Can we just acknowledge that Lottie is the only person we ever see Nat accept comfort from? Throughout the series, in both timelines, Nat suffers alone and in silence. Travis reaches out to touch her after both Javi and Coach Ben’s deaths, but she walks past him in both instances. When she finds Travis’ body, Misty attempts to comfort her but Nat pushes her away. Whenever Nat breaks down, she turns inward, shutting others out instead of seeking connection. Nowhere is this more evident than in the final moments of 3x09, when she begins to sob and everyone around her vanishes, leaving her utterly alone. It’s a visual metaphor for the profound isolation that defines how Nat experiences pain.
Given the nature of Nat’s home environment, I don’t think she ever learned how to accept tenderness and physical intimacy beyond sex. It’s foreign to her. And, on a deeper level, I think she doesn’t believe she deserves this kind of intimacy and unconditional care.
But, in this moment with Lottie, she finally allows herself to be held. For what might be the first time in her life, she feels safe enough to surrender, to lean into someone else’s care without flinching. She even feels safe enough to regress to a younger version of herself, a form of healing her inner child as she lays her head on Lottie’s lap. We see Nat engage in simple hello or goodbye hugs (or moments of sexual intimacy) with other characters, but Lottie is truly the only character Nat physically embraces in this unguarded, emotionally vulnerable way.
god I’m SO feral for this girl holy shit
new version of natalie’s mugshot!
i was watching the yes minster episode “The Skeleton in the Closet” today and had a random thought.
at about 10 minutes in, Sir Humphrey and Jim are walking through, like, a foyer? there’s big double doors behind them. and as they walk past, a woman comes through the doors and walks offstage the way they entered. they don’t interact with or even acknowledge her, and almost no viewer will even notice her presence. believe me when I say that her presence adds NOTHING to the episode.
but for some reason I started fixating on her (probably because she was kind of pretty and I’m very gay). who was she? why was she there? how did she get on the show? her cameo was so inconsequential that I can’t imagine she even got paid. did she just happen to walk through the shot and they left it in? or was she actually hired to be on screen for four seconds?
this post isn’t leading to any spectacular conclusion, it’s just a random thought. maybe I’ll write a fic about her character.
cant stop thinking about the yellowjackets cgs still being just teenagers . like yes, they take amazing care of the little’s but it takes the combined forces of Nat, Tai and Laura Lee to try and make a bottle for Lottie the first time. And little!van whining and rolling around because they are SO bored but Mama can’t play right now because she’s doing homework. Nat and Jackie are deep into a gossip session about someone from school who had a go at Lottie in the hallway and Lottie’s just sitting on Nat’s lap with her fingers in her mouth completely unaware of what they are talking about. Shauna, who is usually the go to for English assignments, being regressed and now they’re all just making up their essays and it’s not going to end well.
just watched a doe trip over her own front legs and bomb face first into half a dead tree. 10/10
so true! Paris is a beautiful city - much better than Thessaloniki or Athens!
Paris hate is so funny to me because he hasn't really done anything a bunch of the other Greeks haven't done (and done worse)
butchfemme jackieshauna this, futchfemme jackieshauna that, they are FUTCH4GIRLTWINK OR FUTCH4FUTCH !!!
RESPECT JACKIE'S TARGET LITTLE BOYS SECTION DRIP.
APPRECIATE THAT SHE WOULD HUNDRED PERCENT BE THE LOSER GIRLFRIEND WHO JUMPS OVER THE TABLE TO HELP SHAUNA OPEN A JAM JAR, PROUDLY TAKES IT FROM HER LIKE 'LET ME BABE 😎💪🏼', STRUGGLES WITH THE TOP FOR LIKE EIGHT MINUTES BEFORE SHAUNA POINTS OUT, TRYING NOT TO LAUGH, THAT THE LID WAS ALREADY OPEN AND SHE WAS TURNING IT THE WRONG WAY.
does the “69” signify that you’re the 69th person to have fucked Nerevar? because I’m pretty sure the number is a lot higher.
i get on bluesky for the first time in a white and i am immediately taking Ls
yeah it says our society is based as fuck
this says a lot about our society as a whole
Montagnard, Liberal, Radical, transfem. Autocrats of all stripes are not welcome here, be you fascist, communist, or monarchist. Current obsessions:YellowjacketsYes MinisterTESThe French RevolutionPoetry
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