Everyone always gets on yellowjackets for being fucking weird with the number of background characters and changing actresses and lacking depth for a lot of said background character and everything all the time but thats the point!!! That’s the point of it!!! All the surviving Yellowjackets are unreliable narrators!!! Most if not all of the surviving Yellowjackets have mental conditions and if they don’t they sure as hell have endless trauma. The flashbacks are being told by them, 25 years later, when they have spent all that time trying to hide and deny everything that happened and everything that occurred and all of it is messed up. They don’t want to remember it all, they don’t want to remember their dead teammates. Sometimes it’s impossible to tell which characters are flashing back to which segments. Sometimes characters are inexplicably absent. Sometimes some people remember more than others. Sometimes random characters appear who have been absent all this time. Like, Crystal appeared as a character out of the blue when Misty was feeling abandoned by Nat and was remembering her first best friend. Characters are recast because who can even remember what those girls looked like anymore. The consistent characters are the ones no one can forget. The first ones. Who is gonna forget Laura Lee? Jackie? Javi? No one. But who is gonna remember girl #3 that you killed and ate when you went insane in the wilderness? No one. Or maybe you don’t want to remember. Maybe by girl #3 you try and forget everything. You stifle all feelings and memories until you remember maybe she had brown hair, oh i think i remember her gathering herbs once, oh i think she had this hat she liked to wear, oh maybe she was around during this event or maybe she was already dead and gone and buried and eaten. Maybe maybe maybe. You don’t know. You never know. Because thats what trauma does it eats away at the brain until all you have left to tell your story is faulty memories and a heart full of grief. And i think it just got worse once Shauna burned her journals and left everything into pure memory. Even those were unreliable because Shauna was suffering from day one and it only got worse after Jackie. Nothing is gonna be consistent about a story told 25 years after the events by people so traumatized they can barely remember it themselves.
And this is how Vaggie and Husk become besties, their shared suffering
if Vaggie used to have a little backpain from her lost wings and Charlie got in the habit of giving back rubsies before bed only now the wings have returned through the power of gay love and it's past midnight in the hotel with the residents (supposedly) trying to be kinda quiet at the bar so the two can sleep (and not come storming down to threaten everyone with a spear) but then suddenly in the silence there's this singular SHRIEK of laughter, and even more shocking (terrifying?) is it sounded like Vaggie, everyone downstairs freezes as a door slams open and hooves clip clop frantically down the upper halls and then Charlie's leaning over the staircase bannister yelling DID YOU KNOW WINGS ARE VERY SENSITIVE AND KINDA TICKLISH AT THE BASE!??!? ANYWAY EVERYONE HAVE A GOOD NIGHT I KNOW I WILL!!! before racing back to her and Vaggie's room, their door slams shut as everyone stares blankly into the abyss of knowledge except Husk who's pouring them all a drink and Angel Dust who's looking thoughtfully at husk
in the morning husk baps vaggie over the head with a shot glass for dooming them both and then pours her a drink too in commiseration
Was inspired by another post
biggggg lottie art dump because i've been drawing her a lot more this past month . she is my current muse ❤️
new episode today!
Nat - Goth.
Misty - Weirdo... her parents wanted her out of the house...
Van - Her mum doesn't actually care but she still crocodile-teared her way into letting Van stay without cost for the whole summer, #freebabysitting
Laura Lee - She's just a volunteer there (for now).
Shauna - Flannel-wearing, soccer-playing, poet-wannabe introvert. Obvs.
Jackie - Shauna got sent there. Also she plays soccer.
Lottie - Kept talking about seeing women (she has unstoppable visions).
Tai - She's gay; incidentally, Tai sent herself there because she didn't want to deal with a gay crisis, and her parents currently think she's at a Model UN conference.
Mari - Tried invoking Girl On Girl Is Hot with the wrong crowd.
Melissa - Look at her fucking hat. Come on.
Crystal - No sense of boundaries.
having neurodivergent friends is great because you’ll be out and about in your own hyperfixation and then suddenly you link it to your hyperfixation-in-law
AND THATS YELLOWJACKETS FOR YA!!!
Lottie Matthews is alive and well, Lottie Matthews is happy and breathing, Lottie Matthews went in vacation and is alive and well. These are my new daily affirmations.