Yellowjackets October 2023

[yellowjacketsoctober]

After having so much fun with Yellowjackets Appreciation Week (thank you @yellowjacketsweek for the inspiration) we thought we should have a Yellowjackets Month! And is there a better month to spend celebrating our favourite cannibal show than October? You can use those prompts, mix them together as you please and post at any time during the month of October. Let's see where your creativity can take you (psst i know where. it's to the tag where you can be among amazing creators like @taiturner who made the header of this post and this blog's icon). Make sure to tag your posts with #yjoctober2023 so everyone can see them!

With all that out of the way let's get into the prompts:

Horror element or trope from the show

Quote from other horror media that fits Yellowjackets

Horror media parallels

Yellowjackets reimagined as a different genre (i.e slasher, zombie movie, romantic comedy etc)

Dream sequence / hallucination / haunting of choice

Yellowjackets characters as classic horror monsters (werewolves, vampires, etc)

Scary or shocking scene of choice

"Came back wrong"

Additional info and updates as of September 29:

All posts tagged #yjoctober2023 will be reblogged. if you don't see your post here two days after posting or it doesn’t show up in the tag feel free to send it in dms (which are open for everyone)

Reblogged posts will be tagged (there will be tags for gifsets, fanart, fanfics, fanvids, etc) and each prompt will have a separate tag based on their number on the list (example: "horror element or trope from the show" will be tagged as #prompt 1)

if you have any questions you can use dms or send an ask)

Additional info for fanfic writers:

All fics written for Yellowjackets October can be added to a collection on ao3. We encourage you to add a #yjoctober2023 tag to your works there (and of course on the post here on tumblr). While posting you can add it to the collection like on the screenshot below:

The collection is called "Yellowjackets October 2023"

We hear Halloween and it hears us!

[novelconcepts]

wanted my heart (but i gave her my soul) [complete]

Taissa Turner doesn’t believe in the Wilderness, in spirits, in monsters. She definitely doesn’t believe in vampires. None of that stuff can possibly be real.

It can, however, still upend her entire life.

Chapter 1/4 - 1996

Chapter 2/4 - 1997

Chapter 3/4 - 1998 - 2001

Chapter 4/4 - 2021

M, 55.6k words

The thing that upends Taissa Turner’s life, in the end, is the sleepwalking. It’s infuriating, in its own way. She hasn’t sleepwalked in almost twenty-five years. She doesn’t do this anymore—this blackout-and-appear-somewhere-else thing. She’s stronger than this, more controlled than this. And yet, somehow, this is how she finds her world turned on its axis. Again. One minute, she’s…somewhere. Where was it? Wood. There was wood everywhere. Something towering over her. Something restraining her from all angles. And now: no wood. No tower. No pain. Strike that. A lot of pain, actually. A whole fuckload of pain.

[galindatopland]

Ceramic Bunnies I Official Trailer

for yellowjackets october: yellowjackets re-imagined as a slasher [youtube]

[rootsmachine]

a tree is not a human thing - other tai pov. an alternative to van's existence in season 2 deeply leaning on hangsaman. thanks to @occasionallythreeowls for reading over this. written for @yellowjacketsoctober prompt 2 came back wrong

the person who answers isn’t van for a moment, her face shadowed and blank, but then she steps out into the weak light of the front porch, and everything shivers into place. everything is right again; you can taste her blood at the back of taissa's throat.

[taiturner]

Yellowjackets October: a quote from a horror book LOTTIE MATTHEWS ◆ "The Final Girl Support Group," Grady Hendrix

[novelconcepts]

wanted my heart (but i gave her my soul)

Taissa Turner doesn’t believe in the Wilderness, in spirits, in monsters. She definitely doesn’t believe in vampires. None of that stuff can possibly be real.

It can, however, still upend her entire life.

