there's a message in yellowjackets that really resonates, about what it looks like to "overcome" trauma. you live through something indescribable, you're "rescued" from that thing, and you have a grace period. how long? a week? a month? a year? how long before the world stops giving you grace, how long before the world expects you to give them a pretty little story with a happy little ending so they can stop feeling weird when they look at you, for the way what you've been through makes them feel? how long before you have to be a wife and mother to prove you're fine, or a successful politician, or a respectable nurse. or, how long before they want to see you in the psych ward or rehab so they can frown and ooh and ahh at your failure to assimilate back into a world you can no longer see in the same light? they don't want to help you. they want to watch you. they want to make a feel-good story out of you. a quippy headline. and if they can't, they'll make you their cautionary tale. if you can give them neither, you'd better hide yourself away. everybody asks "what really happened out there?" what was it like how did it feel what did you have to do to survive it? and the answer is there is no answer. it is still happening. it is happening every night in your dreams, it is happening every time you look in the mirror, it is happening over and over and over again forever. hitting the "recovery milestones"–the socially acceptable You Did It life markers such as a successful career, a successful family, a successful whatever the fuck–meeting those marks isn't for you. you don't see the merit in those things anymore. and why would you? you know a different way of living now. it's for the audience who wants to be placated by your okayness or entertained by your insanity, and will not rest until you've given them one or the other. the wilderness may have taken indiscriminately, cruelly, violently. but society is worse. that's the difference between hunger and gluttony. you ate your friends to survive. they are eating you to throw you up to eat you again to complain about how unpalatable you are now. and then they still ask for more.
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I love that Yellowjackets isn’t just making one of them be the bad guy. Like, it’s a perfect storm of terrible personality traits coming together. Tai’s ruthlessness allows Shauna’s capability for violence to show. Lottie’s visions helps Van fulfill her need for a bigger purpose to the point where she reframes it in a way that justifies it to everyone else. Mari seems to desperately need the hope, and Misty will always go along with what makes her feel like she belongs - though she’s not above picking favourites. Nat’s the closest thing to a moral compass, but even with a knife to her throat, she cannot fully forsake them. In a way, that enables them.
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found this template here and decided I had to do one for PH girls 😎
ID under the cut: (kinda if you can’t see who is what)
Alyss/Intention of the Abyss - Girlwar criminal
Lottie- Girlwar criminal + Girl boss
Sheryl - Girlboss
Sharon - Girlboss + Girl Employee + Woman
Alice - Girl boss + Girl Employee
Lacie- Woman + Sad Girl
Noise- Sad Girl + Failwoman
Ada- Failwoman
Echo - Failwoman + Pathetic wet cat
Lily- Pathetic wet cat
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Trapped within an abstract - Lottie/Laura Lee
LottieLee Weekend ( @lottieleeweekend ), Day 1: Afterlife
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yellowjackets (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Laura Lee/Lottie Matthews
Characters: Laura Lee (Yellowjackets), Lottie Matthews, Van Palmer, Background & Cameo Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Laura Lee Lives (Yellowjackets), Afterlife, Kind of..., Parallel Universes, Sort of..., Alternate Reality, Rescue, Light Angst, Reunions, i'm not sure what this is but i hope you guys like it
Summary:
“No, no, no, no, what’s going on…” Laura Lee muttered under her breath again and again as she helplessly looked around for her friends and then she ran toward the cabin.
She heard behind her a few murmurs of disconcert from the search team, but there was no way to know if they doubted her sanity, her entire story, merely the location, or if maybe, just maybe, they could feel it too. The wilderness. It’s claws coming up from the ground to play with the fresh meat that just landed on its open jaws.
“Please, Lottie,” she whispered like a prayer, “I made it, I came back for you, please be here.”
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or, Laura Lee came back with the rescue team, but found no trace of her friends. Meanwhile, the girls heard a helicopter landing, but found no signs of their rescue. Could Lottie and Laura Lee's connection be strong enough to pull both timelines back together?
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lottie this ep like i’ll have screenshots and more thoughts later but what do you do when everyone’s put their trust in you as a leader and there’s suddenly a situation like this with absolutely nothing for you to do. you aren’t a doctor or a priest you’re a teenage girl and your friend is bleeding in front of you and the girl who was supposed to be in charge won’t do it. so what can you offer? you can try to share your hopes? you can reach for the small things you’ve been doing every day in the hope that it will work for the big one
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