#study:yj

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Lottie saying “you were always its [the wilderness’s] favorite” to Nat is my favorite because if you interpret the show as non-supernatural then it’s basically Lottie saying Nat was her favorite of the team and the most trusted to lead. And Lottie and Nat are the two characters that struggle so much with their conscience and caring about others, so Lottie seeing that in Nat too and trying to make her leader so she can try to slow down this course the Yellowjackets are on and do less damage… basically trying to get Nat to help her, because Lottie knows she’s stuck in this position because of the other girls now (cemented after Misty told them they did the hunt because of her). But she knows she can trust Nat to still have some humanity even if ultimately it doesn’t win out. It’s just a romantic notion

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also I love when Nat is tripping in the pilot and sees Misty across the bonfire and that being a parallel to when Misty kills her in the future

I love how much it reminds me of Haunting of Hill House and this whole vibe of the wilderness haunting them without any constraints on time. like a pre-destined and fated thing but also not really because time is a flat circle. and the pendulum showed them an infinity symbol when they asked if they would survive the wilderness

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so in the scene where the yellowjackets get rescued, eight people walk to the plane. in Blood Hive, during the seance, we can tell that almost all of the answers given with the pendulum are bullshit (obviously) but especially because the last unserious question asked was misty wanting to know if ben likes her. the pendulum said yes, which we know isn't true 😭

but then javi asks if they're all going to die out there and after that, the window flies open and lottie is 'possessed', speaking french. the answer to javi's question about if they all would die was for the pendulum to swing to show eight, and the girls are sitting there debating what that means, so mari suggests it's an infinity symbol, not an eight.

i wonder if that was the man in the cabin telling them ahead of time that there would only be eight survivors, since javi asked. but maybe also the infinity symbol showed that the wilderness would 'be with them forever' too

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The scene in the pilot where Nat explains that she thought she did drugs to numb the trauma, but in reality it was simpler and it was that she was depressed because she felt like she lost her purpose and her place. This makes so much sense to me. Like modern life is so cut off from the way we are biologically built to live. There’s less tribalism and more individualism. People live more independently and cut off from each other in a lot of ways, only made worse by the internet in modern society.

Even if it was a cult, what they had in the wilderness was still an intimate society and like a pack. They knew their role and place and everything was simple. Not so over complicated and hollow feeling like modern life can be. They were always helping the pack. They were a part of the pack. They also allowed themselves to be free, no longer held back by societal restrictions. There has to be a longing for that which pushes them to revert back to being a cult in the adult timeline