Alright. We’re Settling This Discourse Once And For All.

yj ep 4 spoilery thoughts

NO AND LOTTIE WAS THE ONE PERSON MISTY COULD HAVE ACTUALLY SPENT TIME WITH AND HAD A FRIEND IN NO ! !

sorry the denial is wearing off and im getting sad

"do you think mel has to wear jackie's clothes when they make out" what a wild comment. and yes i do.

i hate how much people mischaracterize nat.. she has possibly the strongest core moral system of all the yellowjackets. aside from laura lees, probably, but laura lee’s morals come at least in part from her faith, nat’s come from the fact that she is genuinely just a good person. she is verbally against icing anyone out of the group. she is against stealing (she only took the candy she paid for when she broke the vending machine). she worries about the group noticing jackie not pitching in so she wakes her up in the morning. she has to be talked down and held back because she tries so hard at first to save javi.

nat is a good person and just i feel like a lot of people just put her in the box of “chaotic morally fucked baddie” but that’s not rlly who she is..

saw an absolutely hilarious animal crossing theory that i now 100% accept and it’s that in the animal crossing world, humans are going extinct, and so all the animals have locked you in an elaborate zoo enclosure and are trying to give you enrichment. and that’s why they give you infinite pointless tasks, hide money in trees and rocks, invented debt that doesnt matter etc. it’s why they always act so happy to see you even after you raze the entire island, relocate their houses twice, and always act so pleased about your choices no matter what. it’s all to keep their little endangered human healthy and enriched. and thinking of it this way has genuinely improved my experience of the game

i have no proof of this but I am onboard with this

melissa is a survivor im calling it now

Her face. Her fucking face. Van going "it's Mari" in that choked up, distraught voice. Gen distracting Tai so that "Mari could have a fighting chance". Lottie telling Mari she'd been there before. Oh my god. None of them wanted her to die. None of them wanted to eat her. They all just wanted to go home.

the "you were always its favorite" hitting TOO HARD right now, considering every time lottie has betrayed natalie, it's been (in my reading) for her own safety. that fucking affirmation in the adult timeline despite it all, oh my gOOODDDD.

“SquirrelCrow is the worst possible crackship you could make out of a TNP pair!”

Erins:

that edit of teen lottie tackling people down just reminded me one of my favorite things about her and also laura lee that many people in the fandom tend to forget, the fact they are both defense players

defense is probably one of soccer positions that demand the most from the players physically, and it's very common for the players to be taller and stronger than the rest of the team so that they can stop the other team's attack, help the goalie and prevent the other team from scoring goals

that's truth specially for center backs like lottie

left backs and right backs like laura lee are not necessarily as tall or strong as center backs, but they also can help both in defense and attack, so they have to be a combination of strong and fast

and both positions oftenly foul the adversaries, though, of course, the most skilled players know how to do that without getting a yellow or a red card

so, in conclusion, we have rich introverted-quiet-girl-turned-soft-spoken-cult-leader and sweet bible thumper, and they both could take. you. down. in the field if necessary

Friend: Hey Hollis, how do you always know lore about fandoms you're not even in?

Me: I dont know, the fandoms minions just kinda go door to door seeing who will hear about their lord and savior bill cipher and, well, I've not got much to do in my life