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ultrone · 8 months
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yellowjackets AHS!murder house au...thots? ur in college, looking for a place to rent and the only one you can find is this creepy, old looking one but rent is practically nonexistent, so you take it. you start to notice small stuff like phantom touches when you sleep, or the feeling of someone watching while you study. when you come home from a class one day, there's six girls in your living room.
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omg as an ahs fan i LOVE this so much 😭 u’d come home from class one random day and they’d be like:
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van and mari would be a MENACE, they’d be pranking you all day 😤 and then tai would join them too cuz “happy wife happy life” 🙄
then lottie would tell them to stop and apologize on their behalf while shyly swinging her leg, and then she’d give you a little handcrafted gift 😭
shauna would like to spend time with you but she’d also have homicidal thoughts i just know it (in a homoerotic way, not serial killer way) 🤨 but my girl jackie would come in clutch and ground her 🙏🏻 she’d also love to watch you study, and ask to borrow some of ur textbooks
if you're feeling down, jackie would call a group meeting behind your back and have a bunch of brainstorming sessions to come up with things to do to make you feel better—or to figure out what's wrong.
nat would be the walking definition of minding your own business, she’d usually be quietly standing next to the window smoking a blunt. u’d become friends cuz u’d smoke together occasionally 🙇🏻‍♂️ and u’d buy new cassettes for her to listen to
laura lee would force everyone to hold hands and pray for their souls in purgatory every single night before bed 😭
misty would go NUTS if you’re not home by the usual time, she’d freak out and stand in the window with some weird ass binoculars
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Yo so these are head-cannons from this thot a while ago.
Also the internet has come back, hopefully long term (never ever been this happy before), but enjoy for now xxx
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transmasc Van and Nat btw (I LOVE THEM!!!)
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Was definitely way too into it at the time to notice wtf you were doing.
Continues to not know about it until she goes on there later (Callie set her up on it, of which you did not know).
"Y/n……. What is this?" "Uhhhhhhh nothing, just a BeReal." "I can see that sweet thing, but who else is in it?"
You know you're fucked regardless of how you respond.
That's pretty much all I can think of honestly (I'm out here tryna keep yall fed, sorry).
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Again, was probably way too into it at the time to notice.
Then she looks over your shoulder later on, while you're sat together watching TV.
"Watcha got there, love, hmmm?" "Nothinggggg" "Nothing huh, well if it's nothing can I see it?" "Nooooooooo"
Somehow ends up getting her hands on it (definitely did not chase you around to try and grab your phone, and/or tickle you when you wouldn't give up). "Oh?"
Honestly kinda flustered at first (even though she probably has no idea how it works).
Then makes it her screensaver for like a week, until someone accidently picks up her phone.
Poor baby gets so scared that someone's seen it, and changes it back to a more PG photo of the two of you.
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100% gets a lesbian spider sense and looks up JUST as you post it.
But doesn't say anything until way after, when she somehow gets her hands on it.
"Baby, I love you, but I swear to god, if people find that and use it as a reason to not elect me, I will be mad." "Oooooooooh, maybe I like it when you're mad 😏." "Y/NNNNN!!!"
You end up taking it down after a couple hours (idk if you can do that, I haven't used BeReal in ages), cause you don't wanna actually make her mad.
Again that's pretty much it, idk.
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This boy has no idea wtf BeReal is or how it works, but is definitely a little curious about it.
Honestly like extremely flustered by it when he finds it while looking on your phone for something (idk, like something you asked him to look at or grab from it).
"I'm not mad about it, it's actually kinda cool, but outta curiosity, how many people are gonna see that?" "I don't know." "Wha- how can you not- HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE YOU FRIENDS WITH?!"
Poor baby boy is very confused, but it's okay, he's cool with it.
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The most smug motherfucker on earth when he finds it.
But then again honestly doesn't really give much of a shit.
But also 100% screenshotted it and sent it from your phone to his and looks at it alllllllllllll the fucking time may of masturbated to it once or twice when you weren't there 🤫.
