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I need season 3 to let Teen Nat have a storyline outside of Travis. Same goes for him. Let them interact with other people PLEASE.

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i do love the "she's back where she started but somehow even worse" yj moments

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Just a Girl

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I made a comic from the deleted scene where Natalie almost shoots Lottie after doomcoming. Wish we could have seen it on the show.

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"A cascade of feelings came over me as I watched him sponge up the adoration. I wanted him dead. I wanted him all to myself." — INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

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I'd really love to say I like the theory that Everlarck haunted Snow because of what SnowBaird could've been but I can't because I really don't believe Snow is bothered by their love in that way.

Remember: as infatuated as he was with Lucy Gray, Snow didn't really like life in the Districts or the forest, like Lucy and the rest of the Covey. He craved the order, control, and "civility" of the Capital and the power that came with the status he had as a citizen of it.

As we see Snow in TBOSAS, he never really changes his personality, he just goes on and on bringing up a façade for each person he interacts with based on what characteristics he thinks it's best to charm them. So when he falls for Lucy (be it love or not), even though he wants her, he doesn't really want the life he's gonna get with her. He actually abhors the idea of the kind of life Lucy Gray craves.

The only thing that does change in Snow throughout the book are his opinions and worldview - "Mister Snow, what are the Games for?" -, he loses all of the morals he thought he had to abide in order to maintain his status. And it's fair to assume those changes of opinion keep happening as he progresses after the end of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes because that's what happens as human beings age.

But the direction of Snow's opinions is clear: that love is a weakness, that love is not something worth fighting for, that is something fleeting and unstable, so why would it ever bother him that Peeta and Katniss felt what he considered to make them weaker and feeble? Remember again: Snow doesn't see love like the rest of us do, he doesn't want to - what he does want is to see the world in a light that confirms his own view of it, and he warps facts to fit into his narrative.

In his mind, at first, Katniss didn't really love Peeta, which further proved his belief in love and what it really was, but as time progressed and he realized she did love Peeta, his belief turned to the one where Katniss would betray her allys (including Peeta) to keep on living. At last, the realization that their love wasn't selfish was an opportunity for him to make Katniss bend or break during the revolution, and when she didn't, it proved to him her love wasn't so strong to the point where she'd breach no limits to save him.

But that's the thing, even if he did believe Katniss' and Peeta's love for each other was pure and selfless, he still wouldn't envy them, he wouldn't see this as something he could've had with Lucy Gray. At least, I don't think 82-year-old President Snow would've because we have to remember that this version of Snow got everything he ever craved so much: all the power in the world to do as he pleased for the entirety of his life. Let me remind y'all: Snow was already dying when the revolution came, his power was already at its end. It's the reason why he laughs as he's killed: it doesn't really matter whether he's killed by his own poison, the rebels, or Katniss herself because he'd already won his entire life by then.

He did everything his younger self wanted to do, he became everything his younger self wanted to be, and he thrived in it for his entire life. He's so corrupted by then he probably thinks of his "love" for Lucy Gray as a lapse of judgment, one he'd never desire in the first place.

So no, I don't think Snow was bothered by Everlark because they represented what he could've been with Lucy, I think it bothers him because it's yet another facet of Katniss he cannot control, and more than that: it's the living proof his entire worldview on human beings -as passed on by doctor Gaul and his own experiences during the Dark Days -being bad and selfish at their core was actually wrong.

Please let's be cautious, and not make the mistake yet again of reducing a story about human nature and how it shapes the worldview of people, therefore having consequences on how we act in society, to a love story. Snow and Lucy Gray are compelling together as a couple, but the point is that Snow views human beings a certain way and, because of that, he begins to justify his terrible acts. It's a masterpiece of a villain origin story, not a love story - not entirely anyway.

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Welp!

At least it didn't make it into the show so I can continue living in delusion

yellowjackets 1.10 original script — a deleted scene where natalie and travis see jackie shivering outside

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The way I need this to actually happen

i hope season 3 of yellowjackets starts with a shot of natalie scatorccio’s grave and your first thought is AGONY AND HELL and then your second thought is oh this is the adult timeline, but then the camera pans out and it’s 1998 and teen nat is looking at her own grave that got made after the crash

writers, feel free to use your better pay and conditions to just full throttle ruin my life you know

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Dead cabin guy and his technicolor dreamcoat have haunted me since the wardrobe reveal in season two, and today im going to make it everyone's problem.

Travis wears the coat first. He and Natalie take the blessing and go out to look for Javi. Travis hallucinates (prophesies?) that Javi is dead and buried beneath the snow, but Natalie shows him it's only a fox. Travis finds the strange, mossy tree stump. The next day Travis has strong feelings about which direction is best to search for Javi in, and we don't see more of him until Nat reveals the bloody pants. Not that weird, all things considered. New season, new wardrobe additions. Hiking on a caloric deficit with PTSD, you'll probably hallucinate. Pretty standard stuff.

