One of my favorite True Facts about Riverdale is that Betty has a fake gay serial killer brother, not to be confused with Betty's real brother who is in fact also gay and a serial killer (and is married to the fake one).

Hes a video cam giggalo, a webcam boy, a cyber trick!

istg i’ll take this ship to my fuckin grave

Riverdale Yearbook Page 16! Da final one for the archie characters (until they start announcing new ones for 2023, like they did with the first two on this page, yay.

Jola Kitt,Cassie Cloud, Grace Alondra, Amanda "Allegra" Monta, Destiny Jones, Marcy McDermott, Whitney Lodge, Harper Lodge, Eliza Han, Oliver Mantel, Alister Owens, "Chic" Charlies Cooper, Polly Cooper and Dexter Howard!!

(in my mind Alister is on Mary's side so he has her maden name)

And (for now,) that is the Archie section done!!!!!

chicles as "roommates" in 50s Riverdale please

Supernatural Chicles au:

After Polly's death the spin-off Blossoms manage to flee. Chic and Charles steal Cheryl's car and kidnap the twins to find their mother's murderers and slay them.

They end up hunting them across the country for months and years. The twins grow up between cheap motels and the back seat. Charles ends up with his old fbi badge and ton of fake ones. Chic invests into a decent red wig to pull off Jason Blossom stunts whenever a legal parent for the twins is needed.

The twins learn about the mothmen that killed their mother and about how the mean child protection lady (they later found blood-soaked in their motel bathroom) was an evil vampire.

They learn they alone stand between us and the forces of darkness. It's the family business.

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ♥️

Thank you!!!!!!

This should be interesting since the bulk of my fic writing is in a Google doc that shall never see the light of day and it's concept would take too long to explain, but I can still come up with 5. (also hope ur ready for 3 out of 5 to be owl house bc my brainrot is too strong)

three may keep a secret (if two are dead) - I can't help myself putting this at the top. I had way too much fun writing the Collector and I just find Belos to be such a fascinating villain to explore. Hermit kills brother and spends 400 years trying to kill all witches and also somehow becomes emperor of witches? Man's got centuries of damage and I am here for it

my faith in this world is a bottle of nothing - Though I've come to accept what canon has given us with Chic, I still think the backstory I came up with was better. And tbh there's no reason the two can't coexist. Chic has a long history of abuse and eventually snaps, meets Charles who has also snapped from years of abuse, and they become a happy murder couple. Name a more romantic story, I'll wait.

half sick of shadows - Another backstory fic utterly destroyed by canon, but at least this canon writes my boy well. Though we now know Hunter's a magic clone of Belos' brother and thus never had a family, I still like what I was able to do with his character here. I liked being able to explore the beginnings of the abuse he suffered from Belos, and the way it impacted how he tries to present himself as the Golden Guard. I liked looking into Belos going so far as to pick the least supportive adults possible for Hunter to interact with and to get rid of any that show the slightest concern for his well being. Maybe after the show's done I'll put these ideas in a more canon compliant fic.

a hardly used lemon - So this is in a Google Doc (not the same one mentioned above) bc if my fiction workshop professor from 2017 asks it's not fanfic, but it is, it's fanfic I tricked my whole class into reading. More specifically, it's a backstory fic for Wheeler from Captain Planet, based around the ideas I've had for a reboot. This was written before any of the other fics here, and through workshopping it for months I feel I really grew as a writer and even developed some personal flair. Basically it's the blueprint for everything else here.

it's a hard knock life - didn't post it on AO3 (or title it till now) bc it's a word vomit I made right after hollow mind, but I still like it. It's a much more canon compliant backstory for Hunter but like half sick of shadows, I liked being able to tacitly explore his and Belos' relationship by going back to the very beginning. Belos might not show up till the very end, but I feel like really emphasizing that Hunter had no one before Belos "found him" really helps in understanding his codependency. I also liked exploring how vulnerable Hunter's status in the society of the Boiling Isles was as a powerless witchling with no family, basically our equivalent of a disabled child in the foster care system. I also like to make myself sad thinking about Hunter spending the first eight years of his life believing whatever family he had abandoned him and then all of a sudden finding out he's the long lost nephew of the Emperor and just waiting to lose it all bc it's too good to be true and trying so hard to prove himself worthy of being related to the Emperor and years later finding out he's just someone's clone and it never mattered how hard he tried Belos was eventually gonna kill him like the other Golden Guards and I should stop now huh

Back on my batshit.

Next in this self indulgent series is Chic NotCooper.

Series: Love Songs for Riverdale

Chic “Cooper”’s song is Sleepwalker by The Kinks

I just can’t get this image out of my head of Chic smiling and just genuinely enjoying being a total psychopath. Totally self actualized. I love it.

Ph. Corinne Day

Discontinued Anthropomorphic Animal Doll Lines

Peteena the Pampered Poodle (Hasbro, 1966) | Pinkie Cooper and the Jet Set Pets (The Bridge Direct, 2013)

Gorgeous Creatures (Mattel, 1979) | Club Chic (Vivid Imaginations, 2014)

French Kitty Ooh La La (Madame Alexander, 2005) | Catwalk Kitties (Lanard, 2005) 

"Stop at Archie's Restaurant"

"Plan of Battle" in Archie Giant Series #224, September 1974, written by Frank Doyle, art by Dan DeCarlo (pencils) and Rudy Lapick (inks)

There was an actual Archie's Restaurant as seen in, among other promo stories, Life with Archie #136, August 1973 (Frank Doyle, Harry Lucey, Chic Stone)

Riverdale really has a thing with making the culprits to the mysteries be obvious choices while also having their motives come completely out of nowhere.

Bad Marks

Casual drop of the "g" ceases to be allowed.

Okay. So Jughead tells Archie the score he received for a big nasty test -- a 66 -- and then overhears Mr. Weatherbee and teachers commenting that they're going to make an example of him, so Archie hyper-ventilates.

All for naught. Jughead saw the score upside down. The teachers reward him for an outstanding 99. And Archie is annoyed that Jughead almost lead him to commit suicide.

Or run away to the 49th state. Whichever.

Okay riverdale I'll take this 1955 throw back IF you give me the entire Cooper family alive and like they don't even need to be well Polly can still be a teen mom (the scandal!) and Chic/Charles can be hiding his sexuality even though everyone knows and Betty can be doing whatever but like gimme gimme gimme

Preacher [S1:E4] Monster Swamp