#joaquin tried to give him the benefit of the doubt

[risrambles]

sam and joaquin definitely had a bet as to how long bucky would last as a politician and neither of them gave him more than a term

[emeraldserenade]

hii!! i have a request for joaquin :) reader is joaquin’s wife that he told bucky & sam abt but they thought he was lying and she eventually meets them in person & they’re shocked 🩵🩵

Real ~ Joaquín Torres

synopsis: Sam and Bucky never thought you were real, until you were in their eyesight.

tw: fem!reader, FBI!reader, limited use of y/n, barely edited

fic, ficlet, drabble, request

Hi Reese, I hope you like this! If you've seen Criminal Minds, then you know what a profiler is and that's the job I gave her. I also didn't know how to end this so sorry for the odd ending.

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It wasn't uncommon for Joaquín to talk about you, your name and the words "my girl", "my wife," or "amor de mi vida" tumbling from his lips like you were the goddess he worshipped. It wouldn't surprise anyone who saw the two of you together if he did worship you, he looked at you like you made the world go round. And you did the same, the love you two had for each other made your own world go round.

Bucky and Sam though? They have never seen you, they've heard about you. Joaquín spending any time he can talking about you, about your smile, the way you hold yourself, anything he could think of was mentioned. That's why the two of them were convinced you were fake, they had never met you, let alone see a picture, yet he was always talking like he was trying to convince them you were real.

"Are you sure the kid isn't lying?" Bucky questioned Sam one day, they were all waiting on you. You said your plane was running behind because your 'case' had run a little longer than expected.

"Why would he set this whole thing up if he is?" Sam tried to defend Joaquín at any chance he could. While he didn't particularly believe you were real, he wanted to give Joaquín the benefit of the doubt.

"Oh, she's here!" Joaquín announced, bouncing on the balls of his feet waiting for you to appear. It only took a moment, then you were in his eyesight. He made a beeline to you, the mostly empty airport helped him not having to weave through people.

To say Sam and Bucky were shocked was an understatement. They assumed, had you been real, that you were going to be pretty. But this was something else, you looked ethereal and they understood by Joaquín basically worshipped you. It didn't help that they saw the way you looked at Joaquín, the amount of love that could never be faked.

"Sam, Bucky, this is y/n, my wife," Joaquín introduced you to the others and you shook their hands.

"Hi, it's nice to meet you two," your eyes twinkled with your smile, your genuine happiness at meeting them making them both feel at ease around you.

"Likewise," Sam was the first to recover, his shock still evident on his face.

"You two thought I was fake," you announced and watched them both scramble for an excuse. "It's ok, my job doesn't really allow me to be around as often as I'd like," you admitted, pressing into Joaquín's side.

"And what do you do for work? I'm pretty sure I could tell you your own favorite color before your job," Bucky joked, you laughed knowing that Joaquín would tell someone your favorite color before your job.

"I'm a profiler at the FBI's behavioral analysis unit," you explained. "I use the behavior pattern, method of murder, and a whole other things to find serial killers. And the occasional kidnap or bioweapon attack," you gave them the longer answer to the question since most people tend to not know what the BAU is. The four of you started to walk out of the airport and to the car, Joaquín holding your bag for you.

It wasn't anything new, the looks you got when you walked with Joaquín but these one's made you smile. You were talking with the boys, getting to know them as you talked. It was fun, you noticed that Joaquín was quiet most of the time but you also knew that with the drinks he would soon be talking, a lot.

"I love you," Joaquín mumbled as he leaned into you, you glanced at him with a smile. "Sam, Bucky, have I ever told you how much I love y/n?" Joaquín looked over at the two. You laughed at the way he tried to make it subtle but with the way he was leaning on you, and his not so quiet whispering, you could hear all his words.

"All the time," Sam answered.

"What about how when she smiles it's like time stops and the world is just revolving around her?" Joaquín had moved to wrap his arm around you, but was still stage whispering.

"That one's new," Bucky said, a smile gracing his face.

