RIVERDALE S05E03 | S07E18

A Bughead kiss from Riverdale Third Season #4 (2019).

i want an 8000 word essay about how perpetually defining Betty Cooper as "the girl next door" means she always exists in relation to someone else (next door to whom?), never fully as an independent self

and I want Anne Helen Petersen to write it

Y e s. Must keep OP tags:

I accidentally called her the “perfect next door” when I described Riverdale’s ending to my family, and I think it’s the perfect explanation of how Archie saw her

Barchies: We want to come full-circle from the pilot.

1x01: Betty's all, "I always saw us as this power couple," and Archie's like, "sorry, no." They go fall in love with other people.

7x20: Archie's like, "I always saw us together at the end," and Betty's like, "sorry, no." He goes and falls in love with someone else and her future love life is undetermined.

See? Full-circle. Be careful what you wish for.

LMAO

720.

Here we are, a week later. But I needed to sort out my thoughts.

I will leave all the general postmortems and feelings about the show and about it ending for another post. This will be a recap. The last one. I feel some kind of a way about this, too.

Goodbye, Riverdale. As series finales go, this one... wasn't. Not really. It was a season 7 finale. With a macabre doze of "and here's how all of your beloved characters died." It took a form of looking back/taking stoke, yes, but, again, only for season 7. What happened in the other 6 didn't matter in the end. Tiny bits of it got a shout-out in a truly epically terrible Archie poem. It's kind of fitting for what this show has become.

It doesn't mean it wasn't a little bit effective at making me feel something. Even if it was mostly nostalgia and sadness for the tremendous wasted potential. Still, I got sad and slightly misty-eyed here and there.

Anyway. Good news: There's an afterlife. Bad news: You get to spend eternity as an anxious, hormonal teenager. With the people you went to high school with. Like, all of them. Forever. You get to be a high school junior. Forever. You get homework. Forever...

Follow, for the last time, for the most important information we were all dying to learn: the fate of Uncle Frank. Under the cut.

A way to a man's heart is through his stomach😋😋

Play Along - coming soon to Ao3

A fake dating love story full of shenanigans coming soon to Ao3 near you!

Sneak peek under the cut.

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Still thinking about how Tabitha is an angel but also destroyed countless timelines, functionally committing murder on an unknowable scale, just to save a handful of people she cared about, only to neither get to be with them herself in life nor be in the heaven they all share

ok i'll say it: bughead was left open-ended. they're the only polycule members who don't get a breakup? neither of them got married? they both lived in "new york state"? the last ship to sail was jughead saying he "sometimes" regrets not getting married and then they hold hands and gaze at each other?

7x20 Fixit Fic

Here's the first of (possibly) many 7x20 fixits.

7x20 gave us a clear Bughead soulmate edit, and I am running with it. Mostly canonical, but I took matters into my own hands when I felt like it.

Though Lovers Be Lost, Love Shall Not

Thanks to @andsmile for pointing out (beautifully) that these characters are ours now.

As always, kudos, comments, and reblogs mean so much.

Can we be seventeen if we still have the right?

"Sometimes," huh? Looks like you're regretting it right now.

*plays Bughead theme*

#Riverdale Started And Ended With Them

I’ll love them forever

Tabitha making everyone watch 115 hours of Riverdale straight is some kind of a... uhm. Angels can be so cruel. ;)