swarmed her house in Greendale - the one place that was supposed to be her safe haven - because those psychos defiled it. 

She let out a staggering breath, closing her eyes tightly and silently praying that this would all be over when she opened them again. 

Unfortunately, she knew that was wishful thinking on her part. There was only one way to finish this and she knew she had to be ready to see this through to the end, no matter what. She had lived in fear long enough, running wasn’t going to be an option anymore.  

“You okay, Betts?” 

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Coming Soon To AO3

Y'all, it only took me a year and three months to get this chapter completed and in the finishing stages but it's finally almost done and will be posted within the week! I hate that it took so long but I lost my mojo for a bit (getting cancer can do that to you) but I'm glad that the conclusion is finally happening. I hope you guys enjoy it!

-Bina 💜

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Ali does sound a bit slow in that video. Still makes me wonder what she even talks about with her sprouse family roommates. I can picture Cole and Dylan basically telling her she’s a moron everyday.

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Love this! via @chxryl.blossxm on TikTok.Visit her page and send some love!

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jughead deaf since the fucking pilot??????

https://www.scriptslug.com/assets/scripts/riverdale-101-chapter-1-the-rivers-edge-2017.pdf

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Hello & welcome to the Bughead Fanfiction Awards Nomimations—where we drop a ton of quality content all in one area for you to enjoy & celebrate!! Voting will open March 14th at  6pm EST / 11pm GMT / 9am AEST (15 March) & close March 21th at 6pm EST / 11pm GMT / 9am AEST (22 March). Be sure follow us so you don’t miss the voting post!

To find details on our eligibility process please check our original event post. You may also find the fics nominated in our 9th Bughead Fanfiction Awards - Nominees AO3 collection. Without further ado, congratulations to all of this session’s nominees!

Due to Tumblr being Tumblr, this masterlist is posted in 4 parts.

PART FOUR OF FOUR

Authors

Author Overall (Ao3 username/tumblr url)