Definitely makes it his screensaver too like Lottie, but has no shame about it whatsoever.
Not really got much else to say other then that honestly, but they speak for themselves, baby boy Nat has no shame whatsoever.
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A little confused by it, like the whole sorta aspect of it, like "Why do people have to know everything about what people are doing?"
SAYS THE FUCKING STALKER/KIDNAPPER! anyways......
Defo hacks into your phone later on while you're asleep (cause that's just so much more fun then just taking it and unlocking it or whatever).
And also definitely stares at it for like an hour straight (that babygirl is such a freak and a perv, but it's okay, we love her for it).
Let's just say poor baby boy Caligula gets demoted to home screen, and then she changes it around, and he gets bumped back up to lock screen.
As much as Misty loves you, the photo, and just the whole aspect of the situation, she doesn't wanna loose her job for unprofessionalism.
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-Harlow
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emilysboy01 · 7 months
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Thinking About Cowboy Van.....
(Also transmasc Van, cause we love/stan him here)
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Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy 🤠🐺
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^Cowboy Remus tehe^
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You were out front in Van's store like usual, though he'd seemed off today. Less conversation, staying out back and stocking tapes (which he usual hates) instead of working the counter. So you decided to close to store early and talk to him.
"Hey," You stated, going into the back of the store, walking over to him, and wrapping your arms around his waist. "You alright, you've been quiet today."
"Uh yeah, just bad scar day, you know?" Van replied, resting his hand over one of yours, using the other to keep stocking the tapes.
"You sure?" You inquired, resting your chin on his shoulder. "Cause if it was more than that, like 'gender dysphoria' more, then you know you can talk to me, right?"
"I- pffff" He huffed out softly, scratching the back of his neck, putting the tapes down before turning around and wrapping his arms around your neck. "How do you always know?"
"I'm not an idiot, Van." You stated, running your thumbs over his hips, offering a small smile.
"I know you. I know that I read the information booklet things cause I knew you wouldn't, and that I have access to the internet to try and understand what's going on in that head of yours sometimes because sometimes you're a stubborn git and won't tell me yourself."
"God damn you." The redhead stated, scrunching her face up and stamping his foot on the floor like a grumpy toddler.
"Alright yeah, stupid gender dysmorphia is stupid, and scars are stupid." He added, huffing out softly, like a mini (but well justified) tantrum.
"Oh baby," You emphasized, running your thumbs over his cheeks. "I think I know how to make you feel a little better."
"Oh?" He said, running his thumbs over your collarbones. "And what's that huh?"
"Cmon," You stated. "I've got something to show you." You added, taking his hand, and leading him into the store front and over to the counter.
He stood behind the counter as you stood on the other side of it, picking up a cardboard box off the floor, putting it on the counter and opening it.
"You didn't." Van said, his expression widening slightly more after pulling out each item.
A cowboy hat, an autumn-ish coloured checked flannel shirt and suspenders.
"I remember you saying the other day, regardless if it was a joke or not, that being dressed as a cowboy would cure your gender dysmorphia, so I took bet on it." You explained, as he ran his thumb over the stitching of the hat.
"Do you like it?" You asked after a few moments.
"Like it I- I love it, I really- I really love it. So much. Thank you, this really means a lot." He said smiling widely, picking all the items up.
"I'm gonna go try them on right now. Thank you thank you thank you." The redhead repeated, heading back out to the stock room, stripping down to his binder, before putting the flannel on, buttoning it up, starting to put on the rest of the outfit.
He returned a few minutes later while you were back behind the counter, writing down and crossing off some things on a clipboard.
"Okay so, it looks and feels great," He started, making you turn around to see him stood in the doorway. "But I think I did this wrong." He finished, indicating to the suspenders, making you grin widely and giggle slightly.
"Oh baby." You said after collecting your thoughts, putting the pen down, and approaching him. "You want some help?" You inquired, gesturing to the suspenders, which he'd secured around his thighs instead on over her shoulders.
