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Prompts!

Poll runs for a week. There were also other suggestions like "reunion" and "afterlife" but, as I said in the title of the poll, we're definitely doing that one, so.

ETA: I don't know why that last poll option with the wink is in there. I'll disregard any votes for it.

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Are prompts still welcome or have they been closed? Either way, thank you for existing!!

Thanks for asking. Prompts are still welcome! Initially I was shooting for a late-May timetable, in which case I'd have closed them by now, but I've had a lot of IRL drama going on lately so I'm currently thinking sometime in June or July, meaning I'll aim to get the prompts decided on and the official rollout post for Lottielee Weekend 3 written up by sometime in April.

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Thank you to everyone who's suggested prompts for Lottielee Weekend 3! They have been read and are being considered. <3

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anything pre-crash!! first meetings maybe??

Good thinking, anon!

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theme/prompt idea: string of fate ♡

Good idea!

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Hello!! I’m new to lottielee weekend and was wondering if you could explain a little bit about the challenge and how it works? I absolutely love lottielee so much, and I would love to participate this year!! I’m just…a little bit confused about the details 🙈💞

Welcome!

So, the last two times we've done this, in February and September of last year, the format has been that we'll post a series of themed prompts, things like "fire" or "monster AU", to spark creativity for four-day periods (a Friday through the Monday of the following week). The fourth day has been a free day, but even on the first three days, following the prompts is optional. The "creativity" can be anything from fic to fanart to edits to meta (if you're not familiar with that term, it's basically short analytical essays about the show and the characters)--basically anything under the sun. Participating at all on any given day is also entirely optional; you could follow the prompt for Friday, sit out Saturday, do your own idea Sunday, and sit out Monday, for example, and that would be entirely fine.

This is a pretty typical structure for themed fandom events; I (the mod) have been in organized fandom since 2007 (I'm about midway in age between the teen timeline characters and the adult timeline characters XD) and I've been seeing it around that whole time, first on LiveJournal and then here on Tumblr. Sometimes there'll also be guidelines regarding subject matter, rating, etc.; we've never had hard and fast rules about that, but we do require warnings for anything sexually explicit and anything more violent or more transgressive than what goes on in YJ canon.

I hope this helps and I hope you'll join in!

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lottielee weekend part 3 please

We're soliciting ideas for themes and prompts now, ideally for sometime in late May or early June!

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Lottielee Weekend

Day 3: Mourning/Grief

lottielee edit | once upon a dream

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Lottielee Weekend

Day 3: Free Choice / Time

Time, also known as 'what they didn't get together' 😭 i've been wanting to make a collage-of-sorts with a what could have been vibe and this seemed like the perfect opportunity! so here's a laura lee lives and she and lottie spend their lives happy together au

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Lottielee Weekend

Day 4: Free Choice

i made this collage art a few weeks ago, when i was testing how to use the shuffles app (from pinterest)

there's not much concept behind it 😅

just me trying to bring up some symbolisms that surrounds lottie and laura lee's relationship durong the show, like the teddy bear or the heliotrope flowers (based on courtney eaton's theory that the heliotrope from adult lottie's compound comes from one of laura lee's dresses) or the cross, and, also, the skeleton lovers as a symbol of a love that transcends the realms of the living and the dead and that matches perfectly with the show's inspiration in Gothic horror 😅

also, a bit of a "take me to church by hozier" reference in the quote "there's no sweet innocence than our gentle sin", bc, even if the context of the show is very different, i think it matches the idea of lottie and laura lee's bond being almost an heresy to, paraphrasing adult lottie, "the God of that Place" for being something delicate in such a brutal fictional universe like yellowjackets

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Lottielee Weekend

Day 2: The fiery heavens

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OP not to play favorites but this FUCKS

Lottielee Weekend!!

I do have a fic I'm working on for the Missing/Extended Scene prompt but alas I am slow at writing and it's not done. Still, I'm fascinated with the religious iconography within the show, so I went with some images/webweaving for the alternate prompt!

