#I love tai and van so much

[novelconcepts]

This episode overall is STRESSFUL, but everyone clapping for the lesbians in their lil’ lesbian homecoming outfits/said lesbians forgoing the horrifying stag race for just happily fucking in the woods got me. We stan.

#yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #I love tai and van so much #with their maaaasks they’re cute #meanwhile lottie girl you are scaring me #and on the other side of things do we kinda love Jeff? #ride or die himbo Jeff? I turned on a dime on that man #this show balances egregious horrors and such comedy it almost gives me whiplash #I am in love #also coach ben? I’d love for you to survive bud. I don’t see it happening but we can dream

[vanpalmr]

TAISSA TURNER & VAN PALMER YELLOWJACKETS 2.01

#taissa turner #van palmer #yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #liv hewson #jasmin savoy brown #taissa x van #van x taissa #vantaissa #taivan #etc #* #my pookies... #you're nuts (affectionate) #van's little lip bite!!! the way tai looks at her!!! #i'll never be scared of you tai!!! #girl help i love them so much

[they-them-van]

one of the themes of yellowjackets that i haven’t been able to stop thinking about is cycles of violence, which i think we particularly see in two ways: inter-generational trauma, and this idea of violence as a tool of forgiveness.

starting with inter-generational trauma, i love what yj has done with this. there are so many different examples: van’s relationship with her mom, which liv hewson has said impacts the way they play the character (in particular her relationship with tai), and which i think is especially important given that van’s mom was an alcoholic and now we’ve seen this suggestion that van may or may not have some kind of addiction problem herself. tai’s trauma which manifests itself in sleepwalking, which she never fully dealt with, and now has directly passed onto her child - arguably largely because she refuses to face it. shauna’s relationship with callie, the way she’s treated her child as accomplice, distant yet also expecting callie to fill in the role jackie might have had if everything had happened differently; still processing the trauma of her wilderness birth which leaves her unable to be fully present for callie. lottie’s relationship with her parents, natalie’s experience with abuse, there’s so much i could go into with this.

but in particular, i think one of the most interesting ways this manifests is in the way lottie passes her beliefs and practices - shaped by this unspeakable trauma, shaped by her experience in a mental hospital in a foreign country, shaped by the ways she’s failed and how nobody has taken her seriously - onto the members of her “community”. dozens of people living their lives on a foundation lottie has built out of her pain.

and this is also the clearest place we’ve seen lottie express this belief in violence as a way to achieve forgiveness. when she tells lisa to stab natalie, to take her anger out on the cause, just as she offered herself up as a sacrifice to shauna 25 years ago. i certainly agree with others that lottie can be manipulative, but i think in this regard she’s genuine - she believes that she’s found a solution, but she blinds herself to the fact that she’s caught in her own cycle, that intentionally or not the people around her have been caught in this same cycle. misty couldn’t save crystal/kristen, so she lets javi die to save another friend. nat can’t save javi, so she saves lisa at the cost of herself - but misty can’t save natalie this time, and the cycle continues, because the cost of using violence to find forgiveness is that somebody will end up harmed, somebody won’t be able to stop it, and the burden of guilt is simply passed on.

to me this is such a fascinating idea that i’ve never really seen explored before, and on some level i know that it will only get so much worse as more shit goes down and more people can’t be saved. if this is the principle the yellowjackets are living by, they’re all accruing a lot of fucking guilt. and i most certainly see how constantly trying to outrun this guilt, caught in a trap of committing more violence and acquiring more guilt to escape what you’re already carrying, could bury a person.

#yellowjackets #yellowjackets s2 #yellowjackets spoilers #i love this show so fucking much gah #lottie matthews #lottie yellowjackets #lottienat #natalie scatorccio #natalie yellowjackets #shauna shipman #shauna yellowjackets #misty quigley #misty yellowjackets #callie yellowjackets #crystal yellowjackets #taissa turner #tai yellowjackets #taivan #van palmer #van yellowjackets #yellowjackets analysis #yellowjackets theories #lisa yellowjackets #javi yellowjackets

[lesbianlotties]

#i love these feral unhinged cannibalistic girls so so much #yellowjackets #yj #yellowjackets season 2 #shauna shipman #jackie taylor #taissa turner #van palmer #lottie matthews #natalie scatorccio #shauna x jackie #tai x van #lottie x nat

[adiresituation]

It just occurred to me that the Yellowjackets girls would have had terrible hygiene. Not their fault obviously, but they would reek. THEY WOULDN’T HAVE BRUSHED THEIR TEETH IN OVER A YEAR AND THEY’RE EATING MEAT!! NO SOAP, NO TOOTHPASTE, NOTHING BUT WATER TO WASH THEIR HANDS. How did they even stand being in the same room as each other, let alone making out??

