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Woah, woah, hey, JV. YELLOWJACKETS, ‘Pilot’

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yellowjackets soccer team is just "hey what if we put a bunch of people with sexual hang-ups and/or trauma in one room and their personal issues are just the right ones to make the issues of everyone around them worse"

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Families used to eat dinner together, no phones, no iPads, just honest face to face conversations around the fireplace

You don’t see that anymore. Because of woke

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This is me pushing the awkward middle school JackieShauna agenda

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never forget your roots

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Some words will never leave God’s mouth, no matter how hard you listen.

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crumbs

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the way the adult yellowjackets just Can't Stop Killing really drives home the emotional impact of mari insisting to ben that they're done with all that now. jackie and javi were necessary but we didn't kill them and we're Done With That Now. and not only are they not done with it in the wilderness. but they're never going to Be done with it. they started and they can't stop. there will always be One More Person they have to kill to "protect" themselves or each other. everyone is a threat. every thread you think you've pulled out splits into three more and it all unravels from there. you wake up naked and alone and covered in blood. again. and again. and again. until the blood is yours. until you are the one in the pit (casket) with no one standing over you (eulogizing). anyhow, it's over now.

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going insane. "we don't belong there anymore" they don't belong there anymore! there's a post by @nataliesscatorccio that calls the show an unabashed expression of the "singular, violent, inescapable wilderness of girlhood". and who are they now that they have to give it up? their innocence is long gone, but they're still technically teens. and so returning home also means entering into adulthood, it means repression, it means a 9-5 while the deepest parts of themselves they allowed out in the wilderness stays dormant, it means ultimately: a boring, normal life. the 3 who stay are pivotal: lottie will be forced back to being medicated but also unspecial and unheard. tai will have to give up van and with this live with other tai alone, two separate selves that she will have to keep hidden because she doesn't have anybody who would understand. and shauna? lottie asks nat what does she have to go back to but god what does shauna? jackie is dead, her life is dead. so much cause of her rage this season comes from her baby's death but he never existed outside the wilderness. who she is has become so intertwined now, it isn't just jackie that doesn't know where she began and ended with, now it's the wilderness and this self that she is exposed with: dark, twisted and violent. when lottie says that they don't belong anymore, shauna doesn't stand stagnated, she stands fixed. it happens so that she never moves. her lines to melissa stand out, "you aren't you", "you don't get to have a normal life" but particularly, "this isn't normal"; normal life isn't normal? tai's question is so substantial. why haven't they thought about how they're going to have to return with the things they've done? in this, how are they going to return without themselves? so, begging another question, what do you do when you have to give up freedom? when you've become unravelled, having allowed yourself to be/do what society would never allow you to? each character has gotten a moment where they've been made to feel special and revered, with their selves laid completely open for the rest to bare witness to. how do you close yourself back up? how do you deal with the fact that real life doesn't care? that too, the trauma you've faced will never be understood? who are you when you're denied your self expression?

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Can I interest you all with some 70's styled Yellowjackets (adult Version) ?

We've got Van, Tai, Nat, Lottie, Misty, Shauna, Travis, Jackie, and Mari. Yes, I know Jackie and Mari don't have adult versions, but I was doodling an outfit and I thought it's very Tai coded and then it went "Let's do all the YJ in 70's outfit". And now I imagine an AU set in the 70's where they are all fine and well. It's only messing my girl Akilah, Laura Lee, and Gen and Melissa, I'm working on it.

Also, I want to try and draw more of their adult versions because I like them, too.

My only beef with those doodles are those of Misty and Shauna's. They are not great. It happens.

Also, the photo quality is bad

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JESUS WAS SEEN

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Yellowjackets Fashion Fact: According to Costume designer Amy Parris, Callie’s blue and white striped sweater is an intentional callback to Jackie’s striped Polo sweatshirt.

As it was explained by Desjardins, there are more connections/ties between Callie and Jackie in season 1. One instance of this is actually in the script for 01x05 as it explicitly says that Callie reminds Shauna of Jackie.