Day 1: The Angelic Substance

Yellowjackets / The Creation of Adam by Michaelangelo / The Baptism of the Christ by Daniel Bonnell / Soaring Angel with hand on chest by Dmitrii Sorochinskii / The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel / Jacob Wrestles the Angel from by Charles Foster / Whakataukī/tongi – Metaphors/prophetic sayings / TheFreeThesaurus / Merriam-Webster Dictionary / Dictionary.com / Maori Dictionary

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for lottielee weekend day 1: missing/extended scene

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so, i don't know much this fits into today's theme for lottielee weekend, "day 1: missing/extended scene", but...😅

yesterday i was talking with some discord server friends about the theme of belonging in yellowjackets, and it made me want to expand a bit on how important the relationship between lottie and laura lee is even if they had a relatively short time together in season 1 (if i remember correctly, the showrunners said they abandoned any attempt at tracing an outline for teen timeline, but, as some might know now with those leaked scripts from a few months ago, they spent only three days as each other's People, so, a really short time!!!!)

lottielee is such an special ship, not bc it's "healthier" or whatever, especially since it isn't healthier than any other yellowjackets ship lol

it's special bc lottie spent her whole life feeling like she is an error of nature due to all the psychophobia/sanism that she has faced due to her psychosis episodes and schizophrenia diagnosis, and then comes this girl saying that she is not an error but that she is a gift from God.

and, sure, yellowjackets is a horror story, so that ends up being the catalyst for the tragedy that comes later.

actually, yellowjackets not only draws inspiration from horror, but it seems like it also draws a lot of inspiration specifically from Gothic fiction and literature as it's defined on the Wikipedia entry, especially the parts on how Gothic fiction "is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present", how "the depiction of horrible events in Gothic fiction often serves as a metaphorical expression of psychological or social conflicts", how "the form of a Gothic story is usually discontinuous and convoluted, often incorporating tales within tales, changing narrators, and framing devices such as discovered manuscripts or interpolated histories" and how "especially in the late 19th century, Gothic fiction often involved demons and demonic possession, ghosts, and other kinds of evil spirits".

so, with that type of inspiration, it was obvious that things would have a tragic end, which is lottie's downward spiral into cult leader precisely due to this new-found confidence in her visions inspired by laura lee's faith in her.

still, that dynamic, that idea of being moved by someone that tells you that you're not an error of nature and growing attached to then even if for a relatively short time, that is something that's so fragile and so...Human.

and, also, there's a parallel there to be made with queerness, yet another thing that systematic oppression treats as nature's mistake, and how much relief it can bring when someone makes sure that it is not.

as for laura lee, we can't say that it's something that is one-sided on lottie's part.

we can see in pool scene that she feels disconnected from the other ppl in church, as much as lottie herself seems to feel disconnected from her large but empty mansion; actually, that she feels so disconnected to the point of attempting to take her own life, or, at least, some form of self-harm by diving into the shallow end.

and, as jane widdop themself has said in their interview to the yellowjackets buzz podcast, pool scene was a result of laura lee having a similar immaturity to cope with emotions to what the other girls had at doomcoming, which adds to the idea that it was an impulsive act of desperation, a mental health struggle which was received by her peers as just proof she needed to have "more faith" bc she survived the not-so-accidental "accident".

there is a parallel to be made with queerness here as well, actually, with how oftenly queer Christians are told by conservatives that if they have "more faith" they will be "fixed".

so, lottie going after her asking for advice, it was probably the first time she ever felt like someone has seen her and genuinely took her seriously.

the first time someone really took their time to actually listen to what she had to say.

so, we have these two girls who are so fucking starved for validation.

and they met each other, and, for a moment, they belonged together before death (an very strange plane explosion with literally no spark or other catalyst for the fire, to be more specific) did them part, and that is tragic, and melancholic, and so so painfully human...

anyways...

lottielee is a such a raw and fantastic dynamic and i could spend hours talking about them 😅

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WE ARE LIVE!!!

One week to go till Lottielee Weekend 2!

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Three days to go...

One week to go till Lottielee Weekend 2!

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One week to go till Lottielee Weekend 2!