after the rescue shauna tries catholicism again, not because of the saints this time, but because she learned about transubstantiation and wanted to believe there could be something holy about consuming the person you loved
i know many people are very attached to the idea of pre-crash shauna being a timid needy lesnicki-esque second fiddle to jackie but i have recently been going fucking crazy over the thought of a super aggressive fight-picking shauna
the whole misty black box thing pisses me off because it's so hard to navigate, like no the black box wouldn't have rescued them, but she definitely thought it would, so how angry should they be if they find out? like it was a shithead move but HOW BIG of a shithead move
well i would love to say wouldn’t but we’ve definitely already seen how shauna used infidelity to hurt jackie and they weren’t even actually together then. and then jackie reacted like she’d been cheated on. hold on i have to think about this for a while. anyway yeah she would.
my favorite part about yellowjackets is the mystery so i don't always speculate on the Really Big Questions in it but i think at the moment my position is that the wilderness (as a supernatural entity) is a fat nothing it doesn't exist
methodically plant seeds of dissent amongst the other editors in her literary magazine so that they appear petty and incompetent and the graduating editor in chief sees that only shauna is deserving of succeeding them
kind of insane to me that anyone is doing anything but inputting like, one ship one tag and sorting by kudos then scrolling til they find their specific freak shit
you know what’s fucked up is a lot of the yjs’ best friends probably weren’t even on the team like think of all the jackieshaunas that suffered their own tragedies bc fucking laura lee or akilah or kristen just had to play soccer
hello all i am on a tour right now to tell everyone know that i got a job as an associate at a firm doing family law and it’s exactly what i wanted and i’m extremely extremely happy that’s all
not independent bc neither of them are independent but like... that she might defer to jackie just between them but that she otherwise has a strong and abrasive personality. that jackie is occasionally her voice of reason? probs something i can't say until i've written more
tbh i think jackie had very little chance of getting out at all but i do think if shauna had died then the group would have focused a bit of energy on resultant Obvious Suicide Risk Jackie Taylor
praying to god that when yellowjackets comes back it doesn’t have the one-day delay between people watching on an app and people watching live that interview with the vampire does because this has been a weekly spoiler nightmare
the only thing that trips me up here is baby lottie's car crash premonition but the rest of it is just people being people. also sometimes i'm like waittt the birds but actually birds are insanely stupid and die just for fun sometimes.
i have chosen a yellowjacket shauna doesn’t really interact with in canon to make her new best friend in this fic, a critical step in my process, so it’s time to log off and buckle down again
i think abt this um. often. there are options. COULD’VE BEEN JESSICA ROBERTS. a woman who lives down the street who didn’t realize she was living near a yellowjacket, a college student hired to tutor callie, tai… STRING OF WOMEN SOUGHT OUT ON A DATING APP…
sorry not to beat the horse postmortem but it’s hard to believe anyone’s stupid enough to misinterpret her this badly so you just have to assume these are mean, cruel, and selfish people acting to sinister ends
thoughts on lottienat? — i definitely understand the appeal people see in it but the lottie and nat people are shipping don’t seem like the real lottie and nat to me
it would be insane if they introduced an adult survivor now (not that i doubt their willingness to do it anyway) bc if i crashed in the woods with my high school soccer team and we were stuck there for nineteen months you could not get RID of me for the rest of our lives.
big fan of hating on wilderness baby btw, we must break the silence — it’s a really odd plot to me! i don’t believe in “unnecessary plots” or w/e but i DO believe that it’s kind of a hat on a hat. i think wb is dumb and doesn’t do…
i keep thinking abt the discourse recently re: being too old for online fan stuff and i guess what i would say is if i’d been publishing fanfiction at any age before maybe 22 it would’ve been miserably bad and been a net negative in the world
1. i personally am hot for melanie lynskey. that’s honestly pretty much it. 2. shauna is so about arrested development and i think that stage of womanhood will always be symbolically important + attractive to her so i like seeing her interact with this entity she can’t get past.
just remembered travis survives and that seems absolutely impossible to me. i mean i like it i find that interesting but how the hell did he manage that.
this is another one of those things where it’s like, irl you kind of just like who you like. she likes women so she probably likes those women. but also my veal-brained take is: fucking obviously she would.
OH, HI: van and tai are too cool for wiskayok. jackie and nat are too cool to be that reductive. shauna shipman is, tragically, married. (15k words of taivan getting back together, basically.)