#theheavycrown recap

[theheavycrown]

Bughead The Scene™ in 2.12

Betty: “I just want you. I want all of you tonight.”

Read the accompanying weekly recap here.

[writeraquamarinara]

This is a bit late, but congrats on yet another trip around the sun, everyone!

I want to start this year off by thanking everyone who got me through the last one; I love you all.

Notes of appreciation are below the cut (because this got wayyyy too long, woops), and @s are in alphabetical order so you don’t have to dig through them to find yours, lol.

@arsenicpanda: Thank you for providing this fandom with wonderful gif sets, commentary, and tumblr tags. You do so much as a Discord mod, and your support of content creators is always so wonderful to see.

@awkwardteenwrites: Hi, darling! I hope you’re doing alright. Thank you for sticking around and being such a bright light in the fandom. Your gifs are always so incredibly beautiful, and I come back to them often. <3

@bettsc: You are such a lovely human being and your presence in the fandom brings so much joy. I love your fics, and how much you support those of others. 

@bettycooper: Thank you so much for everything you do for the bughead fandom, Cat. Without you we wouldn’t have so many of the events, and thus content, that we are spoiled with. Your work in organizing the fandom and support of content creators does not go unnoticed or unappreciated. <3

@catthecoder: Lav, darling, you are one of the most beautiful people on this entire site. Your (not-so-anon) asks always bring me so much joy, as does your writing. We are so lucky to have such a loving person in our midst. 

@cracklr: I love you, you hilarious gal. I wish you would send me vaguely threatening messages more often. :)

@crepuscolo-writes: I don’t know if I could have gotten through some days without your support and/or yelling at me to get shit done. Your edits are gorgeous, and your photography even more so. I love your commentary on posts, and you’re the most badass person I know. <3

@dottie-wan-kenobi: You make me smile, you make me laugh, you understand me so unbelievably well. You support me even when I haven’t been online or active for months on end, and you never make me feel bad for being absent. You are brilliant, and an incredible writer, and I look up to you for all of that and more. I love you very much.

@earthlaughsinflowersblog: You are one of the most thoughtful, insightful persons I’ve had the pleasure of coming across, ever. The details you pick up on, and comment on, the ideas you share, your outlook on and love of life, your appreciation and encouragement of others — I aspire. Thank you for setting such a lovely example for us all. Much love.

@fictitiousoshine: Oshine, you have one of the most brilliant souls I have ever seen. Thank you for thinking of me, sending me messages, and support on so many platforms. You write some of the most wonderful comments I have ever received. I hope you have the most amazing year, decade, and life. You deserve the world and more. <3

@halsteadandlindsay: Hello you gorgeous human. I love you very much. I love our conversations, and I love reading your writing — it’s so beautiful. Sending you so much love <3

@hellodinoflower: I appreciate you and your presence in this fandom more than I will ever be able to say. Thank you for making me smile with your thoughtfulness and your encouragement. Thank you for writing stories and comments I come back to often. Thank you for being kind, and friendly.

@hufflepuff-betty: Your posts, and the occasional commentary on them, always make me laugh, or smile, or think. Thank you for being in the fandom, and for supporting my writing. I can’t say I’ve ever listened to a podfic before, but rest assured that when I do, the first will be one of yours. (send me recs if you’d like!) <3

@ithoughtyoulikedmereckless: Thank you for always reaching out to me, and making sure that I’m doing okay. Thank you for being so kind and loving, and for the beautiful fic you gifted me this year. I love that you’re always smiling and enjoying life, and living it as unapologetically as you do. I love that we share so many interests, and I love talking about them with you. Here’s to hopefully meeting up soon <3

@itseitheryeetorbeyeeted: Hello, my darling Mia! You and your kitty always bring me so much joy. You are the queen of eyeshadow and I really wish you could teach me to be as good at makeup as you are. Also I really want to go to the Lightning Thief Musical with you one day — we can dream, right?

@justcourbeau: Mel, you are one of the most special people I have ever met. Your kindness and compassion know no bounds, and I am so lucky to have you in my life. You are hilarious, and I love that my appreciation for English Lit memes matches yours. I enjoy our conversations so much, even though I’m often absent for extended periods of time, but I promise to work on that in the new year. I love you so much, and I really cannot wait for when (not if, when — I promise I’ll visit eventually) I’ll be able to give you the biggest hug irl. 

@miss-eee: The vibrant energy in everything you do — tumblr posts, Discord messages, and fic writing — always brings a smile to my face. You are such a wonderful person, and I’m always so happy to see you on my dash. Thank you for bringing me so much joy from day to day. Much love.

@panalegs27: I can’t believe I found someone so lovely and kind who also adores so many of the movies and shows that I do. Thank you for bringing me so much joy with every single one of your posts and messages. <3

@redundantoxymorons: Izzy, I truly don’t think I would still be online if it weren’t for you. I most certainly would not be writing anymore without our brainstorming sessions and your constant support and beta abilities. You are such a bright, caring person, and the world does not deserve you. I am so lucky to have your friendship, my darling. (Also the P&P posts on your blog make me SO HAPPY.)

@satelliteinasupernova: Thank you for providing this fandom with so much beautiful art; you’re my favorite artist on here, and your stories are just as well-crafted. Not only do you create such wonderful content, but you also support that of others. You send asks and interact with others on their blogs, and that is so important — you make us feel seen, and loved, and we could not ask for a better person to be in the community. 

@sheriff-snikety-snake: You are so incredibly hilarious (and thank you for complimenting me when I try to be as well) and thoughtful, and I love hearing your thoughts on absolutely anything. Thank you for listening to me when I started ranting about my thoughts for Valhalla, and encouraging me despite it being a complete dumpster fire of a fic. Thank you for sharing your art and writing and craft-work with us — we are so incredibly lucky.

@shirly-gallagher: Thank you so much for supporting my fics this year. Your comments and excitement always brightened my days <3333

@stirringsofconsciousness: I consider you something of a mentor — in how to be kind, caring, and brilliant. I love reading your masterful writing, and helping you out with a story that one time still sticks with me as one of my favourite moments on tumblr. Sending you so much love, and hoping you have a wonderful new year, decade, and more. <3

@sublimateradiate: I absolutely adore your bughead edits, and you as a person. I admire the thoughtful way in which you run your server and the interesting questions you ask in it. I admire the posts you put on my dash and how cool your interests are (cephalopods?? dude!), and thank you very much for being here and being so wonderful.

@sullypants: I don’t really know where to start with this one. Your many blogs are so important to me, for so many reasons, and so are you. You have guided me through so many tough times this year with your kind, empowering words. You have sent me messages that I think about and come back to often. You are such a well-read person, and I honestly aspire. Thank you for being nice to me (and everyone else on here). Thank you for providing me, and others, with content that means a lot. I cried reading your riverdale art history yearly recap, and I thank you for that. Here’s to a 2020, and many more years after that, that’s as nice to you as you’ve been to me. <3

@theheavycrown: Sarah, I don’t know what I, and us as a fandom, would do without you. You are always reminding me of the events you’re running, and supporting all of the content that everyone creates for this batshit crazy show, while also creating incredible content yourself! I admire how much time, effort, and patience goes into being so involved in the fandom, and running the Discord/tumblr accounts. We all bow down to you and your brilliance. 

@whaticameherefor: Your support of the crazy idea for a fic that I sent you ages ago made me so happy this year — I can’t believe you remembered it! You are such a wonderful person full of love, kindness, and intelligence, and I wish you all the best. Thank you for being a friend to me when I first joined the fandom, and for sticking around since. Much love.

@wolfofansbach: Your writing is so brilliant, so thought-out and well-researched, and I love reading your fics. I love reading your posts — because they are genius, and hilarious — and hearing your thoughts on the crazy show we all came together for. Thank you for supporting my writing even though it’s nowhere near as good as yours and despite me taking forever to post/update stories. Thank you for supporting content creators other than myself and for bringing so many of us so much joy. <3

I’m probably missing some lovely people but just know that I love every single one of y’all so very much, and I hope that you all have a wonderful new year xx.

[theheavycrown]

S02 E12 · Chapter Twenty-Five: The Wicked and the Divine

Holy cow did this episode have a lot to unpack. This episode was the episode of the season, in my opinion. This recap ended up being a vast undertaking but I think it’s worth it. I hope you guys agree. (I definitely did not have a power outage and lose a bunch of work at one point, nope. I almost shanked someone.) There was so much amazing content, ship development, and heavy character arc storytelling that I was overwhelmed. I noticed so much more writing and then reading this recap. It was a hell of an episode.

My Rating: 10/10 - I am in love with this episode. If I could marry it, I would. I could write word fountains to it. I did write word fountains to it. Riverdales hottest episode is SQUISH SQUISH. It has everything you would want in an episode. Gophers, vans down by the river, mobsters who don’t know what cheese is, men made of literal shit, and a live game of Clue where you actually die. [x]

Recap, random screencaps, video clip scene links, emoji abuse, my crack!edits, fangirling, snark, hearteyes, facepalms, and reactions (& spoilers obviously) under the cut!

Jughead Jones on his laptop with a cup of coffee? Sounds like my kind of start! It’s time to word fountain the hell out of this. (Seriously though, it’s more like a word lake this time.)

Jughead sitting at the counter at pop's shaking his head at Archie who is being the gopher for Hiram, they might not have had a conversation in who knows how long, but that won’t stop Jug from lightly mocking him from afar as he types away. 😈

This music could be for the mob gopher, could be a for a porno. 🎶💋 Who knows really? 

Go, Gopher, Go!

Imagery of Archie riding around with laundry on his bicycle. *dingding* 🚴🏻

Slow-mo turn for Veronica and that glance!!! The heavens part! Am I the only one hearing this? 👼

Hiram may be a shithead, but I'll give him that he loves his daughter. That’s only like… 60 strikes in the con column, 1 in pros, sounds balanced. 🤷

Keller seems to have his favorite haunt be the Jones home.

Jughead leaning casually, hand in pocket, as he mouths off to Keller is my favorite aesthetic. 😍

FP in his Pop's uniform!!

[Keller] "Well, you did write a rather scathing article about the General's legacy, which prompted the Southside Serpents to stop by at Pickens' Day with an ax to grind." [Jughead] "I'm actually writing a new article about how you seem to care more about catching a vandal than the Black Hood. Can I get a quote?"

