#thanks shauna!

[lesbianjackies]

“callie shipman” “callie taylor” “callie taylor-shipman” well no actually because the tragedy of callie sadecki is that she is not a taylor, and she is not a shipman, and she will never be either. she will always live in the shadow of a girl she never met and a baby she never knew, she will always be a reminder to her mother of the things she lost and the mistakes she made and the life she’ll never get to have.

her name is callie sadecki. because no matter how hard she tries, she will never be anything more to shauna than the unwanted child of a man she never loved.

[eraserheadbabies]

think i'm gonna call this the no return tarot

[usergirlfailure]

YELLOWJACKETS (2021– ) 2.07 - Burial

“My thanks to Bruce (played by Lucille) [...] It was also fun to get to walk through the woods with Bruce.” – Melanie Lynskey on Instagram.

[i-just-drink-coffee]

Everyone friend group needs a dead frozen earless girl, her sad and insane gf, a goth with issues, her schizophrenic and god like gf, girl who almost got her face bitten off, her gf who likes dirt, a crazy bitch who tries to poison everyone, a gay useless coach, a dead non verbal brother, a girl who’s job is cooking stew and being a hater, a weird nice girl and some guy named Travis.

[thinkershipman]

SHAUNA SHIPMAN: AN ORESTEIA

[hartanddoe]

[lottieshauna]

how many nights do you dance with tears in your eyes? (happy birthday @jackietaylorsversion!)

[jackietaylorsversion]

You're Shauna Shipman, and you are desperate to be haunted. You're begging for it, desperate for it, crying out for it in the cold and the quiet of the place you kept your best friend's body for months longer than you should have before you and your friends not just ate her but consumed her.

You're Shauna Shipman, and, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, you will look for Jackie Taylor for the rest of your life. Death already parted you. You can only wait for it to reunite you.

Tell me: how long does it take you to see her again? Does she stare at you from the trees, hunger gnawing at your belly, the only nourishment you've had in weeks from the meat you pick off the bones of people who were once important to you? Does she sit beside you on the plane back home? Does she visit you in the hospital? Is she by your side as you marry her high school sweetheart, the one you fucked, the one whose baby died just like she did, out there in that place?

Or does she evade you for twenty-five long, terrible years, refusing to see you while you live the life you think was meant for her? Is the first time she comes back to you that moment when you're doing something explicitly, horribly stupid? How long does it take for you to see her eyes when they're not staring back from a picture frame, to hear her voice that's not tainted by the tinny sounds of a home movie?

Tell me, Shauna Shipman: What will you do to be haunted by her again?

[tabithatwo]

sophie nélisse, melanie lynskey, courtney eaton, juliette lewis, and sophie thatcher for rodarte spring summer 2024 portrait series

[hangsawoman]

yellowjackets (2021 - ) / thoroughbreds (2017), dr. cory finley

[robertacolndrez]

“Hey, how do you get an art major off your front porch? What? Pay for the pizza.”

YELLOWJACKETS Jeff Sadecki in 2x01

[body-to-flame]

I've been thinking about this gif all day

[ggardengirl]

[biblicalhorror]

Thinking about shauna and travis (inspired by this post by @taiturner) and gender, specifically "masculinity"

Travis clinging to shreds of masculinity within his reach, shrugging off his own emotions, reacting with anger and threats of violence to seem stronger, but ultimately being too soft and emotional and afraid to ever feel like he's doing it "right," how he hesitates to gut the deer because he does not want to be violent

Shauna's relationship to femininity being, in essence, a series of denials or rejections of her more inherent "masculine" traits, instantly and nonchalantly taking up the mantle of the butcher, keeping cool in times of chaos, effortlessly and skillfully carrying out acts of violence but hiding and denying this part of herself as she tries to fit the mold of heterosexual womanhood

How both are deeply emotional and sensitive characters trapped within the confines of gender expectations and the poison of their own self-image. How so often the expression of masculinity in society is defined largely on a rejection of the "feminine," you are defined not by the masculine traits you possess but by the feminine traits you can successfully reject. How much this narrative is flipped on its head with shauna and travis because shauna must constantly repress her "masculine" traits to keep up her veneer of traditional femininity, how travis is constantly striving towards nebulous ideals of masculinity but ultimately succumbs under the weight of his own emotionality and guilt, the fact that yellowjackets as a narrative asks us to examine what is inherent in all of us and what roles we have been forced to play. What kinds of people we become within those roles.

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Made some of these

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[i-just-drink-coffee]

Ok we can all recognise that in Yellowjackets no one was a “mean girl” coz they were traumatised, in shock, hungry, lonely, etc,etc.

But like- Mari.