#southsideshowcase

“This is normal for you? Running around investigating things which are off, and fixing it? Based off what I just saw, things seemed to get a lot worse before they ever got better. Is there usually that much trouble & crime in your ‘fixing’ of time?”

“Trouble’s just the bits in between,” he deadpanned - Betty had never believed anything less in her life. “You know, for someone who found out time travel and aliens were real 5 minutes ago, you seem to have an unprecedented grasp of the situation. Trust me. There’s usually a lot more disbelief and looking at me like I’m tilting at windmills.”

“A healthy combination of Nancy Drew and reading comics with Archie have prepared me for exactly this moment.”

Silence met her statement as The Doctor, Jughead, he said she could call him, studied her. “You are a singular person, Betty Cooper. Never forget that.”

With that, he headed towards the blue police box - the TARDIS - he both traveled and lived in. (She found it particularly hilarious it was a police box since he spent much of the short time she’d known him at odds with the police.)

“Wait! You’re just going then? Alone? All of time and space, and you’re alone?”

“You’ve met me. Do you think people are lining up to travel around with a weirdo in a box...or that I want them to? I tend to actively shun most people.”

“What about me? Besides, as you’ve said, I have met you, and we made a good team. It could be better with two. Okay?”

He smiled. “Okay.”

It’s summertime on the Southside! Southside Showcase, hosted by @riverdale-events and @serpentcentral, was a creative content event with a focus on characters from the Southside. Creators made edits, fics, and gifs for an assortment of characters and ships. Our 6 themes accrued a total of 29 creations on Tumblr and 9 fics in our AO3 collection.

Thank you so much to all the phenomenal creators who took part in this event! They livened up the Southside! Don’t forget to comment, direct message, like, reblog, character spam your keyboard — whatever your pleasure, just show your appreciation for the talent and time spent by those who participated. Creators are what make fandom so special. And remember, tag #serpentcentral all year long to make sure your Serpent related content is reblogged by @serpentcentral! Now… onto the content!

Fox Forest | fangs, toni, sp, oc | edit | @bugheadsjetty​

Remember | sp x reader | fic | @worriestothewind​

Remember Edit | sp x reader | edit | @worriestothewind​

Camping at Crystal Lake | joarchie | edit | @vanillaflavour81​

This isn’t just a friends thing, right? | joarchie | fic | @vanillaflavour81

True Trio | fangs, toni, sp | gif | @theheavycrown​

Take Care of Our Own | fp x oc | fic | @worriestothewind​

Domestic Kangs | kangs | gif | @jughead-jones

Baking with Sweet Pea | sp | edit | @lonely-full-of-secrets

Sunnyside | jopaz | gif | @jonesandtopaz

I want all of you | bughead | edit | @theheavycrown

Girls Do It Better | tonica | edit | @lilibug--xx​

Ride or Die | swoni | edit | @crashhale

We’ve Been Here Before. | swangs | fic | @sammyxdeanxberry

Car | sp x oc | fic | @rivendell101

without you | sweetbee | fic | @lilibug--xx

i’ma take your girl out | tonica | fic | @lilibug--xx

Coffee Shop | Swughead | edit | @crashhale

The Doctor and the Bobbypins | bughead | edit, fic | @bettysnooper​

King of Hell | bughead | edit | @jughead-jones

Devil’s in the Details | sp x oc | edit | @rivendell101

Devil’s in the Details | fangs x toni | edit | @rivendell101

Devil’s in the Details | reggie, midge | edit | @rivendell101

Devil’s in the Details | bughead | edit | @rivendell101

Motorin’ | bughead | edit, fic | @sunshinebunnie

You Drive Me Crazy (but I’m gonna keep on loving you) | bughead | fic | @lovedinapastlife

Pretty Poisons AU | oc | edit | @bugheadsjetty

Show me your darkness | bughead | edit | @themaddestofall

a sweet pea x betty au oneshot, that may or may not be part of something else I'm working on.

for southside showcase theme four: the bunker!

this lovely gif header was made by @theheavycrown who also beta'd for me! she is multi-talented, clearly, and I love her. I was very inspired by royal's music video for vessel and this fic sprouted from that. enjoy!

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Life was not a fairytale.

She didn't expect grand gestures or a knight in shining armor. And as much as she liked to akin her mother to a witch, she wasn't.

But for him to show up at her door after so long, well, it stole her breath all the same. He always did like to call her princess.

~ At the Whyte Wyrm ~

Sweet Pea: You’ve played before right. *handing you a cue stick*

Y/n: *mutters* Technically. *takes cue*

Joaquin: Meaning?

Y/n: Last time I played I hit the ball too hard, and almost hit my friend right in the boob.

southside showcase → day one: twilight drive-in 

“Sweet Pea.” 

Looking up as his eyebrows knitted together, beanie-boy was the very picture of confusion. “What?”

“My name’s Sweet Pea,” he said with a shrug. 

