milo 🐄🛸

this season being deemed as the most violent by the writers and the cast and this season also being the one where i can finally see the adult yellowjackets in their teen counterparts is so heartbreaking and such incredible acting and story telling

like the Lottie who intiated the hunt at the end of season 2? i couldn't recognize her she was in a coma when they hunted Nat and butchered Javi she was cutting her own finger to protect the others she was taking the punches to keep the peace she was meditating her psychosis away she was such a pacifist she didn't want any violence how could she grow to believe killing someone is the solution? Season 3 Lottie who has had all the atrocities of season 2 pushed on her blamed on her who's growing more and more unstable with trauma after trauma on an already ill mind who sees intruders who might hurt her loved ones and immediately buries an axe in their heads and giggles at a job well done? yeah that's adult Lottie, that smile at the face of violence, that girly little giggle, that awe at the blood, that joy while everyone stands there horrified, that was adult Lottie in the season 2 finale, that's teen Lottie now in season 3

i could see Nat's fashion choices and music taste, "superficial" things, but after she let a child die for her, ate him, made herself lead people when she doesn't know shit herself and finally, finally killed Ben, a man she loved and respected and associated with human kindness and decency, things she will never feel towards herself again, the way her voice deepened as if she went permanently hoarse from crying, that nonchalent gangly almost limp walk, as if she's completely dissociated from her body, the walls of agressivity and indifference she put up and never lets down again, that's Adult Nat

Shauna going through all stages of grief over and over and over and over again until she settles on anger because it's the only stage that makes her feel alive, who laughs when she sees a man's brains leaking on the dirt, yeah i finally see Adult Shauna

when misty said shauna would’ve left mari to die in the pit and shauna kinda just shrugs and subtly nods 😭 she knows she’s evil asf… i stand with my cancelled wife

Seeing readings on social media that Jackie was depressed and it's like, FINALLY, people are realising that. She was fighting for a reason to live before they crashed, she was clinging to a reason (her best friend) and her going outside and dying wasn't because she was too stupid to light a fire. It was a successful suicide attempt after her best friend essentially cut her off with seemingly no recourse - was she being dramatic about it? Sure, teens have fights like that all the time! But depressed people don't tend to really think rationally about situations like that.

It's a very real way to write a depressed person in mid 90s America!

every episode the yj writers ask: how can we make this about jackie without having jackie here, and i think that’s beautiful

nat leading the group to hunt down hannah through silent communication and gestures and all of them understanding because at the end of the day they are a team that was meant to be at nationals is so special to me

the most gut-wrenching viscerally upsetting line in the entire show is literally just van’s immediate, desperate, “i’m gonna try my mom!” not an emergency line, not even panic-dialing a 911 that wouldn’t work anyways. she’s a kid. she wants to call her mom.

“You did all that?” “Yes Misty I know how to google and make phone calls” whoa let’s not get ahead of ourselves Miss doesn’t know about recently deleted

The way I’m going to start rewatching the show IMMEDIATELY after season 3 is over is not even funny don’t play with me.

Shauna making Natalie butcher Ben because she wants so badly for someone to understand the burden she has had to shoulder since the very beginning, the burden of being the butcher, of experiencing loss, but being too blind to see that Nat already understands her better than anyone else ever could. For every animal Shauna butchered, Natalie pulled the trigger, for every life she had spread out on her table, Natalie was the spearhead, ending things. Shauna bore the guilt for Jackie’s death, and Nat put her bones to rest. Nat bore the guilt for Javi’s death, and Shauna prepared him for consumption. Neither of them have ever been afforded the luxury of not doing what needed to be done, or of looking away. Natalie now knows what it’s like to be the butcher. And Shauna will now know Natalie’s burden of being the leader

and just because i can, i'm gonna put my jackie doodle here. because i love jackie <3

obsessed with the knife sheath melissa gifts shauna this episode. it's handmade. it's stitches are perfect. it's personalized. it's labeled with shauna's initial. it's useful. it fits her knife perfectly. there's a strap so it's easy to carry around. it's a true gift. it's wrapped in bark and adorned with berries like a present. it has nothing to do, overtly, with the wilderness. it has nothing to do with her baby. it's solely about shauna. it not only acknowledges, but embraces the butcher in her. it keeps her main tool preserved. it makes her knife safer for shauna to carry. it displays a sincere understanding and acceptance of who shauna is and who she has become in a way words never really could

We’re back baby! 🐝