#Bughead family

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From It's in the Stars, Archie's Vacation Special #5 (1997).

[jandjsalmon]

Thank you.

Thank you for the stories and the gifs and the meta and the episode run-downs and the shit posts and the dedicated blogs to Jughead's jackets or Betty's sweaters.

Thank you for your time and your talents and your friendship.

Love you all. 💙💛

[bluevelvetvideo]

I have some feelings to share:

I know that the majority of people didn't like the later seasons of Riverdale. I held off watching the last two seasons until recently. I finished season 6 mid-August and just finished season 7 about fifteen minutes ago.

Were they ridiculous seasons, and did they look nothing like seasons 1 and 2? Yes. Were they straight up bad? Absolutely not. I am sure I'm in the minority here, but I did not hate them.

Season 6 was outlandish and supernatural, but I chose to look at it through a lens of fanfiction. Season 6 was an AU. It was built to be fanciful and weird because that's what AUs can be. Our favorite characters can be superheros and fight comets and bad guys because that's what superheros do in AUs. By very definition, its an alternate universe.

Season 7, being back in the 1950s is again, an AU choice. However, being set in the 1950s is an homage to the comics. Did the ships play out how we wanted? No. Did they give us tastes and teases of what we did want? Sure. We got glimpses of what we knew these characters to be.

I watched the last 40ish episodes in a state of suspended disbelief. I knew I wasn't going to get Bughead in its purist form. I knew things would be different, but I watched anyway because I spent years getting to know these characters. I've spent years loving them and appreciating them.

I did not expect to sob uncontrollably after watching the series finale. (If you don't believe me, ask Bina, I sent her a snapchat of my sobbing.)

The Bughead fandom, this show, has brought me immense joy over the past seven years. It has given me space to find my love of writing again. It has provided me with a small corner of the internet to learn and create and find my people. It provided comfort in a time of global uncertainty. It gave me one of my best friends. It gave me somewhere to escape when I didn't know how else to deal with myself or my emotions. I hid here for a very long time until I was ready to face things. I got to experience things and people I'd never have gotten the chance to without it.

Riverdale isn't just Murdertown, USA. Riverdale is where I went for a visit, and it welcomed me without question. In my time in Riverdale, I learned about myself. I learned about life and love and people. I learned that everything is not what it appears to be. I learned the art of kindness to strangers. I learned appreciation for art and hope. Riverdale has given me so much that I will never be able to thank it for properly.

Riverdale will always be a second home. This community will always be a second home, even if there isn't much left of it.

[bettycreeper]

Bughead Appreciation Week | Day Two | Fluff

On our very first day at Harvard, a very wise Professor quoted Aristotle: "The law is reason free from passion." Well, no offense to Aristotle, but in my three years at Harvard I have come to find that passion is a key ingredient to the study and practice of law -- and of life. It is with passion, courage of conviction, and strong sense of self that we take our next steps into the world, remembering that first impressions are not always correct. You must always have faith in people. And most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself. Congratulations class of 2023 -- we did it!

[imreallyloveleee]

wip wednesday

is this still a thing? regardless, here’s a snippet from this oneshot i’m working on, where Betty joins Jughead on a trip to Ohio for JB’s high school graduation. it’s set a few weeks after the end of 5x17 (which is why i tortured myself today by sitting through it) and goes au from there:

A few hours later, they cross the border into Pennsylvania. 

“So…” Betty pauses, unsure how to phrase her question. “Your parents…they’re still living together?”

“They are,” Jughead confirms. “They seem to have figured out whatever it is they needed to figure out. Wish they’d done it when I was in high school, but better late than never, I guess.” 

“That’s nice. For JB, at least.” 

“Yeah. No sleeping in the janitor’s closet for her, thank god.” 

Betty’s heart twinges at the reminder of Jughead’s temporary stint with homelessness. She hadn’t known about it until he was safely ensconced in the warmth and stability of the Andrews house, but she remembers crying when he told her, and how he’d tried to comfort her, which only made her cry harder. 

“And your mom’s…” She hesitates again. 

“On the straight and narrow? Somewhat. I think she’s still involved with that chop shop she was running, but there’s no meth lab in the basement or anything.” Jughead shrugs a little. “Aside from that I don’t ask a lot of questions.” 

In her lap, Betty’s phone lights up with a text from Kevin: I have an update on the ~Tangs situation. Lunch @ Pops?

She hesitates, then texts back in as few sentences as possible an explanation for why she’s currently driving across northwest Pennsylvania with her high school ex-boyfriend. 

Typing bubbles appear at the bottom of the screen. Then her phone rings.