Beanie-boy raised an eyebrow, pulling his hands away from the tangled film. “Jughead.” 

Sweet Pea must have pulled a face, because he continued. 

“You really going to throw stones from that glass house when you’re named after a flower?”

Arms crossing over one another, Sweet Pea shrugged a shoulder lazily. “Guess we got similar problems.”

"Your last name is Keller, right?"

"Yeah how did you know that?"

Fangs was yawning as he walked down the Southside High's hallways, tired after the previous night's late night show at the Twilight when he saw his hazel eyed friend leaning against the lockers.

"Yo! DeSantos!" Fangs called out only to be met with silence.

"DeSANTOS!" He tried again.

Shaking his head he walked towards his greasy haired friend who was smiling stupidly at his phone.

"Joaquin!" Fangs shook the other serpent by his shoulders to bring him back to earth.

"Oh hey Fangs!" Joaquin said startled. "Sorry I was just...." He looked down at the phone in his hands and Fangs swore that he saw him blush a little.

"What got you all smiley this morning, huh?" Fangs teased.

"Oh no nothing...erm just came across this cool meme--"

"Oh come on Joaquin, it's no secret that you hate memes. You are that one fucktard of our group who doesn't know how to respect memes so stop lying" Fangs accused.

"Am not! Since you guys keep babbling about how good memes are, I thought I might give it a try" Joaquin countered as he awkwardly shrugged and scratched the back of his neck.

Fangs narrowed his eyes skeptically and then exclaimed excitedly.

"Ohmygod, there's a boy!"

"What? no!" Joaquin quickly denied

"Oh yes, you always scratch the back of your neck when you're lying. TELL ME MORE!"

"No I don't and there is no boy. Back off Fogarty" Joaquin snapped

"There is." Fangs continued, unfazed.

"No"

"Yes"

"No"

"Yes"

"No"

"YES"

"ye-NO"

"Ha!" Fangs high-fived himself. "I knew it. I knew you were hooking up last night when you went to get popcorn and returned like 2 light-years later."

"Our greasy boy is finally getting laid" Fangs gushed.

Joaquin just shook his head at his overly proud friend and made his way away from him and walked towards his next class. Fangs ran to catch up with him while continuously nagging about the Joaquin's new 'love interest'.

"Don't you have a class to attend?" Joaquin asked frustrated.

"Aww, look at this love sick boy" Fangs said into the air. "so lost in thoughts that he even forgot that we have chemistry together" Fangs teased again deliberately pressing on the word 'chemistry'.

Joaquin just rolled his eyes and proceeded inside the apparent chemistry lab.

The corners of the lab were tainted black due to the numerous chemical explosions that took place there courtesy of Sweet Pea. At the back, the Ghoulies were hurdled up, smoking pot--in the chemistry lab of all places-- and laughing loudly.

Joaquin and Fangs looked at each other and sighed. They were surprised that the Ghoulies were actually going to attend a class after all.

"Hello students" Mr. Saltzman's voice rung through the lab making the students hurry into their respective stalls. Joaquin went and sat at his usual secluded corner while Fangs went to sit beside a Ghoulie-glaring Sweet Pea.

"I see the royalties decided to join us today" Mr Saltzman commented upon seeing the Ghoulies.

"What can we do Mr Saltzman? Our love for you is endless" Bucky-one of the Ghoulies-spoke up. "Besides, You are the only teacher who still lets us in their class."

"And then you ask why I question my life choices" Mr Saltzman muttered to himself.

"Anyways, since you are so enthusiastic about giving education a chance, why don't you start on with the class today? Read us on from where we left off on Friday?" He asked Bucky "oh wait, you were probably stoned on Friday, and on Thursday and Wednesday and literally every other day of your existence, much like your education."

At that, Bucky's smile vanished and his expression replaced with an angry and somewhat embarrased one.

Mr Saltzman deadpanned at the group, already used to their antics and turned to the rest of the chucking class.

"Mr DeSantos, why don't you do the honors today?" He asked before he turned towards the board and writing down the heading.

"Mr DeSantos?" He asked again upon not receiving a response from the serpent.

Fangs looked up from doodling in his book to see Joaquin dreamily stare at his closed book with a small smile on his face. Fangs smirked knowing what was up.

"Joaquin!" Mr Saltzman exclaimed just like Fangs did not too long ago.

Joaquin jumped up slightly from his chair, startled by the shrill sound of his name being called out by his teacher.

"Uh y-yes ma-...sir?" He questioned, lost to the happenings in his surroundings.

"What's in the Dreamland for us today? Disney princess or lesbian porn?" Mr Saltzman sassed causing the classroom to erupt in chuckles for the second time that day.

"Spare him today Mr Saltzman" Fangs smirked from his seat in the middle back. "Someone's got his brain a little too pre-occupied today"

The class once again erupted into a series of 'ohh' and teasing whistles as Joaquin sunk further into his chair.