I am living for this Jughead, smart as a whip, sharp tongued, no fear, snarky Jughead. 🙌

FP chuckling at Jughead's smart mouth. 😂

[Guy] "Do I look good?" [Betty] "Mmm-hmm." [Guy] "Can I undress for you?" [Betty] "Yeah." [Guy] "I love talking to you." [Betty] "I like talking to you too." [Guy] "Can we meet sometime?" [Betty] "Maybe."

OKAY, so. Theory time. It's my theory that Betty wasn't the one on the cam. The person she was talking to was  and she was watching. I've looked up info on this whole cam guy/girl thing and here's what we know.

Betty isn't caming to a chat room like Chic had done, this interaction would be a private chat room with her and one other person - so it's unlikely something like this is getting out.

The private rooms CAN have two way camera's, but that doesn't mean that there is in this scenario. The dialogue doesn't indicate he can see her, only that she can see him. He asks if he looks good and if he can undress, if they were both on cam, it seems incredibly weird that none of the dialogue even mentions seeing her.

Betty makes poor choices, but she isn't stupid. I know, I know, she's in the Dark!Betty outfit. That doesn't necessarily mean she's doing the caming, it means she wanted to put herself in that head space and persona.

There is a camera on the desk, it's not plugged in but I'm sure it could be wireless. If it is, it's set to the side of the desk, is quite close to her, and is pointed at chest height, where she has her arms up and over.  If that cam IS on it would be showing MAYBE her chin to her chest, mostly arms from how she is sitting. Her face wouldn't be showing up in the video.

SO, this whole cam thing irritates the shit out of me, it doesn't feel appropriate, and her choices didn't make sense to me given her character arc. I find it hard to believe she would just start gallivanting on the internet and showing her face as a Cam girl, especially when it's something she just only discovered. I hate this shit, but the least I can hope for is that she isn't being a complete dolt about it and is smart enough to keep her anonymity.

My initial reaction to this was definitely only WTF. 😨 And WHO THE EF WAS THAT. 😰 This all was post unpacking. Parts of these recaps are initial reaction, parts are definitely  in post.

[Alice]  "You know how I feel about locked doors." [Betty] "Yeah, you're the one who likes to do the locking." 

Betty and Jughead, both pulling out the snark and tea this episode. ☕️

Cour four + Kevin, reuinited!  🙌

“Catholic chic, veils optional” - Ronnie is so extra. Who says shit like this? 

"Jughead Jones and Betty Cooper, please report to the principal's office," how bad is it I'm excited about their names just being said together.

I love that Betty is painted as somewhat of a goody two shoes, but her response to being called to the principal's is shrugging. 🤷

Mr.Sourberry? Are you..... sour? 🍋😂

Defamation of character? What about freedom of speech? Go get lost in the woods, WB. 🌲🌲🤸🏿‍♂️🌲

Jughead handling Weatherbee, Betty serving looks of "You shitting me, WB?"

Extra screencaps of the principal’s office scene HERE.

Blue and Gold Scene! I live for this!

[Jughead] "I'm so sorry, Betty." MY FEELINGS. 😍

[Jughead] "He has no proof, but he suspects one or more of the Serpents, probably me, decapitated the statue of General Pickens." [Betty] (With amusement in her voice and a smile) "And did you?" [Jughead] "Betty, how-(chuckle) Why would I decapitate a bronze statue?"

Betty's smile and tone is adorable, I want to put her in my pocket.

How he would even decapitate that bronze statue is a good question. His chuckle followed by why. He has jackets to worry about.

[Betty] "To avenge... (softer, changed voice) Toni's grandfather..." Jealous Betty rises. 👿

Who labels their friendship with someone as pals? Jughead, you are an odd duck. I love you, duck. 👁❤️👑🦆

....Pal.

He completely dismisses that he would consider Toni anything more than a friend. 👏 You lay that to rest, Juggy!

I am so proud of Betty for bringing up that she saw Toni and Jug at the diner seeming like more than pals. That took guts, pal. 💪

I can't let the pal thing go. Sorry not sorry.

Is this the conversation?! This is the conversation. Feelings imminent.

They are talking about the kiss! Jughead is admitting everything! 🤩

The Bughead song™ is playing!!!!!

[Jughead] "She gave me a..... tattoo." (Look of relief on Betty's face) THAT PAUSE BETWEEN GAVE ME A AND TATTOO LEFT ROOM FOR A LOT OF STRESS, JUGHEAD. You know Betty was thinking SHE GAVE YOU A WHAT? 🤬

[Jughead] "And we did some stuff, but not everything."  -- I am living for his honesty right now. It’s obvious he felt that it was Betty's place to ask and that he owed her the complete truth. 😍

"Betty, I still have my V-Card!!!!" Good job, honey. We would be having words otherwise.

Mila and I unpacked this along with the scene in 2x06. The consensus between us came to be making out, coping a feel, over clothing of some kind, kind of business to classify for "some stuff" but also a "PG-13 grope session." I'm very detail oriented okay. Answering the important questions. 👌

[Jughead] "But since you brought it up, have you done anything with anyone since we broke up?" [Betty] "No, no. Of course not."

Dammit, Betty. 🤦

Betty lied pretty damn smoothly, although you could tell she was a little too vehement in her denial. She quickly turned away and messed with her ponytail. Betty Cooper, you have a tell. I'm surprised it's one Jughead doesn't know. 👀

Extra screencaps of the Bughead B&G scene HERE!

Pop told Archie that Hiram was the ‘boss’ and Archie got distracted and completely forgot. Ohhh, Archie. You big sweet oblivious lug. 🙄

🎶SECRET AGENT MAN.🎶 🕴 Seriously his voice sounds like a villain out of a 1970's Bond film. I can take nothing he says seriously. Do you have metal teeth, SAM? Are you Agent Smith? 🕵 Is this all a glitch in the Matrix?

[Jughead] "Sheriff Keller, we have to stop meeting like this." No shit.

EVICTION NOTICE. SERIOUSLY. CAN WE NOT TAKE EVERY HOME JUGHEAD HAS EVER HAD?

The theory has been circulating that the damn Lodge's would be going after Sunnyside next, due to its proximity to the Drive-In and Southside High. That it would be next as part of the SoDale project. Hiram, you are on my shit list. 💩

14 days to vacate? In what city. If you get evicted they would give at least 30 days.

If Hiram is on my shitlist, so is Keller. Keller may, in fact, be a man made of literal feces. The world may never know. Talking poo. The magic of Riverdale.

Keller is a real asshat, “Hey kid I know you're just a teenager and my son's friend, but I'm going to leave this paper here that makes you homeless and then follow it up by with a smart comment to you about finding a stupid statues head while you're packing up to live in a van down by the river. HAVE A GREAT DAY.”

Sheriff Keller is going to the bad place. 👿

Jughead Jones is triggered. I'm also triggered.

This meeting between the Hermione, Veronica, Sierra, and Josie is frenimes to the 10th degree. Mean Girls, Riverdale edition. 🤣

[Veronica] "Mom, I was gonna sing." Extra.

Bittersweet Symphony is a fantastic song! I can't wait!

Jughead really likes leaning on that spot against the pool table. Don’t step to the Jughead spot. 🎱

Tall Boy you are a shit head little bitch. [Jughead] "What is your problem with me, Tall Boy." Big macho man triggered by a teenager.

Did he just call Archie Jughead's boyfriend? 😂

Who the heck is the guy on the right? And how did he get into the posse? Shouldn’t that be Fangs? 🤷

I know I shouldn't, but I enjoy angry, finger pointing, in your face, don't fuck with me, fearless, 👈 "HEY" Jughead. Just sometimes. ...especially when it's directed at this tool.

[Jughead] "Hell, Tall Boy, you're the tallest guy in this room. You wouldn't even need a ladder." FORESHADOWINGGGGGG. 👀

Jordan Connor is 6'3", I wrote more or less a dissertation on it. and Scott McNeil is listed at 6'4"... so he is the tallest guy. JS. 🤷

Actors height aside, if we break this down in canon, Tall Boy is still the taller guy in the canon narrative.

Jughead Jones is smart as a whip. He deals in facts, and he doesn’t mess around. There is no way that he would say something, in a room full of people, that would be widely known as untrue.

Tall Boy and Sweetpea definitely compared heights one evening at the Wyrm. They stood back to back, Toni got out a step stool and called the verdict, everyone stood around and watched, it was a whole thing. Tall Boy was the tallest guy, it’s a widely known fact at the WW.

Jug might not always tell the truth, but he’s definitely not dumb, he wouldn’t tell a blatant lie that everyone would know is untrue in a room full of people. He’s smarter than that, with how calculated he is, that would make no sense.

Therefore, if Jug says he’s the tallest guy in the room? He’s the tallest guy. 👌

Jughead is RAGE. He is triggered. “I’M THE JUGHEAD, BITCH.”

[Hiram] "I'M DOT DOT DOT IMPRESSED." Is Hiram turning into Dr. Evil? ONE MILLION DOLLARS DOT DOT DOT ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. 🤣

Ben, are you not the same kid who was shacking up with Ms. Grundy in Greenville?  You are making some poor choices lately, son. Ben is up to.... ben-ness. Get it? Like business? 😂 Yeah, okay moving on.

Chic in a bathrobe and a jar of milk, really? 🥛 What are you, Riverdale Hugh Hefner... with milk? I can't take you seriously. Are you talking? "Milk, does the body good," that's what he's saying right?

Hold on did he just say boundaries are key? Don't tell them where  you live? Foreshadowing? 👀

Real talk though, Mila wrote up a great post on the symbolism and use of milk in film in relation to this scene and Chic Cooper. Thank you for that @stark !

Jughead confronting Mayor McCoy, um... yes? My live note, "Jughead is up in McCoy's shit."

[Jughead] "You are supposed to be an ally Mayor McCoy," TEA. ☕️

JUGHEAD DUN DUN DUNNNNNN... *sound effects, music change* HAS HAD A... 👏 REVELATION.

McCoy's expression of "I ain't no bitch." should be a gif. Who is making this gif?

I just got really distracted by Jughead's freckles. I'm sorry.

And his twitching brow.

And his expressive eyes.

And his trembling, chapped, bottom lip.

Jughead has figured out it was Hiram Lodge and he looks determined AF. Jughead 'I don't back down' Jones. Look at that face, he ain't backing off shit. 👊

Honestly, this whole scene was Jughead expression gold. I desperately need a gifset of every expression he makes in the entire scene. Please!

