#JACKIE TAYLOR I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE

[chaoticnerdsstuff]

JackieShauna as Tyzula 

[thebonejunky]

POPPIES. THERES FUCKING POPPIES ON THEIR WEDDING CAKE. IT WAS LITERALLY ALWAYS ABOUT JACKIE. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT EACH OTHER THEIR RELATIONSHIP ITSELF IS A MEMORIAL TO JACKIE. NOT ONLY DOES SHAUNA HOLD ONTO THE DRESS JACKIE LOST HER VIRGINITY IN, BUT SHE MAKES HER A PART OF HER MARRIAGE TOO. JEFF WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE REPLACEMENT. JACKIE HAUNTS THE NARRATIVE ONCE MORE. IF JACKIE GOT TO HAVE A WEDDING DO YOU THINK SHE WOULD HAVE PUT POPPIES ON HER WEDDING CAKE? DO YOU THINK SHAUNA WAS THINKING THIS EXACT THING WHEN PICKING ONE OUT? DO YOU THINK SHAUNA WAS PICTURING HERSELF AS JACKIE, OR PICTURING HERSELF BESIDE JACKIE? AND DO YOU THINK WHEN SHE ATE THE CAKE SHE IMAGINED IT BEING JACKIE? SHE COULD STILL TASTE JACKIE IN HER MOUTH? DID YOU KNOW THIS IS DRIVING ME INSANE

[thunderon]

forever obsessed with the yellowjackets pilot ep… like you just know these girls are all doomed by the narrative

[tabithatwo]

do you think shauna learned that cells turn over completely in seven years thing in high school biology and latched onto it and had an existential crisis meltdown of nuclear proportions when it was coming up on seven years since she’d consumed jackie because none of the cells in her body were born out of the energy she got from jackie’s flesh anymore?

[heartz4shauna]

thunder only happens

when it’s raining.

players only love you

when they’re playing.

[lesbianlotties]

what if i told you that this little moment, this totally black screen is actually one of the most intense heartbreaking significant and insane moments of yellowjackets

[envydeath]

shauna & jackie.

a hunger like no other, sk osborn // wayward son, rainbow rowell // the vegetarian, han kang // wishbone, richard siken // the love of the wolf, hélène cixous // letter from juniper, mabel // a curious night for a double eclipse, j. karl bogartte

[hauntsthenarrative]

it's not a woman harmonizing with a fan, it's shauna humming to jackie's dead corpse as they 'both' play tic-tac-toe in snow

[wistfulwatcher]

I don't understand why Jackie's team-mates are envious(jealous) of her, .Jackie is just a normal girl, what is there to envy?

an age-old question about popularity, anon!

jackie being a normal girl is part of it, i'd imagine. from the outside jackie has everything that a teen girl is supposed to want or need: wealthy parents, trendy clothes, a long-term boyfriend (break ups notwithstanding), she's pretty, and athletic, popular (she would have won prom queen), gets decent grades (though good or great grades seems more likely since we know she's not the best athlete on the team), has a loyal best friend, and has a leadership role in her chosen club. from the outside, what isn't there to envy about jackie?

especially when you look at her teammates, most of whom have something "wrong" with them compared to the above list. natalie has abusive and neglectful parents and does drugs to cope with her trauma, while jackie barely seems to drink. misty is an outsider who can't connect with anyone, but jackie is popular and a leader and so good at it that she even makes misty feel welcome. shauna struggles to assert herself and go after what she wants, but jackie tells her what to wear and drink and who to date without a second thought. taissa and van are gay women in the 90s, who either weren't out pre-crash (implied) or at the very least weren't dating anyone, and so the ease with which jackie and jeff got together and broke up on repeat must have been so frustrating to watch. lottie falls into many of the same categories as jackie, but while jackie's parents fawn over everything she says and does, lottie eats her meals alone at home and her father "shows love" with jets that take her miles away from him.

we talk about jackie being doomed by the narrative, and she totally is. but she's not just doomed to death; she's doomed to be two-dimensional. yellowjackets is a story about the relationship between a girl and her trauma, and you can't have a relationship when you're dead. like nat says, she's the "lucky one" because she gets to become a symbol (of rules, or social mores, of normalcy and safety) for the rest, instead of struggling alongside them. and what need does a symbol have of complexity? my first paragraph makes a series of assumptions about jackie, any of which could be false. we get glimpses here and there of jackie having feelings and thoughts and concerns that don't align with the things that make her someone to envy, but we don't know. we won't ever know in a way that matters to jackie. anything we learn now will be used to tell us something about the girls who are still alive, because jackie's only real function is to be fodder for them.

[homuracoded]

Can we uhhhh talk about how this is straight up false. Jackie had no idea Natalie lied about her past partners to Travis bruv

[axinite25]

Yellowjackets 🐝 Social Media AU - Part 3

[yjposting]

Jackie Taylor is never beating the it girl that everyone was down bad for allegations with the fancy ass fantasy feast scene they were all imagining while consuming her flesh

[lheautontimoroumenos]

this was originally tags under a gifset of mine but I felt it was getting a bit too long so here we go.

I have so much to say about “oh is the sad little sidekick mad?” line in the jackieshauna argument in 110.

Jackie is so strongly taunting Shauna during the first part of the fight. She's poking and poking until Shauna answers and when she does she's fully gobsmacked.

"Is the sad little sidekick mad" is just so Shauna. Especially then but I think it's even true now. She's not quite the same sidekick anymore because Jackie's dead but she doesn't stand on her own either. She's a housewife, fills her days with her responsibilities to her family, she never fulfilled her teenage dreams of studying.

But she's also still Jackie's sidekick: she's married to Jeff, Jackie's mom compares them all the time, everytime someone speaks of Jackie they're speaking of Shauna. They are inseparable in the truest sense of the word.

And god is she mad. She's been mad for so long too. I think first of all she's angry at herself, deep down. For sleeping with Jeff, for lying to Jackie about it and Brown, for resenting Jackie and their friendship, for being the reason she died.

But then closer to the surface, she's angry at everyone else all the time. It's all Jeff's fault (the blackmail and the cheating), her daughter's a bitch and talks back, tai left her to join Lottie club and hired a journalist to look into her life, Nat became the leader and stile her hard-earned right, Lottie's the reason her baby's dead everyone's taking her for granted

She's a sidekick: she doesn't know how not to be codependent because the last time she let someone go Jackie died. She's mad: they actually go hand in hand, she holds onto people and things so tight that if anything moves in any unplanned way she has to kill it. Kill it before it kills itself, rather she decides when it leaves her than it leave her out of the blue when she's not prepared. Everything has to be under control, her control, or it's dangerous and will become the object of her anger.

[cc-tinslebee]

“I like the Saints. They’re so tragic.” OH

[ghostgirlgroup]

thinking about how Jackie scored the winning goal at states… she’s the reason they were going to nationals… she doomed herself she sealed her own fate it’s all her fault oh my god

EDIT: WAIT WAIT WAIT. SHE SCORED THE GOAL WITH A HEADBUTT. LIKE A DEER OR MOOSE. SHE WAS THE CAPTAIN, COACH *CHOSE* HER. FIRST ANTLER QUEEN JACKIE TAYLOR!!!!!!!!!

[go-sullivan]

Here’s the plot of my JackieShauna entry.

The Yellowjackets win State.

Shauna and Jackie have their fight that night.

Jackie doesn’t show up for their flight to Seattle.

The plane crashes.