"Quiet!" Mr Saltzman shouted, frustrated. "Now, Mr DeSantos, if we are finally back on Earth again, could you summarise what we did before the weekend?"

"Sure eh sir" Joaquin answered awkwardly before picking up his book.

He narrated the synopsis of how carbon particles form a covalent bond instead of an ionic one due to their incapability of losing or gaining ions.

While the Ghoulies engaged the class with an acute comparison between carbon particles and a reproductively infertile person, Fangs caught Joaquin glaring angrily at him and turns to look the other way when he saw Fangs looking.

Fangs panicked internally. He knew he fucked up. He shouldn't have teased Joaquin in front of the whole class especially when he didn't know if what he guessed was true.

After the class, Joaquin quickly gathered up his things and bolted out of the classroom.

"Joaquin!" Fangs ran out after him hot on his heals, leaving a confused Sweet Pea behind.

"Joaquin! Listen up!" No response. "WAIT UP DeSANTOS!"

"come on! JOAQUIN!" Fangs grabbed his serpent jacket in an attempt to stop the raging bullet.

"WHAT!?" Joaquin angrily turned to face Fangs almost knocking him over.

"What do you want fangs? The details of my rendezvous with a 'someone' hmm?" Joaquin sassed, furious.

"Dude, come on! It was just a joke. Why are you getting so upset?" Fangs tried to reason.

"Because no one can know and it's none of your fucking business!" He whisper-yelled.

"Okay one, ouch and two, what do you mean no one can know?" Fangs inquired.

"Yoo-hoo" Joaquin sing-songed. "I JUST said, it's none of your business"

"Joaquin come on, you're worrying me now. You almost never get angry and right now you're furious in-spite of knowing that I was joking." Fangs rambled on "You always tell me about stuff and now you're saying it's 'none of my business'? Well yes sir, it is absolutely my business and you know what? I'm definitely not going to stop bugging you until---"

"His name is Kevin Keller" Joaquin sighed.

"---you tell me who-- wait, Kevin Keller? As in Sheriff Keller's Keller?" Fangs asked shocked.

Joaquin nodded.

"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND!?"

Joaquin jumped up and sealed Fangs' mouth with his palm, looking around to see of anyone heard him.

"Quiet!" He whispered sharply. "Now you see why no one can know?"

Fangs straightened up and and jerked Joaquin's hand from his mouth.

"No shit, Sherlock" he huffed. " What were you thinking? Seriously, of all the jerks you could choose from, you chose the town sheriff's son while being part of a motherfucking gang!?"

"Well, don't blame me! You wanted to know, now you know." Joaquin shrugged.

"Wasn't riding a motorbike, carrying a knife in your pocket while wearing leather 24x7, getting a huge ass snake tattoo and hanging out in a bar full of drunkards all at 16 enough rebel for you?"

Joaquin deadpanned, severely regretting telling him anything.

"Does he even know that you're a serpent?" Fangs inquired.

"Of course he does. I have a 'huge ass snake tattoo' remember? He promised he won't tell if I won't."

"And you believe that?"

"Yes I do. And you are not going to question that" Joaquin stated.

"Have you totally lost it, DeSantos? He is fucking sheriff's son! It's written 'beware' in block letters on a big red sign board on his head!" Fangs exaggerated.

Joaquin looked around to check again if anyone was eavesdropping or intrigued with Fangs' not so subtle behavior.

"Look, I- FP put me upto this. He needs to keep an eye on the sheriff for..." he hesitated "....for some reason I don't know of. He's planning on doing that through his son and asked me get on his good side." Joaquin whispered.

"FP put you upto this?" Fangs asked, confused.

"Yes. Now please would you drop this and promise to never mention it to anyone. Just you and me okay? Or else FP will roast me alive." Joaquin said sincerely.

"Yeah yeah don't worry about it" Fangs sighed, casually shrugging off his friend.

"Fangs no." Joaquin looked Fangs in the eye as he firmly held him by his shoulder. "You don't understand. You can't tell anyone. Not even Sweet Pea or Toni. This is important okay? No one means no fucking one. Got it?"

"Yeah, jeez Joaquin" Fangs started as he noticed Joaquin's worried expression.

"Oh god okay, I hereby solemnly promise that this secret stays between the sonority and no outsider would know about it, even if they threaten to feed me to Godzilla." Fangs said in all seriousness.

Joaquin's eyes softened and he burst out laughing. "I'll take your word on that Fogarty"

He turned around to leave as Fangs voice teasingly called from behind.

"By the way, you don't have to blush everytime he texts, you know. FP won't know, trust me"

Joaquin threw a middle finger over his shoulder as he started walking faster in the opposite direction, desperately trying to hide the red creeping on his cheeks and the involuntary smile on his lips.

"Damn you're screwed, DeSantos"

"Joaquin and I used to hang out. He talked about you all the time."