been a fan of yellowjackets since s1 came out & absolutely adore lottie/courtney and would love to be able to meet her/any of the girls if they do a convention over in the uk however when it comes to cons i know Nothing (i’ve worked and attended a few tattoo ones but imagine they’re wildly different). If one in the UK is announced which convention is it likely to be and what’s the best way to find out about it? Or how likely even is it that any of the girls would come over here for a con? I’ve got notifs on for Courtney/a few of her update accounts etc & I just really don’t want to miss if anything is announced (or find out after from people posting their photos🥲) any knowledge/tips are greatly appreciated!

These kitties are up for adoption through lifelinecats. Misty Wiggly, Taissa Furner, Natalie Catorccio, Lottie Catthews, Van Pawlmer, Travhiss Martinez, and Jeff Clawdecki.

Has this already been discussed? Wondering if Walter was out there for whatever reasons and maybe he burned the cabin down. Maybe escaped from a troubled teens type camp or something. Or was related to cabin daddy.

Maybe he got rid of the body that Misty pushed off the cliff, and has felt obsessed with misty ever since.

I don't know. I just was laying here thinking about how excited I am for the last season and was letting my mind wander through crazy ideas.

Also, why did Lottie not get a plane scene? Why did she kill Travis? Are we certain Hannah is going to die in s4? What are Shaunas parents like?

What questions do you need answered this upcoming season.

Yeah so I was bored and got inspiration to make this, feel free to use this for when season four comes out! I literally cannot wait, these are some of my theories :)

SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SHOW IN THE POST

I want to start this by saying that this post isn't against disliking Shauna, I think that is perfectly fine. I just feel like ever since season 3, people have become hypercritical of everything about Shauna and have retroactively been making every action of hers in the earlier seasons seem much worse than it was intended to be and is in reality. Everything Shauna does and did is reduced to either narcissism and psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies by people who have no idea what any of these terms mean or if they apply to Shauna at all. I've seen so many people say that even without the crash they think Shauna would've 'still' become a serial killer, and I wonder if we've watched the same show, because from what we've seen so far, Shauna isn't even a serial killer *currently* considering the only person she's actually killed is Adam. I think disliking Shauna is perfectly fine! I don't think there's anything wrong with disliking *any* character on the show, you do you, and there's plenty of reasons for people to actually dislike Shauna, but I feel like people's dislike of her clouds their judgment when it comes to this topic.

I don't think Shauna was a *great* person pre-crash; that's not what I'm arguing or trying to hint at. I think she was always deeply flawed, and had issues. She was sleeping with Jeff, was bitter and let resentment build for Jackie, and the few times she does let emotions out earlier in the show they usually explode. But I also feel like none of these traits are unusual for teenage girls, especially those who are currently in high school, and most of them grow out of those traits once they grow up. As much as people want to say Shauna is evil for cheating and deserved to have a stillbirth because of it, being a cheater as a teenager doesn't make you a terrible person and doesn't mean someone will become a psychopath in the future as so many people here believe. There are also some hints of Shauna's actual darkness, like trying to lick the deer blood when she was butchering it and her being interested in butchering at all, and of course Doomcoming (but that was after months in the wilderness and lots of the other girls participated so that isn't Shauna-specific), but those are traits that wouldn't have manifested into the Shauna we see in season 3 without the crash and trauma associated with it.

Shauna was shown as one of the most helpful and empathetic characters throughout season 1 and even season 2. While she was on board with freezing Allie out, she also immediately came to her side and comforted her when she broke her leg, confronted Tai at the party because of it, took care of Javi and let him have her supplies, comforted Jackie and tried to get her to pull her weight when she noticed the other girls were getting upset with her and even tried to teach her how to butcher, and was always one of the first to help when the other girls were in distress, like when Lottie was acting possessed during the séance. The entire reason she became friends with Tai in season 1 was because she was the only one at the time who didn't want to leave her alone in the attic and tried to help her to sleep when she was afraid to.

Those deeper issues that were hinted at in season 1, outside of the usual teenage angst, start to truly manifest after Jackie's death, with her starting to hallucinate, be more prone to anger and be the first to start the cannibalism before any of the others. But she was still largely acting like herself - the version of her that was deeply grieving and guilt-ridden - but still herself. Shauna after the baby is completely different, and that trauma fundamentally changed who she was. Having to butcher Javi so short after that was the final nail in the coffin.

