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Yellowjackets Prediction:

Antler Queen/Final Boss is Tai

I feel like this makes perfect sense and is not talked about at all. Tai’s dark persona taking over is really being hinted at this season and it makes sense that the girls will go for that after Shauna (inevitably) goes off the rails and ruins their chance to go home.

It’s even hinted at in the final image of the title sequence plus the wilderness is always giving her stuff (Van getting better, Tai is the most successful of all the girls to come home). I feel like the creepy man she sees everywhere is this dark persona that takes over her and the show is building up to her finally giving in to it.

im mistynat FOR LIFE but hear me out

mistylot (slightly) canon divergence

misty and lottie start dating post rescue bc nat dumped both for travis - again - and misty visited lottie at the hospital for a while because she needed someone to talk to about the whole situation. someone who truly understood her (in this instance, at least - two lesbians suffering over a bisexual girl who likes emo boys).

for some reason, they break up during the early-mid 2000's. an ugly break-up, makes both of them spiral into their worst versions all over again. lottie starts the "intentional community" and tries really hard to stay in touch with reality, while misty sinks into reddit and unresolved murder cases until she can't really think of anything else.

and this goes on until natalie gets out of rehab (again) looking for misty and all the canon adult stuff from season 1 happens - mistys love and caring for natalie, an old flame reignites. also, the beginning of season 2 - lotties need to make natalie 'heal' and her attempt to reconnect.

then, inevitably, misty and lottie reunite in s2 in lotties cult - we see them getting all weird during their first interaction, they try to act as if nothing has happened since none of the other girls have a clue about their past together (none of them answered misty nor visited lottie anyway, it was their secret).

they focus on fighting over nat again, just like old times, but obviously it doesn't work: lottie uses nat as an excuse to keep misty with them, misty gets crazy over lotties jealousy of nat...

they keep this chaotic dynamic until nat dies - misty stays in bed for weeks, mourning, and lottie is sent back to the mental facility, against her will. without natalie, they're both the outcasts again, so they try to bond with shauna. lottie tries to stay at her house, learning about her family and befriending callie, while misty tries to do the same she used to do with natalie, she wants shauna to do road trips and solve mysteries with her.

the day shauna asks misty to babysit callie (and lottie, lol) they have such a weird reunion, both mourning and with so many unresolved feelings. misty is clearly mad with lottie, but lottie comforts her and, again, they become each others safe haven.

that's when they start remembering the old times - slowly.

DID YALL SEE THE VISIONNN its basically canon

someone write this please........

Now that season three is over, and both the lottienats and lottielees were fucked, can we all just hold hands? We're all just freaks who like lesbianism with religious symbolism. Super extremely important gay dissertation under the cut.

I think the argument on whether or not Laura Lee or Nat meant more to Lottie is kind of stupid, considering they've both been shown to have a lot of value in her story. Laura Lee was the sort of precursor to the wilderness, she's the one who started all of that in Lottie. Meanwhile, Nat was "always its favorite"; the one who was at the center of the wilderness for Lottie, she was the sort of chosen one. I also think Laura Lee and Nat work as interesting foils in Lottie's overall story. Laura Lee represents complete unwavering belief and faith, while Nat represents doubt and skepticism. Throughout the first two seasons (before the massive nosedive in season three happened) we saw Lottie navigating the thin line between faith and doubt, and Laura Lee and Nat are the physical embodiments of those key elements.

Due to these different roles Laura Lee and Nat played they both offered different but very needed things to Lottie in their respective moments. In season one Laura Lee offered Lottie what she so desperately wanted, belief and validation. Lottie has always felt insecure and unsure about herself, especially in regard to her schizophrenia. Laura Lee, for better or for worse, intensely validated Lottie. So much so she convinced her she was a prophet touched by god. Laura Lee offered her comfort and belief, which is something Lottie had never received from anyone else throughout her life. Jump to season two we can see now that the way the girls have deified Lottie is beginning to weigh heavily on her. She doesn't know what to do with it, she's not even fully sure of herself, and definitely not sure enough to lead an entire group of girls who are desperate for something to believe in. But then there's Nat who disagrees with her and challenges her at every possible moment, she doesn't deify her, she just views her as a teenage girl. Even if it was frustrating, it's what Lottie needed in that moment, a break from being put on a pedestal. Which is why one of the only scenes in season two where we see Lottie just acting like a teenage girl, separate from all of the wilderness politics, is with Nat in the bathtub scene. It's also a contributing factor to why she ultimately crowns Nat as their new queen.

