Melissa Voting Against Ben For Shauna. Van Voting Against Ben To (probably) Protect Tai. Which Means

shauna kisses a girl once and an episode later jackie appears to her in a dream to fucking kill her

honestly im only reblogging arcane shit for my moot and praying they haven’t seen it before

is this love languages

Watching people react to an actual female antihero has been very 'disappointed but not surprised', like lots of people didn't like Walter White or Tony Soprano but they never asked why they were central charcaters or called them 'unwatchable' (and she's far more sympathetic than those two lol)

Anon literally thank you I’ve felt so crazy these past 24 hours seeing the influx of Shauna hate

Because I GET disliking a character! I wasn’t a fan of Misty when I first started watching yj! She’s my baby now and I’ll defend her with my life but she took some getting used to for me and that’s okay. Even if you don’t really warm up to polarizing characters like Shauna and Misty, it doesn’t mean you’re engaging with the material “incorrectly.” But as you said, acting like they’re utterly unwatchable? Like they’re destroying the moral fabric of (checks notes) the immoral people eating show? Discrediting their huge impact on the show? Really?

I saw this post recently about yj that I really liked and I’ll see if I can track it down to credit after I finish this. Basically it was about how one major problem with the fandom is how skewed some fans’ perception is of what actions within the series are acceptable and what isn’t. Every girl who is a current survivor in the teen timeline has done some vile shit to survive. Even Natalie let Javi drown. Shauna condemning Coach Ben and being, yes, a total dick to Nat this season is not… really the worst thing she’s even done. I’m sure she is about to quote unquote get worse and I’m excited! I want to see all of the Yellowjackets commit increasingly unforgivable acts! That’s what the show is about. It’s about a group of high school girls full of dynamics crawling with envy and resentment and devotion and attraction having to fight tooth and nail to survive in the wilderness where the lines between reality and fantasy blur and polite society fails. It’s not Heartstopper 😭 and Shauna is, just like any wildly popular male antihero like those you mentioned, vicious and willing to do whatever it takes to get what she wants (and again like you said, she’s a lot more sympathetic than those guys thus far). Some people are just uncomfortable seeing that on a woman in ways they simply aren’t when it’s a man. But Shauna is, undeniably, the heart of the show and everything it represents.

mari was killed by a card meant for hannah, in a trap meant for lottie, by a conspiracy meant for shauna, and yet there was no other way for this story to go. shes been dead since the beginning.

practice

more squad stuff yippee (someone save sugar pls)

My Yellowjackets Theory: Melissa is the 8th survivor, which begs the question, how has no one brought her up until now? Misty has famously kept insane tabs on all the survivors post-rescue, so it’s strange to go two seasons without at least her bringing it up. Now, stick with me. When they were rescued, they had to have had a moment where they got together and decided what they would make public and just how much they were gonna hide (a lot of it). In that moment, they had to have realized that it was gonna follow them forever, they would never escape each other or what they did, and they would never have a normal life. The only way to escape it all, is to die.

So Melissa faked her death.

She could’ve known that those crazy ass girls and what they did would never leave her alone and she would never have a normal life, so she faked her death for a chance at a normal life, and that’s why no one has brought her up at all.

Now with this blonde that they’re teasing is following Shauna, the way they mirrored that scene with the kiss, makes me think that Melissa has finally understood that as long is she is actually alive she will never escape the wilderness or the girls, and now she wants to be the last one left.

I physically cannot wait for the next episode LOL

I can't decide whether it's funnier to think Travis was just taking a shot in the dark and hit the target with the sleepover make outs or if Jackie's genuinely whispering in his ear like "yeah. I mean I knew she was gay because we used to kiss like... all the time. Like, with tongue and everything. Can't believe she went for Melissa, though. Nat's right there. Oh, shit. Sorry Travis."

sometimes a family is:

escaped convict papa

active suicide risk stepfather

mentally ill orphaned daughter

and who could forget: survivor’s guilt son-in-law

Oh my god JackieNat. The POTENTIAL?!? Ik everyone thinks LottieNat is the like popular x loser troupe but they're wrong. It's JackieNat. Oh my god.