#it chooses

[they-them-van]

More yj memes for your enjoyment

#yellowjackets #yellowjackets s2 #yellowjackets spoilers #yellowjackets meme #misty quigley #shauna shipman #taissa turner #van palmer #lottie yellowjackets #coach ben #it chooses #god what a fuciing episode

[lovelaceisntdead]

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson / Yellowjackets - It Chooses

#in honour of lottery day here's an edit i made after 208 and never posted #it's not the most polished i could probably find some better quotes but i havent been able to stop thinking about the comparison #especially with all the hill house/yellowjackets posts doing the rounds #anyway who's making the Misty/Merricat post or do I have to do everything myself around here #web weaving #yellowjackets #shirley jackson #the lottery #27th june #yellowjackets 2x08 #it chooses

[marril96]

Yellowjackets 2.08 | It Chooses

#misty quigley #van palmer #vanessa palmer #shauna shipman #shauna sadecki #taissa turner #yellowjackets #yellowjacketsedit #tusergabs #fieryfrankie #christina ricci #melanie lynskey #lauren ambrose #tawny cypress #2x08 #it chooses #my gifs #edit

[sprqpointintern]

#has this been yet? 😂 #yellowjackets #yellowjackets 2x08 #it chooses #yellowjackets season 2 #yellowjackets s2 #yellowjackets showtime #yellowjackets meme #misty quigley #akilah yellowjackets #vanessa palmer #shauna shipman #javi yellowjackets #taissa turner #natalie scatorccio #cards against humanity #Matthew.chat

[juniperhillpatient]

the way that adult Natalie is cold toward Misty & keeps her at arm’s length & adult Misty’s obsessive desire to protect Natalie at all costs is put into such a new context when you understand that Natalie resents Misty not for trapping them in the wilderness not for being “weird” or “crazy” but because Misty SAVED her.

adult Natalie in season 2 repeatedly states that she is a bad & toxic person while demonstrating the opposite. According to her, she hurts everyone around her but in reality she can’t even kill a goldfish when she tries. I think that what we clearly see in the last episode is that Natalie hates herself for living.

Natalie will never forgive herself for the moment she stopped trying to save Javi - an innocent child she’s spent months searching for - her friend - her lover’s only family - the ONLY person willing to selflessly fight to save her.

Natalie Scatorccio is broken by the end of season 1. She’s holding a gun to her mouth. But season 2 shows us how & why she broke. It’s not because everyone turned against her & her friend held a knife to her throat. It’s because she hates herself for the selfish choice to survive & WHO PUSHED HER to make that choice? Who held her back & begged her to stop trying to save Javi? Misty.

this show is actually brilliant in how new information gives new context. season 1 would have you believe mistynat is a fun investigative duo. a wacky perky “crazy” girl & her goth partner who keeps her distance emotionally but has a good heart. season 2 shows us that EVERYTHING goes back to the moment that Misty saved Natalie’s life at the cost of Javi’s life. Natalie will never forgive herself for that & she’ll never forgive Misty & they are forever intertwined because of it. hand in unlovable fucking HAND do you understand

#mistynat #sorry. I’ve been posssessed by the spirit of mistynat & now it’s all I care about in life I can’t stop thinking of new metas about them #yellowjackets meta #misty quigley #natalie scatorccio #yellowjackets s2 #it chooses

[overthemushroomcave]

Can’t stop what’s coming

Can’t stop what’s on it’s way

#heavily inspired by yellowjackets #Yellowjackets #don’t even try to recognise individual characters #digital art #illustration #yellowjackets fanart #forest art #witchcore #campfire #wilderness #it chooses #forest #procreate art

[arcanespillo]

"It Chooses"

Yellowjackets, S2E08

#yellowjackets #2x8 #it chooses #screencaps

[yj-as-precrashsonglyrics]

yellowjackets as pre-crash song lyrics

nat x r.e.m./try not to breathe

this decision is mine // i have lived a full life // and these are the eyes // that i want you to remember

#yellowjacketsasprecrashsonglyrics #yellowjackets #natalie scatorccio #nat scatorccio #shauna shipman #nat x shauna #r.e.m. #it chooses

[thismoonrisekingdom]

This episode solidified for me that there is absolutely nothing supernatural happening in the woods. The girls use it as a scapegoat and the point of this show is to have us the audience in an unending pov as a part of this team slipping into madness

#spoilers #yellowjackets #antler queen #02x08 #it chooses

[jimmycarterghostland]