"Please?" He asked, giving you slight puppy dog eyes, making him look like a kid who'd just drawn on the walls with crayons.
You snickered softly, biting it back, before crouching down in front of him, moving to untangle the suspenders from his thighs.
"You know I'm getting a major sense of deja vu right now?" You said, smirking slightly, while moving to pull them out from the inner sides of his thighs.
"Shut up, okay? I tried, and got confused." Van defended, muttering the last bit to himself, but just loud enough for you to hear.
"Oh baby boy, it's okay. I got it." You answered, standing back up and securing the suspenders at the front of his jeans, before tapping his waist. "Can you turn around for me, sweet boy?"
To which he did so, turning around and letting you clip the last suspender to the centre of his jeans, pressing a soft kiss against his jaw.
"There you go, pretty boy. All better." You said, pressing another kiss against his neck.
"Thank you, again." He said, turning around and kissing your lips softly.
"You are very welcome, baby boy. And may I just say, you look very handsome lookin' like this." You stated, looping your thumbs through the belt loops of his jeans, pulling him closer and pressing a soft kiss against his forehead.
"Thank you love, I love you." Van replied, running his thumbs over your collarbones again.
"Love you too. A lot." You replied, pressing another kiss against his cheek, flicking the underside of his hat.
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I honestly don't know what this was, but you know, I've thought about Van dressing as a cowboy for no apparent reason.
-Harlow
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thunderon · 10 months
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once the yellowjackets get back to civilization, i think it would be so funny if van just keeps giving the media/investigators/doctors different non-answers when they ask what happened to her face like:
“it was a really bad papercut”
“you should see the other guy”
“im, like, really into movies. big fan of Scarface, actually. i do a great tony montana impression”
“i fucked around and found out”
“what happened to your face”
“i slipped in the shower”
“tried to do a frankenstein costume for halloween but, ya know, limited supplies in the wilderness and all that. i improvised”
“i got it because i wasn’t minding my own business”
and one time van even gives the reporters a deadpan “the wolves ate my face” and the media is so used to her stories they’re just all like “fine. guess we’ll never know what really happened to her face out there”
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kirarahoshii · 7 months
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sometimes a comfort show isn’t a sitcom or a romance or even remotely lighthearted. sometimes a comfort show is a survival/horror series about girls doing cannibalism and cult activities in the wilderness to survive
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lottiemilfews · 8 months
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yellowjackets appreciation week 2023 day 5: symbolism || animals
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vanpalmr · 1 year
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Guys, doesn't Tai look like a tree right now? Or do the trees look like Taissa?
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taiturner · 9 months
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Liv Hewson, Keeya King, & Nia Sondaya as VAN & AKILAH in Yellowjackets
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booasaur · 1 year
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Yellowjackets - 2x06
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24hlevi · 3 months
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I know we've got Lottie x innocent reader.. But what about th othe yjs 🤔🤔🤔
ooooh 🤭 imma give a few thoughts for each of them cause i love this but can't come up with full hcs sorry. thank you for continuing the innocent reader vision anon 🫶 also this is more with their adult versions in mind!
