Barbie is a lesbian actually
Rewatched Confession Arc recently because I love crying and also feeling all the weird calcified emotions around my heart shatter in real time and I found myself really focusing on Toichiro’s line, “I just need to do what he did for me last time.” The actual thing he says this about (turning himself into a vessel to absorb Mob’s energy) doesn’t happen, but the concept, the idea that everything people do for Mob during this arc is a reflection of what he’s done for them, is I think a really crucial component of the narrative.
Mob tells Teru that he’s just an average person (and sees through the “protagonist of the world” fantasy to recognize the insecure part of himself he’s subsumed), and later Teru tells ???% that he’s just an average person (and sees through his rampage to recognize that “Mob” is still in there, which is what wakes him up). Mob sees Ritsu reject their entire relationship after getting carried away with his powers but unflinchingly affirms that they’re brothers and he loves him, and later Ritsu is the first one to accept that ???% is truly his brother and not a separate entity. Mob refuses to let Toichiro escape the consequences of his actions by dying, and then Toichiro does the same to him. Mob looks at Reigen on the bridge in Separation Arc and knows the best and worst of him and accepts him for who he is–but not completely.
That’s the thing about all of them; what Mob did for them wasn’t enough at first. There’s this block that keeps it from being resolved until they’re able to turn around and offer it back to him. Teru couldn’t help but put Mob on a pedestal, which kept them from truly connecting. Ritsu couldn’t communicate with Mob in the way he needed to in order to resolve their traumatic history. Toichiro still thought that the best way to make up for what he’d done was to sacrifice himself. Reigen couldn’t come clean about his lies, so as much as Mob tried to accept him, all the hurt was repressed instead of resolved, and it didn’t do anything to help Mob accept himself.
That can only happen at the end, when everyone takes turns reflecting back what Mob had given them in a way that lets them finally reach apotheosis–and gives Mob the tools he needs to resolve his own character arc.
Teru knocks him down from the pedestal, realizes that he’s average and tells him so, and although ???% can’t accept that yet, it’s true. He’s just another person like everyone else. His powers don’t make him a god or a monster. And Teru also wakes “Mob” up, recognizing that trapped part of him and fighting tooth and nail to reach him.
Ritsu finally faces his trauma and accepts that it was his brother that hurt him way back then, refuses to let himself be hurt again, and vows that they’ll stop avoiding their problems out of fear. And it’s this that finally makes Mob face the fact that ???% is a part of himself.
Toichiro chooses not to sacrifice himself to stop Mob, forcing both of them to continue to live despite the hurt they’ve caused instead of taking the easy way out.
And Reigen tells the truth.
Reigen breaks open the huge unspoken gulf between them and tells Shigeo the same thing everyone else has been saying: You’re just like me. This isn’t unique; this doesn’t make you special or monstrous or divine. This is what every single human has to deal with. We are all made of contradictions, and we all try to hide from them, but that’s no way to live. You just need to accept yourself. So he does. And he accepts Reigen too.
I’m like if a girl had a terrible chronic fear of being a uniquely horrible person
yellowjackets understands romance. killing a wolf for her. writing ‘I <3 U’ on her with ur blood from her biting you too hard. eating the ear of her frozen corpse 😍
what if 😳 what if we kissed at the bacchanal while we devoured our team captain’s corpse 😳 and we were both girls 😳
cannot WAIT to see mistys reaction to finding out lottie is responsible for nats kidnapping. if that's how she reacts to someone calling nat a drug addict its like, all 5'2 of her is gonna go insane. category 5 woman moment. in saying that though, i think once she finds out lottie is inadvertently responsible for saving nats life from her attempt she'll be like FINE ur on thin fucking ice....u also look really pretty its been so long how have u been??
fellas is it gay to light your best friend’s funeral pyre, say “i don’t know where you end and i begin”, and then eat her perfectly barbecued body afterwards?
saw someone mention a derry girls/yellowjackets au and listen michelle would suggest cannibalism the second the plane hit the ground. they wouldnt need to run out of food she would immediately be like “well sorry james looks like we’re gonna have to eat you.” erin would care more about missing a concert than being stranded. clare’s having a panic attack. they find out after only like a week that orla’s known a way out this whole time and told no one cause they never asked.
love the 90s yellowjackets scenes because it's the funniest assortment of characters you've ever seen. you've got the virgin laura palmer, her homoerotic girl best friend who's pregnant from an affair with laura palmer's boyfriend, a hot prophet and her devotee who explodes, a lesbian who eats dirt in her sleep, her girlfriend who gets her face eaten by a wolf due to the sleep dirt eating, a girl who is trying to drug and manipulate an adult gay man into loving her, a bottle blonde who was complicit in the death of her father, and also some guy named travis. travis is definitely also there.
hey coach, sorry we cannibalized your team captain. in our defense, her pregnant gf said that's what she wanted and we are running out of meat rations and our developing bodies need nourishment. no, I get that it was absolutely terrifying to witness teenagers devour their former leader who was a symbol for societal expectation so voraciously and with such excitement, but you gotta understand we're hungry and the wilderness slow-roasted her to perfection. also you're probably next. xo.
if this headline doesn’t make people want to watch yellowjackets, idk what will
i really do love jeff that man will stand with his wife through cheating, murder, cannibalism, literally anything. he’s so obsessed with her. like yeah me too buddy.
Eating the 2 month old corpse of your team captain and immediately after planning her best friend’s baby shower… just girly things