"Or, or, when I was immediately drawn to her laugh at the college party. She was playing beer pong and she laughed when her friend missed," Joaquín retold the story of the first time he saw you; however, you've never heard it.

"I didn't know that," you told Joaquín who looked at you weirdly.

"You didn't?" Sam was the one to ask.

"No, if I have the right party, then we didn't meet until a few days later in a shared class. We just happened to sit next to each other the one day that the professor made us pick our partner based on who was next to us," you explained, looking down at Joaquín who was staring at you with heart eyes.

"Well, we didn't know that one either," Sam told you and you smiled and let out a little laugh. You four talked a little bit more before Joaquín started to just ramble about how much he loved you.

"I guess we should get going," you laughed after one particularly loud declaration of love from Joaquín followed by a kiss to your cheek.

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Masterlist | Requests

[crqstalite]

OC meme, B, I, J, P, or dealer's choice if you have gotten any of those!

Send me a letter and I’ll tell you which OC of mine…

B: gets bored the fastest.

Danny. He always has something in his hands because it helps him focus on the task at hand, though his attention is usually getting pulled in thirty different directions as it is. He’s definitely not someone who’s going to sit still for hours on end, and is probably busy with something while you’re talking at him. He’s listening though!

I: tends to idolize people they shouldn’t.

Annika. While she’s by far not the most trusting person in the current lineup (that goes to Kodelyn at the moment), she’s hasn’t had many people to look up to since she lost her brothers during the Mindoir raid. She tries to hang onto the people that make the most of an impact on her like her elder siblings, but occasionally they aren’t good people that end up on her current pedestal. In a very grey world, she tends to see things as black and white. And sometimes those that are a darker grey come off as more white to her when they’re shined under the brighter light of her worldview.

She’s guilty of giving people the benefit of the doubt when they really don’t deserve it.

J: tells the most dad jokes.

Joaquin, though that probably doesn’t count since he is a dad. Nia Shepard is second most likely to. His humor is a little dry, but he tries!

P: is the purest, most perfect cinnamon roll.

I...that’s a tough one. Sinnamon roll is AJ easy, but cinnamon roll I had to think about for a bit. Probably also Danny, he’s rather easy going and is most likely the sweetest person in the current lineup. It is not hard to get him to laugh, or make him smile.

thank you for asking!

[rookie-critic]

Rookie-Critic's Top 20 Films of 2021: #1 - C'mon C'mon (dir. Mike Mills)

My #1 pick from last year's movies is one that has gotten almost no awards attention whatsoever. Why that is, I can't say, because, to me, it is easily the greatest film that came out last year. What can I say about this film that can even come close to doing it the justice it deserves? Well, I'll just start by saying that Woody Norman is one to keep an eye out for. This kid gives more depth and realness to his character than almost every single adult actor on the rest of this list combined, and him and Joaquin Phoenix are a perfect pair. Actually, no, I take that back, they are the best imperfect pair imaginable. This movie tackles so many things: what it means to be a parent, what it means to be a friend, what it means to be a partner, what it means to be a sibling, and so many more topics that I'd be here all day if I tried to list them all, and the thing is, it gives each and every one of its many interpersonal relationships and meanings attention and care, allowing the film to come into its full potential.

One of the most important things this movie does is something most media would never dream of: it views its child character through the same lens as it views its adult ones. Norman's Jesse is one mature kid. No, he doesn't talk like a grown-up or act like a grown-up or smoke or any of the normal hallmarks of a "mature kid in movies." He can't handle his emotions, he gets too rowdy, he makes mistakes, but that's the beauty of it. Mike Mills and C'mon C'mon dare to present an adult/child relationship where the adult gives the child the benefit of the doubt. Phoenix's Johnny is honest with Jesse, and talks to him like he would any other person. He allows Jesse to vent his frustrations and flies in the face of traditional parenting, and Jesse comes out better for it (not to give too much away). Instead of the burden being put on the child to change for the betterment of the adult, the burden is put on the adult to teach and to teach not with fear and punishment, but with compassion and understanding that the kid is just that, a kid. Jesse also has parents who suffer from mental illness, and there are sequences that have nothing to do with either of the 2 main characters that are some of the most beautiful pieces of storytelling I've seen in a long time. This movie is a pretty standard 1 hour and 49 minutes, for the last half of that runtime, I was an emotional wreck. Not only is this my favorite film from last year, but it has climbed its way up in my heart to also become one of my favorite films of all time. Please, if you get nothing else out of all my Top 20, watch this. Watch this incredible piece of film making.