shauna -
- shauna adores your innocence, she literally thinks it's the cutest thing ever when you two first get together, how you haven't done anything like smoking or drinking, how you wear whatever clothes you want without realizing the way people look at you in said outfits
- she will subconsciously baby you tho, she will of course stop if you say for her to but she loves babying you :( not in like a weird way but just in a nurturing way that shows she loves you dearly
- she has such a thing for marking you up for everyone else to see how your hers and hers only, a smile always forming on her face whenever you don't try to cover it up and you two go out being given weird looks by the amount of hickeys on your neck
- she tries to start out slow with you during your first time with her but she can't help but get rough at the sounds of you whining and moaning just for her :(
nat -
- she's the one who enjoys your innocence the most, the fact that you have barely done anything rebellious in your life leads nat to being the gf who will make you do reckless things and live life to the fullest, maybe getting arrested in the process (oops)
- nat also thinks it's kinda cool that you two are polar opposites when in public and you're wearing the cutest thing possible and she's just in her leather jacket and jeans, she'd rather die than use the word aesthetic for how pleasing it is, but that's what it is lol
- nat is also the biggest on the corruption side of things, to just break down those innocent walls that stop you from whimpering her name underneath her is like winning a prize to her and when you finally let go of feeling shy and innocent, she is going to make sure you know you're hers
- thinking of her teaching you how to ride her strap for the first time and she slowly coaxes you into moving your hips faster and make more pretty noises for her, smiling at your whines before flipping you over and just pounding into you
misty -
- misty definitely takes advantage of your innocence, most of the time without you even realizing it, which makes it better for her in the end when she makes you do things that you wouldn't do otherwise without her there, it gives her a sense of pride and that she's needed
- she also just thinks it's cute when you have little to no idea what's going on or when people try to flirt with you and you just think they're being nice, misty is one to get jealous, but just so she can take you back home and make sure you remember who you belong to
- misty is the second biggest on corruption imo, she loves how innocent you are, buying you pretty revealing clothing to wear around the house so she can have you whenever she wants and seeing your eyes widen when she grabs you by your hips pulling you towards her gets her going so bad she will take you right then and there
- roleplay is huge for misty, especially medical themes, and she loves opening your mind to those things and show you how to have fun and have a good time as well even when she's three gloved fingers inside of you and is degrading you beyond belief mixed with praises
tai -
- the only normal one (jk), tai is one that thinks it's cute and enjoys the way that your innocence is genuine and how it's just how you are, not like you're doing it on purpose or something
- tbh tai doesn't seem like she would get jealous because of it, will she glare daggers at whoever is attempting to flirt with you to the point they back off? yes. but she won't be verbal about it 😭 you go over to her wondering why the overly kind person just left and she's like "ah idk babe" acting like she wasn't killing them with her mind
- tai will make you be verbal with what you want, she won't do anything until you tell her what it exactly is that you want, loving to see the way you break down crumbling and soon start begging for her to do something, anything
- you cannot tell me this woman doesn't have a thing for being called ma'am, like you'd say it as a joke and she would immediately change up and tell you to say it again which leads to a newly found word to use when having sex
van -
- van thinks your innocence is a little silly at first (affectionately), how you don't realize the certain things you do would be seen as flirting or not noticing when others are flirting with you, they think its silly
- they definitely show you all kinds of movies you haven't seen before to expand your horizons of cinema and entertainment, especially the more spicy ones to open your mind to some things 🤭
- van grins so hard when you tell them you wanna try something that you saw in a movie or something else and immediately drops everything to do it, they'll take their time with you to make sure you actually want to do it before going down on you like never before
- van is into experimenting with anything, whatever you wanna do they will gladly do for you, you basically become their pillow princess/prince and they will make sure the neighbors can hear cause they just love the sounds you make when they're pounding into you with their strap
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ultrone · 8 months
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⨳﹙🎧 brainrot ★﹚–– yjs favourite artists/bands in the 90s
SHAUNA : billy idol, jeff buckley, weezer, backstreet boys, elton john, blur, chris isaak, hole, kurt cobain, siouxsie and the banshees, morrissey, the la’s, new radicals, savage garden
JACKIE : no doubt, *nsync, mazzy star, wham!, tracy chapman, cyndi lauper, shania twain, outkast, abba, blondie, inxs, sixpence none the richer, donna lewis, fleetwood mac, britney spears, savage garden, spice girls
LOTTIE : the cranberries, mazzy star, the cure, alanis morissette, stevie nicks, madonna, queen, sade, spice girls, gwen stefani
NAT : nirvana, radiohead, slowdive, deftones, pixies, the cure, hole
TAI : pj harvey, billy joel, tears for fears, george michael, queen, morissey, simply red, bee gees, aerosmith
VAN : the smiths, foo fighters, the clash, pet shop boys, guns n' roses
MARI : christina aguilera, aaliyah, keyshia cole, tlc
MISTY : tiffany, cyndi lauper
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More realistic Yellowjackets hcs
•Van is squeamish af. She nearly threw up when just talking about Allie's leg in the pilot, and she almost throws up everytime you finally get to pick a movie and you go for a horror thing.
