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I hear your 'theo mentions some horrific bit of past trauma causually' HC and I raise you Liam causually mentioning Theos' past trauma in front of others. Playing 'never have I ever' and Liam goes "never have I ever lost 3 internal organs" and the packs like ?1!?!? while Theo goes 'I don't think it counts as losing them if I know where they are.' "put your fucking finger down I know you have no idea where your kidney went."

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let it be known Theo grabbed Liam’s upper arm and it ended up on his wrist in this second clip

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hi everyone, i’m even more upset about yellowjackets today and no one in my personal life watches it or is caught up and i’m going insane and need somewhere to put these thoughts.

!spoilers! obviously

first and most importantly, the fact that the show chose to focus its most grotesque and dehumanizing violence on mari—one of the few surviving women of color the show actually seemed to bother writing for (besides tai, obviously)—is just so deeply upsetting. it plays directly into racist horror tropes, especially the historical connotations of cutting a black or brown woman’s hair as a form of dominance, humiliation, or erasure. it wasn’t shocking in the way the show clearly thought it was. it was just appalling or horrific (and i know im watching a show about cannibalism but with the nature of mari’s death as well it felt cruel and excessive and was not needed)

what they did in the finale is such a betrayal of what made yellowjackets compelling in the first place. it was always about the group—the blurred lines between survival, trauma, and collective madness—not pinning it all on one person like some cartoon villain origin story. trying to make shauna the scapegoat completely erases the nuance. like… what happened to the slow descent into shared monstrosity? that’s what made it powerful.

and it hurts even more because yellowjackets had so much potential. it was supposed to be about girlhood, survival, collective trauma, and the monstrous power of shared secrets. it was supposed to hold space for grief. and instead, they’ve turned it into a vehicle for shock value that actively erases the most marginalized characters and distorts the complex morality that originally made the show worth watching.

and none of it matches what we were shown in season 1’s adult timeline. if shauna really did all that? it changes the entire tone of every adult interaction. but they’re not recontextualizing anything—they’re contradicting it. it feels like a cheap twist pretending to be “bold storytelling,” and instead of letting things simmer the way the show used to, they’re just cranking up the shock factor and losing everything that made it layered.

we deserved better as viewers. and mari—hell, all of them—deserved better from the narrative.

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hi everyone, i’m even more upset about yellowjackets today and no one in my personal life watches it or is caught up and i’m going insane and need somewhere to put these thoughts.

!spoilers! obviously

first and most importantly, the fact that the show chose to focus its most grotesque and dehumanizing violence on mari—one of the few surviving women of color the show actually seemed to bother writing for (besides tai, obviously)—is just so deeply upsetting. it plays directly into racist horror tropes, especially the historical connotations of cutting a black or brown woman’s hair as a form of dominance, humiliation, or erasure. it wasn’t shocking in the way the show clearly thought it was. it was just appalling or horrific (and i know im watching a show about cannibalism but with the nature of mari’s death as well it felt cruel and excessive and was not needed)

what they did in the finale is such a betrayal of what made yellowjackets compelling in the first place. it was always about the group—the blurred lines between survival, trauma, and collective madness—not pinning it all on one person like some cartoon villain origin story. trying to make shauna the scapegoat completely erases the nuance. like… what happened to the slow descent into shared monstrosity? that’s what made it powerful.

and it hurts even more because yellowjackets had so much potential. it was supposed to be about girlhood, survival, collective trauma, and the monstrous power of shared secrets. it was supposed to hold space for grief. and instead, they’ve turned it into a vehicle for shock value that actively erases the most marginalized characters and distorts the complex morality that originally made the show worth watching.

and none of it matches what we were shown in season 1’s adult timeline. if shauna really did all that? it changes the entire tone of every adult interaction. but they’re not recontextualizing anything—they’re contradicting it. it feels like a cheap twist pretending to be “bold storytelling,” and instead of letting things simmer the way the show used to, they’re just cranking up the shock factor and losing everything that made it layered.

we deserved better as viewers. and mari—hell, all of them—deserved better from the narrative.

