There's something that always hits hard about these shows with teenagers, and for me teenage girls. You're watching. You get into it, you relate to them. You see them struggle, ofc they go through some shit bc it's a show. But they still have these moments right? Where they're just being themselves, aside from the struggle, or sometimes bc of the struggle. And it's like a cafeteria tray to the face, they were just kids. THEY WERE JUST KIDS.
And then I remember my own shit, my own time back then. And I've never been a vampire slayer or a witch or had to save the world or had to resort to cannibalism or had to murder an ex or stabbed my friend/enemy/crush in the gut with an actual knife or been stranded in the wilderness with my soccer team - but we all had shit right? We all went through some shit. And then FUCK, it's a metal chair to the face. WE WERE JUST KIDS. I WAS JUST A KID.
We were all just doing the best we could back then. We had our pre-existing trauma and family bullshit and we somehow stumbled through it and made it out alive.
So BRAVO to all of us. I mean it. CONGRATULATIONS! We were just kids, we were just fucking kids, and we made it, we did it. We survived!!!
In the words of Tenoch Huerta, talking about the little brown kids who don't see themselves represented, that only felt negative judgment... "pero vamos a empezar a sanar." (but we're going to begin to heal.)
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the plot of yellowjackets is literally “Natalie gets stuck in communal living with people she thinks are losers” as a cycle
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I just think that Shauna should hunt down and kill the sleazy cop who emotionally preyed on her underaged daughter, but that's just me. <3
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If you like Yellowjackets, you may like... (books)
If you like the dark sides of the whimsy of girlhood, forest exploring girls all grown up, mystery
Read What Lies In The Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
CWs death, discussion of suicide, violence, SA implications
If you like unlikable narrators & toxic girl friendships where both of them are victims, but theyre bad for each other, and they spent time apart but now she's back
Read When We Were Friends by Holly Bourne
CWs discussion of suicide, SA, self harm, drug use
If you like toxic girl friendship, this time in college, murder mystery with a dual timeline
Read The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn CWs self harm, violence, sa, drug use
If you like codependent teen girls with dark themes
Read Cherish Farrah by Bethany C Morrow
CWs anti-Blackness (including descriptions of violence, micro aggressions)
If you like dual timelines & homoerotic formative girlfriendships (and canon relationships), rivalry but this time it's a girl group not a soccer team
Read The Unravelling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R Sloan
CWs ED (descriptions of the feelings, habits), suicide, SA, racism, depression (descriptions of the feelings), drug use/addiction
If you like Misty Quigley, milf on milf manipulation, unreliable narrators, dual perspective narration, and, of course, some light stalking
Read None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
CWs mentions of csa, grooming. descriptions of violence.
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shauna's idea of a meaningful conversation with callie being discussing meal prep bc she has survived starvation and found meaning and purpose in being the team's butcher / in charge of food rations, and callie dismissing it as a mundane and unimportant conversation bc for all her parents' shortcomings she has at least never wanted for food (or shelter) in her life..... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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