aspasius @aspasius - Tumblr Blog

hi!

it’s been many years since i last engaged & interacted with tumblr – especially fandom-wise – but here i am again for another ride! this is a side blog created a while ago but revived to share & extend longer thoughts on my favorite fucked up cannibals, the yellowjackets, which i will tag my own rambling whenever inspo dawns on me. i am mostly a reader and a commenter & have only once written fanfic ever and it was about my favorite codependent duo, jackieshauna, which is a one shot post season 1 but pre season 2. you can find it on ao3 under the same user (the tweet that originated this one shot is this one here) hope you like what you see

#personal #hmu whenever i dont bite #me tag

avasillva

#meanwhile jackie...

#jackieshauna #they really did that #yellowjackets

yellowjacketsseason4updates

Yellowjackets billboards in preparation for the Emmys!

#yellowjackets #fyc

galindaelphaba

YELLOWJACKETS SEASON 3 APPRECIATION WEEK

day seven: free choice -> yellowjackets season 3: a meme summary (insp)

#yellowjackets #they have it all

kerosene-in-a-blender

There's a phenomenon I've noticed in fandom I'm going to call "Canon is mean to my blorbo" wherein fans of ongoing or serial media become really attached to one or a group of characters and build up in their minds an idea of how their story is going to go, but when the story doesn't end up going in that direction, regardless of how well the direction it actually takes was built up along the way, these fans will insist it was done out of malice or disregard towards their faves, rather than simply being a logical continuation or addition to the story that simply wasn't how they would have liked it to go.

#oh yeah #yellowjackets

hitmehardnsweet

wtf 😭😭😭

#what if we all killed ourselves #the way shauna intended #jackieshauna #always at the scene of the crime #yellowjackets

ruben-rawbone

#yellowjackets #jackieshauna catching strays 25 years later oh wbk #van palmer #shauna shipman

yellow-dejavu-deactivated202509

#girl needs her enrichment at all times #shauna shipman #yellowjackets

yenvengerberg

"This place will follow us for the rest of our fucking lives."

#yellowjackets #natalie scatorccio #s1 adult tl hits different after s3 #in a good way

devonghabi

The trauma people say survivors forget things to protect themselves because they were so horrible, but I think we can't or won't remember it clearly because we recognize, deep down, that we were having so much fun.

#butcherqueen #they could make each other WORSE #lottie mathews #shauna shipman #yellowjackets

vesteneris

imagining me and you

#GOD this is so #jackieshauna #you cant convince me otherwise #fanart #yellowjackets

cowboythethird

#this is amazing #lottielee #fanart #kinda ethel cain coded #yellowjackets

jackyshipman-deactivated2026040

I wanna state something. that I believe to be essential for this narrative:

I don't think any of these characters are supposed to be likeable or unlikeable. I really don't think that's what the writers want us to see.

Some can be seen as heroes or villians but I don't think that's it either. At least, not entirely.

To me, in this story, the only thing that truly exists is 'fucked up characters' and 'less fucked up characters'

I feel like it's easier to enjoy when you take it into account.

Just something to think on.

#oh definitely #now paste it into twitter and tiktok and advertise it as something that doesn’t make you better or worse #…yeah #yellowjackets

alicentflorent

The interesting thing about the Yellowjackets finale is it shows why “overthrowing a dictator” isn’t as simple as everyone getting together and stopping them. There were three seperate plans in the finale and nobody trusted each other enough to share their plans. We had Melissa, Gen, Akilah and Mari forming the kill Shauna and Lottie. They didn’t let Natalie know about this because she’d be against murder. Then there was the TaiVan plan to rig the cards, this was purely to save themselves from the hunt. Then the final plan was Nat, Misty and Van fixing the phone and Nat using the hunt to escape to higher ground which worked when Hannah, who no one actually trusted to be part of any plans, offered to switch clothes with Nat (Travis also may have been part of the plan when he distracted Shauna). The Nat plan was the only one that worked successfully because Shauna was distracted by the other two plans. That means Mari didn’t die in vain even if her plan didn’t work.

The problem here is none of them trusted each other. Nat and Van couldn’t risk anyone else finding out about the phone not even Tai and especially not Melissa, Shauna’s ex and enabler. The JV girls didn’t know if they’d have the numbers to go up against Shauna in a normal scenario, not with Tai and Lottie on their side so they orchestrated a hunt to isolate them. If everyone from the first plan knew about Nat’s plan then they all would’ve been on board but no one knew who could be trusted. that’s always the problem isn’t it? No one knows who they can trust. No one knows if they’ll have the numbers if they attempt to overthrow a leader and sometimes even if the people are against the person in power, how many will act? How many will risk their lives? How do you know if your allies can be broken down into giving up your plans? Rebellions and Revolutions aren’t built overnight. It’s never as simple as “why doesn’t everyone get together and attack the leader or refuse to follow their orders?”

#yellowjackets #yj meta