• Shauna would be one of those girls that could never pick what to eat. She would drag you to hell and back before she'd finally just go with one of the same three restaurants she always chooses. Even though she always picks the same she still wants you to suggest every place in town before she reaches a conclusion.
• Nat and Van overshare with each other. If you're with either one of them you will get smug looks from the other.
• Nat and Van also share their porn stash. Van has the decency to hide it but Nat just leaves her magazines on her night stand. You only ever knew she shared them with Van because you saw one of their trades. Nat tucked a folded up mag into the back of her pants. Van hid hers in the bottom of her schoolbag. You cringed so hard when you realised that's what they were doing. Nat stole them during a house party and Van let curiosity get the better of her and long story short they'd been trading them all year until you found out and used the rolled up magazine to beat Natalie over the head with.
• Van absolutely tries to build a house out of breadsticks every time you take her out to a restaurant for dinner.
• She tries to make an igloo out of waffles.
• You're on the team, on Away games and you share a room with Nat. She climbs on the bed and rocks it back and forth making it squeak and makes moaning sounds when you're on the phone with your mom. If Van is there she will join in but she will be blushing the whole time.
• Trying to get closer to Taissa involves being forced to take part in her morning constitutionals. Only her morning constitutionals involve 45 minute morning runs. And her legs are so long you are constantly trailing behind, and with her, everything is a competition so she straight up leaves you in the dust. You've gotten lost in her neighbourhood multiple times when she's left you behind to run ahead.
• Jackie's inviting you to weeknight dinners with her parents and expecting you to sit idly by while they passive aggressively destroy your confidence. She gives you yours back though after dinner when she lets you top her on her frilly bedsheets.
• Jackie makes you leave her house after dinner, get in your car, drive to the house next door, out of sight, then sneak back and climb up to her window to hit it.
• Sitting in a pew in the back of Laura Lee's church, your hand resting on the stretch of wood between you. You scratch your chin and return it absentmindedly only to find her hand is also resting between you...her pinkie is close enough to touch. You breathe heavily as you ghost your finger against it only for her to react by parting her fingers. Not a lot, but just enough to interlink your pinkies. Your heart is thumping so loud you swear the whole congregation is aware of it. You stare forward, your eyes glazed over as the priest chants Κύριε Ελέησον.
• After church one day, you hang back with Laura Lee as your parents all mingle with other members of the church. The two of you climb to the second floor, way in the back, and lie down on one of the pews, head to head. You look up at her, and she looks up at you and smiles. It's the same pious smile she always gives you but this time you swear her gaze fixes on your lips a moment.
Her parents call her over to go home and she sits up abruptly and waves at you as she bounces nervously away.
• Akilah spends most of her free time with family. Her older sister and her husband both work, so she and her mom get saddled with babysitting her nephew a lot. She sits around the house watching tv and doing homework with a baby on her lap most days. She's supposed to put him down but he's sooooo cute she just can't bring herself to.
When he's a little older, you two sneak him his first bit of chocolate. Well, less sneak, more he reaches over and shoves your entire ice cream down his throat at six months. He doesn't get to the cone before Akilah pulls him away but half your scoop is gone with him. Akilah apologises profusely but you just laugh. She offers to buy you another ice cream and you suggest a rain check. Your first date is an ice cream date when she's no longer grounded for letting him have ice cream at six months. He was fine though.
• Mari doesn't have nieces or nephews yet but she has so many cousins and they all get together and play soccer at family get-togethers. She is not the only one in that family who's on a soccer team but she's the only one who's going to nationals so the competition is stiff with all her cousins competing against her to prove they're all just as good. You may not be the best but she starts dragging you to all of these get togethers so the two of you can ratio her entire family together.
