thereisalesbianintheforest

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gentle reminder

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"you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection borne of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally

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i actually get a bit annoyed with people who get a bit annoyed when people say “sorry” in response to their bad news. “why are you apologizing you didn’t do anything :/” like okay well a) you don’t know that and actually yes i am the secret architect of all your woes and have been this whole time, way to refuse to acknowledge a woman (gender neutral)’s accomplishments. and b) we’re both fluent english speakers so you know perfectly well that “sorry” isn’t always an apology and is very commonly used as an expression of general regret or sympathy. not in this case, because i have been your secret nemesis for years, meticulously plotting your every misery, but, like, in general

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It’s so infuriating that teen smoking rates were at an all time low in the US and we were on track to basically eradicate smoking and nicotine addiction in teens like it was flat out uncool to smoke and then They came out with nicotine injector flash drives that light up and taste like cotton candy. And have lead in them.

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i love hearing about the declining birth rate like yesss that is a major problem considering our dominant economic model. a problem i plan on contributing to 👍 joining the war on declining birth rates on the side of declining birth rates

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people will do/say the kindest thing you’ve ever witnessed then be like Sorry if that’s weird :(

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not being funny but if i gave birth without pain relief or a doctor after eating my best friend to stay alive and literally everyone in my life started praying to my dead baby and acting as if they have some ownership over and connection to him that i dont even get to feel because i had to hold his tiny dead body in my arms and accept i'd never get a chance to know him i would also probably become the villian

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not being funny but if i gave birth without pain relief or a doctor after eating my best friend to stay alive and literally everyone in my life started praying to my dead baby and acting as if they have some ownership over and connection to him that i dont even get to feel because i had to hold his tiny dead body in my arms and accept i'd never get a chance to know him i would also probably become the villian

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Seeing people talk about Shauna's transformation from s1 to s3 and wanted to compare and :(

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one name he doesnt want to disappear from this world

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I'm not condoning it, but Shauna not letting them grieve Mari is just the same as her putting the knife in Nat’s hand. Its a plea for understanding. Ofc its cruel. its inhumane. she gets too much satisfaction out of the entire ordeal. but its also what they did to her first. “they’re not people, they’re sacrifices. it was for the greater good. you can’t grieve them Shauna, can’t grieve your child, he actually belongs to all of us now. watch us disturb his grave, your best friends grave too, praying to a god none of you believed in. why cant you just let go of what you did to Javi? a child you cared about. tried to protect once. why are you so angry? we’re intrepid heroes. there's a glory in it actually.” Like, is it any wonder she throws it all back in their faces?

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everybody LOOOVES to talk about how shauna hallucinates this "hideous mean girl jackie" but nobody talks about when she's hallucinating giving birth and in her mind EVERYONE'S happy for her even fucking MARI. and lottie and nat helping. also jackie wasn't that mean in her hallucinations ghost jackie and shauna often banter and reminisce about the past. BUT you think she's not gonna hallucinate her best friend that died right after having a huge fight with her whose death she feels responsible for as being RESENTFUL? ALSO JACKIE WAS MEAN TO SHAUNA SHAUNA WAS MEAN TO JACKIE LIKE THAT WAS LITERALLY THE WHOLE FIGHT SCENE DO NOT TELL ME YOU KNOW JACKIE TAYLOR BETTER THAN SHAUNA "I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU END AND I BEGIN" SHIPMAN

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why shauna prevented her rescue as well as the others'.

shauna's refusal to leave the wilderness becomes this twisted form of maternal protection, doesn't it? she's created this logic where the forest holds the only versions of jackie and her baby that she can still reach. leaving would mean abandoning them completely, and that's a betrayal she can't stomach.

there's something almost sacred about her reasoning - if jackie died out there, if her baby died out there, then that's where they belong. that's where they're waiting. the wilderness becomes this strange sanctuary where her grief can live and breathe, where she doesn't have to face the reality of moving forward without them.

her post-partum state makes everything more raw, more desperate. without proper medical care, without the support she needed after losing the baby, she's operating on pure emotional instinct. the hormones, the trauma, the isolation - it all feeds into this protective fury that won't let anyone else escape what she can't escape.

shauna's always been better at swallowing her feelings than expressing them, so all that pain and love and terror gets channeled into this violent gatekeeping. she can't say "i need them close" or "i'm terrified of being alone with this grief," so instead she becomes this force that won't let anyone else have what she can't have - freedom from the place that took everything from her.

the wilderness isn't just where they died; it's where they still exist for her. and if she has to keep everyone else trapped there to maintain that connection, then that's what she'll do. it's grief masquerading as protection, love twisted into something darker but no less real.

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some people are dodging the point so hard. like yes shaunas the "bad guy", shes the one who wants people dead (and maybe lottie too ig) but this story has always been about why its even possible for that to matter. shes literally just one person so why dont they all just refuse to participate? nat does, repeatedly, but no one stands with her so lottie and shauna get what they want. we saw that shauna literally backed down when tai stood up to her, she isnt some unstoppable force.

this is and has always been about passive violence. how being silent in the face of violence, not actively standing up and saying "No" is complicity. tai and van rigging the cards so it will be the "outsider" who gets hunted is complicity. it is commentary on how we allow "fringe" members of our communities to be cast out, othered, hunted, because we're too afraid for ourselves to stand in solidarity with them. but then in the end when the violence comes for you or your friend or your family theres no one left to stand with you because you abandoned those "others" who could have stood with you. shauna and lottie only have the power that the girls give them by being passively complicit in a similar way to how shauna was complicit in tai's plan for allie in the pilot. and so it goes again and again. they all ostracised jackie, watched javi drown, let shauna intimidate and lottie lead them to vote against ben. this show is literally inspired by twin peaks, a story in which an entire town is found to be complict in the murder of a girl they all snubbed every possible opportunity to save. the point is not that shauna is the villian but rather that she is only able to hurt people because the others have created an environment that indulges her worst impulses.

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some people are dodging the point so hard. like yes shaunas the "bad guy", shes the one who wants people dead (and maybe lottie too ig) but this story has always been about why its even possible for that to matter. shes literally just one person so why dont they all just refuse to participate? nat does, repeatedly, but no one stands with her so lottie and shauna get what they want. we saw that shauna literally backed down when tai stood up to her, she isnt some unstoppable force.

this is and has always been about passive violence. how being silent in the face of violence, not actively standing up and saying "No" is complicity. tai and van rigging the cards so it will be the "outsider" who gets hunted is complicity. it is commentary on how we allow "fringe" members of our communities to be cast out, othered, hunted, because we're too afraid for ourselves to stand in solidarity with them. but then in the end when the violence comes for you or your friend or your family theres no one left to stand with you because you abandoned those "others" who could have stood with you. shauna and lottie only have the power that the girls give them by being passively complicit in a similar way to how shauna was complicit in tai's plan for allie in the pilot. and so it goes again and again. they all ostracised jackie, watched javi drown, let shauna intimidate and lottie lead them to vote against ben. this show is literally inspired by twin peaks, a story in which an entire town is found to be complict in the murder of a girl they all snubbed every possible opportunity to save. the point is not that shauna is the villian but rather that she is only able to hurt people because the others have created an environment that indulges her worst impulses.

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day 28 - pick an actor and draw them

i owe my life to @yellowjacketsfashion for this one their work is insane

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One thing about Sophie Nélisse, she's going to defend Shauna.