#and nat with her dad

[inkskinned]

the problem is that being single is seen as the consolidation prize, and not the natural neutral state of being-a-person. at the end of the movie or the book or the poetry, there is a person waiting for you at the altar, and they love you. if the play is a comedy, everyone gets married. the metaphor is about how you are not-whole. the metaphor is about how everyone is going to be happily-ever-after. the metaphor is that romantic love is the most important resource on the planet, not just all-love. all-love is not a thing, that is a disappointment. the treasure is not the friends we made along the way. the treasure is the girl you landed.

the metaphor is that you cannot be alone, that means you are broken. are you getting over someone? that is acceptable, you can be getting over someone, but not for long. you must be single because you would rather not be single. you must be single and looking to not-be-single. you must want to date, eventually.

friendship and community are never seen as being equal-to or even-better than romantic connection. that person is your one! you need to find them. you need to hunt through the sand particles until you can shift out some kind of gem. this is regardless to your own experience of the beach and the sun. you need to be somewhere with someone.

if you are taking this time alone to heal, that is so sad. everyone gives you this little pitying look. the understanding is that you are not actually happier than you were before you were single. it is seen as a sort of pity - oh, you are choosing yourself, making yourself the priority? - that isn't quite right. you must mean that you are making yourself ready for the right person. you are just laying the bed better this time. open up your heart. you'll find them, we promise!

what do you mean you're really-truly genuinely-very happy? you are probably misremembering what it was like to be in a relationship. and besides, once you meet your person, that time will look grey and bland and wasted. your person is the only way for you to see in color. so what if you have taken this time - for the first time in your entire life - to actually-for-real do the fucking work. you can be proud of yourself, sure. but the way we need to know that you got better is that you get a partner. you're healed enough for the next bad part!

people don't choose to be single, they just say they're choosing to be single - they actually mean "nobody wants to date me." it doesn't matter how many people you have gently rejected or how many times you've talked it over carefully in therapy. what matters is that you are single, and by all accounts - that means you are something worth our pity. your successes and life all seem pale in the sunlight. sure, you have done amazing things and finally found your way in life. what matters is that there wasn't a person in the room with you while you did it.

you want to tell them - that's the whole thing. i didn't know how to be alone in the room. i didn't know how to handle the silence. every moment was so sharp, and i kept choosing the wrong way to close the door. i have spent my entire life in the empty well, living in the ricochet of someone else's cruelty. for once i have built myself a ladder. for once everything i taste is all mine, every bite of sunshine and laughter. i have learned how to sleep out in the open with my memories. recently, they have started to purr.

your father rolls his eyes. listen. this isn't about you. i just want a grandchild in my future.

#writeblr #i actually didn't want a girlfriend before nat #and my dad recently said to me - raquel. i don't approve of the promiscuity #1. i am 30. #2. i had casually dated about 4 people over 18 months. #3. i do believe he was just mad that i get more girls than he ever did #i had to look this 60 yr old deacon in the eye and say. okay so i have a girlfriend first of all im just not tellin yall about her #and secondly. #OKAY???? OLD MAN I DONT EVEN LIVE HERE WHAT ARE U GONNA DO ABOUT IT #briefly considered asking nat if i could pretend we were a one night stand kind of a thing

[nataliesscatorccio]

Shauna and the baby were probably both going to die. depending on your interpretation of the dream realm, maybe for a time Shauna did die. something brought her back, or kept her from staying there. but it wasn't Mari's "wilderness, I hope Shauna doesn't die" or Travis' well intended but useless blood magic (recall Lottie "can't this just be enough? please?" it was never enough) or even the baby's death covering the symbol on the blanket in blood. those are futile hopes and bargains. the baby was already doomed. and the wilderness doesn't trade, we know this. it chooses. someone has to die. it took Crystal and spared Shauna. Shauna thinks she's been snubbed by the group and by extension the wilderness when it takes Javi and Nat is crowned, but what she fails to see is that she was chosen first. she keeps being chosen! not to die, to live. Coach Martinez dying to put her oxygen mask on. Jackie dying to later feed her. the wilderness taking Crystal (where is her body? it belongs to the wilderness now) to get Shauna through a dangerous labor. Nat dying in her place as the queen of hearts twenty-five years later. maybe it always did like Nat best, but it killed for Shauna first. and it kept killing for her. for girls like Shauna (and for girls like the Wilderness) isn't that just the shape love makes? a knife wound.

