#i Need van to have fucked up sex with tai and lottie and nat you dont understand

[yee-hawlw]

i've only completed like one fic from van's pov so far but i have Such. a precise way that i like to characterize Van and Love

it's unhealthy. it's so unhealthy!!

van's the type of person who attaches herself onto any girl that she thinks can provide her with Safety and Love, and she gives back everything she is in return bc she believes it's conditional. she thinks if she doesn't let them feed off her organs they won't love her anymore.

it's tai. it's lottie. (god i hope) it's nat.

and she plays so well off the three of them and their relationships with love.

tai loves van, she needs van, she needs van safe because she hurt van before, but shes also a narcissist. she needs to feel important and van gives her that. what's more important than being the center of this girl's world?

lottie doesn't want to be worshipped, but she will, if it helps van. she'll cut herself into pieces if she thinks it will help someone. it doesn't even really matter that it's van, but also it does, because van is the only one still around who's never thought she's crazy.

natalie didn't ever want to lead, but, god, it is so good to be loved. and van has so much love to give, so nice and docile and sweet like a dog, as long as lottie says, this is who we listen to now. this is who the wilderness speaks through now.

[domripley]

The Woods Want Us To

pairings: lottie matthews x reader

warnings: sex as a ritual, top lottie, bottom reader, exhibitionism, overstimulation, choking, mommy kink, praise kink

summary: the woods want an offering.

kinktober 23/24: sex as an offering for the woods

edited by my lovely girlfriend @specialinterestshows 🥰

You took a deep breath as Lottie and the others gathered around you. You weren’t entirely sure what was going to happen, but you had a bit of an idea. After years of not seeing anyone, you were all brought here because the woods needed you to be.

Or, that’s what Lottie claimed.

You weren’t too sure what to believe.

Misty and Nat stood together; they really only talked a little bit back in the day, so you were surprised. Tai and Van were standing close to each other as if they had been together for all these years. Shauna stood near Tai, shifting uncomfortably in her seat.

“So you know, the woods have chosen (Your Name),” Lottie informed everyone. She turned her attention to you, giving you a small smile. “Will you be a good girl and allow me to do this?”

You looked around at the others before nodding. Lottie moved towards you and as soon as she reached you, she guided you onto the ground.. you took a deep breath, unsure of what she had planned.

The others got closer just as Lottie pulled your shirt off you. She wasted no time pulling your pants and underwear off as well, leaving you naked except for your bra.

You whimpered as she laid on top of you, watching as she licked her lips. Lottie broke eye contact with you to look at the others. “Are you ready to fulfill your purpose?” Lottie asked, bringing one of her hands down to her pants.

You watched as she pulled them down mid-thigh, revealing a strapon she had been wearing the whole time. Your eyes widened, seeing how thick the toy was from the light of the fire.

“Are you sure this is…” Nat trailed off, unsure of what to say.

Although she was starting to voice her concern, she couldn’t help but keep watching. Lottie grabbed the base of the toy, lining it up with your entrance, and you let out a gasp as she pushed all the way into you. She gave you a few moments to get used to the size, kissing and biting on every part of skin that her mouth could reach. You closed your eyes, trying to pretend that the others weren’t staring at you.

“Open your eyes, (Your Name),” Lottie said softly, cupping your face. “The woods want you to keep them open.”

You shot your eyes open and you were greeted with a smile - one you had loved for almost all your life. You just wished this had a different outcome.

“Are you ready for me to take you?” Lottie asked, leaning down to kiss you.

You nodded and she began to move. Lottie fucked you at a slow pace, wanting to build it up. You looked in her eyes, unsure of what she was thinking - but as if to read your mind, Lottie began to speed up.

You bit your lip as hard as you could to keep yourself from making any noise. As soon as Lottie noticed this, she brought her hand up to your mouth, forcing you to stop biting your lip.

“Don’t hold back,” she breathed. “The woods want to hear you, they want to hear you… I want to hear you.”

You whimpered, looking over to see them watching. You weren’t sure of what to think; here you were, years later, getting fucked by the woman you had a crush on in high school. You looked over at Shauna, who shifted in her spot right before Lottie moved your head so you were looking at her again.

“You're such a good girl,” Lottie praised, pulling your bra down to expose your tits. “Taking me so good, fuck.”

“Please, Mommy,” you whispered, eyes widening at your accidental slip up.

Lottie smirked, leaning down and taking one of your nipples into her mouth. “Oh-“ you gasped as she bit down.

Lottie continued to fuck you, pulling her mouth off you to look you in the eyes. She licked her lips, bringing her head down to your ear. “You’re doing so good for me, taking my cock like the whore that I’ve always known you were,” she whispered.

Your orgasm was growing closer, and you gripped the grass underneath you to steady yourself as she fucked into you. Lottie pulled out, causing you to cry out. Before you could voice your complaints, Lottie flipped you so you were on your stomach. She pulled you up a bit so that your ass was up in the air. Lottie lined the toy up to your entrance, pushing it all the way into you.

“Oh, fuck,” you cried out, you hadn’t realized how different it would feel in this position.

Lottie looked at the others, “Should I make her come?” she asked, picking up her pace.

They all nodded, all of them seeming to have lost their voices, but wanting to see more. Lottie fucked you harder, leaning down and spitting on your asshole. She rubbed the pad of her thumb against your entrance, causing you to whine. “You like that, don’t you, pretty girl?” she hummed.

You nodded, your cheek against the grass. You brought your hand between your legs, rubbing your clit as she continued her movements. “I’m gonna come,” you announced and Lottie pushed her thumb into your ass.

To your surprise, it sent you over the edge. You came with a cry and Lottie fucked you through your orgasm. Once you came down from it, Lottie continued to fuck you.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck!” you cried out.

You tried to pull away from her as she continued to fuck you. Lottie pulled her thumb out, grabbing you by your hips to keep you in place. “Don’t you run from me; that’s not what the woods want,” she seethed, fucking into you harder.

“Lo-“ you began, but she slapped your ass.

“That’s not what you want to call me,” she said.

”Mommy,” you cried out, “Too- Too sensitive.”

Lottie shook her head, “Give me one last one.”

You came harder than the first time, biting into your lip hard enough that you broke the skin. “Fuck.”

After you rode out your orgasm, she pulled the strapon out of you. You laid there, trying to catch your breath as she stood and pulled her pants up. Lottie looked around at the others.

“The woods are very pleased,” she announced, walking away. “One of you help (Your Name) up, I have to go get the cards for the other sacrifice that it wants.”

The others looked at her with wide eyes, though you were too exhausted to really understand what she had just said. Misty held you up while Shauna and Nat grabbed your clothes. You were unaware what the rest of the night had in store for you all.

[star-girl69]

Moon Song

Lottie Matthews x Natalie Scatorccio x Fem!Reader

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sypnosis: Running wild under the full moon, your veins on fire, your brain foggy- nothing bad can happen in the wilderness. Not tonight, not when you feel so good and the moon is so bright. Hazy, the line between secrets and reality fades, leaving you and your two best friends to face the truth of what you’ve all been feeling- running wild under the full moon.

a/n: idk why the title is another phoebe bridgers song and also THIS IS SO SHORT NOOOOO but anyways i hope you all enjoy!!

warnings: drugs, hallucinations, kinda sex idk, kissing, mentions of death, blood, swearing, tell me if i missed anything!!

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The moon was hanging over the sky like a giant beacon. Your back to the forest floor, you kept reaching up like baby, confused when you couldn’t run your fingers over the craters, the imperfect perfectness of it all.

You weren’t sure where anyone else was, where you were. You just wanted to touch the moon and feel it on your skin, so much that you sat up. You could feel dirt in your clothes, under your fingernails, everywhere. You reached out, but still, you fell short.

“Where is everyone?” someone finally groans, and you almost shriek, before remembering that it’s doomcoming. You’re all out here.

“Coach is gone,” someone else groans.

“He was sad,” and you recognize this voice. You look to your left and see Natalie slumped against a tree branch. “I… I think I saw him take some drinks and go to the woods.”

“Misty’ll find him,” Akilah groans, and a faint smile finds it way onto your face.

