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Yellowjackets | Eat Your Young

#yellowjackets

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The Hunger Games, Actual Teen style!

On the left, 15-year-old Josh Hutcherson.

On the right, 16-year-old Jennifer Lawrence.

Think how much creepier it would be to see them killing other kids when they look so squishy-cheeked and little.

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Part One of a new illustration series focusing on the tragic tale of Deirdre and Naoise.

Fedlimid gets some bad news, a baby is born and Leabharcham heads away for safety.

This is my March Postcard Club illustration! If you’re interested in getting a print in the post (along with new postcards each month) then you can sign up here!

#deirdre #ulster cycle

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I keep changing my lineart sorry

#agreste family #JEEZ

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What is a fandom?

Imagine that girl in elementary school that never stopped talking about horses in a class with 1700 other girls who are obsessed with horses in a class about horses

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uhhhh uhh ermmm.. the... ummmm

#the good place

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gotta get up!

#russian doll #nadia vulvokov

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people are saying do it scared, but you also gotta do it alone. you'll miss out on so much you want to do if you wait til someone will do it with you. do it scared and do it alone.

#live footage of me this whole semester #I am just a little girl :( why must I navigate public transport #however! it's so worth it #do it scared

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Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

#shhh I am not supposed to be superstitious #but could use a little placebo effect

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It´s a sibling thing

         “It´s Summers blood”.- Buffy & Dawn Summers

#summers sisters #btvs

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so have had a couple conversations with people about dawn that have made me think that maybe my take on dawn is worth bringing to the table! it's best framed by my convo with my mom, who was expressing general dawn frustration -- not just with dawn's characterization, but more specifically with the retcon in. and dawn's characterization, as we all know, is very "baby teenage girl" + "was originally written as younger than fourteen," so that's a straightforward explanation, but the retcon to me has always felt emblematic of dawn's status in the narrative as buffy's childhood innocence.

dawn is buffy. she's a part of buffy. the show emphasizes this in season five: that to buffy, dawn feels like more than just a sister and therefore more vital to protect. i've seen this framed as dawn being sort of like buffy's spiritual daughter, but i think that's a little off base: dawn is buffy's innocence, her girlhood, personified. she shows up in season five because if we're charting buffy's emotional journey, season five is the season where buffy feels like she is calcifying and becoming unfeeling because of everything that she's been through -- so of course this is the season where dawn springs into being but simultaneously Has Always Been There! buffy has reached a point of emotional distress so severe that the little girl in her has sprung away and out of reach, becoming a literal other person who is somehow always getting into trouble and causing problems. dawn is this little girl. dawn is a part of buffy.

and this contextualizes EVERYTHING that buffy goes through this season re: dawn. everyone in the entire world is bearing down on her girlhood, and it is her responsibility as the slayer to kill it. like from a pragmatic standpoint, killing dawn would (as giles points out) solve the big-picture problem, because killing dawn means that glory no longer has access to this Exploitable Thing that will allow her to end the world. killing dawn is also what the knights of byzantium are trying to do, and they're presented as just as much of an obstacle as glory, despite having the fate of the world in mind as well. she is posed with this essential choice, and it is so horrifying to her that the penultimate episode shows her literally retreating into her mind, playing over and over all of these moments where she was told it's her responsibility to protect this vital part of her, and the one moment she entertained the notion of just Giving Up. just Letting That Part Die.

which in turn makes her choice at the VERY end of the season so heartbreaking -- she is posed with this question and she chooses, instead, to die. she does not want to let go of her innocence. she does not want to live in a world where she has been forced to kill that part of herself, and so she tries to kill herself instead.

#summers sisters

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— your love is tough, your love is tried and true blue

buffy summers / boygenius, true blue

#summers sisters #btvs

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Intrigued by this idea of Dawn-in-Buffy’s-Space.

At first it’s just her arrival being mentioned in Buffy’s prophetic dreams. Dreams are already intimate, but every time Dawn is mentioned it’s set in a domestic space. The closer we get to Dawn’s arrival, any mention of her is tied to Buffy making her bed - a mundane, familial action… but of course there’s nothing so simple in dream symbolism.

