:)

my marauders hot takes:

- fav romantic ships are prongsfoot, jily, jilypad, quillkiller, and marylene

- i dont think james would hate sirius after the prank

- remus is the last person to be a casanova (that was james, sirius, and mary)

- i looove the characterization of the marauders as the best friendship quad ever but we forget it was described in the books as “james + sirius… and their two side kicks” (obv they still became animagi for remus so he was very close to them, but sirius and james were always the main duo)

- i dont believe in “young peter was a different person,” he was always a coward that gravitated towards the most powerful person (in hogwarts that was james/sirius’ popularity, in the war that was voldemort)

- remus was not the smartest marauder (in their year the smartest students were sirius, james, and lily)

- ik it birthed the fandom, but i dont really like wolfstar that much

nvm so I did finish the second half lmao

they pining 🙄🤢

btw can James wear lipstick more pls.. he's so...

if I get a content label for this completely non explicit art, I'm suing Tumblr

one thing i love about tlt is that almost every character (save coronabeth) is described at some point in some way or another as ugly

theyre all just scraggly, wet rats. awkward, and sharp, and lanky and offputting

theyre human.

and it makes them all so beautiful

a breath of fresh air

i can handle anything.

my 2023 spotify wrapped had my most played song as the one my ex sent me because it “reminded her of us.”

we had broken up in June and i was just getting over her by december and had completely forgotten about the song

i don’t know out of what hole kittywater came from, but i will become a shipper if it means loosing the hold jegulus has on this fandom

the hot usurper queen npc my dm made (that my pc is now romancing)

i love her design (much respect to my wonderful dm)

I’ve been thinking about John’s choice of Barbie-form Alecto in the conext of ecofeminism.

The idea that environmentalism and feminism are intrinsically linked and we cannot save the Earth without first disbanding the patriarchy.

Man dominates the Earth and its resources, because they have dubbed it as female, and that’s what you do to women. It’s your God-given right.

Gaia, Mother Nature, Prithvi, Terra.

Notice how matriarchal societies, like North American First Nations (from the West Coast i am most familial with Musqueam), value and respect the Earth. Many of their creation stories centre nature and animals, featuring them as something humans can learn from and follow.

Patriarchal and colonial societies like England dominate both their women and the Earth. Their God puts man (male, white) above everything else; so is his right to own everything.

In a misogynistic society it is almost impossible to treat the Earth with respect, because how can you value Mother Nature when women are a resource to be used?

John is against trillionaires. He’s a scientist. He recognizes that the rich have abused and destroyed the planet, harming the poor. He cares about the Earth and wants to let it heal. He loves Alecto, in his own way.

But still, he uses her. He locks the Earth’s soul in a Barbie doll and uses her power to consume all the other planets in the solar system, murder every person in sight and make himself God.

He’s passionate about climate change because he recognizes the abuse the wealthy enact on the world for their own benefit as what they have been doing to him—the common people, the indigenous people. He’s mad (rightfully) at the injustice against him, but he’s not trying to save the Earth because he respects it, but because he wants to save the people he resonates with.

He doesn’t want to remove the boot, he wants to become it. He shows this by recreating catholicism in the Nine Houses. He’s Maori, that’s not his indigenous religion. It is the religion of God-given domination. That’s what he wants.

He was never going to save the Earth, he just wanted to be the one to imprison it. TM has shown us this through his objectification and feminization of Alecto.

Severus: i'm telling you, Potter and Black might be...involved!

Lily: okay, first Lupin is a werewolf and now this? enough with these theories Sev!

3 years later, on James's birthday

*Sirius and James just quietly staring at each other thinking no one else is watching*

Lily: oh...oh my god

no one asked me to explain this but i want to

plato has a quote “opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance”

in the pilot episode, misty receives a prank call from some girls accusing her of doing anal, to which she responds quoting plato. or rather, misquoting plato

she says “opinion is the WILDERNESS between knowledge and ignorance”

i see this as intentional on the writers part since the word “wilderness” holds a lot of weight in the yellowjackets universe. the girls use “wilderness” to refer to the force/deity they encounter in the wild and blame for all the sinister things that take place/that they do

many people theorize whether or not the “wilderness” is supernatural or if it is a figment of the girls imagination that they use to cope with what happened in the canadian rockies

i argue that the show will never reveal the answer. the question itself is the main theme of the show, and the writers toy with us using plausible deniability with any supernatural event (lottie’s schizophrenia, tai’s genetic mental health issue (??), etc.)

i believe this because of the aforementioned misty line; the writers told us plainly that this “wilderness” the girls believe in is a result of the blind spot between ignorance and knowledge about what is really going on

we will never know if the “wilderness” is real or not, because the only thing that is real is that the yellowjackets did what they had to do to survive and now they have to live with it

i want to give the Yellowjackets writers kudos for dropping the line “opinion is the wilderness between knowledge and ignorance” in the pilot episode

and i want to send my condolences that it has gone so far unnoticed

phenomenal theme foreshadowing

No, your Sirius turns into a flustered, stuttering mess. Mine shuts down and self isolates or gets mean. Mines better-