She normally wears jumpers and ties her hair up and stuff but her family notices that she dresses in way more form-fitting clothes and lets her hair down when you start coming to these things and ALL make fun of her for it. I'm talking little baby cousins who look up at her and make kissy faces behind your back and you feel a breeze when you turn your head, and hear the thud of a couch cushion hitting a seven year old at full force.
Oh no, her cousin spilled some juice on you now. Guess she has to bring you to her room, alone, and give you something to change into. You hear another Thwack behind your back as she ushers you down this hallway to the back.
A few cousins grin at you both through the window so she rushes to shut the blinds... She's red as fuck at this point. You're in her room and it's the designated coat room so she pushes a big pile of coats off to the side so you can sit down. She rummages through her closet and finds something that's lowkey a little revealing but she realises her whole family will see you in this so she reaches for a turtleneck instead. It's way too hot though so she just grabs a yellowjackets tee and hands you that and pretends to look around her own room while you change.
• She sniffs it when she gets it back.
• Melissa wears her hat backwards so she can be more easily identifiable as a skater. She's the only girl skater in the school but she doesn't get that much shit for it because she's also a jock on the soccer team that's going to nationals.
• She absolutely tries to rizz you up while skating around you.
• She absolutely loses her focus and eats shit while trying to hit on you.
• You give her your number out of pity.
• She writes your number down on her arm and then uses that part of her arm to wipe the sweat off her brow.
• You realise she's not playing dumb for the bit but you give her a shot anyway. You spend a disproportionate amount of time applying bandages on her and talking her off dumb stunts.
• Had there been any flat surfaces in the wilderness she could have used to skate on, she would have been the first to die.
• Gen...fuck it I don't know shit about Gen. Maybe she's a ninja. Yeah.
• latchkey kid with one of those dogs that's small enough to fit in a bag. It's fluffy and smol. She brings it on dates and feeds it breadsticks when her date isn't looking.
• Gen likes to dress that dog up in funky little outfits. Sometimes she matches it. Has a box full of pictures of her dressing her dog up.
• Misty can and will drag you into the equipment room for some alone time at school.
• Still plays doctor. Doesn't realise that the objective is not to heal the patient but to get close to the patient and feel them up. On the upside she has a full nurse costume. Not a sexy nurse costume, an accurate replica of a nurse costume. So accurate she's banned from wearing it at the local free clinic. Because 12 year old Misty tried to wear it to the clinic the way kids wear princess costumes to Disneyland.
• Van and Natalie subscribe to the sniff test. These jeans Nat's wearing were at the bottom of her used clothes pile but it doesn't matter because they passed the sniff test. Can Van pull off wearing that hoodie for a third day in a row? Yes, because it passed the sniff test. Sniff test.
• Van and Nat have burping contests outside Denny's at 3 am.
• Misty goes to sleep at 8pm every night. Even Laura Lee thinks that's way too early and she has a strict self-imposed bedtime at 10:30.
• Jackie's skincare routine takes the better part of the night.
• Shauna makes you sleep on the floor because she kicks in her sleep and it's her bed so...
• Lottie can come up with an excuse for shit at the drop of a hat. Usually it's excuses for why you shouldn't leave her house and why you should stay over. Lately she's been using excuses to get away from you though and it's worrying you. Nevermind she just wanted space to throw you a surprise party. Wholesome ass.