It doesn’t make a difference though, nothing is stopping me from kissing Lottie

#and kissing Natalie #and kissing van #and kissing tai #and kissing Shauna #and kissing Laura Lee #and well kissing everyone #I LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH #I love my cannibal sapphics #yellowjackets #yellowjackets tv #yellowjackets thoughts 💭 #i líke to think they had their toiletries from the plane #but it’s not likely #lottie matthews #cannabalism #queer #lesbian

[yellowjacketslesbian]

I’m sure someone else already picked up on this, but I’m rewatching S1E3, and taissa’s grandmother is catholic. the crosses on the wall are actually crucifixes and the religious art on the walls is in a traditional catholic art style.

this literally adds so much context to tai as a character and how she approaches the supernatural element in the wilderness imo. like of course she rejects it and tries to pretend the man with no eyes isn’t real. of course she’s instantly suspicious of it all.

like there tends to be a lot of emphasis in catholicism placed on the existence of the supernatural more so than in many other branches of the religion, so it makes sense that tai would reject any discussion of the supernatural because it could bring up religious trauma.

#I love my blorbo for representing the growing up queer in catholicism to atheism pipeline #this realization just unlocked so much about tai for me #I also hc that van was raised catholic and I think it was something they bonded over #and I think that’s why tai took van believing in the wilderness so personally #taissa turner #taissa yellowjackets

[superspoonie24]

Yellowjackets fandom has like three main ships going on

Shauna x Jackie: best friends who are definitely not in love and definitely not jealous of one another and DEFINITELY do not think about kissing each other every time they talk

Lottie x Laura Lee: would you still love me if I was a worm? Of course I would still love you! Here. Let me touch you and help you accept your worm fate and we can be free together

Misty x Nat: insane x alcoholic and they both hate each other but refuse to let the other one go

And then you have the Tai fans like: I love my little dirt eating gay disaster. She's so stressed about everything it's okay my little blorbo. I think I will keep you for myself but I wouldn't mind if you kissed another girl. Anything for my little girlboss

Let me know if you agree and if there are any others that are common or you just want to talk about. I personally think they are all gay and that they continue to have midnight wood cult orgies

#yellowjackets #shauna shipman x Jackie taylor #lottie Matthews x laura Lee #misty quigley x natalie scatorccio #taissa turner #I love them all so much #they are all so gay and disasters #my little blorbos and meow meows #also love that the canon gay ship isn't the one everyone is going feral for #though I do very much love tai and van

[kazoo-the-demjin]

why did

why did wylan's face do that hearing nina speak shu SKJDKFHSK

#KHAHSDFS;FHAD #lmaoooo #i love hhim so much #wylan van eck #kaz brekker #nina zenik #soc #shadow and bone #shadow and bone netflix #tay shit #tay.soc

[jollyreginaldrancher]

VanTai (or TaiVan) 5 minute ship thing

#mine #yellowjackets #understand my ship in 5 minutes #Van is goofy and would do everything to and for Tai #Taissa killed a wolf for Van #Van Palmer #Taissa Turner #VanTai #TaiVan #my babies #my loves #I love them so much #other versions are coming #and I used color picker to pick their colors from their jackets #Taissa is a star athlete with perfect grades and therefore MUST be a secret dork #at least that is what I have decided

[blodeuweddschild]

Yellowjackets is serving so many blorbo women there are soooo many wet little meow meows

#misty baby girl what the fuck is wrong with you you’re amazing #I hope Natalie gets to shoot someone and tai gets to have lesbian sex on screen #and I also hope she just dumps that kid at the side of the road #he’s talking about a woman staring at him from the trees at night and he’s being a little dick about it? out #and I hope Van gets to become feral #I’m only on episode 2 but I love it so much #yellowjackets

[novelconcepts]

You know that feeling, when you’re listening to someone tell a story, and you can just feel in your gut that what actually happened is SO much darker than how they’re relaying it? And they’ve put a ton of effort in, right, to sand the edges down. They’ve gone over it a hundred times, beating all the wrinkles out, practicing like you’d practice a presentation or a stand-up routine. By the time they tell you the story, it’s perfect. You can’t help but be charmed by it. Can’t help but laugh at all the little silly bits. Can’t help but see it the way they want you to, so you don’t ask questions, you don’t dig in to the open wound just behind the plaster, you don’t let the certainty that it was Bad, Actually sweep you away. It’s just a fun anecdote now. Smile with them. Laugh with them. They’re here now, so it’s fine, right? Right?

I get the feeling that’s just Simone’s entire marriage to Taissa, and I feel so fucking bad for them both.

