#lottie matthews i love you

[riccissance]

lottie’s arc in yellowjackets makes me so crazy. here’s this girl who has always been affluent. who could have provided her teammates with almost anything they needed. whose friends ask her for the most important things when everything lottie has is gone. when all she has to offer is her body and a mind she isn’t sure she can trust.

so lottie tells them about her intuitions, she leads group therapy/meditation, she grounds their emotions however she can. and she pricks her finger every morning so nat and travis come home safe, she cuts her palm open on the off chance it will get them food, she makes her body a punching bag for a girl with too much grief and rage to function. 

she spends a year and a half bleeding and suffering and tearing off pieces of herself to save her friends however she can. her friends who don’t even see her as a person anymore. she becomes a symbol more than anything else. then goes home. back to where the things she bled and suffered for are abundant. she gave away everything she had and was expected to somehow still be the person she was before. she’s completely catatonic because what can she do? what is left of the girl she was? how can she go back to being a girl at all when she had been a god?

[virgoactias]

i am so lottie because if someone was bringing a negative vibe to an already hard situation i would also allow them to beat the shit out of me

[tvmilfs]

Still not over “The Sharing Shack”

It’s so fucking funny

[sunny-rants]

sometimes I forget that yellowjackets is a horror show and not a cute 90s high school sitcom but sapphic, where the goth loner surprises everyone by going out with the geeky theatre kid, and the uptight christian girl chills out when she starts smoking weed with her stoner girlfriend, and the mean lesbian and her butch are running the girls locker room like it’s a gay speakeasy and their exasperated health teacher/soccer coach has to keep getting them out of trouble and no one gets lost in the woods or cannibalized

[the-lonelyshepherd]

yellowjackets airbud au. everything is exactly the same except lottie is a dog like airbud.

started as crack then it got serious. it actually works so well expect more

[nataliesscatorccio]

Shauna and the baby were probably both going to die. depending on your interpretation of the dream realm, maybe for a time Shauna did die. something brought her back, or kept her from staying there. but it wasn't Mari's "wilderness, I hope Shauna doesn't die" or Travis' well intended but useless blood magic (recall Lottie "can't this just be enough? please?" it was never enough) or even the baby's death covering the symbol on the blanket in blood. those are futile hopes and bargains. the baby was already doomed. and the wilderness doesn't trade, we know this. it chooses. someone has to die. it took Crystal and spared Shauna. Shauna thinks she's been snubbed by the group and by extension the wilderness when it takes Javi and Nat is crowned, but what she fails to see is that she was chosen first. she keeps being chosen! not to die, to live. Coach Martinez dying to put her oxygen mask on. Jackie dying to later feed her. the wilderness taking Crystal (where is her body? it belongs to the wilderness now) to get Shauna through a dangerous labor. Nat dying in her place as the queen of hearts twenty-five years later. maybe it always did like Nat best, but it killed for Shauna first. and it kept killing for her. for girls like Shauna (and for girls like the Wilderness) isn't that just the shape love makes? a knife wound.

[honeycrispjamz]

The lottienat v.s. mistynat battle that is happening on Twitter about which is a healthier ship choice for Nat is so funny to me because realistically a therapist would tell Nat to stay 1000 feet away from both those freaks

[cam3ron77]

[glitchpaladin]

[mysinkingsun]

Lottienat come back please

[emilyprentissslut]

real

[heartz4shauna]

[lesbianlotties]

consider: Laura Lee lived to make it to the winter but, instead of Javi, the one to die is Lottie. now it's time for ✨girl dinner✨ and Laura Lee refuses to participate, so Nat has to try to convince her so she can survive. but there's the little fact that both of them were in love with Lottie, they don't know how to deal with that, and their dynamic looks like this:

(aka my new fic: tell me where to put my love <3)

[jumping-mirrors]

Guys, really, stop shitting on the ending because of Nat's death. YES, it was was narratively unsatisfying. YES, she was just beginning to heal and build a life again and THAT IS THE ENTIRE POINT. It's supposed to be a fucking tragedy. It's supposed to make you cry with the injustice of it.

[the-lonelyshepherd]

"fanon lottienatters please stay away from me" oh!! shots fired!! 2,000 dead, 10,000 injured!! BUT curious about your specific definition for fanon lottienat and what you dislike about it <33

ohhhhh okay... alrrrrrr

this is like. one of my biggest issues. im not like a shipper, never rlly have been until yj but i dont like engage in discourse bc thats stupid.

But basically? Fanon lottienat just kinda strips anything thats interesting about the ship away. and makes it like. punk x preppy. loser x popular. ive even heard black cat and golden retriever which makes me want to rip my eyes out.

And its not even accurate to their characterization? at all? like youre flanderizing them but like..... not even their main traits. like ive seen people say "precrash lottie would be like charlotte from status update (curse that movie btw. the things i do for u courtney eaton) which is just. like not at all.

first off lottie is not popular. yeah, shes rich, but shes clearly somewhat of a loner (WHICH PARALLELS NAT?? WHICH MAKES IT MORE INTERESTING???) even courtney has said this in interviews. she feels ostracized, and a lot of it can be traced back to the flashback scenes we see, esp those about her relationship w her parents and her supposed mental illness. the 90s, especially the 90s in a high pressure rich family, was NOT a good place to have schizophrenia (and yeah theres the "she wasnt actually mentally ill" argument but that changes nothing because atp in the story her whole family and probably herself believed she was.

Then we have the nat characterization. The fanon "grumpy" to fanon lotties "sunshine". guys canonically nat smiles more than lottie. girlie was always grinning while lottie was experiencing the horrors all of s1. ofc they both went THROUGH it but that specific stereotype pissed me off sm i had to address it.

also, nat gets shown a lot as masc?? which is a fine headcanon but like for her style like the whole punk thing? she acc dresses relatively femininely.those are little irks abt nat but they bother me idc. too tired to write more on this rn but feel free to ask!

so basically taking this stuff into account - fanon lottienat uses a gross mischaracterization of both characters, especially lottie (also that suspiciously align w stereotypes HMMMMM) to literally make the ship more boring. You are making it a stupid and lame trope. You literally have these two insanely complex characters who mirror each other. Theyre not opposites attract, they are the same character in different skins. They're both loners, one because of her punk/rebel nature and nasty rumors, the other because of her mental illness and lack of closeness to people. Theyre both loners because of their social status and their fucked up home life. Theyre both providers - nat the hunter, bringer of physical and real food like the deer. Lottie the prophet, bringer of hope and, through the teams eyes, the birds, the bear, etc. Lottie who begs to be a martyr but is denied nat who runs from it but shoulders it anyways. They're both bleeding hearts they both give soul to the team and are some of the most genuine characters but they present it so differently.

The fact that the majority of content grossly mischaracterizes them and is the widely accepted fanon just.. sucks tbh. and the fact that people get so up in arms about them, and literally attack fans of other characters (lottielee fans... travis fans....) for no reason?? all these other characters do is contribute to what makes lottienat such a compelling and fucked up and interesting ship. i love them so much but lwk most of yall are insane and dont even appreciate them for what they really are.

thoughts questions comments concerns hmu

[alecsnekoda]

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