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first day on the job and already lost nat fml

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the jackielot french class oneshot was GOING TO be fluffy (might still have moments) but um nvm!! these dumb gay asses cant be happy to save their lives apparently smh

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you know the meme, enjoy your yuri slop

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thank youuuu ive been SAYING

jeff sedecki is not an angel.

@alvinjrsgun's reblogs triggered this rant.

i'm here to criticize jeff sadecki and how this fandom has collectively decided he's some misunderstood angel when he's actually a walking red flag factory.

let's start with the obvious: jeff pressured his girlfriend into having sex. jackie literally tells him she's not ready and he keeps pushing. but somehow the discourse around this is crickets while we dissect every micro-expression shauna makes. weird how that works.

then there's the cheating. multiple times with his girlfriend's best friend. but here's where it gets really wild - apparently jeff just "fell dick first" into shauna because that's how agency works, right? he had absolutely no choice in pursuing jackie's best friend. it just happened to him, poor baby.

except that's not how cheating works. nobody makes someone cheat - it's a choice. their choice. so why does jeff get painted as this hapless victim of shauna's seduction when he was the one who willingly shat on his relationship with jackie?

and let's talk about that marriage timeline because it's absolutely unhinged. finds out his ex-girlfriend died after missing for over a year, immediately marries her traumatized best friend who he'd been hooking up with before the crash. romantic? or predatory? you decide.

but wait, there's more! after marrying shauna and having a whole life with her, jeff decides the best way to handle their financial problems is to... blackmail the yellowjackets about their biggest trauma. the thing that broke them all. the secrets that weren't his to know or weaponize.

then when shauna starts showing signs of paranoia and instability (gee, wonder why), jeff has the audacity to complain about it. bro, you literally triggered her spiral and then acted surprised when she spiraled. you poked the bear and then complained it was growling.

and here's the thing that really gets me - after setting off the dominoes that led to multiple deaths, jeff just... leaves. abandons shauna when the consequences of his actions come home to roost.

the yellowjackets did horrific things in the wilderness, but they had a reason - survival, starvation, psychological breakdown from extreme trauma. it doesn't excuse their actions, but it explains them. jeff doesn't have that excuse. he's just selfish.

yet somehow shauna gets all the hate while jeff gets treated like a victim of her manipulation. she's called crazy, unhinged, a monster - while he's the poor husband dealing with his unstable wife. the double standard is staggering.

yes, shauna has done terrible things. yes, she's not innocent. but you hear that take everywhere. what you don't hear is how jeff is equally complicit in their toxic dynamic, equally responsible for the cheating that started it all, and arguably more at fault for the blackmail plot that pushed everyone over the edge.

jeff sadecki isn't a soft boy caught up in circumstances beyond his control. he's a man who consistently chose the selfish option at every turn and then acted shocked when those choices had consequences. stop giving him a pass.

oh, but he's a decent dad so it's okay! (it's the least he can duckin' be...)

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i need to know if u think a jackielottieshauna relationship would ever work

oooooooh this is a really interesting one! personally i think yes but there would definitely be a unique set of challenges because of jackieshauna’s codependency. if anyone were to break through that though i do think it would be lottie and here’s a very long-winded explanation as to why:

although we didn’t get to see much of lottie and jackie’s dynamic before jackie died, what we know about both of them individually makes me think they would’ve made pretty close friends. they both understand what it means to come from a wealthy family (albeit lottie’s was definitely much wealthier than jackie’s) where there are certain expectations put upon them as the only child in each. lottie’s father is shown to be emotionally distant and hardened, and jackie has made comments about her mother being difficult (“you know how my mom is”) that are later reinforced through snide comments made to shauna in the adult timeline and van noting how judgemental she was at shauna and jeff’s wedding. there’s a kind of shared loneliness between them that they both uniquely understand, a loneliness that isn’t too dissimilar from shauna’s