“Nat,” you smile, and she looks around, untik her eyes finally land on you.

“Hi,” she whispers.

“What-what about Jackie?” Mari asks. “And… T-Travis?”

You drag yourself closer to the tree trunk, giggling slightly as she wraps her hands around your wrists, tugging you forward until you’re inching like a worm to be next to her.

“They left,” Javi says, almost bored. You stare up the moon, feeling your back arch with the curve of the tree trunk, Natalie’s body pressed right up against yours.

You feel a little out of your mind.

“T-together?” Shauna sputters in disbelief.

“That’s so Jackie,” Tai hisses.

“That’s very Jackie,” Van agrees.

You look around, finding everyone either laying on the ground or slumped against something, looking like they’ve just run a hundred miles. You spit Lottie sitting in a hollow tree trunk, cut a few feet up, still standing.

You look back up to moon.

You barely know what’s happening, but at least Natalie and Lottie are here.

“What… are they doing?” Javi asks, and it takes you a second to remember that he’s only 14, of course he wouldn’t know what they’re doing.

A few of the girls let out small laughs.

“They’re having sex,” Van whispers, and everyone erupts into laughter. You look over at Lottie, wanting to share in this joy with her as Nat’s hand presses against your thigh.

But she’s not laughing. She’s staring at the ground, hard in thought.

“You’re being boring, Lottie,” you say, but your voice only comes out a whisper. No one can hear you. But Lottie looks over at you.

Her eyes rake over all the exposed skin showing on you and Natalie, on her hand on your thigh, on the berry alcohol sticky on your chest.

“What are we waiting for?” she asks, a little louder than she needs too, losing her mind as well.

“Huh?” a few of the girls mumble.

She stands up, swaying a bit, her crown of sticks looking like antlers.

“This is Doomcoming,” she breathes. “Doomcoming. If we’re all gonna die soon….” she looks at you and Natalie. “We should do whatever the fuck we want.”

A few of the girls laugh, and you watch Shauna bite her lip, crossing her legs and smiling to herself. Tai and Van turn to each other, laughing and talking in low whispers, before they start to tug each other up.

“We should,” Natalie breathes from next to you. Her hand slides higher. “We should do whatever the fuck we want.”

You don’t even remember how her hand came to be on you, but it feels so good and right that it’s almost bad that something can be this amazing. You smile and throw your head back. The moon shines brightly over the clearing, bathing all of you in a soft, silky glow, singing some sweet song about living before you died.

You turn to Natalie, and if you squint, her pale skin and the low light makes her look like the moon.

Lottie kicks your ass. Softly, but enough to make you jolt and sit up, noticing that Taissa and Van are giggling and heading off into the forest together.

“What the fuck was that for?” you groan.

Lottie stares at you blankly. “Come,” is all she says, looking between you and Nat.

Lottie towers over both of you, and even like this, she looks like the moon too.

“Okay,” you mutter, because she’s your best friend and you want to spend time with her.

Natalie and Lottie have never been close, but they both love you, and they get along for your sake. But in the wilderness, all of you have known, however subconsciously, that you might die out here. You would never go to college. You would never get married or fulfill anything you ever wanted to do in the real world.

But here, in the wilderness where the moon is singing her encouragement, and your mind is hazy- you can do whatever the fuck you want.

You can give into the way hands have always lingered a second too long, eyes have always roamed, scents had always been so intoxicating.

You stand up, dusting yourself off, feeling a little giddy.

Lottie turns and starts walking, leaving Javi and the other girls in the clearing behind. Natalie shrugs after she stands up, and you both end up following her, deeper into the woods, until she’s just a whisp of white dress flashing between the thick twisting trees, and Natalie is just footsteps that are close and far at the same time, people you can’t clearly see but presences you can truly feel.

Finally, Lottie’s face comes back into view coming towards you fast, until she’s all you can see.

Her hands are sliding up and down your arms, and you don’t even know when she got close enough to share breath with you.

She’s taking your breath away with her lips on yours, so shocked you can’t even breathe. Shocked because you’ve wanted this for so long and it’s even better than you ever could have imagined.

Someone starts laughing next to you.

Lottie pulls away after a moment.

Her eyes are slightly glazed over, but burning with a raging fire, and even her eyes look like little moons. Your reach out and let your fingertips fall down her cheek like tears, trace your fingers along the moon.

“Oh,” Natalie breathes, smiling widely, and you realize it was her who was laughing. “Thank God,” she says, and Lottie let’s go of you, spinning you around, her arms still around you-

Natalie’s lips on yours are so different and yet the same.

She tastes like thrill and fire, black smoke in the air, filling up your lungs in such an addicting way it makes you want to walk straight into a fire.

Lottie tastes like that same thrill, but like the bright white water at the bottom of a rapids rather than smoke. Filling up your lungs in that same way, drowning you in that same addicting way. You want to plunge headfirst off of a waterfall.

Natalie’s lips leave yours, leaving you confused and hot all over, watching as she leans around you and presses her lips to Lottie’s. You can’t see from this way, Natalie’s chest pressed against yours and Lottie keeping you pressed against her.

You let your head fall back.

“What are we doing?” you breathe, and it takes a second for the sound of them pulling away to hit your ears. Lottie let’s you go, and you disentangle yourself from them, spinning around to stare at both of them.

The moon shines down in this clearing too, bathing everything in that same soft, silky glow- making everyone look like their own moon.

Lottie smiles for the first time all night, her canines flashing in the low light.

“Whatever the fuck we want.”

She stares at you like she’s hungry and you have to swallow, feeling hot, feeling like there’s a second heart in between your legs, beating with a steady pulse fueled by wanton desire.

And you know what you want. You know what you want and you know this is the last time to get it.

A hand slips under your Doomcoming dress, and you throw your head back, eyes closed, too busy being in bliss to look at the moon.

The night fades into the savagery and wildness that only knowing this could be your last night alive could be.

A tongue traces up your neck, up your chest, drinking up the dried berry alcohol, leaving your skin wet and sticky.

It’s ingrained into your veins forever, into your fingers and legs, pockmarked by where their hands touched you, invisible and burning in an addictive way.

Lips meet you, every part of you, places you didn’t even know existed, all brought out by them.

The light of the moon, the feeling between your legs like an exploding moon, and your fingers tracing over a million moons, a million faces, until the sun comes up.

You feel like water and smoke in their hands, you feel like a moon orbiting around her planets.

And when the sun comes up, and your minds aren’t hazy anymore, and you realize now that you’ll survive another day… you don’t stop, and choose to be in their hands instead.

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[zeezelweazel]

dom nat packing a strap in her bag on the way to an away game and sub trans lottie being fucked by her on the bus while needing to stay quiet to not draw attention

Lottienat| Endurance Test|

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OMG LOTTIENAT YES

I love them can you tell?

I decided to make this a whole fic cuz the concept is just too good

TW: anal sex, public sex,

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Away games were always exciting. I mean who doesn't love traveling for free? Usually the girls were spread around, everyone doing their own thing. Jackie had to remind them multiple times not to go overboard.

"This isn't some vacation okay? We're here to play and we're here to win!"

Or something equally cheesy a leader would say.

Natalie would probably be on a shity shop trying new drinks even though they have an important game coming up. It's not like being hangover has ever stopped her from playing well.

This time though it's different. This time she has Lottie. Now, what Nat was expecting looked more like being dragged on a cutsey date by her girlfriend, just like Tai and Van. She definitely wasn't expecting Lottie to practically jump on her the moment the bus stopped and the other girls started leaving.

"Please tell me you brought it with you."

Lottie whispered desperately and for a second Natalie was confused. She looked around as if the investible audience would give her the answer and then looked back at Lottie even more confused. Then Lottie glanced down at her own lap nervously. Natalie looked down with her and her insides clenched with lust at the obvious bulge in Lottie's pants.

Oh

Natalie bit her lip and then looked back at Lottie, smirking teasingly.

"We just got here and you're already horny? Damn Matthews."

Lottie groaned and looked around making sure that the other girls were all out of the bus.

"Did you bring it or not?" Nat smirked proudly.

"Of course I did it's in my bag-"

Natalie couldn't even finish her sentence. Lottie was already digging inside of the bag desperate to find her girlfriend's strap.