Everyone in this soup kitchen scene, including the women, have these McDonald's hats on and their hair back, except Ronnie.  Veronica Lodge does not wear hats. 🧢

[Jughead] "You're the only person in this town that I can talk to about something like this." [Betty] "Before you do, can I just point out one thing?" [Jughead] "I know what you're going to say. Last time the Serpents and I were in trouble, I pushed you away." [Betty] "What do you need, Jug?"

I love the body language and tone here in this scene. The layers that are on this dialogue are plentiful. I am here for it. I love Bughead scene's at Pop's.

"I know what you're gonna say, wife. I messed up, I love you forever. I'm in the dog house, forgive me. I accept your tea." "My tea was delicious. I can't stay mad at that face, husband. I love you too."

I am sorry but I can't stop fixating on Jug and Betty's eyes in this scene, this lighting is on point.

Betty's indignation at the wrong that is being committed against Jughead and the southside community for the trailer park eviction. 👏 We had been wondering who's side Betty would take in this war against the Southside. WHELP. 🙌

Sleuthing Bughead!!!!!

[Betty] "If the statue's what's fueling her fire, then let's take away the gas. 'The Case of the Decapitated Statue.' Let's treat it like a missing persons case. Someone, somewhere, must've seen something. So, we'll canvas the town with reward flyers for anyone who has information." [Jughead] "Finding that head and who did it would really take the wind out of Mayor McCoy's sails."[Betty] "So..." [Jughead] "Find the head, save the trailer park."

OMG. THEY ARE INVESTIGATING. 😍

I am HERE FOR THIS. "The Case of the Decapitated Statue"? Could I be any more excited with this Nancy Drew like team up of the Bughead Investigation Team? BIT is on the case. I AM HERE FOR THIS. 🙌

First they investigated a head, then they investigated each other.

Extra screencaps of the Bughead Pop’s scene HERE!

Veronica being protective of Archie, slay girl. ✌️

I get real caught up in Jughead's references. I looked up Order of the Orphidians. Orphidia are a subgroup of reptilian creatures including modern serpents. But the Orphidians are from Ultima Online, an MMORPG. The Orphidians had a culture based on the Principles of Balance; the forces of Order, forces of Chaos, and the followers of Balance. Very Jughead Jones.Very Star Wars. 🐍💫

DAMMIT PENNY, Jughead's face was so full of hope and determination before she showed up.

Is FP.... smelling his fingers?

The Serpents have a cool T-Shirt?

Is anyone else surprised whenever Jughead calls FP 'Dad'? Especially in front of the entirety of the Serpent's AND Penny? ….or ever really? It feels off.

With Tall Boy's long, flowing, voluptuous locks and his nose piercing, he could give any college girl a run for her money in a beauty contest, amiright? 😂❤️🌸😘🌺😉😨😍😋💖💕🎀

Did everyone notice the Girls, Girls, Girls sign with the hearts above the door? Is this where "Girls, Girls, Girls in Neon Lights” by @myrmidonofmelodrama title came from? Am I super late to this party?

When canon and fandom come together by coincidence? My favorite song!

How about the “Talk to da toilet” sign?

Things you need to know about the White Wyrm.. I aim to provide.

Penny: check out this scar. 💁 FP: facepalm 🤦‍♂️

OF COURSE, Tallboy has teamed up with Penny, OF COURSE. Being bitches makes for strange bedfellows. 🤛

Why are they even considering meeting this viper woman's demands? I get it, they want to save Sunnyside, so do I, but there are other ways than THIS BITCH. 🤬

[Penny] "Blood for blood. An eye for an eye. I want back in with the Serpents and I want him kicked out. Oh, yeah, one last thing I want his tattoo carved off. And I want to do it myself. With a dirty knife."

Every sentence of this made me more and more angry. I had a series of "OH NO YOU DIDN'T"s and "THIS BITCH"s in escalating volume after every sentence she said. By the time she brought up the dirty knife I was ready to throw my remote at her smug face.. or maybe a dirty knife. 🔪

I have watched Jughead's face in detail during this scene. Penny says she wants him kicked out of the Serpents and he looks distraught, his eyes are glistening. Penny says she wants to cut off his tattoo with a dirty knife and he looks like I’M NOT THE ONE, TRY ME, I WILL END YOU BITCH. Moral of the story, losing the Serpents makes sadboy Jug, threats to his self makes Hulk Jug. No one likes Jughead when he's angry. 👿

FP gets home and Jughead's first and only priority is, "Well? What did they say? Are they kicking me out?" Jughead fears a lot of things… but they aren’t the things an every day Joe normally fears. He is a man of limited weaknesses.

[FP] "Penny's a cobra, but mutilating her? That's the kind of thing you don't come back from, Jug." [Jughead] "Yeah, like stuffing a teenager's body in a freezer?"

Jughead can come back from this, believe that, he weeble wobbles and doesn’t fall down, remember that.

There is so much to unpack in this scene. The tears in FP's eyes, the narrow eyed smart mouth comment in response from Jughead, FP lashing out. There are a lot of levels of understanding, empathy, and frustration I have with both of these characters.

I do not, at all, agree with FP putting his hands on his son in violence. However, I do appreciate the phenomenal acting and the extreme amount of dynamic layers that are added on to both FP and Jughead as characters here, good and bad.

Jughead shows no regret or repentance for what he did to Penny here, but I feel that's a defense, a wall. I don't think he wants to show that kind of vulnerability in front of his father.

Jughead pushed FP off of him. He is standing up for himself, no doubt about that. He seems to seek his father's approval while disregarding his authority all at the same time.

[FP] "Tall Boy was right. You brought the Northside down on us. Serpents are losing their dens because of what you wrote."

"That was way harsh, Tai."

Low. Blow. I can't believe FP just took Tall Boy's side here, that he is blaming Jughead for this. This civil war was brewing long before that article. Step off, FP. 😠

FP should be having his son's back, first and foremost, Serpents be damned. Blood before… reptiles. 🚫🐍

REALLY FP, AGAIN WITH THE DAMN SNAKE ANALOGIES? Can you not have a serious conversation without a DAMN CHEESY SNAKE REFERENCE? Serpents are losing their dens?!

Jughead dropping truths over here. Calling all of it like it is.TEA. ☕️

 [Jughead] "You're using my article. And they're using what happened to the statue of General Pickens as an excuse to justify something they've already been doing." [FP] "You think you're a hero, Jug? Cutting up women? Bringing the temple down right on our damn heads? You will be the death of us. Not the Northside, not Penny. You."

I am going to shake FP til his head pops off. 🛑

Wtf is bringing the temple down even supposed to mean? Words are hard, FP.

How dare he?

If anyone saves the Southside and the Serpents, it will be Jug. Just saying. ....bitch. 🤬

Jughead's look of pure fury, followed by him throwing his beanie down is a MOOD. Don't make Jughead angry!!! YOU WON’T LIKE HIM WHEN HE'S ANGRY! I'M TELLING YOU. Jughead is RAGE.

Of course SAM 🕴 drives a black Ford Tahoe. Typical.

Chic goes or Hal goes? Bye Felicia. Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Alice's dismissal and 'so help me..' look is a mood.

Veronica slowly walking down the aisle in her stilettos is a beautiful visual.

That preachers advice was decidedly unhelpful. Hail Mary’s is NOT an answer, Monsignor. 🤦

These mob wives are giving Veronica some serious hesitation. They have to be. Does she really want that kind of life? Surely she is having a Come to Jesus moment. 🙏

Why are they having this meeting at Pop's instead of at Hiram's? Or his office.. Or the back room of a damn bar like any good mobster meeting? 🍻

Is the vest, collared shirt, and bowtie really necessary for Archie in this scene? Really? 🤵

Poppa Poutine? And he owns a chain of hot dog restaurants in Quebec? SERIOUSLY?

Poppa just took a bite of a quarter of an inch of a fry, spit it out, and said it wasn't cheese curds. No, dumbass, it's a french fry. Clearly you need a new nickname if you don't know the difference between cheese and potatoes. 🧀 ≠ 🥔

Snap, snap, snap, you do NOT insult Pop Tate! Catch me outside, how bout dat?  🙅

Ooooooo, Hiram just admitted to owning Pop's in front of Archie! I can't wait for the rest of the Core Four to find this out.

So I will give two things to Hiram, he loves his daughter and he sticks up for Pop. ✌️ Past that...? 💩

Archie can hear this mobster conversation crystal clear, however he still stands up on the toilet and looks out the window where he could easily be seen. CLEARLY he is the king of stealth and prime pick for this undercover job. 😑

They want to take out Hiram! What is Archie going to do with this information? The plot thickens. 😮

Josie singing Bittersweet Symphony with Veronica is beautiful! This might be my favorite cover on the show yet! ....the framing is completely unrealistic, but STILL. 🙋

Goofy Kevin, Proud Archie, Happy Betty, Beaniless Jug.. in a suit!!!

Very symbolic choice in song and lyrics for this moment by Veronica.

Veronica has her moment of doubt, sees Archie crystal clear, light rises and... "I do." GOOSEBUMPS. That is some damn good cinematography and acting right there. Beautiful Varchie moment. FEELINGS. 😍

How Veronica was in darkness looking at her parents, but then they fade out and Archie is in the light, very symbolic. I definitely feel that this may be the start of Ronnie choosing Archie, and a more righteous path, over that of her parents. 😇

I can't wait to see the shit storm that rains down when the rest of the Core Four find out that Hiram bought Southside High. 🤪

When Veronica came to get Archie from Betty and Betty said "I'm gonna go look for Jug, anyway" Total Archie dismissal. Sorry, not sorry.  Girl has her priorities. 

Betty does not seem to give even one shit about Archie as anything more than a friend, just saying, or vice versa. This photo. 😂 They couldn't care less. Betty is a Varchie shipper. Barchie is clearly not looking very end game, I’m sorry.  I’m not very sorry. #bugheadforever

Archie getting his cheek pinched, laughing, trying to back away and saying "Ow, ow, ow, thank you," and nodding to Ronnie's grandma. 🤗

I love how easily Betty can find Jughead. 😍

[Betty] "It's not like Jughead Jones to neglect a free buffet." BUGHEAD! BUGHEAAAAD! This is adorable. I am HERE FOR THIS. 🤩

Betty's genuine concern for Jughead possibly kicked out of the Serpent's is perfect. ...and she is beautiful. 😇

Just when I thought my hype couldn’t get any higher, Jughead opens up to Betty about what he has done. What is chill? 😭

[Jughead] "I broke a code, I messed up bad... Really bad. There's this person who suckered me into delivering drugs. And my dad, too, he got roped in. So, couple of Serpents and I, we Found her, grabbed her, and I cut her." [Betty] "Cut her?" [Jughead] "The worst part is, none of it even matters. 'Cause she's back."

