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So, any thoughts on what Dr. Sandlow had to say, or were you too busy checking your inbox? We just learned our son doesn't remember any of the things we accused him of. aHe thinks he's telling the truth.

[ahsokazworld]

This exactly!

One of the things I love about the show is how clearly it shows that trauma has long lasting effect that can span over generations if someone doesn't break the cycle and gets help.

Even if you do have therapy the trauma is still affecting you and therefore your children. You don't have to actively be damaging your kids by hanging out in trees, eating dirt and staring at your kid, or murdering your lover and hacking him to pieces. The inability that both Tai and Shauna have to truly connect with people and maybe especially their children, is doing so much damage to both Callie and Sammy.

The difference between Callie and Sammy is that Sammy has a parent who is not connected to any of that trauma. To me, Simone is the healthiest adult on the show and will actively work on taking down some of Sammys behaviour patterns that are not good for Sammy or for anyone around him. She makes Sammy her nr. 1 priority.

Honestly, unless Jeff shifts his priority 1 from Shauna to Callie, Callie is a lost cause. She is never going to get the help she needs.

Because that's one thing to remember, yes the yellowjackets have lived with this trauma for the past 25 years but that's the whole point they know why they are the way they are even if they try to hide, suppress or lie to themselves about it. Their kids DONT KNOW ANY BETTER this is their normal. Their damaged moms are normal to them because that's all they know and love.

Callie as a teenager is now more aware her mom is f*cked up, Sammy is slowly getting to that point but still this is an environment they both grew up in and its very hard to undo that kind of damage. Its so deeply ingrained and tied to who they are and how they behave.

For the Yellowjackets, that is also the case, but they can clearly pinpoint a moment where they can say: "this is what changed me" These kids are going to have a hell of a hard time doing that.

kinda vibrating with how i haven’t thought about sammy abara-turner in a while but how CLEARLY the knowledge of how there’s a “good tai” and a “bad tai” has messed him up. like of course he has attachment issues. of course he has trouble connecting with peers. of COURSE he has violent outbursts! 

taissa’s eating dirt outside his window and doesn’t even know that she’s doing it! he knows more about the situation than her and he can’t talk to anyone about it because who would believe him? the therapist that hot-and-cold mom thinks won’t help him? stable-mom who only sees the “good” side of tai? no way.

of course he’s like this and it’s just tragic

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If I were you, I'd watch my tone.

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You were an elite athlete. Straight As. Early admission to Brown. Is this really how you thought your life was gonna turn out?

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Tawny Cypress as TAISSA TURNER in YELLOWJACKETS, 1x03 “The Dollhouse”

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So tell me, what really happened out there?   I'm not sure anyone else could ever understand. It was— We scavenged, and we starved. Until...

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 — gut symmetries,  jeanette winterson 

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Yellowjackets 1x06 | “Saints”

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LOTTIE MATTHEWS 1x10 | “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”

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LOTTIE MATTHEWS   Yellowjackets | 1x03 “The Dollhouse”

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 "We always knew how and when she was going to die. We had word-for-word, scripted, and a memorized pitch that we made a lot of people sit through. The final phrase was, 'And as the first snow begins to fall, we end Season One.' We knew that Jackie was going to die. In the most straightforward way, our show is operating on that Lord of the Flies level. She was symbolic of society and the home that they had known, and the ways of thinking and behaving, and all of those structures. It felt important to us. She just didn’t seem like a character who was going to make it. That said, we wanted to give her the dignity of an emotionally moving death and not just a shocking death. We were interested in playing out her friendship with Shauna, because teenage girl friendships can be volatile. It’s always this push and pull and ebb and flow, and you get into a fight and then you make up. I think, had they been at home, this fight and this fissure in their relationship was inevitable, but we were interested in the ways that the consequences would just be so different out in the wilderness.. […] This just felt right to us in terms of what needed to happen." — Yellowjackets Co-Creator Ashley Lyle

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“Tai has definitely learned that her identity is not what she thought it was. To get specific, a lot of her identity had to do with her hair. And that was really important to me [as a Black woman]. That’s why she wrapped her hair every night. She kept her wash day routine the best she could. Even when she’s sneaking for a little make out in the water, she keeps her hair wrapped. And then when she goes on that excursion to try to save everyone, she cuts it off. To her, it was practicality, but I think subconsciously, there was more going on there of shedding the identity attached to society. You can see this in other ways she presents, too. I made sure she always had her jewelry on. And in the wolf attack, somehow those pieces came off. In that moment, she lost all of her identity in terms of presenting to people with material things and her hair. And she also lost her identity as the leader because she failed and had to go back. And so, I think where we leave off with her is that she doesn’t know who she is anymore.” — Jasmin Savoy Brown

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“Addictive and unsettling, Yellowjackets is must-see-TV of the highest order.” 

TV Appreciation Week | Show you wish everyone would watch ↳ YELLOWJACKETS (2021—)

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@dailytvwomen‘s tv women appreciation week               day 4: favorite dynamic ♡ 

SHAUNA & TAISSA Yellowjackets

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"The most emotional storyline, which is always what I’m looking for specifically, is that these two friends who loved each other — like really loved each other, but also had all these simmering resentments — have this major blowout, full of truthful things that were said to one another. And then through sheer obstinance, like absolute stubbornness, neither one could offer an olive branch to the other. And because of that, a tragic accident occurs. That’s baggage. That’s something to carry into 2021 that Shauna will have to live with forever.” — Jonathan Lisco

Sophie Nélisse and Jasmin Savoy Brown as SHAUNA SHIPMAN & TAISSA TURNER Yellowjackets | 1.10: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

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YELLOWJACKETS 1x07 | “No Compass”