#shauna: i just want to be seen and loved and worshiped for the crazy bitch i am #the wilderness: i see and love and worship you for the crazy bitch you are #shauna: not like that i miss jackie #i think there's a solid argument that it killed nat's dad for her first but since it's pre-crash timeline i am going to respectfully exclud #that from my analysis lololol #for nat the shape of love is a bullet hole in this essay I will #shauna shipman #yellowjackets #lottie matthews #travis martinez #coach martinez #crystal yellowjackets #natalie scatorccio #mari yellowjackets

[dandeydraws]

I'll never say your name again if you don't want me Don't want to lose you Don't want you to lose me

#the wayhaven chronicles #twc rebecca #twc detective #erin sharpe #a du mortain #ava du mortain #I JUST THINK. erins relationship w her mom is garbage......and she barely knew her dad..... #and the ppl she loves keep up all these walls and secrets #and say they love her but never rly Show That until shes dying #and then they leave anyway #shes just so tired of being alone......im going 2 crawl into wayhaven and bodyslam ava for breaking my girls heart #thank god for nat. book 4 au where erin says fuck it and kisses nat instead dsklfghjdgf #im joking if i dont get a fucking hard-won happy ending after ALL THIS then ill blow this whole place up #fanart

[oh-surprise-its-me]

Jake knows he feels too much, he’s felt too much for years.

Hangman.

Christ. If only they knew he had lists in his notes app for allergies, likes and dislikes, favorite foods and birthdays.

Hangman.

Yeah. It’d be more fitting if he had been the one to leave the other behind. But no, he was flying with Snakebite and the asshole left Jake behind but hadn’t done the move right. So Jake pulled forward and ahead and Snake had to abort.

Hangman.

He wishes he could take the persona off, but it settles on his shoulders like a jacket. He finds some comfort in it. Jake knows that Javy can see through it, why Jake always sticks close to Javy and doesn’t ask too many questions. Has the confidence in himself when he really hasn’t had any since his father kicked him out at 15.

Hangman.

He sits outside the hard deck in the sand, he hears someone come up behind him. It’s probably Javy. The only person whose ever come to check on him in 20 years.

“You good Jake?”

Oh. Oh. That’s not Javy. That’s Bradley.

He sniffs, “yeah what’s it to you Roo.”

Bradley lands on the sand next to Jake, he sits close enough their shoulders touch. “Saw you leave. But I also saw you start crying. Figured I’d check up on you.”

Jake let’s put a wet laugh, he scrubs at his eyes. Jake, such the fucking cry baby look at you now.

“Jake come on what’s up, are you okay? Are you hurt? Should I get Javy?” Jake shakes his head, “no let him have his night. It’s stupid anyways. I’m just a bit drunk.”

Hangman.

“Can’t be that stupid if it made you cry.”

Jake falls back into the sand, it’s easier this way, he can just stare at the stars instead of looking away from Bradley.

“Nat almost drank coconut rum.”

Bradley lays back in the sand next to Jake. “Not sure I follow. But keep talking.” Jake shakes his head. “She’s allergic. No one saw but me so I reminded her. She told me to fuck off, and that if she wanted a lecture from her mom she’d call her.”

Bradley let’s out a puff of air. “Shit. I didn’t know she was allergic.”

Jake laughs again. God this day can’t end fast enough. “Not dead allergic just enough it bothers her. She mentioned once a few years ago.”

Bradley nods, “you notice things about people. You care.”

Now it’s Jakes turn to nod, “reason I came out here was I figured no one would notice I was gone. Got too loud in there.”

“I notice.”

Now Jake turns to look at Bradley, he’s not sure what he’s expecting to see but the look of, caring? God Jake might even dare to say love? In Bradley’s eyes are a startling image.

“You always let Payback have shotgun because rarely gets car sick, you let Javy have all your pickles because he loves them. You remembered Nat is allergic to coconut even though I’ve known her for years and she mentioned it to you once.”

Bradley takes a breath sitting back up. “God Jake I think I notice everything about you.”