Jughead barely even hesitates about opening up to Betty about everything that happened. He says he messed up, takes a deep breath, and just goes into it, come what may.

The emotion and levels of feeling that are packed into this speech Jughead gives is impressive.

Jughead’s shoulders are bouncing like he is tapping his leg, like he can't stay still, like he can't hold all of this in anymore.

He looks like he is going to cry. There is so much here when he tells Betty what he did!

Where Jughead did not appear at all repentant to his father earlier in the episode when confronted with what he did, he definitely does here.  Jughead wouldn't show this kind of vulnerability to FP, but to Betty, the pretense falls and he shows how he really feels, without the mask, the anger, and the bravado.

He looks so regretful he did this horrible thing and it was all for nothing, she still came back.

[Jughead] It's like every decision I've made since we broke up, including our break up, just makes things worse and worse.

He's admitting he was wrong! BUGHEAD!! MY EMOTIONS!!!! 😭 What is a steady heartbeat?! 😍

Betty reached for Jug! Her hand is on his arm. I am HERE FOR THIS.

What an inconvenient time for a phone call! DAMN THESE INTERRUPTIONS, THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE CALLED BUGTERRUPTIONS AT THIS POINT!! BUT THAT MEANS IT'S BIT TIME, Bughead Investigation Team! 🙌

More Bughead screencaps of this scene HERE.

Bette Davis Eyes is going to forever give me Riverdale feels at this point.

[Junkyard Steve] "You the kids looking for a head?" [Jughead] "If only we lived in a town where the answer could be no."

YEAH THEY ARE. 😎🍆

Junkyard Steve is legit his listed name. Classy. 👌

Jug and Betty, both asking questions, Jughead stepping back to happily let her take part in the questioning, shoulder to shoulder, partners.

[Jughead] "By any chance, was this gentleman tall?"

We might as well have had Jughead just pull off some sunglasses and turn into Horatio Cane with that one-liner, the close up, the expression.

Archie just ratted out Poppa ‘I don't know cheese’!!! 🧀🐀

Opera music as Hiram picks up the phone? Don Hiram Lodge.

THE JONESES STORM THE CASTLE! HOLY SHIT I HAVE GOOSEBUMPS!

THIS SONG

Jughead may be in front with that head, but I can't take my eyes off Betty! That STRUT. HER HAIR IS FLOWING. SHE IS FIERCE. 🔥🔥🔥

Jughead ‘That is my wife’ Joneses glance back to Betty (not to FP, even once) and that small smile they share is going to SLAY US ALL.

Jughead, Betty, and FP standing united as they confront Tall Boy.

Betty in all pink, surrounded by the black and leather of the Wyrm, perfectly at ease, is a damn aesthetic. 🖤💗🖤

FP was wearing a bandana around his throat. So pretty, much accessories. I like how he ties it around his hand but then doesn’t do any punching. Where is the punching? 👊

FP calling Tall Boy 'Dumbass.' That was delivery epic.

I really appreciate that FP is sitting down and letting Jughead interrogate Tall Boy, it's like he's letting him take back the respect that was taken from him. Acknowledging that Jughead was the one who did this work, solved this problem and is also a leader of this gang. TOO BAD FP WAS A DICK EARLIER. 🤦

[Jughead] "Why'd you do it? Someone put you up to this?" [Tall Boy] "What's the Northsider doing here? This is Serpent business, it's on Serpent land." [Jughead] "She's here because she's one of us."

FUCK YEAH SHE IS!! *fist pump into the air* 🙋

Toni standing next to Betty!

Sweetpea standing right  behind Betty, the way he cocks his chin up like he is ready to throw down when Tall Boy questions why she is there. Pea has her back!!! 👏

Jughead's NO HESITATION answer of "She's one of us." 😍 GOOSEBUMPS. I HAVE GOOSEBUMPS. AND NO CHILL. This is the sort of perfect moment we get in fanfic!!! It's what we dream of!

The way Jughead looks over to her as he says it and they meet eyes as if he said "THAT'S MY DAMN WIFE."

FP is up in Tall Boy's business and I'm pretty sure he's saying "THAT'S MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, TALLBITCH, STEP OFF." 👏

Hiram Lodge was behind this? HIRAM LODGE WAS BEHIND THIS.

Hiram is never getting off my shit list. 💩

Jughead meeting Betty's eye's regularly through this! Ohhh shit, when Veronica finds all this out, shit is going to get real in the Lodge family.

Did Tall Boy just call Jughead Sunshine?

Jug: "Nobody calls me, Sunshine.. Except my wife.” Betty: “I love you, baby!" 😍

[Jughead] "You're a Judas, Tall Boy, and an idiot." -- WRECKED.

BETTY JUST VOTED! HELL YEAH, SHE DID! 🙌

Betty may be the last one to vote, but the expression of “You’re done done, bitch,” when she puts her hand up is priceless. ☕️

[Veronica] "I love you, Archie. But we can't keep dating unless you understand something about my family. About my father. Look, I wanted to protect you from this, but every day, you're getting in deeper and deeper and The truth is, Archie My dad He's - He's a -" [Archie] "A mobster. I know, Ronnie. I've seen all those movies. And the poker game last night.” [Veronica] "Well, I mean, I wouldn't put it so baldly. But, Archie, it's not just what he is, it's what he's planning to do. In Riverdale. SoDale is just the beginning, it's actually -" [Archie] "Stop." [Veronica] "No, Archie. You need to know this." [Archie] "No, I don't want to know." [Veronica] "Archie, he's going to -" [Archie] "Veronica, I can't know. I (sighs) I don't need to know.  Veronica, I love you.  And there's nothing you could ever say that would change that. Or make me regret being with you. Or scare me away. You don't have to protect me from this, any of it. I love you, Ronnie. I'm with you."

This was Varchie's moment. 💕

I have always shipped Varchie, not in an OTP kind of way, but I certainly support it. This scene, and others in this episode, really made me love Varchie a little more.

Archie, normally the big lug, isn't so naive and oblivious as he looks.

UGH, ARCHIE, I GET IT. SAM has you on lock, BUT I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HIRAM IS GOING TO DO, SON! Let the woman speak! 🤐

Hold up, what is Hiram planning to do in Riverdale that SoDale is just the beginning of? This sounds shady AF and Veronica knows? Does she know about Sunnyside? About Jughead and so many others losing their homes? How is she supporting this? This whole episode I've definitely been of the "Ohhhh snap, when Ronnie finds out, shit is going down," mode but... shit. I feel a lot disappointed. I really like Ronnie, I don't want her to be complicit and accepting of these things. 😢

I like the "I can't know" correction into "I don't want to know." He almost told her everything. With how they are playing this, even though he is in SAM's pocket kind of, I really don't think Ronnie would be upset with him at this point. He is playing SAM but actually helping Hiram. He did just warn him about that murder plot afterall. He's drawn his lines in the sand.

The love is real though, and that's beautiful. Varchie. 😍

BUGHEAD IS ON THE COUCH. THEY ARE... ON THE COUCH.

Jughead picked up his beanie, seemed to think about it for a moment, and then set it back down. I did not notice this on first viewing, I was too busy forgetting how to breathe. 😍

Our OTP is so beautiful! That dress! Her hair down! Those suspenders! No beanie! Communicating! 💛💙

So the tv was on and they were staring at it before this... so after all this that has happened they went back to the trailer to... watch television? 📺

My man! Mad props to Jug for initiating conversation!

Excuse me while I lose my mind and quote the crap out of this conversation right now!!

[Jughead] "Good ol' Hiram Lodge. I wonder what he's planning for us. And the Southside?" [Betty] "Maybe we can ask Veronica on Monday." [Jughead] "Yeah. Maybe we should just investigate quietly until we know more."

Oh nooooooo. Betty and Jug are here considering Ronnie their source and confidant, and she actually has been in on all this apparently... oh nooooooooooo... 😥

Jughead ‘rage, rage against the dying of the light’ Jones suggesting subtlety? That’s a change.

Jughead's legs look so long, sprawled out in front of him. In those suspenders. Biting his lip. With his dexterous hands on his thighs. 😲

[Jughead] "We haven't saved the trailer park yet. And I'm on probation from the Serpents, whatever that means. Because of what I did to Penny. ... But we stopped her from coming back. (slight smile) And we got rid of Tall Boy."

He is so proud of them! They did this together! Bughead forever! 🙌

[Betty] "We. (chuckles, sweet smile) It's nice to hear that again."

ADORABLE. I AM SLAIN. THAT SMILE. We! WE!! 😍😍

[Jughead] "Look, I'll be apologizing for it for the rest of my life, but I'm sorry. I am."

HE JUST SAID FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. OBSERVE MY NEGATIVE CHILL. 😱

[Jughead] "For feeling like I needed to shield you from what I was going through with the Serpents or my darkness." (scoffs)

I can't help it. Darkness, that scoff. I'm scoffing too. Jug's tone, he's over it too.

Is anyone else  hearing, "Darkness everybody, dark- everybody, darkness is spreading!!" "I'm Jughead Jones, BITCH." 🤣

[Betty] "I can handle it." [Jughead] "(softly) I know... I know you can."

It looked like Betty's lips moved to say something else when he looked at her before he said “I know!” Did they cut something?! I need every precious moment of this. 😭

That look they share is so tender, her mouth in a soft smile, the corner of his turned up, sweetness in both of their eyes. This is what I live for. 😍

How softly he said that, it aches.

Jughead looks like he is trying to get up his courage to say something more!

[Betty] "I should probably start heading home."

BETTY DON'T GO.

[Jughead] "Or you could stay. ... Stay."

MY HEART IS EXPLODING. WHAT IS LIFE? I AM PURE EMOTION.

The way he says stay. *Chokes, fans face* I’m not crying, you’re crying!!! 😢😭

The way his hand falls to the folds of her dress, his fingertips just barely grazing the side of her thigh through the fabric. 😐💓

More screencaps of this scene up to this point HERE.

As soon as she gets that opening she moves toward him!

