[cheryllclayton]

Ok I’m the promo to Betty and Tabitha do shrooms and dance!!??

[positively-bereft-deactivated20]

• Cooper-Smith fam playing with filters!

[thetaoofbetty]

In this corner we have the Jabitha stans they’re just like the Ethelhead stand only more aggressive and in the other we have the Barchie stans they’re loud they’re proud but also weirdly sexist and retrograde which one will win in today’s battle? We’ll find out!

wait until some of the actual j/abitha stans figure out that the b/archies only care about jughead because he’s not with betty and as soon as bughead is back together they’ll start calling him names again. 

when that blows up, that’s gonna be entertaining. or when some of the j/abithas forget they hated betty and act like they never said nothing and turn on the b/archies. 

someone get the boxing gloves ready.🥊

[bettyjugheads]

[lillilheart-deactivated20211212]

[jurassic-parka]

28.5 mil for Lili today🎊

[lili2424]

Madchen via Instagram

[jurassic-parka]

What happened who’s Danny

Danny Ramirez, an actor. He’s in the new Falcon and the Winter Soldier marvel thing and also in the new Top Gun coming out soon. Him and Lili followed each other a few weeks ago and he just followed Wanuri today so a lot of people are thinking he’s going to be in ➕➖with her :). He’s so freaking cute and I am really excited & hopeful!

[thetaoofbetty]

I’m one of those minorities that wouldn’t mind a Jabitha romance exploration if they actually give them a chance and Tabitha more to do , it would be fun if Jughead actually had an option outside of Betty imo (don’t kill me)

But I don’t like how they making it a love triangle

i like jabitha, i just think we’re too far into the show/too close to the end of the series to properly explore new ships. season 2/3 would have been the time to do it. we’re in endgame territory now (i feel like s6 will be the last, and probs a short season).

i mean, if you think about it, betty was able to explore a relationship outside of bh but we really haven’t seen that for jughead. i don’t think it’s anything against betty, it’s just people want jughead to have the same opportunity.

i understand this mentality, i just don’t employ it. i don’t do tit for tat in relationships, that’s not how i ship things or go about my everyday life. 

and i don’t think betty got a whole lot of anything outside of jughead. some empty hookups? a shitty boss/hookup (that we saw one kiss from)? jughead had a live in gf and a random hookup. is it because only his hookup was on screen so it doesn’t feel even? it’s not like he was celibate for 7 years. this isn’t a show that does long term anything in between bugvarchie. 

they both had options outside of each other so far. betty and archie are mains and we only saw 1 full hookup and 2 fade to blacks with an added interrupted scene before it all ended in a conversation that took less than 2 minutes. 

the timing of it doesn’t work for me most of all. because right after bughead starts talking? feels like bait. and if it’s more than bait, it’s not going anywhere because as you said, it’s too late in the game for them, especially on a show like riverdale. 

also the assumption that it’ll be a love triangle is a stretch to me, tbh. they do soundbites of other relationships to cause short term drama on this show, not real love triangles. and those friendships that are created to stoke the drama? never recover on this show. 

and i’m not interested in the show paying tabitha dust in service of jughead “having more options.” even if it's a mutual hookup, once it's done, the idea that the show will ever write them the same as before feels laughable to me tbh.

ship what you want, doll. you don’t have to justify yourself to me or anyone else. just because i don’t agree doesn’t mean i don’t think you should do what makes you happy.💜

[laurie526]

This response 👏

[charliemeg-deactivated20251212]

[alexzalben]

tabitha and Jughead? I don’t like it... jughead needs a friend right now not a gf, I want him and betty single for at least a bit ://

Total spur of the moment theory, but I wonder if that #tabhead tease was him being presented with another option, and then running back to Betty because that’s what he really wants.

[cheryllclayton]

Let Alex be right

[bugheadchemistry]

HE TOUCHED HER SHOULDER…THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[lurker-no-more]

The way he’s mastered that extremely earnest face, too, lmao.

[chaoticbiquarius-deactivated202]

Chapter Eighty Six: The Pincushion Man

No hate in the comments, please. This is purely for episode tracking purposes.

[bc-jh22]

[phatfatbunny]

They are really interested in those pancakes

[thatiranianphantom]

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS PROMO

Okay, in anticipation of my inbox getting flooded, let me just jot down my thoughts. 

Let’s remember that they have mathematically eliminated all obstacles to Bughead in the last few weeks.

They have studiously refused to show Bughead in any promos, and in very few stills. Even when they do, those still don’t come out until a few days before. 

They have not released any stills for 5.10 though it airs in a week. 

There are a lot of guest stars coming back for 5.10 that were not shown in the promo as well. 

Tabitha being Toni 2.0 and another woman of color as an obstacle to Bughead would be a super bad look. It would also be known to be temporary, and again, not a good look. 

They are purposely holding back on the Bughead plotline. No Bughead in the promo though we know that there is Bughead in the episode. Also, if Twitter is to be believed, as well as a few sources from Tumblr, there’s good Bughead interaction and maybe even a kiss in this coming episode. 

And most importantly:

They’re trolls.

In summation, the Jabitha scene is likely absolutely nothing. We won this week, don’t let their usual trolling harsh the buzz. 

[charliemeg-deactivated20251212]

If you’re going to take a copycat photo maybe try to make sure it’s better than the original 😉

(Not a good look. Just saying.)

[laurie526]

I try to refrain and remain diplomatic but it’s kinda hard at this point, and yes all of this

[oscarisaache]

ANTHONY MACKIE by Pawel Pogorzelki for Entertainment Weekly (2021)