bluevelvetvideo / @bluevelvetvideo 

heartunsettledsoul / @heartunsettledsoul 

heavyliesthecrown / @heavy-lies-the-crown

iconicponytail / @iconic-ponytail 

LikeMeReckless / @likemereckless 

satelliteinasupernova / @satelliteinasupernova 

stillscape / @stillscape

stirringsofconsciousness / @stirringsofconsciousness

stonerbughead / @stonerbughead

sullypants / @sullypants 

thatiranianphantom / @thatiranianphantom 

thepointoftheneedle / @thepointoftheneedle

New(er) in Town

Bettsdevil / @bettsdevil

Breizhbit

bugheadfangirl / @bugheadsfangirl

DayenuRose / @dayenurose 

drink_the_midnight_oil 

dsvridiculousfangirl / @daphnesvieira 

EdgarsAbandonedRocketship / @edgarsabandonedrocketship 

Freezing82 / @freezing82

lady_grey_reborn / @middleagedresidentofriverdale 

nightskiye  / @nightskiye 

NotInWonderlandAnymore / @notinwonderlandanym0re 

notso_bad

ShyMeg / @shymeg

winterlovesong / @winterlovesong1

Smut

easyluckyfree45 / @easyluckyfree45

LazyDaizy / @lazydaizies 

lucivar / @lucivar 

meditationonbaaal / @sweetsoundsofignorance 

NotInWonderlandAnymore / @notinwonderlandanym0re 

riverdaledreaming / @riverdaledreaming

Sarahxxxlovey / @quirksandcaffeine

Smudge / @thetaoofbetty

Sunshinebunnie / @sunshinebunnie

Fluff

anchor_bird_94 / @anchor-bird-94

BlueLonghand 

falloutmars / @fallout-mars

Ithoughtyoulikedmereckless / @ithoughtyoulikedmereckless

lady_grey_reborn / @middleagedresidentofriverdale 

literatiruinedme / @literatiruinedme

Loveleee / @imreallyloveleee 

MmbBlossom14 / @hbiccjsblog

mrscolesprouse / @mrscolesprouse

riverdalenerdlol / @riverdalenerdlol

stillscape / @stillscape

ultravioletswift / @ultravioletswift

Angst or Hurt/Comfort

Bibliophile_812

heartunsettledsoul / @heartunsettledsoul 

heavyliesthecrown / @heavy-lies-the-crown

iconicponytail / @iconic-ponytail

LeandraDeRaven / @leandraderaven

LikeMeReckless / @likemereckless

likeromeoandjuliet / @like-romeoandjuliet-love

literatiruinedme / @literatiruinedme

Loveleee / @imreallyloveleee

meditationonbaaal / @sweetsoundsofignorance 

msmaj / @ms-maj

SummerRaine14 / @srainebuggie

sunflowerx / @thesunflowerx

thatiranianphantom / @thatiranianphantom

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

AdamantEve / @writeradamanteve

Cassidius_Wilde / @decysstuff 

DayenuRose / @dayenurose 

easyluckyfree45 / @easyluckyfree45

Goldy / @go-ldy

heytherejulietx / @heytherejulietx

kesleyjo / @kesleyjo

likeromeoandjuliet / @like-romeoandjuliet-love

Mieteve_Minijoma / @mieteve-minijoma

msmaj / @ms-maj

polkadotpancake / @polkadotpancake

sandraven / @ssssandraven

satelliteinasupernova / @satelliteinasupernova

Creative

AdamantEve / @writeradamanteve

bluevelvetvideo / @bluevelvetvideo 

Breizhbit

crazymisscarly / @crazymisscarly

DarknessAroundUs / @darknessaroundus

EdgarsAbandonedRocketship / @edgarsabandonedrocketship 

falloutmars / @fallout-mars

flwrpotts / @flwrpotts

lucivar / @lucivar 

Mieteve_Minijoma / @mieteve-minijoma

sullypants /@sullypants 

sunflowerx / @thesunflowerx

thepointoftheneedle / @thepointoftheneedle 

winterlovesong / @winterlovesong1

Bonus

Favorite Commenter

@bugheading

@cheryllclayton

@earthlaughsinflowersblog

@feisty-aquarius4

@fictitiousoshine

@i-know-you-can

@imreallyloveleee

@likemereckless

@lucivar

@stonerbughead

BlackKeys09

Favorite Bughead Edit/ Gif Maker

@bettycooper

@bettyjugheads

@bscgirl99

@bugheadchemistry

@courtaa

@edamamechips

@joshhutcheron

@katherineebishop

@simon-eriksson

@sprousehart-x

Favorite Riverdale Gif Maker

@arsenicpanda

@bettys-coopers

@fruityronnie

@fyeahvarchie

@horrorlesbion

@lopazdaily

@reggierightsactivism

@tibby

@yenvengerberg

Favorite Fan Artist

@alpacalypseartb

@celandineitsaflowerdickward

@decysstuff

@edamamechips

@edgarsabandonedrocketship

@gogenevieveart

@lucivar

@pinklisalizard

@satelliteinasupernova

[PART ONE] | [PART TWO] | [PART THREE] |

Don’t forget to come back when voting begins on March 14th!

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for want of a battle, the kingdom was lost

Betty Cooper would never hurt Archie Andrews, not even with something so small as coming home late without calling.

And certainly never by sleeping with her ex-boyfriend. Even less so, doing it more than once.

And never, not in a million years, would she be sitting in a school bathroom, holding a stupid plastic stick with a stupid pink plus sign that may as well be a lit bomb fuse.

Read on AO3.

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by lady_grey_reborn

Longtime roommates Betty Cooper and Jughead Jones are been inseparable best friends for years – and secretly in love with each other for almost as long.

Betty’s love of the holiday season is no secret – and neither is Jughead’s Scrooge-like attitude towards Christmas. But he’s happy to give into (most of) her Christmas traditions.

Will years of merry-making lead to a happily ever after for those two idiots in love.

(Yes.)

