#jackieshauna but sad stuff

[razzberrycitrus]

OH my god. "yes horrible things happened to shauna, but they were the consequences of her own actions" in reference to her horribly traumatic miscarriage and/or jackie's death. lets really think about that first one for a second. 🧠✨️

was it her fault that she got pregnant? well. she had consensual, unprotected sex multiple times. so, yes. does it then follow that it was merely "the consequences of her own actions" that her baby was stillborn and she had to hold the body, covered in her own blood, for days while she lay sick and starving in the middle of the wilderness? NO?? WTF ARE YOU SAYING? would you ever propose than any other woman out in the real world who has a miscarriage or stillborn is merely seeing "the consequences of their own actions" because she may have chosen the part where she had sex and got pregnant? no you wouldn't. so it's a crazy thing to say when it happens to a teenage girl stranded in the woods.

and on the jackie note, jackie is no villain okay. they were both dumb teenage girls who were careless with one another and who lashed out at each other during a highly traumatic experience. yes the fight was about jeff, but shauna did not force her to sleep outside. she merely snapped back when jackie attempted to force her to sleep outside. and the argument that shauna let her sleep out there and didn't fold and go out to convince her to come back doesn't really work for placing the blame squarely on her shoulders when there were 14 other people in the room who made the exact same choice.

~ end essay ~

[cassmouse]

'I don't even know where you end and I begin' was such a fucking devastating line from Shauna oh my god

[whatyourehungryfor]

Are you in the mood to cry? do i have the fic recs for you! most of these made me cry or at least come close, and i literally never cry. buckle up!

(also heads up this is mostly jackie or shauna focused stuff because i have a bias and death hurts)

Butterfly v. Yellowjacket

cmon. this is a given. if you ask for a yellowjackets fic that hurts this will probably be mentioned. it's for good reason! This fic ruined me, which, granted, was in part because it was late at night but it really does stick with you. The prose is great and the ending takes you breath away (if it hasn't already been stolen by your sobs)

pinky promise

This one is short but bittersweet. Like, just read the summary and trust me, it will get to you. Very pretty in a tragic sort of way

she sleeps below (so down you go)

This will not make you happy at all and might even creep you out as a nice bonus, so for sure heed the tags. It gets pretty fucked up, but in a well done way. I love a good fic where everything is so completely fucked, but I must say: poor Van

let me love you wrong

Read this one and stared at a wall for about 20 minutes because I dared to hope. To see it all unravel slowly... well, they don't call it tragedy for nothing, and jackieshauna fits the bill. Lovely exploration of them though!

when you find an old picture of us and you clear away the dust (i hope you miss me sometimes)

A Shauna character study, but given her intense guilt and her inherent sadness I had to put it here. Her entire life is an altar to Jackie and this fic sure does show it

i do know that it's over

Ah, post-rescue. Shauna never did get out of those woods did she? Come here to cry over Shauna crying over Jackie. My girl is so messed up and hollow and it upsets me

Big Bear, Little Bear

I really do love Callie and Shauna's dynamic and all the pain that goes with it. Enjoy this painful snapshot of that

please don't push my sunshine away

I won't spoil the ending, but the middle of this gets HEAVY. Also unhinged Jackie behavior is a bonus but things get bleak for sure. Love a desolate winter

the lost land

Genuinely I have hardly ever seen a fic capture the damage and the loss and the pain the wilderness left on even the survivors. Like they were kids! And now they lost not only their friends but themselves, and things literally won't ever be okay again. Hurt me so bad and so good

and i think it's going to rain today

Funerals and Jackie is quite the recipe for pain, let me tell you

Enjoy (well. appreciate the pain more like) these sad fics for a rainy day. These are just some of my faves, so feel free to also mention your own. Remember to comment and kudos. Enjoy the angst :)

[staghunters]

Ao3 wrapped 2023!!

Thanks for the tag, @sapphicscience!! <3

Works published: 11

Wordcount: 188,800 (very satisfying number... also wtf)

Kudos: 1,291

Hits: 25,959

Bookmarks: 387

Subscriptions: 267

Most popular by kudos: Who's That Knocking At My Window by far, which is wild considering that I wrote it in the midst of my master thesis, while never having done a multi-chap of this size before, and a bare-bones outline lol. Runner-up is a whopping 400 kudos behind, but You're the looker, I'm the rotten apple of your eye has a dear place in my heart.

Most hits: Still WTKAMW on top, BUT Party Out Of Bounds takes the second place here

Longest: The vampfic once again (101,427 words)

Shortest: Mother Instinct ! a quick NOPE fic (1,140 words)

Most Comments: The vampfic akjfdhskd

Fics that made me cry: I don't really cry much at reading/writing sorryyy. But (shaping up to be) sad stuff is either A Ghost is a Wish or Same As It Ever Was, depending on how I'll go forward with them

Fics that made me smile: Party Out Of Bounds lol. It was very fun to think of hijinks and mishaps to take place along the way

gifts: The vampfic was officially gifted to @ordinaryhorror because they were theyre to hype me up every step of the way and he really became a good friend over the course of writing it yeehaw!

collaborations: none this year, but I'd be down!

events: Jackieshauna weekend and Yellowjackets October!