Chapter 1/4 - 1996

Chapter 2/4 - 1997

Chapter 3/4 - 1998 - 2001

M, 44k words

By the time rescue comes, it’s almost routine. Almost. They’ve gotten good at the cycle, have it down to a play-by-play. It feels like a game, almost. A game, out there on the field, where Tai always winds up with the ball. There’s no other choice. If they’re desperate enough to winnow the team down, they’re too frail to feed Tai properly. If they’re too frail, if she’s only taking slim sips, the risk is too great that she’ll lose control. No one wants to play that game. Everyone agrees that probability—except they call it Wilderness, call it It, call it fate—is a kinder end than chaos. They’ve gotten good at it.

[stuckinthedeadlights]

Yellowjackets 2x02//Hannibal 3x13

Made for the Yellowjackets month prompt Horror media parallels

if you have a request or want to be tagged for any of my edits send me an ask. don’t repost, reblogs appreciated. all of my edits can be found here

[ava-deb]

"They've been laid off from their busywork and can sense that the coming freeze will bring their deaths—" Plain Bad Heroines, Emily M. Danforth

YELLOWJACKETS OCTOBER — quote from other horror media

[asalesbian]

Is that not both of you?

for @yellowjacketsoctober prompt 2: quote from other horror media (Mabel, episode 21: The Mansion of the Lady of Abundance)

[novelconcepts]

wanted my heart (but i gave her my soul)

Taissa Turner doesn’t believe in the Wilderness, in spirits, in monsters. She definitely doesn’t believe in vampires. None of that stuff can possibly be real.

It can, however, still upend her entire life.

Chapter 1/4 - 1996

Chapter 2/4 - 1997

M, 32.9k words

“What do you think counts as your birthday?” Van asks. Tai raises her head, brow furrowed. “Fucking what?” “Your birthday.” There’s a casual ease to how Van says it. Like having this conversation over drawing water is normal. Like having this conversation out in the ravages of a recent snowstorm is fine. Like Tai can even think of birthdays, after the past few months.

[novelconcepts]

wanted my heart (but i gave her my soul)

Taissa Turner doesn't believe in the Wilderness, in spirits, in monsters. She definitely doesn't believe in vampires. None of that stuff can possibly be real.

It can, however, still upend her entire life.

Chapter 1/4 - 1996

M, 15.1 words

She wakes in the woods. It’s happening a lot, waking in the woods, no memory whatsoever of what brought her here. More and more with each passing week, even. She considers telling the others—Shauna or Van, at least—and dismisses the thought each morning. She’s supposed to be strong. She’s supposed to be steady. She isn’t supposed to be the kind of person who sleepwalks into the trees, waking with mud crusted under her nails and a sour tang in her mouth. The idea of them finding out bothers her almost more than the event itself.

[taiturner]

yellowjackets october ◆ quote from a horror book — "hide," kiersten white ft. VAN PALMER

[taiturner]

 ━ You know there's no It, right? It was just us.

YELLOWJACKETS OCTOBER ◆ horror element "It" + the personification of The Wilderness

[kdramamilfs]

YELLOWJACKETS as a fairytale ↳ @yellowjacketsoctober prompt 4: yellowjackets re-imagined

[occasionallythreeowls-deactivat]

blossom within the skull. They’re not themselves anymore by the time they escape. They’re not even human anymore. (oneshot, 7k words, taivan and jackieshauna. A kinda-sorta Annihilation au. Written for yjoctober2023. Prompt 4: Yellowjackets reimagined as a different genre)

The children pulled themselves from fire and steel and into Its home, staring with wide scared eyes at the deer with vines spilling from an open wound in its flank, the owl with thorns and nettles poking out between its feathers, the corpse in the cabin with chanterelles erupting from its eyes, yarrow blooming from its gaping mouth.

The corpse, they called it, until they saw it breathe.

In the attic, under a bearskin rug, a journal. The pages molded beyond recognition, except the last.

If you are reading this you are already changing.

[dykeselfcest]

shauna shipman & jackie taylor / paradise rot - jenny hval

yellowjackets october prompt 2 - quote from other horror media

[stuckinthedeadlights]

Yellowjackets 1x01//You First by Paramore

Made for the Yellowjackets month prompt Quote from other horror media that fits Yellowjackets

if you have a request or want to be tagged for any of my edits send me an ask. don’t repost, reblogs appreciated. all of my edits can be found here