Score: 10/10 (Although a perfect score still isn't good enough for this masterpiece)

Currently available for streaming on Paramount+ & Showtime.

[nanyoky]

Someone’s stomach still hates her, so it’s BREAD NIGHT instead of sushi night but HERE WE GO

lol cheryl. for just one tiny moment, i bet a couple kids were ready for a columbus style defamation and dressing down, but not our cheryl. nope. she’s just taking another opportunity to be the live action pacifica northwest.

“the southside kids are fine, but their parents are FURIOUS.” i’m gunna need more than that mayor mac- why? are the southside kids studying too hard now that they have real books? does sweetpea’s mum have to drive him all the way across town to his new school every morning? if the city shut down the school and absorbed these kids into the other district, the district buses would have to come to them, yes? so why would Mama Sweets driving him??? I NEED MORE DETAILS MAYOR MAC.

a neighborhood party for both north and southside. but the serpents are hired as security. do you see the problem here folks???? i mean- obviously not every single southsider is in the gang, but they are a good chunk of the people you’re trying to integrate into the community. so..... what’s really happening.... is a party of northsiders........ with southsiders as The Help. ......great plan i can’t wait.

there’s something really hilarious about the marked height difference between archie and hiram and archie is enjoying every inch of it- deep, deep down inside while he tries to figure out what the fuck is happening in his dining room.

me @ Hal: you’ve got the personality of a brillo pad go out in the garage or something

chic is chillingly cavalier, which is just how i want him, but betty brining up  the “cresent moons” on her palms was ham handed and awkward come on we were doing so much better with dialogue recently

this guy can’t possibly be legit there’s no way a trained agent of anything would trust archie with a can of pringles

there is just so much in the gang checking out betty’s picture of chic. kevin thinks he looks hot and maybe familiar because kevin likes pretty, hooded eyed bad boys who probably have a switchblade in their back pocket ((me too bro it’s okay)). veronica calling him “the omen.” betty sort of expecting but not knowing how to react to her friends thinking her long lost brother is a babe. also summarizing her current home life perfectly in how alice is being awkwardly infantizing and how hal is being definitely not chic’s biological dad and pissy about it. excellent. all excellent.

betty’s “hanging out with toni? cool. that’s cool” face is just... so betty.

“oldest living serpent” SHUT UP i bet he’s adorable i can’t wait

“your dad doesn’t like me” “what? no!” veronica is suddenly a worse liar than betty and that is SAYING something

veronica references the movie “foxcatcher” which i both want to see and don’t want to see and have been waffling about for over a year. anyone care to swing me on it?

varchie is lying to one another and it is all going to blow up so terribly

hoooooolllllyyyyyyy shhhiiiiitttttt. i see. this is a topical episode. and tangentially personal. i went to school near the dakota borders. i have friends who spent weeks at the pipeline protests. but also um.... why do i get the sense that for some bizarre reason, this is going to be jughead’s narrative....... *SIGH*

i need about twelve drinks right now. but also did i nail it with that columbus reference or what?

((fun fact to lighten the mood: my city is working on getting a statue of christopher columbus replaced with one of prince because he was from here and he “represents us better”. bless this midwest))

*HEFTY SIGH* mayor mac. i genuinely want to see more of your adulterous but charming affair with papa keller but you keep fighting tooth and nail to stay on my shitlist

kevin’s porn watching has solved a mystery that shouldn’t really have been a mystery to anyone? i thought fantasy fulfillment was pretty fuckin clear. also, kev, WHY ARE YOU WATCHING PORN IN POP’S WHAT THE FUCK BRO WHO DOES THAT

Archie: *jake peralta voice* why does everyone keep touchin my butt?

