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.
melissa.... shut the fuck up
Honestly given the heavy Honkai impact 3rd references in the newest planet I personally think Himeko should stay put nice and safe in the express we do not need a repeat of last time
i’m obsessed with the shaunahat/jackieshauna parallels sorryy
pspsps dangles this infront of lottienat fans
gay people get the fuck up sophie is set to star in an upcoming project alongside havana rose liu and kristine froseth WE ARE SO FED
strong contender for funniest yellowjackets moment to me
look I know people dislike how unhinged EVERYONE been this season but like am I the only one who a. thinks it's realistic given their character arcs and b. just kinda loves it like the more unhinged the better
anybody else have like. public and private pronouns. like yeah strangers can use he or she for me idc but if you're a friend im expecting they/them only. and if you're a close friend you unlock the super secret rights to use it/its (exclusive) (rare drop)
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.