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jordan | they/them (transmasc) | twenty (20)

[drafttheory]

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currently watching: yellowjackets

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please please please talk to me about fandoms, representation in media, etc.

[ravioliet]

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

[fishiesgarden]

my dawg

[aparticularlysmallrat]

this is what your dog wold look like as a fish

[fishiesgarden]

what's your fucking problem

[drafttheory]

Started college, any tips on making friends? I’m very socially awkward.

And beyond the first conversation would be great, I never know how to build on it afterwards.

[saintsqueensbutchers]

YJ is wild because you can find a random screenshot and there’s a good chance everyone in it is dead

Example:

[mercedesrollinballer]

[drafttheory]

sue storm might make me return to my roots (marvel x reader fics)

[astreiants-archive]

hey so i made a massive database of 900 (and counting) sapphic books, sortable by age, genre and rep! take a look if u feel so inclined (and maybe retweet my tweet?). there’s a submissions page if u catch any i’ve missed (or any incorrect info on them), but pls do check i’ve not just sorted it in a way you don’t expect!

[alicentsgf]

I know pre-crash Lottie is considered hard to characterise because we don't get much time with her, and Lottie does go through a clear shift due to her grief and slipping into psychosis, but I do think we know enough. Ultimately, she's who she always was; outwardly confident, single-minded, idealistic, deeply caring, and desperate for people to open up to her, all whilst being hesitant to open up to them in return for fear of being rejected. We see it in the way she carries herself in the Pilot, in Nat saying she only talks shit when people deserve it, and, conversely, how lonely she appears in her family home. A child eating breakfast alone at dining room table meant for eight. Is it any wonder her room is full of photos of the team pre-crash, perhaps the closest thing she ever had to her idealistic understanding of family. She likely claims Shauna's baby as "ours" because of this same compulsion, a desire to finally have the family she's always wanted. Creates a community in her adult life, and pulls Nat into it because she knows Nat's alone too. Because she's always known Nat wants the same thing, a proper home; both of them identifying that truth in each other though they can't bring themselves to voice it. The only time Lottie even comes close to acknowledging it is when she asks Nat what she has to go home to.

All Lottie's ever wanted is to give the people she cares about what she believes they need, even if it's not what they want. Even if they might hate her for it. She cares too deeply to do anything less. I think it's been made clear, the wilderness didn't change any of them fundamentally, it just uncovered a truth or potential in each of them that was already present. Lottie's desire for family and community has always been at the root of almost every descision she makes, and that didn't start in the wilderness. Her relentlessness, desire to protect "her own", and ability to see fundamental truth, didn't start in the wilderness. Lottie has always been Lottie, with her core traits and desires exactly what they always were. She just expresses herself differently as her perception of reality changes.

[theweddingdisaster]

jackie never realises shes gay or in love with shauna but shauna realises shes in love with jackie and even tho they makeout at sleepovers it doesnt mean anything according to jackie and its just practise and not love and so nothings happening with shaunas love so it metamorphosises into obsession and jealousy and she starts trying to live jackies life subconsciously to try and get as close to jackie as possible and so she starts dating jeff and then jackie dies and she takes over her role as team captain and then they return from the wilderness and shauna lives jackies life and marries jackies boyfriend and has dinner with jackies parents on jackies birthday and callie even wears jackies yellowjackets uniform as if she was jackies daughter like the whole thing is just what shouldve been jackies life if her and shauna hadnt had that fight

[drafttheory]

“jackie never realizes she’s gay or in love with shauna”

i know i made a whole post arguing that jackie did know she was in love with shauna—but consider that she didn’t. consider that this teenage girl died before she ever had the chance to truly live. before she got to make the discoveries that would’ve shaped her entire future. she died alone, exiled by the people she believed knew her best.

consider that tai and van might’ve been her first real exposure to queerness. and before she had the time to process that—to explore the terrifying, beautiful world of her own sexuality—she had to endure heartbreak. a heartbreak that proved fatal.

[drafttheory]

Yellowjackets is just Shauna repeatedly acting out in hopes it summons her guilt—because it only knows how to show up as her dead teenage best friend.

[mybodywillrot]

Mari's last words being smth adjacent to "oh fuck off" is literally the most mari thing ever. I am going to miss her so much.

[jackietaylorsghost]

‘why didn’t you say something’ being the thesis of jackie and shauna’s relationship

[drafttheory]

melissa this, melissa that.

kill that bitch immediately.

[drafttheory]

I love that the most shocking reveal in the first episode of Yellowjackets isn’t that Shauna is sleeping with Jeff.

It’s that Shauna Shipman likes men *at all*.

[homosexualslug]

at least melissa has more self-awareness about her situation than whatever is going on with shauna most days

[drafttheory]

"you have a kid that you don't want, to save a marriage that you got into out of... guilt and shame." - literally shauna shipman.

[drafttheory]

it’s my birthday.