rest in peace to the funniest mfs on this show, they hate to see a bad bitch living

and also she gots troubles.

People saying they don’t get jackienat meanwhile Natalie every other episode is like O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, the ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, the port is near the bells I hear the people all exulting while follow eyes the steady keel the vessel grim and daring but o heart! heart! heart! o the bleeding drops of red where on the deck my Captain lies fallen cold and dead

She says shit like:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Jackie, not to praise her.

The evil that women do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Jackie. The noble Shauna

Hath told you Jackie was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Jackie answer’d it.

Here, under leave of Shauna and the rest–

For Shauna is an honourable woman;

So are they all, all honourable women–

Come I to speak in Jackie’s funeral.

She was my captain, faithful and just to me:

But Shauna says she was ambitious;

And Shauna is an honourable woman.

She hath brought many captives home to Rome

Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:

Did this in Jackie seem ambitious?

When that the poor have cried, Jackie hath wept:

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Shauna says she was ambitious;

And Shauna is an honourable woman.

You all did see that on the Lupercal

I thrice presented her a kingly crown,

Which she did thrice refuse: was this ambition?

Yet Shauna says she was ambitious;

And, sure, she is an honourable woman.

I speak not to disprove what Shauna spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love her once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then, to mourn for her?

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And women have lost their reason. Bear with me;

My heart is in the coffin there with Jackie,

And I must pause till it come back to me.

that. that just ruined my entire fucking night.

frozen in time

I love Jackie bc she represents the fear of trying, always trying and never being able to adapt when things get really hard or start to majorly change. Helplessly feeling yourself become useless, resented, a burden where you used to be a pillar. Giving up on yourself because everyone else is giving up on you. The idea of trying so hard to matter, to still matter, but in the end your absence from the story is the thing that really ends up mattering - the empty space you leave behind. Also she's hot and swagless

i want to Keep them in my pocket and feed them seeds and nuts whenever they're Hungry

it had to be nat who reminded them all of jackie. had to be her who still sees her as their captain. jackienat is subtle but its woven into the fabric of the show so tightly. laura lee was lotties partner in the right side of defense. shauna and tai partners in the midfield. but jackie was nats partner in the attack. they would have trained together on finishing drills (along with allie). nat would have known the runs jackie liked to make into the box. been able to read jackies body language to tell where she needed the ball to go. wordless communication.

total opposites in almost every sense, outwardly optimistic and pessimistic, with totally different aesthetics and backgrounds. each had something the other lacked and wanted. jackie desired to truly know and be herself like nat. and nat desired the security and privileges jackie enjoyed. in the wilderness when nat finds her purpose, jackie loses hers. nats chosen to be the next sacrifice. to follow jackies path, but she survives it. takes over the leadership role after jackies death, wearing her necklace, taking on the burden like a vice captain taking the armband when the captain leaves the field. tai this season brought attention to what nat lacks in her leadership; the ability to manage personalities, to instill unity and hope. the thing jackie excelled at once. if she was still with them, she and nat would have complemented each other as leaders. made up for what the other lacks, as they likely did on the field. nats natural talent vs jackies single-minded determination.

nat was vehemently against freezing allie out, saying they should just "play like a fucking team". shauna mentions jackie wont like it either, and when allies injured the first thing jackie says is "we're still a team". they were always more alike than they could see, so distracted by their surface level differences. so its fitting nat sits on the steps staring at jackies bones alone. because shes alone in the attack then. allie never even made the plane, her shinbone on grotesque display. and now this. jackies bones laid bare like this. its fitting nats the last one to say goodbye to jackie. humanising her. thanking her. they're partners and they're foils and they complete each other even if they never saw eye to eye.

ALEXA BARAJAS as MARI IBARRA YELLOWJACKETS (2021— ) Season 3, Episode 7: "Croak"

i tghink about lottie going unm. were you outside last night eating dirt to tai and tai going what the actual FUCK Lottie i dont have time for your SHIT right now when she literally was outside last night eating dirt soooo much so much. need more of that<3

— Traci Brimhall, Dear Eros

everybody stop the party. go write f/f fanfiction and post it to ao3

don't open the door, denji.

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

YELLOWJACKETS 307. Croak

literally how boring and dull do you have to be to dislike codependent relationships in fiction like where is the passion where is the devotion where is the worship that inevitably corrupts and destroys one if not both of them