#j*bitha

[thetaoofbetty]

On Erinn's new interview they asked her about J*bitha and I can’t help but notice the curious choice of words, she said: "their relationship has been a fun one to explore" don’t know at what point of filming any of them are but the use of past tenses recently (also from lili saying she’s glad BA got to be explored) and vague responses seem like the end of these couples might actually be sooner than we think.

i don't know what episode they're on but i think it's in the higher teens by now. maybe 17? or just finished 17? some of the responses have felt fairly very restrained for a show that's made a big deal about teasing b/a or a love triangle every season tbh.

they're all being really polite and professional (outside of kj just saying what he wants, that man has been known to be spoilery for years now, ha) which i expect but they're also not really playing any of these ships up. a lot of what's been said about b/a i think has all been roberto talking points in the past. but i do think it's getting to the point where it's going to be a thing to tease the old ships soon-ish? both kj and cami talked up varchie, and i saw that vanessa was talking about choni in the future having hope. tangs has definitely gotta be on its way out and i'm not sure they'd have choni date before they deal with the bb anthony custody thing or while cheryl is in her dealing with her ancestors phase. i can see them working together and then dating again.

i can also see that for the other couples as well, tbh.

i mean, it's one thing not to say negative things about a ship, no one was going to do that but it's another to not play up the romance we're supposed to be seeing on the screen. there was no need to tease it, this paleyfest wasn't for next season. we're currently watching it and they still hedged. that seems pretty 👀 to me.

[crazymisscarly]

You're not allowed to do jabitha anyway so why even add that 😂

I definitely misread the original promptathon post cause I was just excited about promptathons lol there’s several things I had in my initial post that were ‘wrong’. I tried to fix them up through edits but alas people have reblogged my original post and edits don’t show up in reblogs. I’ve never done something like this before so I’ll probably get several things wrong, and likely more than once. This promptathon seems to be all about Bughead and Varchie, but also possibly Choni and Kangs, so I doubt I’ll get any Jabitha requests anyway. Either way there’s no reason I can’t include my specifications, I like Jughead and Tabitha as friends so I’d respond to friend-related prompts involving them :) but I’m not here to be writing anything about them as a ship, even if its a flashback or something that helps explain a bigger Bughead-central fic (because they did have a ‘slight’ blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment in my season 5 au but Jughead wasn’t keen as he was a single father and Tabitha wasn’t looking for commitment).

Same goes for the other current riverdale ships. I did my time in the Barchie trenches in chapter 4 of Our Story’s Not Over and have thereby written the only fraction of a fic involving those two as a ‘pairing’ that I’m willing to write (they ended things after a few short paragraphs as friends, then the next time we see Archie he has heart eyes for Veronica) so I’m not going to include any further writings about that ship, even if it’s requested in a prompt for the purpose of writing it in a ‘betty reminiscing about how she hooked up with archie long before she married Jughead’ way. Reggie in my AUs is not particularly interested in Veronica, so I’m not interested in feeding that flame either.

I’ll do Betty/Archie, Reggie/Veronica, and Jughead/Tabitha FRIEND fics though, so far as those friendships relate to my already written fanfics :) Tabitha and Jughead, for example, bonded over the mothman craziness in Writers in the Woods but it didn’t get as deep as it could have because that was mainly a Jarchie friendship/Bughead fic. So idk I’d be open to writing more about those two pals if that’s what the people want :) (anything like that will have a bughead focus for the promptathon, but if you want to see more of them outside of this event I’m open to prompts for random purposes too).

Anyway, I hope that answered your question as to why I included ‘no Jabitha’ in my promptathon post :)

[bugheadchemistry]

@anti betty anon - I deleted your ask. I’m tired and I don’t feel like listing out all the reasons you are wrong. If you don’t ship Bughead any more…fine. If you ship J*bitha now…also fine. Just don’t come to my ask box and blame Betty for everything that went wrong in their relationship.