#everything is real

[sleepyjump]

hypneptember day 1-3: six-word story

"can't think? you aren't." - Dronescartes, repeatedly

Stir. Drink immediately. Serves one, perpetually.

->forever (more), sink into Her, embrace->

[peach-and-bugs]

Yellowjackets Theory (little to no spoilers)

I really wanna talk about my Yellowjackets theory, because I enjoy all the other ones but for whatever reason think mine is the most obvious so much so that it feels like a dead gov away which is why I think it’s right I guess.

Noting supernatural is happening. Not in the woods or in the present day. Nothing supernatural has ever been happening, and that’s the point.

A huge theme of the show is mental illness in woman and how it’s overlooked and seen as something that needs to be fixed rather than helped, and that is what’s going on with our girls. All of them has something going on at home or with themselves before they crashed, and it already was being ignored, so it only became more exacerbated with the addition of an immense life changing trauma, like being trapped in the wild for 19 months and needing to resort to cannabis to survive. Anyone with preexisting mental illness would have their whole worldview destroyed.

And I think Lottie has always been the prime example and indicator of this. She’s been schizophrenic since childhood. The medication she was taking if prescribed to treat and manage symptoms of schizophrenia. And, she went though a very rigorous withdrawal, having to go cold turkey on hard drugs that she’s likely been taking since she was extremely little. Probably as little as she was in the flashback of her with the car accident. That’s going to cause some major issues very quickly with someone’s psyche.

And all the “prophecies” Lottie has seen have just been convenient coincidences. The “visions” she has are part of her withdrawal, part of her actual mental illness as well as the hunger she eventually experiences. And all of the other girls are also experience hunger induced delusions. Part of why they believe so fiercely in what Lottie say is because they’ve lost faith in everything around them. They realize no god or man will save them, but they have Lottie. Lottie, in their eyes, is a miracle worker because her coincidences keep them alive.

Now, you might be asking about Tai, and she’s a whole other story. Tai is also extremely mentally ill. Her other personality is theorized to be because she could have DID, or dissociative identity disorder, where other Tai developed as some way of protecting Taissa. And personally, I think it’s possibly that the man with no eyes could also be an alter of hers, as she seems to be the only one seeing him, other than her grandmother. However, her grandmother would likely be completely unreliable and delusional as she was in the middle of dying as she saw him.

Tai has also developed a stressed induced variant of pica that other Tai is perpetrating called Geophagia, which is straight up just earth consumption. And other Tai going to all of the carvings could just be out Tai seeing them during the day and other Tai returning to them at night.

Another huge part of this explanation is that all of our girls, no matter how much we love them, are extremely unreliable narrators to their story, because we are learning their story from them directly. Their perception is warped and just really fucked up and they probably struggle discerning what is real and what isn’t. And honestly that’s part of why I love this show, because it’s so human. All the obsession and drastic decisions are due to extreme mental illness and ptsd stored up into a reality fucking perception of reality due to desperation.

[suncircler]

fall takes the warmth from the air and gives it to the colors

[sorryicantquitequeeryou]

Feeling like the world around you is real and exists but you don't. Like you're the thing that's out of place, vibrating on a different frequency from the rest. A glitch in the program that shouldn't be there.

Is there a name for this?

Everyone always talks about reality feeling unreal, the world around you. I'm experiencing the opposite.

It's a lonely feeling.

[thetruthlsoutthere]

She was the type of woman the moon chased and the stars wished for.

K.K. Lall @PoetryFalls

[pastapodcaster]

Strawberry Field's Occasionally

[valentinahart]

The article -- published Tuesday, Aug. 20 -- has been removed from Yahoo Entertainment but still exists in cache form as shown above. This year's show airs live Monday, Aug. 26. Oops. Fake BS gets published as fact? No one is surprised...