Jake is shocked that Bradley has been apparently watching him for years. Shit maybe his crush isn’t just one sided. He sits up, twisting to face Bradley head on.

“You care?”

Bradley smiles, “please god punch me if I got this wrong Jake but I more then care.”

And then he kisses Jake.

Bradley Bradshaw is kissing Jake Seresin.

Merry fucking Christmas in July to Jake.

Jake pulls away. “I’m a lot Bradley. I feel too much. I cry when dogs die in movies. I get angry around father related holidays. I have a weirdly dependent relationship with my best friend. I get it if you want to run away.”

Bradley takes Jake’s hand, he brings it up to his mouth kissing it and then using it to drag Jake into a hug. “I like a lot Jake. I’m grabby in the mornings. I take 30 minute showers. I cook but maybe not to the best level. I go full out at any holiday but I’m insufferably overkill around Valentine’s Day. I’m not running if you aren’t.”

Jake presses a kiss into Bradley’s neck. He feels tears in his eyes but for different reasons now. “Well I guess there’s only one way for me to know about the grabby morning part huh?”

Bradley laughs, he stands in one motion, and sticks a hand out for Jake to grab. “Wanna find out?”

Jake smiles up and grabs Bradley’s hand.

He’s not letting go. And he’s going to remember every damn moment of tonight.

#bradley rooster bradshaw #jake hangman seresin #this is not part of my slider is jakes dad au #bradley bradshaw x jake seresin #top gun #top gun maverick #sorry to Nat but I needed a mean person for a sec #I love her though #Jake seresin has lots of feelings #javy coyote machado #Javy is the best friend #hangman name origin!! #I’m so wasted it’s not even funny

[izayoichan]

With a nod, the lights along the aisle were magically lighted as the doors opened letting River take his sunlight up the aisle, blinking slightly as the song was not one he had heard before, yet he could easily hear it was Lucas’s voice that was singing it. Walking slowly in front of them, as they had trained was Liam, holding the pillow with the two rings tightly in his little hands. As they reached Nat, Lucas picked him up into his arms for a bit, as much for himself as for Liam. 

Nat: If I was a regular priest, I would start with Dearly Beloved, we are gathered, and so on. But that was never my style, nor is it my fathers. -she smiled softly.- We are gathered here for an exchange of rings, a pledge of love, and spending whatever time is given together.

River took a deep breath, which got four worried eyes on him in seconds, quickly smiling at both to signal it wasn’t anything bad. In her own way, it was the same thing Kieran had said back then, it was just that Nat was so much clearer in her wording.

Nat: And it isn’t for me to say the most important words, that would be for the two of you. -she nodded.- I believe you asked to start River?

Liam perked up, as Lucas gently put him down again as River nodded, and held out his hand so his little one could hand him his ring. Carefully Liam took the ring off the pillow, handing it equally carefully to his father, a small sigh of relief slipping from him when it was done, making everyone smile. Walking over to Flynn who picked him up, they watched their dad. 

(Poses by @simmireen thank you so much for taking on the comission!)

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#the ward legacy #writblr #simblrstories #simblr #co created with mahvaladara #River Ward #Lucas Sunstar #Liam Ward #Flynn Ward #Nat #much like her dad #she has her way of doing these things #she is a little clearer in her wording as you may have noticed #and now for the famous vows #that always are a thing in weddings #that I find fun #and sweet #i cheated a little #I only had these three there #I had no energy #to deal with sims that walked away #and wouldn't sit so #sorry but also not sorry

[simminglytimeladies]

A typical rogue and bard duo... What trouble would they cause next?