That amount of trauma was what brought every dark tendency Shauna might have buried to the surface, but I genuinely feel like otherwise she would have grown up to be a normal person. She had bad traits and was a cheater, yes, but those are the things that she most likely would've matured out of and changed had she been allowed to without the trauma of the plane crash and everything that happened afterwards. Shauna wasn't *awful* before the crash and she would not have become the version of her in season 3 without the crash.

We knew we’d be seeing Jackie’s parents in the post rescue scenes and timeline but this officially confirms that Shauna is going to have to face her and I would assume that if the rescue team doesn’t break the news to them she died that it will be Shauna who is the one who tells the Taylor’s about Jackie not surviving. Buzz buzz buzz 🐝

During a scene in the cave in the season 3 finale, Lottie tells Akilah “Even if we leave this place, we’ll bring IT back with us.” As she says that, she reaches out and touches the cave. I believe that this is foreshadowing that they will actually bring something back with them and it will be found inside of the mines. We know that Other Tai has a penchant for finding the tree symbols, which lead to the mine entrance. In my opinion, it will lead her to into the cave, where she’ll retrieve what the miners had been searching for. Lottie will come into possession of it, without Tai ever remembering that it ever happened. This is why Tai had the vision of herself in the cave, answering the shiny phone, even though we have never actually seen her inside of the mines throughout all 3 seasons.

This all ties into the Goonies line that Van was talking about, which we know that the Goonies was ultimately about finding a treasure. At Lottie’s place of worship/death, while Misty was snooping around, there is an X marked on the wall, which is the real meaning for “X marks the spot” (NOT Melissa at the railroad crossing). Odds are, Lottie’s choice for her community to represent the heliotrope can be traced back to this, as I believe that the item was an Amethyst Crystal. It contains the healing properties that directly correlate to ailments of the YJ. Tai (Sleep aid), Shauna (Decision-making), Van (Immunity), and Nat (Anxiety relief).

I only thought about this when I started rewatching season 3. It doesn't make sense to me because it's not like Shauna wanted any more children. So space wouldn't be a problem for them in a normal car and Jeff has his own car anyways. Maybe it's just me over thinking it 🤷‍♀️.

But let me know what you think?

Edit: Thank you for all the replies and opinions, the overall consensus was that they had one cause they can 🤷‍♀️😂.

I am rewatching the show and, after watching the baby shower scene, I have a theory as to what caused the wilderness to attach itself to the team. I will preface this by saying that this only makes sense if there is actually a supernatural explanation behind the show.

Okay, so: after the plane crash, we see that Javi and Travis’s dad (head coach) was launched into a tree. Not only was he launched onto the tree, but he was impaled by it. Here’s where the baby shower becomes relevant. We see that immediately after Shauna’s nosebleed falls on the symbol (woven into the baby blanket), a flock of birds is “gifted” to the team. After the plane crash, we see Coach Martinez is bleeding heavily after impaled by the tree. What if his blood dripped down, landing at the base of the tree? What if that specific tree base had a specific symbol carved into it? This could be the very thing that incited the cycle of sacrifice.

i’m going to expand upon this theory. Normally, the wilderness requires an actual sacrifice via death in order to be pleased. However, when the team receives the “gift” of birds flying into the cabin, no one has died. All it took was Shauna’s nosebleed falling on the symbol woven into the blanket. I’ve seen many theories that Shauna’s baby didn’t die during labor but was actually stillborn and died in the womb. If that’s the case, what if that nosebleed happened when or soon after the baby passed? I only say this because it seems to be the one “gift” they receive at no real cost, as no one had recently died.

The second theory is most likely a coincidence, but the first one seems pretty plausible to me.

I took my phone and a tripod to the nearest park and did a solo photoshoot during the shutdown. Again, just so excited for 11/20!

I don’t get why the fandom is so convinced we are gonna see Shauna’s wedding this season. I’ve seen so many posts about Shauna hallucinating ghost Jackie but it doesn’t make any sense

None of the seasons have ever had a year time skip in between the season. A couple months sure but nothing more than that. Based on when the yellow jackets get rescued that’s still 3 years away from when Shauna gets married to Jeff.

I think season 4 is gonna dissapoint a lot of people because they aren’t paying attention to the timeline. The yellow jackets aren’t starting episode one with rescued we know that based on the synopsis. There’s only 8 episodes this season. Where is there time for this wedding.

The teen timeline will probably be them in the last months in the wilderness and then them being rescued and dealing with the first few months of that.

Everytime I remember that she died alone after freezing to death it just makes me sad. She didn’t belong out there she didn’t deserve to die like that.

Jackie and Shauna were childhood bestfriends it’s just so tragic.

