Okay.. So I Kinda Just Said Fuck It To The Original Concept And Did All Of Them (my Bad Misty)

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.

watching people trying to argue morality over characters from YELLOWJACKETS is so exhausting PICK your favourite cannibal and BE QUIET

someone sedate this man.

WHAT

Not to victim blame but maybe if Melissa kissed Shauna she wouldn’t have gotten a bite taken out of her you know how to disarm her use it

what this fandom needs

more f/f

the yellowjackets are in a deadbeat parent-off

rip to this canonically absolute fucking dumbass (picks fights with the deranged butcher, gets dumped for the guy's cousin, is too sexy for this cave, falls into a pit TWICE)

The Yellowjackets as glee plotlines with no explanation

Shauna: Sebastian blinding Blaine by throwing rock salt at him, then subsequently arguing with Santana by singing “smooth criminal”

Jackie: Making two student have sex so that they could be better at a high school level play

Nat: Terry Schuster getting the kids high in school

Lottie: Finn thinking there was Jesus in his grilled cheese sandwich

Taissa: Blaine wanting to propose to Kurt when they weren’t even together (he also cheated on Kurt and dated his high school bully)

Van: Brittany agreeing to be shot out of a canon so the cheerios could win a high school level cheerleading contest

Mari: Terri Schuester faking a pregnancy, then trying to get Quinn to give her kid to her/ kitty giving Marley an eating disorder

Misty: Mercedes throwing a brick to destroy Kurt’s car after he didn’t reciprocate her crush (he’s gay)

Laura Lee: There was a gas leak and Blaine imagined all of his friends to be muppets and they sang “what does the fox say”

Coach Ben: Mr. Schue fighting to allow the kids to twerk in school

Travis: Brittany becoming a math genius the year after she had a 0.0 GPA