BEAUTIFUL PRIDE

Thank you for the request I love this dynamic so much!!

Ronance big sisters/gay mentors for elmax headcanons :

Whenever they have an acclaimed girls night at the Wheelers, Robin always makes sure to make El a waffle extravaganza!!

Nancy always makes sure to give El a ride to visit Max in the hospital, and post coma has Max stay at her house for awhile after her trailer was destroyed, (which makes for a funny Max & Mike sibling dynamic)

Max try’s to teach Robin how to skate board, to which ends up with Max cleaning Robins wounds because she eats shit after one second of being on it.

Nancy teaches El how to do make up in different ways, and how to style her hair in different ways

They have different fashion show days we’re depending on the day they get to pick and outfit for a different person, so El might pick an outfit for Robin who might pick one for max who might pick one for Nancy who might pick out one for El

Any time Mike gets annoyed about them wanting to use the basement they all hang up on him 😭😭

Whenever Max and El get into an argument they both go to both Nancy AND Robin so then ronance is just like 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️

Max and El feel safe and comfortable exploring both her femininity and masculinity when with Nancy and Robin, who help the explore new things and explain how they found balance in their own lives

Max gets her license before Robin does to which the party finds quite amusing

El will help Nancy when she has a lead on a story, by finding where they are and ease dropping, rest assure they are always corrupt and evil people, to which Nancy only uses when confronting them to scare them into thinking she knows a lot and has proof (even if she does or doesn’t)

These 3 have the exact same kind of shooting/framing;

So, Max, Will and Robin have their hearts broken/are forced to watch the person they like/love/has a crush on, with somebody else, knowing/thinking they will never have their chance.

But sure, it's all in our heads.

Although stancy/jancy doesn't have the same kind of framing, I added because this is about broken hearts/thinking they lost their chance/will never have a chance.

Like in this scene for example. I think it's really interesting how they framed it because why the hell this would be Max's reaction seeing El and Mike if she doesn't have feelings for El?

Also this scene can be pretty much compared/paralleled with any byler scene where Will has to watch El and Mike together. (Feel free to reblog and add those byler scenes for science)

I won't even add the way Max looks at El here (I already posted this before, and I'll probably make a more specific post another time).

But anyway, this is Robin looking at Vickie with her boyfriend

It's pretty much the same way Max was looking at El and Mike. So, yes, once again, I must be imagining things, right?

-Carla Gugino:

You go to the bathroom in the middle of the day and are like “I should brush my teeth” DO IT!!!! Don’t listen to the other half of that sentence that says “shit but it’s not the right time” 

I don’t care if you’re about to eat, or get coffee, or whatever. 

I’m a big fan of the 2 PM shower. spend a whole morning feeling lazy and guilty, then just decide to start the day over again, even if it is lunchtime.

Travis wears the coat first. He and Natalie take the blessing and go out to look for Javi. Travis hallucinates (prophesies?) that Javi is dead and buried beneath the snow, but Natalie shows him it's only a fox. Travis finds the strange, mossy tree stump. The next day Travis has strong feelings about which direction is best to search for Javi in, and we don't see more of him until Nat reveals the bloody pants. Not that weird, all things considered. New season, new wardrobe additions. Hiking on a caloric deficit with PTSD, you'll probably hallucinate. Pretty standard stuff.

Then Nat wears the coat. She takes it to lay Jackie's bones to rest at the crash site, and while she wears it she sees (hallucinates? prophesies? I'm not sure!) the white moose that they'll later lose to the lake (ergo the hunt, ergo Javi dies for real but more on that later).

We get to Old Wounds, the hunting competition, and Lottie wears the coat now. You see where I'm going with this but just to be thorough: she enters the realm of death dreams, talks with Laura Lee, almost freezes to death.

Episode five. Melissa wears the coat. Maybe that's not important! Maybe it's just to show that they all share the wardrobe, and that the side characters are as equally All In This Together as the main characters are. Or it could mean something that a peripheral character, wearing important wardrobe, framed in antlers (not unlike Travis in 2.01), has the line "maybe he did die, and that's his ghost." It's a little suspicious, and at this point starts to feel like a pattern.

Who wears it next, who wore it best!? That's right baby, it's Paul! For his dreamworld drifter, hallucination hunk Coach Ben Scott. Nicholas Urfe himself. Ben spends almost all of his time in a dream, until *drumroll please* Paul, very pointedly, takes the coat and walks out the door. "Where do you think you are, Ben?" he puts the coat on. "You had to have known you couldn't stay here forever. [...] What matters now is that you aren't welcome here anymore." Following Paul means committing to death (to dream), and until interruption that's the choice Ben makes. Because letting Paul (and the coat) go would mean committing entirely to reality.

Of course, the pièce de résistance is something I didn't even notice until I went looking for it. The first dozen times I watched, I thought that after Lottie's beating Shauna brought her a blanket. "Lottie's cold." But she doesn't. She brings her the coat. Lottie is laying with it when, in a fever dream, she witnesses/hallucinates/prophesies parts of the hunt.

It's there again (on the back of the chair) when she sits by the fire and speaks for the wilderness, appointing Nat their queen. Ben watches, having woken from the dream himself, as they all bow to Natalie and leave reality behind for good.

Of course, there are a lot of times when characters hallucinate strange things in the cabin while not wearing the coat, because they're all starving to death and traumatized. Mari. Shauna. Akilah. But in addition to that, it seems like a pattern worth noting that in each instance where a character wears the technicolor coat, the line between the real and the imagined seems to blur with more ease. Does dead cabin guy's technicolor dreamcoat help the Yellowjackets connect to the dream realm?

I'll be brief here with the biblical parallel: blah blah Joseph is the favorite son (you were always its favorite), his father gives him a technicolor coat (they're nothing special, they don't change color in the cold or anything). blah blah Joseph starts having prophetic dreams etc etc his jealous brothers throw Joseph down a pit (the wilderness chose) and bring his bloodstained coat back as false proof of his death (hanging on a branch. a couple miles back). You get my drift.