There are big events coming and going on Riverdale!
We’ve extended the BFFAs and BRRR but your last chance is this week!
Vote for your favorite creators and fics in the 8th Bughead Fanfiction Awards. Voter turnout is very low so we’re giving it just this laaaast bit. If you haven’t voted, now is the time. And if you have voted, remember, you can vote up to 3 times and there IS a “no selection” option in every category. Make sure to vote now!
Signup for the Bughead Review Round Robin—AU edition! Rec and read Bughead fics set in alternate universes. Your fic recs can be favorites or ones you want to read—you don’t have to have read your recs! Read and support fandom authors with other Bughead lovers. Find all the info and sign up form here!
Riverdale Bingo is back for its first 2021 round!
The admin of @riverdalebingo , @sweetwaterprincess , has provided more options this time! Mini cards, standard cards, general prompts, nsfw prompts, combo prompts—pick how you’d like to play and get creating! This challenge is OPEN NOW and runs through November 15, 2021 and any kind of creative content is welcomed. Learn more about out how Riverdale Bingo works and sign up for a card here!
We’ve returned from the longest hiatus in Riverdale history, so leap back in with your fav creators and characters! They’ve missed you!
To everyone who make this fucking fandom worth it. Thank you for voting for me in the BFFA this round! Two of my fics have been nominated and I can’t believe it! I love this fandom so much and you guys are the best! I am honestly floored that someone nominated not one but two of my fics and just wow! Thank you!!!! I am so honored! I haven’t been as active as much mainly do to school, but I my fics haven’t been forgotten! Thank you to everyone who has read my stories and have stuck by me through the long updates! Just thank you thank you thank you!
"Me has secado las lágrimas,
me conoces enamorada y rompiendome la madre tratando de olvidar, también.
Hemos bebido para celebrar algo que creíamos imposible,
y también lo hemos hecho porque sentimos que nuestra vida es una completa mierda.
Me he comportado como tú mamá cuando estas haciendo algo que no es correcto para lograr tus metas, y tú lo haces de vez en cuando conmigo.
Una más vale madre que otra.
Las dos igual de locas,
pensando que el mundo se puede cambiar sí nosotros lo queremos.
Hemos comido en una misma mesa,
reído, jugado he incluso dormido juntas.
Mi hermana, mi mejor amiga, mi cómplice.
Has estado cuando el resto del mundo me dio la espalda,
no siempre de acuerdo con mis decisiones pero apoyandome sí es que me hacen feliz.
No me juzgas.
Te ríes sí me caigo
pero siempre,
siempre me levantas.
Nos hemos visto ebrias hasta el punto de llorar, vomitar,
y bailar con algún tipo que no conocemos pero lo hace bien.
Conocemos nuestros secretos más oscuros,
conoces a aquel tipo innombrable con él que anduve, pero que nadie sabe porque arruinaria mi reputación.
¿Sabes que?
Soy la más afortunada.
Tengo a la mejor amiga de todo el puto mundo.
Y quien diga lo contrario,
es porque aún no te conocen a ti.
Gracias por las aventuras,
aún nos faltan llenar muchos más álbumes con fotografías de nosotros sonriendole al mundo simplemente
porque somos las locas que luchamos por intentar cambiarlo."
I just woke up to a message that i’m nominated in the gif category of the bffa and i’m literally sdfkjfkfjfg rn so idk who did that but thank you??? the nomination it’self is literally the sweetest thing on the planet.
Hii. um I kinda have a question. I know you have a hand in most, if not all, the Riverdale Events and I was just wondering if you and the other creators of these events have had a thought of doing something like the Bughead Awards but for the Serpents? If not that's fine, I know how busy you all are with the other events you Create.
Hey there, nonny! Sending 💜💜 your way. I’m sorry for the late response! I wanted to give it a thought out and honest answer, because it’s a multifaceted one. It is true, @bettysnooper, @jughead-jones, and I are the ones behind a lot of events. There are some we aren’t involved in and some only one or two of us are. @bettysnooper and I, especially, like to keep our Riverdale plate overfull. Sometimes that plate is so full that our other plates get knocked off the table of our lives. When @bettysnooper labeled her blog with fandom cruise director, she wasn’t kidding (haha). With all that, we’ve tried to take on some Serpent exclusive stuff in the past. Now, this answer is going to be very in-depth and long. I want to give it the sort of thorough and frank answer it deserves. If you’re interested in knowing more, it’ll be under the cut.