Words: 6193, Chapters: 5/5, Language: English

Fandoms: Riverdale (TV 2017)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Betty Cooper, Jughead Jones, Archie Andrews, Veronica Lodge

Relationships: Betty Cooper/Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper & Jughead Jones

Additional Tags: Idiots in Love, Mutual Pining, and they were ROOMMATES, Bughead Secret Santa, Bughead endgame

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i realized that over the years (since christmas 2018), i've written quite a bit of winter-themed bughead fanfic. so i decided to put them all in one place. happy holiday season!

a merry little retail christmas 4/4

Betty and Jughead are keyholders at the often-forgotten Brooklyn location of an NYC-based gift shop, holding down the fort during the busiest time of the year. To top it off, amongst the stress and glitter and bustle of the holiday season, Betty and Jughead are keeping a secret...a secret they don’t want to tell their co-workers until Christmas.

betty, it's legitimately cold outside 1/1

Every December 23rd since they became friends, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, and Archie have spent this night together watching Christmas movies. What happens when Archie and Veronica don’t show up for movie night, leaving Betty and Jughead snowed in with a lot of snacks and unconfessed feelings?

christmas eve will find me (where the love light gleams) 1/1

When her friends realize they’re snowed in on campus over Christmas, the first thing on Betty Cooper’s mind isn’t cancelling plans with her family, but the not-at-all-subtle gift she left outside her ex-boyfriend Jughead Jones’s door.

Or: five snowed in grad students, three meddling roommates, two pining exes trying to be “friends,” and one epic gift exchange when the clock strikes midnight on Christmas Eve.

friendsgiving 2012 2/2

Betty and Jughead drive from Boston to Riverdale for their first Thanksgiving back from college, only to find that both the Cooper house and the Jones trailer are empty.

a do you like or like like me? coda

west coast winter 1/1

Jughead stops and stares at Betty, trying to figure out his next move. Whether intentional or not, Betty has managed to stop them directly under the same mistletoe that Veronica had caught Archie under just hours earlier.

Or: Betty and Jughead are just friends, always have been. But since Thanksgiving, when their friends passed out early and left them alone with a half-full bottle of Lodge family rum, the two roommates have added “benefits” to the mix.

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heartunsettledsoul’s holiday bughead fic roundup

write more of a little more [6/6, 20k; part one of the don’t fear doing things wrong series]

After all, it’s not her fault that their respective best friends took to each other like moths to a flame and ditched them to go flirt in the great outdoors. In all likelihood Betty’s vacation is just as ruined as Jughead’s, so they may as well commiserate together.

or, a double prompt fill for my own personal festive fic fest 2018: you’re my hot ski instructor and i’m failing the bunny hill & our friends rent a cabin to go skiing and we’re the only ones who stay inside

hold me even closer now [5/5, 26k; part two of the don’t fear doing things wrong series]

“Okay, well, if Veronica isn’t the one sending flight confirmation details for a prepaid flight to Burlington because she decided to come home after all, who is?”

“Sending what?” Betty wedges between Jug and the arm of the loveseat, looking where he points on his laptop screen.

Sure enough, Forsythe Pendleton Jones III, is booked for a flight to Burlington on December 23. Two days from now.

Betty lunges for her own computer on the coffee table, so frantic to get into her email account that she mistypes her password three times.

Top of her inbox: Elizabeth Anne Cooper, booked for a flight to Burlington on December 23.

Just below the confirmation from the airline is an email from Cooper-comma-Alice.

or, Betty and Jughead visit the Coopers for Christmas. With some unexpected, tropey twists.

(pssssst. there might be a part three to don’t fear doing things wrong coming to ur ao3 inbox/tag this holiday season.)

(Christmas Eve Will Find Me) Where the Love Light Gleams [oneshot, 4.4k]

It made for a ridiculous image: Veronica dressed in heels and a chiffon dress, but wearing a Santa hat and covered in flour; Archie wielding a ball of dough and as many decorations as could fit in his arms; and then Betty, placing felt antlers on her head as though it were her battle armor and yanking a protesting Jughead up by the elbow.

