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pappy and his puppy <3

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brennan really tried to invent a fake language so siobhan couldn't fuck up his shit. and she still did. absolutely stunning i love her so much.

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LISTENNNN WE WERE SERVED CHOSEN FAMILY OVER BLOOD TIES ON A FAUX SILVER PLATTER in love you jawbone o'shaughnessy

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Hunt for the Night Yorb!

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“Hello, one and all!”

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The Last of Us’ Dina and Yellowjackets’ Shauna really said main pregnancy craving is the adorable, but chaotic bestie I’ve always had feelings for. Love to see it.

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I feel like I'm goin' nuts every time I see a post that says "oh they were all supposed to be insane cannibals but now only Shauna is like that and everyone else is just scared of her." No, they literally just condemned Coach Scott to death, tortured him because of a gas-huffing prophecy, ate him, and danced around his severed head like 3 episodes ago. Only Natalie objected to this on any meaningful level, and she was ostracized and punished for it.

The reason they're freaked out about Mari is because she's one of them, instead of an outsider. Literally, in the finale, they make a distinction between killing "enemies" and spilling their own blood- this is the line that some of the girls aren't willing to cross. That doesn't make them not villainous, or violent, or cannibalistic! It's actually not "better" to display some guy's head on a spike just because he's Not One Of Us. Shauna is terrifying because she's unwilling to make that distinction- she literally interrupts Van and Tai's plot to give Hannah the queen! Which they rationalized because she wasn't one of "them." And, in the adult timeline, Taissa decides that Shauna is the problem because Van dies, when approximately 1 day ago she was considering hunting down random people to murder on Van's behalf. It's easy to rationalize violence when it's not happening to people you care about, which is the brutal philosophical bedrock of civilization. The one taboo that most of the Yellowjackets are unwilling to break is killing the people you love, and Shauna has had her ability to love stripped away to nothing.

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Shauna fully just taking credit for Mari's death in a way because she wants to feel powerful and dangerous when really she basically had the least to do with it was actually... pretty perfect. Like Akilah, Mari, Gen, and Melissa agree to kill the livestock to instigate the hunt, Lottie suggests it first, Mari backs her up, Tai and Van rig the cards, Travis built the pit, etc, Shauna is actually pretty inconsequential to what happens. They all see her as driving the violence but ultimately she just reflects back at them the violence they've already brought with them. Tai and Misty scapegoating Shauna for Van's death by someone else's hand. Callie and Jeff basically holding Shauna accountable for a murder Callie committed. Like, Shauna is easy to blame because she desires the violence, but I bet if she died tomorrow they'd figure out pretty quick the horror still follows them.

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lottie: alright callie you can ask me anything you want ☺️(<- really wants to talk about her weird cannibal cult)

callie: does my mom love me :(

lottie: oh. 😐

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the soccer team element of the show actually adds such a fun layer and if you know soccer the little interplays are so interesting so im gonna share.

overwhelmingly their positions on the field mirror their personalities, roles, and relationships off of it. 11 players in a normal line up (8 positions with 3 duplicates) and we only know who played 7 = 8 survivors but we only know 7. or perhaps this doesnt represent the 8th survivor, but wilderness as the invisible playmaker. after all, the jersey numbers tell us whos missing - the player that would normally link the attack to the midfield - the way this would foreshadow jackies isolation from the rest of the team and all the attackers missing or dead as though the wilderness is pulling out the teams teeth.

the #6 and #9 dichotomy of jackie and shauna. shauna as the silent playmaker. jackie as the golden girl goalscorer. and then van ? the symbolism of her being a keeper. always touched by death but never dying, parrying a ball away at the very last moment. lottie as her defender, stood between van and the opposition. and then laura lee as lotties fullback, positioned at her right hand with all the biblical allusions that brings. and then tai and shauna as the central playmakers, working in tandem, making decisions for the group.

the way the hierarchy of the team, the starters and the reserves, remains exactly that, even in the wilderness. with misty, who has no position, always being the outsider. picking up after them as she always has and never appreciated. ofc she gravitates towards nat, a winger, naturally on the outskirts. though always typically the player called upon to play centrally in the absence of the #9 (Jackie). as we see nat shoulder jackies leadership role after her death. the necklace becoming a symbol of leadership as well as sacrifice, passed down the ranks like the passing of the armband when a captain leaves the field.

and then you have the mindset of the game itself "what happens on the field stays on the field" being applied to the wilderness, as they try to make sense of the two realities they're living in. the different rules for each. one thats ruthless, alongside the one of comeraderie, just like soccer. because on the field your best friend can kick out your legs and elbow you in the face, but once you step back over the white line its over. its how they comparmentalise. so is it any wonder they couldnt kill each other without making it into a sport.

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Adult Tai:

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manifestation king (x)

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doodle (🥺)

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OLIVIA COOKE & EMMA D'ARCY for MTV Movies

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save me codependent rhaenicent save me