babe are you okay i saw you posting without tags again
Regrets
misty: shauna would have left mari in the pit
natalie: hey. but yea she would have
shauna: yeah i would have
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
i know what your type is nat, i see the pattern...
im also into tall brow doe eyed people with dark hair and tanned skin and pretty lips natalie.
and yes im sick enough to make both girls look at travis and it was on purpose (lottie looking at him in sibling way, and mari looking at him mainly as alexa, but also how mari was thirsting over him in s1)
To me the crux of the story in Yellowjackets will always be a reflection of how modern major societies continuously and systematically fail the most vulnerable.
Every character in this show is a victim one way or another.
Lottie was born into a privileged life but was othered by her own mental illness and constantly failed by a world that continuously silenced and isolated her rather than guiding or dealing with the issues she didn't understand how to address.
Natalie started with nothing. She is the reflection of many children in America who are born into families that do not have the physical, economic, or emotional resources to care for them.
Travis very clearly has some sort of anxiety disorder and has been shown to have a history of being bullied and even ridiculed by his own father. God forbid a young boy have any type of sensitivity. Beyond that, his character is a very deliberate example of a survivor of sexual assault- an issue that is never really addressed by the perpetrators.
Taissa was born into a middle-class privileged family and a great deal of pride and ambition that was likely learned or reinforced in some way. She also was a teenage, mixed race, lesbian in the 90's. She had every instinct and drive to succeed despite a world that was structured so that she couldn't.
Jackie was born into a privileged, suburban, white family- but she was still a teenage girl in the 90s with perceptions of who she was forced onto her.
Shauna was the stereotypical poster child of teen angst in modern America, but she also had a deep set insecurity and maladaptive issues that were never looked at or acknowledged.
All of these children undergo a tremendous amount of stress, loss, grief, pain, and both physical and emotional trauma that changes them forever. But then they return to a world that is indifferent to all of that. Their pain is spectacle. Something to be publicly agreed upon as a tragedy. But they don't ever receive the care they need from it. They are shuffled back into a world they no longer fit into and expected to return to their roles as proper, civilized, demure young women and gentleman.
The tragedy of Yellowjackets was never about the horrors of survival in the wilderness- the tragedy has always been that this is a very clear depiction of how society's indifference and persistent marginalization of those considered "other" can push people to the brink of destruction or their own humanity.
Coach Ben: I wanna show you a picture from last night that really upset me
Nat: Ok, but in my defense Shauna bet me 50 cents I couldn’t drink all that shampoo
Coach Ben: That’s not what I wanted to- You drank shampoo?
yellowjackets 3x10 spoilers ahead.
i actually think there were two separate teams conspiring in the finale. i don’t think mari, akilah, gen, and melissa were working with van, nat, and misty. not because they didn’t want to, but because neither group knew what the other was up to.
mari, akilah, gen, and melissa seemed like they wanted the hunt to happen so they could use it as a cover to kill shauna and lottie. they’re the only two really keeping them stuck out there. mari told shauna, “you deserve everything that’s coming for you,” and then melissa straight-up tackled her and almost killed her like it was planed. akilah literally went after lottie with a brick. the hunt was an opportunity to get rid of the people standing between them and rescue. meanwhile, van, nat, and misty were working on their own plan, one that just happened to benefit from the chaos of the hunt. they didn’t want the hunt either, but it gave nat cover to escape and call for help.
honestly, if either group had known what the other was doing, the hunt probably wouldn’t have been necessary at all. they could’ve just teamed up and jumped shauna and lottie directly.
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Just wanna point out how if anyone else tried to even attempt what Melissa did to Shauna, Shauna would’ve literally skinned them chin to anus without a second thought. Like Melissa rocked Shauna’s shit with that tree branch, continued to overpower her, and then tried to choke her to death. You can’t tell me that shauna doesn’t have some feeling for her cause she really just let all that slide. We’re talking about bisexual satan, oshauna bin laden, shaudam Hussein, wilderness jigsaw, ect ect
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