Natalie was surprised that Lottie would want to do this here and now but she won't lie, she was already wet at the thought of fucking her girlfriend. Lottie thrust the strap onto Natalie's lap and went down on her knees pulling her pants down. Natalie whistled and Lottie looked up at her blushing.

"Give a girl a little foreplay Lot."

Lottie only rolled ber eyes and started working on the leather straps, tightening them around Natalie's hips. She was painfully hard during the entire ride here. She doesn't think she'll be able to play like this.

Since Natalie asked for foreplay, Lottie kissed her roughly and pulled her up so she was kneeling on the seat. Natalie made quick work to get rid of Lottie's pants and underwear. When her boxers came off her hard dick slapped her abs and Lottie let out a whiny moan alongside Natalie's groan.

"Fuck, turn around Lottie."

Lottie turned around just like Nat told her to. Now they were both kneeling in the bus seat. The position was awkward and Natalie didn't know how she's going to make this work but Lottie could feel the strap slot between her thighs and she can't help but buck up against Natalie's hips and grind down.

"Someone's impatient." Natalie chuckled.

Lottie is about to throw a smart retort but Natalie pushes the tip of the strap inside her tight hole and she throws her head back as a loud moan escapes her. Natalie places a hand against her back and bites her lip.

"That's right, be loud for me baby. Let the entire team hear you."

After Natalie says that Lottie remembers that the rest of the girls are probably still nearby and can step in the bus at any moment. She doesn't dislike the idea. Her cock leaks a bit of precum and she's grateful that Natalie doesn't seem to notice.

Natalie pushes the rest of the plastic cock inside in one strong thrust and Lottie bits her lip so hard she draws blood. The position made it difficult for Natalie to pound into her so with the hand that was on Lottie's back she pushed her forward. Lottie's back was arched beautifully and her ass was now fully pressed on Natalie's pelvis. Lottie grips the head of the seat tightly, wanting to latch onto something desperately.

"Fuck me already Natalie!"

Nat rolled her eyes at how needy and bossy Lottie always got when it came to teasing. She didn't say anything back this time, she wanted to answer with her words. Before Lottie could complain again Natalie started pounding roughly in her and Lottie was left whimpering and whining under the constant pleasure. She's so desperate to keep the noises in but it feels so good.

Natalie thinks that no matter how quiet Lottie is someone will hear something. Weather it is their grunts and whimpers or the squeaking of the bus seats or the absolutely unholy sound of Natalie's hips meeting Lottie's ass and in turn Lottie's hard dick hitting her toned and quivering abs.

Natalie saw how her girlfriend's thighs were shaking and how she couldn't keep her moans in anymore and she knew Lottie was close. She cringed at the thought of having to clean up Lottie's orgasm off the fabric of the seats so she cupped her hand over the tip and squeezed.

Lottie's eyes went back to her head as her hips wildly bucked against Natalie's hand. Lottie slumped against the seat and Nat softly chuckled and patted her hip.

"You've gotta clean up your mess princess."

Lottie awkwardly twisted her spine like a cat and immediately took three of Natalie's fingers in her mouth. She suckled and licked at them and Nat saw her dick twitch and teasingly sighed.

"Now, don't get yourself all worked up again. We have to get off this bus before Jackie starts looking for us."

Lottie pulled of Nat's fingers with a whine but starting getting dressed anyway. She knew Natalie was right . Before they stepped out of the bus they shared a look. They'll definitely continue this later.

It's pretty safe to say everyone loves away games. But no one lives them more than Lottie and Natalie.

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[cdyssey]

Yellowjackets 2.06 Reactions:

TW: Cannibalism; Traumatic Birth Experiences

Coach Ben teaching Health Ed class!! This man has suffered through so much.

TAIVAN WITH THEIR DESKS SHOVED TOGETHER!! Lolololol, at Misty being the only one who is paying attention and Ben clearly not caring that no one is paying attention.

“Poppies, Jeff. Jackie likes poppies.” She says this to get people to stop whispering about them, but God, I love the intimacy of this line too—the way that Shauna knows Jackie’s favorite flower.

THIS BLUR SONG. WOW, WOW, WOW.

Lmao at Misty emptying all her pockets.

Lottie’s shocked expression when she clocks that it’s Misty for the first time. The almost immediate steeliness, the barely controlled rage. The height difference between Simone and Christina is so fucking funny. Misty is a tiny little bean.

“And I won’t call the IRS about what I assume is your routine tax evasion.” AKQKWNWKSN

Lottie gets a visible headache and asks Misty to stay a while; she possibly had a vision?

“She is the one who decided to act out by dating a cop.” SO FOUL, SHAUNA SNSNDNWNWJDNS.

“It honestly would’ve been better if you just had sex with him.” FOUL FOUL FOUL.

Baby girl is so fucked up!!! Callie and Jeff’s horrified expressions when they hear this shows us that they’re registering this, how off kilter Shauna is.

The girls desperately scrambling to figure out what they should do to help Shauna, and it’s moments like these when you remember that they’re children, and it’s awful.

Tai being right at Shauna’s head, holding her shoulders, wiping off her head, encouraging her. They make me so fucking tender.

Misty has entirely shut down.

“WILDERNESS, I HOPE SHAUNA DOESN’T DIE.” MARI WOQKOQJEWJWJRJNWJEJWNWNENWJS. YOU KEEP DIGGING YOURSELF INTO THAT PIT, GIRL. I LOVE YOU.

Tai holding Shauna’s face reassuring her over and over again that she’s not going to die.

Nat being a fail girl at rifle practice.

“I’m poison. I ruin people.” God, my heart aches for her. She genuinely believes this.

“I killed my best friend… the only person that I loved.” FUCK. 😭

Natalie and Lisa’s relationship is so, so good. The vulnerability between them, the care.

“… we did so much fucked up shit out there. And yeah, maybe it was to survive. Maybe. But I don’t think we deserved to.” GOD GOD GOD. Two things haunt me about this particular line. That second maybe—we’ve known from the start that they did things out there that weren’t solely about survival. Pit Girl. Her ritualistic consumption. But also the fact that this is the condemnation that Nat hangs on them all. None of them should have made it out of the woods alive, and maybe, just maybe, that would have been penance for what they had done.

Tai looks like a peak lesbian in Van’s clothes. <3

Van reminding Tai of her FAMILY, and Tai is just like, lmao, fuck them. It’s you and me, baby.

She is so awful. <33

“You’re married, Taissa. There’s no us anymore.” God.

Tai sees all the overdue bills in the trash can; Van is struggling.

Misty is utterly broken about Kristen. It’s easy for us to say she’s the “well-adjusted” one between all the adults because she’s been able to compartmentalize so well; she’s out there girlbossing and murdering!! But she’s just as fucked up, just as traumatized, even if she invited so much of that trauma on herself: breaking the transmission box, telling Kristen, inadvertently killing that innocent girl.

Nat appealing to Ben, the adult, Ben, the health ed teacher, for guidance, BUT HE IS A FAILURE TOO. “I just pressed play on a video.” AMQKQKKEWKKDOWKSSK

“Women have been having babies for millions of years.” 😭 Nat, I fucking love you. These girls care for each other so fucking much.

GETTING COMFORT FROM HER POCKET MOUSE. AKILAH, I LOVE YOU AMQMQDNJWNS.

Not the cult performing blood offerings in the corner. My God QNKQKQMWNRKWKWMWMWKWJREK.

POV: Ur having a baby in the woods and all the goth kids are being weird about it.

God, Lottie needs to fucking get a new psychiatrist. This lady is the worst.

Simone is such a fucking good actor.

“We did… terrible things in Its name. And I thought when we were rescued, that we left It there, but now I realize… we brought it back with us.” The subtitles are really lending an emphasis to It now. God, I need a side-by-side of all the ladies talking about the terrible things they did in the forest: Shauna talking to Callie, Natalie and Lisa, and now Lottie and the psychiatrist. The horror on all of their faces when they admit this truth aloud; for all of them, it’s almost too much to bear.

“I mean, if you’re done crying, I could tell you some stories.” QKQKKWOWJEJDJ

Ben, ur such a failure. Ily.