shauna’s loneliness isn’t one that comes from being crushed under the weight of her parents’ expectations, but her friends’. there’s this undercurrent of a fundamental sense of misunderstanding within her and jackie’s friendship, one caused largely by shauna’s inability to communicate her problems effectively and jackie’s inability to see that there’s a problem at all until they’re stuck in the wilderness together and she’s forced to really look at their shifting dynamic. the downfall of jackie and shauna’s relationship was ultimately caused by poor communication, misunderstanding, and subsequent built-up resentment. enter lottie

lottie is shown to be a really good leader without even meaning to be. she quietly controls the group even when someone else is “queen—,” she was the one who appointed natalie, and she was the one who appointed shauna after her. as the queenmaker, she holds more power throughout their time in the wilderness than even the queens themselves. she can give power just as quickly as she can take it away. what’s interesting about this, though, is that even though this pattern of queenmaking starts with jackie (see: her telling jackie “you don’t matter anymore” at doomcoming) she never really stops seeing jackie as a leader. she asks jackie to “guide us” at the beginning of season 3, and she understands & validates the way jackie’s death dictates shauna’s emotions in season 2. their dynamic while jackie was alive really operated under this sense of push and pull, of who’s really leading who— just like jackie and shauna’s dynamic did

jackie and lottie both fall naturally into leadership roles, and shauna, no matter what she’d like to believe, is, at her core, a follower. she’s upset about her dynamic with jackie, but doesn’t really do anything to change it. when she finally does, she lives to regret it so badly that, for the rest of her life, she lets the grief that came with losing jackie control her even more than she let jackie control her when she was alive. as for lottie, shauna does something similar: she mocks lottie’s staunch belief in the wilderness, but she participates in offering “it” up sacrifices and reaping “its” benefits. she even waits for lottie to make her queen instead of just declaring herself queen on her own. shauna is, in a lot of ways, controlled by both of these girls, and yet she controls them, too

jackie dies wanting nothing more than for shauna to say she loves her. lottie makes decisions that she knows will hurt her (sometimes literally, physically, given that she let shauna beat the shit out of her) or the group for the sake of breaking down shauna’s walls. both jackie and lottie try so hard to pierce shauna’s emotional barrier into the heart of her vulnerability, and they both manage to succeed in entirely different ways. jackie remains the source of shauna’s guilt and regret, and lottie remains the source of her strength— the person who taught her that it’s okay for her to engage in her anger, her pain, and her thirst for power

operating under the assumption that jackie lived in this scenario, i can see lottie being the one to get involved and attempting to repair her and shauna’s relationship, similarly to how lottie got way too involved in shauna’s pregnancy and grieving process. she would serve somewhat as a mediator for the two, working her magic on those two like her life depended on it, and i think she would manage to pull it off. she would be this kind of third-party presence that shifts the power imbalance in her own favor just enough to put jackie and shauna on equal footing, and then she’d pull all of that unspoken resentment and anger out of shauna (just like she did when she let shauna beat her bloody), allowing for an open stream of communication between her and jackie for the first time

and i think at first, jackie would hate her for this. she’d blame lottie for all of the problems between her and shauna coming to the surface; but ultimately, if she can swallow her pride and make an effort to actually fix some of the glaring issues between the two of them, i think she and shauna both would come to be grateful for lottie in a way that would bring them all closer together

i can see jackie and shauna both seeing lottie in an entirely different light as they come to realize that lottie really does care about them (all of them, really), she just has her own way of showing it. unlike with most other poly ships involving lottie, i don’t actually think she’d be the one to propose the idea. i think it would be jackie and shauna who make the decision to continue to involve her in their relationship and it would naturally progress from there. lottie’s influence would encourage jackie and shauna to firmly establish the relationship out loud instead of just letting it remain an unspoken thing, thus changing the power dynamics between the three of them to less of a constant struggle and more of an equal footing where they mutually make decisions

weirdly i can actually see this being somewhat healthy and beneficial for them all as well because there’d be more encouragement to actually voice things instead of letting them build up. i do think there’d still be the issue of codependency and unnecessary drama because the issues between jackie and shauna run so deep + lottie is kind of an enabler to both herself and everyone around her, but they’d be the kind of semi-toxic relationship that never breaks up despite the issues because they just kind of work

they’d also be an absolute menace to the others in the wilderness as a unit. they’d be in this sort of fucked up psychosexually tense polycule that feels like a monarchy who involves the entire court in their drama. as adults they’d be even worse (better). i love them together so bad you don’t even know