It’s also Buffy making her own bed for someone else, though she doesn’t know who. This ties into how Dawn is made from Buffy, and that Buffy is responsible for Dawn (first in protecting the key, then in raising her sister).

Dawn’s first appearance, in the show and in her new existence, is in Buffy’s room. But instead of being welcome there, Buffy is hostile right from the beginning. It’s played up as an irritated-sibling dynamic - but in the same way that Buffy can tell something is off in ‘Superstar’ and the same way she pauses outside her room at the end of ‘Restless’ - I think her Slayer senses can tell that something is different, even if Buffy doesn’t realise this consciously.

I know it’s always been this way… but for some reason lately, it’s just really getting to me. I mean [Dawn’s] always around.

Over the next five episodes, before the audience and Buffy discover who Dawn really is, there’s constant playing with domestic space in the Summer’s home. Dawn and Joyce are easily comfortable around each other, Dawn has her own private refuge in her bedroom, but there’s friction between Buffy and Dawn.

This is often shown in Dawn encroaching into Buffy’s space. She’s either trying to enter Buffy’s room and being forced out, or if she’s in the space she doesn’t really have a place - standing or on the floor.

In ‘No Place Like Home’ when it’s revealed that Dawn is not a retcon but instead something new and magical it’s shown through her disappearing and reappearing. Buffy and the audience glimpse what the Summer’s domestic spaces were like before Dawn’s arrival, and what has changed since. It’s also the first time that Buffy enters Dawn’s space.

After this reveal, Buffy treats Dawn like an intruder (which is fair enough honestly) and a danger. When the monk reveals that Dawn is the Key - turned human and made Buffy’s sister so she would protect it - this is Buffy’s reaction:

You put that in my house?

Her anger at tampered memories comes soon after, but it’s significant that this is her first reaction. That her house, her space, has been violated. This domestic space is supposed to be safe, supposed to be separate from the supernatural (after all, vampires can’t come in without an invitation), but the monks permeated this barrier without permission. 

But then Buffy realises that Dawn has no knowledge or part of any of this, that she is an innocent that just thinks she’s Buffy’s “kid sister”. When Buffy comes home, Dawn runs away from her and hides in her room. And even though Buffy is struggling to come to terms with it all, she goes to comfort Dawn. She knocks before entering Dawn’s room, and the sisterly-bonding scene ends with Buffy and Dawn both sitting on Dawn’s bed as Buffy tries to take care of her.

This symbolically is a conclusion to the foreshadowing of Dawn’s arrival. Instead of Buffy confusingly preparing a domestic space, or trying to force Dawn out of hers - the two sisters are finally sitting together, sharing the space.

#summers sisters #buffy summers #dawn summers

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i am a tragedy enjoyer before i am human

#beloved #jackie taylor #also laura lee #yellowjackets in general #btvs #(every past slayer ever) #mr. rochester's wife #lyanna stark #laura palmer #noah czerny #lucy gray baird #maysilee donner #loads of hunger games characters actually #boo from fleabag #rachel amber #haunting of bly manor #haunting of hill house #sarah fier #émilie agreste lol #grace cahill #lenora vulvokov

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natalie wee, ‘least of all’, our bodies & other fine machines // helen oyeyemi, from ‘white is for witching’ // reyna n.a. ghosts // lividity, salem s. // michael cunningham, the hours // werewolves & anorexia - part II, salem s. // fight for me by aliceband // dirty valentine by richard silken // the dismemberment song by blue kid // wanted woman/ac dc by larkin poe // the guest by anna akhmatova // belovéd by yves olade // trista mateer

#fuffy #GOODness gracious #the kind of web weaving I want to tattoo on my eyeballs #btvs

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@yellowjacketsnetwork event 01: dynamics — AKILAH & LAURA LEE

#yellowjackets #laura lee #akilah yellowjackets #the sweetest girls #this show is so GOOD #every single dynamic is so compelling

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magical girl with a legitimately shitty personality

#wizards of waverly place #was my JAM