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Taivan dynamic is so much more painful if you think they were just hooking up pre-crash, not involving their emotions at all, just Van who was pretty easy to clock as gay & Tai who wanted to kiss a girl and thought Van wouldn’t mind.

Like if pre-crash, they never thought about being anything more than teammates who sometimes made out in the empty locker room. Then everything changed in the wilderness when all of a sudden there wasn’t a society full of bigots all around them and both of them were able to explore their sexualities & feelings for each other pretty much without judgement.

I personally look at their relationship as only happening because of those factors — before the crash, I don’t think Tai ever would’ve thought of confessing her feelings for Van. We see her cutting her hair in season one, seemingly getting more comfortable with being a bit more masc (similarly, in season two, after she leaves Simone she stops doing her makeup and starts dressing in progressively more masculine clothing). Essentially we know that when Taissa is out of “public” view & with Van, she stops performing femininity as much. So I feel like her ability to really be with Van was entirely dependent on the perceived safety of their isolated wilderness society. I focus on Taissa in this mostly because Van appears more comfortable with gender expression, as well as with romantically pursuing Taissa, whereas Tai seems to occasionally hesitate. We also know from Ally’s pre-crash comment about Van not being asked to prom that Van was probably either clocked as gay at school or just thought of as unromantic, whereas I think Tai would’ve had a much easier time passing for straight.

And in that way, it’s like a relationship that was formed entirely in the controlled environment of the wilderness. I cannot imagine coming to terms with your sexuality as a teen, going through the entire process of cutting your hair, publicly coming out to all your friends, and experiencing all your queer milestones, only to be rescued and returned to a place where you were still thought of as straight. Like, Tai and Van were sleeping in bed together every night, kissing in public, making little “happy wife, happy life” comments to their friends, and just generally being gay together. And then they would’ve returned to the 1990’s where that kind of queer love would’ve been, at the very least, unusual & surprising. It’s not difficult to imagine this driving them apart. But it is really heartbreaking to imagine the two of them being separated immediately upon being rescued & the realization they must’ve both had that they couldn’t stick together anymore without outing themselves.

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idek how many times i watched this scene just because of Van, i think i'm crazy

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what do you mean shauna isnt gay?? look at her?? look at that fuck ass bob

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let me dream

#no longer a jump scare

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Van Palmer - Yellowjackets [Episode 2x07 - Burial] - Part 1

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sapphic ship a day for lesbian visibility week!!

today is tai and van from yellowjacket <3

vans scars on the wrong side bc i didnt realise i was drawing on a flipped canvas pls 😭

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i’m like if a saint was also a faggot

#Laura Lee

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#liv hewson #van palmer #not my fanvid

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the seven known survivors in yellowjackets

their adult actors in the 90s | teen characters | adult characters

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jackie telling nat she admires the way she is “completely herself” when nat had something jackie didn’t: adaptation.

when we see nat taking the role as the hunter, we also see jackie failing to hold the gun properly and missing her opportunity to prove herself.

when nat takes travis to the plane and they take too long, jackie is the one confronting nat. nat also tells jackie she is jealous, but not for the right reasons.

of course jackie always noticed she was missing something to be the perfect leader when nat didn't even think of herself as an important piece of the group. nat was willing to sacrifice herself out there in the wilderness to give the girls something to eat.

and we see how this develops more in doomcoming, when lottie tells jackie “you don’t matter anymore” but it’s nat that finds her and let’s her out.

it’s crazy to think nat was always destined to be the real leader, to take jackie’s place when she was gone and eventually mean more to the girls as the antler queen than the captain of their team could ever try.

but it’s nat who takes jackie’s bones to the plane. it’s nat who tries to put jackie to rest and not playing or toying with her death more than they could.

but it’s also nat who mourns jackie’s death because she feels some guilt, she wasn’t able to have enough food for the girls to eat and it’s nat who thanks to jackie for her sacrifice, for taking care of her girls, for let them consume her.

then the wilderness takes care of nat, picks nat as her favorite because she was always so completely herself.

#you’re lucky

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//Van + Taissa//

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1.02 x 2.04

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the book of x ; sarah rose etter

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Taissa: This bloodline ends with me.

Van: That's the fanciest way I've ever heard someone say "I'm gay"