I also think it’s interesting that Callie is wearing a Polo button down in that same scene because Polo is a brand that Jackie wears quite a bit.

Link:

https://fashionista.com/2023/04/yellowjackets-season-2-costumes-outfits-clues

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there is something there in how season one introduces characters that embody tropes (such as the burnout, the popular girl, the nerd, etc) that are subsequently deconstructed and played with; the impact of these tropes regarding how they are perceived is felt in universe and with how the audience sees things. and then in later seasons the characters are put into boxes yet again but this time very literally assigned more concrete roles within the group and well. call me crazy but perhaps these roles might also be restrictive and we shouldn't fall into the trap of defining the characters by them. its not like the show goes out of its way to show how damaging that is in universe or anything…

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lots of thoughts going on. post incoming. eventually

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It’s just hits differently to watch Yellowjackets having watched Heavenly Creatures, since Jackie and Shauna are almost definitely an ode to Juliet and Pauline. If in Heavenly Creatures, seventeen-year-old Melanie Lynskey plays a young girl who formed an obsessive, violent, homoerotic bond growing up, a relationship labelled immature at best, condemnable at worst, at forty she plays the aftermath of such a terrible, ruinous bond that lives on past adulthood, past death. If Heavenly Creatures is the question, Yellowjackets is the answer.

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need to write… lottielee weekend...

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Hello Lottielee Nation!

By popular (in some circles) demand, LOTTIELEE WEEKEND 3 will be held THIS JUNE, FRIDAY THE 20TH THROUGH MONDAY THE 23TH, due to a tie in the poll on the dates which I broke on the basis of the other options all being closer to these dates.

As a reminder, Lottielee Weekend is a fandom event to celebrate, analyze, and generally come together over the relationship between Lottie Matthews and Laura Lee from the TV show Yellowjackets. While Lottielee Weekend will focus on the idea of a romantic connection between Lottie and Laura Lee, any and all fanworks—fic, art, edits, vids, meta, playlists—focusing on any facet of their relationship are welcome.

Each day will have an optional theme to spark your creativity, plus alternative prompts for Days 2, 3, and 4.

Day 1: Laura Lee at Lottie's Death

Season 3 was polarizing in the fandom, and while a lot of Lottielee shippers (including the mod) liked it overall, one common point of contention was an almost complete absence of Laura Lee appearances, mentions, and acknowledgements, even when Lottie died. With this prompt, you fix that.

No alternative prompt.

Day 2: Time Travel

A classic for a reason. The anon who suggested this had a pre-crash situation, perhaps a little like Madoka and Homura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, with Laura Lee confused about how clingy and protective of her the other defender on her varsity soccer team is all of a sudden.

Alternative prompt: Pre-crash romcom. Bonus if it's narrated by Leonard.

Day 3: Role Reversal

Prophet!Laura Lee and believer!Lottie, rich!Laura Lee and middle-class!Lottie, whatever takes your fancy. Yellowjackets is a show whose character writing deals a lot with polarities, oppositions, and foils, and Lottie and Laura Lee's dynamic is no exception here. Flip the script on that!

Alternative prompt: Historical AU

Day 4: Free Choice

Lottie and Laura Lee don't get a ton of agency over their all-too-limited time together in Yellowjackets canon, but you do. If you've felt bound to the prompts on previous days and want to cut loose, here's where to do it.

More-optional-than-usual alternative prompt: Fairy tale AU

Some ground rules: Lottielee Weekend is for everyone. Clearly warn for explicit sexual content or for any gore or brutality that goes beyond what we see in Yellowjackets canon. Do not bash other ships, although criticizing or problematizing them (or even criticizing or problematizing Lottielee! We love them, but they're not without fault) is fine. Above all else, have fun, or what passes for fun with a ship as tragic as our poor doomed prophet and saint.

We will be tracking #lottieleeweekend and sharing submissions on this blog once the event begins. Feel free to use the hashtag on other platforms as well!