i’m actually getting exhausted at this point guys yellowjackets is an extremely queer & sapphic show 😭 like no it’s not the L word. because it wouldn’t make any fucking sense for it to be the L word. these are teenagers from the 90s who have weird and complicated relationships with each other who grow up into emotionally stunted adults who continue to have weird and complicated relationships with each other. i need you to stop discrediting the extremely queer way jackie and shauna were written, the devotion courtney eaton and jane widdop played their characters as having for each other, the ways in which christina ricci has played and talked about misty’s sexuality and feelings toward men, the obvious ways in which travis can be read as a trans woman. i need you to stop discrediting all of this just because they’re not portrayed in a stereotypically sexual and romantic way, just because the themes of this show aren’t spelled out for you. not every queer person is going to look the way you want them to. not every queer showrunner (because, i will remind you, bart and ashley are both queer) is going to write queer characters in the most straighforward way. it’s frankly fucking insulting to see so many people accuse yellowjackets, a show full of beautiful and complex and fucked up queer female dynamics, of queerbaiting and not being gay enough. watch heartstopper if you want a romcom. this is something different. just because queer representation doesn’t look the way you want it to doesn’t make it any less queer.
I know the latest episode said she was dead, but she definitely faked her death. Hilary's character is going to be in ep 8 and in the trailer for that episode, she obviously has blue eyes (Hilary has brown eyes). They wouldn't make her wear blue contacts unless it's essential for her character.
It's confirmed that Hilary isn't playing Alex. If Hilary isn't playing her, I don't see who else she would be playing. It was already confirmed she'd be a recurring character if the show is renewed for s4. She has to play an already established character, aka a survivor. I don't think they'd just introduce a new character like that so far in the story and make her part of the regular cast.
It's very possible that Melissa had to fake her death. We know she will get close to Hannah, and Hannah is definitely going to get killed. The other survivors would probably assume Mel will reveal the truth, so to protect herself, she'd have to fake her death. She is probably the one who sneaked the tape (Hannah might have given it to her). There is a lot of reference to the Princess Bride with Melissa, so it does feel like foreshadowing about her faking her death and coming back later for revenge.
And the synopsis for ep8 mentions a teammate coming back and making Shauna spiral. Given we know Hilary is going to be there, it's probably her. In the trailer she's saying "Does she know what you did? what you are capable of?" If this is Hilary talking to Shauna, then she does know her personally. This isn't a new character. This is Melissa coming back for revenge. For what Shauna did. As foreshadowed by ghost Jackie. What Shauna did after coming back was trying to kill Melissa to silence her.
Why wait 25 years? Personally, I think Melissa would have rather stayed hidden and never seen Shauna again and let them believe she's dead, but with Nat's death, the group possibly being on the news, she got reminded of them. She might even have gone to Nat's funeral and saw Shauna, and all those feelings she got came back and she impulsively decided to start following her around. We do see a blonde woman (prob Hilary) at the bar right after the funeral, watching over them. And later seemingly the same woman outside Shauna's house.
I think ep8 will answer a lot of our questions, but I'm almost 100% convinced Hilary is playing adult Melissa, and she's there to get revenge on Shauna. I don't think she was responsible for the breaks or the freezer, nor did she kill Lottie. But her actions will definitely make her the new prime suspect.
ya I found this out I was like 8 cause I was doing a presentation on him, goes without saying my teacher was concerned when I went on a rant about him cheating on his wife and how I hoped karma would catch up to him
okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.
I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.
so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.
Feel like a lot of people somehow missed the fact Melissa, Gen and Akilah were all collectively trying to isolate and kill Shauna, Tai and Lottie, its just none of them managed to actually go through with it. Van interrupts before Gen can even try, Akilah picks up a rock but can't make herself strike Lottie with it, Melissa gets the furthest but looking in Shauna's eyes as she struggles to breathe she just cant quite finish the job. Effectively the three of them and Mari orcestrated the hunt because they thought the chaos of it would be the best way to isolate and kill the people they see as causing the violence and stopping them from going home. The irony being that this means they instigated the violence this time, and, to be clear, this is all without even knowing about Nat, Van, and Misty's plan with the satellite phone. So they can try to say this was all Shauna and Lottie's doing but it wasn't, not when the others deliberately used what they knew of Shauna and Lottie's tendencies to try and benefit themselves, and isnt that what they've done all along really? Used Shauna and Lottie to assuage their own guilt and complicity in the violence.
for a show with such serious themes it is very deeply unserious
PJO AU where Jackie and Misty are left behind on a quest and go on their own adventure to bring them back and find some friends along the way?
Nat with Lottie in ep8: Sweetheart, angel, baby let’s go please okay? Everything will be good my love <3
Nat with Shauna in ep8: GIRL WTF JUST WALK U DUMBASS MOTHERFUCKER
love pissing off homophobic dads
Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad.
show me proof that you ' re here now , lord .
“Does anyone think that the caitvi kiss was too sudden”
“Does anyone think that the caitvi reunion was too sudden”
“does anyone think that the caitvi sex scene was too s-“
IVE ABOUT FUCKING HAD IT WITH Y’ALL.
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
It’s a little funny how since this latest episode I’ve seen a lot of “oh I hate shauna now” posts and I think that’s valid and understandable but when people say she’s annoying as a character and hard to watch I’m like. You don’t have to like her. But every show needs a good villain and she’s providing that this season. She’s the catalyst for so many major events in the series, is absolutely crucial to the plot, and is the closest thing to a central protagonist in the show. You can hate her but don’t act like the show would be better off without her. She is the show and what it embodies; cruelty and envy, particularly in the context of the complexity of female relationships, and trauma.