“The fuck,” she mutters, silencing it immediately.

Jughead glances over. “Do you need to take a call?”

“No. It was just spam.” 

I’m literally sitting next to him right now, I can’t talk

!?!?!?!?

I expect ALL details when u get back

Betty rolls her eyes. 

FYI he’s not dating Tabitha. They were faking it for her parents

Ohhh

That makes more sense. They have zero sexual chemistry 

Kevin continues texting her with various “tips” for the weekend ahead, but Betty tucks her phone back into her purse. She’s not taking advice from the guy who somehow ended up on the losing side of a three-way-parenting love triangle situation by the age of 25.

[anotherbluesunday]

✨Fic Update: In Technicolor—Ch.4: Play Both Sides (Bertie)✨

There weren't curated pictures of cheer practice or makeup routines. No glamourous travel vlogs or dances with siblings or friends. Actually, her account was almost void of any friends except for two people--Reggie and some guy named Kevin that she called her gay husband. I was pretty sure he was on the football team and that that was where I remembered him from. I always caught them coming up the stairs in their letterman jackets with Jason Blossom at the center and Reggie's squeeze, Archie joining them in his swim team hoodie. But other than them, the space was void of friends. There were blurry unfiltered pictures of her nightly adventures. Trips down to the beach. Short videos of Wynn walking the shores alone with the wind whistling while she sang to herself. Pictures of her orange tabby cat, Thing and her Siamese cat Lurch that groaned tiredly at the camera whenever she called its name.

My favorite was the reel of her resting her chin on Lurch as the fat cat purred and meowed with eyes closed. Smiling when she giggled, I shut myself up as the panicked scream gagged me when I, like an idiot, hit the heart icon on her video. Undoing the like, I laid there traumatized. Screamed internally as I stared blankly at the video. Fuck. Would she get a notification that I had liked her video? Or would taking back the like undo that?

Would it be weird to google that?

Her activity setting was on. I could tell because there was a green dot next to her default image. Not good. A half second later I got a notification that I had a new message. Definitely not good. Really not good. It was Wynn. In my DM's with the message reading "Bertie??" and nothing else. Bad. So bad. Now I really wanted to die. Staring at the message, another one followed it up a couple seconds later.

"Or not," she said. "Sorry."

Now I was the asshole. God damn it.

"No, yeah. It's me. Sorry, I diddn't see your message." I wrote out. Kicked myself mentally when I read it over a second time. "*didn't."

"lol. No worries. I saw your name on a notification so I snooped a little wondering if it was really you." Before I could type out a full response, Wynn added on, "You don't seem like the type to be on here often. Guess that's why it was a surprise."

She wasn't wrong. I wasn't really into it. "Was it that obvious? I have an ig account because it's how I keep in touch with my cousins and extended family that live in Texas and Mexico."

Looking up when Pugs smacked my hip and told me over my music that we were home, I told him I'd be in in a sec. Eyes back on the screen, I smiled dumb when I saw her next message.

"Mind if I add you??"

Bad but also good. So anxiety inducing.

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[dykerikki]

s1 bughead is crazyyy. bettys family is fracturing into pieces and jughead is like you are so strong betty <3 you have the power to hold your family together <3 his ass is projecting his child of divorce problems onto her completely separate nightmare from next door problems

[apomaro-mellow]

Since I finished Riverdale, lemme give yall a list of uh let's say iconic moments that DON'T make it into top posts

People talk about Archie and the bear but don't always mention the reason he's in the woods is to hide from a mob boss the specifically has beef with him.

Apparently there was talk of whether Bughead (bettyxjughead) was incest and some have even implied that Veronica has an oedipus complex but there's an actual pair of cousins that have a baby bc they don't realize they're related thanks to some old ass family feud

Josie's send-off/comeback episode that was clearly supposed to help her spinoff into her own series that never happened and yet Katy Keene was a thing?

Aliens don't exist but angels do (side bar: Tabitha's time traveling episode was one of the best)

Reggie and Archie say they love each other after a threesome

Reggie kills his double

Cheryl's mother was adopted and raised in the family to eventually marry their son.

Kevin's dad and Archie's uncle fuck. No they don't talk about it.

Speaking of Kevin, people like to point out the batshit cult but never mention Kevin joined not one but TWO and was the creative director for one of them

Toni has a baby that everyone insists on referring to as "Baby Anthony" and it had me confused thinking there was another Anthony in the mix. Why did they do this?

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Tricky Treats, World of Betty and Veronica #9 (2021).

