Announcing Maiko Week 2024!
Daily Maiko announced on Twitter that MAY-Ko week will be from May 1st - May 7th 2024!
Here are the prompts, they look amazing. It will be so great to have our first Maiko week in two years
Please tag your friends, artists, and writers to make this week extremely special!
"Not everything's changed" -Mai, Going Home Again
feeling so very icky going on tiktok and seeing hate for mai’s casting and people focusing on how a child looks :((( makes me genuinely upset like that is a child !!! so sorry a child doesn’t look like a drawing idk
i just know natalie scatorccio is catholic and not just because of natalie “something catholic” scatorccio. it’s the way she feels the shame of what they did, how even after twenty-five years later she cannot forgive herself, she suffers through the shame the others try to shed. the catholic guilt never stood a chance.
and what happens when i finally write my post rescue travisnat “complex” fanfic
I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again the number one reason the yellowjackets are like that is because they’re all only fucking children
he lost his shitty dad he lost his little brother he doesn’t know if he’s ever going to see his mom again. all he has left is natalie and she will become the site of all his worship and guilt
people on twitter hate this but i don’t hate travis and natalie… yes i ship lottienat yes i don’t mind travisnat yes we exist….
god misty should have let coach ben just jump
thinking about Her in these trying times. is she still alive? if she's alive I need a scene between her and nat more than i need air. did she die in the intervening years? did she die while they were in the wilderness?? i genuinely don't know what would be worse but i need to know. I NEED TO SEE HER.
I wonder if Travis will be able to take the ring off of Javi. I wonder if Nat will have to do it again, or if she won't be able to either. Will Travis wear it? Will he bury it? Throw it in the lake? (He only brought it back for Javi). Could it become another piece of the ritual? Jackie's necklace (I love you), the Martinez ring (I sacrifice for you), Laura Lee's nightgown (I face death believing it means you will live). The hunt as a funeral procession, the hunt as a haunting, the hunt as an entryway to the realm where the dead aren't gone. They're on us, they're in us.
you're natalie scatorccio. you take some acid the night before your team leaves for nationals. next day your plane goes down somewhere in the canadian wilderness. one of your coaches dies the other loses a leg btw the girl you hallucinated at the party last night destroyed the black box and you're stuck here for 18 months now. you start a fling with the guy they send you out hunting with but the homecoming queen wants to lose her virginity before she dies so she throws you under the bus and takes your man in a gay way, but you don't even really have time to deal with that because your other teammates are trying to have a murder orgy and sacrifice him at the alter of the wilderness gods. you save his ass and then spend the next two months hiking in below zero temperatures on a major caloric deficit trying to locate your man's missing brother who is definitely probably dead and you're definitely probably going to die if you keep looking so you fake his death and that goes pretty bad because the resident witch says she can still sense his aura and it turns out against all odds the teenage brother did survive two months in the wilderness alone, but happy endings right? wrong. your boyfriend can't get it up unless he's thinking about backwoods jesus and you're all starving to death. group decides short straw dies for the good of the group and who draws it but you? the wilderness wills the hunter bring food to the table. run. now the boy you killed/saved/killed says you can trust me I know a place and the earth opens up and swallows him and you reach for him because he asks you to and because in another life that's the kind of person you are. but here you're the hunter and you know how to love the thing in your scope but still pull the trigger if it puts meat on the table, especially if it means the meat isn't your own. you have nine months left. there's nowhere to run.
“Tell me. Is there anything of value in this life that doesn’t come with risk?”
it’s always ‘aren’t you still in the looney bin in switzerland?’ never ‘how was the looney bin in switzerland? did you have fun in the looney bin in switzerland?’
Starting to get obsessed with the fact that they were in the wilderness for nineteen months: aka, time enough to encompass the length of TWO pregnancies. (With, admittedly, a little change. Still.) There are no timestamps in the flashbacks; we measure it primarily by how far along Shauna is. The first nine months are about fear, survival and hope: hope of rescue, of Javi's survival, of the baby coming -- it's not totally bleak, and the cannibalism happens in a justifiable, well-she-was-dead-already sort of way. Crystal's death is still pretty much an accident. No-one has been flat-out murdered. The lines crossed aren't irrevocable.
But we're warned at the start of the season: things are getting kind of gross. And also: can't stop what's coming, can't stop what is on its way.
The winter marks one turning point -- the landscape transformed, made unrecognisable. Shauna's baby dying marks another. The almost-halfway point. The remaining time will be about the gestation of a god: the one they discover, or *make*, in the wilderness. And it's interesting that Lottie -- its creator? priestess? -- is not only styled as rival-queen to Nat... but also, rival-mother in opposition to Shauna.
genuinley so scared to see natalie’s relationship with travis post rescue… the way he pointed that gun at her and she was smitten… the way her dad was so violent…. feeling scared
LOCAL GAY WOMEN ARE INSANE