I don't know many writers myself outside of those already tagged, so I'll just point at @jackietaylorsversion (dakjf, feel free to skip if this isn't your thing)

For ease of copying: Works published: Wordcount: Kudos: Hits: Bookmarks: Subscriptions: Most popular by kudos: Most hits: Longest: Shortest: Most Comments: Fics that made me cry: Fics that made me smile: gifts: collaborations: events:

[shaunamilfman]

Since the JackieShauna songs post, I have to ask what artists you think the girls would listen to. Shauna fs likes Folk and indie music, that is my only firm stance lmao.

honestly I don't really think that you can judge someone's music tastes from their personality all that well. i can make guesses but it probably wouldn't be all that accurate?

shauna's def the alt/indie/folk type. we know for sure she likes Liz Phair and nirvana, and Jackie says she has a bad taste in music at one point so shauna gotta listen to stuff that isn't what Jackie considers mainstream. Shauna listens to sad girl music all the time for sure. feel like she'd love the smiths and noah kahan for sure.

Jackie is a pop girlie i feel. i think she'd expand her horizons in college but I think her parents put a lot of pressure on her to be someone she's not and she feels like that's the only kind of music she can like. she also just genuinely likes it. modern au Jackie has her name as like Jackie (Taylor's Version) on social media for sure.

nat seems like she would claim to only listen to like nirvana, smashing pumpkins, the smiths, radiohead type music. secretly she'd enjoy like pop or something but wouldn't admit it even if you had a gun to her head.

lottie listens to like everything I feel. idk if this is canon or fanon but she loves mazzy star for sure. it's become a part of her character for me. i can't explain this one but I feel like she listens to like "manipulator" music or whatever for sureeeee. (i think that's bs but yall know the kinda artists I'm talking about?? didn't wanna list them all)

Misty I feel like classical/instrumental, and later showtunes.

[fearsomeandwrong]

omg thank u for tagging me again I love it!!

Even though some really weird stuff that can’t be explained have happened im definitely teem rational. i think we see the show from the girls’ pov (mainly shauna’s) so many stuff can be twisted because of the trauma they had witnessed. Also, i think they believed in a supernatural “power” in the wilderness, because they didn’t have faith in anything else. They were desperate to find a purpose. Just like people do when they’re struggling. As Taylor Swift said: “ desperate people find faith so now i pray to jesus too”

ahhhhhh i can’t decide about my favourite teens it’s either jackie or lottie. I love them both so much. my little misunderstood babies 😭😭😭😭😭😭☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️😭☹️☹️. adult timeline (this is probably controversial) BUT it’s shauna and misty. adult misty is probably the funniest person in the world like go off queen! whatever u say i’ll agree! i fear she’s me when i grow up without the murdering of course😇 and shauna well do i REALLY need to explain. okay yeah she was an annoying mum but she’s been through so much i don’t know how people expect her to turn into a perfect mother figure after everything she has faced.

i mean the Yellowjackets soundtrack EATS (just like them) BUT i loved the fade into you scene and obviously the radiohead scene while they were eating jackie. however you can’t deny the scenes with jeff were😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 i love that man i don’t care. HE LITERALLY PLAYED FUCK THE POLICE IN FROMT OF THE POLICE STATION BECAUSE HIS WIFE WHO WAS A MURDERER WAS INSIDE. if this isn’t iconic idk what is. and also that scene when he played that song that said cut my life into pieces after going to that guys gallery😭😭😭😭😭😭 IM CRYING it’s so funny even thinking about i was laughing so hard during that scene

my favourite ship is BY FAR jackieshauna. it’s the most realistic one to me and i have already an essay about them in my notes they’re so tragic i could die about them. every. single. detail. i learn about them is so sad like they’re the saddest people on this earth. i have a soft spot for ships that end tragically 💔

so I don’t remember the episode numbers and everything (IM NOT A FAKE FAN I SWEAR) but my favourite episode is the one with jackie cannibalism scene. OBVIOUSLY. if someone told me to define art i would simply just show them this scene. my other fav is the one with Shauna’s birth. i was for about half an hour. whatever negative thought i had for shauna disappeared the second i watched this scene. “Me and you against the world” just kill me. just slaughter me already.

i would really like it for the antler queen to be nat. she’s the “purest” of them but she’s the queen. it just makes so much sense. she’s also the one that has had the worst healing process by far. i would also like if the antler queen will be a plot twist and someone we wouldn’t expect

i have so many scenes that i love. every jackieshauna staring session. lottie trying to make nat remember and then nat laying on her legs. jackie cannibalism scene. the girls dancing showing they’re still just kids. everything about this show is perfection

my personal theory is that they all go back to the wilderness and die at the end. they have realised they loved the freedom the wilderness gave them and start feeling like it’s their fate. this would be so so sad cause if someone bothers my baby shauna im gonna kill them but unfortunately i just have this feeling no one will make it out alive. they will go insane to the point there’s like 3,2,1 of them. the last one remaining will either live and try to have a normal life (i don’t think so) or die because they lost their purpose.