@jughead-jones and I had seriously thought about doing an overall Riverdale Awards that had a section for the Serpents, Varchie, Parentdale, etc, etc, and so on and so forth a while back. Unfortunately, as it would be a rather large undertaking, our best plans fell to the wayside and it never got off the ground. Since that time she’s taken a huge part in other fandoms as well as this one, joining an insane number of source blogs and communities and becoming the gif queen we know and love. As such, she has taken on a role that is active when we need her (she is a gem with doing headers and helping us brainstorm when we need her) but a supporting one to @bettysnooper and I during other times.
That being said, one of the factors here is that the Bughead Fanfiction Awards in particular take @bettysnooper and I a huge amount of time — particularly in the nomination eligibility checks phase. Doing something like that across all of fandom where we don’t have a full range of knowledge and familiarity would be incredibly difficult, not to mention stressful. In the Serpent section in particular, so many of the fics are exclusively on Tumblr. I don’t even know where we’d start. I think given the depth of content that we aren’t familiar with and our overall time commitments being allocated to Riverdale fandom wide events, it would be unwise for us to try to juggle in a Serpent Awards or a Riverdale Awards. Honestly, we push ourselves way too far sometimes and don’t give our mental health proper care.
Furthermore, I’ve got to be frank, we haven’t had much luck in our endeavors with Serpent fandom exclusive stuff, despite our best efforts. We have put on a Serpent/Southside exclusive event with @riverdale-events Southside Showcase. Unfortunately, this year it got very little participation from the Serpent section of fandom. We made sure to include OC’s, reader inserts, all the Serpents, we really put a lot of thought into planning it and a lot of effort into managing to schedule it into the year of events. There were definitely a few people who took part! They are awesome and they know who they are! But it didn’t seem like there was much of an interest from that corner of fandom as a whole. It’s actually the event we have had the lowest participation in, by far, in the history of running the events.
We’ve noticed the same thing with the @serpentcentral blog. We really love the Serpent characters and the content that the creators in that fandom make, so we set out to make a source blog exclusively for those fans (who we really enjoy and are so damn talented!) We put out content from the blog and we reblog (what posts we can find) content created by and for the Serpent side of fandom, including OC’s. However, the #serpentcentral tag next to never gets used by that part of the fandom.
Given those things, I really don’t think that us doing a Serpent Awards would end up getting the participation required, even if we could put in the time. The terribly low participation in Southside Showcase and the lack of utilization of serpentcentral has been really discouraging. I know there are people in the Serpent fandom who HAVE been amazingly supportive and participatory (you all know who you are!!). I can’t say enough how much we adore and appreciate those individuals. They are the reason I got so invested in the Serpent characters — their talent and passion is inspiring. It definitely seems like you, nonny, would fall into that group of people. Your ask was very kind, thoughtful, and understanding. In return, I wanted to give it a full and respectful answer.
SO, all that being said, we would 500% be up for sponsoring a Serpent Awards event if anyone wants to put one on. We could make sure that it gets reblogged to our source blogs (of which there are a number) regularly and we’d help promote it. We would would be up for giving whoever ran it our general google doc/spreadsheet framework for how we run an awards session as well as advising on google forms and initial tumblr event posts and such. We think it would be GREAT if there was a Serpent Awards, and we would be more than happy to lend our aid in the above ways, but running something like that ourselves just isn’t something that we are up for adding to our plates right now. If you, or anyone else, is seriously interested in running those awards (and we’d suggest at least a two person team as well as a person willing to make graphics), please, definitely hit us up! We would help how we can and cheer you on.
Thank you for your ask, nonny, and thank you for being respectful, kind, and understanding. For anyone who has made it this far, we hope you understand our position. We look forward to seeing what is to come for the Serpent community and will be hanging out with our cheerleader pom poms, shaking them for the creators. Cheers! XO