Then Nat wears the coat. She takes it to lay Jackie's bones to rest at the crash site, and while she wears it she sees (hallucinates? prophesies? I'm not sure!) the white moose that they'll later lose to the lake (ergo the hunt, ergo javi dies for real). More on that later.

We get to Old Wounds, the hunting competition, and Lottie wears the coat now. You see where I'm going with this but just to be thorough: she enters the realm of death dreams, talks with Laura Lee, almost freezes to death.

Episode five. Melissa wears the coat. Maybe that's not important! Maybe it's just to show that they all share the wardrobe, and that the side characters are as equally All In This Together as the main characters are. Or it could mean something that a peripheral character, wearing important wardrobe, framed in antlers (not unlike Travis in 2.01), has the line "maybe he did die, and that's his ghost." It's a little suspicious, and at this point starts to feel like a pattern.

Who wears it next, who wore it best!? That's right baby, it's Paul! For his dreamworld drifter, hallucination hunk Coach Ben Scott. Nicholas Urfe himself. Ben spends almost all of his time in a dream, until *drumroll please* Paul, very pointedly, takes the coat and walks out the door. "Where do you think you are, Ben?" he puts the coat on. "You had to have known you couldn't stay here forever. [...] What matters now is that you aren't welcome here anymore." Following Paul means committing to death (to dream), and until interruption that's the choice Ben makes. Because letting Paul (and the coat) go would mean committing entirely to reality.

Of course, the pièce de résistance is something I didn't even notice until I went looking for it. The first dozen times I watched, I thought that after Lottie's beating Shauna brought her a blanket. "Lottie's cold." But she doesn't. She brings her the coat. Lottie is laying with it when, in a fever dream, she witnesses/hallucinates/prophesies parts of the hunt.

It's there again (on the back of the chair) when she sits by the fire and speaks for the wilderness, appointing Nat their queen. Ben watches, having woken from the dream himself, as they all bow to Natalie and leave reality behind for good.

Of course, there are a lot of times when characters hallucinate strange things in the cabin while not wearing the coat, because they're all starving to death and traumatized. Mari. Shauna. Akilah. But in addition to that, it seems like a pattern worth noting that in each instance where a character wears the technicolor coat, the line between the real and the imagined seems to blur with more ease. Does dead cabin guy's technicolor dreamcoat help the Yellowjackets connect to the dream realm?

I'll be brief here with the biblical parallel: blah blah Joseph is the favorite son (you were always its favorite), his father gives him a technicolor coat (they're nothing special, they don't change color in the cold or anything). blah blah Joseph starts having prophetic dreams etc etc his jealous brothers throw Joseph down a pit (the wilderness chose) and bring his bloodstained coat back as false proof of his death (hanging on a branch. a couple miles back). You get my drift.

Does it mean it anything? Who knows. But in a series where wardrobe is such an integral part of the storytelling, it felt worth paying attention to.

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NAT & AKILAH Yellowjackets ◆ Seasons 1-2

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The Huntress

I find it interesting how she was the one who couldn't get her life together after what happened. Almost like it affected her the most. In early season 1 you could see that other girls had already something dark within them before (Tai overachieving leading to hurting a member of the soccer team, Shauna not being loyal to her friend, or Misty.. well...). Well Nat despite having awful parents stood for what she thought was right

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grimace shake incident with the yellowjackets

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underrated dynamic. what if i treated you like an annoying younger sibling whenever you were around but also stayed in touch for 25 years and paid for your rehab every time without question and spoke about you to others with care and reverence because "we owe her for what she did for us out there... we lucked out with our families but who else does she have, her dead toxic ex?" and we were both girls who chainsmoke and wear designer clothes

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It's so random but I love it lmao

Absolutely no one:

The fandom to all the Yellowjackets on a random Tuesday afternoon:

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Nat: So… I’ve seen you’ve been spending a lot of time with Taissa recently.

Van: No, Nat, it's not what it looks like, I swear.

Nat: Oh really? So no reason for me to be jealous?

Van: No! You’re the only one for me.

Nat: Is that so?

Van: I promise! Tai and I are just dating, okay? She's my partner.

Nat: So there are no best-friends-feelings involved?

Van: You are still my one and only best friend! She's just the love of my life, nothing more!

Nat: But I’m still the platonic love of your life, right?

Van: Of course bro!

Nat: Bro…

Tai: *literally standing next to Van* What the-

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Twilight

Edward: "Unfollow me if you think the Earth is flat."

Rosalie: seriously pretends to be a flat-earther to antagonize the anti-flat-earther.

Alice: neutral but makes polls to start fights, "Is the Earth flat? Let's discuss!"

Emmett: not a flat-earther but makes "the Earth may be flat but this ass ain't" jokes for viral tweets.

Jasper: actual flat-earther.