#antibughead

[wowthatsextra]

I loved your tags on that naley reblog about their natural chemistry and wanted to challenge you to name five pairings you think have UNnatural/forced chemistry! Chemistry is so subjective that there are no wrong answers :)

Girl I try not to hate on any ship ever but since it's a challenge imma take it :) you're right, there are no wrong answers but these are gonna be controversial so read at your own risk

1. Harry & Ginny (Harry Potter)

It's obvious. What the fuck was the shoelace? Why did they not give a shit about the main character's main love interest? I love them in the book but the movies failed to give the butterflies!

2. Tessa & Hardin (After)

Just... no. No amount of montages can fix the glaring lack of chemistry. The book made me mad so I already didn’t have a high opinion on them, but their movie scenes had me BORED.

3. JJ and Kiara (Outer Banks)

They do have chemistry, as they're very comfortable and combative with each other... I just don't see the romantic chemistry sorry 😭 they come off as just besties to me. And the way the entirety of S3 "realizing feelings" period was basically miscommunication as romantic tension kind of didn’t help changing my opinion. But I did love some of their romantic scenes in S3 so I guess they can win me over?

4. Frank & Julie (The OC)

Oh dear God. This is my biggest pet peeve about the entire show. They were supposed to be the "true love" choice while Bullit was the "safe choice" but it was like??? Like, sometimes I hate a character and am like "no but they're cute with x" but this time the closer he got to Julie the more I hated him lol, it was literally like negative chemistry. Just a mess.

5. Betty & Jughead (Riverdale)... after Season 1

It kinda hurts me to admit because I loved them in Season 1. That first love energy was immaculate. But then in the later seasons they got so stale and stiff 😭

[wulf03]

Hey barchies so I know that we are all down bad today but I’ve been theorizing and wondering so I wanted to get your opinions on this too. I am thinking that V*rchie will be bones by the end of next episode. I know that sounds like a stretch but I really do believe it. Think about it. In 5x10 we are getting barchie alone again. I can’t see any explanation as to why V*rchie would still be together while Betty and Archie are alone together.

To further explain why I think this is because I am seeing next episode going like this. Archie and Veronica are gonna have their moments here and there next ep. But then I think that they are gonna realize that it’s not the same as it was in high school and that they are different people. I also think that Archie is gonna realize that the reason he was having “feelings” for Veronica was because he was scared of his true feelings for Betty. He was scared and things were changing with Betty fast so he wanted to go back to something familiar, his relationship with Veronica. So, I believe that by the end of 5x09, Veronica and Archie are going to, once and for all, realize that they are better as friends and always were.

Then in 5x10, (I don’t have any information on the plot so I am guessing a little bit) Betty and Archie are gonna work together to either help find Polly or something to do with the TBK. Archie’s gonna tell Betty that Veronica and him aren’t together anymore and I feel like there will be some tension. He isn’t gonna tell her why either. The tension is gonna build up to a climax and then at some point in the ep, Archie is gonna realize that he does, in fact, want to be with Betty. At the end of the ep, Archie is gonna go and try to confess to Betty that he has feelings for her and wants to be with her. Something is gonna stop them from being together. I have a few ideas as to what that could be:

1. Betty doesn’t trust Archie’s feelings for her and thinks he might not be 100% sure that he wants her and no one else.

2. Betty tries to tell him again that she doesn’t want to let her darkness overtake him and wants to protect him.

3. Betty says that they shouldn’t be together, right now, because she needs him more as a friend.

OR

4. Before Archie has the chance to confess his feelings, he sees Betty with someone else. Either Glen, Jughead, or another guy.

Anyways barchies, I know it’s been rough and we are all kind of broken but remember what happens in 5x10 and the pic Evan posted saying not to lose hope. Also let me know your theories and what you thought about mine in the comments. Stay strong and don’t lose hope!

[mydairpercabeth]

Riverdale writers having Betty And Jughead date while they know they share a brother AND YALL DEFENDING IT is the whitest shit I have ever seen

[clumsyreadervixen]

Spoiler below folks

Hi regardless of what happens they kissed and continued to kiss after pulling back so I will be accepting your Barchie had no chemistry apologies now

[thefudge]

Jughead trusting Veronica is what I want in season 4, too, if Riverdale insists on keeping dry B/ghead together by force. Teens need to develop and flourish and not get themselves stuck in a relationship that does nothing for each other's personal growth. Also, Veronica is treated SO badly by most of the fandom meanwhile Betty always gets a free pass. Did Veronica ever chloroform her mom and handcuff her to a bed full of come in a bunker? No, bye.

lord i forgot about the mom handcuffed to sex bed, i am ....what is this show 

it’d be one thing if b/ghead was a pairing that helped both characters develop or reveal interesting facets of their personality, but it’s the exact opposite. i’ve never met two individuals be more boring with each other, but far more compelling when they’re separate. they never find the right balance, half the time they act like strangers and then, once in a blue moon, they’ll make out moodily while there’s a fire in the background lol. there’s this huge disconnect from what this pairing is meant to be and what is actually showed on screen. so yeah, b/ghead is keeping both these characters back.

