Lottie the Body brought class and acceptance to burlesque shows!

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T-Bone Walker and dancer Lottie "The Body" Claiborne on stage at Fillmore's Champagne Supper Club, San Francisco, ca. 1960s

T-Bone Walker and Lottie "The Body" Tatum-Graves

the prophet & the queen

yellowjackets, season 2 // plain bad heroines, emily danforth

“You know there’s no ‘it’, right? It was just us.” “Is there a difference?” YELLOWJACKETS SEASON 2

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YELLOWJACKETS APPRECIATION WEEK 🐝 day 5 – parallels

It's like... It's like It sent them here... to show me. To show you what? That It was real.

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(do you love me like that?) you're a reckless driver (I'm a reckless driver) and one day it will kill us if I —

i firmly believe that if laura lee had lived, she would have eventually killed lottie.

it would make for a really cool storyline where she has to fight between her affection for lottie and her faith, being the person who used her christian faith to validate lottie's belief in her visions which eventually lead her down the path of becoming a pagan cannibal pseudo-priestess

i think watching that relationship grow in intensity in both love and revulsion from laura lee's side before having to choose between her god and her heretic friend/lover would be heart wrenching

because i think her faith would win and it would destroy her completely

thinking about lottie desperately saying to nat “just because you don’t understand something doesn’t make it evil” when she’s been struggling to understand herself and her illness/abilities with and without her medication her entire life and being told by her parents for years that it’s shameful and a bad thing and… anyway I’m gonna go cry about lottie matthews again

Lottie Moss

I used to be a firm antler queen is a rotating position believer and I often thought it was the girl slated to be the next sacrifice being honored before her turn but every day I get more and more convinced that the antler queen isn’t any of them. Vanity fairs article about Jackie potentially being the antler queen started it rattling around in my brain (I don’t necessarily think it’s her or a figure of her, that theory just kicked off the concept of a Not Them antler queen). Now if you read the death and near death dreams as “it” manifesting as imitations of them, we see the wilderness guiding them where it wants them, taking sacrifices as it pleases without their input or a system to speak of. Eventually we know they do come up with their own system for the sacrifices, like they learn it’s rules enough to meet its requirements with intention or bargain with it or something along those lines. These Paul moments Ben has with the flickering, those can’t be nothing. I’m sorry but while it’s possible they’re really deep diving THAT hard into his delusions or fantasies, I find it really unlikely with the weird specifics embedded in them. Odd language, flickering tape screen, the transformation of the cabin, the way they seem to be pushing him somewhere. And he DOES keep getting framed with antlers. As has Lottie, the most obviously, and Jackie in her death dream. The framing of Lottie might not be framing her As Antler Queen, but as very intertwined with the wilderness. Ben seems to be an object of its interest too now, if we take the Paul scenes to be something more than his mind wandering. Jackie was framed with them as she took the hot chocolate (and her physical body was later integral to their survival which feels relevant to me too). With the antler queen BEING Lottie’s therapist in 2x07, I’m really starting to think it’s potentially projection of the wilderness. Like…they’re offering their sacrifice to some more literal physical projection of it somehow. Whether it’s viewed as mass hallucination or only one of them can see it and the rest play along or it’s a turn into the explicitly supernatural. I just really think these death dreams are a tangible supernatural realm, with Travis saying they could communicate with “it” when they’re near death. So maybe it comes out in other ways out there. I’m not saying I like this or hope for it or think it’s likely, because I’m not sure how I feel about it and so much is dependent on where the show goes, but it’s a possibility that went from nowhere on my radar to buzzing around my brain at warp speed, especially after 2x07. ANYWAY this is what the inside of my brain looks like at midnight after a really terrible day lol cheers to yellowjackets huperfixation taking the edge off I guess!

YELLOWJACKETS SEASON 2 + music (template credit @uservalerian)

in the season two finale the adults all get a chance to live when no one draws the queen card. if the wilderness is real i feel this is it saying that its on them now, the wilderness will reward (and punish) unbiasedly now, but it’s up to them to engage with it. unlike how in the past where there’s not much choice between starving and the wilderness hunt. now it’s like they don’t even need the cards they just need each other