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warrior cats adult & yellowjackets enthusiast / 23 / she/they / probably busy smoking out your mom in my —*loud crashing noises x2*... yeah NVM that got totaled

[strawberry-crocodile]

for real tho it feels exhausting that ive seen this whole "woman should be allowed to abstain from X beauty standard" -> "i perform X beauty standard, am i evil? do you think im evil? please forgive me i came up with a dozen excuses 🥺" since like 2015 (and i know its been going on longer than that) like girl thats not the poiiiiint

[strawberry-crocodile]

look me in the eyes. repeat after me. "i face societal pressure to perform this beauty standard. i should not face that pressure. i conform to this standard. i am rewarded for performing to this standard. i need to respect women who do not perform this standard. this is not about whether or not i am a sinner for wearing makeup."

[scoutthepoet2]

Thinking about the spottedleaf and cinderpelt mini figures... They were the only two I never got and now they will be replaced by series two. I refuse to pay $100 for a $6 chunk of plastic with poor quality control 😭 but the medicine cats they call to me...

[strange-daughter-x]

When you're surrounded by a religion whose story about the origin of humans is about controlling women. I'm going crazy. Everyone just accepts it. That your whole religion is about sexually controlling women and subjugating them as a lower class so they don't have the chance to make you jealous or make you feel inferior. Eve was made from and for Adam and every woman is punished because she dared to be more than her fatherhusband told her to be. And, through science, we know that didn't happen but everyone around me believes it more than they believe in science. But WE ARE SCIENTISTS!!!! Some of the smartest people in my life choose to ignore what is right in front of them because they actually hate women that much. And I don't know how other people in my situation are dealing with that.

[soundwave-shipman]

will forever despise the fact taissa turner does NOT get the love she deserves!! she’s so ridiculous and i love her for it!! i would argue she’s more complex and intriguing than the majority of the yellowjackets!!

literally the only reason she isn’t number one for me is because shauna was the character that got me in to yellowjackets. tai’s shenanigans were what kept me watching.

people do NOT see the vision 😭😭😭

[lottielee-altar]

I need a historical lottielee au where laura lee is a devout nun and lottie is forced to enter the convent because no one knows how to help her with schizophrenia, and the way they dealt with it in the past is by putting women into a religious institution.

Laura lee is the only one who makes an effort to get to know Lottie who really does not want to be there, while Lottie finds something to hold onto to make her life inside the convent more bearable.

[lais-made-up-of-moonlight]

ok, i'm seated

[scoutthepoet2]

op I think you may have just pitched the next biggest lesbian novel/film

[pawnyouoff]

ong we're not understanding this story

[lightflame]

Assorted cover art backgrounds.

(Unfortunately, these are all the ones I have for these three arcs. Hopefully we can bug HarperCollins until they release the rest.)

[scoutthepoet2]

covers that made me pick up the warriors series c. 2011

[acutealpaca]

Moonpaw and Morningkit

Based on:

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[nataliescatorccioapologist]

Okay, someone please tell me if I’m being too woke about this, but I’ve seen multiple fanarts, fanfics, and discussions of putting popular fandom ships into Obsession, and I personally don’t think we should be turning a movie that is explicitly commenting on sexual and psychological coercion, incel culture, and male entitlement to women’s bodies and autonomy into fun shippy content.

Do you really want to be casting your OTP into a dynamic where a man places a curse on a woman that traps her in her own body, coerces her into falling in love with him against her will, ignores her repeated attempts to break free, and repeatedly rapes her? A woman who becomes so desperate to escape that she literally begs for death in the fleeting moments where she regains control of herself? For me, that dynamic is so fundamentally about the violation of autonomy that it’s hard to see it as shippy in any sense.

If you’re using Obsession as a framework to actually explore themes of coercion, autonomy, and abuse with characters from other media in a way that’s not romanticizing it, then fine ig. But that’s not what I’m seeing at all. This is not an opportunity to be like “Aww my OTP are so codependent/possessive.” I don’t really think this is a concept that should be treated that lightly.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-

[mishunss]

We will not be lovers

[butcheringqueen]

imo you will never understand this series if you think of it in terms of "good person bad person" and the ending will piss you off. This show is about female gender roles I don't understand how people can't grasp that.

"Not a wife, or a mother. I was a warrior."

It's not even subtle lol.

The Wilderness is deliverance from societal expectations of women.

I think its less "are they good people or bad people" and more "what is being offered to them and what is being taken - by both Society and the Wilderness? And is the trade-off worth it?"

[ruby-thursda7]

who ordered the toxic yuri

more ashfur/ferncloud personality swap au

[ruby-thursda7]

who ordered the toxic yuri

more ashfur/ferncloud personality swap au

[scoutthepoet2]

i love love love the visuals and acting performances and sound effects of yellowjackets as a show, but i feel that at heart it really needs a novelization. i think the show could be turned into really gripping prose and go into detail that modern TV doesn't allow. tv these days is so restricted by ratings and corporate demands which leaves us with a hollowed out form of the bigger story. there is SO MUCH that goes unsaid when you're forced into a ten episode format and shareholder interests and the fact that the actions they commit out there literally can't be shown uncensored on tv. my indulgent heart NEEDS pages and pages internal monologuing and horror that forces you to engage with it as you read each word. novels don't have to sanitize and water down a story for general audiences the way tv does. a novel doesn't have to skip several months of character development and plot for time. i want to have a yellowjackets book or series that i can hold in my hands and immerse myself within. obviously im bananas about the show but it just leaves me wanting more!!

[ruby-thursda7]

ashfur/ferncould personality swap au is so so fun