Betty’s in for a happy surprise when she shows up for Christmas with Veronica and Archie and their front door is opened by none other than Jughead Jones.

won’t be the same dear (if you’re not here with me) [3/3, 12k]

She nods. Betty Cooper nods, agreeing to pretend-date him. An extremely normal favor between friends.

Nerves shudder their way through him.

In kind, Betty shivers, and it becomes clear they need to return inside.

“Ready to enter the belly of the beast?” Jughead jokes.

Her only response is to roll her eyes at him, which gives him a semblance of hope that they might retain normalcy in their friendship after this fiasco is over. Or rather, to use Betty’s own words, their relationship.

or a miscommunication, a blizzard, and only one bed.

if the fates allow [8 individual mini prompts fills, about 1k each or under]

a collection of holiday prompt fills from 2018 (god)

turn the white snow [5/5, 12k words]

Betty borrows the Lodge’s winter cabin to hide away and get her work done. When a storm hits, she’s stranded in the snow with her neighbor, Jughead Jones. As you can imagine, things heat up.

“I will keep my comments to myself.”

(listen this one is old af and even i judge my writing but. it is technically festive, so.)

pining for the sunshine of a friendly gaze [oneshot, 6k words]

When they make it back home, Jughead points her in the direction of the couch. “Pick a Christmas movie. As hokey as you want.”

Betty raises an eyebrow. “You won’t mock it incessantly?”

Again she makes a face.

“Cross my heart.” Satisfied, Betty settles in.

or, they’re roommates and Betty just wants a nice Christmas

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how much optimism do you have for bh endgame? the only thing making me somewhat unsettled is that i'm seeing all these ba stans talking about how at the end of the episode, jughead couldve written a happy ending with betty but instead wrote one with tabitha (?) is that really what happened? -someone who didn't bother to watch the episode

i don't really feel like i have to consider myself optimistic when i think bughead and varchie ending up together is the story they're telling tbh. like, i don't think it's not? i never have? i think people expect something because they want it and then get upset when it doesn't happen on their timetable tbh.

also, i'm not going to tell you not to read the b/as stuff because people do what they do but i will tell you that i have had to restrain myself from calling people stupid the last few days over the episode. not even just because i think they're wrong but because the episode holds your hand and explains itself; visually and textually to the point of offering you heavy handed exposition as dialogue.

an overly wordy episode summary and other nonsense below the cut👇

let me say that i get that people are looking for all kinds of opinions but i think anything offscreen needs to be taken with salt. lots of it. this show's promo is predictable and misleading at best. also, just because i don't shit on alex every time people bring him up to me doesn't mean i don't think he's so very bad at his interpretations. maybe some people are new here but he thought bughead was done in s2 too. and thought they'd end in s3. and also thought jughead was the gargoyle king. that's not including saying jughead was a dirtbag ladies man for s5 and it was jughead being dumped and getting rolled by a coed. you'll have to excuse me if i don't take him seriously.

and for sure, roberto essentially admitting that they did a 180 for the event is annoying because they were clearly setting up one narrative and then flipped which is bad writing but i get why they'd do that if they were dead set on doing the event the way they did. but basically flipping the pairings to do a horror event and then saying they need to "play out" in riverdale would not make me confident about them at all, tbh. but the b/as are not nothing if not confident. usually wrong. but confident.

(examples: b/a dating during the time jump, after the time jump, love confession after fwb, working together on the tbk, betty confiding in archie about the tbk, b/a baby, rain kiss, engagement by 5x19)

y'all, the b/as got nothing for years and still act like they do, if anything i have no idea why the bughead and varchies aren't serving them back that same energy. in an episode with betty and archie's wedding, in ended with bughead on a bed. be as petty as roberto was there, my guys.

i do think this episode needs to be watched to really get a good grasp of what they're doing with it, tbh. we saw from that article that leaked how badly just reading a summary of things doesn't show any cues, context, or nuance of any kind.

