tuiyla · 2 years ago
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listen it’s not like I WANT to be the pretentious asshole all the time but the way some of y’all reduce the complexities of Jackie and Shauna into this sanitized, simple “had the hots for her” love instead of the deeply fucked up, deeply beyond the romantic or the sexual relationship that it was...
well, not me. I support women’s wrongs and I support whatever the fuck those two had going on because it was not the tumblr idea of shipping that’s for sure
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chasingfictions · 2 years ago
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I’ve just finished yellowjackets and I went through your tag bc what else am I going to do but consume all the backdated content I can and I need to know the backstory on the comment that Callie probably isn’t pit girl?? Also what do you think happens with shaunas wilderness baby I can’t stop thinking about it
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the callie is pit girl theory i think got debunked by the creators (though tbh like, it's a mystery show and we shouldnt necessarily take anything they say in interviews as gospel). but i do think it's not her, in that i do think that the pilot cold open does take place in the '96 timeline, as opposed to a red herring of it actually being in the present day. like, i think cool as it would be as a gotcha, ultimately, opening with them in the depths of their despair and desolation and wilderness and bloodthirst and working out from that in two directions of the timeline will always be the most powerful way to interpret that cold open.
that SAID i do think that there's a decent likelihood that the cult takes an interest in callie in some form...
which kind of segues into my wilderness baby theories???? basically like!!! fertilization taking full effect takes a few days, right? which is to say that the first time the fetus really enters into existence, they're already in the wilderness. it's already post-crash. there's lottie's line that "it's in you already" during blood hive. considering these insane posts from @smellingwormholes my beloved, that feels like the Thing in the Forest, you know? like, it, as in The Entity, is Literally In Her, in that the fetus is literally in her. also the fact that like, the Spirit seems to fully take hold of them during doomcoming, and like if shauna is taking the magic cursed forest shrooms, so is the fetus, you know?
i'm not positive whether the kid will live or not -- logically it seems unlikely, but also like, a lot of the way healing works on this show -- ben's leg not getting horribly infected, van's face healing as well as it did -- feels like maybe something else is helping them along? the buffering patreon podcast on yellowjackets talked about a theory that what if the forest is keeping them alive, you know? what if it wants them to live so it can kill them off later? which is to say whether or not the wilderness baby survives childbirth, and whether they live long past that, whether they're still alive in the 2021 timeline, that baby belongs to the forest in some sense.
which kind of goes back to the callie thing. the wilderness baby as a child that shauna feels doesnt really belong to her. it's the baby that she associates with starvation and despair. it's the baby that, probably in her eyes, led to jackie's death. it's the baby that belongs to the forest and the blood cult. there's something about shauna coming back to civilization and trying to live in a shell of what she imagined jackie's life would be, creating a mausoleum to jackie in her own home, her own body. there's something about her naming her daugher callie. one letter onto the girl who didn't get on the plane. having another child with the person she imagined jackie would have stayed with. like, callie in a sense, in shauna's mind, being jackie's baby. the baby jackie would have had if she'd lived.
when, of course, callie is so deeply shauna's child. kldsfjkf one of the reasons i love callie is she has shauna's bitchiness with jeff's confidence and it makes her an unstoppable monster and i think that's fucking cool of her i love her so much callie u've never done anything wrong in ur life babygirl!!!!!!!!! but like, shauna having a child thinking it's saving her from who she is, thinking it can make her more like someone who didnt grow up to be this. when in fact her child is just like her, and her child also is forcing her to look at her trauma head-on -- the jackie-jeff scene mirroring the shauna masturbation scene. callie not taking the chuck out of the freezer being what takes us in the present timeline into shauna's butchery skills. callie telling shauna youre so not fine. you think i can't see that? i feel crazy about it!!!
but anyway like, i think the tangled web of shauna's children both belonging and not belonging to her, the cult mentality of "you took something that didn't belong to you" re: jackie and travis, jackie dying as a first sacrifice, allie's leg breaking as a first sacrifice, callie being linked in the potential energy and wistfulness of what-ifs to both allie and jackie. even just, callie being shauna's daughter, her heir in a sense, and my personal theory that shauna was very high up in the cult structure . it just makes sense to me that the cult will come for callie at some point, try to draw her in.
like, i don't think callie is the cold open pit girl. but i don't think that'll stop someone from trying to make her a pit girl one day.
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