Funniest Thing In Yellowjackets To Me Is That Other Tai Just Wants Van Carnally. Like Yeah The Fucking

Poker Face 2.01 "The Game Is a Foot"

so either i don't understand english that well OR there is something going on here

#pretty

bottling some more assorted things for patreon last month

I dont really see people talk about enough the fact shauna probably spent so much time frustrated with jackie because she was in some way aware of jackie's facade. like imagine your childhood best friend starts putting on a fake exterior with you (and we know jackie does this we literally see her twist and omit the truth constantly, especially with shauna and especially when talking about jeff) like would that not feel insulting? even though its not at all malicious and almost entirely about jackie's fears and insecurities, shauna still had to experience probably years of the person she cared about most basically lying to her face. jackie constantly keeps shauna at arms length emotionally, making fun of her to avoid difficult or deep conversations, and just lying about what shes experiencing emotionally in general. shes not honest about her relationship with her boyfriend. not honest about the pressures she feels. like shauna gets a lot of heat for not saying anything but really both of them were as bad as each other. just because jackie was speaking doesnt mean what she was saying was honest. I think on some level shauna could tell that and it was what was feeding that intense resentment she felt.

Yellowjackets is a series so layered with subtext and whose characters contain such multitudes that I’ve learned not to always take my first impression of something as a necessarily accurate one, because the show asks that you look past the surface and appreciate the greater thematic context in which it exists.

In this respect the audience’s perspective often mirrors the characters’. It’s easier to distill complex people and events into archetypes in a straightforward narrative, to elect a hero and a villain, to displace all blame onto an individual rather than confronting the circumstances, systems, and personal responsibility that created or enabled them. The violence is attributed to Shauna alone because unlike the others she embraces it, but what made her into that? She was always the catalyst, not the reaction. She says “maybe you should leave” to Jackie and nobody intervenes; she says “she wants us to” and they consume her body; she says “wait” and they let Javi drown; she says “raise your hand” and they condemn Coach Ben to death. She gives a voice to their shame, resentment, hunger, desperation, selfishness, indulgence, vengeance, because for all intents and purposes, Shauna and ‘It’ are one and the same. And ‘It’ is everyone: it is the darkness within each of the girls, and by extension that within ourselves. Try as one might to create a bogeyman in the Antler Queen, when they lift back the veil they will only ever find themselves staring back into their own eyes.

cass and steph

Batman (2016-) #126 art by Jorge Jimenez 

mutual pining simply never misses. the yearning. the stupidity. the desperation while also thinking themselves alone with it. the rattling relief at the revelation. the way it works in so many scenarios— friends to lovers? a banger every time. casual hook-ups/friends with benefits while they both want more? show-stopping, spectacular, incredible. enemies who are so deep in denial it just makes them madder at each other? utterly unmatched every single time. slow burn, fast burn, burning while already fucking. mutual pining really just is that girl like truly who does it like her