#this is why i love Yellowjackets so much

[novelconcepts]

I really think we as a society don't give enough credit to performers who thrive in an ensemble situation. It's always obvious when an actor is excellent front and center, and we're constantly rewarding that skill set with awards, but god, there's something to be said for the power of a true ensemble piece. People who are so good at reading one another and playing off what they're given, tossing the ball and knowing when to turn it into a grenade. As much fun as it is to watch a solid monologue or a solo show, I always find it so much more thrilling--and so much more authentically lived-in--when there's an ensemble just feeding one another in every single scene. Who do I look at? What is everyone else learning and deciding even from the background? This is what life looks like, and actors who really shine in that environment have really become my favorite to follow.

[vanpalmr]

YELLOWJACKETS APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 day three: favorite dynamic ➣ SHAUNA x GHOST JACKIE

[wistfulwatcher]

2.08 IT CHOOSES | 1.03 THE DOLLHOUSE

[riccissance]

taissa is so so tragic in that she literally can’t trust herself to keep her loved ones safe even though she desperately wants to… like, whenever she realizes things she’s done while sleepwalking, all she wants to do is fix it or keep it from happening again (assuring steve she won’t hurt him like biscuit while knowing she can’t actually do anything about it)… and she tries to fight off the other part of herself to keep them safe but only ever manages to make things worse (simone ending up in the icu)…

[babisawyer]

Jackie realizing she’s gonna have to take care of shauna and jeff’s ghost baby

[lesbianlotties]

Lauren talking about getting the role of Van and Simone saying "that was after you kneecapped Jessica Chastain" 😭😭😭😭

[ammoniteflesh]

The main reason I love Yellowjackets so much is that... it's so rare, in fiction, for leading women to be emotionally ugly. They have problems, sure. Trauma, even. But typically only in ways that let them remain attractive to a male audience. I'm struggling to articulate exactly what I mean by this, but female protagnists in fiction get to be flawed but not unpleasant. Dramatic but not offputting. Snarky but not outright rude. It basically boils down to (shock horror) not being able to access the full range of complexity that male leads do on a regular basis. And - forgive me for the reference - this is noticeable because when women do get to be flawed in messy, ugly, truly controversial ways, we have a special word for it. That's what a Vriska is! This post got away from me but essentially: I love Yellowjackets because it's a cast made up pretty much exclusively of Vriskas.

[spider-gallery]

unfinished broadchurch fanart

yellowjackets :)

[her-canine-teeth]

bad astrology by flower face

[the-lonelyshepherd]

Just read your Lottienat post…. honestly, I get it but also? Why can’t people just enjoy things?

yellowjackets fans when i say popular fanon of a specific ship is so disgustingly mischaracterized it teeters on the edge of very harmful stereotyping (it hurts their feelings to be called out)

[sirenedeslily]

i said, i miss you sooo.. baaadd.

she says,

[yellowjacketslesbian]

I’m sure someone else already picked up on this, but I’m rewatching S1E3, and taissa’s grandmother is catholic. the crosses on the wall are actually crucifixes and the religious art on the walls is in a traditional catholic art style.

this literally adds so much context to tai as a character and how she approaches the supernatural element in the wilderness imo. like of course she rejects it and tries to pretend the man with no eyes isn’t real. of course she’s instantly suspicious of it all.

like there tends to be a lot of emphasis in catholicism placed on the existence of the supernatural more so than in many other branches of the religion, so it makes sense that tai would reject any discussion of the supernatural because it could bring up religious trauma.

[wistfulwatcher]

YELLOWJACKETS | 2.04 “OLD WOUNDS”

[jackies-ear]

Favorite Yellowjackets line:

Not one of those girls gave a good goddamn about trigonometry

[novelconcepts]

Like. I need more of the Lottie-Van-Taissa dynamic. I need it so badly. Because Van is acting as fulcrum to the two girls arguably MOST supernaturally linked to the Wilderness. She is Tai’s anchor and Lottie’s acolyte. She believes in them both without pause. She is accepting of the rituals presented: Lottie’s bone necklace and Taissa’s rope tether, Lottie’s meditation and Taissa’s nighttime travels. She is trying so hard to articulate to Tai why she should talk to Lottie, why that might help her. And Lottie is so easy, out of the two, because she is so accepting of what’s happening to and around her. But it’s Tai. Tai, Van’s love. Tai, Van’s purpose. From Taissa’s perspective, she’s the sanity, the logic center of this new world they’re in, but from Van’s perspective: she’s the soul to Lottie’s spirit. They are matched. They are one coin, and they could be so strong if they would just work together. Van knows this. Lottie would know this. But it runs in direct opposition to how Tai sees herself, who she needs to be, so she flatly refuses. It is such an excellent trifecta of a dynamic. Lottie as leader. Tai refusing to follow. Van stretched in both directions. You can’t guard the whole net at once. You have to be able to move. So how on earth will that play out?

[munamania]

talking about yellowjackets with people who get it is like so incredibly fun and juicy and dissecting the complex narrative themes motifs will give you a high truly indescribable it’s a gold mine it’s genius it’s soooooo fucking delectable. and then you talk to someone who very obviously does not enjoy the genre storytelling etc but is pretending to like it bc it’s big and it makes you wanna blow the whole building up