#sammy yellowjackets

[jackietaylorspartiallybittenear]

3/4 of the finale yellowjackets kids have two mothers!!!

Callie:

Sammy:

And Lilah:

[remuslupinssweatercollection]

Love Taivan but thinking about how fucked the handling of her relationship with Simone was and the idea of the disposable black girlfriend trope. I don’t think it’s necessarily bad that Tai left Simone for Van, but it could have been done better.

Like first of all, when Simone starts to leave Tai, Tai is a little upset about losing Sammy but like she seems to just kind of accept losing Simone. The woman she built a life with and I’m assuming cares deeply about given that she was willing to come out to be with her. And part of that is likely due to the difference in acceptance of gay people between the 1990 and 2010s but still. These are women that are shown to have a deep understanding of each other and to care deeply about each other in the first few episodes, who have built a life together and have a son. And then in season 3, as well as the final episodes of season 2, it’s like Simone doesn’t exist except for that one scene where she lets tai see Sammy. But I feel like she would haunt the narrative more. Like tai should be trying to get Sammy back at least for this happy family she’s now created in her head with Van. That would still be discarding Simone but it’s done in a way that would still show her inclusion in Tai’s life. And done right, this plan could show how the life she thinks she’s building with Van could never work when you consider both of their histories after the wilderness. At the very least, Tai’s relationship with Simone should create more tension between her and Van than it did in the show.

And then of course there is the part where Tai leaves Simone in the hospital after almost killing her. And while obviously a bad thing for Tai to do, I don’t thing it’s necessarily a bad writing decision because it shows how when Tai’s life spirals out of control, she returns to the familiar and the only person who truly understands what’s happening to her. But I think I would be less annoyed if this idea had been carried forward more. Her leaving Simone would feel less icky if the show maybe emphasized more how Tai is stuck in this adolescent fantasy with van. And I think the show does do that, with Tai trying to kill people to keep Van alive, but I feel like, again, this idea would work better if there were still references to Simone. Like a contrast of the life Tai tried to build and the one she’s stuck in. Especially since the show makes it seem like they haven’t seen each other since after they got rescued, so ignoring themes of true and eternal love, it doesn’t really make sense for them to fall immediately back together outside of this feeling of being stuck in the wilderness.

I guess my biggest issues is that they make Simone feel unimportant. They have tai leave her darker skinned wife and son for a white woman the show makes it seem like she hasn’t seen in 20 years. I’m not black and I’m not too familiar on the discourse with the trope of the disposable black girlfriend (wife), so I may not be articulating this the best. I also think it makes narrative sense for Tai’s relationship with Simone to fall apart (following the theme that adult yellowjackets struggle to keep their relationships together as adults with Jeff and Callie leaving Shauna and Mel’s wife not knowing the real her). But the way Simone just completely disappears always felt not just like lazy wring to me, but kind of icky. Especially because we learn in season 3 tai dropped out of being senator (which is lazy writing that such a huge plot point for her disappeared and was explained away with a throwaway line), which is all Simone asked of her (well dropping out and getting therapy). Like the thing she refuses to do even though it would save her relationship with her wife because it’s just too important for her apparently gets done without any consideration after they’ve already separated (presumably so they can spend more time with Van). Clearly it wasn’t as important to her after all, which means Simone can’t have been that important to her which makes no sense.

[dollishwhimsy]

The writers completly discarding Simone after s1 pissed me off sm

They had such an interesting plot around her character and then she had like 3 scenes in s2/3 and then was never mentioned again

[i-just-drink-coffee]

Tai’s kid: look I drew u with orange eyes coz I ran out of red

Taissa: I don’t have red eyes tho

Sammy: *on the verge of tears* WHAT

[thedoctordoesmarvel416]

fandoms are so funny to me. i can think of four williams with entirely different personality’s. two billys off the top of my head. two wilsons. two vanessas. five adams. three maxs. several olivias. and betty’s and karen’s and god know how many sam’s.

this is a psa to please tag your posts with the fandom.

[sentientsnakeskin]

If they were gonna kill off nat and lottie and they were gonna have that arc abt callie being the child of the wilderness shauna’s figurative successor they should have pussied up and made lisa fall into nat’s place as the moral compass and made sammy the new conduit for the wilderness’ will.

[taitravnat]

thing i want to see in season 4 / post crash

atleast one convo between whoever of the yellowjackets being like "do you think nat is dead, where is she?" bc im assuming it took a while for her to climb that mountain

natalie being a bitch and/or beating someone up

nat ghost

this is a tiny theory but I want nat to be the one to help melissa fake her death cause idk I've just suddenly felt very melissanat

not a timeskip

at least 2 episodes of the survivors just messing about in the hospital

akilah left behind bc that would be so interesting and tragic

less jeff and callie more Sammy and simone

travnat crying kiss

taimisty being a BOSS duo

parents reaction to their kids coming/not coming back

[lottieswidow]

Absolutely devastated that the yjs could never escape the wilderness and how that effected them and their loved ones

Like Simone and Sammy went through so much bc of their relation to Taissa.

Tai got with a woman who wasn’t there for that trauma, who didn’t know who she was before, someone who could know her as an entirely new person. Simone got with someone who went through a serious trauma and who didn’t let it define them. She loved Taissa, and Taissa loved her. Tai loved the life she had built with Simone, she loved their son, and even loved the person she became in spite of everything.

But then the sleep walking came back, then the other yjs, then Van. And suddenly Taissa wasn’t the after, she was the before. And Simone and Sammy have to deal with seeing this woman that they love become someone they cant recognize. Who scares them, hurts them, discards them like they weren’t her entire life at some point.

Even when the Tai from before tries to repair the relationship with her son, she is actively surrounded by the reminders of the wilderness. Van sitting on a bench next to Tai’s wife, watching as tai (or other tai) plays with her child. Simone watching Van, wondering what is was about her that could make Tai forget about their family, their life. Not knowing if it’s the trauma or the lost love that pulled Tai away from them.

Simone wants to put on the blame on the plane crash, on Van, even on Tai. But sometimes she thinks she just wasnt enough for Taissa, and ends up blaming herself too.