#sh chapter 5

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havent played the new sh chapter but . something something sybil sacrificing her daughters to herself (?) something something feeding cats to coyotes tweet????

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Chapter 5 done! Man this really takes me forever 😅 My apologies @onceuponamirror but hey at least I didn’t leave ya hanging in the middle of a chapter for weeks this time, so progress? 

Thoughts:

This chapter had me so invested in Betty’s internal struggles, confusion, loneliness etc and the friendships that I completely forgot about my desperate need for answers in regards to the birthday party and basically everything to do with the parents. which tbh is saying something because i. just. want. to. know. And I mean that in itself is a compliment too right? But yeah anyway I really really loved this chapter, it is my favorite Betty chapter so far. My little sister is turning 17 in a few weeks and she’s been talking to me a lot about questioning her relationship with certain friends, not feeling like she belongs/feeling alone, uncertainty about the future, general existential anxiety etc etc this past week especially. And so reading this chapter now it really strikes me how well you have captured all of that. The growing pains of a teenaged girl. And of course the way it is tied to the world you have created is done really well. One foot on each side with no existing middle ground. Everyone judging Betty and having expectations of her. Not being given the space to grow into the person she wants to be, or even to figure out who that person may be. The stubbornness of everyone around her to just stay stagnant, and not accepting, understanding or even just seeing that Betty might want different things. Uuugh it makes me so sad and frustrated for her. 

The more involved with the Serpents Toni gets the more the gap between them widens, and it really is during that age especially that you realize that just because you grew up together doesn’t mean you’ll be friends forever, people grow apart, and grow in different ways. At the same time the Northside is showing Betty what she could have if she allowed herself to. Like the relationship with Veronica, and I’m so happy about this, because it’s a completely blank slate and she can just be herself with someone who too knows her recent loneliness. It’ll be really interesting to see how the Toni, Betty and Veronica triangle will develop. It reminded me of a love triangle since her lie to Toni about who she was talking to felt lowkey like cheating. But then again Toni hasn’t been too honest either. And what is up with Toni and Polly? I feel like something’s going on that they aren’t telling her, and is that related to the Cheryl plan? And what is the whole Cheryl situation? Polly is really interesting to see what you’ve done/will do with her since we don’t actually get that much of her in the show. And of course the scene in the library was sooo cute omg. It was amazing. It’s really lovely how they’re starting to interact, their banter, slowly opening up and maybe soon allowing themselves to acknowledge the budding feelings. But really as I’ve said before you’ve built this world where bughead to me is secondary to Betty and Judhead’s own individual stories. 

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Beyond what she’d already said about her, Toni would absolutely hate Veronica on principle, and would be likely baffled to hear of Betty willingly engaging in conversation with a girl like a Lodge, and that’s just not an argument Betty feels like defending herself against.

I am really digging the exploration of the friendship dynamics, why people grow apart, why people become friends etc etc. I gotta say even though it is in character I am so frustrated by the hating someone on principle. The fact that it has to be an argument, that all of Betty’s choices have to be. How exhausting. 

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Betty snickers under her breath; this is, after all, one of the things she figured out she likes about Veronica, her willingness to call herself out.

Too bad she forgot about that on the show..

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“It’s trash, but it’s our trash,”

all of us @ riverdale 

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“Feels farther,” she says finally, in a bruised, buried voice

the distance between who they want to be, where the want the future to take them keeps on increasing. truly a sucky part of the whole coming of age process drifting apart from old relationships and the ideas you used to have. 

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It’s ten miles, at most

honestly thanks so much for this, makes everything easier to imagine with a rough idea of distance

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“Well, you were on the other side of town,” Toni says quietly, and Betty realizes that this is the real answer.