[jandjsalmon]

2024 FRC - July 🍁

Hello everyone! I hope you have been enjoying your summer! I've never been so grateful for a/c in my life because it's been super warm and lovely here. We finally got the gang back together for a family photo and in a completely unplanned but super fun way - they all showed up in band shirts - the *same* band shirts. I think that illustrates some pretty good parenting there I think. 😏

Anyway, I am just about finished with the @fanfic-reading-challenge I have two number tasks (12mill and 15 mill) that I haven't cracked yet and then there are five tasks that I can't complete until December. But other than those, I can read whatever I want now. I'm excited to go back and reread old favourites.  If you have a favourite fic that you think I’d like - please let me know!

As for my monthly recs for you - I hope you'll give these ones a chance. Read and review - tell the authors how awesome they are.

my heart, oh my heart by @auspicious-goblin (Carmy/Claire - T 1/1) - I don't read a ton of 'The Bear' fanfiction (mostly because I don't ship the predominant ship) but once and a while something just jumps out at you and this is one of those stories. It's actually less shippy and more about trauma and identifying self-sabotage (which is seriously what the show is about to me). The characters are written SO well - and the ending feels really earned. It's not a long fic, but it's one I've thought about a lot since reading it. I highly recommend.

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Leprechaun by @he-aint-heavy-hes-my-leprechaun (Sweeney/Laura - T 7/7) - There are several post-S2 fics in the American Gods fandom... but none of the others have a super fun fake-marriage trope and characters written so in character that you'd think you're watching the show. This is a delight.

Harvest to Home by @writeradamanteve (Bughead - E 13/13) - If you've been around here for a while, you've probably already read this fic (maybe multiple times) - but this was our first taste of this amazing author's talent and it was SUCH an awesome time to be in fandom. This is completely AU - set on a farm in UpstateNY - and you'll fall in love with every single character. Even Cheryl. SO SO good. I was so happy to reread this one this month.

Sending love to all of you - hope you have a wonderful August. 🌞

[bluevelvetvideo]

Bughead Appreciation Week: Day Two - Soulmates

You Can't Blame Gravity (for Falling in Love) & Testify

Crowned Snakes & Triple Cherry Milkshakes series (more codas to come).

Summary:

“So, Betty. I didn’t know you were a Serpent. I definitely would remember seeing you around.”

“Oh, I’m not. What would make you say that I am?”

“With that giant snake on your thigh, I just figured that must be the case," Joaquin said, taking a bite of his pizza.

“Oh. Right. Nope. Not a Serpent. I woke up on my eighteenth birthday with this giant green monstrosity and I’ve been trying to figure it out ever since.”

OR

Jughead Jones has been staring at his soulmark for twelve years, trying to figure out what it meant and who it belonged to.

Betty Cooper knew what her soulmark meant, but it didn't make any sense to her.

a professor/student fic with a soulmate twist.

[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.

[decysstuff]

I wish you would write (or draw) a fic where Bughead (prep or regular) have a ‘Spy x Family’ moment. <3

Definitely an idea with Baxter👍👍!! It's tempting.

[ourladyofmaplemurder]

okay very important question, do you count bughead as incest why or why not

This is an interesting question. It really depends on your definition of "incest".

In terms of blood relations? No. They're not incestuous.

However, that's not how I would define "incest".

In my opinion, "incest" is more about whether or not you were raised in the same household as part of the same family.

This is why, despite the fact that Penelope and Clifford are not blood relations, their relationship is CERTAINLY considered incestuous.

So, as I think about Bughead, which I don't often do, I think...No. Not really. You can catch them on a technical point since they do share a half-brother, but I don't think their relationships feels or is incestuous.

HOWEVER, there is more to say on this, which I will address in your second ask.

[alaffy]

Riverdale 7x20 - Goodbye, Riverdale (Spoilers)

Jesus, this was depressing. After seven years, Riverdale comes to an end. And I can absolutely guarantee that nobody ever expected it to end like this. That being said, while this is not the ending I would have chosen, I also can't say I dislike this ending. We watched these character going through year after year of hell and the fact that most of them have a good life and there is a happy-ish ending to this...well, I'm content with it. Riverdale, for me, probably will be the first four seasons, but I don't hate this ending.

Anyway, we start with an Eight Six year old Betty who's learned Jughead has passed away. Betty is now the last of the gang to survive. Betty wants to visit Riverdale one last time and her granddaughter promises to take her there the next day. That night Betty is visited by Angel/Writer Jughead who takes her back to the last day of high school so she can see her friends one last time. During these moments we find out what happened to all of the characters. And I'm just going to go through this real quick.