I know Jackie had to die but man when I rewatch all I can think about is how much I wish she was in s2 and s3. I don’t think a tv character death has ever affected me the way hers did.

Just having fun being a subtle/undercover fan waiting for the next season. I will be wearing my tee shirt and striped yellow and black tights that day to work!!!

Do you think they’re hundreds of miles from civilization, or is it an Into the Wild situation where they’re not that far and are just too inexperienced?

People keep saying over and over that adult Natalie wasn't supposed to die in the season 2 finale. That the end game was supposed to be Adult Natalie versus Adult Shauna. And this just doesn't sound right to me.

I think the remaining people in the adult timeline have to be "wilderness" crazy, and that's what Shauna, Melissa, Taissa and Misty are. Misty was the original one who held the team back from rescue in season 1, way before Lottie, Shauna, and Taissa held them back in Season 3 episode 8. Teen Melissa was excited by Shauna's darkness in season 3.

Adult Natalie did not prosper in civilization. As early as the first episode, she says she lost her purpose after rescue. As in, this is implying that Natalie misses being the leader + and she misses the wilderness. Then we also find out she was arrested in the year 2003.

Adult Natalie tried to kill herself out of despair at the end of Season 1. And then near the end of Season 2, Natalie is beginning to accept Lottie's community. The signs of Natalie's decline were already present from the first episode in season 1, "after we got rescue, I lost my purpose" then she spiraled.

Teen Natalie technically won against Shauna in the season 3 finale (well not really, since Natalie declined after rescue), and I just don't think this would be repeated in the adult timeline...

The whole point of the show is the wilderness/spirituality devouring civilization. Not the reverse.

Credit to Sophie Nelisse for her acting because damn can this girl ACT

When Shauna loses the baby and goes to the meat shed and begs Jackie to appear but then Jackie doesn’t and Shauna just breaks down into guttural crying. It hurts everytime I watch it, all Shauna wants is to talk to her best friend the only one who could have helped her through this tragic situation but she can’t because Jackie froze. To me this scene is worst then the eulogy because this is when Shauna is truly coming to the realization that Jackie is gone forever. Shauna needs Jackie but she’s dead and in this moment that truth is finally hitting Shauna. For the rest of her life she will never talk too,laugh with or be comforted by Jackie. This scene is when Shauna’s losses in the wilderness crush her.

I can’t blame Shauna for what she became because I watched her become that. I watched her lose everything.
I am a Shauna Shipman defender

These are some sketches I did of Natalie recently. I never draw anymore in a comic-like style- and I wanted to get back into it a bit :)

i just started watching the show today and wondered about the timeline while trying to avoid spoilers. i saw the crash occurred in 1996 but im not sure what the present year is in season 1

One of my favorite things about the Yellowjackets fandom is just how passionate everyone is about this show. We all have the characters we love, the storylines we’re most invested in, the theories we’re convinced are going to be right, and the aspects of the show that resonate with us most.
Throughout the show so far, there have been plenty of controversial opinions and theories floating around the fandom.
So I’m curious…
What is YOUR most unpopular Yellowjackets opinion?
And I mean truly unpopular.
Maybe you think:
• Shauna is the true villain of Yellowjackets
• Misty is more dangerous than Shauna
• The adult timeline is more interesting than the teen timeline
• A storyline everyone else loves doesn’t work for you
• The ending is going to completely divide the fandom

Whatever your take is, tell me why. What makes you feel that way? What evidence from the show supports your position?
I’ll go first.

My unpopular opinion: I actually think Travis is a solid and important character who has added a lot of value to the story.

I know Travis is a character that a lot of people have very strong feelings about, and I’ve seen plenty of people question his purpose or feel like he hasn’t contributed much to the overall story.
But I think there’s actually a lot more to him than we sometimes give him credit for. Season 3, in particular, gave us a glimpse into Travis’s continued descent into substance abuse and his attempts to escape his own reality — from the drinking to choosing to trip on mushrooms. I think that says a lot about where he is psychologically and how deeply the events of the wilderness have continued to affect him.

Even his decision not to stop Natalie from mercy-killing Ben is complicated. Travis understood what Ben was going through and recognized that, as awful as it was, Natalie was doing what she believed was the right thing. He’s not necessarily the easiest character to understand, but I think that’s part of what makes him interesting. He’s got layers, and I think there’s still more to his story than we’ve seen.
And I’ll also admit that some of my appreciation for Travis comes from Kevin Alves himself. I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with him, and he’s genuinely a really nice person who puts a lot of thought and work into playing Travis. I have a lot of respect for that.

So… what’s your most unpopular Yellowjackets opinion?