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Spotted by @ lila.gnx on Tiktok. Natalie wears a purple striped shirt from Hot Topic.

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Young Natalie’s black eyeliner is from Make Up For Ever in shade “100 - Whatever Black.”

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If you haven’t already, can you pls do teen Nat’s leather jacket? Ty

Sure! I haven’t been able to find an exact match for it but here is what I’ve been able to find:

Something that I think is important to consider is that the jacket Natalie wears is consistent throughout the entire show. This is crucial because a lot of clothing items from the Pilot (especially things worn in the plane crash) were later switched out in future episodes. I bring this up because in the Pilot the costume department used vintage pieces and I believe that Natalie’s jacket is one of those vintage pieces.

The jacket Natalie wears is definitely worn and distressed so I think that it’s more likely caused by years of use (like a vintage jacket would be) rather than it being something the costume department did to a modern jacket (especially as Marie Schley said they used one of the costume designer’s old combat boots for Natalie in the Pilot rather than actually distressing a new pair due to time constraints).

Plus the diamond zippers Natalie’s jacket has (seen in the picture above) were a lot more common in vintage jackets than it is today (the only modern ones I’ve been able to find with them were ones emulating vintage styles).

Hers also seems to be lined with an orange or yellow lining as seen in the photo above (look inside the cuffs and just beneath the collar).

Out of all the kinds of leather jackets, those from the 50s-60s seem to be in a style that most resemble Natalie’s.

Here are some examples of some Close Matches:

Above: 1950s Guide Master by Wolf of Boston "Steerhide" Leather Biker Jacket.

This one probably looks the most similar to Natalie’s, the pockets match up and the liner is the right color. The belt is different and the shoulder detailing also seems to differ from that of Natalie’s jacket.

Above: vintage "Sears Roebuck" Fraternity Prep Leather Steerhide Motorcycle Jacket.

Just like the Guide Master jacket the zippers and linings of this jacket match up with Natalie’s. The belt and shoulder detailing also appear to be different. I don’t have a picture of the back of Natalie’s jacket to compare but I think the bottom of it is also different.

Above: 1950s grais leather motorcycle biker jacket.

This jacket has the right lining and zippers but has an extra pocket as well as different shoulder detailing. The belt is also a little off.

There’s other jackets that also look similar but these were just a few I found online. I’ll keep my eye out to for the exact one Natalie has but hopefully this helps in the meantime! (Also sorry this took a while it was initially hard to narrow it down).

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chappelroans 5k celebration -> @taiturner requested shaunanat + green

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learning that olivia was wearing a merkin of alicent’s ginger bush and they didn’t let me see it did make me want to firebomb hbo headquarters

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Natalie asking Shauna “is Jeff still hocking… futons?” and Shauna’s face immediately after she says it like oh okay, I see I’m meant to read in between the lines here and the lines are telling me that Natalie and Shauna broke into Jeff’s furniture store and fucked on one of the futons 🫶🏼

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Has this been done before?

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everyone say “happy 46th birthday jackie taylor!”

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“ Natalie, is my daughter happy?”

please read natural habitats,…, I love it so dearly.

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please post every single one

Interrupting my normal posting but I thought it would be nice to share that I bought Brittany's stuff from Bottoms and it came with a bunch of random notes between Isabel and Brittany.

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got an interesting pair of anons on CuriousCat that I posted on Twitter so I thought it would be worth posting here (h/t @sappy-sappho for the idea to cross-post)

reminder that shauna, nat, jackie, and lottie are all canonically straight!

are they? i think we can say that shauna, nat, and jackie have canonically had intimate relationships with men, though i would argue that the show portrays those relationships in ways that intend the audience to question their motivations and desires in those moments. Lottie has kissed Travis while tripping balls but I am very hesitant to ascribe anything about genuine desire to that. I wonder whether canon/non-canon may have outlived its usefulness as a distinction: text, subtext, or metatext feels like a more interesting framework to examine media

shauna stole jackie’s boyfriend married him and had a kid. lottie tried to hook up with nats boyfriend. the key word is boy. shauna also wanted to fuck travis and her daughters boyfriend. she had a whole affair with a man. nat was in love with kevin. they’re all straight. u know u can ship characters without making up lies right? the only lesbians on the show are van and tai! u don’t need to include straight girls in lesbianism.

you raise a lot of points and I’m going to try to address them all. starting with the accounting of plot: so I don’t think these are INVALID reads of textual events necessarily—though Nat being in love with Kevyn is an interpretation of the text and not indisputable in the text itself and I really would not describe Lottie in Doomcoming as trying to hook up with Travis—but I don’t think they bear as neatly on “are these characters straight” as you present here and in fact complicate it more. I’m not here to police identities but I don’t think any of this actually precludes any of these characters from being lesbians, whether closeted or in denial or unsure or simply not knowing at the time at which these events occur. people discover themselves on different trajectories, and people do things they don’t want to do all the time (Shauna even specifically says she had Callie to save a marriage that she “got into out of guilt and shame”). the question is and remains: are these characters acting on an attraction to men or are they acting on something else? the nature of the medium makes these questions largely unanswerable in a strict “canon” sense. no character states their identity on any axis with particularized clarity, it can only be inferred and interpreted from text, subtext, and metatext. which, for instance, is how we know that tai and van are lesbians, even though neither of them outright says “I’m a lesbian.”

which brings me to what I think is the more critical point here: you’ve positioned lesbianism and straightness as a binary option, “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” - which I think neglects the different forms identity and attraction can take. Shauna, who shows attraction to men in 1996 only when they are marked by Jackie and in 2021 only when that attraction is abstract versus the concrete article, transgresses against the roles of wife and mother that she has constructed to imprison her for the duration of her life sentence, may be a closeted or in-denial lesbian or she may simply be bisexual. Nat may be (I would argue is) bisexual. at no point did I represent that they’re lesbians, but I wouldn’t reject an interpretation that they are. But bisexuality isn’t “including straight girls in lesbianism” and having had sex with men does not forever exclude you from a lesbian identity by simple fact of having done it. Jackie, whose attraction to men is so tied up in layers of performance, I would argue is clearly written as a lesbian even if you don’t buy the “Shauna and Jackie are in love with each other” formulation. but these are interpretations, no more right than anyone else’s—and no more wrong, either.

but I am a fic writer first and foremost, so no, I cannot ship two characters without telling lies upon lies. it’s fiction, none of it is “true” in the factual sense, but if it is successful, whether fan work or canon, it is true in the emotional sense

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yj + textposts: doomedgirl love edition

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Suspiria (2018) // dir. Luca Guadagnino

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little miss omen of death

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yellowjackets + reductress again

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yellowjackets + textposts again

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okok so.

werewolf vampire couple

yellowjackets as the power rangers au (pink misty, black nat, green shauna, red jackie, blue tai and yellow van. lottie would b white/silver ranger)

drawing of lottie for my slasher au (gonna post first chapter of the fic soon<3) w pink blood bc i love pink blood in horror movies

octoling nat and inkling misty<333

misty and nat for purple day

jackie and shauna bc yea

shauna misty and nat for the real ones

nat, misty, lottie and laura lee being in a pottery class