The way he begins to reach for her, begins to hold her, before she is even in his lap, both hands at her sides. 💞😍

OMG. JUGHEAD'S HAND ON HER  BACK. I AM NOT EQUIPPED FOR THIS.

A slow-mo kiss? A SLOW-MO KISS. Do they WANT to stop all of our Bughead hearts?! 💀😍

The way they are sharing breaths, eyes closed, intense.

HE JUST UNZIPPED BETTY'S DRESS. LIKE A PRO. Jughead Suave!

I have since found out this dress has two small buttons up at the top above that gap. No one can tell me he didn't just pop those buttons. I need this, guys. 🤩

Their kisses are FIRE. 🔥🔥🔥 He is worshiping her.

Pizza. Socks. 🍕

His ankles are crossed and his feet are moving like he is strumming with energy here. He can't stop moving. The way his feet are pressing into the floor definitely means he's lightly pressing his hips into her and rocking with her. I have goosebumps.

If something interrupts...

BETTY WHY DID YOU JUST INTERRUPT THIS. 🤦

I thought we agreed NO MORE Bugterruptions!!!!!

Her hands are still in his hair, holding him to her. I love that he is so caught up in kissing her everywhere he can reach. 💋

Dammit, Betty, why did you pull his head back. She totally pulled his head back to look into his eyes though. 😍

Oh, that expression on Jug's face. He looks so concerned, like he's afraid she might take it all back. Vulnerable Juggy. 😭

Betty intends to tell Jug about the Archie kiss. Then when she meets his eyes, something switches in her. She smiles with this look of wonder. Like she realizes that right then, nothing is more important than them, than him, than being with him, like he is some kind of miracle. Dead. 💀

[Betty] "I just want you. I want all of you. Tonight."

The breath that Jug lets out after she says "I just want you," is like he has been holding his breath and waiting for the other shoe to drop. After she says "tonight," he breathes a long sigh of relief, of desire, of emotion. Brilliant. 🤗

I don't believe that Betty withheld telling him about the kiss out of malice or guilt, I think it's because of exactly what she said. She wanted Jughead, nothing else mattered, all the rest of it, the mistakes, the other people, the space, it was just white noise.

Jughead's hands on Betty's ass, her ribs, her back, her neck, her cheek. DAMN. This scene was worth waiting for. 😳

It’s over?! It’s over! THE SCENE™ I won’t be rewinding and watching this 652 times. Nope. That is someone else. 😅

More screencaps of THE SCENE™ HERE.

Alice 'I'm not at all concerned about having no idea where my daughter is, she's fiiiiiine, she does this all the time' Cooper. 🙃

Chic just asked about Hal, does he not know about the share BnB?

Why in the world would Alice think that is Hal at the door? He said he was outtie. And why would Hal knock? This is turning into a bad horror movie.

Hi, I have slicked back bleach blonde hair, a skeezy outfit, and a neck chain. I am a stereotype. 🤮

What happened to not telling anyone where you lived, Chic? You haven't even been at the Cooper's more than a week, Chic! 🙅

SAM 🕴 is being real laissez-faire about this stealth op.

OH SNAP, Archie just lied and covered up for Hiram. He has picked his side!

There's a box! VERONICA.

“What was in the box? What's in the box?! WHAT'S IN THE FUCKING BOX?!” 

IT'S GWYNETH PALTROW’S HEAD!! 😂😂

Just kidding, it's General Pickens head. 🤣🤣

That smile of Betty's is so precious!! She is a happy muffin!!

🎶 I JUST HAD SEEEEX, and it felt so good!!!! 🎶

Oh wait, this is Riverdale. 😡 WE CAN’T HAVE ANY DAMN MUFFINS.

Alice Cooper wearing dishwashing gloves with pink flowers 🌸 on them, cleaning up a giant pool of blood, with kitchen towels, around a dead body. Are you SHITTING me right now?

Alice 'Never mind this giant pool of blood, nbd, Elizabeth, but did you lock the front door' Cooper

There is blood all over Alice's knees. Head wounds bleed a lot. That man got bludgeoned with a lamp.... in the kitchen... by a Cooper. 💡🍽

Chic is just sitting on the floor by the back door, rocking. Clean up your GD mess, Chic. ⚰️

WHO KILLED UPGRAYEDD?! With two D's for a double dose of pimpin. Also known as 'Shady Man' officially.

RIP Poppa Poutine. 💀 RIP Shady Man. 💀 Long live Bughead. 😘

If you’ve made it to the end, I applaud you! I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. I’m going to put this episode in my memory box and love it forever, even the dead bodies, but especially the bughead sex. Please feel free to message me to talk about this, or any, episode! I am a word fountain at all times of enthusiasm for this show. Check back after episode 2x13 for my next recap, which hopefully won’t be the holy grail of details to unpack like 2x12. I can’t wait to talk Riverdale, or anything, with you guys!!

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Bughead at Pops’ Diner in 2.12

Jughead: "Thank you for meeting with me. You're the only person in this town that I can talk to about something like this." Betty: "Before you do, can I just point out one thing?" Jughead: "I know what you're going to say. Last time the Serpents and I were in trouble, I pushed you away."

Read the accompanying weekly recap for this episode here,

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S02 E10 · Chapter Twenty-Three: The Blackboard Jungle

Since I am in fandom for episodes now... I am going to be doing my thoughts and reactions posts for episodes on Thursdays. I hope you guys will interact and talk with me!

My Rating: 7/10. I really liked this episode. Great character interactions and development, new characters I am invested in, pining. My hype had been so built up after the break, I was going to love this one either way, but it actually had great content. The hype is effective. Keep reading, you’ll see why.

Recap, random screencaps, video clip scene links, emoji abuse, fangirling, snark, hearteyes, facepalms, and reactions (& spoilers obviously) under the cut!

Time to Jughead Jones the hell out of this episode and write.

Jughead writing at Pop’s!

Betty is a beautiful, small, muffin of denial. B: “It mean’s Jughead is coming back” K: “Betty are you ready for that?” B: “Of course, we’re...fine.”

Jughead is gorgeous in this scene. That small smile. 😚💓

I loved the Jughead and Toni scene. Jughead writing Lovecraftian short stories on the typewriter Betty gave him is such an aesthetic. Toni ships Bughead! I enjoy that she is calling Jughead out on his shit, just like FP, when it comes to Betty. “No comment,” all you want Jughead, we are onto you. You can gaze off into Egypt all you want, Jughead Jones, but our expressions are all Toni Topaz’s right now.

“YAYYYY POLLY,” I said excitedly before realizing she seems to have joined a farm cult and named her children after trees. 👶🏼🌲

🎶 Secret.... agent man! Secret... agent man! 🎶

“Just Jingle Jangle,” Jughead? I remember a Jughead not too long ago that was crusading against it. Why so laissez-faire now?

We had been wondering if FP still worked at Pop’s and I am excited that he does! FP in his pops uniform! Hearteyes! 😍

Good Ship Bughead Captain FP Jones! Don’t let Jughead ride the Nile about Betty, FP. We believe in you, set our boy straight.

I know our Bughead scene was short but she still went to him for help and he thought she wanted to talk about their relationship situation.  🙌🏻💛💙

Pining 101 by Betty Cooper and Jughead Jones: those looks they were serving across the table were giving me feelings!

School Days, by Chuck Berry, playing as Jughead and the Serpents made their entrance into Riverdale High was everything I didn’t know I wanted. 

Cheryl’s entrance is an aesthetic. “Fascist Barbie.” 😂

We have a Cheroni meeting, I repeat, Cheroni have met… with sass! 👏

I loved the whole scene, really, from the moment the Serpents walk in until Weatherbee breaks it up. That is the kind of character conflict  I am down for.

Jughead’s pinky, even when eating chips, gives me fangirl feelings. Playful Jughead! 😘

We have Kangs official meeting. I REPEAT, Kevin and Fangs have interacted. Fangs knew Joaquin, tell me more!

Cheryl, oh Cheryl. I love her and they do her so wrong. However, I have enjoyed her this episode. She is lashing out, and it makes sense. Her reaction when she accidentally told Archie about Veronica was genuine and I appreciated that. Cheryl doesn’t need to be a villain stereotype, tying people to train tracks with no motivation all the time, guys. So thank you, writers!

I agree with Weatherbee enforcing that the Serpents can not wear their jackets at school. Even if there was not tagging (regardless of who did it), gang related images on clothing is generally prohibited in a school dress code. Gang images on clothing were against dress code at my high school, right along with curse words, nudity, and anything drug related. It is reasonable and isn’t “targeting” them in the way that Jughead is saying. It just doesn’t have a place on school grounds for reasons that are logical. If they wanted to wear plain, black, un-gang marked, leather jackets to school then they totally could. 🤷

Toni and Sweetpea were fine with not wearing the jackets to school. Thank you! Their reaction was reasonable and everything they said, on point! These two are looking at things the right way. 

Jughead, you sweet, sweet, stubborn, hypocrite, at least you know how to make an entrance.

Toni, Sweetpea, and Fangs in regular clothes, more please! Although speaking of dress code, damn girl those shorts are short.

I appreciate that Veronica pleaded with him to take off the jacket. Not that Jug listens. I am 100% a fan of their friendship. 🙋

Angry Jughead, WHY?! 🤬 The ONLY serpent to show up the next day in his jacket? Listen, as just established, it would be on a school wide dress code. He just got all the Serpent’s into a fight because he is being…. a dumbass. He is fighting for the wrong things here. He joined the Serpents to walk the line between Northside and Southside. He wanted to mediate and keep the Serpents out of trouble. However, now he is causing tension and inflaming that very problem? Jughead. Why. 👎

Alice Cooper can frustrate the hell out of me, but I love when she and Betty work together. Alice and Betty going to find Chic together was a lovely moment between them. 👩‍👧

So.... Chic is an.. escort? Talk about giving him backstory.

I liked the camera work when they walk into the room, having Chic in dark with the light streaming past him. Then keeping him more shadowed through out this scene as well. Very symbolic.

“The Last Resort” lifebuoy hanging on the wall, symbolic AF.

Some semblance of video game nerd 🎮 Jughead getting a nod with him playing the Mortal Kombat 2 arcade game, thank you! 

Jughead is even starting beef with inanimate objects. He starts hitting the machine, why so angry all the time now, Jug? 😠

FP wears a wallet chain.

The bowtie with the leather coat! 