#ts4 #ts4 renders #bg3 #chloe pries #astarion ancunin #tav #astarion #i just got into bg3 and i'm now in act 3 with 100 hours in #and that brainrot comes into the sims apparently #anyway in the bg3 au chloe is like a archfey warlock/swords bard #and she lost a lot of her memories when she got abducted by the mindflayers #she doesn't remember that she used to be a bard until around act two #went from just playing music to using music as her source of magic eventually #ahhh cant wait to finish act 3 for real #btw she was born from a summoning ritual that her dad performed #her dad tried to summon a cambion but rolled a nat 1 that day and got her as a baby instead #at least power corruption doesn't get to him? yippee? #anyway he had to raise her and stuff after he got disgraced by the wizarding community that he was in #cuz he attempted to commune with mephistopheles to grant him a cambion that could assist him in battle #anyway now he's a powerful ass sorcerer sdfhgjsdhfjhsd #(if you're wondering if that is lincoln yes that's him in this bg3 au)

[yellowjackets-1996]

SORRY for nattravis posting but. i'm giffing and i just realized coach martinez is still alive on the tree branch and by trying to save his father travis cements his fate. he breaks the tree branch and his dad freefalls to the ground. travis with a father who isn't always good to him who dies in a way he wouldn't have if travis didn't put it in motion (except it was in motion before he got there). obviously nat is going to be obsessed with him. like. yeah that makes perfect sense

#like. of COURSE theyre codependent until one of them dies and then after that too #it is your life which is so close to my own that i would not know where to drop the knife of separation and what does this have to do w lov #except EVERYTHING! #(and also nothing) (paraphrasing mary oliver now) #like. youre stranded in the woods and your story is restarting in front of you and maybe you can change it #and maybe in changing travis-as-her's story her-as-her's story will change too #and it DOES! she gets travis and she gets javi and for a moment even in the horror its good. but of course stories dont stop #so it keeps going until it isnt and it keeps going until it doesnt #would nats dad have died if he wasnt her father and would travis's dad have died if travis loved him as little as he pretended to #would javi have died if javi didnt love natalie and would javi have loved natalie if travis didnt love natalie #if he didnt love javi would javi have stayed hidden #and if travis didnt love natalie didnt love javi didnt love his dad would travis have died. #and maybe most importantly. if travis didnt die would natalie have lived? if javi didnt die? if coach martinez didnt? if her father didnt? #im not saying anything anymore. but. it means smth to ME #cat.txt

[letsboo-boo]

dad!mav for @floydsin 3/? g-loc ft. coyote

#is this pretty much the whole scene? yes. yes it is #again. the last two mav gifs 😭 #i get so emotional making these #top gun: maverick #pete maverick mitchell #javy coyote machado #dad!mav #dad!mav series #nat is barely featured so i'm not tagging her but. y'know #u thot that was close? u have no idea #gee gifs

[magicalgirlsasuke]

right next episode is where we’re going to get further teen misty and nat interaction, and it’s going to slot EVERYTHING into place. we know lottie is going to be suspicious of misty over her role in crystal’s death, it would make sense for nat to be the person to flesh out this conflict since her actions have accidentally lead to the death of a loved one in a sudden violent way as well. she’s either going to defend her from lottie and offer her comfort (crystal’s death WAS an accident okay misty was absolutely crushed by it. she was only relieved at the storm coming, not that her secret was securely gone), OR, building off her own self hatred/guilt, she’s going to back lottie up and hound misty for answers and back off when she has a breakdown. either way is so delicious!

#yellowjackets #mistynat #also the added element of nat in the middle of misty and lottie like it would be so wasteful if they didn’t #i’m really leaning towards first scenario #the crumbs we already have on their teen relationship already mean so much to me i’d given up hope they’d actually ever full on interact #before this my second fave part of their relationship was that misty is serial killer coded and nat is haunted by her accidental #contribution to her dad’s death #but poor crystal’s death has just added even more nuance

[smolangeryboii]

Me at work: *vibing to my music*

My brain: "Shauna is someone that takes care of people when they are in need. The only 2 times she didn't, Jackie and Javi died"

Me: *sad*

#we see shauna take care of so many people #she tells Jackie to eat #she's the first one on Mari when she thinks there's something in her shirt #she's with Nat after she fell in the lake #she's takes Javi in her arms when his dad falls out of the tree #she stays awake for Tai #she's a caregiver until she feels like there is no more hope #yellowjackets #yellowjackets shauna #shauna sadecki #shauna shipman #i think im going to make a compilation of all the times she takes care of people because i like the pain it gives me

[sbd-laytall]

