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mistynat edits pt2

mistynat edits pt3

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I'm really fixated on what Mari said to Ben ('I think... Maybe there are two versions of reality. And most of the time the other one - the bad one - is just hiding or waiting. But it's all real.') cos I think that's gonna turn out to be a really fundamental premise of the show, Tai and other Tai who Tai only sees for herself in mirrors; the two timelines in different times but running parallel for all intents and purposes; their experiences of space inbetween life and death as being a point of contact with 'It'; the split between who they were in the wilderness and who they are at home (a line that is quickly blurring); probably more I can't think of off the top of my head, but I think in the adult timeline they're slipping into the 'bad' reality and I think the trigger was Travis trying to make contact with the wilderness again.

In particular 'but it's all real.' sticks out to me cos we're getting more and more shared hallucinations and visions and I think that's the show flagging: it's all real the 'bad' reality is really taking hold, and it calls back to Lottie's conversation with her therapist, that she's afraid that she was never crazy, that it was all real, it is all real. They've all had glimpses of this other reality before (tai when her grandmother died, Mari's story, Nat when her father died, etc.) and when they crashed they slipped into it completely.

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hey girl i think it’s time i told you…….. i read your modern asoiaf headcannons on ao3 like 3 days ago and i actually had a psychotic break reading it it was the best piece of fiction i ever read I LITERALLY LOVED IT SO MUCH😭😭😭😭OH MY GOD …. we’re bsfs in my head now and yeah just had to tell you that (also if you made more id be so joyous🤗)

OMGGGG SHUT UUUP WHAT THE FREAK !! this is literally the kindest thing freaking ever YES WE ARE BSFs 100% BEST FRIENDS 5EVER (4ever but longer) and HOLY SHIT!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! this really means so much more than i can articulate and YES i will be posting more very soon (i have a bunch hidden on my tumblr that i’m currently in the process of transferring to ao3 😭 so stay tuned for that if you want HAHA) but omg this is so freaking kind literally dm me yap to me about your asoiaf opinions i wanna know everything 🤗🤗🤗

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literally 😭 like they’re lesbians anyway in my brain they may as well 🙏🙏✂️✂️

it’s missing my ex-homoerotic-childhoodbestfriend hours!! it’s i need her ineedher ineedherineedher i can never have her again i never had her i was always hers i am always hers i want to forget everything that ever happened between us she acts like nothings happened between us she thinks nothing has changed she tells me nothing has changed i cannot tell her it’s all changed i need her like i need no-one else i don’t know her anymore hours! it’s FUCK hours FUCK FUCK FUCK!

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it’s our stavos profile pictures we have a hashtag connection

it’s missing my ex-homoerotic-childhoodbestfriend hours!! it’s i need her ineedher ineedherineedher i can never have her again i never had her i was always hers i am always hers i want to forget everything that ever happened between us she acts like nothings happened between us she thinks nothing has changed she tells me nothing has changed i cannot tell her it’s all changed i need her like i need no-one else i don’t know her anymore hours! it’s FUCK hours FUCK FUCK FUCK!

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yellowjackets 3x03 (specifically the last third/quarter of the episode) was kind of giving the andy muschietti 'it' movies? like from the advert until the end of the episode felt very strongly reminiscent of the style of direction from those movies and also the individual personalised hallucinations felt very stephen king. specifically in van's case with the arms grabbing her from behind the chair and the fire had strong similarities to the visuals of the scene of mike's first encounter with pennywise in 'it' (2017). and in the advert as well the man with no eyes showing up (i really don't think he (or somebody who looked identical to him) was actually in the advert, it was either tai hallucinating him there or him trying to reach her in a more upfront method than just hanging around in shadowy corners), was strikingly similar to the kid's show often on in the background of 'it' where pennywise projects himself, most notably to convince henry bowers to kill his father, also watched by sonia kaspbrak and al marsh. i'm really just reaching and rambling here but if the parallels somehow turn out to be intentional - all of the characters who watch pennywise onscreen in 'it' are villians, then that could serve as support to the arguement that a lot of what we've been seeing of adult tai this episode (and even all of season 3 so far) has been other tai? either way i find the similarities sooo striking and i have no idea what any of this means if it means anything? but if someone smarter than me could analyse this it'd be much appreciated <3 also the camera angles during the schoolroom dream sequences screamed the 'it' brand of kooky horror to me. ALSO how they keep literally calling the wilderness 'it'?? verrrry interesting. i've always been team 'there is nothing supernatural going on!! trauma!!' but honestly this episode may be changing my mind. especially the man with no eyes showing up in a non-taissa related sequence he's soooo pennywise for that i feel like the man with no eyes is gonna be so much more important this season. i really like the theory that he's working against the wilderness because that sets up a large scale conflict that doesn't have the same inevitability final-destination-core of the yellowjackets trying and failing to fight whatever 'it' may be.

anyway excited for coach ben's mock trial next episode i also wanna see more of the two other yellowjackets we were semi-introduced to this episode. new genlissa?