FP’s scoff and answer of just wear the jacket after school was perfection. YES. Thank you! “A Serpent never shed’s his skin,” Jughead? Uhhhh, does your dad wear his jacket to work at Pop’s? No? You can take it off at school and work, man. 🤦

Honestly, I understand why Jughead got so severely attached to Southside High. He had a feeling that he had a home and place of belonging. His parents didn’t give it to him growing up. He slept place to place as a teenager. He thought he had it with Archie and Fred but he also overheard some conversations that were I’m sure very hard to take in and made him feel unwanted. His mother turned him away from Toledo. His foster family just let him go live on his own, he could tell them he wants to go all he wants, but really it shouldn’t have went that way. He hasn’t had it easy, and he WANTS to love and be loved, he is going to latch on.

Either way I can’t find it in myself to stay mad at this sad face.

Why does Nick St. Clair have to be so good looking when I hate him so much? 😓

Archie was so pissed when Cheryl told him about Veronica’s situation with Nick, he even says he will kill him (obviously not literally). However, then he shows up at Nick’s and doesn’t say anything about it. Yes, he snaps when Nick insults Veronica, but still, he is playing a game it seems more than thinking about his feelings and that surprises me for Archie. I don’t know if I like it.

I love Jughead in his classic coat! He looks like a sad puppy though. 🐶

The uniforms, okay. Dress code against gang symbols, cool. Uniforms for only some students, not cool. You can’t single select students out to wear uniforms every day. If they showed up to school in clothes that were against dress code, yes, you can give them something to change into or the option for their parents to bring a change of clothes. However, if they weren’t violating code (and we know the other Serpent’s had not), the school can’t do this. That is wrong. THAT is reasonable for Jughead to be upset about.

The uniforms are because of Jughead’s hardheaded, stubborn behavior though. ☕️ Toni, Sweetpea, and Fangs are suffering the consequences.

Cheryl’s apology to Veronica! I am loving that they are making our girl’s ability to be genuine shine. 🌹

Betty is gorgeous in every scene this episode, just saying. But she is beautiful every episode. Beauty and Grace.

Betty taking her Mom’s car, she’s going to go back to Chic! Unstoppable force, Betty Cooper!

Betty saves Chic! You go girl! 💪

Archie told Veronica about the kiss and there was actually communication!!!  YASSS!!!! I really loved this scene between these two, Archie’s honesty, Veronica’s acceptance, the love. 

The kiss💋: Archie’s explanation of said Betty/Archie kiss is exactly what we all, here in fandom, took it as when we speculated the motivations and reasons. “I don’t think either of us are ever going to talk about it again.”  Thank. Goodness. I was low key worried but I am happy this really does seem to be the case. Water under the bridge. And honestly this is a good thing, they addressed the possibility of Betty and Archie and it didn’t work, for either of them, they felt awkward about it and want to move past it. This is a good thing for Varchie and for Bughead. The show didn’t just avoid it, they addressed it straight away and I am pleased. Now I am excitedly awaiting this communication between Betty and Jughead. 🙌

I’m really excited for plot that Chic will bring into the show! I appreciate that Alice and Hal jumped right into action to help him when Betty brought him in hurt. There wasn’t hesitation, despite the previous conversation. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Jughead making a D&D group is AMAZING, Swords and Serpents Club!  ⚔️🐍 If only they would actually play D&D. Could you imagine the entertainment in those scenes? 

Sweetpea rolls his D20, critical hit. “Fuck yeah, I destroy you, Jug!” 

Jughead lowers his eyebrows in a frown and curses under his breath. Toni claps her hands, leaning back from the table in glee, and points at Jughead. 

“Don’t get so excited, Toni, you’re next,” Sweetpea smugly grins.

Jughead with food at this point, not that I’m complaining at watching those hands peel an orange. 🍊😍

Intelligent and planning Jughead is a Jughead I can always get behind. I love that he thought up this group, designed a logo, and took it to Weatherbee and presented it in a way that sounded legitimate enough that he got away with it. 🤚

The cringe lines though… are cringey. 😅

Maybe they should rename this episode The Angry Jughead Jungle.

Hal, by the way, I had  been wondering if he fell off the face of the Earth, good to know he’s still existing. 🤷

Veronica and Archie, laying in bed, talking about her feelings on the Nick incident was really good!

I think the levels of communication and displays of love in our ships have switched places. What did Bughead do when they passed the stick of sleuthing to Varchie a few episodes ago?! Is this a Freaky Friday scenario!? 😵

Archie you dumb, sweet, lug.

I knew the Black Hood plot wasn’t done! We all knew it! Secret Agent Man may not have answered, but come on. Mad props for Archie for not only figuring it out, but thinking to ask FBI guy.

Chic, the creep-o brother, in the end scene was incredibly played up. I am definitely not passing judgement on Chic at this point. He has been through a hard life, it makes sense that he would envy his sister having what he lost. I am not buying the psuedo-sexual weird murder vibe they were putting out there. I could be wrong… but I hope not. 😳

Come back next week for more of my fountains of words! Hit me up if you’d like to chat about the episode in comments or direct message!

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Bughead at the Blue and Gold in 2.12

Betty: "I saw you guys at Pop's early one morning, in the middle of the Black Hood attacks. You were having breakfast, and you seemed like more than pals. And I know it's not my place to ask, but did anything ever happen between you two?" Jughead: " Yeah. The night of the Gauntlet, after you sent Archie to break up with me, Toni stayed over. She gave me a... Tattoo. And we did some stuff, but not everything."

Read the accompanying weekly recap for this episode here.

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S02 E11 · Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wrestler

I completely spaced doing this recap. SARAHFAIL. I had a fever for the days following the episode airing. Then a few days after that I was just exhausted from my health issues and the fever. Suddenly, it’s Wednesday again and I hadn’t done the recap. It’s 6am, Riverdale day, but here is the recap; better late than never! It was nice to relook at the episode before watching tonight!

My Rating: 6/10 - I liked the character arc’s in this one, it is giving me hope for the direction of many. However, this felt like a filler episode.

Recap, random screencaps, video clip scene links, emoji abuse, fangirling, snark, hearteyes, facepalms, and reactions (& spoilers obviously) under the cut!

Jughead Jones with headphones on? Very season 1, time to get down to business.

Every time an episode starts without Jughead at his computer, I can’t help but be disappointed. I’ll make due with a snake swimming upstream. 🐍 (Did I do this right FP?) 🤣

Jughead Jones, juvenile delinquent, will he pay attention in class? Will he turn in that oral history report next week? Tune in next week on a very different show where kids actually go to school!

Cheryl is a teachers pet, why am I not surprised?

Who calls anyone their Grandpappy? What is this, 1850?

Of course the Blossoms were around when Riverdale was founded.

I am really interested in the founding families of Riverdale. What families have been around the longest besides the Blossoms?

This covert meeting seems like it should be held somewhere much more closed doors than the Andrews dining room.

Everyone seem so surprised and hush, hush when Archie walks in. He lives here. SURPRISE....? He lives here? 🤷

Sweaty Archie is giving off major glistening sparkliness. Am I the only one getting Twilight vibes?  🧛‍♂️��

Well, now we all are. 🌟SPARKLE, ARCHIE, SPARKLE. 🌟

“Um, I’d kiss you, but you’re sweaty.” - Me, basically, every time my SO works out. I feel you, V.

Hal “I’m a huge dick and think my children are expendible” Cooper, great to see you back buddy! No one wants you here. 👌

“I have scars, too. Crescent moons on my palms.” Uhhh.. forced much?

I’m sure I’m not the only one that felt that this delivery was very weird. Betty has not said a peep about her self harm to anyone except Jug, then she just blurts it out in a really unnatural way over eggs and toast. It’s like she just suddenly got a case of ‘notice me, senpai’ when it came to Chic. That was a dialogue fail.

Alice, mother of the year, ignoring this conversation entirely. “What? I didn’t hear you, more pancakes, lalalalla!” 🥞

🎶Secret Agent Man🎶 is secret.

Kevin thinks Chic is a hottie. I definitely don’t ship this. No Chevin for this girl. Even if it is a good ship name or.... Kevic?

Jughead hanging out with the RD crew again! 🙌

I appreciate Jughead’s Snowpiercer 🚂 reference. Pop culture!

Veronica is walking a fine line here, I am all for Jug/Veronica friendship... but with her now playing both sides against the middle, if Jug finds out, I don’t see that going well.

Betty looks jealous! “Plans with Toni?” OOOO GURL.

Side-eye, a novel by Betty Cooper

I don’t think dropping French to take Spanish is what Veronica was meaning when she told Archie her dad didn’t like him because he didn’t speak Spanish. 😂🤦

“Wrestling, YAY”, said no one in fandom ever.

Reporter Jughead!! 📝

I really enjoyed the backstory on the founding of the Serpents. The Uktena tribe, the word being a horned water serpent, turning into the Serpents. Maybe my serpent swimming upstream comment was more apt than I realized?

General Pickens was a dick.

“Did you think Jason Blossom was the first person to be murdered in Riverdale?” *Snap snap* You slay, Toni! 👏

So, Chic is a web cammer, huh? Alrighty. “Video gigolo” and “Cyber-trick” are interesting job titles.

Kevin actually has lines!

For those who missed this tidbit, let’s learn more about Chic the Trick. No. I’m not making this up.

About me: “Always looking to have a good time...everytime. I’m a huge fan of new and interesting people. I can do the craziest things you dreamed about. Get on board and forget about world existing around You - this is going to be another dimension. Let’s open up together and discover some new secrets :)” Facts: “Age: Old enough to party...legally ;) - Gender: Male - Build: Slim - Hair Color: Depends on mood - Hair Length: Medium - Ethnicity: White - Sexual Preference: :) - Languages: English” My Wall: Tbonez: you look like fun, i wanna play ;) PM’d - Mauiwowi69: me n my boi r crushing on u hard, Pm’d you - BigDee88 has enterted the room - MacDaddy77: mmm mm.. can i have some fries w that?!” 

Let’s dissect this into some of my reactions. 

I am definitely picking apart his grammar right now.

This is really cringey.

Hair color, depends on mood? Really? Dark Betty reference much?

Since when is that hair length medium? (I am unreasonably irritated by this.)

Mauiwowi69? Really?

CAN I HAVE SOME FRIES WITH THAT? 🍟🍟🍟 Laughing.

I can’t believe that profile is a thing. I am on a constant loop of cringing and laughing.