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it pains me that the finale fucked up the show’s core thesis of the duality of mob mentality and group survival so bad by making shauna into a dictator-like figure in the end. the show has been asserting since season 1 that these girls are doing horrible things because the group demands it. the wilderness demands it, and the group is the wilderness, and there is no real difference— but then we get to the finale and shauna is commanding with fear and intimidation when all the others are against her and sure, it’s not out of character for her, but it’s out of character for the show

shauna being antler queen could have been such a natural progression of her character development in a really interesting way. her being antler queen was always meant to happen, but they went about it in the most boring way possible. she’s been resisting the wilderness the entire time despite being a physical representation of its wrath and hunger. why have her do a 180 and take that power by force when we could have seen her slowly accepting it and basking in it, encouraging the others to bask in it with her? why even have her need to take it by force when the girls have committed so many collective atrocities and liked it?

to be clear: none of how the show chose to portray shauna as antler queen in the finale surprises me. they’ve been building up to this since the beginning of the season, so, yeah. saw that coming. but it disappoints me. the writing in the past two seasons was so interesting and nuanced that this predictable, lazy progression of events makes the entire season stand out as the worst so far and recontextualizes the entire show in a negative light. shauna as antler queen doesn’t feel earned or satisfying, it feels like a letdown, like the ending we all knew was coming to a doomed plotline

nobody misunderstands shauna shipman as a character more than the yellowjackets writers themselves

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!yellowjackets season 3 finale spoiler!

my thing is is if they just wanted a decoy for natalie to climb up the mountain, i promise you there would have been better ways than the hunt. i hate this show for taking shauna shipman, someone who could have been and has been up until this season such a complex female character and are making her the scapegoat for everything that happened out there in the wild. they could have easily knocked her the fuck out like be so real. or fucking tied her up when she was asleep. there were better options then the hunt.

shauna isn’t the only one who ate people. shauna wasn’t the only one to go after javi, she’s not the only one who’s killed someone in the adult timeline.

i’m not saying shauna hasn’t done anything wrong, she has done plenty wrong and is not a good person like at all, but also neither is anyone else. they’ve reduced shauna to nothing more than a fucking psychopath and i hate every second of it.

i just don’t think it makes sense, especially with the place the yellowjackets are in when they reunite. sure, they’re not happy with each other, but if shauna was this fucking crazy, why would any of you ever even think about stepping foot around her.

get fucking real.

and also for the last time this season, fuck fuckass backwards hate wearing hillary swank (just her character and the decision to fucking make that a plot line, no hate to hillary swank herself)

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i actually hated that. no one talk to me.

so much of that was so fucking stupid and i stand by that.

i adore this show with my whole heart but that fucking sucked

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oh wyatt callow, the boy who weighed everyones odds in the arena and still threw himself in front of a blade for lou lou, knowing hers too.

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writing again is reading the 1,120 words i’ve written so far for a fic and wondering if it actually makes sense or if im just saying the same thing in different words

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Shauna is lowkey so reasonable for crashing out because if I saw my daughter wearing my dead best friend's necklace, especially with the symbolism behind it I would crash the fuck out too

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#jackieshauna is canon

YELLOWJACKETS 306. Thanksgiving (Canada)

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there’s NO FUCKING WAY i just watched that on yellowjackets and im only 43 minutes in

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Why do all these characters have nicknames and why can i never clock them. I’ve spent the whole time in the yellowjackets fandom slowly figuring out everyone’s given names from their nicknames and it’s psyching me out. It took me so long to figure out that lottie’s given name was charlotte and every time i remember that van’s given name is vanessa i have a miniature heart attack. Mari’s full name is probably maria. Fuck. Gen’s full name is probably genevieve. Shit. Jackie might be short for jacqueline. Crying rn. The fifth season is gonna come out or smth and tell me misty’s real name is mysterious quigley and i’ll have no choice but to keel over and die

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i’m going to be crazy about this for a long while

#read her like a book

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THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE 1x06 & YELLOWJACKETS 2x06

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it’s tragic that orpheus and eurydice will never, in no version of their lives, know a happy ending. it would not be an accurate portrayal of them if their story ended happily.

it was meant to be a tragedy.

their love would not be complete without the soul crushing grief and loss that you can never avoid and yet, you listen to it over and over, with a continuous hope that this time— this time, just maybe this once, something will go right. that the stars aline differently this time, that the fates took pity on them just this once.

we hope and we wish and we beg and we dream and we try over and over, and at the end of it all, the result doesn’t change. but that hope, that dream, that wish, that plea is enough to make us want to try again.

of course we sing it again. each time we naively hope it’ll turn out differently this time around.

when will we accept that it never will?