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I really wish the Yellowjackets fandom could accept Shauna is mentally ill in the same way Lottie is.

Obviously, yes, all of the Yellowjackets have severe PTSD. But it's like people get that Lottie is schizophrenic and that Tai suffers from some unspecified/undiagnosed dissociative disorder on top of having PTSD while Shauna's postpartum psychosis--the symptoms of which include but aren't limited to:

--is largely overlooked and instead her actions are treated as the result of her grief over losing Jackie and her baby.

Although it's understood that Shauna's labor and resulting stillbirth were uniquely damaging experiences that compounded her trauma in ways the others were spared from, she still gets lumped in with the other Yellowjackets as "only" suffering from PTSD. She just has *extra* PTSD. She suffered the most and it turned her into The Most Deranged and Bloodthirsty Yellowjacket.

But how would discussion of Shauna's season 3 arc look if her lashing out at Nat, her fixation on Ben as the culprit behind the cabin fire, her withdrawing socially from the group, and, yes, her extremely (often disproportionate) violent behavior were seen as being driven by her postpartum psychosis the way Lottie's faith in the wilderness is understood to be driven by her schizophrenia?

I don't know where I'm going with this, to be honest. I guess my point is that I think the fandom views the loss of wilderness baby as just a tragic event that compounded Shauna's grief and trauma when what we're actually seeing is the effects of an untreated severe mental health emergency not unlike Lottie's deterioration since running out of her meds.

Misty's getting forehead kisses!!!

Family doesn't judge each other, they judge others together 😌

sometimes a soccer team is a dead captain haunting the narrative, a repressed gay turned evil fuckboy the second she kisses a girl, an unmedicated prophet of the wilderness, a lesbian sleeper agent who eats dirt, another lesbian who keeps surviving somehow, a girl once in love with her gay soccer coach who she threatened to eat in if killed himself, the prophet’s protege tripping on cave fumes, a backwards hat, a hater, a singular sane/logical one, some background characters, and baby boy travis.

YELLOWJACKETS (2021–)

a woman with a hat?

MELISSA THE WOMAN WITH A HAT

i’m watching Bee Movie for the first time

i’m 1 minute and 30 seconds in

a’ight so this main character is supposed to be a male bee but he uses a pencil sharpener to sharpen his stinger but male bees don’t have stingers?

he got a mom and dad but the queen supposed to be the only one procreating so what is the truth?

a'ight so this a whole society of bees that feel obligated to walk and drive instead of fly

he just became disillusioned with the capitalist system it’s bout to be some shit

you’d figure this movie would have more woman characters considering as how female bees are the ones who do all the work but ok

i know too much about bees to watch this movie

YELLOWJACKETS 3.08 | A Normal, Boring Life

the mai/azula/ty lee friendship is overall pretty toxic but we should not forget that they asked azula what she wanted for the drill and she said “triple throne for me and the homies”

this episode did a good job reminding us of the girls’ youth in order to make the fact that they don’t end up rescued yet just that much more tragic.

van freeing the frog from the jar.

misty crouching searching for her glasses.

it reminds you they’re kids.

YELLOWJACKETS 3.07 | Croak ♡

jackie looking at lesbians making out:

jackie looking at a shirtless boy:

i rest my case

at least melissa has more self-awareness about her situation than whatever is going on with shauna most days

yellowjackets is such a good escapism theory show. (cont. below)

of course Lottie doesn’t want to go home. home for Lottie means being medicated and treated and numb to the world around her and who she is.

of course tai doesn’t want to go home. home is where her life is laid out in front of her as a series of steps she has to take and goals she has to meet in order to be successful.

of course Shauna doesn’t want to go home. back to the everyday boredom of trying to fit into a cookie cutter life that isn’t the one you want, but the one you think is the best you’re going to get.

all three of these girls embraced the wildnerness, they embraced the chance to be wild and free and completely on their own, outside of society and the horrible laws and rules they make to wear us down. but you can’t run away from your problems. you can’t hide out in the woods and let the world go on without you. (i mean you can but it’s not really a great idea)

escapism is what you turn to when you feel like the world has given you no other choice. when you feel your soul slipping away into the abyss of trying to be “normal,” trying to be something you’re not, because for whatever reason, you feel like you can’t step up and fight for who you are. the cost of escapism is that you feel like you can never go back. that if you go back home, you’ll lose the freedom to be yourself, and that after awhile you’ll forget who you even are.

that’s why Natalie is the one fighting so hard to return. Lottie’s right, she has no home to go back to. but because of that, Natalie has always been the only one who is free, who can be whoever she wants, whenever she wants. and don’t get me wrong, she pays for her choices over and over again, but they are her choices to make. she can go home because the person she is out in the wilderness is the same person she has always been. she’s never had a fear of showing people exactly who she is.

you can run from your problems and escape into the woods and yes, you’ll finally feel free for the first time in your entire life. but what does it cost? what sort of tenacity and courage does it take to be yourself when no one is watching? the world is evil and cruel and built to break us down, which is why we have to be better than it, why we need to fight harder to hold on to who we are. if you don’t know who you are, escapism is sometimes the only way to find out. but if you never go back, if you never go home, that escapism will be your downfall. it’s easy to be true to yourself when no one is watching. it’s much harder when the entire audience is shouting at you to step in line.

#i 🖤 fuckboy shauna

this genuinely has me in tears

(AND FUCK THEM KIDS)