_{breathes heavily icb riverdale gave yall betchie AFTER i stopped watching the show smh} 

KEV ( valiidations ):

     ^{/   @heartlikegold   based   on   tonight’s   episode  !} 

               ^{❛  this  feels   JUST  LIKE   old  times  — ❜   kevin  steps  into  the  room ,  loosening  the  DEATH  GRIP  around  his  neck  called  a    bowtie.    an  empathetic  smile  is  offered,  though  he’s  only  aware  of   the  back-stabbing  given  by  the  very   notorious   MOTHER  DEAREST.   it’s  sad  how  they  just  ended  up  not  …  entering  the  school  year  as  the  best-friends  they  always  were —  a  lot  can  happen  in  just  a  year  ,  too ;  he  still  wanted   everything  good  for  her  though.     (  is   he   selfish  for  not  knowing ?  )} 

                      ^{❛  i  don’t  exactly  know  what’s  going  on  anymore ,   at  least  not  with  you.    ❜}

           <sub>It’s not until he reminds her of the GOOD OL’ DAYS that she realizes how low-priority Kevin has been. It leaves her feeling sick to her stomach, with a mouth dry like cotton. What a TERRIBLE friend Betty is, and what an INCREDIBLE one Kevin has proved himself to be. Selfless, kind, hilarious Kevin who never complain and never gets mad at her. What would she do without him? –––––– ( probably IMPLODE ) 

“ I’m sorry, Kevin. ” His words bring tears to Betty’s eyes, a full break-down brimming. But she doesn’t want to cry; feeling as though she doesn’t DESERVE it. If anyone should cry now, it’s someone actually HURTING. Not her, not her –– she has no TIME for crying. She drops the zipper on her dress with a sigh, and sits down on the corner of her bed, a stranger in her own room. She’s MILES away, wishing she could take her body with her. “ I don’t even know where to start. ”</sub> 

CHUCK ( jerkisms ):

CHUCK HAD    ^{slipped out into the night easily; sitting on one of the out side tables with a FLASK   in hand — yeah. That’s how he was spending his night. Not gallivanting or having fun .. nah there was enough of that and most of his own friends left. Archie and Veronica though ? They were good.  He hears a door slam behind him which causes him to shove the flask into his suit and turn to look … can’t say he’s not surprised when he sees BETTY COOPER.}  

   “ What, no slow dance with Justin Gingerlake ? “  

@heartlikegold // plotted. 

          <sub>The punch was SPIKED. If the warnings weren’t proof enough, the WOBBLE in Betty’s reckless-step was. For a moment, before she’d had time to PROCESS who was standing in front of her, she asked herself why she was even there. She was a silver-Cinderella out past midnight. Wasting time, filling herself up on replayed memories and sour limeade. She felt just like that damn pumpkin –– like someone had spooned her guts out, and any second now she was going to SPILL them out all across Riverdale High’s precious porcelain steps. There were a million things Betty needed in that moment –– a second chance with Jughead, for Veronica and Archie to fix things, for Betty to be passed out in her bed and away from the REALITY of this shitty night –– and none of those things had Chuck Clayton anywhere near the equation. 

“ God, just shut up, Chuck. ” She swallows down a lump of acidic bile, dragging a clammy hand down her clammy face, and sending glitter and lipgloss streaking across her cheek. “ Don’t you get TIRED being such a DICK? ” Balking at her own words, Betty leans back against the pillar, shutting her eyes to the noise all around her –– it only makes the noise in her HEAD all that much louder.</sub> 

confusion-and-cake:

okay i know no one cares but like

just saying

that was lowkey an awful way to handle cheryl’s suicide attempt? like actually really fucking bad???

like a) call the fucking cops or whatever, call 911 and tell them you think someone’s in danger of killing themselves, give a tip to a suicide prevention line, don’t just charge off ALONE to where you think the person might be 

b) don’t break ur hand breaking ice. like that whole river thing could have gotten way bad……. like what if the ice cracked too much and all five of you got swept up by the ice-cold current? all FIVE of y’all fuckers would be DEAD, ALL of you, so that’s why that’s a terrible idea

c) i love ronnie to pieces but also? ya girl Cheryl didn’t have a bad day sis she tried to kill herself. you guys need to get her to a hospital crisis center? a therapist? something other than spiked hot coco in ronnie’s living room??

d) don’t leave someone who you know is suicidal alone? while you guys go to a party and fuck??? like talk about irresponsible. even if you didn’t want to miss the party……. like, fuck, I don’t know, find a caring and responsible adult to stay with her, or you know, skip the party and be there for her? or get her a counselor or something in a hospital? not just “bye cheryl we’re going to the jubilee there’s more hot coco in the microwave, see ya later”

like what kind of fuckery

I mean we know cheryl’s mom couldn’t care less about her, but as her friends……. people who do care about her at least a little…. like this was The Worst^TM reaction possible to this whole thing

daphneblaked:

WHO WILL MAKE ME FIGHT? DRAG ME OUT ALIVE. 