IS THE SHERIFF THERE TO WATCH KEVIN’S TRYOUT HELP MY HEART DON’T YOU *DARE* BE SHADY PAPA KELLER DON’T YOU BETRAY MY BOY

KEVIN’S GOOD. KEVIN’S A GOOD WRESTLER. MY LITTLE HEART.

none of these boys better make ANY comments about kevin wrestling or i will come after them with A BAT

this is a much needed self esteem boost for kevin- being better at something traditionally masculine than archie, the all american boy and I SUPPORT HIS PRIDE I JUST WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY KEV EVEN IF YOU LOOK AT CAM BOYS AT A PUBLIC DINER YA WEIRDO

this is an A+ sweater from betty holy jeez contender #1 for outfit mvp

bets did you watch a bunch of your brother’s sexy vids? holy jeez i need to feel better so i can have a drink ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS ESSAY I KNOW YOU ARE

kevin’s writing a gossip column now? i both love and hate this. give me a sample of it and i will swing one way or the other

“this is a story we need to tell” close jughead. this is a story you need to help the right people tell. as support. not the main voice. please tell me that is on its way. (i doubt it)

also i feel like the writers came up with this history of the gang, shall we say, quite a ways after casting of the gang.... not that the gang has to be all direct descendants of the tribe but.... still. 

kevin’s going to help archie practice cuz he’s the best of all of us. also it’s going to make him feel good about himself and i don’t begrudge him that in the slightest.

“you don’t really think this could be long term, do you?” chic you were living in a hostel where people get stabbed/their stuff stolen- how is that long term?

it’s a repeat but i think this is the first time this season we’ve heard a character’s original song? i miss the pussycats. i miss “we tell our own story” divas of color. i honestly kinda miss “i wanna be a musician” archie tbh. the music in general has taken a definite turn this season and i like all the retro but god the s1 soundtrack was SO damn good and atmospheric

Hiram has mastered the painfully overt backhanded compliment in a way i would have scoffed at two years ago but honestly i know people liek this now and it’s a nightmare.

lol veronica and archie turn this into the cold war of in-law relations. “i’m glad you’re not man enough to wrestle archie makes me feel like my daughter’s virtue is safe with you” “oh yeah well i think archie is hot” “yeah and we are TOTES comfortable kissing in front of you because our relationship is TOO HOT TO CONTAIN SO THERE”

*long, loud groan* oh my gggaaaaawwwwddd hal

that being said i kinda feel the same way about the narrative doing this weird displacement where Chic replaces Polly as the Problem Cooper and Sweetpea and Fangs are splitting up the threads of Joaquin’s storyline like come on writers either get your actors back or write something new- don’t just rework existing threads of character and plot for new faces.

kevin stop looking so eager we know hiram is a babe okay but that’s your friend’s dad

kevin and chuck both know enough about wrestling to know hiram is being a dick and not demonstrating for the sake of demonstrating. i mean- i don’t know shit about wrestling and i could tell that- but i have the benefit of knowing the narrative

“Get the message?” no hiram i think you’re being a tad too subtle. try farting on him.

TONI. THAT’S MY GIRL. FINALLY. THANK GOD. i was so scared this storyline was going to let jughead be this painfully white without acknowledgement but here we go. thank god. jughead has been whiter than i am recently and that is SAYING something.

okay so josie’s mad at veronica now which means we don’t get a pussycat reunion? DID THEY LOSE MELODY AND VAL TO OTHER GIGS??? JESUS RIVERDALE HOLD ON TO YOUR CAST ((i’m just assuming. i don’t know if polly and joaquin and melody and val and smithers all have other acting jobs keeping them from doing riverdale- it’s just it doesn’t make sense narrative-wise so i assume it’s a scheduling thing))

