#old jacky

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

The gal

@ambitiousauthor

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[chloesimaginationthings]

I just know Jackie was the FNAF mimic's favourite

[nihilnovisubsole]

about that game i played over winter break

[vendimeyers]

Marvel: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history

Me:

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe attending Jackie Gleason's birthday party at Toot's Shor in New York, February 1955.

[newwavesylviaplath]

jack schlossberg for vogue (2024)

[beezii]

speedy delivery 🍕

[lottiekilah]

call me crazy or gay but i genuinely think the writers, directors, and hell, even the actors knew what they were doing when it came to how they portrayed shauna and jackie's relationship in the pilot. watching it for the first time, i went in completely blind, with no exposure to the fandom, the ships, or anything beyond the core premise of "a group of teenage girls get stuck in a nightmarish lord of the flies/lost scenario after a plane crash and do crazy shit to survive." i fully anticipated any romance in this show, if at all, to be straight. yet i still saw how they established shauna and jackie and immediately thought "my god, these bitches are gay"

from the very first scene we see of jackie (almost) by herself being her faking an orgasm with jeff, clearly implying that she's disinterested in her own boyfriend, to the very first scene we see of shauna and jackie alone together starting with this rom-com esque image of jackie stepping out of her house while music plays in the background and shauna goes from resting bitch face to all smiles

from the longing stares they give each other in their school gym, to shauna responding to tai's "freeze allie out" proposal simply with, "jackie wouldn't like it"

from the scene of shauna dressing with jackie in her room before the party, her snapping at jackie when she merely suggests that shauna sleep with randy and jackie looking genuinely hurt and apologetic by it, to the infamous party scene where shauna looks on at jackie and jeff longingly��� except, she's only really looking at jackie, because the entire shot is framed around jackie. for the majority of that scene, jeff is barely even in frame, a faded blur in the background, until he puts his arms around jackie and physically puts himself in shauna's line of vision

the way she immediately takes a pained sip of her beer after

the way she turns around to randy flirting with her, only to turn away with a look of disgust on her face (just like how jackie looked disgusted during jeff's attempt at getting her off)

the way she can't pull her eyes off jackie even when jeff is dropping them off, even when she knows she's about to fuck her boyfriend once she's gone

the way she says goodbye to jackie, tells her she loves her, and jackie doesn't say it back, so she asks jeff to say it to her when they have sex

the show sets up their dynamic to be one that feels inherently romantic to first-time viewers, only to flip it on its head when its reveled that shauna's true interest is in... jeff. she's really in love with jeff? the guy who's face we see maybe a couple of times total, that jeff? the guy who's basically a background character the entire episode, that jeff? yeah, i don't buy it

you could argue that the show places so much emphasis on jackie because it's trying to convey that the affair is eating away at shauna. to some extent, i agree with this, but i really doubt that it's only this. it would explain shauna's snappy and, at times, cagey behavior around jackie, but it doesn't explain the way that jackie is framed by the camera, music, or even some of the writing choices. whenever we see jackie through shauna's eyes, the camera is always focused directly on her, often times with her face illuminated brighter than anyone else. the music that plays behind her is shauna's kind of music (both supernova by liz phair, which shauna chooses to listen to in her car's tape deck, and miss world by hole, which undeniably fits her grungey music taste). she's joined at the hip with shauna, even in scenes where she's with jeff– seriously, there's only one scene where she's completely alone with jeff without shauna, and it's that one. and the same goes for shauna

for the entirety of the pilot, they are in a constant state of push and pull with each other, almost all of their actions being dependent on one another. jeff feels like a plot device at best, a character designed to come between them and to be thrown away once they realize who each other's real love interest is. even upon several rewatches, it still feels this way. even in the adult timeline, it still feels this way. we barely see adult jeff, but we feel both jackie's literal absence and her metaphorical presence in the form of shauna's collection of porcelain bunnies

there is so much foreshadowing and detail packed into the pilot that i have a really hard believing that this was just an oversight or mishandling of their relationship on the show's part. do i think there's going to be any kind of big love confession from shauna any time soon? no. but do i think they intentionally laid the groundwork for her to realize the feelings she had for jackie at some point? yes, i really do

[ettadunham]

"My favorite scene to film for Yellowjackets was the fight that Jackie and Shauna have in the finale. Because- Oh, God, it will give me goosebumps. The rehearsal, the first time we did it, and the first time Sophie actually brought it, the first time she actually turned it on. Cause we're kind of lazy actors, we won't do 100% in the rehearsal, neither of us will. But the first time she turned it on and it was like… Whoa. Cause I had never seen Shauna that way. And the power balance, we had no idea what was going to happen, and it just [flipped] so fast. And it was shocking, like flooring. And that is such a special moment. It was really special." - Ella Purnell [x]

[stoicjewel]

Bonus heights below

[hauntedbythenarrative]

I don't even know where you end and I begin

Woman with Dead Child, Käthe Kollwitz//Michael Cunningham//Saudade, John Freeman//Yellowjackets (2021-)

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

Thinking about Old Jacky

The first thing I picture is always old lady who willingly leads other innocent cats to their deaths.

But what if there’s more.

What if she wasn’t expecting to have kits? What if she wasn’t ready?

And what if food was scarce and times were hard, and one of the kits died? And there was so little meat…Jacky had no choice but to feed her remaining kits.

And Jacky became determined to make her daughters thrive. Even if they became horrible monsters, they are still her little girls that she worked so hard to keep alive.

So she allows them to be monsters. Maybe she even encouraged it, believing cruelty would only aid their survival.

Maybe she even started to believe it herself. Trying to play by the rules and be kind cost her kit its life. Trying to be caring lead to feeding her kits their own littermate because what other choice did they have?

But when they were vicious, mean, cruel, they thrived? So she’s mean and cruel, and guess what? They thrive.

And maybe while all her kits were still alive, they tried to hunt on Clan territory and were attacked for it? They could have had meals, just one nice mouse, but no.

Then years later, Clan cats come to her, asking for help. So where does she send them? To her daughters—the vulnerable kits that they had once turned away.

It was justice

@ambitiousauthor

[christiangeistdorfer]

FRANÇOIS CEVERT and JACKIE STEWART at the 1973 BELGIAN GRAND PRIX

[hollisiguess]

claiming my i was a Yellowjackets fan before it got to Netflix ticket while I can

[alvinjrsgun]

was having a good night. remembered that jeff's in the jackieshauna love triangle. remembered that jeff fucking sadecki had sex with shauna dykeman i mean strapman i mean butchman i mean shipman. remembered that jackie never got to actually TAP that in a way that MATTERED cuz if it HAD we wouldn't be HERE!!!!!!!

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe attending a party at Toot's Shor restaurant in New York, February 1955.