My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

heckling @yourlocalsluttymanenjoyer is always the best part of my day

I am honestly so exhausted by the fandom discourse about this season right now so here’s my mini rant:

•Disagreeing with the writing/story decisions this season does not make it okay to threaten, harass, or personally insult the writers, showrunners, or actors.

•If someone doesn’t like the season or has criticisms/critiques of the show, it doesn’t mean they “don’t understand” it, nor is it a reflection of their intelligence. People are going to interpret things differently, and there’s no such thing as a “correct” or “incorrect” opinion when it comes to art. I’m honestly so tired of seeing comments like, “Ugh, if someone doesn’t like (insert S3 plotline), they just don’t get the show and shouldn’t be watching it” or “if you don’t like the writing this season you clearly don’t know what good writing is.” Let people have their own perspectives.

•The same goes for people who love S3 and think it’s the best season yet. These people are not “dickriding” the writers, they’re not ignorant or misunderstanding the “true themes of the show.” Once again, people have different opinions, people like/dislike different things. No one’s personal understanding of the show’s content and direction is incorrect.

That is all, thank you.

mari was killed by a card meant for hannah, in a trap meant for lottie, by a conspiracy meant for shauna, and yet there was no other way for this story to go. shes been dead since the beginning.

"It's not what you think it means" Lottie's right, the necklace means you're gay

Mari what are you doing using gaywad as an insult? Look at your team

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.

Lottie beginning to cry as everyone, including those who believed in her and what she preached leave her (because to Lottie, the rejection of the Wilderness is a rejection of Lottie, of who Lottie truly is), not even trying to convince her to come with her (do I think Lottie would’ve? Unsure, probably not. I don’t think she’s like Jackie, who would’ve come back had those she loved tried a little more to coax her) VS Lottie’s little smile as she realises Shauna and Taissa (who are also two of the people who have criticised her most and disbelieved in her and the Wilderness), stay, maybe not for her but it’s enough

“what’s gayer the lesbian sex or jayvik” the lesbians. the canon lesbians. can we focus on women loving women relationships for once and not try to bring ur fucking fake yaoi into Everything oh my god y’all piss me tf OFF

trump dies of congestive heart failure before being sworn in charge to like cast to reblog

I can't with people being like "oh, I can't stand the Yellowjackets after this", "How do people still like Lottie after she killed a man like that?" Like why are you acting like this show didn't start with a terrified girl/woman dying after falling into a pit when she was running for her life because she was being hunted down by people with masks that were shown to take her body, butcher her, cook her and eat her in some sort of ritual and those same people were confirmed to be the girls. Oh wow they're doing fucked up shit. Well no shit didn't you see the show? This is the Fucked Up Woman™ factory, they're all terrible and yet still complex and still likeable that's why I like the show. "Oh man she killed a dude. Oh man this other one convinced the others to kill a dude!" And they looked good doing it! What are you protestant