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I don't know anything about YuGiOh but "Overworked" is the greatest card art they've ever done

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‘are you afab or amab’ why? you tryna figure out what typa holes i got? you tryna bang??

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"jackie deserves someone better than shauna!" if you said that to jackie's face i think she'd kill you

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You know, it’s important to have tragic blorbos sometimes because hey, maybe you had a bad day, maybe your job sucks so fucking much. But do you know who had a worse day? Blorbo bleebus, who’s doomed by the narrative

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GAMING NEWS !!

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hi it’s lottielee hours again 💔

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Haunting the narrative

when a character whose physical presence in the story is sparse or non-existent, but their actions and absence have significant consequences on the main characters or plot.

Or a character who affects the story (has a presence) long after they are gone. they are almost able to transcend death in a way. as they still feel like an active character

A famous example is Rebecca from Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name. Rebecca is constantly mentioned, so much so it's as if she still lives, overshadowing the actual unnamed protagonist of the story.

In the cases of when we never see this character . we rely on the memories of the current characters and their perspectives on them for an understanding of who this person was. But of course this is completely unreliable, so what we get is this ominous shadow of a character that is defined by the unreliable memories and perceptions of those still alive

1. Jackie Taylor - Yellowjackets (spoilers)

she is alive in the beginning of the story so we are able to understand her and who she is in her own right.

"I mean, you make people feel like things are gonna be okay just by showing up and... being your dumb, hot, awesome self. At least you always did that for me." - shauna

from the beginning she was established as the social leader of the group. And as team captain, she had significant influence over the others. often this was a positive influence. however this could also border on controlling especially in regards to Shauna, whom she kept firmly under her wing

expressing extreme jealousy when shauna grew closer with other members of the team

even after finding out about shauna's affair with jeff, she doesn't immediately confront her, as she can live without jeff, as she doesn't actually love him but is so emotionally dependent on shauna, that this is something she could look past in order to keep her.

overall she almost represents a level of normalcy (perhaps why she is unable to survive) , as when the others begin to invest in this idea of the wilderness, she completely rejects it. ultimately becoming an outsider, and leading to her death in season one, a death that shauna is partly responsible for.

sending shauna, due to this codependency, into a downward spiral. while marking a turning point in the show, as aspects of the civilisation that they carried into the wilderness dissolve, beginning a Descent into brutality

after her death we gradually see her change under shauna's perspective, as she literally seems to haunt her over the course of the show as a ghost-like figure. acting as this personification of guilt.

as the show goes on, jackie's personality twists, becoming increasingly sinister and mocking. even beginning to look different as shauna forgets what she looked like.

She maintains this ominous power over shauna, a power which she has always had over her. she's the definition of haunting the narrative in an almost on the nose way

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I love how all the lesbians on tiktok are reposting the renewal announcements like a beacon to each other. Lord of the rings up in this bitch.

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we should have known jackie was going to die the moment we saw those dead wife slow-mo shots of her in the pilot 😔

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melanie lynskey saying what NEEDED to be said. THANK YOU. where's the smoke for jeff?

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I don’t want nonchalance or casual, I want intense yearning that turns into religious obsession that haunts me for my life

I want whatever tf this was