i have done numerous quizzes cause im obsessed with this stuff and the character that is most like me is lottie. she’s introverted, thoughtful, portrayed as weird and just gets me! she’s sensitive and empathetic and may seem cold to people that don’t know her that much. exactly the same as me im not able to say a word to people i don’t know well.

the craziest thing I’ve done for yellowajckets because now I’ve become insane and can’t leave without it

bonus!!!! well I’ve only stated my most controversial take on here and it’s about lottienat. i totally get why people would like them together but i think other lottie ships make more sense (lottieshauna) another controversial take is the fact that I like coach Ben and i think his acts are completely justified. i don’t get why people hate him so much like he just saw a group of teenage girls eat their teammate obviously he’s not going to be very normal about it?!?

thats itttt. omg i loved this so much and i loved ur opinions !

npt: @pinkcatsthatfly @pangaeaguilt @maddiethegoodwitch @nattylvr @natsboygirlfriend @shaunapolxgist @soapyjackets @soapylot @jackieshaunism @jaxieshauna @eaton-courtney @cassioo

Starting a Yellowjackets tag!

I want to get my mind off of things so: If you want, answer any or all of the questions below and tag 10 people (or however many you want) who also might want to share! I would love to see what you guys have to say!

1. Are you team Rational or Supernatural?

2. Who is your favorite teen timeline character? Favorite adult timeline character?

3. What is your favorite needledrop?

4. What is your favorite ship?

5. What is your favorite episode?

6. Who do you want the Antler Queen to be?

7. What is your favorite scene in the entire series?

8. A theory or prediction you have about Season 3?

9. Which character do you relate to the most, and why?

10. What is the craziest thing you’ve done in the name of Yellowjackets?

Bonus:

11. What’s your most controversial Yellowjackets take?

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Here’s mine!

1. I am mostly Team Rational because I love the way this show depicts trauma but I also love seeing the supernatural side of things through the survivors’ eyes if that makes sense.

2. Natalie in the teen timeline because I love her compassion and softness underneath the front she puts on. Lottie in the adult timeline because I love her internal battle with herself and how afraid she is of her own mind. Misty is a close second in the adult timeline!

3. “Cornflake Girl” playing while Nat sees the mossy tree for the first time, Callie seeing the Adam Martin driver’s license in the barbecue, and Shauna eating Jackie’s ear. It just goes so perfectly with everything that’s going on (especially the elevated piano while Nat and Travis are scaling the mountain and the lyrics while Shauna takes the bite!)

4. LottieNat is my favorite ship I can’t help it Nat and Lottie are my favorite characters so having them together is a dream (TaiVan, JackieShauna, and TravNat are up there, too).

5. 1x09 “Doomcoming” is just amazing and captures everything I love about Yellowjackets. I love when they let the girls go batshit crazy, hoping we get more Doomcoming vibes in S3.

6. I want the Antler Queen to be Natalie because that would show a true descent for her in the Wilderness from being the most morally grounded one to the leader of the group at their most unhinged and primal. But honestly I think that Shauna might be the AQ after all…

7. I think the Jackie-eating scene is the best in the entire show. The “Climbing Up the Walls” song choice, the bacchanal feast flashes as a way of coping with the horror of what they’re doing, seeing them go fully feral for the first time, it’s such a well crafted scene.

8. I know this probably won’t happen but I’m just going to throw it out there that Cabin Daughter is alive and she will be revealed to have been Javi’s “friend”!

9. I relate to Shauna the most because I also admittedly have a bit of an obsessive/intense personality and I, too, internalize my emotions to a very unhealthy degree sometimes. I also grew up being in love with my childhood best friend who is very, very much like Jackie (and now we have been dating for 7 years!)

10. Mine is a mix of going to a Yellowjackets panel and sitting like 5 feet from the showrunners, doing everything in my power to score early screening tickets to Heretic and Companion, and pretending I was sick so I could go home early from work the day that the S3 trailer came out.

11. The male characters on this show get too much hate🫢 I like Travis, Jeff, Kevyn, and Walter (even though his introduction and storyline are rushed and forced). I don’t like them more than the female characters, but I like them nevertheless and appreciate their contributions to the plot.

No pressure tags! (I’m tagging 15 bc I feel like it) @before-it-felt-like-a-sin @baked-potatoes-rule @jackiesnats @deerest-deer @whodoesnataliehave @stilllsage @fairytwles @glitterfairy-21225 @lesbianforlottie @tr4vnat @lauraleetaylor @cassioo @natsboygirlfriend @soapyjackets @pinkkkkat @natgf123 +literally anyone else who wants to!