“cameras aren’t here, jackie o” that’s my girl

“the old ways die hard it seems” SOCIAL COMMENTARY

i love this wrestling plotline for many kevin reasons, but one of them is it gives and opportunity to show kevin interacting with a male friend. they’re obviously making a better effort to make him more than the “sassy gay friend” but this is one i feel a lot of people would miss. we’re used to gay men befriending women and being romantically involved with or lusting after men exclusively. but kevin and archie are friends! and we love them both! kevin jokes around about archie being hot and neither of them are uncomfortable! archie goes to kevin for help with something kevin has more knowledge/skill at! if i remember right archie was the first one to call joaquin kevin’s boyfriend! they are bros! and this is just really nice!

also how did i not notice kevin is ridiculously buff before? did he beefcake up between seasons or did those sweaters just slim him down a lot somehow? woops better go back and rewatch season one again to check. god what a chore.

chic is AGGRESSIVELY questioning betty’s intentions because we aren’t aware enough that he has TRUST ISSUES

i still don’t know how i feel about any of this and i keep swinging back and forth on “dark betty” from episode to episode depending on what they’re doing with it

“i took care of her while you were in prison” “excuse me” OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT HERE LIES ARCHIE ANDREWS DUMB BOY GOOD BOY SWEET BOY

i really need to know what veronica knows about her parents and how she is biding her time and handling it because the writers are just not throwing her a goddamn bone lately other than to occasionally call out toxic masculinity

honestly i feel like i don’t understand hiram. maybe because i’m not a blindly competitive douchenozzle. but like- surely laying things out so bullheaded and aggressive can’t be a better strategy than lying in wait and learning what you can? he could pretty easily wreck their relationship- those two keep screwing things up between them anyway. it can’t be that hard to be subtle buddy ((hiram is a gryffindor. nell is a slytherpuff. nell does not understand lion people.))

we see more hints of veronica faking the koolaid drinking with her parents. but is that truly what hermione wants? who is real? season one or two hermione?! i must know!!!!

*jughead continues to make this about him* toni: “i thought you were apologizing.” thank god for tony. give her her own narrative and stop making her only scenes be about jughead one way or another. she’s got such potential

for all that i still think the narrative is still going to find a way to keep jughead’s feelings at the forefront of this plot thread, there was some good delivery on “i had no right.” a kid realizing for the first time that just because he feels really strongly about something, does not mean he’s universally in the right on the subject. i know so many grown ass adults who don’t know this. i’m just really hoping not just jughead as a character takes a step back for a bit, but the narrative lets him and uses the room he makes well.

of course hiram invites veronica thinking archie isn’t going to make the team

slap his butt ronnie

so which chuck are we getting today god only knows because his redemption never saw any continuation or closure beyond gettin flirty with josie so i have no idea if it was genuine

Me, who knows nothing about sports of any kind beyond that i like it when Klose does the flippy: Wrestling is an aesthetically stupid sport

we’re all acknowledging how very uncomfortable and surreal this is for veronica right? watching her boyfriend grapple with the guy who publicly humiliated and harassed her a few months back? but in like- a “sportsman behavior” setting? very weird.

was that archie realizing he was being tested? is dating a lodge like converting to judaism? gotta be denied three times and persist?

alice is being so painfully stepfordy and i’m frightened and intrigued by the moment when the other shoe will drop and chic sees the alice cooper we all know and love to hate and hate to love

again- i’m really shocked that like- no one read between the lines on what chic’s livelihood came from

“he has to go and you know damn well why” *clutches pearls* oh good heavens hal what reason could that possibly be??? i haven’t the foggiest

PENELOPE IS LIKE AN AMALGAMATION OF EVERY DISNEY VILLAIN EVER IN THIS SHOT I’M DYING

OH SHIT. OH SHIT. VERONICA AND THE PUSSYCATS.

like on the one hand, that was a fucking power move and i kind of just have to give props for the sheer audacity, but on the other hand PEOPLE NEED TO STOP CUTTING JOSIE OFF FROM ANY AND ALL SUPPORT SHE’S JUST BEING MANIPULATED AND ATTACKED ON ALL SIDES AND I NEED HER TO BE OKAY BECAUSE SHE HAS FAR TOO MANY FEELINGS IN HER BIG BROWN EYES

oh god oh god this is too fucking real i need a drink but i’m still sick fuck this is real. fuck. toni’s face. cuz honestly she’s tough but you can tell she’s not used to the spotlight and it took all her courage to get up and be the voice of the protest only to be derailed and minimalized fuck let this girl have more to do than occasionally be the voice of reason to jughead and the serpents. 

