if yellowjackets enthusiast is my second job (it is) then, within that, fic writing is my day job and tumblr rambling is my moonlighting, so here's easy access to my fics and to my more involved posts!
current status: i am writing with slightly more consistency than i have in a while! that said I am writing whatever speaks to me in that moment, so it’s a bit of an unpredictable situation. we practice resurrection every night updated tonight! hoping so work on always be my baby this week <3 —10/21
likely order of updates: abmb, fences, resurrection—10/21
works in progress
x always be my baby (34/37 / ~350k)
All the living yellowjackets are forced together when someone decides to unearth their past. Tensions rise, past relationships are revealed, and new ones are forged in a reunion that no one asked for (except maybe Misty).
Every decision that Jackie and Shauna had ever made—together and separately, in anger and in love, for themselves and for each other—had led them to this exact moment, a dreary October morning in the intensive care unit of NewYork-Presbyterian.
explicit / no crash au / dual timeline
x we practice resurrection every night (5/? / ~28k)
A series of moments based pre, during, and post 1996 canon, centered around Jackie and Shauna, accounting for the huge, rippling impact of one small change: the Holmdel bust goes differently. Shauna ends up walking home with Jackie instead of Jeff.
explicit / jackie lives au / slice of life
complete (multichap)
x she shines me up like gold (~12k)
Jackie convinces Shauna to wear something a little different than her usual to Van and Taissa's Halloween party.
explicit / no crash au / mid-twenties
x you're just a bee charmer (~53k)
When Jeff dumps Jackie right before winter break, Shauna decides she's willing to do pretty much anything to keep them broken up. Jackie just wants to feel wanted, so what harm can a few messages from a new account really do?
explicit / no crash au / shifted ten years (they graduate in 06, rather than 96)
x just unzip me (~32k)
Shauna is the maid of honor in the Taylor-Sadecki wedding, but on the big day both the bride and the groom have a confession to make.
x (pt 2): drunk from so many roses, redder than wine (~8k)
Jackie can't leave Shauna alone when the butchering duties get darker. Everyone has their role, and hers is just how she likes it—inextricably tied to Shauna.
oneshots
x honey come over, the party's gone slower (~4k)
Nat’s dead, but that doesn’t mean it’s all over. She laid Jackie to her final rest, and now Jackie’s the one to welcome her to this strange new home.
teen / post s2 finale / nat pov
x trying to keep you alive (~5k)
A night of Shauna feeling especially self-destructive (cruising for women, talking to Jackie's ghost, and burning bridges with the only two people in her corner).
explicit / canon-compliant / post return / ghost!jackie or hallucination!jackie depending on how you read it
x no take backs (~3k)
Laura Lee is a few steps ahead of Jackie in this whole navigating being a ghost thing, and Shauna is falling apart quicker than Jackie can pick up the pieces.
mature / canon-compliant / set during 2x01 / ghost!jackie pov
posts of note
x jackie taylor is a lesbian frame by frame pt. 1
x jackie taylor is a lesbian frame by frame pt. 2
x tai and shauna / call your mom
x shauna and psychosis
x the "dreams" (travis' dialogue on near death experiences in 2x02)
x the "dreams" (eating and drinking in other realms motif)
x jackieshauna / lottielee
x mirrors and reflections in yj (the pilot)
x pit girl scenes and their cuts away from natalie
x lesbian breakup so bad (yj edition)
x sight and power and leadership (lottie, tai, nat, jackie ruminations)
On this shortest night of the year, we gather to honor three souls that have slipped into the darkness that lasts forever. We celebrate their sacrifice. We grieve their loss. And rejoice at the knowledge that they're still here with us. We know that they are because we can still hear them. Because we can still feel them. Because they haven't gone. They've just returned to a place that waits for all of us. Now with the Wilderness, guide us. Now with the Wilderness, deliver us.
So tell me why Nat has multiple concert tickets for the band Team Dresch, a queer riot grrrl band that have lyrics such as “I’m a flaming S&M rubber dyke” and “queer sex is great” and the band have described themselves as “a bunch of queer freaks.” 👀👀
Obsesssed with how physical remnants of Jackie live on to haunt the survivors
Her signature butterfly shirt, her #9 soccer jersey, her heart necklace, her bones. These characters cannot help but hold on to a piece of her; to attempt to embody her in some way. She is the definition of haunting the narrative