When I hear a fly buzzing in my room and I'm trying to pinpoint its location

#Yellowjackets #Meme #Yellowjackets meme #Yellowjackets Mari #It chooses

[jenniferleecopping]

nat, gouache

#Yellowjackets #yellowjackets showtime #natalie scatorccio #sophie thatcher #artists on tumblr #female artists #lgbt artist #portraits #portrait painting #gouache #gouache painting #gouache paint #Illustration #illustrator #freckles #it chooses

[they-them-van]

notes from “it chooses”

so i took notes on the new yj episode (”it chooses”) both because i’m a nerd and because so much shit happens in literally every episode and i can’t keep it all straight - i have so many fucking Thoughts and i figured y’all might also, so here are some of them in roughly chronological order (obviously lots of spoilers below, also it’s fucking long but bear with me):

lottie is extremely fucked up good lord girl

mari being the most devoted but also making fun of lottie - what’s her deal

NUGGET IS DEAD WHAT THE FUCK - him being a hallucination the whole time mirrors both shauna’s baby dream and ben imagining paul/being in a better place

they’re going to the Sharing Shack this is so deeply unserious

shauna having to confess that she killed a man fucking sent me

jeff seeing the pictures of the man his wife killed all cut up sent me in an extremely different way (off the brink)

nat and misty being the ones to follow shauna when she tries to leave, both in purple - they’ve become the most devoted to lottie in the present, whereas van is completely the opposite

young nat saying “they’ve changed because of her” (THE THOUGHTS I AM HAVING... i can’t put them into words quite yet but boy am i fucking having thoughts)

van being the one to unite the group in lottie’s absence - and also lottie “sacrificing” herself being used to motivate/unite the group

mari hallucinating blood dripping from the walls and saying “they’re dead” made me SCREAM because oh my god i thought at the beginning of the season that the dripping would be related to blood and related to mari finding something in or around the cabin having to do with the wilderness/sacrifice and i am simply so correct all the time

misty my serial killer queen <3

misty somehow being both a serial killer and the FBI, what an icon

do we know if van ever got a postcard?

travis is doing something weird (not being an asshole)

i wish literally anyone could see the way i was internally cackling when jeff hallucinated shauna as the wife from sharknado i will be thinking about this for WEEKS

i fucking love the show’s themes of intergenerational trauma that we see showing up in so many different ways - most obviously with shauna/callie and tai/sammy, but also how the girls interacted with their parents, how we see the choices their past and present selves make interact, how lottie is actively shaping other peoples’ lives according to her trauma - there’s so much to say about this and there might be a more in depth analysis coming because again i will not stop thinking about this for weeks

it seems that the group as a whole still holds some animosity towards shauna for what she did to lottie, as seen when they’re all mad at her for telling jeff and tai specifically says that people have repeatedly put themselves in harm’s way for her

lottie very specifically Gazes Meaningfully at the camera during this discussion

once again i find it fascinating how lottie and nat’s arcs are converging, at first i thought their roles within the group had reversed when natalie said they need to talk about everything and lottie replied “this isn’t something therapies can fix” - really they’re moving in the same direction but at different paces, it seems here at least like nat has always just been a couple steps behind lottie but she’s starting to catch up and hoo boy something is gonna happen when she does

the way that in lottie’s absence van takes over the lead role - shuffling and holding the cards, orchestrating the hunt - but misty is her enforcing, the one actually pulling cards for people

this is something we see from misty even into the present - at one point she said something like “i took care of [jessica roberts], like i always do” and that just enforced it for me (no pun intended), while shauna has a similar capacity for violence i think she can only stomach it in the heat of the moment, while misty is always able to detach herself and that’s something the rest of them/the antler queen take advantage of

they all get so obsessed with the hunt that they’re not even chasing anything (that’s what’s called Symbolism)

the parallels between the moose and javi, both times natalie is desperate to pull them out but quite literally her fear/survival instinct overrides her hunger, she let go of javi so much more willingly than the moose

final thought (sorry this is so long dear god): a while back i listened to the episode of You’re Wrong About that was on the Andes plane crash, and something that came up a lot was this idea that we’re drawn to wilderness survival stories because there’s inherently something either comforting or deeply terrifying about the idea of not being in control of our surroundings, of being at the mercy of natural forces with no morals or intentions. and the way yj has been playing with this is incredible, particularly in the group dynamics: for the firm believers in the wilderness as an entity, the control is taken out of their hands. they’re simply surviving, and they may be aware on some level that they’re doing horrible things to each other but they justify it by making it a sacrifice to this outside entity. and on the other side (mostly just natalie at this point, really), there are those who are clinging onto what little control they still have in the wilderness, who can’t accept their actions as anything but their own and are horrified at those who don’t do the same. they’ve created such an interesting dynamic and i’m so excited to see it play out, especially as we see people changing sides and shifting who/what they see as in control (the most interesting case of this might be van, who wholeheartedly embraced the idea of the wilderness in control as a teen but seems to have retroactively taken ownership of what she did as an adult)