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when you were already having a rough time as a closeted butch lesbian with an alcoholic mother in 90s suburbia but then your team’s plane crashed wilderness and your teammates left you to die and you had to save yourself and then you went on what you thought was a death mission to protect your gf and your face was mauled by wolves and you were permanently scared and almost died and then you found out your gf was sleepwalking and you literally tied your wrists together despite the pain to protect her and then you saved her life and then you worried about her and protected her for months while you desperately tried to convince her to get help and then you stepped into the protector role again when you tried to protect one of your best friends from one of your other friends who was also deeply suffering and you got hurt again because of it and now it’s 25 years later and that same ex-gf, the love of your life who you lost, walks back into your life and you immediately fall right back into protecting her because that’s just who you are, a protector who cares too deeply for everyone else…
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koddlet · 4 months
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vanuary day 5.... mspaint scribble redraw
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tabithatwo · 1 year
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hi hello thinking about how neither lottie or taissa is advocating for their sight or championing themselves.
lottie quietly doing the best she can to lean into what she hopes is real to give the others protection and faith, yes! but it isn’t I CAN LEAD YOU (especially this season) it’s I can quietly do the things that can’t hurt, in case they help. it can’t hurt to prick my finger and they’ve come back safe so far and I’m aware of my mental health I’m OH so aware and I know the dangers of delusions being proven correct by happenstance by setting up an infallible cause and effect by building my own reality BUT but. it’s just a prick and it’s just a sip and if I don’t do it now and they don’t come back safe then I AM the reason. it can’t hurt IT CAN’T HURT.
but see, now she’s stuck. she’s wedged into this place of having followers and she can’t tell them how she feels, partly because she isn’t even sure how she feels to begin with because nothing is real and everything is far too real!! (because BECAUSE lottielee jackieshauna parallels and so much post laura lee was not in our view, we didn’t fall as deep deep deep into the rabbit hole with lottie as we did with shauna, but this season has confirmed it for us. lottie and shauna both lost reality when they lost Them and they were both already girls with a loose grip of reality to begin with) so it’s That, but it’s also because she isn’t Lottie The Girl From New Jersey Who Shoplifts, she’s not herself, she’s what they make of her. she’s Lottie The Reason We Will Survive This.
she was on the other side of this dynamic, she felt that anger at jackie, she felt that sense of betrayal, she felt that letdown, that rebellion in her heart. because jackie wasn’t serving them the way they wanted needed craved being served. jackie couldn’t be that person. jackie who had been divisive in her leadership before they even crashed, because what is leadership if not a spotlight that people can adjust to make you glow like something ethereal or to point out all your flaws with great illumination? jackie had larger than life expectations put on her (and they were warm and sunny and positive some of the time yes, but that all curdles when it’s left in the spotlight too long.)
so suddenly lottie is divisive. there are teams around her and against her and myth built up, but the myth isn’t that she’s the bratty unhelping girl who gets whatever she wants like it became for jackie, the myth is she is our only hope. she is our savior and salvation and seer. and she doesn’t need to even say anything to make that so. jackie didn’t need to say anything to make them color her selfish (other, but bad). lottie doesn’t need to say anything to make them color her anointed (other, but good). she is girl vessel, girl hopes, girl dreams, a witch hunt where she Better Be A Witch.
doomcoming lottie snapped. she was On drugs and she was Off drugs and she was tired and she gave them something to cling to that they could shape into more with the seeds of the past (bear and blood and you get the picture) that they’d already been trying to plant in her image. (jackie did the same that night. she snapped, she yelled, she gave them something to cling to that they could shape into more with the seeds of the past that they’d already been trying to plant in her image, do you SEE??)
and of COURSE natalie understands both lottie and jackie. of course she knows what it’s like to be doing nothing but your best, to not want the responsibility, to be seen more as liability than asset, even though the only reason you can fail so hard is because you provide so much. before the crash and after, because girl carrying the weight of family secrets and girl who bears their insecurities and girl who SEES that they are insecure so she cannot even bring herself to be ANGRY with them and girl who hunts. girl who hunts and feeds, but now who hikes and disappoints, because there is no game to bring home, but that can only be Her Failure because it is Her Contribution, do you hear me are you with me??