BAHAHAHA is hal going to sleep with penelope to get back at alice for having a kid with fp back in highschool jesus christ this show

i’m reserving judgement on the chic plotline until it progresses more but right now i’m just kinda “....huh.” about it

oh betty. oh honey. oh babe.

“That was the old me” archie has been through five “new me”s in the past month. i mean this is obviously to get on hiram’s good side, but still it’s hilarious.

oh of course. they couldn’t just let this fucking go could they. gotta frame the serpents for something else. or not! maybe it was the serpents! doesn’t actually matter. either way mayor mac, lodges and papa keller are going to be the absolute worst about it.

can we get back to being a gothic mystery show next ep? please?

Episode Scorecard:

Number of Sick Beatdrop editing sequences: none. it seems they’ve abandoned this, sadly, along with the rest of the season one soundtrack and editing style. which is a shame.

Do I Still Miss Joaquin: please just imagine wrestling matches with Joaquin dragging all the other teen serpents along with to be the loudest, rowdiest, Team Keller-est cheering section riverdale has ever seen. Kevin is equal parts pleased and mortified. cheryl and toni are dating by now, so cheryl makes them all tshirts. they all have no fucking clue how wrestling works. they love it.

Episode Hair MVP: jughead’s bangs were corkscrewing again- like mine do when my hair air dries just right. i live the curly/wavy combo life too juggie. i know it’s hard.

Episode Outfit MVP: betty’s felted floral sweater- tho i’m still perplexed by the collars on this show. someone in wardrobe has a signature and i don’t begrudge them- i’ve just never seen collars on any outfit anywhere like these ones

[vaudevillianveteran]

In Defense of Veronica Lodge

 Okay, a lot of hate is circulating in the Veronica Lodge tag. Let’s get a few things straight: 

-Her dad can possibly be getting out of jail and going to Riverdale. The man who paid gangs to lower the value of the drive in, the man who sent people to beat up teens and ruin the SoDale construction, the man who threatened Veronica if she doesn’t do as he says, is returning to Riverdale. She wants to know who this person is because he isn’t the person she thought he was. She is trying not only to protect her family, but her friends and possibly the entire (small) town that she now calls home. 

-It is fact that FP is working for Hiram. FP who indirectly made his own son homeless. Yes, Jug could have lived in the trailer with his dad but that already is a toxic environment. FP has Jason’s jacket. FP is trying to misguide the gang’s investigations (hiding the jacket with Joaquin, reading Jug’s novel and telling him to let it go). He’s not entirely innocent. A “bad” father doesn’t change over night, and that’s a reason why Archie was so weary about Jughead getting his hopes up. 

-Veronica’s father is on the murder board and nearly Betty’s entire family are too. And no one said a word the moment Hiram’s name was put on the board, or even the Cooper’s name. No one said anything about “betrayal” or how fucked up that was. But suddenly, just because it’s the fandom’s golden boy, his family is out of the line. FP shaved, he must be innocent. 

-Now to the touchier subject: Why didn’t Veronica tell Jughead or Betty that she was going to go the trailer? No one can’t convince me that they have never lied (or omitted) something from their friend, specially if at the end of the day, it would have been for the best. I have lied to my friends, mainly to protect their feelings and/or I honestly saw no good coming from the truth. And that’s exactly what Archie and Veronica did. Betty is loyal to Jughead, and in turn is loyal to the Jones’ family. Betty and Jughead are blinded by their feelings. They are not investigating objectively. Veronica and Archie knew that Jughead is trying to reconcile with his father, trying to make up for lost time; Jughead wants that strong healthy family unit back. What good telling Jughead that his father might have killed Jason would have done, specially when they don’t have concrete evidence that FP is the murderer, just a bunch of leads and suspicions? It would have been futile, not to mention an outright cruel thing to do specially now that Jughead is getting his hopes up. Jughead craves to have his family back together and his emotion is blinding his objectivity. 

