#because Natalie is the queen

[laszlo-writes]

Trying to have some comfort and enjoy one of my favorite films - Penelope starring Christina Ricci, of course - when I’m hit with the absolute sucker-punch of a line “once the queen is dead, the game is over.”

Fellas, one of these days I’m really going to do it :))

[shaunashipman]

Are you refusing the draw? Because you know what happens if you do.

↳@yellowjacketsnetwork event 03 | foreshadowing

[laurapetrie]

NATALIE WOOD in WEST SIDE STORY (1961) I never like anybody disparaging anything Natalie did because | think she’s so wonderful in the role and the fact that it ended up not being her [singing] voice, to me made absolutely no difference. - GEORGE CHAKIRIS

[bisexualnatalies]

shes still wearing the heart necklace . guys ........... shes still wearing the heart necklace

[super-nova5045]

let me cook rq 🔥🔥🔥

[deathbycoldopen]

Tell me, does a hunt that has no violence feed anyone?

[ID from Alt Text: A digital painting of the Antler Queen from Yellowjackets. She is a young woman shrouded in crude robes, a headscarf, and heavy netting that hangs from a pair of antlers to completely cover her face. Blood pours from the human heart cradled in her outstretched hands. End ID]

[beastsovrevelation]

Now this made me think...

Yellowjackets Biblical AU. The Wilderness is the Devil, Natalie's the Antichrist, and Lottie's the False Prophet, and everyone else are in a satanic cult. The Unholy Trinity, of course, is an all-female trio in this.

I put how I think everyone joined in the tags, tell me what you think.

How did female Satan impregnate Nat's mom I have no idea (magic), but she was a sw, and it's the inversion that's sometimes used, Mary was a virgin, while the Antichrist's mother's a "prostitute".

[tennessoui]

i really like your take on padme in mermay au, she is straight up vicious, it somehow suits her better than her canonical persona? i don't know i never saw her as particularly, overly kind in canon, more like someone who definitely cares but is downright manipulative? idk if i'm making sense, long story short, this version of padme scratched an itch in my brain i didn't know i had

i think padme is always fun to write because versions of her can be very complex and when i write her i like to focus on her capacity for anger (in fics where she and anakin are still together when the fic starts) i'm sure that gets a bit tiring to read for people but i just can't see her character just being calm and placid and ok with losing anakin immediately. she seems too fiery in canon, and she seems to love anakin too much to just let him go

and when im writing padmé in canon fics, i want to balance that part of her with her other parts, like her kindness and a sense of justice and empathy ('a more perfect union' padmé for example is all of those things), but i think all those parts are important.

so i've really liked how easy it's been to lean into padmé's viciousness in the mer au!! it's been super fun for me, because one of my favorite parts of writing different aus is playing with how much a character is of a particular trait (ie., how much of a bitch obi-wan is, how much of a brat anakin is, how much of a good jedi is anakin, how much infinite sadness does obi-wan have etc etc) so i've liked dragging padmé's viciousness all the way up to the top of the scale here

she's a mermaid queen who is queen of a vicious and vain society and being queen means different things in this au than it does in star wars canon, a lot of which boils down to never really hearing the word no and maybe being a bit callous and naive because of it. she's also the most mer in the au because anakin was human for 21 years and obi-wan was human for likeee ~15 years (?) but padmé has been mer all her life and would never want to be human - she's fascinated by anakin, but not in the same way obi-wan was by the humans when he first discovered them and i love trying to distinguish that

[sukibenders]

Me, whenever I think about how, in Yellowjackets, being a queen holds a death sentence as we see with Jackie, who is not only the leader of the group but possibly was the queen bee in high school, drawing in all the attention but also bearing the weight of responsibilities for her team. When she sees them going down a path she fears, that she doesn't understand and thinks it could bring them harm, she protests. She dies all the same. How Nat follows in her footsteps, even if she is a part of that path, which she hates. We see Nat be the one to go out in search of food even when in a dangerous climate, but does so because no one else will and the team counts on her. And because the other option is something she can't (won't) fathom. When Nat realizes that the group is slowly turning towards new ways, it becomes apparent that she can't resist it like how Jackie did, and so she accepts it even when it means her end. Only, it doesn't, or at least in the way she expected (Javi dies for her and she has to bear that weight) and, in the end, becomes the leader that the group needs, needs in that moment that Jackie couldn't be. That shift will forever haunt her in ways that the other members of the team can never truly understand (Travis did, but he's gone, and still no one truly understands). The stain that follows her into adulthood, and, in the end, it will be the death of her.

[weremerricat]

something about how instead of javi it was supposed to be nat.. and instead of nat it was supposed to be lottie. nat and javi not wanting to be sacrificial lambs to the slaughter but it’s inevitable for either. lottie wanting to provide sustenance and offering herself for the platter but is denied. and it’s an awful reoccurrence for her, being refused when she is so willing. lottie watching the people she cares about die when she knows it should’ve been her. it never should have been javi or nat but her.

[thefandomeffect-noah]

What the fuck did Natalie Pilkington do.

[mr-stottlemonk]

I've been meaning to do a re-watch of Monk, what with the series getting added to Netflix Brazil late this month!

I remember it being very episodic, not having that much on an overarching plot...Which episodes would you recommend to get back in the flow of the show?

