more's the pity

TESTIMONIALS

"She's in every universe. She saved the multiverse. All by learning to accept her daughter, husband, and herself. She's everything. Everywhere. All at once. And she's played by Michelle Yeoh."

"When she was flirting with a shapeshifter and he was saying they were too different to be together and said 'Every 16 hours, I turn into a liquid,' she just shrugged and said 'I can swim."

when ur mutual crush walks into the headmaster's office and she thinks you're both really cute

insp. for Eda and Raine's looks

"It was a bad trade, Zhaan, your health for mine."

FARSCAPE S01E011 - Till the Blood Runs Clear

KILLJOYS S03E03 - The Hullen Have Eyes

FARSCAPE S03E04 - Self Inflicted Wounds: Part 2 - Wait for the Wheel

Chiana convinces Jool to dance this is how the scene went, right?

i’m seeing such takes about the baby lmao. smiling happy shauna with her living baby was in a dream world—the same eerie dream world that offered jackie warm cocoa and the acceptance of her best friend, that ghost laura lee/the Wilderness made sure lottie left. we don’t know a lot about the dream world, but we know it offers warmth, nourishment, and simplicity. cloth mother, if you will. (there’s a connection between the dream world + accepting nourishment + death that someone pointed out already, but i’m pivoting away from there right now.)

but like, we never see shauna with a living baby in the real world, trying to feed him in the freezing woods, knowing she cannibalized her best friend’s corpse for the chance that he would live. we also haven’t seen her recovering from the first birth—she could very well still get postpartum depression. in-between scenes of the dream world, however, we do see shauna as a parent to a living child; she’s resentful, she’s full of guilt all the time, she loves callie but never wanted to be a mother. it comes down to that.

shauna is an 18 year old who just had a traumatic birth of a stillborn. there’s some fucky supernatural shit afoot. she also never really processed the fact that she’s giving birth to an entire human child. i think it’s perfectly aligned with what we know about shauna—and like, birth hormones—for shauna to be devastated when taissa hands her a dead baby. she didn’t want him, but he’s dead and she almost died, and she feels like not wanting this baby literally killed him. she would have likely had a real abortion back home. this is literally traumatic.

i feel like i’m repeating myself, but i keep seeing posts that deride yellowjackets for having shauna express any love for that baby, as if they’re promoting tradcath motherhood, when they’re literally showing the fucked up ramifications of forced birth. i do wish there was slightly more body horror (side note: if you’re craving a body horror take on pregnancy, i highly recommend the new show dead ringers), but tl;dr the show is definitely not trying to promote a narrative that seeing her baby would have made shauna stop feeling resentful or any other negative emotions. the supernatural elements + the adult shauna scenes work in tandem to create a pretty nuanced depiction of birth and motherhood.

(i’m also hesitant to equate feelings about fiction to feelings about real life situations, but i do think it’s uhhhh. a bit callous? to go “yayyy no more pregnancy arc i hate babies! shauna should be more relieved smh” like we recognize how traumatized these girlies are but won’t extend that to shauna and childbirth? hmm)

KILLJOYS S02E04 - Schooled

Virginia Hey as Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan FARSCAPE S02E15 - Won't Get Fooled Again

Jooliana, reunited in FARSCAPE S03E02 - What Was Lost: Part 1 - Sacrifice

EMMA SWAN and REGINA MILLS 🦢👑 ONCE UPON A TIME (2011-2018)

FARSCAPE S03E22 Dog with Two Bones

FARSCAPE S01E07 I, E.T.

MARISA COULTER in HIS DARK MATERIALS (2019-2022)

NO RETURN NO RETURN NO REASON

Yellowjackets (2021–)

"My dad is dead and I feel old."

Succession 3x03