SAVE ME FROM MYSELF, DON’T LET ME DROWN. 

ARCHIE ( bulldogsnvixens ):

he isn’t sure HOW he manage to send the text, even more how he was able to type or when he did it. His jacket is off but he can see the scrubbed redness of blood on his hands and his shirt is damped with it. Not his, but his father’s. Archie is on the ground of the waiting room, still in shock, still unable to move. The doctors wouldn’t tell him anything, he was completely blind. Was his dad okay? Why won’t anyone tell him? He sees the text he just send, to his group of friends though knowing Riverdale; its probably everyone knew already. 

(from archie to sad breakfast club): @ hospital, dad got shot while in pop’s.

he doesn’t know what else to say but to wait for news of his dad; head resting on his knees as he hides tired face between them. He is tired but he can’t sleep, he feels the ringing of the gunshot on his ears everytime he tries to sleep, eyes red from crying as his hands shake before him.

|| open starter from archie post-finale.

         <sub>It was the worst thing to ever imagine ––– the thought of her parents one day leaving her filled Betty with unspeakable DREAD. The kind which made her feel like a poser, a sham. Filled with hypocritical pride, like a cream puff, overflowing. Thinking about how Betty stood there… Under that spotlight, spouting ideals of truth and bravery, when thinking about losing her mom, her dad made her feel about two years old, cowering for fear of the dark.

And now Archie was there, in that god-awful place –– alone, afraid. ALONE. AFRAID. ALONE ALONE. 

Betty → Sad Breakfast Club: I’ll be there in 5 minutes. 
Betty → Sad Breakfast Club: We’re with you Arch. 

No sound made as she shrugged on a coat, shoved her feet in a pair of worn Uggs nestled under her bed and raced down the stairs, plucking car keys off the kitchen table where they gleamed in the moonlight, all-too-knowing. It was all too easy –– not a creature was STIRRING. And somewhere across town, Betty desperately hoped not the same could be said for Fred Andrews.</sub> 

<sub>Her fingers were frantic as she paused, Betty breathing hard, contemplating her next few words. 

Betty → Arch: I’m with you.</sub> 

            <sub>SIGH, this post has been long coming… I’ve just been postponing it because I was nervous how some people would respond and react, but like… I have to now. So like… y’all now I don’t really ship bughead ( which, IDEK why, because by all accounts it’s cute sometimes, but there’s no… chemistry for me ) and as much as I want to stay true to Betty’s character, I think I can do that without making myself write a ship I don’t fully… get? Like there has to be a way to stay true to who she is –– because she is not defined by that ship. That being said, I know I’ve previously written Betty with like, Betchie endgame in mind, with Betty having buried affection for Archie, so I’m going to be going through my drafts and trying to edit that out and have her sort of be like… much less intense about it, because if it’s there, it’s very repressed, because obvioulsy Betty has hurt a lot when she was open about how she felt about Archie. So if she does still have feelings for him, she’s 100% ignoring it. I don’t know if that’s the way the show is going, but it’s my eductated guess that it might be something they’ll do. 

I know Riverdale Betty seems to be in love with Jughead, and I mean, it does look like she is, but I don’t think it’ll really last, in my opinion. So while I’m keeping it canon, and I’d be happy to include it as a plot device and like, something in the background, and it’s happening yes, I’m not really interested in writing shippy Bughead. I love writing the friendship and especially within the comics verse where it really thrived, it’s just not my cup of tea. In that sense I’ll be diverting from Canon, I suppose… But I hope that won’t make anyone think less of me, just because I’m gearing away from Bughead. 

I want to try and focus on Betty as a person, actually without a love interest. I’ve realized I care way too much who she ends up with and that’s kind of not okay to me, because she is not made complete by who she is with. When it comes down to it, I just want her to be happy, and if she is really happy, and being loved and cherished then that is what matters. I also don’t think it’s fair if she ends up realizing she has feelings for Archie, because no doubt lots of people will be hurt by it. 

So yeah, I hope everyone will respect my decision and my characterization, because as everyone knows my Betty is not 100% canon-compliant ( x ), and she does have a lot of me in her, from beliefs and convictions, to attractions and thoughts, and I’m just trying to follow through with my interpretation… And.. yeah! Thanks for reading xx</sub>

maybe im wrong and ok this is up to interpretation but archie literally was staring at betty like he had feelings for her and realized it too late and here she was happily moved on and so he couldn’t say anything so he quickly backtracked and was like “o no veronica i just want what they have hahahaha” because why say something when its too late??? and if that really is the case its p fucked up bc it aint gonna end well for like, anyone 

archie: i do [like betty]. i always will. as friends.

me: