#they need

[purplecladmerchant]

Beverlin for the soul.

#they need #kissies #frey's art #beverlin

[cdyssey]

The happiness that the girls felt about having that baby shower actually broke my heart. They’re hopeful and invested about something for the first time all winter. They spent all day making (or, in Misty’s case, memorizing) gifts for Shauna and the baby. They’re not allowing themselves to think about the impracticalities and utter horrors about having a child in the wood, no matter what the outcome is. They just ate their team captain, and this is one of their coping mechanisms, to look ahead to new life and how they can offer an innocent creature some semblance of comfort and safety in a world where they have none for themselves.

And it’s, like, a baby shower is a vestige of civilization. It’s just what you do. It’s ceremonial in the sense that it’s a reification of the community that the soon-to-be-parent has in their loved ones. We love you. We’ll love your kid. Here, these are some things you’ll need to care for it. It takes a village, and we’re your people.

And Shauna receives that symbolic care here, but it’s so fraught with the fundamental tension that initially terrifies her in the wilderness and excites her in middle age.

They have no damn clue what’s going to happen with the pregnancy. For all of their many and spectacular competencies, they’re still teenagers in the wilderness, grappling in the cold and dark.

I think of Misty’s Steel Magnolias monologue, which is about a mother grieving at her daughter’s funeral. It’s the masterstroke of the movie—(which is based off a play)—and it’s about the rage and utter helplessness of grief. It’s about losing someone vibrant and young, who had so much more life left to give. (A Jackie analog. Jackie’s ghost will always haunt Shauna’s motherhood, both past and present. Jackie will now haunt all of those children.) It’s about questioning God. It’s about not being fine even though you primally scream that you are. It’s about being the only one who stays and watches that precious person die. It’s about the violence of grief and how you want to hit someone just to make them feel as bad as you do.

Misty concludes the monologue right before the other characters in Steel Magnolias intrude to alleviate the moment with some beautifully timed comedy, and that feels so poignant to me too. There is no alleviation from the pain, the suffering, and the sadness that these girls feel out in the woods. They have a baby shower, yes—they cling to civilization, they dare to hope—but even it is freighted by the compounding tragedies of their circumstances, which Misty’s performance reminds them of in a visceral way.

The movie ends on a bittersweet note. It is horribly sad that Shelby, the daughter in question, dies, but her legacy will live on in her young son. He’ll grow up so loved by his community of family and friends. Other people will have babies, and the cycle of life will begin anew.

But, as we’ve seen time and time again in Yellowjackets, all of our cast are perpetually stuck in the wilderness. They’re in a time loop, an ouroboros, consuming each other, consuming themselves, over and over again, in so many more ways than one.

Do I think the baby gets eaten in a physical sense?

Hell no—that’s a line that the showrunners and characters can’t and shouldn’t cross.

But do I think the baby gets eaten in the metaphorical sense that all of these characters do?

Absolutely. This is not a Steel Magnolias baby. They will not be an emblem for everything that is good and lovely and right in this world.

#yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #s: yellowjackets #maggie blogs #… listen oh my god #if Shauna’s mom is still alive in the present timeline #they NEED #to cast Sally Field for the Steel Magnolias connection #it would be insanely perfect #cannibalism tw

[orangerosebush]

In my opinion, Artemis and Angeline have very similar experiences of paranoia as a symptom of

And thus every single family vacation will have a like, medieval war general moment where you can watch them animatedly debate the merits and/or weak points of whatever barricade they've constructed in front of the hotel room door

#I jest but I HC that Artemis' paranoia somewhat genetically comes from his mother's side whereas his issues with dissociation and #reality assessment is more genetically on his father's side of the family #The twins occupy this weird space in the family where they were born after a lot of things exacerbating mental illness in the family were #less present than when Artemis was young due to the Fowl empire #like my personal version of this is watching my aunts' kids grow up in a house where they were diagnosed with autism and adhd really really #young bc their mothers work in early ed. and are really knowledgeable about how to apply that in their home so that they have the support #they need #and let me tell you watching young autistic relatives exist and interact w kids their age who are so much better #about including 'different' peers socially then when I was a kid? that is so fucking surreal #I am very much an 'autistic Artemis truther' and I know Fox has some posts about Tim being autistic too during an era of the Fowls where it #wouldn't have even been 'masking' to borrow a contemporary term so much as just learning Not to Act Fucking Weird ever and performing this #whenever there is someone else present #but to return to the point of this post Artemis and Angeline will see a 5-star resort with insane security and go 'what I'm hearing is that #when the sun sets we will be in the Purge' #Artemis' form of paranoia is fascinating because he experiences it in the 'struggles trusting people and can spiral and believe people are #out to get him and harm him when that is not realistically assessing a situation' but also has horrible risk assessment which is so realist #realistic lmao

[honksapling]

someone provide dream and george with some goddamn MODS

#they NEED #dreamwastaken #foolish gamers

[echo-echo31]

a concept

dark as the mafia boss in the prison who takes Yancy as his twink

#echo rants #they need #they need a tag #hmmmm #dancy

[liquidstar]

i always think abt my cousin in greece who's like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she'll be like "wow.... a real life american barbecue... will there be red cups?" you bet your ass there'll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue

#she needs to visit so i can take her to a mall #the food court alone will blow her mind #shes like 14 so claire's and/or justice would probably also blow her mind

[transxfiles]

cant talk rn obsessed over the design concept of this 2017 production of pinocchio as a stage play where pinocchio is the only character played by a human actor and the rest of the cast are portrayed as puppets ,,,

#cricket.chatterbox #hold on. i need aminute . hold on . wait a asecond #theatre

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

#greek mythology #ares #athena #greek gods #dont get me wrong it aint athena slander but it sure is ares praise #on some level at least #man justly accused of bad things deserves some mid praise more at 11 #thank you romi for helping me with words though i duly noted you insisted on ares not being cautious rather than him not being careful #romi be like “i want him to care” and honestly good you should say it #also EPIC led to this and i just..... i want to draw some animatics man i just need infinite time now #my long lost love for greek myths just will never stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop coming #i want some vulture design in here for ares but not sure about this one #kochei doodles

[sunbentshadows]

Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

#information death of the internet etc #legit this has been SO SO helpful #shout out to mastodon infosec server for this one #before 2022 we did not really have the AI-content-farms because. the tech did not exist to the public. #and you can knock back the date if need be #obviously this does not FIX the problem but #me.txt

[bonesandthebees]

one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

#I was forced to get over my hatred of making phone calls bc of this #one 15 minute phone call is the equivalent of 5 back and forth emails #also if you don't know exactly what you need help with you can just ask and you can get real help #instead of just desperately clawing at faqs on websites #it's infuriating that it works so well #ramblings

[cahootings]

I redownload this app for one day once every maybe two months and unfortunately I’m rewarded every time

#everyone reblogging this needs to go stream our flag means death on max #and suck your friends’ fingers

[steveyockey]

I’m just so fucking pissed off man if they can surgically airstrike international volunteer food workers three consecutive times to ensure their operation is wiped out completely what the fuck is left for anyone to say

#I need to fire brian schatz out of a cannon

[butchdonne]

what studying literature feels like

#it’s always one of these two. #either i have a great point in my head i just can’t express it right or i have OUGHDGDHHD in my head and i need to make that useful……. #pip squeaks #literature

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

#i often wonder about how many things would be considered classic or high art had they only received the marketing #how many short films that were made for class could have been the most powerful thing you'd ever seen? if you'd seen them? #“you know the greatest films of all time were never made” etc etc #but like. these works of art ARE being made. it's just enjoyed by a smaller audience with equal impact though #i think about this one furry i used to follow on insta who had the coolest worldbuilding ever. it's been years. #thought prompted by that sketch of nimona from ten years ago that was just for a character design #posted to the creator's tumblr and now it's nominated for best animated feature film at the oscars #and by the genuine emotional reaction a fan comic made me feel. how much work had gone into it. how beautiful it was to me. #idk what to tag this but i hope whoever needs to hear it does #writing #writer #fandom #fandom culture #artist

[vamprisms]

adhd will have you fighting for your life to do beloved hobbies that bring you nothing but joy

#it's the guilt of not having done 4 million things you need to do first yet. which you dont do anyway

[despazito]

Telling young zoomers to "just switch to linux" is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you're throwing them to the wolves

#IM intimidated by linux #kudos if they can pick it up god knows we need more computer fundamentals literacy