-I realize in season three the girls stopped believing in Lottie and instead begin to dehumanize and demonize her. However, as we see in episode eight, Nat doesn't call her crazy when she wants to stay like everyone else does and instead tries to reason with her and talk to her like what she is, a scared teenage girl.

With all of this in mind, I'm just incredibly mad at how they handled Lottie's character in season three. They did not mention Laura Lee once, and they did not give Lottie's connection with Nat the exploration it deserved. I was very pissed at how they handled her death; it could have been a very interesting final exploration of her relationship to faith and doubt, but instead we got no real insight into her mental state. Lottie deserved some kind of post-death scene, not necessarily a plane scene, but a scene where she confronted the wilderness and what it really meant to her. She could have been met with Laura Lee and Nat who were the physical embodiments of her faith and skepticism, and seemingly two of the most important people to her. Instead, they stripped out all of the nuance from her character and left what's honestly a quite harmful portrayal of schizophrenia. So yeah, with that being said, we should all just kiss and hold hands because this season absolutely massacred Lottie's character.

To me the crux of the story in Yellowjackets will always be a reflection of how modern major societies continuously and systematically fail the most vulnerable.

Every character in this show is a victim one way or another.

Lottie was born into a privileged life but was othered by her own mental illness and constantly failed by a world that continuously silenced and isolated her rather than guiding or dealing with the issues she didn't understand how to address.

Natalie started with nothing. She is the reflection of many children in America who are born into families that do not have the physical, economic, or emotional resources to care for them.

Travis very clearly has some sort of anxiety disorder and has been shown to have a history of being bullied and even ridiculed by his own father. God forbid a young boy have any type of sensitivity. Beyond that, his character is a very deliberate example of a survivor of sexual assault- an issue that is never really addressed by the perpetrators.

Taissa was born into a middle-class privileged family and a great deal of pride and ambition that was likely learned or reinforced in some way. She also was a teenage, mixed race, lesbian in the 90's. She had every instinct and drive to succeed despite a world that was structured so that she couldn't.

Jackie was born into a privileged, suburban, white family- but she was still a teenage girl in the 90s with perceptions of who she was forced onto her.

Shauna was the stereotypical poster child of teen angst in modern America, but she also had a deep set insecurity and maladaptive issues that were never looked at or acknowledged.

All of these children undergo a tremendous amount of stress, loss, grief, pain, and both physical and emotional trauma that changes them forever. But then they return to a world that is indifferent to all of that. Their pain is spectacle. Something to be publicly agreed upon as a tragedy. But they don't ever receive the care they need from it. They are shuffled back into a world they no longer fit into and expected to return to their roles as proper, civilized, demure young women and gentleman.

The tragedy of Yellowjackets was never about the horrors of survival in the wilderness- the tragedy has always been that this is a very clear depiction of how society's indifference and persistent marginalization of those considered "other" can push people to the brink of destruction or their own humanity.

the red means i love you

Nat with Lottie in ep8: Sweetheart, angel, baby let’s go please okay? Everything will be good my love <3

Nat with Shauna in ep8: GIRL WTF JUST WALK U DUMBASS MOTHERFUCKER

Van: Wait... Lottie, you're a lesbian right?

Lottie: Ya!

Van: But you told me you like Nat AND Travis?

Lottie: Yep!

Van: But... Travis is a dude?

Lottie: Oh... does she not know yet?

“you can’t ship travlottienat AND think lottie is a lesbian” what you fail to consider is that travis martinez is a trans girl actually

"with tears in my eyes, i begged you to stay."

