countdown to taivan

a countdown to yellowjackets season 3 focused on the creation of taivan fanworks

[taivanweek]

our countdown to taivan starts tomorrow!!!

please check out the details below on tagging your fanworks so everyone can find them and our ao3 collection

the ao3 collection for our countdown to taivan is officially live! https://archiveofourown.org/collections/countdown_to_taivan_2025

this collection page allows everyone to read all the fics written for the countdown in one centralized place.

if you’d like your fic to be included in the ao3 collection follow the instructions below:

upload from the collection page (which will automatically add the collection page tag)

or

upload normally and type “countdown to taivan 2025” in the “Post to Collections / Challenges” box and select it

please try to tag any fanwork for countdown to taivan with #countdowntotaivan on twitter and countdown to taivan on tumblr / AO3 as this makes it easier for us to find and retweet / reblog your fanworks

we can’t wait to see what everyone creates!

[taivanweek]

countdown to taivan 2025!!!

it’s official! taivan week is back for a countdown to taivan and season three feb 10th - 14th

monday, feb 10th: first I love you

expand on taivan’s sincere first “I love you” written in blood that bound their hearts (and fates) together for life or explore how they fell in love in a different universe…

tuesday, feb 11th: angst

breakups and decades without each other and being dragged apart by fate itself… oh my!

wednesday, feb 12th: fluff

from kisses in locker rooms to the walking best friends to lovers trope taivan represent, there’s so many circumstances and universes for the lovers to share sweet moments in…

thursday, feb 13th: speculative season three

where will we find taivan in season 3? today, you’re the show runner

friday, feb 14th: Valentine’s Day

what better way to celebrate a day all about love than with the star crossed lovers?

we can’t wait to see what everyone creates!

[taivanweek]

thank you to everyone who participated in taivan week 2023!!! this is truly what fandom is about!

ps. I’ll leave the ao3 collection page open for submissions through the end of the month in case anyone wants to post fics for any of the prompts late

[owltrifecta]

my love is as a fever. lost in fever dreams, taissa reaches for an anchor. van is there, always.

(taivan, 5.7k words, rated M, a love story with a side order of blood, surreal horror, and shadow selves. written for taivan week, day 7: wild card)

Everything hurts. Your muscles ache. Your blood corrodes the vein. Your bones are rusted iron, pulling you down and down. Above the neck, you burn. The fire melts the inside of your skull, singes your eyelids, sears your swollen throat. You tremble. Van grips your hand. She’s shaking, or you’re shaking, or you’re both shaking. Her head is a blur of pink and red and blue. You think of paintings, how they turn from real images to dots and strokes when you get up close.

[novelconcepts]

flirting with the line (and then i crossed it)

The moment Van Palmer walked into the class reunion in a suit and a smile, Tai could tell the night was a certain kind of doomed.

(A fill for Taivan Week 2023, "Adult Timeline Saturday")

E, 12.4k words

“How long has it been?” Tai almost doesn’t recognize her voice. Almost can’t stomach the rough, sandpapery quality of it. How could this be her? How could this be Taissa Turner: carefully controlled, carefully modulated at all times? It can’t be explained. She only knows that the words have left her dry lips, plummeting to flatten themselves on the table between them, and that the blue eyes narrowing across from her are too knowing. “You don’t want to hear about that,” Van says coolly.

[buzzbuzzwhs]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yellowjackets (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Van Palmer/Taissa Turner Characters: Van Palmer, Taissa Turner Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, New Jersey, Community College, Howard University Summary:

Tai is home on fall break and visits with Van.

“I’ve been reading Breakfast at Tiffany’s for Intro to Literature. I sent him a letter about how I got into a fight with a dude in my class over its tones of camp and homosexuality.”

“Babe, anywhere you go is going to have tones of camp and homosexuality,” Tai said, a little too glibly. “Adam Smith is boring me to death with The Wealth of Nations. People keep on arguing he was opposed to slavery, and I’m all “he influenced Milton Freidman who opposed the minimum wage…”

“But not in a Marxist way,” Van smirked.