#I would just like to say that I KNOW that there are scenes where Sam slices his arm but for some reason I couldn't find any #and this gifset has been in the making for about a year so I really want to finish this #I remember I was watching Yellowjackets for the first time and I was discussing it with a mutual and I realized how much these two are alik #well there's the obvious: after traumatic experiences they endure mental health issues where they hallucinate and get electro-shock therapy #but there's also how Lottie finds comofrt in faith and religion just like Sam (at least in the beginning) #Sam has his powers that he gets from the demon blood in him and Lottie has her connection to the Wilderness so they're both kind of psychic #both of them feeling so lost and angry and being terrified of themselves #Lottie's dad wanting her to be 'fixed' and Sam's dad telling Dean that if he can't save Sam then he needs to kill Sam #and finally they just both feel very queer to me #Lottie losing Nat just like Sam losing literally every woman he's ever loved #tw electrocution #tw blood #tw self harm #hallucinations tw #lottie matthews #yellowjackets #sam winchester #supernatural #spn #gifs are mine #my post

[yee-hawlw]

misty accidentally killing natalie with the needle was a little weak instead she should have accidentally killed her with the same rifle natalie held to her head in 1x01 the one that natalie had in her mouth in 1x10 <333

#in a gay way... #also in a direct parallel to the way that nat's dad died bc i love inescapable cycles #and of course paralleling kristalten. love her #mistynat #yellowjackets #amber.txt #ask to tag

[walkedlegacy]

watched the season 7 trailer for 911 and @warwidcw is breaking me in the best way with plotting about anya being on that ship.

#her jumping into rescue mode and getting stuck and pinned #knocked out and bleeding bad #and here come mom &dad #bucky just prying back furniture to get to her #and nat right there to assist #mom & dad reviving her #and the 118 coming full force behind them #⤷ caffeine fueled hyper fixations; mun. #911 spoilers

[mistysnat]

Top 5 Yellowjackets scenes?

oof again such a hard one!!!!! let me think

taissa breaking allie's leg that's when i knew this show was something special :)

2. misty smashing the flight recorder. absolute crazy girl behavior

3. shauna eating jackie's ear. you're insane!!!!!

4. lottie stabbing the bear. queen shit!!!!!

5. all of the girls bowing to nat LIKE SHE DESERVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#no seriously this is so hard i have so many favorite moments #honorable mention to all the nat scenes i already said but i didnt want too many repeats weihqlwfjw #yellowjackets #asks #nat shooting her dad tho is for sure in my top #also you lttiel btich but let me not repeat myself again #thanks for the ask! :)

[autism-swagger]

Yknow what I'm gonna make a Jackie lives au

#she still gets really close to freezing #maybe even loses some fingers to frostbite #(that way there can still be homoerotic body part eating. although that might be grosser than what we get in canon. bc yknow. frostbite) #but Shauna gets her head out of her ass #or Taissa is more convincing #or Nat and Travis come back #so they get her inside in time #she and Shauna are so tense for so long #but something happens #and they start to make up #maybe the rest of the girls make them #eventually they both come to their own realizations #(the others definitely have to help with this post. they're so dumb) #and get together #Jackie definitely coparents WilderBaby #and in this au maybe the baby even lives #post rescue Jackie definitely buys some of those cringy dad shirts #about how cool it is to be a dad #or specifically those step dad ones #oh god I need to draw that #Yellowjackets tag

[peapod20001]

LIL BABBEY NAT.. does she get to have a relatively normal life after Nick runs off, or is she doomed to forever be on the lamb?

!!! Her and her dad get a relatively happy ending!!! I haven’t mentioned it yet but I meant to lol Nick actually finds his older siblings after running with Nat and is able to get the help he needs! He was absolutely TERRIFIED that someone might find out what he’d done, that they’d lock him up and he’d never get to see his baby girl again, but luckily for him they never found the body haha

He looks happy me thinks

And Nat is happy just growing up as your average teenage girl <3

-with a girl crush

#ask #pea art #oc Nick #oc Nat #oc Temple #my art #artists on tumblr #artist #traditional art #my ocs #ocs #oc #my oc #original character #original characters #my characters #Nick is!! a single dad #he’s kinda iffy about relationships. I’m sure you can guess why #sometimes he looks at Nat and gets a bit freaked out since she looks so much like Needy.. but he gets over it pretty fast #he just wants what’s best for her yknow?