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stealing from twitter

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What do you think of the scene in the pilot where Shauna is in Callie’s room? It was always disgusting but it feels so much more sinister now.

It’s a deeply deeply disturbing scene for sure, especially looking back on it now with everything we know about Shauna. It’s gross. But I also think that scene sets up the nature of the show so well. I love that it doesn’t shy away from how fucked up these characters are, it’s not afraid to show the ugly side of the trauma and regression they carry. That’s why I’m always confused that people are only just now being like “I hate Shauna now she’s a terrible person!” when her literal first scene on the show is her masturbating to pictures of her daughter’s teenage boyfriend. They warned us about her! It was made clear pretty early on that Shauna is not a good person, or a traditional survivor archetype, but she will always be a fascinating and complex character.

What I appreciate about Yellowjackets is that it doesn’t try to redeem these women. It lets them be messed up. It leans into the rot, moral decay, and arrested development. I don’t think the writers care if we like Shauna—I think she’s meant to represent the show’s core themes of ferocity, how survival isn’t inherently noble, and how the past seeps into the present. She’s not there to be forgivable. She’s there to be honest and raw.

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⤷ endless gifs of jackie taylor ♡ 9/∞

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I know I already made a post about how the girls aren’t getting rescued in season three because they haven’t split into rivaling tribes yet but also Other Tai hasn’t come out to play. In season one Tai sleeps over at Shauna’s house because she’s afraid of her other self, quite literally said, and I quote “ you know how bad it can get” like we’ve seen other Tai as an Adult, however we’ve only seen snippets of other Tai in her teen era that means we’re still missing apart of the story. How bad did it get?

Like right now {season 3} only teen Van knows about Taissa other self, but like I mentioned in season one adult Shauna seems to know as well

Seems like only a trusted few because Natalie, Lottie and Misty don’t seem to know, like if I’m going straight off of that sneak peek of the season 3 episode 7 I saw earlier

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yellowjackets is the kind of show that deserves 20 episode seasons

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No, because, if Misty dies and she is on that airplane alone because she's the only one who like absorbed her younger self and accepted her and developed as a person instead of splitting and fracturing into a teen Misty and an adult Misty like everybody else, AND SHE ENDS UP IN THAT PLANE ALONE BECAUSE OF THAT IM GONNA FUCKING SCREAM

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shaunahat breaking up without shauna making mel wear the virginity dress and hallucinating jackie the whole time.... we could've had it all

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Melissa's name is Greek for "Honeybee." And Yellowjackets will raid honeybee hives if given the chance. Shauna invaded Melissa's home. Mel didn't consider herself a real yellowjacket. God, this show has me by the neck.

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A moot told me their theory is that the people who die back home, have the plane vision because it is taking them back to the wilderness.

We didn't see Travis's death, so we don't know what he saw! But Natalie? Now Van?

If this checks out and we see it happen with the other survivor YJ, it's going to be really interesting. Will we get to see them all reunited as their teen selves back in the wilderness? Kind of like, their souls are tethered to that place. After all Lottie does say that Javi is with them...Same for Jackie and Wilderness baby.

I gonna sound real dumb, but please be patient with me. Why the air plane scene is only show when the adult girls are dying? Like if is kinda final destination, and they were all supposed to died in the crash, then why jackie and teen lottie purgatory scene isn't in a plane? Why just adult nat and van? They could have done it with Jackie, like Shauna wakes up her saying that rescue has arrived, she gets on the plane, and realizes that she is alone, and she is dying, maybe cabin guy is there, idk. I get Laura Lee not having a plane scene, she literally died on a plane.

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i know natalie telling travis “the wilderness chose” javi was out of desperation and guilt.

nat never believed in the wilderness before that moment. she’d been adamantly against it until the grief of what she’d done—of what she failed to do left her grasping for something else to carry just a little of that weight. after javi’s death, natalie seems to constantly teeter between not believing and not knowing what to believe.

but still. a small part of me wonders if she told travis “the wilderness chose” not only to protect herself from that guilt—and travis from more pain—but also to protect misty. javi was the first person misty killed for nat—albeit indirectly. there would be others in time; jassica roberts, lisa (if natalie hadn’t stopped her), and…well, who knows how many others in the years between.

natalie never told travis that misty pulled her away from his drowning brother to die in her place. she instead, told him it was the decision of an esoteric entity nat barely even believed in. so maybe misty hiding the transponder isn’t the only secret natalie’s kept over 25 years to protect her.

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Van Palmer Headcannon:

Van made a mixtape (yes, an actual tape) for Taissa every year they were not together. After dying, Tai was to receive the collection. That was one of the only things Van mentioned in a will.

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Teen Van : "Surviving this was never, the reward."

Adult Van : " What does that mean? If this isn't the ending then tell me what happens?"

Teen Van : "Where would be the fun in that?"

Homer tells us that Odysseus's story is all about his journey to get back to Ithaca. We,the readers, enjoy that part the most. There would be no story without the adventure.

This goes with what teen Van told her adult self when the episode starts. "Death is around every corner." They're all going to die at some point anyway. Theres no escaping death. It's about not letting the fear of death, prevent one from living.

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Obsessed with how she just :3

From CEO of Melissa, to CEO of Genlissa :3

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hey YJ hive just a heads up. saw that there's a screening of the finale in LA on the 9th. im sure spoilers will be everywhere because clowns don't have a sense of fandom decorum anymore. be careful.

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You said I was gonna be the hero. You are, you saved them. YELLOWJACKETS (2021— ) Season 3, Episode 9: "How the Story Ends"