Ms. Andrews will fall in love with a woman who will live in the with Ms. Andrews until she passes away. Polly will end up having her twins (Juniper and Dagwood). Alice will eventually divorce Hal (I think, my cable screwed up and I missed part of this), become a flight attendant, and marry someone else.

During junior year of high school, Fangs records a hit single and is able to convince Midge's parents to let him marry her. Their happiness is short lived as, not long after high school, Fangs goes out on tour and is killed in a bus accident. Midge and her daughter will live off the royalties of Fang's two songs (right).

Pop's apparently dies before the kids graduate high school. That's the grave Betty is visiting. The writers clearly are choosing violence here.

Clay and Kevin move to Harlem together. Clay becomes a professor at Columbia (I think) and Kevin opens his own off Broadway production. Kevin will die of old age in his sleep and Clay will pass away a few weeks later sitting on a park bench.

Cheryl and Toni move west and live a more bohemian life. They have a son named Dale (after Riverdale). They will live a long and happy life together.

Reggie will go on to play basketball for the Lakers and then become the coach at Riverdale High. He has two sons who will run the Mantle used car lot. Reggie was buried in Duck Creek.

As for the core four, well they all decide during senior year to all just date each other. Yup. Well, maybe, as we never see anything happen between Archie and Jughead. After high school....

Veronica moves back to LA and becomes a big movie mogul. I don't think it's directly said, but it seems like she was the first of the four to go. I does seem like Betty, at least, looses touch with her over time.

I'm not going to go into the last Barchie scene. While I didn't particularly like that couple, what the writers did in that scene was nothing short of sadistic to those fans. But one could argue that same was done to Bughead and Varchie fans in season four. Anyway, Archie will go out west and find a woman that he decides to settle down with. He lives a long, good life with her and, when he dies, he's buried next to his father.

Jughead will create Jughead's Madhouse Magazine (Mad Magazine) and had a successful life as a writer/editor. He never marries.

Betty also creates her own magazine. (And late '60s/early '70s Betty's look is my favorite Betty look). Betty never married, but she did adopt a daughter. Which she considers her legacy, her family.

Anyway, Angel/Writer Jughead takes Betty back to the present. The next day, Betty's granddaughter takes her to Riverdale. As they pull into Pop's parking lot, the building is for sale, she discovers Betty has died.

But then young Betty steps out of a car as she has been transported to an functioning Pop's Restaurant. Jason is at the door (yep, the actor is back). And everyone is there (well, of the cast that still worked on the show). And as the story ends, Betty joins the other three at the table and in the Hereafter.

Like I said, not the way I imaged the show would ever end. Not the way I would have ended it. Still, it was a very bitter sweet ending. I shed some tears and, yeah, part of me is sad to see it end.

Of course, that part of me will soon be knocked unconscious by my sanity....

[thetaoofbetty]

I think the ending was a lot more closed off for the core 4 than people have been saying for these past months. It still sucks that they didn’t commit to anything when they could’ve given us the perfect endgames that were destined to be but….

That “quad” dating was ridiculous and it basically says BA and JV dated but realized that they just needed their exes to complete them. Only to break up later on.

That BA moment was Betty basically saying goodbye to the “picket fence” life Archie wanted. He got to have his happy ending w a (unknown) wife, kids, working at construction and Betty go to be an accomplished writer with a daughter she adopted instead of bio (because with Betty’s history with her family that tracks) and unmarried. This is not even good for BA because it confirms what we’ve been saying about how the “married life” was just something Archie wanted but not Betty. She basically turned him down and decided to live for herself instead of Archie’s “perfect life”.

Veronica was a successful actress that was praised and acclaimed until her last day. I kinda wished they’ve given VA something. But maybe both Archie and Veronica ending up in California can open up to some interpretations.

And Betty’s last moment were with Jughead. The beanie Jughead she once felt in love with. It showed us Betty kept track of Jughead all of those years and had his newspaper obituary. And that Jughead regrets never getting to marry Betty. And all of this during Bughead’s theme and holding hands. It feels more like a win for Bughead than what BA/VA got.

kind of weird since the ending feels like it was written for this season vs the previous 6 but also yeah, like, i can see the hints of it all.

tho this:

That “quad” dating was ridiculous and it basically says BA and JV dated but realized that they just needed their exes to complete them.

is very funny because it's like, well, sure we like the people we're with but you know what would make it better? not being monogamous with them.

tho i am starting to wonder if we need someone to talk to roberto about whatever it is that stunted him at 17 since these kids are now 17 for the third time, only now it's forever.