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I feel like a lot of viewers didn't necessarily absorb just how fucked up Mari, Akilah, Melissa, and Gen's murder plot in the s3 finale actually was. The episode didn't do the best job of communicating what was actually happening, so I do get why people were confused about who was in on what plan. But once you understand the girls weren't involved in Natalie's transponder efforts and had no idea there was still a chance of rescue, the full degree of horridness becomes clear.

Their plan definitely wasn't a distraction to get everyone rescued. It was essentially a revenge plot to take out their most unstable teammates for ruining their chances of rescue, and just as importantly, for being a heinous bitch to them (Shauna with Mari and Melissa) and convincing them they were special (Lottie with Akilah). It was personal and premeditated, and at least as bad or arguably worse than anything Shauna and Lottie had done up to that point.

They poisoned the animals, their only ethical food source and the one thing that might have gotten them through winter without resorting to cannibalism. They baited Lottie and Shauna into calling for another hunt to serve as a distraction while they carried out their murders, nevermind what might happen to whoever drew the queen. Even if they had successfully pulled it off and only the targets died, it would have done little to improve their overall circumstances.

The reality of their plan was this: they kill and eat two problem teammates, but it only sustains them for so long because the group is still stranded in the middle of nowhere during the brutal winter without food. Removing Shauna and Lottie from the equation solves a few of their immediate problems, creates a temporary illusion of security, but it doesn't prevent further violence. In fact, it's easier, because now they have experience actively killing their friends. As they go hungry, they justify more hunts.

What Lottie says is true, "It's in all of us now." Everyone in the group is responsible for the violence and depravity they've devolved into. They've all permitted, escalated, participated in, and benefited from these horrific acts. They've also been deeply traumatized by them. They are all simultaneously victim and perpetrator. Everyone, including Mari herself, is responsible for Mari's death. They're responsible for Ben and Javi and Jackie's deaths. But that reality is so overwhelming and existentially horrifying, they can't acknowledge it and have to find convenient scapegoats to pin all the bad things on.

It's easy to understand how they got there, and Shauna's sadism and Lottie's religious zealotry do make them super easy targets for blame. But we, the audience, aren't traumatized teenagers trapped in desperate circumstances, so we don't need to resort to scapegoating. We should be able to recognize the obvious and severe mental health crises driving Shauna and Lottie's behavior. We should be able to understand a huge part of their deterioration is because they were used by the collective, isolated into damaging roles, and then written off as crazy and dangerous once it stopped being convenient to use them.

I just think every single one of these kids, no matter what horrific shit they get up to, is worthy of our empathy and understanding. Fiction is exactly the place where we can exercise this kind of radical acceptance of the darkest parts of humanity. I'd prefer to save the finger pointing for picking out my favorite unhinged cannibal, instead of looking for villains and heroes where they don't exist.

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what if this was my 13th reason?

shauna only hated mari so much because she saw jackie in her. she saw mari’s quick wittedness, her charisma, her bitchy jokes, and saw jackie. mari called shauna “shipman” just like jackie did and that fueled the hate. but shauna didn’t truly hate jackie, which means she didn’t truly hate mari either. shauna told herself she hated jackie because if she let herself remember how much she loved her, she wouldn’t be able to forgive herself for what happened. she wouldn’t be able to pretend anymore if she let herself remember how much she loved jackie. so she told herself she hated her, which meant she hated mari too. but she saw jackie in mari’s softer moments, too. in mari’s moments of undying loyalty or anxious uncertainty, shauna saw jackie all over again. falling for mari would be like falling for jackie all over again, and jackie made shauna feel invisible. so she hated mari because she hated jackie and letting herself believe anything else would ruin her further. in the end, it didn’t matter what shauna told herself, because she devoured both of them. she let them both die, which means she killed them. and the only way to get over that is consume them whole.

