To add in my amazingly sought after Unpopular Opinion™️, I won't be mad if Jabitha were to happen.
Yes, I said it.
Does that make me less of a Bughead fan? I mean, in some eyes maybe?
But also some eyes believe see that baseball is boring and like, we all know that's not the case so like why am I gonna burden myself to care what those "some eyes" believe?
I haven't been watching this season, this ain't news. But from all reports, the only people that have been there for Jughead have been Tabitha and her grandfather. The only person that gave a shit about Jug and his drinking have been...yep, you guessed it - Tabitha.
Not Archie. Not Betty. Not Toni or the rest of the Serpents.
Just the Tates.
And yes, I completely understand how problematic Jabitha may be. But the burden of the RVD writers’ racism isn’t on the Jabitha shippers. How the show treats POC isn’t the fault of the fans of those characters, it’s the fault of that writers room. It’s not on the Toni fans that Toni become a pod person for seasons 3-4, it’s on the writers that write Toni.
And I hate to state the obvious, but like - the show’s racism is so much bigger than Jabitha. It starts in the writers’ room and moves outwards, and we’ve all seen those photos of that writers room.
I’ve seen Jabitha shippers be compared to the Jeronica shipping of s2 (what?) or B*rchie (I swear to God, I’ve never been so offended, DAFUQ?!?!!?) - and I’m sitting here thinking, who the fuck are these people talking to? Almost every Jabitha shipper understands that in the end, it’s going to be Jug and Betty. We know this - this isn’t news. But wanting a simple kiss between Jughead and Tabitha, that’s not the end of the world like some of y’all seem to think it is.