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i was bored on my lunch break today and immediately had to answer this question

here is a list from memory of crime scenes the virals have thrown up at:

katherine heaton’s grave (hi)

jonathan brincefield’s resting place (hi)

where they trespassed onto bull island (tory)

the anne bonny treasure site (shelton)

the gamemaster’s final trap (tory)

where ella disappeared (ben)

where tory disappeared (shelton)

the bolton gym showdown (tory)

honorary mention: ben throwing up at the mere presence of the gamemaster

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don’t make me think about how just months after newt wanted to die and alby saved his life, he had to watch alby choose to end his own life and couldn’t save him

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TAISHAUNAS TALK TO ME

what do you think shauna would’ve done if tai drew the queen of hearts?

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the taishauna finale scene all but confirms the insane depth of their trauma bond and how it all comes back to shauna’s baby.

they’ve kept each other at arm’s length all season but tai has still stuck her neck out to defend shauna at times when it seems even out of place, even when she doesn’t agree with what shauna’s doing.

and we know shauna loathes anyone who won’t bow to her and has an ounce of willpower in the face of her tyranny; see mari and nat. they all know tai would be the last person to ever lay down and take someone’s bullshit, yet she is still the only person there who shauna doesn’t either hate, take advantage of, or feel completely indifferent towards.

like i really think there are layers to tai standing up to shauna and shauna actually backing down. if it was anyone else she would’ve raised the challenge, which always ends in someone getting hurt. it just confirms that she’s unwilling to hurt tai and only tai. her closest friend and the only person she’s ever wholly trusted, the person she saw as her partner in motherhood.

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the leadership mantle among the yellowjackets going from jackie to tai to lottie to nat to shauna is very interesting and should be talked about more

the things that they were able to provide as leaders differs vastly from girl to girl and was based on what the team needed each time

1. at home, they needed jackie’s influence, her people skills, and her uplifting qualities. she was picked out for this role.

2. in the first few months after crashing, they needed tai’s natural leadership, maturity and drive. she filled this role very naturally, without even being asked to.

3. after the failed expedition and laura lee’s death, they needed the faith and hope only lottie provided. this was pure accident, like lottie said, she never wanted to be a leader.

4. after doing the awful thing they did to javi, they needed someone with nat’s lasting goodness/humanity. she was also picked out, chosen and then accepted by (most of) the girls.

5. as things just get harder and more brutal, it was only natural for someone with shauna’s wrath and ruthlessness to dethrone natalie. this was a forced change (even if lottie picked her).

just some food for thought

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although i know that thomas being close to chuck, newt, alby, and minho before the maze was technically a retcon, the fever code (especially when read right before tmr) still adds so much to the reading experience.

like, thomas arrives in the maze and looks at the crowd around him and the people he notices and describes first are those four. his entire life was gone, he was a blank slate, but his subconscious mind still sought out those he knew and loved before, the ones he considered family?????!!!!?? somehow, beyond the swipe and the fresh start, he saw them surrounded by 50 other boys and picked them out. it breaks my heart

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as we see young taishauna's journey continue to unfold, it only grows more tragic.

shauna is at her absolute lowest. she processes grief through rage and just wants to blame anyone else for her loss. and here we see her developing only her 3rd close relationship with anyone out there - melissa.

the first was jackie. someone who, to her, symbolised all of her repressed guilt, longing, desire, shame, jealousy, and more. an unhealthy relationship. shauna had so much love for jackie, so much respect and reverance, but she also felt like jackie overshadowed her, held her down.

and third is melissa, who does the opposite. she's being shauna's absolute lapdog, for lack of a better term, and shauna doesn't respect her. melissa is backing and encouraging and pushing every unhealthy desire and feeling shauna has. making shauna feel like she's finally on top, finally powerful.

tai, the second close relationship shauna found, continues to be the ONLY person who's ever been healthy for her. tai grounded shauna. she showed her love and companionship and support and safety. and protected her and let shauna protect her back. they genuinely loved each other. they were a family. but, like so many parents do after the loss of a child, they fell apart. and while they may still trust each other, still see eye to eye, still back each other up, it can never be the same again. it can never be as pure and loving as it was, because shauna has no love left to give.

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It actually means so much to me that Taissa and Shauna are both canonically wlw and have the closest, most uncomplicated relationship in the show so far.

