#betty's diary

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Betty's Diary #13 (1987).

[daphnefangirling]

Don't You Forget About Me

For Bughead Appreciation Week - Day 5: Missing Moments

Summary: Amnesiac Betty reads her high school journal about her great love with Jughead with whom things ended badly when they were 18. She’s back in Riverdale and has meals delivered daily from Pops by a cute guy named Forsythe. They soon fall in love. Will she get her memories back and realize Juggie from the journals is Forsythe from Pops? What happens when she remembers what drove them apart in the first place? Was the amnesia a blessing in disguise making her forget all her past trauma? Will they make it this time or will history repeat itself?

Teaser under the cut (for the 2 people who said they wanted one: @middleagedresidentofriverdale & @forthehonoroflove)

Feb. 9, 2017 Dear Diary, new year, new me! Ok so the new year started over a month ago, but I decided to start this new diary even before I’d finished the last one so that all the Archie drama would stay in the old diary. This is a brand new start! I’m no longer the pathetic loser hoping to date her dum-dum neighbour! I am Elizabeth Anne Cooper, journalist! That’s right: I officially revived the Blue and Gold at school today! I even managed to rope in Juggie so I wouldn’t be doing it all alone. He and I will solve this mystery of who killed Jason, I just know it!

Betty smiles. She wants to remember this girl that she apparently used to be. The doctor said she should move back home, into a familiar setting that might help jog back her memory. Her mom apparently couldn’t be bothered to move back to Riverdale with her and help with her recovery, but she did give her the keys to the house they used to live in and where Betty spent most of her life before heading out to college. She wonders what kind of relationship she must have had with her mother where she wouldn’t come stay with her now. Yet another mystery to add to the ever-growing pile of what her life used to be before she got amnesia.

She puts down the journal and looks for the others that she would have written prior to this one. Maybe she’ll get a sense of who these people are? Archie, Juggie (that can’t be a real name, right?), Jason and most of all, herself. She doesn’t remember any of it and evidently, the universe doesn’t want her remembering because there are no other journals to be found. Maybe she took them with her and they burned in the fire along with the rest of her stuff and with her memories apparently. But why would she leave only this one behind? Maybe she’ll understand if she reads more diary entries.

But for now, she’s hungry and there’s nothing to eat in the house. She remembers her taxi driver saying something about a diner. She pulls out her phone and types: ‘Riverdale Diner’ Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe is the first result so, after quickly browsing their menu, she calls.

Man’s voice: “Pops Diner, how may I help you?”

“Hi, my name is Betty Cooper and I’ve just moved back into my childhood home at 111, Elm Street. I don’t have any food yet so I’d like to order delivery.”

Man on the phone, hesitantly: “Hum, yeah, sure thing Betty. What did you want?”

She orders the ‘Pops Special’ which she’d found online when looking for the phone number. The man assures her she’ll have her food in 30 minutes so she sits more comfortably on the couch to read a few more journal entries while she waits.

Feb. 24, 2017 Dear Diary, Juggie and I have been working on solving Jason’s murder every day. I really like spending time with him again. We sort of lost touch there for a while, but now it’s like we’ve fallen right back into our old rhythm and familiar habits. We went to Jason’s memorial this afternoon and Jughead looked really cute in his suit. I don’t know why I’m writing about it, it’s really not important… But also, I can’t stop thinking about it. What is wrong with me? Do I have a crush on Jughead? No, it’s gotta be the suit. Yeah, let’s go with that.

*Coming soon-ish to AO3*

[lord-betty]

One thing you can't take away from me is how much i love making music ♥

[pinetreeshack]

um...

[wickedwitchofwisterialane]

I LOVE 2000s shows. I love how they always have some band in playing in an episode.

[userlaylivia]

tagged by the absolute amazing beautiful @laylakeating ily!!! 💞💞💞💞

rules: make a poll of your favorite tv female characters (no limit as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most.

tagging: @nikkiruncks, @makeyouminemp3, @graciehart, @danystargaryens, @saw-x

there's so many more I love and adore but yeah lol

[flower1622]

Characters that give me this vibe:

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Films watched in 2023.

Top 10 February & March.

1. Chronique d'une liaison passagère (Emmanuel Mouret, 2022) 2. Betty Tells Her Story (Liane Brandon, 1972)     3. So Is This (Michael Snow, 1982)     4. Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis, 1958)   5. The Killer (John Woo, 1989)  (gif vía: leofromthedark) 6. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)     7. Landscape Suicide (James Benning, 1987) 8. Los dinamiteros (Juan García Atienza, 1964) 9. Wings of Hope (Werner Herzog, 2000) 10. INU-OH (Masaaki Yuasa, 2021)  (gif vía: kakuusei)

(My list on Letterboxd -click here-)

[james-stark-the-writer]

feel like pure shit, just want her back

[sanftes-herz]

Betty 🪴

[bughead-in-the-comics]

From Fast Food Dude, Betty’s Diary #22 (1988).

[jhsharman]

"Dear Diary"

The second of a premise of Betty as unreliable narrator for diary writing, which then moved into one page installments largely by Al Hartley. I suspect that when Kathleen Webb referred to finding inspiration from the diary narration by Betty as inspiration -- and then it moved into a title -- one or two 70s stories where Betty is not fabricating things are being referred to more than this.

They appear to color in new leggings for Betty in the second panel. And can't decide on a new pants color for Archie here.

[pinetreeshack]

could they end up any worse

[fawnl3t]

Getting picked up early from school for a doctor's appointment & I get to go trick or treating today !!!! Yayay!!! Life is good !!!

[userlaylivia]

I have so many more favorites so I might make a part two lol

@maya-matlin, @makeyouminemp3, @nikkiruncks, @laylakeating

[flower1622]

"I'm smart and you are just the dummy person"