-Why didn’t Veronica defend and/or tell the truth to Jughead, aka Betty had nothing to do with what A/V did at the trailer? This might come way harsher than intended, but maybe  (after rewatching that scene) perhaps you should look at Jughead’s character more critically. Jughead knows that Betty had nothing to do with A/V going through the trailer. What he was upset about is that Betty knew her mom was accusing FP of murder and didn’t warn him about it, regardless of her being aware about A/V. That argument has little to do with Veronica and Archie. Jughead was hurt that what he thought was their families coming together was instead a farce so that A/V could snoop through the trailer, and Betty was aware of Alice being highly suspicious of FP (thus she invited Hal, to get back at her mother). Just like Archie and Veronica, Betty lied too. All three lied to conserve and protect his feelings. 

Speaking of that scene, let’s take another look at it: 

Jughead pauses and then asks how did they (they=V/A) know when to search the trailer. 

Veronica responds that “we knew he’d be at dinner with---” And thats the moment he got upset with Betty. 

He got upset because that dinner meant so much to him and now he discovers it was all a farce. He then starts to question Betty. He didn’t outright accuse her but instead started to question her. he was giving her the benefit of the doubt:

J: “So thats why (he got invited to dinner, so that A/V could search the trailer, etc, etc)...” He was under the impression she knew about A/V.

B: “No, I didn’t know what they were doing. (Pause) But yes, that’s why she invited you guys...

She did know about Alice’s fake intentions of “getting the two families closer”. And then there’s another big pause were Jughead looks obviously hurt. 

J: “And to think I was going to pass moving to Toledo with my family for you. When we went to my dad’s trailer, you asked me if I believed him. I said I did. Wasn’t that good enough for you?”

B: “Yes, yes, it was good enough. I tried to stop her.” 

J: “You could have told me. You could have warned me about this.” 

B: “You were so excited, Jughead. I didn’t want to disappoint you.”

J: “So instead you lied? You all lied to me?” 

And then the others walk in and tell Jug that his father was arrested. 

Betty admitted to lying to Jughead. Her lying was in fact to conserve his feelings, as she said (”I didn’t want to disappoint you”)-- Archie and Veronica also lied for the same reasons (and they came clean right off the bat without being forced to). Yet, Archie and Veronica are getting the most shit for it from the fandom.

Betty and Jughead’s argument was not Archie’s and Veronica’s fault. Betty lied. She admitted to lying. And Jughead, as episode 10 proved, can be cruel when his loyalties and trust is broken; he doesn’t easily forgive. Whether you agree with the actions Archie or Veronica took, it’s not their fault that Bughead had a small falling out. That ship is being tested now by the show, but that’s not Veronica’s and Archie’s fault so let’s stop blaming Veronica. 

Jughead is, despite the cold exterior, extremely sensitive. He clings to any hope FP gives him about him cleaning up his act. He wants to believe that FP is doing better, that their family could get back together; and when he finds out that his friends nearly broke that fantasy by searching the trailer, he feels betrayed (another reason why Archie kept it a secret: he doesn’t want to ruin Jug’s idealized hopes for the future). If Veronica and Archie are “bad friends” for what they did (”ruining bughead”), then isn’t betty a “bad girlfriend” too??? After all, all three of them lied. 

They are all teenagers. They all are acting upon their feelings and emotions and we all know that isn’t necessarily the smartest way to proceed. Jughead would have been angry at Betty regardless or nor Ron took the blame. Because Betty not only lied but admitted to it. Whether Jug is too harsh on people or not, is another conversation. But for not, let’s stop bringing down other characters to lift up your “favs”.

Not to mention the small little detail of thank god Veronica and Archie did what they did because now we have proof that FP is being framed.