[transpidergwen]

"Sacrifice" - aka my fic about Van's experience of the wolf attack, is now live!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[owltrifecta]

stitches. after the wolf attack, van is remade. (1k taivan h/c, written in like an hour)

In nightmares, you’re a doll too, a shoddy ragdoll someone stitched together and abandoned in a heap. You lie there, unable to move or call out, as a thousand pretty porcelain hands remake you, strip away the roughness and the loudness and the softness and the Van of you until there’s nothing left but an empty plaything, all sugar and spice. You haven’t had that dream for a long time, not since the immediate supplanted the abstract in your hierarchy of shit to worry about. Now you dream of fire, and storms, and bleeding out in the dirt. Now you dream of wolves.

Written for taivan week 2023, prompt 3 (wolf attack).

[taivanweek]

Why are there so little taivan week contributions come on yellowjackers

yeah, we started off strong Monday, but it seems like it's slowed down a bit. I suspect a lot of the fandom may just be busy with work / school since it's mid-week. (I'm honestly behind on the prompts myself rn).

hopefully, more people can participate as we near the weekend!!!

[taivanweek]

are we able to submit gifsets as well?

absolutely!!!

[harundraws]

Very late entry for Taivan Week! First Kiss 💕 .... don't you just hate it when someone takes way too long in the bathroom?? one with full of stalls at that 🤔

[dykeselfcest]

the body as the precipice - van and gender identity, for @taivanweek day 2 - top surgery van

rated T, 3.8k words

Van's thirty-four and just getting the business started when a stumpy teenager in a black hoodie comes into the video store and says, like a prepared speech, "Hi, I'm Ace. My pronouns are they/them. What are yours?" It's a question no one's asked Van before. She stutters and finally holds out a hand to shake, saying simply, "I'm Van." "Cool," says Ace. "So why don't you have DVDs?"

(n.b. that this first section is the only place van uses she/her; the rest of the fic is they/them van all the way)

[buzzbuzzwhs]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yellowjackets (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Underage Relationships: Van Palmer/Taissa Turner Characters: Vanessa “Van” Palmer, Taissa Turner, Lottie Matthews, Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets), Natalie Scatorccio, Travis Martinez Additional Tags: Based off Liv’s comments in the Collider interview, Pre-Plane Crash (Yellowjackets), High school freshmen are horny, Pubic Hair, Horny teen girls looking at naked teens, Butch Lesbians, Puberty Summary:

1993 “It’s just so obnoxious,” Van Palmer ranted to her long-time best friend, Nat. “Tai comes into high school having developed, and wearing makeup. You saw how the striker from Emerson was looking at her! She’s just pretty, in a cloud of GAP perfume!”

Puberty has hit in New Jersey. Why is Van so angry Tai Turner is pretty.

Based on Liv’s Collider Interview.

For @taivanweek, a Taivan First Kiss fic I wrote a couple months ago.

[dykelittlemy]

taivan week day one: first kiss

[novelconcepts]

are you down (to be a distraction, baby?)

Tai doesn't even want to be at this party, but leaving before the ball drops feels like a coward's move. She'll stick it out.

Still: No rules saying she has to stay IN the house.

(A fill for Taivan Week 2023, "First Kiss Monday")

T, 5013 words

“Taissa! Catch!” She’s whirling before her brain can catch up, her hand shooting into the air. A cold can of beer smacks into her palm with all the power of a line-drive. Natalie flings both arms above her head, whooping. “Fuck yeah! Told you she’d do it!” Tai bestows upon them all a broad smile, cracking the tab and pounding half the can in a single pull. Nat makes a noise like Taissa’s just delivered her first-born, pain-free, and Tai laughs. It’s a bold sound, brassy over the whump of music, and she doesn’t really feel it at all. Not down deep in her chest, in her belly, where the best kind of laughter lives. Not in her head, which is pounding. It, like so much of this evening, is a lie.

[yellowjacketslesbian]

it’s nice to have a “friend” - my best friends to lovers take on taivan’s first kiss, is live on ao3!

[taivanweek]

it’s first kiss monday! you can share any fanworks around taivan’s first kiss today with #first kiss monday