as for betty getting free passes, ultimately it’s all in her disservice, because her supposed darkness is now merely used as a gimmick and a way to highlight her “purity”. she’s constantly framed in terms of “the death and the maiden”, a young girl hunted by darkness because her goodness is so alluring (eyeroll). her questionable actions are never really addressed because the blame is always shifted on smb else (her dad, her mom, veronica, the lodges, her brother etc.). the riverdale universe has  become so ridiculous with every person being a serial killer/rapist/drug lord that betty’s “mistakes” don’t really count anymore, do they? ironically, in RAS’ world, betty has no real agency and therefore cannot take responsibility for her actions. she is a doe-eyed, brave “maiden” fighting the demons who crave her pure spirit (eyeroll again). it’s like a halsey song gone bad. veronica, on the other hand, is the treacherous femme fatale (hell, in the noir film episode they had no qualms portraying her as exactly that, complete with costume) who we can never really trust, even though she tries her best. she’s more sexualized and she has more sex, therefore her goodness must be questioned. ironically, veronica has actually done far fewer questionable things and is more well-adjusted than betty, but that’s the thing. RAS seems to like this “damaged maiden” trope i’ve mentioned above and he can only find it in betty (and marginally in cheryl), so even though betty pulls a lot worse stunts, it’s veronica who gets the end of the stick for not being vulnerable and doe-eyed, i guess. like, it’s fine for a young woman to do some fucked up shit as long as she looks innocent and tortured. instead of letting betty tap into some rly uncomfortable places regarding addiction and self-image, RAS is content with having his cake and eating it too. and this is why b/ghead is written this poorly too. RAS wanted romeo and juliet (which they actually reference ughhhh) but without any of the actual emotional ramifications. he wanted comfortable angst, if you will. betty and jughead have absolutely no obstacles standing in their path (the whole “i’m in a gang” complication gets resolved without any real hitches), they have a pretty bland, run-of-the-mill friendship, they don’t really challenge each other but rather confirm each other’s narrow views, and they don’t even seem to be drawn to each other. even when they’re solving crimes or having sex or exchanging beanies (eye roll) they scream “platonic friends who are experimenting just because someone thought this was a good idea”. it’s forced and underwhelming but with a little artificial frisson of nonexistent angst because that’s what RAS wants out of betty; a comfortably “damaged” and innocent heroine, someone whose darkness is only there for show. 

[awwtommo]

finally, finally!!, f i n a l l y, varchie is over

next stop: bughead

[veronicassadboi]

The disinterest I have towards Bughead sleuthing right now is ASTOUNDING.

[steroline-sk]

We rock💪💪

I dont know if you have see it but on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BgHSU5BH3Cl/ our Jeronica video reached more than 1M of views in ONLY 2 DAYS 😎;

Versus

the video of Buggies have the same amount of views but in 1 MONTH (february 14th)

But don't forget that nobody ships or likes Jeronica, right?!

[kneesheee]

I SWEAR IF THEY TRY TO HAVE BETTY JOIN THE SERPENTS OR TRY TO HAVE HER HANG AROUND THEM CONSTANTLY THEN I WILL FLY TO VANCOUVER AND TEAR SOME SHIT UP!!! KEEP HER AND ALL HER NORTHSIDE DRAMA ON THE NORTHSIDE!!! ITS BAD ENOUGH THEY DISRESPECTED JUGHEAD SEXUALITY BUT DONT DISRESPECT OUR SERPENTS!

[sarka-stically]

I sometimes remember those days when I actually cared about main storyline, bughead, varchie and main characters in general.

Oh those were easy times.

Now im in pain, because I watch 40 minutes long episodes for like 10 minutes of Cheryl, Kevin, Josie, Reggie, Serpets Falice and Choni (sometimes not even this much).

[paceywittergayboatman]

Is any one else excited for toni topaz to come and contribute to the fall of bughead I mean is not beronica or jarchie or aroace jughead but a least if jughead gets with toni it be a interracial couple

[jabitha-endgame]

Not trying to start anything, but it’s a little funny how bughead’s thing was “darkness” and now Jughead is with a literal angel 😆

The dark/light juxtaposition between the way Betty and Tabitha have been presented within the narrative is interesting to me. Like how many references does Betty have to “her darkness”? And how many times has Tabitha been revered as this beacon of good? It’s all so interesting!

[heckolve]

man i love riverdale but bughead makes me want to die

[suckithaters]

Bughead haters can suck it.

They’re endgame. And your ship isn’t. :P

[thefudge]

there is a riverdale s4 interview with the creator making rounds because he "promises future trouble for bh" and said "they might drift apart as they grow into adults." i hear jeronica bells and they are pretty fucking loud

I SAW

from your mouth to god’s ear

but honestly there’s no way BH can keep going with these artificial and cringey “serpent qween/king” aesthetics and i think the writers have stopped giving them real reasons to be together and resonate with each other. like in season 1 at least the sleuthing led to them having a rapport, but the sleuthing in season 3 was rote and only there to remind us these kids sometimes solve crimes and are super smug about it *eye roll*. even if jeronica doesn’t happen, i just need to see both jug and betty in different places, growing outside of this manufactured “edgy emo kids” dynamic they have going. and i think sharing a brother might also throw a wrench into their relationship, a la dan/serena. 

anyway, here’s to hoping 

[awwtommo]

the fact that fp&alice and jughead&betty are having sex at the same time, is so fucking weird , c’mmon