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i am not built to watch horror bruh i just walked into my dark bedroom and before i turned my phone light on i was like "omg what if the man with no eyes is in there" girl if u don't

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the One-with-No-Eyes as a Psychopomp

We know that Yellowjackets loves its Greek myths (x/x), so I want to consider the Man-with-No-Eyes as a Psychopomp. I’ve touched on these things a bit from this meta post of mine regarding Tai being a tree, but in light of the most recent episodes, I wanna deep-dive into this enigmatic specter haunting Taissa.

The first time we see the One-with-No-Eyes (outside of the title sequence) is 1.03, The Dollhouse, when Tai is a little girl. It’s her dying grandmother who first sees him, and is horrified by him. This really fits with a Psychopomp guiding the souls of the recently dead, since her grandmother is preparing to transition.

Tai’s grandmother was calm about dying up until she saw him, even telling young Tai earlier that an angel would come for her. Psychopomps can be angels, demons, or any type of spirit in between, and I think it’s significant that the first time Tai sees the Man-with-No-Eyes is in the mirror, since mirrors have mythological associations with portals and spirits.

Mirrors are a sort of liminal object. They show you something everyone else sees but you can’t: yourself.. but in reverse. Looking at yourself is a psychologically loaded phenomenon, and considering Tai’s bifurcated self communicating with her through mirrors, it’s safe to say they reflect a truer version of the world than she’s willing to accept.

In Jungian Psychology, Psychopomps can also represent a guide between the unconscious and conscious realms. And the One-with-No-Eyes certainly bridges the gap between Tai’s conscious self and her unconscious doppelgänger self.

And conscious Tai *does* see him, despite denying the supernatural. We have textual evidence from 1.03, 1.05, and 2.03:

In 1.03, before the audience is introduced to him, Tai sees the the No-Eyed Man. She’s disturbed by something she sees in the forest. We’re shown a shot of what she’s looking at: an empty frame of trees. This is actually a shot from the show’s title sequence, except in the title sequence the Man-with-No-Eyes stands in the middle of the frame. We can safely assume Tai sees him here.

This same thing happens in ep 1.05, Blood Hive. Adult Tai is supposed to fold out of the political race, but looks into the crowd. Her eyes land on an empty space (44:58), and whatever she sees prompts her to double down and stay in the race. When she finishes her speech, at 46:25 she looks back to the same spot in the crowd that gave her courage, and there he is, just like the title sequence: the Man-with-No-Eyes.

In 2.03, Digestif, when Van accidentally wakes Tai from sleepwalking and asks her who the One-with-No-Eyes is, she flashes to the first time she sees him, with her dying grandmother, in the mirror.

The Man-with-No-Eyes is a guide through the mirror, through the looking glass, reflecting her desires and fears, if only Tai would follow. But, tbf, we don’t know what type of entity we’re dealing with. And when Tai’s grandmother sees him she does not take him for an angel. she screams:

Don’t you come over here. Stay away…. don’t let him take me! Don’t let him take my eyes!

This fear of getting your eyes stolen in this inter-generational setting feels very dense to me. It touches on generational trauma and reminds me of myths like Oedipus Rex.

This Figure-with-No-Eyes appears to Tai’s grandmother, who in that instant passes him to bb Tai. And then we see trauma perpetuated with adult Tai and Sammy.

In Oedipus Rex, the family is trying to avoid fate, but they cannot escape. Oedipus is told the truth about killing his father and marrying his mother by the blind prophet Tiresias. and once Oedipus finally “sees” the truth that he’s killed his father and married his mother, he plucks out his own eyes. He cannot unsee the truth, and he has clearer vision once blinded.

Tai, like Oedipus and her grandmother, usually refuses to follow the Man-with-No-Eyes. This is explicitly stated in the most recent episode, 2.03 Digestif:

Van: How do you know where you’re going?

DoppelTai: He shows me.

Van: Who’s “he”?

