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OMG OMG OMG OMG IM ACTUALLY OBSESSED.

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LOTTIE MATTHEWS Yellowjackets, 1.04

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#canon that the moment natalie feels like someone might leave her #she says the worst thing she can to them #so she can leave them first

bonus:

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YELLOWJACKETS 1.04 BEAR DOWN

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"I'm so happy with you," Amma laughed, her breath hot and sweetly boozy in my face. “You're like my soulmate.”

“You're like my sister,” I said. Blasphemy? Didn't care. “I love you,” Amma screamed.

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series appreciation • 20 characters: [3] taissa turner, yellowjackets

For the first time in a really long time, I'm not afraid to fall asleep. And, yeah, you're right, it's probably not because I listened to the pine needles or whatever, but I'm gonna take what I can get.

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BUTCHERQUEEN: it's ok.... it wants us too... ...for @cassioo <3

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MY ANTLER QUEEEEEENS

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thinking about natalie scatorccio and the heart tattoo she has on the back of her shoulder.

and how something so small and trivial, something seemingly innocent and feminine and NORMAL, could be such a bitter reminder of her past. a physical reminder of the trauma she endured, the overflow from the cold, dark corners of her mind where she stored everything she didnt like to think about.

she was supposed to die out there.

if not when the plane crashed, then when she picked her card and drew the queen of hearts. she was a goner as soon as jackie's necklace (a symbol for HER heart, HER purity and power, the final tie to home and the everlasting Golden Girl haunting the narrative) was fastened around her dirty neck. she was supposed to die out there, but the wilderness didn't let her. so she got a tattoo for her sealed fate and said if the wilderness wouldn't do it, she would do it herself.

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• Van Palmer •

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I hope everyone understands that they can just...up at watch Nosferatu (1922) for free on YouTube. Like it's not "Oh I wish I could watch it" You can.

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i started a very random dark jackieshauna au where jackie comes back wrong, as jud crandall would say.

pretty heavy and will contain graphic violence here and there, so if that’s not ur bag i won’t be offended but otherwise, this is my jackieshauna debut so.. yay? 

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"but the text never explicitly stated it!!!" hey, so that's actually what they tried to teach you in those english classes you barely passed 😁

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love them so much

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When you're the boy that I want

I'll be the girl that you hate

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the way the love in her eyes never left

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Episode title analysis

Not full episode analysis, literally just the titles. Since I googled what Sic Transit Gloria Mundi meant, I've paid more attention to the titles of the other episodes and what they tell us about the actual events of the episode, or vice versa. I'm mostly going crazy waiting for S3 and have rewatched this show, no joke, more times than I could probably count in the past two months. I have to put my thoughts somewhere. This is also just S1, I’ll probably analyze/post S2 tomorrow regardless of if this is interesting to anyone besides me.

 Pilot

- The literal pilot episode, doesn’t really count

- I guess there are pilots in the episode? (RIP pilot Robert, pilot Fred, and flight attendant Janet)

F- Sharp

- I do always enjoy when episode titles are just lines in the episode

- The juicy bit is that christian worship music is traditionally played in the key of F. Laura Lee wasn’t just having a regular piano lesson, she was probably practicing hymnals. 

- Laura Lee I’ll never forget you, no wonder your christian ass thought you caused the plane crash because you called your christian piano teacher a cunt in your head

The Dollhouse

-Not a line from the episode, though it is the episode where they find the cabin, and they’re all girls. Girl = doll, cabin = house? 

-Also reminds my girlfriend of a song from hairspray, “there's no food left in the big dollhouse!”

Bear Down

- Another ‘line from the episode’ title, Misty says it to Coach Ben while she’s propping him up to take a shit

- Also a double meaning of sorts. At this point it’s sinking in with everyone that they might not be rescued as soon as they think, and they have to simply “bear down” and assume their survivalist roles (Nat as hunter, Shauna as butcher, etc.) 

Blood Hive

- Line from the episode; “That cabin is like, the blood hive,” Travis to Nat

- This is maybe the most literal title besides Doomcoming. Everyone is stranded in a cabin (or hive, because they’re the Yellowjackets) together, on their synchronized periods. 

- Could double up with Lottie’s creepy french blood speech at the end of the seance. “It wants blood,” and the yellowjackets, in their hive, will provide. 

Saints

- We start seeing Lottie having hallucinations, and go to Laura Lee for spiritual advice. Laura Lee baptizes Lottie, and explains the visions of flames as “the holy spirit, you’ve been touched!” 

- In Catholicism, it is said that people canonized as saints have lived lives fully guided by the holy spirit. You could say that in this moment Laura Lee sees Lottie as a saint, as much as you could say the opposite. 

-Laura Lee knows what the bible says about visions, and “the lord working in mysterious ways,” and as far as she knows, Lottie just saw God; she was chosen specifically by the holy spirit.

-If Shauna thought she was annoyed by just Lottie’s woo woo bullshit over her baby, imagine if Laura Lee were still alive during her pregnancy. Van and Mari and Akilah all have faith in Lottie, but Laura Lee knows how to worship. 

- The opposite could be said, in that Lottie is having visions that she can’t explain, and Laura Lee gives her any explanation at all as to what’s happening. Lottie could just as well be envisioning Laura Lee as saintlike, in her own understanding, as Laura Lee is able to give spiritual explanations to what she’s seeing. 

No Compass

- Mostly literal, Tai has lost hope of rescue, and plans to blindly head south

- They do have the compass, it stops working, and with as little of a plan as they had, it probably wouldn’t have made much of a difference if they had the compass or not. 

-Also a metaphor for the internal, Tai even says at one point that she doesn't know what to do, but they can’t just do nothing- no one has any sense of what the right move could be 

Flight of The Bumblebee

- I was hoping for an F-sharp connection, as this is the last scene we get with Laura Lee while she’s alive, but there’s a noticeable lack of the F note in general in the song Flight of The Bumblebee

- Obviously Laura Lee does take flight, and we all know how it goes. I do also enjoy the thought of Laura Lee being a bumblebee among the yellowjackets. She’s part of the team, but there’s a gentleness in her that comes from her faith, that the rest of the yellowjackets just don’t understand. 

Doomcoming

- I mean, it’s Doomcoming bitch! 

- Literal title, iykyk

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

- The episode title that made me want to do this in the first place

-Literally translates to, “Thus passes, the glory of the world,” or more simply, “Fame is fleeting.” 

- The episode title alone spoils Jackie’s death, if you’re well versed in Latin.

-Pre- crash, Jackie was the glory of the team. She was their captain, their leader. In the simplest terms, the most famous of the team.

-The light had clearly gone out in Jackie at this point, she knew she wasn’t cut out for off the grid survival, and she was passively suicidal. She saw that her fame did no good for her out in the wilderness, and she knew everyone else was seeing it too.

- Obviously can be framed in a Jackie/Shauna way. Jackie was the light, the glory, of Shauna’s world, full stop. I don’t think Shauna is a negative person because of the wilderness. I think she went into the wilderness and it certainly exacerbated the issue, but she had a glass-half-full view of the world already. Jackie was the positive one, the comedy to her tragedy. 

- Adult Shauna mentions looking at the world as if all the light has gone out of it; Jackie’s mother toasts her, “your light shone too bright to be extinguished from our memories.” I’m clearly using light synonymously with glory here, which isn't quite grammatically correct, but it is correct in reference to Jackie Taylor. When she dies, her light, the glory she provides, is taken from the world, (And most importantly, from Shauna’s world.)