Love your blog BTW! 💜

hi dear :3 first off thank you hehe, i quite enjoy running this blog <3!!!

it's very exciting that monk is making a comeback isn't it!! and yeah, i totally get what you mean by episodic. it gets a bit repetitve sometimes - but i find that its easier to watch the show 1-2 episodes per week cause binging it won't turn out so well.

i definitely recommend s2 (episodes 05, 07, 09, 11, 16)

if youre looking for something a bit more 'dark' themed i recommend: season 6, most of the eps are pretty good but i particularly feel episodes 03, 04, 07, 11, 12 and especially 15 and 16 are great.

but overall, personally, season 3 and 6 are quite big favorites of mine, i tend to re-watch those episodes over and over ( ´ ꒳ ` ) so i would say most of season 3 as well!

season 4 has a beloved episode i think quite a lot of us love (and youve probably seen the art for): episode 05!!

season 7 is a bit iffy... i think the one i enjoyed most there was episodes 02 and 13.

season 8 is good too! better than what they gave us in season 7. but its the last season so :").

but i do promise the character writing does improve as the show goes on and that the plot does come together as you get closer to the ending seasons.

i hope i didn't ramble off gosh...

have a good day dear, thank you for the ask <33!!

(ps: i would definitely recommend the pilot episode too, but you can totally skip that. it just has a few favorite moments of mine lolol.)

[exjacket]

ben just burnt down the cabin and i'm sobbing at all of it

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

not people disliking this episode???? “when did they decide to eat people” sorry did i lottie-style hallucinate the “it can’t be her” scene? they made the decision because they were trying and failing to eat BELTS because they ran out of food a month ago and they refuse to eat lottie because she’s the only one keeping them fucking sane out here, she’s their fucking god-queen despite the fact she never wanted to be, that she WANTS to sacrifice herself for them and they say no. and even now in the future she is haunted by the queen card, by the ritual they all came up with to keep her alive. they will have to tell her when she comes to. they will have to tell her who she ate and how they did it to save her.

natalie gave javi new gloves. she stares at those gloves as he drowns. he goes down like the moose. “we needed it.” he was trying to save her. he would have saved her. she would have saved him if they didn’t stop her. it’s him or you. it WAS him or her. he pulled the king card. he went to cry in his brother’s arms because he was scared to die. the queen let him drown and now his brother will eat him. travis doesn’t know it was natalie’s choice but he’ll suspect. he hugged his brother assuring him it wasn’t him. travis made the choice to save natalie and now it is him. javi made the choice to save natalie and now it is him. misty made the choice to save natalie and she keeps making that choice and natalie wishes she’d let her die in the hunt twenty-five years ago. travis made the choice to save natalie, hugging his crying brother, and now he eats his brother. the wilderness saved him solely to save natalie. or maybe the wilderness doesn’t decide on anything at all. you can see his gloves as he grips the ice. “you’re a good person, natalie.” you can see his gloves. the wilderness chose. javi was the baby of the bunch. they may not have eaten shauna’s baby but they ate the baby nonetheless. the wilderness chose.

[nataliesscatorccio]

you're natalie scatorccio. you take some acid the night before your team leaves for nationals. next day your plane goes down somewhere in the canadian wilderness. one of your coaches dies the other loses a leg btw the girl you hallucinated at the party last night destroyed the black box and you're stuck here for 18 months now. you start a fling with the guy they send you out hunting with but the homecoming queen wants to lose her virginity before she dies so she throws you under the bus and takes your man in a gay way, but you don't even really have time to deal with that because your other teammates are trying to have a murder orgy and sacrifice him at the alter of the wilderness gods. you save his ass and then spend the next two months hiking in below zero temperatures on a major caloric deficit trying to locate your man's missing brother who is definitely probably dead and you're definitely probably going to die if you keep looking so you fake his death and that goes pretty bad because the resident witch says she can still sense his aura and it turns out against all odds the teenage brother did survive two months in the wilderness alone, but happy endings right? wrong. your boyfriend can't get it up unless he's thinking about backwoods jesus and you're all starving to death. group decides short straw dies for the good of the group and who draws it but you? the wilderness wills the hunter bring food to the table. run. now the boy you killed/saved/killed says you can trust me I know a place and the earth opens up and swallows him and you reach for him because he asks you to and because in another life that's the kind of person you are. but here you're the hunter and you know how to love the thing in your scope but still pull the trigger if it puts meat on the table, especially if it means the meat isn't your own. you have nine months left. there's nowhere to run.

[natalieironside]

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Hi! I'm Natalie. I'm trans of gender and ace of sexual and I write dark fantasy and dark sci-fi adventure stories full of boners and thud-and-blunder action violence wherein no swash remains unbuckled, nor pot unboiled. I also blog about books and history and languages and I write essays and poetry sometimes, and don't forget about the many exciting Age of Empires 2 scenarios available at Natalie's Cool Website.

You might have heard my short story The Wishing Tree on the Tales to Terrify podcast! (now available as a zine from Grinning Kitten Press). Other stuff I’ve published to date includes:

THE LAST GIRL SCOUT: A post-apocalyptic wasteland adventure story and transbian romance about two women who fall in lesbians together and fight Nazis and draculas in the bombed-out ruins of Old America

LEAD AND ROSES: LOVE SONGS AT THE END OF THE WORLD: A collection of short fiction set within 23rd-century post-nuclear wasteland we’ve all come to know and love

IN THE COURT OF THE NAMELESS QUEEN: A collection of dark fantasy f/f erotica about sexy swashbuckling swordswomen (both cis and normal) and a giant scary monster lady in a far-off realm of adventure and dark magic.

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