The antlers behind Ben in the flashback…

THE PLACENTA FUCKING COMING FIRST. AND THE VIDEO. AND TAI REMEMBERING IT’S SUPPOSED TO COME AFTERWARDS. I’M FUCKED UP.

Crystal and Misty were gonna sing a song at Shauna’s labor. Lmfao.

“You can save our baby.” LOTTIE WTF

“You’re so close to being on the other side.” The double entendre is absolutely there. Shauna is so fucking close to death.

Taissa crying because she cares so much for Shauna and she already knows, from that placenta coming first, this fucking isn’t going to end well.

“Aren’t you probably the last person who should be giving me legal advice right now?” AQQKEMFMEMS, drag her ass, Callie. (Callie and Shauna both wearing that forest green because they are so alike.)

I fucking hate Matt the Cop. Smug fucking bastard!!

Tai fucking with Van about the sorting. 😭 I love them so much.

“No, Tai. You came here for help with your life. If I need help with mine, I’ll let you know.” TELL HER, VAN. One thing I’ve really enjoyed about both Taissa storylines is that they’ve consistently portrayed her as someone who can be judgmental and hypocritical. It’s such a good character flaw for her.

Tai’s entire tone changing when she hears that it’s Lottie.

“It’s a bunch of granola losers, but the food is great, and the BO factor is surprisingly low.” QKQKFNWKOWKEQPJEN

All of these children are crying, and I’m so fucking upset. I care about all of them so goddamn much. Nat and Tai and Misty being right there for her means so much for me. That’s my core four.

Shauna is dying right in front of them.

THE SUBTITLES SAY MISTY, BUT THAT WAS JACKIE FUCKING TAYLOR’S VOICE.

The entire scene is lit differently. The baby is too big and healthy. The placenta came first. The crying is repetitive. This is a goddamn dream.

“… but no, I’d rather keep the past in the past.” / “Van, you run a video store. […] You practically live in the past.” POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK, MA’AM. YOU WERE RECENTLY CAUGHT SACRIFICING YOUR DOG IN THE BASEMENT!! YOU CHASED AFTER YOUR EX AND GAVE HER A BOOBY PEN!!!!!!

Taissa is so judgy, lmfao. Never change, girl failure.

“Don’t fuckin’ judge me because I know you’re too evolved for online dating.” GET HER!! Lauren has inhabited Van so well. Like, sometimes I can hear Liv in her delivery of lines.

“But don’t flatter yourself. It’s not because of you.” Vanlottietai triangle in the wilderness when

Natalie, ma’am, I know you have, like, seven different infections from wearing those pants for so long. SEVEN.

Lisa giving Natalie the Fourteenth Gilly, so she’s responsible for something other than herself. 😭 Sobs.

If anything fucking happens to Lisa, I will lose my shit. I love her so much.

Shauna not being able to feed the baby. I’m so fucked up. The other girls can see that starvation awaits.

JEFF PLAYING “FUCK THE POLICE” WITH THE WINDOW DOWN OUTSIDE THE POLICE STATION. I LOVE THIS MAN. HE IS THE FUNNIEST FUCKING HIMBO. ALQWKQODJKWKW

QKQOOWWKMWKDNSNS, JEFF SAYING IT TAKES A WHILE FOR SHAUNA TO GO TO THE BATHROOM. THE LOOKS TAI AND VAN GIVE EACH OTHER. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS MAN

He is such a weirdo.

Misty talking about Nat with such love and affection. Girlfriends. <33

“We’re all like this. Aren’t we?” Nat looking at Misty for the first time with sympathy in her eyes. She fundamentally sees that Misty is fucked up too.

I’m fucking crying at this baby starving.

“Your kid doesn’t like you too much, does she?” RIGHT ON THE HEELS OF THAT LAST SCENE. THAT’S SHAUNA’S GREATEST FEAR, HER CONTINUALLY BLEEDING WOUND.

Melanie Lynskey is so fucking pretty.

“You really did a number on her.” God, God, God, God. Shauna and Callie really eff me up. They were doomed from the start, from the moment that Shauna nearly died from having that first baby in the woods.

“And you do not have to be like your mom.” It’s too late, Kevyn. She already is.

“I never even wanted to be a mom. In fact… I did not sta… start out a bad person, but in case you haven’t noticed, life doesn’t tend to turn out the way you think it will. You have a kid that you… you don’t want… to save a marriage that you got into out of… guilt and-and shame. And, and you just… you can’t really let yourself love either of them. But, of course, you do. You-you love them despite yourself. You’re just incredibly bad at it.” I HAVE LITERAL TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY FACE. MELANIE GODDAMN LYNSKEY.

This isn’t Shauna lying. We know that Shauna is a piss poor fucking liar. This is the truth from the bottom of her goddamn heart. She didn’t want Callie. She had her to save a marriage that she only got into because she felt so guilty—about the woods, about Jackie, about what she and Jeff and all the girls did to her. But she loves them. She loves her husband. She loves her daughter. And she knows that she hasn’t done them their due. And this has also been a truth from the beginning. Shauna absolutely loathes herself. She self-destructs partially as a punishment that she thinks fits her endless crime.

The music shifts when she does start lying. What came before it was sincere.

“But leave my kid out of it.” SHE LOVES CALLIE.

I fucking hate this cop!!!

CALLIE SINGLE-HANDEDLY SAVING THIS ENTIRE INVESTIGATION WOQKQKWOQOKWIDJDJEJEJEJEJEJEIEKEMDJD. I FUCKING LOVE HER.

“Especially when they ask me to describe his weird ass balls.” WKQKWOQOOWIWJEJDIEJENWKIRIRIFKDKWKDIDIFIEIWKDJDJWJKSJE.

NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO HATE CALLIE SADECKI.

Lottie feeding the baby. ☠️

JEFF SPITTING HIS DRINK OUT EVERYWHERE DJWJDNDN.

Shauna’s voice break when she says “Yes” about the gun. She’s unraveling and unraveling.

“I am really worried about you. You are, like, out of control, Shauna.” / “Yeah, you think?!” And she actually cries in front of Jeff.

Jeff’s like, “Go, honey. Have a well-deserved mental health vacation with your wilderness cannibal girlfriends. 🥰” He didn’t say that, but I’m paraphrasing.

Callie and Shauna had a plan all along. :/ But Shauna screwed it up. Both of the Sadecki parents trying to reassure their daughter.

NAT TRYING TO, UM, SPARE THE FISH FROM THE COLD CRUELTIES OF THIS WORLD. GOD????

“It’s all a goddamn prison anyway.”

GOOD. THE FOURTEENTH GILLY LIVES.

I’m no fish expert, but um, is that bowl just a wee bit too small?

Shauna talking so tenderly to this baby. This episode is not going to fucking end well.

Shauna saying that she wants the moment for herself, and that’s such a core part of her ethos. This (dream) baby is hers and hers alone, someone she doesn’t have to share, someone that no one can try to control, even though they might try.

LMAO, AT SHAUNA GETTING THERE SO FAST. SHE MUST HAVE BEEN SPEEDING.

Nat has finally changed out of those goddamn leather pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Shauna and Nat hug. Oh, God, yeah, yeah, yeah. Natalie was there for Shauna during one of her darkest times, and now they’re both in ruts again. There’s so much solemnity in the gesture, so much pain.

Taimisty joy hug. 😭

VANLOTTIE HOMOEROTIC CRY STARING!!!

THE FUCKING SYMBOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The tea was drugged. 😭 Shauna calling out for Tai and Van.

FUCKING EATING IT. I KNOW IT’S A DREAM. I KNOW. I KNOW, BUT GOD

AND THEN SHE FUCKING WAKES UP, AND THEY’RE ALL CRYING.

“We thought we lost you.” Tai holding her face. I’m fucking unwell.

I CAN’T FUCKING DO THIS. I CAN’T

SOPHIE FUCKING NÉLISSE.

“Don’t you hear him crying? Why can’t you hear him cry?”

Taissa holding Shauna and that dead baby, blood on her hands.

“Why can’t you hear him?”

This is the most upsetting goddamn television I’ve ever fucking seen in my life.