(even the archie stuff comes together on a second viewing i think. archie winks at jughead when jughead sees young archie from riverdale talking to grundy, he's the one to talk to jughead in the lounge when he's spacing in and out, he tells jughead it was just a dream when betty brings up the dream about a bomb, etc)

when he talks to dilton, he says the explosion of the bomb created rivervale, right? and dilton says that parallel universes are a copy or mirror of each other but we know that's not true for rivervale since things are the same but different but not opposite either. which i guess makes it a pocket universe.

if the universes are tied together at the point of creation, that's the point where they have to be separated, according to ethel.

(i think it's hilarious, tho, how heavy handed jughead was about re-creating the explosion. definitely not subtle at all in roberto getting them to a point where the bughead stuff pretty much has to happen for jughead's theory even tho there's no science, magic, or creation involved like he said about the first explosion)

(also can i say that so many people proved this week they do not understand the definition of words. mainly counterpart???)

ethel calls their rivervale selves aberrations, which is also hilarious considering how much shit we had to hear for weeks about how ammmmaaazzzzzinnnnnnggg the b/a and j/t stuff was going to be in rivervale because roberto said it was canon, don'tcha know?

but also, jughead saying, "is it possible to be nostalgic for a life you're not even sure is yours?" is definitely 👀 worthy. i wonder what he could be so nostalgic for? he's still friends with betty, archie, and veronica in rivervale, right? he's not nostalgic for a relationship he's already in that didn't exist until he was 25-26. i wonder what, like, over 80 of those comics was actually about then? 🤔

(archie saying that his dad would never miss his wedding, especially to betty, has me like...is that why archie won't let go of betty in riverdale? i actually think that's an argument that could be made after the way 4x18-19 went down after 4x17 tbh. all of archie's motivations for the longest time have been tied to his dad's memory)

okay this got away from me but the opposite of destruction, according to the jugheads (pour one out for narrator jughead), is creation. so writer jughead goes to the bunker and they show him starting to write the story from the point of jughead and betty starting the bomb countdown.

like, i know they think they're being clever by saying ohhh he could have written bughead a happy ending but the episode was extremely heavy handed in both saying that jughead thinks archie and betty are in love and that the bomb is the point of rivervale's creation.

(which, riverdale jughead has always been insecure about archie, like, since the start, why would 'vale jug, who admitted he didn't want really even go to the wedding be any different?)

jughead writes the story from the moment of them waiting for the bomb, he doesn't alter the entire history of that story. he continues it. he follows the story being told to the end with the history that came before it (which, to be fair, the tangs/choni stuff is weird because it switched throughout the episode? that seems to have been changed after the start? an anomaly?) and created a time loop. rivervale was always going to be rivervale because rivervale is always going to be rivervale.

they're probably just mad because even they can't escape the fact that jughead wrote someone calling betty to warn her about the bomb, which still happens at the point of the bomb in the story, (i know there's spec on who, if it was him or dilton, etc. i don't know who it is) and that pretty much means that writer jughead let riverdale jughead get hurt in order to make that call to her. but i'm sure none of those implications means anything for riverdale. right?

we don't know what that means for riverdale narratively yet, tbh. i fully expect to hear selective takes and willfully misinterpreted...everything for the next 3 months. like, i've already seen people argue the whole love triangle speculation because of the promo (where betty is sitting between archie and jughead) while those same people said b/archie endgame because of the still for 5x19 where betty and archie sat on the same side of the table. like, if they're so confident, why does bughead speculation bother them so much? if they didn't constantly tell me what their own spec was, i don't think i'd have much of a clue what they're talking about at any given point.

(or are they pretending to still like jughead? i mean, they should be mad he kissed betty while with tabitha right? or is that only reserved for parts of this fandom when it applies to betty?)

sigh, this was a long way to say that i think listening to people who probably skipped the bughead parts, are being willfully obtuse, and have made bad faith arguments for years is a waste of time. the episode explains itself pretty well.

i think the biggest question is, if writer jughead changed something in riverdale, what else did he change and how will that effect the rest of the season?