Honestly my one of my favorite things about Yellowjackets is that it’s like the “high-school-stereotype turns out to be more than that” trope, but turned up to such a grotesque and horrifying degree. Like-

“Turns out the popular girl has her own weaknesses/insecurities!” Yeah and she literally freaking dies for them.

“Wow! The rebellious punk girl we were all afraid of is actually really nice!” So let’s turn her into this borderline divine figure, entrust her with our lives and follow her deep into the wilderness as she’s the last one to hold onto a sliver of humanity and not turn into some primal, depraved animal.

“Oh! So the weird childish kid is actually capable of things!” Mm hmm, capable of MURDER. Capable of holding the cards of life and death itself in her little hands and becoming so needed yet so feared.

“That strange quiet kid finally finds her voice!” AND STARTS A CULT.

I could keep going but just- Y’all that retro 90’s energy of exploring the high school trope coupled with the utter gruesome obscenity that is their situation… It so does it for me. Everyone’s become so suffocated in their little boxes that the only way to break out is in a dramatic frenzy where they start killing each other. Glorious.

YELLOWJACKETS (2021–) Lauren Ambrose and Tawny Cypress on set, 2023

Some more yellowjackets pieces I did :3 Nats pose on the right is from that Maya winky person on yt

YELLOWJACKETS —  2.09 “storytelling”

you don't see a person as a person when you see them do something bad.

Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 9 “Storytelling”

thinking about the Lottie = the sun metaphor & her relationship w/ heliotrope

lottie has her acolytes (+ nat) wear heliotrope (the healing plant) because her identity is tied around helping others move past their issues. She genuinely wants to help & heal the members of her community and covering them up in heliotrope is a reminder of that. but she doesn’t wear heliotrope, because she’s not truly healing. she wears gold (like the sun). she wants to elevate her persona above others, and have them turn towards her for warmth, so she doesn’t have to face her real issues.

i wonder if misty will feel bad about natalie, like for more than an episode next season. she doesn't seem to feel remorse. i mean, 1) quietly watching that mouse drown and covering up murders and threatening the sick & elderly, etc. 2) she directly killed the investigator, jessica roberts - obviously she thought jessica was a threat to herself & her "friends", but she did bond with the jessica and still seems to feel quite proud of herself for the murder.

and 3) she was pretty responsible for the death of crystal/kristen, her best friend at the time. it's a little complex to figure out how guilty she felt about that - after kristen dies, misty is mostly in self-preservation mode and her stress can be attributed to the fact that she knows she will get exiled or killed or something if the others suspect that she had a hand in kristen's disappearance. on the other hand, she tells kristen's body that she "won't let [the others] eat you!". which could be seen as a result of guilt. on the other hand, she may care about kristen and still believe that she was not at fault, that it was all a mistake - technically, she didn't kill kristen, and misty can justify seemingly anything. the little daydream musical number showed us that lol. so it could sort of go either way.

but what about natalie? in misty's mind, at least, her and nat had been "best friends" for decades now. (and it's true that nat seemed to tolerate her a lot more than anyone else did... plus, nat wasn't the most openly affectionate person, so allowing misty to hang around was kinda one of the closest relationships she had). so unlike the investigator, misty truly cared about nat. additionally, while misty didn't intend to hurt nat, it's pretty evident that she was responsible for nat's death. and she even admits to walter, "i killed my best friend". so unlike with kristen, misty will have a much harder time excusing herself for nat's death.

speaking of her admission, "i killed my best friend", that's really the most responsibility that misty has taken for anything. it massively juxtaposes the earlier scene where she is ~shocked & appalled~ that walter would think she's capable of murder.

if nat's death does cause the dam to break, where would that even end?

✦ Natalie ✦

some of you are not recognizing Tai for the initiator that she is. it’s clear from the beginning that she’s a leader but it’s more than that. she’s the one that calls for the first vote, all the way back in episode 3, when she finds the lake (and now that I’m thinking about it, that’s a very interesting tie to her future career as a politician) and that’s a recurring thing: she doesn’t influence the decisions of the group like Lottie, or manipulate them like Misty, but she was the one that really initiated The Hunt. “We need to find a way to stay alive. and it can’t be her.”

LottieNat, that's it.

Also, Adult Lottie (Simone Kessell) is hot as fuuuckk

I'm also crying cause we're not getting any LottieNat scenes in the adult timeline anymore :(

YELLOWJACKETS (2021–) The cast and crew behind the scenes of 2.09 "Storytelling"

How that bathtub scene should've went tbh

coach ben is dying SO very soon i’m sorry the ending of episode 2 with him refusing to give into his hunger and become a cannibal alongside the rest of them will have consequences…i can see him dying being similar to jackie dying in the girls losing their last attachments to morality and humanity and subsequently treating the cannibalism and ritual stuff as normal…