“The infants lungs will fill with air, signaled by a cry.” And at the end, it’s this line from the video documentary that comes back to haunt us all.

[woodenpicador]

got an interesting pair of anons on CuriousCat that I posted on Twitter so I thought it would be worth posting here (h/t @sappy-sappho for the idea to cross-post)

reminder that shauna, nat, jackie, and lottie are all canonically straight!

are they? i think we can say that shauna, nat, and jackie have canonically had intimate relationships with men, though i would argue that the show portrays those relationships in ways that intend the audience to question their motivations and desires in those moments. Lottie has kissed Travis while tripping balls but I am very hesitant to ascribe anything about genuine desire to that. I wonder whether canon/non-canon may have outlived its usefulness as a distinction: text, subtext, or metatext feels like a more interesting framework to examine media

shauna stole jackie’s boyfriend married him and had a kid. lottie tried to hook up with nats boyfriend. the key word is boy. shauna also wanted to fuck travis and her daughters boyfriend. she had a whole affair with a man. nat was in love with kevin. they’re all straight. u know u can ship characters without making up lies right? the only lesbians on the show are van and tai! u don’t need to include straight girls in lesbianism.

you raise a lot of points and I’m going to try to address them all. starting with the accounting of plot: so I don’t think these are INVALID reads of textual events necessarily—though Nat being in love with Kevyn is an interpretation of the text and not indisputable in the text itself and I really would not describe Lottie in Doomcoming as trying to hook up with Travis—but I don’t think they bear as neatly on “are these characters straight” as you present here and in fact complicate it more. I’m not here to police identities but I don’t think any of this actually precludes any of these characters from being lesbians, whether closeted or in denial or unsure or simply not knowing at the time at which these events occur. people discover themselves on different trajectories, and people do things they don’t want to do all the time (Shauna even specifically says she had Callie to save a marriage that she “got into out of guilt and shame”). the question is and remains: are these characters acting on an attraction to men or are they acting on something else? the nature of the medium makes these questions largely unanswerable in a strict “canon” sense. no character states their identity on any axis with particularized clarity, it can only be inferred and interpreted from text, subtext, and metatext. which, for instance, is how we know that tai and van are lesbians, even though neither of them outright says “I’m a lesbian.”

which brings me to what I think is the more critical point here: you’ve positioned lesbianism and straightness as a binary option, “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” - which I think neglects the different forms identity and attraction can take. Shauna, who shows attraction to men in 1996 only when they are marked by Jackie and in 2021 only when that attraction is abstract versus the concrete article, transgresses against the roles of wife and mother that she has constructed to imprison her for the duration of her life sentence, may be a closeted or in-denial lesbian or she may simply be bisexual. Nat may be (I would argue is) bisexual. at no point did I represent that they’re lesbians, but I wouldn’t reject an interpretation that they are. But bisexuality isn’t “including straight girls in lesbianism” and having had sex with men does not forever exclude you from a lesbian identity by simple fact of having done it. Jackie, whose attraction to men is so tied up in layers of performance, I would argue is clearly written as a lesbian even if you don’t buy the “Shauna and Jackie are in love with each other” formulation. but these are interpretations, no more right than anyone else’s—and no more wrong, either.

but I am a fic writer first and foremost, so no, I cannot ship two characters without telling lies upon lies. it’s fiction, none of it is “true” in the factual sense, but if it is successful, whether fan work or canon, it is true in the emotional sense

[vpalmersfootballgloves]

yellowjackets 206 thoughts

no one hears anyone crying but y'all will hear these spoilers if you don't scroll past. spoilers below

SOPHIE NELISSE EMMY TONY OSCAR GRAMMY NOBEL PEACE PRIZE PREMIER LEAGUE TITLE PULITZER PRIZE BRAVERY MEDAL CAMPAIGN

precrash!taivan with their desks together during sex ed and tagteaming randy. this was the last time i was seen happy and carefree.

VAN EATING A LOLLY MIDDAY WHILE REARRANGING VHS TAPES, VAN'S SCREAM POSTER, VAN NOT ADMITTING TAI ACTUALLY KISSED HER, VAN STOPPING FOR COFFEE FOR TAI, VAN'S PESSIMISTIC OUTLOOK ON LOVE AND LIFE, VAN ON BUMBLE, VAN'S SNARKY CULT COMMENTS, VAN EATING HER OWN WORDS UPON SEEING HER EX-GOD, LOTTIE MATTHEWS.

"youre married taissa, there's no us anymore" honestly simone is probably already done filing the papers dw honey we're good.

i know some will take tai minding into van's broke and bitchless business as a whole pot calling kettle black situation etc, BUT i'm arguing that she cares about her loved ones (nat, van) so much that she's willing to ignore the shitload of problems on her own plate to help out where she can

the dream birth sequence was so creepy from the start til end. personally, i think its either shauna placenta previaed and postpartum hemorrhaged into her obligatory near death dream/hallucination sequence. OR she just passed out and the dream was a manifestation of all her insecurities, worries and grief.

tai is seriously shauna's RIDE AND DIE. shoving the van's deer bone into her hand and giving her the Lottie special. tai LOVES shauna SO HARD.

travis you have 5 litres of blood to donate with no monthly bleeds and yet you only gave the gods THREE DROPS????? lottie dont lie to him we can BARELY see his sacrifice.

still better than ben i guess. dude just dipped and went to his mind palace

"i love you so much" "it's you and me kid" shauna i dont need a reminder of my mommy issues rn

lottie turning shauna's son into a communal baby like wdym OUR???!?!?!!?

natalie :C she has so much survivor's guilt and remorse that she genuinely believes she's an irredeemable, irreparable Very Very Bad person incapable to be loved because everything she touches hurts one way or another.

lisa and 14th gilly will remind natalie she is so capable of love and to be love. TRUST.

misty praising natalie among lottie's acolytes. she's rooting for natalie so hard. its adorable how much she loves natalie in all the weirdest ways

simone kessell you are a STAR. the lottie-psychiatrist scene MOVED MOUNTAINS

speaking of psychiatrist, that woman is not your psychiatrist. she is switching your meds, egging you on and praying on your downfall.

"what is... IT?" BITTTCH STAY AWAY FROM LOTTIE!!!

teen shauna's sincere, pure and unadulterated love thesis for her son versus adult shauna's nonchalantly saying why didn't callie have sex WITH A FUCKING GROWN ASS MAN PREDATOR to nullify the evidence... the wilderness really did a number on her huh

thank fuck some maternal instincts kicked in during the pornstache interrogation

day 8349 of pornstache saracusa not being dead or tortured. its honestly upsetting

nat staring at van during the milf avengers line up bc nat's just shocked to see van in the flesh ever since these two childhood bestfriends lost contact postrescue.

[teabookgremlin]

hello lesbians and also others who follow me. you all know what fucking time it is lets fucking do a yellowjackets 02x06 recap

- first of all taivan in the sex ed scene hehe my girlies more pre crash moments of them PLEASE, i’d love a flashback to like their friendship/start of relationship

- lottie being horrified at misty showing up at the cult so real. imagine you’re just trying to vibe w/ your homoerotic friend then said friend’s other homoerotic friend shows up? a rough day

- “it honestly would’ve been better if she just had sex with him” SHAUNA MY BITCH WORST MOTHER OF THE YEAR

- mari saying she hopes shauna doesn’t die top five things not to say when your friend is about to give birth with no medical care in the middle of fucking no where

- nat was wounding me this episode, she has so much guilt and hates herself for having survived its just awful

- van rightly pissed about tai’s sleepwalking (especially kiss). she clearly does not want to be dragged into this and honestly valid but bc she’s van she’s gonna let herself be dragged in

- “you’re married taissa there’s no us anymore” everything van says to tai just leads me to want to know more about how their relationship ended bc clearly she’s not happy that it did

- misty being unable to focus on the birth bc of crystal was so sad, the bit where she saw the blood on her hands that was intercut with crystal’s death was great very nice scene

- lottie’s psychiatrist is so sketchy. like the encouragement of the visions is so bizarre and just bad vibes

- thinking that “it” influenced travis, nat, and misty to return to lottie’s life

- “it was part of us” “the god of that place, we did terrible things in it’s name” WHAT DID THEY FUCKING DO also furthering my agenda that the antler queen is it’s own spirit/entity rather than one of the girls

- tai trying to flirt with van BITCH YOUR WIFE IS IN THE HOSPITAL YOUR KID IS GOD KNOWS WHERE

- TAI PUTTING THE DEER BONE NECKLACE IN SHAUNA’S HAND YEAH THAT’S THE GOOD STUFF like it saved van maybe it will save shauna and i mean hey she didn’t die so

- jackie’s voice, i knew she’d have some sort of presence during birth and definitely liked this especially given it was in the dream

- “yeah the past where we thought being happy was something that was possible not what happened” OW?????