"i love you, but no fucking way."

i beg let's make this cannon it'll be so fucking funny

im shocked that i havent seen shipping of these 2 because the potential😭

edit: ive been strong armed by @softantlers the ship name is vapefork

They hurt me so bad

"how can you look at me and pretend I'm someone you've never met"

practice

The Yellowjackets as glee plotlines with no explanation

Shauna: Sebastian blinding Blaine by throwing rock salt at him, then subsequently arguing with Santana by singing “smooth criminal”

Jackie: Making two student have sex so that they could be better at a high school level play

Nat: Terry Schuster getting the kids high in school

Lottie: Finn thinking there was Jesus in his grilled cheese sandwich

Taissa: Blaine wanting to propose to Kurt when they weren’t even together (he also cheated on Kurt and dated his high school bully)

Van: Brittany agreeing to be shot out of a canon so the cheerios could win a high school level cheerleading contest

Mari: Terri Schuester faking a pregnancy, then trying to get Quinn to give her kid to her/ kitty giving Marley an eating disorder

Misty: Mercedes throwing a brick to destroy Kurt’s car after he didn’t reciprocate her crush (he’s gay)

Laura Lee: There was a gas leak and Blaine imagined all of his friends to be muppets and they sang “what does the fox say”

Coach Ben: Mr. Schue fighting to allow the kids to twerk in school

Travis: Brittany becoming a math genius the year after she had a 0.0 GPA

lord give me back my toxic yuri

the "you were always its favorite" hitting TOO HARD right now, considering every time lottie has betrayed natalie, it's been (in my reading) for her own safety. that fucking affirmation in the adult timeline despite it all, oh my gOOODDDD.

Lottie literally stepping in to say that Shauna will lead bc she knows if she didn’t do that, Nat would get convicted and DIE, and this goes against Lottie’s religion and her entire purpose w the wilderness, she actually KILLSWITCHED HER OWN INTENSE TRAIN FOR NAT, the same train that has driven Akilah into the caves where she might die every time and Travis nearly psycho-breakdown

yeah im ill

I firmly believe this is Lottie’s way of saving Natalie’s life. She steps in the moment Shauna says, "I think it's obvious what happens now,"—a clear implication that Shauna thinks they should kill Nat. Lottie understands that the only way to diffuse the situation is to surrender Nat's leadership to Shauna. If she didn’t, Shauna and her supporters would ensure Natalie’s death to solidify her place at the top. This isn’t a betrayal; it’s Lottie protecting Natalie the only way she can.

sophie thatcher being intrigued by the mistynat dynamic but horrified by and 'very against' them as ship.... meanwhile courtney's tryna get sophie to talk abt the lottienat fanart and fics..... i love living now

Yellowjackets fandom who are also ao3 enjoyers (so like all of y'all)! I call upon ur wisdom and ask: what are ur fav fics (ideally sfw tho a smut scene or two is fine I can always skip it)! Idgaf what ship it is (nothing not legal tho)! I'm just struggling to find fics I attach to just based of description recently even tho I know if I just read it it'll be good! So now I ask the little people in my phone! Thank u!

@yellowjacketsnetwork event 08: alternate genre ↳ lottienat in romcoms (and more!)

the inexplicable urge to write gut wrenching angst about ur little blorbos at 1 am only being prevented by the illusion of time and the inability to actually produce good writing

Courtney Eaton aggressively nodding her head… LottieNat canon?!?!?!?

lottie. the team’s centerback. a lipstick lesbian. she was as much about grace and style, she was about her game.

that being said Lottienat from Nats perspective is Why’d you only call me when your high and Lottie’s is 505

jackieshauna from Jackies perspective is I wanna be your girlfriend by girlfriend in red but from Shauna’s it’s I wanna be your girlfriend by Cameron Hayes

i re-read “this little girl breaks furniture, this little girl breaks laws” at least twice a month like it’s gospel and it’s slowly destroying my brain (thank you bandydear for your service🫡)

claiming my i was a Yellowjackets fan before it got to Netflix ticket while I can

And no one believed her

is this anything

Looking at their clothes there probably was a wolf hunt somewhere between season 2 and season 3. Also I wonder how did Akilah (I think it would be her since she stiched up Van after wolf attack) made them, like what she used as thread.

I have so many questions and theories what had happen between season 2 finale and season 3.

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Which led me to wonder

Where tf is Taissa’s son

I hate how they discarded Simone and Taissa marriage

“judas, must you betray me…with a kiss?”