so natalie walks for miles and she eulogizes jackie and she steps out of her reward her one small comfort and she makes sure that lottie sinks into the hot water and she apologizes, she apologizes, she apologizes. because maybe she’s mad, maybe she says it isn’t fair in the heat of the moment, but at the end of the day she knows who she is and what she is and all that they’ve made her and she carries that responsibility. (like jackie the girl she wasn’t home to save and lottie the girl she doesn’t know how to reach. it’s too late for them, there are no words to undo it. jackie was sealed when she made captain and natalie was sealed when she pulled the trigger and lottie was sealed when she warned van.)
and taissa finally TAISSA. she has hidden her secret. little girl looking in the mirror and seeing something that shouldn’t be there and older girl who is hearing things that she shouldn’t hear and leading people places she shouldn’t be able to lead them to. she doesn’t want it and she’s made it the Most Known of them all. don’t tell lottie, don’t tell the others, don’t bring it up. and van who champions her so naturally, so routinely, so lovingly for all the normal things. van who believes in the supernatural. van who has simply refused to die. van can’t hold it in anymore, because taissa’s sight Brought Back Javi. but tai doesn’t want her to mention it to the others. tai is perceptive and tai understands power struggles and she’s tired and hates this part of herself and she’s scared and she’s logical and she doesn’t want to Be Lottie (not lottie the girl from New Jersey who shoplifts, but lottie who better be a witch).
so maybe I’m seeing things myself, maybe I’m reading too deep, but here’s what I saw in old wounds.
lottie, who sits quietly while the others discuss her prophecy. lottie, who seems to have developed an openness to a different view of jackie in her death, because she was girl there and now she’s girl gone and she served them again in death and maybe lottie didn’t quite have the right idea of her and maybe lottie is in her seat now, in a way. lottie, who wanders into the snow without ever really agreeing because it was never really a choice, and cuts her hand because it can’t hurt IT CANT HURT.
natalie, who signed up to hunt when it was spring and warm and possible, who knows that it will be hers always and forever now. natalie, who will always be the reason they are starving, more than the reason they are fed. natalie, who is jealous of the girl who is bone, because she was allowed death. natalie, who has sympathy for all of them and knows that lottie has been made her rival through the mechanisms of group projection than her own volition. so she bathes her and tends to her and apologizes to her.
taissa, who has always been a leader and always been under scrutiny but did so in a way She Could Control. taissa, whose deepest secrets are being unfolded before her eyes because she can’t stop herself from divulging them when she is unconscious. taissa, who might start to think that maybe lottie didn’t ask for this.
so jackie is bone, and natalie is hunter, and lottie is seer, and taissa might be even more so. natalie alone in the realm of the mundane (for this), but aware of them all, so I’ll set her aside for a moment.
jackie accidentally opened the door to this spiritualism. she was the seance and doomcoming (and the first communion), but she didn’t mean for it to be that. she meant to cheer them up.
lottie thought that jackie had it wrong, thought that she didn’t use her position to protect the girls, because she refused to work with the woods and lottie tries to save them and protect them and negotiate with the wilderness for them.
taissa thinks that lottie has it wrong, because she feeds into their delusions and her power is a runaway train in this setting and taissa wants to keep them alive in the best way. the practical way. except that logical leadership never led to anything out here and her other self, her spiritual self, found javi after months.
pedestals and wrecking balls and clearer views once you’re hoisted up with the girls on them. girls who are not Them but who are What Others Say. shauna dictating jackie and mari dictating lottie and van dictating taissa and everyone dictating natalie. everyone meaning the best and riding the high of delivering it, until it’s cut out from beneath them. you don’t go from great to fine. the mighty don’t fall to land on a straw bed with the rest of them, thanks for trying and welcome back. they are Icarus and their love for the others is flight and their belief that They Can Do It Better is the sun and the sun burns. in death or in life or in dreams.
and maybe in old wounds lottie understood jackie a little more and taissa understood lottie a little more and nat, who has always been able to understand them all, can watch and wait and hope that it changes things. but it won’t. because they aren’t driving their own stories anymore.
so they’ll hunt and they’ll bleed and they’ll walk in their sleep and, no matter what they say or don’t say, the others will fill in the gaps.
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