- van having given up on love </3 her relationship with tai really did a number on her huh. representation for the girlies that never get over anything ever

- lisa giving nat the fish and that whole conversation was so good their friendship is important to me

- jeff just fucking jamming to “fuck the police” was hilarious. yes they need to tune down the jeff this season but i did enjoy this bit

- this is not plot related but honestly so glad the baby did not survive bc those few minutes of baby crying were making me insane i cannot handle the sound of babies crying (one of many reasons i will never have children lol)

- loved loved loved shauna’s monologue to creepy cop man, just saying out loud that literally her whole life is how it is because of guilt just UGH melanie did amazingly (as always)

- dream lottie being weird with the baby so fun so good “we need to feed” —> “he needs to feed”

- callie continuing to be so proud of herself about lying to the cops this is her season for real

- i should’ve known the baby was doomed the second it started to nurse like that and shauna being so loving to it were my real red flags that something was weird

- “if you see any barrels of kool aid powder in there consider me on call for an extraction” van i love you. also her being like lets leave and just go to ihop or something

- misty asking if taivan is back together she’s so real for that

- the moment of van seeing lottie and lottie seeing that they’re all there ugh i cannot wait to see the interactions between them all next week

- OK dream baby eating time: my favorite part was nat, the way she was wiping the blood from her mouth when she saw shauna, the guilt in her eyes, just perfect. also ben being the only other one who looked fully human/guilty in the scene. and then the rest of them being so animalistic i just loved it. bummed we didn’t get real baby eating but this is a good compromise i think

- shauna saying “why can’t you hear him crying” was so fucking heartbreaking sophie nelisse needs all the awards. i did not think i would be satisfied with the baby being stillborn but i loved the way they did it. i do hope that next episode we do see the body, specifically for one reason and that is i want shauna to keep seeing jackie in the baby. like she looks at it once and sees jackie’s eyes, next look it has her nose, etc. maybe even give it some sort of animal features at some point. i just want her to not be able to look at the corpse and see a baby. i want her to look at it and see jackie and her own guilt. next week’s episode is called “burial” so i’m assuming they will be disposing of the body and i want shauna to look at it as it’s being dispose of and just see jackie laying there instead. do you see my vision? i think it would be very fun. either that or they actually eat the baby. also we better get some placenta eating next episode bc not eating it would be a huge waste

[nerd-at-sea5]

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oh ok lottie you shouldn’t be peeing blood wtf

mari you’re 100% dying this ep i’m sure of it. but also good god i just wanna give her a hug

AKILAH AND NUGGET OMFG YES THIS IS ADORABLE AND ALSO SO HEARTBREAKING BUT I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

wait. wait what the fuck. what the fuck?!?! NUGGET?

‘jeff did not come thru on the phone sex thing’ van omfg i adore you

‘he was in there really deep’ WHY DID NO ONE MAKE A THATS WHAT SHE SAID JOKE AND TAI PLS TELL HER YOU HELPED BURRY A BODY

ok thank you van for being yourself i love you also the messed up hair in this scene is just. yes.

lisa just giving lottie a ‘bitch wtf is going on’ look i love her so much

tai and van acting like an old married couple WOAH TRANSITION GODDAMN hold up why does van look a lil evil rn

OH HELLO OTHER TAI

oh rlly so now we come up w the leather eating jesus a bit late for that huh?

NAT THATS YOUR GF NO but also yay nat/ben bff bonding i love it

she is jealous of lottie bc she wants to date lottie

don’t eat him pls

WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK BLOOD?!?! WHAT

oh she’s so dead. mari you are so dead-

fuck callie and jeff goddamnit

this cop is a piece of shit i hate him

oh my god callie i love you so much

HE DID NOT GO THERE. FUCKING BITCH.

goddamnit why is misty so good at her job. this is so fucked up

‘we all need things we can’t have shauna’ *taivan camera focus*

MISTY WHAT THE FUCK

hey woah why are we insulting natalie and shauna here MISTY STOP KILLING PEOPLE

i need ben to survive i will sob so hard if he doesn’t.

JAVI NAT BONDING YESSSSSS I LOVE I LOVE

holy shit he’s actually apologizing. no don’t forgive him that fast omfg. damnit nat cmon.

LOTTIE DO NOT ASK THEM TO EAT YOU OMFG

BEN WHERE ARE YOU GOING

misty explain what she did to jessica and then lottie’s shocked face + van’s ‘hands tied joke’ omfg yes

oh their finding out who the blackmailer was

walter no walter no walter no walter no walter no

jeff’s gonna do something not good

WHAT THE FUCK SHAUNA WHAT IS HAPPENING WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK

ok it’s a nightmare? but still what the fuck

callie i love you

OH HE KNOWS ABOUT THE BABY. oh i’m gonna cry. i’m gonna fucking sob.

misty watch your fucking mouth-oh hey tai’s asleep. on nvm she not.

fuckkkkk tai….

oh my god van is the ONLY sane person here

lottie dude we have to talk about it listen to ur wife

oh my god stop killing people please

WHAT IS GOING O N I THOUGHT THERE WERE NO QUEENS IN THE DECK

also like some part of me is worried nat or van or two are gonna die but also like their NOT?

so now it’s just ben akilah and javi pls don’t die

shit natalie ik you survive but like fuck

OH SHIT SHES THE QUEEN IS SHE GONNA DIE WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

she HAS A KNIFE TO HER WHAT SHE SURVIVES THO

oh my god nat way to be a badass while shauna is abt to kill you but also not THE FUCKING TIME like it’s gonna work but DUDE

DID VAN JUST SNARL?!

ben?! OH TRAVIS FUCK MISTY STFU

jesus this is horrible why are they all doing this jesus christ this isn’t ok JAVI NO.

goddamn the one time she gets screentime in the last few eps she’s being fucking hunted

the only way i’m not sobbing rn is bc i know she survives bc we see older her. it’s fine everything’s fine. nat’s gonna kill someone tho. i’m sure of it. but fuck.

lottie no. lottie no. nope no. STOP. also van is gonna die. but no.

‘misty. ya did actually kill someone.’ yeah mood. OK LOTTIE SHE HAS CANCER

yeah van’s dying. or it’ll cure cancer.

he found javi’s hideout? lordy this is creepy as fuck

yo he’s talking what??? i love him

oh he’s dying. FUCK.

MISTY STOP WHAT THE FUCK oh god misty. god travis is going to never recover.

fuck. dude even shauna and van look disturbed.

nat pls punch someone. cmon. you deserve it.

[sos-gonetolake]

In honor of S2 showing up on Netflix on my country, here's the novel-length rant I wrote in the subreddit that then got removed by the mods

I will vent actually because, I really didn't like it. The present storylines were lazy to me, idk.

- This season introduced adult Van. Adult Van did absolutely fuckall, I really enjoy Lauren Ambrose and she had some cool lines (Jeff didn't come through on the phone sex thing) but Van did nothing of note in the adult timeline. They took what? 5? episodes to draw Taissa to her, and Taissa didn't move an inch forward because of it. Still sleepwalking, still with her wife in a coma and her kid with the grandma, no mention of the job she spent all S1 vying for. nothing. Tai and Van reunited, kissed, and were background characters. That's a waste of two fantastic actors and core survivors for fuck's sake. Literally, what was Taissa's storyline this season? the adult timeline spans only like one or max two weeks too, that hurt its chances from the get go.