I don’t personally have any objection to (legal and of age) webcammers. To each their own. So I don’t object to his lifestyle. He has had it super tough, if he wants to do this, all is well that ends well. But that profile is cringe worthy.

Wrestler Kevin! (This is incidentally all I have to take out of this plot line.)

Kevin makes Archie look like a chump. Look at that chest definition!

Betty finds the caming fascinating? So she went down a rabbit hole of watching Chic’s videos? Or just cam videos in general? 🙄 This is a little weird. I am not here for this.

Jughead: “Am I interupting?” Betty: “NOPE!!!” 😍

Blue and Gold Bughead Scene!

Betty’s sweater, how does she make something so hideous, so adorable?

Jughead is working on a Blue and Gold article and I am here for this!!!

I am so excited. I am also wondering if there was a cut scene involving them talking about him returning.

Betty encouraging Jughead to write the article and even suggesting he go after Hiram directly, YASSSS! 💏🔍

I will take any Blue and Gold Bughead scene, but they are also having a friendship again! Friendship!!!

“Hey, Mr. Lodge, this is Jughead Jones here, I have no tact, I am straight to the point with your bullshit.” *Hiram hangs up*

Archie and Hiram’s cock fight in front of Veronica is laughable. She is fiercer than both of them put together.

Betty Cooper will go to any length to protect someone she cares about, it’s a strength and a weakness. Chic better not take advantage of our soft muffin!!!

They are going hard on this.. Hiram is a hard ass to Archie story line, I don’t feel like foundation was laid out for this severity.

Hal, being all uppity about Polly now. Hal: “THAT’S POLLY’S ROOM.” *fake crying* Everyone: You ran Polly out, Asshole. 🖕

You’re filling a void, Hal!

Sure, Hiram! Manhandle the students on school property, no prob. You were a wrestling star back in high school! Totes okay!

“Look, I get it. You hate the Northside. You hate that instead of inviting you to a party, they asked you to work it. It triggers all your rage about being born on the wrong side of the tracks. But this? This wasn't your story to tell.“ - Toni ‘I’m a badass bitch who tells it like it is’ Topaz.

Toni calling out Jughead is a damn mood. She is dropping truths lately! I am so happy to see Toni getting some love on characterization!

Also, lol. Swords and Serpents room.

Jughead is RAAAAGE. You know, considering he wanted to mediate peace between North and South sides.. he really is anti-Northside now. “Damn the man, save the Southside!” 🤘

Cheryl is upset that her family was responsible for the atrocities of the past! Yes! More character depth for Cheryl! Thank goodness!

Cheryl crying is giving me feelings.

Chic... the dick. Listen. I like Chic, or I want to like Chic because I like Hart. But he isn’t really endearing right now. He calls out Betty saying she can’t  be that nice to have just got him because he was her brother and for her mom. Um. That IS why she did it. 👏 Step back, son.

Betty wouldn’t have known about Chic’s “darkness” being like hers, why are they suddenly making it like she may have sought him out for that purpose all along? Plot devices.

Also, Betty is beautiful and all, but what clothes did they throw up on her this episode? I usually enjoy her style. But first that sweater and now overalls? What?!

Archie calling out Hiram saying he was there for Veronica when he was in prison. I mean.... he’s not wrong. ☕️

More sweaty Archie, “The Sweaty Archie” should be the new episode title.

“Fathers are forever,” lol WUT. 🧀

Jughead being so passionate but still so sincere! “I had no right to- I had no right. I’m sorry.” This was great for his character. He has been rage, raging against the dying serpent jackets. It is good to see him fall back into his reason and sincerity at times too. We need a dynamic Jughead!

Chuck VS Archie, 🤼‍♂️ *mortal kombat voice* Fight!

They wouldn’t match up these two to get on a high school wrestling team. They are different weight classes, this is dumb.

By the way, I can’t stop thinking about this, is this supposed to be sexy? Spandex is never sexy. Unless it’s yoga pants. I can’t stop laughing at this.

WHY IS THERE A CROWD HERE FOR TRYOUTS? Really? Full stands for high school wrestling tryouts? Listen. I was here with you guys til this, but you’re jumping the shark. 🦈

Of course Archie “I’ve never wrestled before in my life” Andrews beat Chuck “I probably have been on the wrestling team every year” Clayton.

At least the music was good.

Alice looks so gorgeous! That bun with the outfit! 😍

....and Chic looks like a sociopath.

Alice is so happy to be out with Chic at the fair, and he is being kind to her. More of this Chic and Alice please.

Wtf Hal. Why do you have to bring the shit parade?

Betty and Alice standing up for Chic, yassss!

I love the all around “Fuck you, Hal” looks here.

“He has to go and you know damn well why.” .....why?

I do NOT want to here any shit about FP being Chic’s father. THE VOID IS LISTENING.

Veronica and the Pussycats! 🐱 Damn girl! Vicious!

It is nice to say Valeria and Melody... even if it’s... incredibly minimal.

We need more Val.

Light Choni moment! Cheryl stepped right up with the Southside.

Cheryl getting a front row place to watch her girl Toni’s speech!! 🙌

I enjoy this character development for Toni! She is a fierce independent woman and she don’t need no woman!

I really loved Toni’s speech! It was powerful. I love that none of the men insisted on giving it either, Toni owned that.

Sweetpea did exude power up there backing up his friend though. BFF’s.

I really appreciate that Jughead wasn’t on the stage for this one. As Toni said before, it wasn’t his story to tell.

Jughead’s eyes are pure fire though. 🔥

Hiram is one sly mofo. He is a snake in the grass. 🐍

Jughead tearing off his tape, he is PISSED. Jughead “You won’t like me when I’m angry” Jones.

I’m glad Grandpa gave him the stand down and save it for another day. Jug is damn well fearless. He isn’t scared of  Hiram in the slightest. I am interested where this is going to go in future episodes.

I am here for the Jughead character arc!!

Penelope and Hal? 🤮 Seriously? Is this a daytime soap all of a sudden?

Chic opened up to Betty and I’m glad they didn’t go super murder boy vibe.

Too bad it went creepy bad decisions vibe instead.

The only problem with using the same way to cope with her darkness, as he does with his, is he’s a WEE BIT older. 😓🤦

Listen, I am back to feeling Chic is taking advantage of Betty, in a lot of ways. Just look at both of their expressions. There is a lot to read there.

I am not comfortable with any of this.

Chic you are back to being the dick.

“The dark education of Betty Cooper,” I love you, Jughead Jones. Narrator extraordinaire.

My Jughead at his laptop with his cup of coffee moment!

I really appreciate that Jughead is in the dark diner while writing about this darkness of Betty’s. The cinematography in this scene is excellent.

Suddenly after that dumb wrestling match Hiram is taking Archie under his wing? And into the business? Really? Couldn’t he have saved a kitten from a burning building instead to win him over or something?

“Isn’t this something the Serpents would do?” With the statue? I don’t know. Jughead HAS done graffiti before. But that is pretty damn inflammatory. It could have  been the Serpents. But it could have been Hiram “I’m a sneaky bastard” Lodge inflaming this civil war.

Filler episode is filling...... now with spandex!

Please feel free to message me to talk episodes and Riverdale (or anything really) anytime! I have way too much enthusiasm for the show. Check back in a couple days for a recap of episode 2x12. The hype is real for that one! I can’t wait to talk about it!

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Bughead at the Principal’s Office in 2.12

Weatherbee: “Effective immediately, you are both suspended from the newspaper's staff. You have the day to clean out your personal things.”

Read the accompanying weekly recap here.

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Bughead at Veronica’s confirmation party in 2.12

Jughead: "I broke a code, I messed up bad. Really bad. There's this person who suckered me into delivering drugs. And my dad, too, he got roped in. So, couple of Serpents and I, we Found her, grabbed her, and I cut her." Betty: "Cut her?" Jughead: "The worst part is, none of it even matters.'Cause she's back. It's like every decision I've made since we broke up, including our break up, just makes things worse and worse."

Read the accompanying weekly recap here.

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"OKAY, so. Theory time. It’s my theory that Betty wasn’t the one on the cam." eeeehhhh didnt think about that omg

Nonniecakes! Catch me with all the excitement that you read my recap and are sending in an ask about it! YES! I don’t feel there was evidence that lead me to believe Betty had anyone watching her. Otherwise they would have been verbalizing differently. Keeping the hope alive. Our girl may not be perfect, but she is intelligent.

Thank you so much for your ask! And thank you for taking the time to read my recap! The much delayed recap for 2.13 will be releasing this week!! It was heavily delayed after I had surgery and healing process was not as intended. Thank you again!

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Hi I don't mean to bother but did you make a recap of last episode? I mean it's totally okay if you didn't, I'm just afraid that you did an I missed it

@goodbye-juliet oh my goodness. 🤗 Your ask just gave me overwhelming amounts of warm and fuzzy joy. Thank you so much for caring enough to check in about my recap!!

Here’s the skinny. It’s not done yet. 😅I’ve done my baseline first round notes but that’s it. I had surgery on Tuesday to have all four of my wisdom teeth removed. I should be better by now but, due to health, age, and medications, I’m still struggling with feeling tip top. I’m fighting with constant head/mouth/neck aching right now and my ability to deliver theory or wit would be beyond subpar. 😂 I would have loved to have it out already (I’ve actually been feeling really bad it’s not) but I want to make sure I deliver a quality recap!

I am really excited to write it!!! It’s a great episode and I have a lot of solid notes! My goal is to have it out on Wednesday. 🤞🤞🤞I hope to start work on it tomorrow. We might not get Riverdale Wednesday but I can aim for Recap Wednesday!

Thank you again for checking on it, I can’t explain how excited that has made me. Feel free to ask about recaps or anything, anytime! 💛💙💛💙😘

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Okay, honestly, who doesn't need this recap?!? I know I did and it couldn't have come at a better time with the hiatus ending this week!

S02 E13 · Chapter Twenty-Six: The Tell-Tale Heart

It’s that time again! Let me say I am very sorry that this has been on a string of delays. I had surgery to remove all four of my wisdom teeth the day before this episode aired. Then unfortuantely I got dry socket, it was an ordeal. It’s been a long hiatus for Sarah. The good news is I know I really needed the refresher on this episode before 2x14, I hope you all will too!