DoppelTai: The One with No Eyes.

Van: Is that who you always follow?

DoppelTai: Only when she lets me.

Van: Okay there’s a “she” too? Am I “she”?

DoppelTai:

Van: Then who is “she”?

DoppelTai: Taissa.

Van: Then who are you?

Conscious Tai refuses to let herself acknowledge the reality of the woods. Like Oedipus, Tai has hubris surrounding her ability to understand the world. She refuses to believe in the supernatural, despite it being up close and personal, always in her peripheral vision.

But the repressed part of Taissa, the one I call DoppelTai, who only wants her to survive, knows and accepts the Man-with-No-Eyes. This version of Tai is like Oedipus post-blinding. And like Tiresias, the Man-with-No-Eyes is a guide cluing her into the reality of the woods. Offering her not only survival, but power.

I want to point out all the little nods to this No-Eyed Specter surrounding Tai:

there’s the mirrors, which imply looking and reflection, as well as being the first time the One-with-No-Eyes is shown

Tai checking her grandmother’s eye sockets at the funeral to find they’re empty

the eye patches Tai makes Van and herself for the Doomcoming

DoppelTai removing one of the eyes from Sammy’s doll and putting it on her altar

I’ve talked about the mirrors and the grandmother’s fear of her eyes getting stolen, so I want to consider the other bullet points. The eye patches were created after the wolves maul Van, which is Tai’s fault, since DoppelTai stole the bone talisman from Van, the flare gun, and fucked off to the safety of a tree.

Van didn’t get an eye taken, but the eye patches invoke that imagery, and it does feel like some sort of exchange between the One-with-No-Eyes and DoppelTai. He was most certainly leading her in that moment, after conscious Tai fell asleep and let the fire go out.

Just what did she get in the exchange? I don’t know. I assume DoppelTai had been eating dirt on her previous sleepwalking excursions for the minerals (worth noting you might eat dirt for iron deficiency, and we know the forest has a lot of iron in the ground), and maybe like those previous times, it was simply about survival: an exchange for safety from the wolves. But then I think about the most recent episodes, that the One-with-No-Eyes has been leading her to the symbols carved into trees. Could she have been looking for one of these at this time?

This leads me to her adult self and Sammy. Like the wolf incident with Van, adult Tai ends up in a tree at a loved one’s expense. As an adult, it’s her son’s well-being that’s in jeopardy.

DoppelTai ramps up that danger by breaking Sammy’s doll, removing an eye, and adding it to her altar. This invokes the Man-with-No-Eyes, as well as the half vision of Tai and Van’s Doomcoming looks. If Tai’s grandmother was scared of the No-Eyed Man stealing her eyes, what does it mean that Tai takes a proxy of her son’s? He clearly hasn’t been doing great.

If the payoff of this exchange is Tai winning the senate race, is the dog, doll proxy, and (Adam’s?) heart enough? Post-election, Tai is a mess, and her wife’s accident, with Tai drawing the symbol on her palm, says to me that the doll proxy isn't enough.

But enough speculation! Time to wrap this baby up: I view Taissa as a Seer (whereas I see Lottie as more of a Prophet). She has all manner of double vision, whether it’s blinding herself to the situation and her full self, or seeing this guide who leads her. Like Lottie, the supernatural elements in Tai’s life didn’t start in the woods, but the woods have accelerated, or amplified them.

The One-with-No-Eyes is leading her to the symbols, which are powerful if you’re willing to sacrifice a little blood. Whether functioning as a Greek Psychopomp, guiding her through this liminal spiritual landscape of the woods, or as a Jungian Psychopomp, acting as a mediator between the unconscious and conscious realms, or something in between, the Man-with-No-Eyes is a player, different than Lottie’s relationship with the woods. And I am *so* looking forward to watching this unfold.

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my biggest takeaway from the latest yellowjackets is that if i was 17 year old callie being taken under lottie's wing i would have the FATTEST crush on her. older beautiful mysterious woman encouraging you to shop lift... okay yes that was my dream when i was a teenager.

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oh my god lottie still keeping up her stealing from TJ maxx streak <3 never change keep stealing

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YELLOWJACKETS 106. Saints ➙ 203. Digestif ➙ 3.03. Them's The Breaks

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wrap it up lesbos

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she sort of looks like the symbol here

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love to see lottie going back to her roots, kleptomania

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i love her so bad im sick to my stomach

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Yellowjackets Season 3 | Episode 3 "Them's the Brakes"