Like what do you mean those are two queer girls who are each other’s ride or die? What do you mean they basically had a child together because of how involved Tai was and then lost it and thus lost their opportunity to be the parents they could’ve been? Even in the adult timeline when other friendships and relationships are strained, they fall into rhythm with one another and understand each other intimately. They’re stuck living the wrong life. They have spouses they don’t want, children they don’t truly want, because family’s been ruined for them. It was ruined by two tragic girls they can no longer have, and they ruined it for each other because they had a baby. Once upon a time they had a baby who was everything. While that baby was in Shauna’s womb, they had a family.

Throughout everything in every season so far, they’ve had each other’s backs. And the fact that they’re both wlw. The fact that their understanding extends to that. That they have such a deep bond not based on this, but strengthened by it. Like legitimately the love and understanding forged between them over the course of both timelines and between is incomprehensible to me

Anyway I think we as a fandom just need to be more insane about them in any and every context

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one disparity that always stood out to be between teen shauna and adult shauna is how cold she became.

in s1, teen shauna was so warm and earnest, so nurturing and kind and caring. we already knew she had the ability to hurt people (jackie) but that was based on built up resentment, with literally anyone else, she had so much love and kindness to share. and with adult shauna, that seemed completely just… gone. she’s been so cynical, calculating, and cold from the start. she didn’t show any warmth even towards her husband or daughter.

finally that gap is being bridged. it makes complete sense now why she’s like that. s3 teen shauna is now closer to adult shauna than she’s ever been before, just in terms of how she reacts to things, her seeming lack of any close or trusting relationships with anyone.

and i know they already went into this in season 2, with adult shauna reflecting on her broken relationship with callie, and the implications of shauna’s lasting guilt over javi too. but to really see it manifest on screen through teen shauna is so satisfying.

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i legitimately feel insane when i think about taissa's journey with motherhood. tai trying to help shauna carry out her abortion, and getting on her knees to feel the baby move, and holding shauna's hand through the whole birth and then having to be the one to tell her they lost him, and grieve the baby herself, in private, but still keep it together in front of everyone else.

tai wanted to be a mother so badly. and when she finally got the chance years later, the wilderness and the side of her that she can't control took it away from her again.

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i’m gonna further ramble about taishauna’s relationship:

shauna trusts and relies on tai more than she ever did with jackie, her best friend of years. in season two, shauna looks automatically to tai or calls out to her when she’s scared or wants someone to defend her. tai literally becomes her number one person.

and shauna absolutely was one of tai’s priorities in the early season two as well, there are multiple scenes of tai thinking of shauna even while she’s with van. no there wasn’t any romantic entanglement, but tai was quite literally gearing up to be the baby’s parent. she was thinking about and worrying about shauna above all else.

i also saw someone say that she joined lottie’s circles in solidarity with van, but genuinely, desperately prayed to the wilderness when fearing for shauna’s life. the significance of that can’t be understated.

and after the birth, they hardly had any scenes together. they quite literally paralleled grieving parents whose relationship fell apart after a loss. and further, tai had her own moment of grieving the baby, private except for van to see, even though she kept trying to keep it together in front of shauna.

their relationship is my favorite in the show for a number of reasons, but one of them is how genuinely pure it is. tai’s love for shauna and the baby showed the audience a lot about her truly good, nurturing nature, and the way she cares so much about people and is so motivated by love. and this is important, because people are quick to mischaracterize tai as cold, ruthless, and blinded by ambition.

although it was very shauna focused in season two for obvious reasons, this is also reciprocated. their relationship is so based in mutual love and care for each other, as we see shauna protecting and promising to look after tai as well. it’s such a lovely contrast to jackie and shauna, whose relationship was all about obsession and jealousy.

tldr they mean the world to me and i need more of them in season three, in both timelines.

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taishauna were on this journey together and are bound by it in the future timeline.

tai found out about the pregnancy first and was trusted with the secret. tried to help/accompany her through an abortion attempt. touched her belly and got on her literal knees to feel the baby kick. and she was the only person who stayed right next to shauna the whole time and held her hand while she was in labor. and the saddest part ultimately is that she had to be the one to tell her the baby died and who held her and felt that grief with her.

it's almost like they both lost their firstborn and were ever quite able to be the parents, the mothers they SHOULD'VE been when they were actually adults.

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oh the bluenan of it all

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