My Rating: 8/10 - I really, really had so much to like about this episode. The cinematography was great, there was some great character growth, Lili’s acting was phenomenal, and the Bughead scenes were lovely. Riverdale’s hottest new episode is called Dead Bodies ‘R Us! It has everything you would want in an episode. Bleached fruit, hand candy, real people who are actually cartoons, and a poorly hidden murder cover up where the whole town could catch you! [x]

Recap, random screencaps, video clip scene links, emoji abuse, my crack!edits, fangirling, snark, hearteyes, facepalms, and reactions (& spoilers obviously) under the cut!

Betty Cooper is pretty much all of us for the rest of this episode, get ready!

Keep reading

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Jughead Jones  and that damn Jacket

This gif, and a whole gifset of this scene (and many other from the episode) are by @rlodgc . They are really beautiful. You should check them out. I’ll be reblogging all of them soon!

@strix just tagged me in a gifset post here . My response took on it’s on form so I’m creating a new post for it. Her reply to the gifset was this:

“ @theheavycrown I’m telling you, it’s the principle of the thing. This is why I typed Jughead the way I did in that MBTI post; an inferior Se gives him a poor grasp on the present sometimes and makes him recklessly audacious. He might (key word: might) be aware he’s making it worse for himself, but he already committed himself to his opinion, and it’s better to die standing than live on his knees and all that.” -- @strix

Here is my reply, you thought provoking unicorn you!

@strix might  be one of my best guides on Jughead Jones in fandom. Seriously, girl, how do you DO this? “It’s better to die standing than live on his knees and all that,” is something I wouldn’t be surprised if we heard Jughead say. You’re RIGHT. 100%

So I’ve been talking The Blackboard Jungle with Mila since she so kindly read my recap for the episode and she has really made me think some more about the whole Jughead jacket thing.

The way my brain works I put myself into the place of Weatherbee and how I would run a school in that situation. Given that there was likely a dress code policy against gang related imagery on clothing, I definitely still support him telling the Serpents they can’t wear the jackets to school.

HOWEVER, I do understand where Jughead is coming from after that conversation (isn’t it awesome when your fandom friends give so much more depth to the episodes?!) I saw the jacket as a point of pride, that I understood, but felt.. well just take the damn thing off during school hours. But that’s not really Jughead. He doesn’t go with the status quo, he goes with what he feels is right and he isn’t afraid to dive right into a moral gray area. He doesn’t care about what is accepted as right; he cares about what is right in his eyes and those are two very different things.

This is a guy who wouldn’t remove a hat for YEARS, so none of us are surprised that he feels similarly about his serpents jacket. If you want me to  be honest, he’s lucky he gets to wear the hat to school, that had to have been a conversation at some point  because no school dress code allows that. He must have fought it and won. (Go Jughead, headcanon firmly in place now of elementary school Jughead crusading for his ability to wear his crown beanie to school, and winning. It’s a small town so teachers and staff have all heard about the kid with the beanie and what he did to win that right to wear it to school. It made a lasting impact and is allowed all the way up til even now) I digress.

“ For Jug the jacket symbolises that he’s not alone. That the serpents will back him up. Especially since he’s coming back to a place where he was bullied, had only two friends, where his ex is at, and his best friend/brother who doesn’t really understand what Jughead is going through. He wants the serpents not because he particularly enjoys the gang, but because they offer unconditional acceptance that he always craves as a self-perceived outsider.” “ – @strix

It didn’t even occur to me what coming back to Riverdale might feel like to Jughead. We got dropped into Jughead’s life when he became part of the “core four” as we know it. We saw a very small amount of the bullying and loneliness that he experienced at the beginning of season 1. He was knocked into in hallways, he sat alone, and he was made fun of by the “popular” kids (and they were brutal with it, they even accused him of murdering a classmate).

He since has found his place and his peace in a bubble with the core four and it’s surrounding members, but that doesn’t mean he is thrilled to be around everyone else in his former school. He seemed to dread going to Southside High because of his preconceived notions; but as we saw when he got there he quickly found that he was accepted and laughing with friends from day one. That had to have been something that felt amazing to Jughead Jones, loner weirdo, to be accepted as a fast friend.

Now, here he is going back to Riverdale High, where nothing was easy and he wasn’t accepted. He is going to be incredibly protective of himself and those friends who accepted him. We know Jughead Jones is definitely loyal, always and deeply. Therefore it makes sense that he is projecting those feelings and that protection and acceptance onto his jacket and what it represents for him.

“For Jug it isn’t about the consequences, it’s about the principle of it. The Serpents are very “all for one and one for all” in his eyes, so he backs them up and they must back him up in return. And he doesn’t see it as a gang affiliation as much as a symbol of comradeship. So when Weatherbee says down with the jackets, Jug sees it as a way for the Northside to divide the Southsiders and “conquer” them so to say.” – @strix

What the Southside Serpents are perceived to be, and what the mean to Jughead (to myself and Mila clearly)  are very different things. The show could have done a better job of making that clear, the show writers aren’t perfect (like our fanfic authors are). They made some questionable choices with knife wielding, skin cutting Jughead, that moves the young Serpents from a gray area that provokes thought and conversation to a wtf (although that comes back to Jughead is loyal and protective of those he loves to an extreme degree). However, knife-happy moment aside, the Serpents have really not been what they are thought to be. They are a family, they are down on their luck or minorities, and they support each other when someone is on the outs. Is that all they are? No. Has the older generation of Serpents made some heinous mistakes? Yes. However, The Ghoulie’s are the negative stereotype that the Serpent’s are painted to be. They are the polar opposite extreme of bad for a reason.

Regardless of what the Serpents were before Jughead, I believe that he is trying to make something new with the young Serpents. The younger generation of Serpent’s should not be held accountable for the actions of their predecessors. They have a chance to make a new way. (Which is why I really hate the damn Penny Peabody choices, I think it was a mistake on the part of the writers room) He sees something that everyone else doesn’t see in the young Serpents. He feels a sense of belonging, instant acceptance, and understanding of the hardships in his life, with them that he has never experienced to the same degree elsewhere. Yes, he has the core four however, they aren’t going to relate on a empathy level to how hard his life has been in their privilege, they can only sympathize. Empathy and sympathy are two very different things (something else Mila and I have talked about in depth) and they satisfy need on very different levels.

Jughead took all of that feeling and thought and projected it onto a jacket. This shouldn’t be a surprise. He has does this before. That crown beanie has to mean something to him, there has to be symbolism and origin to it that we have not been told. Jughead Jones is a juxtaposition of adjectives. He is hard and he is soft. He’s a lover and a fighter. He’s an overthinking intellectual and a half-cocked reactor. He needs his “armor” to protect his soft squishy muffin insides from the outside world that has never truly accepted him. The jacket has become a representation of all of the things I have discussed above rolled into leather, stitching, and metal for Jughead. And Jughead will fight for those things, have no doubt.

I hope this has followed some form of coherency,  I just haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since Mila and I had that conversation. Jughead is a very complex character, (that is why he is one that fanfic authors love to write) as he said he “has layers.” He’s a little bit of a lot of things. He is our “pretentious, cerebral, special snowflake Jughead Jones” as Mila lovingly puts it.

I, for one, am very interested to see where this progresses throughout the season. We know upcoming episodes have an impassioned Jughead crusading for what is right.That is the kind of plot and character development I am interested in seeing. Jughead isn’t perfect, I’ve said before - his moral compass wibble wobbles but it doesn’t fall down. He has made mistakes, but I trust in him to always make me think about what is really right, what is really wrong, and what is just the status quo of the two.

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Repost of my recap of last weeks (2x10) episode, while I wait til I can watch 2x11 in the morning!

Check in tomorrow for 2x11’s recap, in the same format, by me! I can’t wait to talk with you all about it!

S02 E10 · Chapter Twenty-Three: The Blackboard Jungle

Since I am in fandom for episodes now… I am going to be doing my thoughts and reactions posts for episodes on Thursdays. I hope you guys will interact and talk with me!

My Rating: 7/10. I really liked this episode. Great character interactions and development, new characters I am invested in, pining. My hype had been so built up after the break, I was going to love this one either way, but it actually had great content. The hype is effective. Keep reading, you’ll see why.

Recap, random screencaps, video clip scene links, emoji abuse, fangirling, snark, hearteyes, facepalms, and reactions (& spoilers obviously) under the cut!

Time to Jughead Jones the hell out of this episode and write.

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This is so worth the read, there was some stuff in there I definitely missed while watching the first time and I'm glad I can always count on these amazing, detailed recaps. 2x12 was one for the books and this, accompanied with great links and screencaps, is probably the best coverage I've seen of it. Sarah has such a way with words, definitely recommend reading it.

S02 E12 · Chapter Twenty-Five: The Wicked and the Divine

Holy cow did this episode have a lot to unpack. This episode was the episode of the season, in my opinion. This recap ended up being a vast undertaking but I think it’s worth it. I hope you guys agree. (I definitely did not have a power outage and lose a bunch of work at one point, nope. I almost shanked someone.) There was so much amazing content, ship development, and heavy character arc storytelling that I was overwhelmed. I noticed so much more writing and then reading this recap. It was a hell of an episode.

My Rating: 10/10 - I am in love with this episode. If I could marry it, I would. I could write word fountains to it. I did write word fountains to it. Riverdales hottest episode is SQUISH SQUISH. It has everything you would want in an episode. Gophers, vans down by the river, mobsters who don’t know what cheese is, men made of literal shit, and a live game of Clue where you actually die. [x]

Recap, random screencaps, video clip scene links, emoji abuse, my crack!edits, fangirling, snark, hearteyes, facepalms, and reactions (& spoilers obviously) under the cut!

Jughead Jones on his laptop with a cup of coffee? Sounds like my kind of start! It’s time to word fountain the hell out of this. (Seriously though, it’s more like a word lake this time.)

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The snark is strong with Sarah. 👍🏻👍🏻

S02 E11 · Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wrestler

I completely spaced doing this recap. SARAHFAIL. I had a fever for the days following the episode airing. Then a few days after that I was just exhausted from my health issues and the fever. Suddenly, it’s Wednesday again and I hadn’t done the recap. It’s 6am, Riverdale day, but here is the recap; better late than never! It was nice to relook at the episode before watching tonight!

My Rating: 6/10 - I liked the character arc’s in this one, it is giving me hope for the direction of many. However, this felt like a filler episode.

Recap, random screencaps, video clip scene links, emoji abuse, fangirling, snark, hearteyes, facepalms, and reactions (& spoilers obviously) under the cut!

Jughead Jones with headphones on? Very season 1, time to get down to business.

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