Police: You're under arrest for trying to carry three people on a single motorcycle.
Sirius: Wait, what do you mean THREE?
Police: Yes...Three.
Sirius: Oh, my God-- What the fuck!?
Police: Sir?
Sirius: JAMES FUCKING FELL OFF.
Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you
I think all the supernatural elements of Yellowjackets can actually be explained as the spirits of the dead interfering either to help or punish.
The bear is Laura Lee taking care of her friends. The snow on Jackie's body is her allowing herself to be consumed if it means her friends survive. Javi survived on his own for so long because his dad was looking out for him.
The things that aren't directly linked to characters we know could equally be other spirits that died in the wilderness - the others that died in the plane crash, the man in the cabin, the owners of the survival equipment Ben found.
i'd just like everyone to know that when fabian gifted adaine a worm in a box it did not occur to me once that it was a literal worm until it started talking. i had no doubt in my mind that it was a fuzzy blue worm on a string in a gold box that she was going to wear like an earpiece/hearing aid.
I can't stop thinking about Travis' face when Lottie mentioned Javi, because of course that would work.
It's not even just because Javi's in the Wilderness and he wants to stay with him, but the thought of going home without him? Out of everyone, Travis is the only one whose return would be painful to his remaining family. He returns home not proud that he survived, but ashamed that he didn't bring his little brother with him. He's probably already ashamed that Javi died instead of him, if Travis died then at least their mother would feel comforted knowing he died protecting his little brother. Now? If he comes home instead of Javi, it's because he failed to protect him. Every time he protected himself he must have felt selfish, like he was choosing himself over his baby brother.
Imagining his life after rescue, I can see why Travis ended up where he did. I can see why anything he does to keep himself safe or make himself happy felt like a moral failing after he couldn't do any of it for Javi. I can see why, as much as he desperately wants to live, the thought of going home and telling his mom what happened made him want to stay in the Wilderness with his brother.
my dumb ass certain that ragh's dad was a sunstone
you ever just stop to think about taissa turner before the crash. so coldly logical. everything about her was so controlled, such perfectly calculated compartmentalisation that she could get the team to nations, she could get into law school, she could keep her parents happy and do it all with just enough time in between to let herself be happy with van. how she carved out a space for them to live freely and kept it carefully contained to protect it.
and then she loses control bit by bit. she has more freedom, more time with van, more space to be herself. but she gets greedy. she gorges herself on it. she loses the safety, the certainty, the confidence. she can't protect herself anymore, can't protect van. and she can barely even enjoy it anymore because she's so desperately trying not to lose it. part of losing control is losing yourself, and suddenly she's looking at someone living her life who's not her, who invaded their safe space.
think about tai on the other side of the hospital door, screaming to see her. just to see her, spend as much time with her as she can. to bask in five more minutes of van. and the other person dismisses her with a promise of later. they could have another day, another year with van. if she just hands over those five minutes. if she gives up her joy, her freedom, then maybe she can go crawling back to control.
If you get scared, you can always hide behind me. I’ll be hiding behind Luke.
Being a Yellowjackets fan is weird bc the way I was momentarily FUMING thinking that Tai would just bury Van in that random rug without even taking a bite? Genuine hand-on-heart sigh of relief when she pulled out the knife, that's right girl eat her heart like you should 💞
this is my favourite thing.
will grum for my 10k dtiys on insta !!