#yellowjackets #taissa turner #Simone deserves so much better and I say that as a number one Taissa stan #I love tai. I live for tai. oh my GOD watching her relationship with Simone gets under my skin #it has to be perfect. it has to be perfect so it can never be real #whereas with van they had no shot at perfect. no choice but to be real. #and tai got out of the woods. and out of the next three years or so (presumably) with van #and went ‘cool cool cool how do I do the opposite of that so I have control over myself’ #and the answer is: a lie. a pretty lie. shined up. put all the realities in a box. tell her NOTHING. #look cool and fun and hot when you’re in a good mood. shut her out when you’re not. #and watch with surprise when the house of cards you’ve meticulously built just blows away the next time a hurricane rolls into town #how MANY conversations over YEARS did Simone look at her and KNOW she wasn’t getting the real tai #and just. coping with it out of love and hope that she’d get there some day #gaaaaaah. Justice for Simone. get her and Sammy to a beautiful home faaaaar away from Jersey and wilderness gods

[chaoskreeves]

Yellowjackets hive sound off tags, feel free to argue with me, this is just my personal stance and I am open to whatever

#hot take I think jackie and shauna had so much internalized homophobia/biphobia that they didn't kiss on the lips very often #lottie would absolutely WORSHIP nat so hands of course #misty is a hand kisser and nose kisser I know this for a fact bc she told me #obviously I think misty and nat makeout but nat loves neck kisses #love me some shauna and tai and tai is SUCH a forehead kisser #sorry travis laura lee and mari stans #I'm gonna be honest travis comes off snobby as a teenager so I'm gonna sideline him #laura lee is probably a lesbian but I don't think she would date her teammates idk just my opinion #cheek kissing was a struggle if I'm being real #yellowjackets #taissa yellowjackets #jackie yellowjackets #misty yellowjackets #natalie yellowjackets #van yellowjackets #crystal yellowjackets #lottie yellowjackets #I know this is an art meme but I had to map out my thoughts

[alivegirlmari]

for the first four eps of s2 literally the only time the adults share scenes are a) lottie & nat at the cult, b) tai walking into van’s store, and c) shauna at misty’s house. and then we don’t see the core six truly interacting until 2x07. so like. biggest fear with s3 is that we’ll spend another half-to-almost entire season with them separated again minus one dynamic (tai & van in this case), especially with lottie presumably in a facility, the sadeckis having their little murder family moment, and walter staying misty’s #1 scene partner. rattling the bars of my cage rn. [let my gays marry voice] let my milfs all interact and make each other worse!!!!

#ive come around on nat’s death BUT i do think it might’ve hit just a little bit harder - direction/editing aside - if we’d gotten to see #her interact with the other adults more. idk. like i can appreciate a tragic #‘we had so much more to say/do together and now we never will’ moment. i love the tragedy of no closure. a life cut short. etc #BUT. it’s kinda insane that like…lottie’s the only person she talks to minus 2 scenes with misty and 1 hug with shauna 😭 #like does she even say anything to van outside the sharing shack?? #and then everyone minus misty reacting in such a muted way to her dying in front of them…man. #im just bummed it took sooo long for them to all get together and then bam it’s over #and again part of me loves the tragedy of that!!!! #the other louder larger part misses the nat/tai/shauna dynamic in s1!!!!! #*

[estravenlover]

the yellowjackets writers own racism is gonna be their downfall because why doesn’t adult taissa or lottie’s decisions make any damn sense anymore 😭

#like I LOVE this show and I LOVEDDD seeing tai and van kiss like any other lesbian #but Taissa wtf yr wife is in the hospital???? your son?? where is he???? r u not worried??? #also Lottie being like actually we should kill one of us ritualisticly after two seconds of visions is like #she put the work in for fucking years and that’s gonna just have her really to have one of them die in like two seconds???? #I’m sorry it doesn’t make any sense #like I love Shauna and nat and those guys but they get so much more thought into their stories #also the misty plots… 😐 #Yellowjackets #NO ONE GET MAD AT ME I do love the show…. #my post

[lonesomedotmp3]

literally so hard to be a taishauna in a taivan world :/

#i like tai and van a lot they're very sweet and obviously love each other #and also the fucked up sleepwalking cult failmarriage stuff is fun. BUT. #the couple i am rooting for is always going to be tai and shauna... #this was so much easier when i thought van died in the wilderness. sorry van i love you but it's true #yellowjackets spoilers #again. not really. but whatever #.txt

[slashermary]

the yellowjackets premiere said cannibalism is what you do when you’re gay and in love and in a kinda fucked up circumstance. and i for one applaud that

#tai trying to kiss/devour van bc she loves her so much. gay. shauna eating jackie’s ear bc she feels so guilty and misses her so much🤫 #i love you television #caroline.txt