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YELLOWJACKETS — S3E1: It Girl (2025)

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YELLOWJACKETS + text posts 3.01 It Girl 3.02 Dislocation

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there's a post on here that's like "the worst thing a piece of fiction can be is mean", and while I agree with that, I think it being insincere is just as bad. nothing more obnoxious than a story that's constantly sneering and rolling its eyes at its own genre in a bid to seem clever and above it all.

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at least melissa has more self-awareness about her situation than whatever is going on with shauna most days

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the greatest unrequited love of yellowjackets is not jackieshauna but actually other tai and van. other tai would do anything for van, but van will always be disgusted and frightened of her. will always prefer tai, even when tai abandoned her for 25 years, even though it was other tai who asked for van, who was still thinking of her, all those years later

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do ya’ll think travis ever had to wear crop tops n booty shorts when the lesbians took all his boy clothes from the community pile

if there weren’t already two pairs of khaki pants, they’d fight over the one like siblings

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I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind

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"Jackie wasn't mean in season 1"... except she was. "Shauna wasn't ever kind"... but also she was.

These conversations always seem to omit stuff to paint a certain picture. To imply Jackie's total innocence and goodness, because shes been unfairly reinvented in death by Shauna and the others (and she has! but that doesn't change the reality that she wasnt all good and kind).

Jackie was kind, she cared about the team. She was hard-working. She wanted the best for people. She gave Shauna the last of her food. She was kind to Misty where others weren't. They didn't tell her about the Allie plan, because they knew she wouldn't allow it. But she also let her insecurities make her cruel at times. She targets Nat in her jealousy, when Nats done nothing to her. She's dismissive of Shauna and lies to her, even if its not malicious. Her treatment of Travis is also pretty questionable.

Likewise, Shauna is kind. She's the first to offer comfort to those she believe needs it. Javi, Jackie, Tai, Lottie, Mari, etc. Its a long list. But there's also cruelty, because, whatever her reasons, she did something that she knew could deeply hurt the person she cared about most. She prioritised whatever it was sleeping with Jeff offered, over Jackie. Not just once, but multiple times.

You don't have to percieve Jackie as all good, just because she in some way stands in opposition to what Shauna's become. Jackie wasn't perfect, thats the point. The facade of perfection was a lie, and (as we see in the pilot) maintaining it weighed heavily on her. She was equal parts good and bad, like they all were in the beginning, and frankly i question the need to pretend she was more innately good than any of the rest of them. That was not what made Jackie singular. What made her different, was her not being afraid to stand in opposition to the new status quo. To openly reject the wilderness. To question it.

We don't need to rewrite who Jackie was and sanctify her. She was a normal, sometimes incredibly kind, sometimes spiteful, teenage girl, and her death doesn't become more or less tragic depending on her moral quality.

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Honestly, with all the tradwife cooking trash circulating, it only makes me love B Dylan Hollis more for baking vintage recipes while being openly gay, making sexual jokes, and screaming at the ingredients. He's the antithesis of every soft-spoken cishet woman cooking for her husband and children. You don't have to be an idyllic cottagecore housewife to cook.

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Kiss from a rose sounds like a google translate of a simlish

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Feral teenage girls really destroyed this man

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i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

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mari being dragged and strung up, removed of her dignity, and essentially sc4lped for her hair to be worn as a trophy.

travis being hvng, his death serving no point.

passively watching javi die and proceeding to carry him like a trussed animal to slaughter.

crystal disregarded and forgotten about (save for comic relief).

lottie fridged.

there’s a pattern.

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YELLOWJACKETS 1.10 // 3.03 // 3.04

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some people just have no true appreciation for terrible women. oh she killed and ate people? well maybe she was hungry. "I cant defend her anymore-" well then fucking stand aside so i can talk to my client

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i could add a few more stages to grief if they let me