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stretches

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"how could shauna not know jackie loved her back?" i think a lot of y'all forget that jackie was actively trying to hide how much she loved shauna. that girl was so deep in the closet she was in narnia. the tragic thing is jackie was so scared to let anyone see how much she cared for shauna that shes didnt even let SHAUNA see it. she was so scared to be honest even with the person she loved the most. jackie might care abt shauna more than herself but at the end of the day her reputation came first. she pushed her feelings down to wear the popular girl mask until she couldnt even get it off.

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jackie's name

i have this hc that jackie's full name is jacqueline marilyn taylor after jackie o and marilyn monroe. like i feel SO insanely sure of this. i also for sum reason cant picture her mother being called anything but marilyn either. i think its like the balance of the two contrasting yet ideal figures of this line that has to be walked. like jackie v marilyn was such a big cultural phenomena. something something women have to be everything all at once. something something jackie at odds w her mother yet so completely linked to her. also also the taylors clinging firmly to the old school 60s ideals and aesthetics.

also also also something something jackie v marilyn mirroring shauna's view of jackieshauna as an antagonistic power struggle for femininity. except in her mind jackie has all the best traits of both of them and she got all the worst parts.

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feel free to ask if u even care /ref

the magic system doesnt apply but go nuts w any of the others i love excuses to yap

Behind the Scenes Writing Ask Game

So behind the scenes won the poll, but I thought I'd do an ask game with it!

✍️ "when did you get started writing?"

✏️"what are your current WIPs about?"

📜"how did you get started on your WIPs?"

📝"what stages are you currently in your WIPs?"

🖊️"how does your magic system work?"

🖋️"what inspired you to write your WIPs?"

📖"what has surprised you about your WIPs?"

💻"what perspectives do you write in?"

🖥️"what types of writing do you do?"

❤️"what are your favorite scenes from your WIPs?"

😭"what are the biggest challenges writing your WIPs?"

❗"how many WIPs do you have?"

‼️"what has stayed consistent across all drafts?"

⁉️"what do you do when stuck on a scene?"

❓ask anything you want!

If anyone wants to reblog this to play with too that's totally fine with me!

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george's works

current works

honey bunny - mistyjack misery fic. heed the warnings

upcoming

doomcoming jackie - if the girls went after jackie instead of travis

french class - jackie & lottie in french class (oneshot)

top ideas

book club - no crash au where they're all alive & milfs

jackie walking in on taivan and being very normal abt it

jackie's wet dreams abt the team

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look at them loook LOOK AT THEM. what if we were rivals? what if you "stole" my homoerotic best friend? what if you were the one person to try to get me to stay to save me the night i died? what then? jackie being tai's loser gf who annoys her badly <3 taissa would walk that twink like a dog fr she deserves double gfs all the gfs they both do.

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KILLING MYSELF

Okay guys ive officially had it💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

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truly believe they would never get together they would just occasionally crash each other's lives to have gay sex bc they cant stay away. fwb jackieshauna ftw

have to suspend my disbelief a little with jackieshauna fics a lot of the time because in much of the same vein as “he would not fucking say that” I find myself going “their problems would not be resolved this easily”. but I love a fantasy setting so its all good. just can't help but be very aware these two characters as they exist in canon would need to individually experience some version of the plot of A Christmas Carol before having any hope of communicating effectively

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June 9, 2025 - Huge crowds protesting in the streets of Paris, to demand the release of the Madleen activists of the Freedom Flotilla who were kidnapped by Israel in international waters, and an end to the genocide. [video]

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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel." (X)