#if you made it this far #honestly i'm sorry #but dear god i needed to scream into the void after this ep #yellowjackets s2 #yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #shauna shipman #misty quigley #coach ben #akilah yellowjackets #lottie matthews #van palmer #taissa turner #natalie scatorccio #it chooses #yellowjackets thoughts #yellowjackets theories #screaming crying throwing up

[onpyre]

g-d nat being the first yj to draw the queen of hearts, the first to be hunted, but not the first one claimed by the wilderness (no, that was jackie, never mind javi). it’s the only way you can really implicate the moral skeptic: by hunting her then providing her an out. of course she takes it. it’s survival

#yellowjackets spoilers #natalie scatorccio #yjs2 #meta #yellowjackets #it chooses #despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage

[marril96]

Yellowjackets 2.08 | It Chooses

#natalie scatorccio #misty quigley #yellowjackets #jellowjacketsedit #fieryfrankie #tusergabs #2x08 #it chooses #christina ricci #juliette lewis #my gifs #edit

[sprqpointintern]

Yellowjackets 2x08

The Last Supper: John 6:51-57

#i've seen people using bible quotes for lottie recently so i thought i'd try my hand at it! #this quote was all i could think about during that scene with lottie and misty #yellowjackets #yellowjackets 2x08 #it chooses #yellowjackets season 2 #yellowjackets s2 #yellowjackets showtime #lottie matthews #lottie the messiah #bible quote #Matthew.chat

[juniperhillpatient]

and I’m thinking about “does a hunt that has no violence feed anyone?” & the way that both Jackie & Javi were killed not with weapons but with cruel & deliberate inaction that was still violence in itself. thinking about “no return no reason” & the way that reason & societal rules will always lose.

laura lee died praying to a god that had no power in the wilderness & trying to leave when the wilderness didn’t want her to. but most importantly she died trying to save the rest of them. Jackie was their leader & she made them all say nice things to each other & she could make them get along when their drama was passive aggressive & material but she was useless in the wilderness. she didn’t participate in the doomcoming hunt & trying to kill Travis & it’s impossible to imagine her participating in hunting Natalie. because Jackie was kind & the wilderness does not favor kindness. Jackie & Laura Lee & Javi were too selfless for their own good.

Javi didn’t die because “it chose” - not really. “it” the wilderness was Natalie & the moment she let the selfish feral nature of survival win & stopped trying to save him. the “wilderness” chose in the moment of selfish desperation to survive that Natalie Scatorccio made. btw to be clear I’m not criticizing Natalie or any of them, I’m discussing the narrative of the show.

polite society would say you should probably save one of the only 3 people in the wilderness who isn’t actively trying to eat you (Javi, Travis, Ben) - the person who selflessly tried to save you - but baseline survival would say otherwise. all of them stopped being people who follow human social rules on that hunt. they became wolves fighting for survival. “if you save him the others will get you.”

adult Natalie is right. they survived but at what cost? their humanity. they’ve all done things there is no coming back from because that is the ONLY way any of them made it out. attempting to hold onto any level of humanity or societal expectations in the wilderness is a death sentence. but how can you ever go back to society after that? after watching your friend die & letting him die because if you don’t, it’s you, because you need to eat.

this is why I’m very curious about Ben. I think that his decision not to kill himself is very interesting & I wonder if it will matter? he didn’t eat Jackie. “he thinks he’s so much better than us.” the decision of whether or not he will eat Javi - & again, I think he will because he literally will not have a choice, he is actively starving to death like the rest of them & he’s just chosen not to kill himself so I can’t see him starving & watching them all feast - will be very important for Ben.

#ben scott #natalie scatorccio #javi martinez #coach ben #it chooses #yellowjackets meta #sort of??? I’m just word vomiting my thoughts lol #yellowjackets s2 #cannibalism #cannibalism cw