- The crime, we wrapped S1 with dead adam and dead jessica. All 4 core survivors implicated. We spend season 2 seeing only Shauna deal with it, the other three are completely unbothered with their respective share of the crime, makes sense for misty. This season however ends with a new dude (Walter) finding a magical way to make BOTH crimes just go away with a little blackmail, in ONE episode. OFF-SCREEN. He monologues his solve. We don't see him plan or execute him, involve Misty who is an actual important character for both crimes, nothing. Extra #3 solves the two crime cliff-hangers from the first season. Dark Tai went to Jessica's house and (somehow) walked in and out with files, and left her assistant's car with the window open by the highway after and the show never acknowledges that?

- Kevyn, oof. Ok, kill him, he's a bit irrelevant I suppose. But you poison the man with what I guess is untraceable, but shove him in a trunk and shoot him there post mortem, and the plan is that pornstache doesn't yap? Walter's finger prints are on the gun, I'm sure they can determine he was shot after he died, there's now blood in his trunk... it just seems like SUCH a sloppy plan, but I feel the show wanted me to think Walter was so clever for it. I suppose We shall see how everything develops in S3, they might just say it was dumb as hell and now they're in even more trouble.

- Lottie and the teenager in the cult. What was the point of that girl? If they wanted to humanize Nat... did they need to? Did any of us feel like Nat needed a teenage girlie to be nice to? seems like bloating the cast without thinking it through. The time spent on her should have been spent on Adult Lottie. What do we really know of her? She was taking meds and stopped and is having hallucinations. She runs a successful wellness center cult though so she was fine on meds, seemed like a fast turnover into we should make a sacrifice actually. Like with Van, more time should have been spent in fleshing out Lottie. I feel like Adult Lottie's storyline was simply plot contrivances to get them in one place to kill Nat and keep the wilderness myth alive. It sounds nitpicky even to me, but she doesn't feel like a character in the present? just a plot device? idk.

- Jeff, never change bby

- Shauna and Misty, were actually doing things and serving monologues. Good for them. Shauna looks so pained all the time, it's insane to me she might get off free because of fucking Walter. Two seasons resulting in not much if that's the case? But at least she has a weird compelling thing going on with Callie.

- About the 96 storyline... I will handwave it all because they're literally starving. Travis biting into a heart, raw. Lottie resigning as president and electing Nat of all people as successor and them all going with it when she hasn't been praying at all lmao. No one else acknowledging Krystal's death for more than 30 seconds, or asking about coach Ben. Them letting Shauna beat Lottie at all. Them letting Javi stay quiet about his whereabouts after that one scene. Them never sitting down to really ponder how the symbol in the trees forms a symbol in the maps, and how Taissa just knows where they are in her sleep, after Van blurted out Tai knew where Javi was. Just a bunch of choices and slightly unfinished storylines that were weird, but they were starving and maybe slightly chemically poisoned so it's fine.

- The music was too intrusive, don't use super famous songs with unrelated lyrics playing loudly over every two scenes. I get we're doing 90s nostalgia but it actively distracts me sometimes. The VHS effect to transition scenes is... a choice, a too-quirky one maybe. The slowmo in the season finale was... bad. The entire sequence of Shauna jogging away with the others on tow, capped off with Callie shooting Lot and the other girl showing up, ending with Nat's slow mo "Misty, stooooop" and the needle stabbing.... it was so poorly shot? They just did not look to be moving fast enough guns were needed or Nat couldn't have side stepped misty, or literally tripped her a little. It was a goofy-ass death scene. For one of the most important characters. And lord, the plane? why not the same plane? A modern plane? that's a choice, the lightning in that scene and the little tremor? also a choice. Seeing kid javi, kid nat, kid lot, and not the dude whose death has been a big question mark since ep one and who she has the most history with? a loud ass choice, what does it scream? idk and I don't think we're gonna find out because I guess they also wrapped Travis' death with that explanation Lottie gave in like Ep3.

So yeah, I kinda hated it. I think it was a steep drop in quality and a lot of the writing was wasted on things we're now being told aren't quite important (teenager in the cult, crime outcomes, nat's self discovery that didn't even finish before she was killed,) and a lot of questions and unsolved stuff sat basically on a shelf on was handwaved with a few lines (Tai's sleep and personal life mess, javi's friend, lot's gap between Switzerland and now that even Misty didn't find info about, Travis' last day, Van's random cancer that wasn't even shared by the group and I guess was now healed by the power of murder)

I did like how they handled Shauna's pregnancy, and the first hunt. The acting remains superb, the super sudden adult Lottie transformation into this trembling girl in the finale was so so good. And teen Nat has been amazing at looking worried and broken, as has teen Van at looking straight up psychotic and pro murder lmao. Teen misty girl, you're the one. Destroyed the black box (whether it would have led to a rescue can be debated but her intention was clear), led to Krystal's death, and now gaslit Lottie into co-signing the hunts. They need to know all these things. She's a fucking menace. And adult misty? shit.

Sorry for the rant lmao. See you all in a year or two.

[cdyssey]

Yellowjackets 2.05 Reactions:

The stacks of VHS tapes everywhere in Van’s house/shop are so charming. 😭 The rainbow carpet! The past due bills!

“Parker Posey is my new dream woman. I would marry her today.” So right, bestie.

VAN RECOMMENDING QUEER MOVIES TO PEOPLE. OH, I LOVE HER. VAN’S STORE BEING SAFE FOR QUEER CUSTOMERS!!

Tai collapsing after seeing her ex for the first time in 25 years because she hasn’t slept in, like, five days. Go, girl failure. Give us nothing. <3

Shaunatai friendship moments. 😭 Tai being so gentle with her. I’m actually unwell about them.

“Happy wife, happy life.” I fucking love her.

Atm, Shauna is firmly in nothing-fucking-supernatural-is-happening-here-at-all-camp with Tai and Nat! It’s really interesting that this makes three out of our core four. (I honestly half-suspect that it’s actually four out of four, and teen Misty is just going along with the majority right now to be included.)

Shauna overhearing Lottie creepily prophesy the sex of her baby again and Tai turning around to watch her. 😭

Fucking creepy grown ass detective who is taking this underaged teenager on dates!! Preying on her emotions for a gd case!!!

“I sexually hustled you.” Oh, God, Callie. Go home. ☠️

Good on Callie for figuring out who Matt is by looking at the check!!!! Okay, yes, she absolutely did not need to be having feelings for this man, but also, I feel so bad for her. Everyone this girl cares about hurts her in some unimaginably fucked up way.

“Maybe he did die, and that’s his ghost.” ANANWJJEJWNWDIWWI

Akilah naming the mouse Nugget. ;w;

Misty kissing her and Crystal’s pinky swear. 😭 Mari is 100% manipulating the chore cards.

Callie lying to Matt!!!!!! Oh, God, she’s in it to protect her parents now. Her mom. So fucked up, but so good. All she has wanted this entire time is to feel close to her mother.

“There’s only ever one rule: Win.” Very suspicious line, lmao. I wonder if this is going to end up being Walter’s ethos.

Van immediately knowing that Tai is there about the sleepwalking.

NOT TAI GIVING HER THE BOOB PEN WKQKQKWJEJDJWIEJDJEJD.

THEY WENT TO SHAUNA’S WEDDING. OH, GOD. THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY. And that also means they were together at least for a little bit after returning from the woods. (We know from Jeff’s bro-off with Kevyn that he and Shauna basically got married almost as soon as Shauna got back from the woods. It’s wrenching that Mrs. Taylor was there in so many ways. Wow. For Shauna, who was so entangled with Jackie, and now she’s about to literally live her life. For Jeff, whose two girlfriends died and one of them came back wrong. For Tai and Van and other Yellowjackets if they attended, who had to look at the Taylors and know that they ate their daughter. And even for Mrs. Taylor, a grieving mother. Just one line, but it’s so, so loaded.)

“Promise you won’t freak out.” / “Sure.” / “No.” AJWJWJJWIWJSJDW.

“A fucking cop?” MELANIE LYNSKEY’S EYEBROWS ARCHING EJWJDNS.

CONCERNED PARENTS ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS ABOUT THE COP’S AGE!!! Listen, the Sadecki family is fucked up to hell and back, but I love them.

“So… I did fix it?” / “You-you did that great.” So, so effed up. <33

NAT IS STILL WEARING THOSE GODDAMN LEATHER PANTS. GIRL, YOU’RE GONNA GET AN INFECTION!! This being said, it’s notable that she’s wearing a purple top now.

Akilah being a skeptic too. Also, every time we get a new piece of Akilah lore, I want to die a little inside because it’s so lovely and they’re 100% priming us for her inevitable death. 😭 Her friendship with Tai is so sweet, though.

I love the distinction that Akilah makes here, though—doing the pre-game rituals and going to Lottie’s morning sit-down not because she believes in these things, but because they make her feel good.

“Well, yeah—because you’re totally whipped.” AKKQKQOQIEIEJWJEJDJS. Splashing each other with water. Kids being kids, even in the desolate and unforgiving wilderness. 😭

Oh, God. This Travis/Nat confrontation. So upsetting. Nat immediately fessing up to it is incredible; she’s not a character who likes to deal with lies.

Lottie curling her hand around Nat’s shoulder!!! Gays, we win again.

“Actually, uh, before we go into the black recesses of my soul, I just need a minute.” Same.

MISTYNAT REUNION!!!! What if they kissed between the gate slats. Then what

(I’m sorry. I ship almost all of these women together. I think if this season doesn’t end with ALL of them making out by the fire in Lottie’s compound, it’s a missed opportunity.)

Misty’s look of utter horror as Nat stalks away. She came so far for her.

I know it’s just the effect of Tawny Cypress’s contacts, but Tai’s eyes being slightly red at certain times is just chef’s kiss.

Tai sitting in the chair like a child, knees pulled up to her chest. She looks and sounds so vulnerable, even as she’s trying to be glib.

Misty and Crystal trading secrets back-and-forth QNQKQKKWJE. So funny and so effed up.

You know, I could have done without the shot of the shit and piss being poured out. We can imply that. 😭

KRISTEN. 😭😭😭😭 The fact that she went by the mistaken name just to keep her peers’ approval. So Misty-coded.

OH, GOD. IS MISTY ABOUT TO FUCKING ADMIT TO DESTROYING THE BLACK BOX. NO. NO. NO. THAT MIGHT BE TOO EFFED UP, EVEN FOR KRISTEN.

FUCK, SHE’S GOING TO DO IT.

IT IS TOO FUCKED UP FOR KRISTEN.

“You’re the reason we never got rescued?”

“You’re not that good of an actress.” Fair in this moment, but Misty did slay that Steel Magnolias monologue.

“I’ll… fucking… kill you.” JESUS CHRIST

KRISTEN. OH, MY FUCKING GO D.

I’M LOSING MY SHIT.

GOD, GOD GOD GOD DGOD GOD

I am so FUCKED UP ABOUT THIS.

Directly on the heels of Misty losing her best friend in the wilderness, we get adult Misty reeling over Nat. I am so fucking unwell.

“Maybe Lottie is jealous of what Natalie and I have.” Natalie has two hands, Misty. <3

Walter having done the due diligence of checking to see about Adam’s murder, but coming to the wrong conclusion.

“You think I’m capable of murder?” DIRECTLY ON THE HEELS OF KRISTEN’S DEATH. I’M SO FUCKED UP.

WALTER STILL BEING INTO MISTY EVEN THOUGH HE SUSPECTS SHE’S A MURDERER EJWNDNNE. Listen, I love him, but I think he’s as dead as a doorknob by the end of this season.

“… regardless of your extracurricular activities.” AMQMQKWKDNSSN.

Shauna all dolled up to pretend to have an affair, lmao SNDNSNDNWJNS.

Randy Walsh being such a dumbass is one of my favorite recurring bits. Just stellar.

“After what you and Jeff did, you owe me.” ANQKWJRJWJJWNDJSSN. Where else on television will you find an emotionally unwell, violent MILF who tells her husband’s best friend who blackmailed her friends to go jerk off into a trash can? Go on, tell me.

“Hey. Don’t you you dare think about me.” AKQKQOOQJEEIENNWIEIWKWJDNNENEJD. SOBBING.

Tai playing the mediator between Lottie and Shauna.

NOT TAISSA SNOOPING THROUGH VAN’S MEDICINE CABINETS. GIRL FAILURE, DON’T SCREW THIS UP A SECOND TIME.

Van having cared for her mother—despite everything—in the last years of her life. Goddamn.

“I’m mixing my pop culture metaphors ‘cause I’m fucking upset!” AWKWKWKJEDJWJ. Lauren Ambrose is killing it.

“I’m losing my fucking mind, and I’m terrified!” GOD, THAT WAS VISCERAL. The way she can’t admit to not having been this afraid since the woods. The way she can’t ask for help because she doesn’t want to hurt any other people that she loves. She still loves Van . Absolutely fucking devastating.

Tai breaking down in sobs. I’m so upset. 😭 TAIVAN EMBRACE.

No, Yellowjackets, I did not need to be in the bathroom with Randy Walsh failing to jerk off. Thank you for asking.

Nat screaming at Lottie!!!! “She’s preying and profiting.”

Nat breaking the fuck down in front of Lottie.

“You know what he was going through. You started it.” JESUS CHRIST.

“Maybe that’s true, but I need to know.” YELLS, SCREAMS.

Tai following Shauna out into the woods, even though she’s giving her the silent treatment. 😭

“But I’m rightfully freaking the fuck out about having a baby in the middle of the fucking woods, and news flash, having a bunch of psychos praying for me in some weird fucking tree cult isn’t making my life any easier.” GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD.

“I don’t need your fucking prayers. I need you to have my back.” / “I do.” LOSING MY MIND OVER THESE TWO.

IT’S SHAUNA NEEDING SOMEONE TO BE NORMAL WITH HER, AND TAISSA NEEDING TO FEEL NORMAL HERSELF, TO NOT HAVE ANY MORE NIGHTMARES.

NO, NOT LABOR PAINS. OH, GOD.

Misty sobbing over Kristen. Calling her by Crystal twice before she says her actual name. Ugh. Trying CPR to the Bees Gees. Jesus CHRIST.

Can they go into Randy’s room without a warrant???? Kevyn so badly doesn’t want it to be Shauna. I really do appreciate that about him.

NOT MATT SMELLING THE GODDAMN CONDOM. WHAT IS THIS SHOW.

STRAWBERRIES.

LIKE THE LUBE.

UNREAL.

Javi speaking cryptically about someone not telling him to come back, a “she.” 😬

Misty coming up with a believable lie about Kristen, and one of the last things Kristen ever said to her was that she was a bad liar. FUCK FUCK FUCK.

Van screaming for Tai and Shauna. Misty calling out for Kristen, even though she fucking knows that she can’t hear her.

THE GIRLS RITUALISTICALLY CHANTING. I’M SO FUCKED UP. AND IT’S WORKING. AND TAI’S DOING IT.

Tai finally sleeping soundly at Van’s. 😭

Oh, my fucking God. Van taking the pills out of the trash can.

SLEEPWALKING TAI. THAT EVIL SMILE. THE WAY SHE BOBS HER HEAD. TERRIFYING.

“This isn’t where we’re supposed to be.” AUHDJDWNH.

“He was seeing some girl. Part of me wanted to ruin it. But another part of me just missed him.” This line of dialogue is so goddamn raw and brutal.

NAT OVERDOSING.

NAT ENVISIONING THAT THEY DIDN’T FUCKING MAKE IT. THOSE BURNED BODIES.

THE ANTLER QUEEN?!?!!

WE BROUGHT IT BACK.

WE BROUGHT IT BACK WITH US:

WHAT THE AFTUAL HELL

NAT LAYING HER HEAD ON LOTTIE’S LAP AND THEY’RE FUCKING TEENAGERS AGAIN. I’M

NO, IT’S ONLY NAT WHO’S THE TEENAGER. SHE’S GONE BACK TO BEINT A CHILD. AND LOTTIE IS STILL AN ADULT, BUT SHE’S SEEING THE SHADOW OF THE ANTLER QUEEN ON THE FLOOR AND

DID ALL OF THESE PEOPLE DIE AND LITERALLY COME BACK WRONG

THIS SHOW