Yellowjackets (2021-present) is a dual-timeline thriller/drama with elements of survival horror. It features a mostly-female cast and explores themes of girlhood/womanhood, faith and religion, and society vs. wilderness. It asks the questions: What would you do to survive? And could you live with yourself afterwards?
how long could we be a sad song? [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Tai and Van, in a house in upstate New York. Van is dying; Tai is pissed.
as sweet as cherry wine [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Explicit
Tai and Van return to the wilderness, in a way.
tenderly they turned to dust (all that i adored) [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Teen & Up
The first time Van Palmer comes back from the dead, she's furious. The second time she's incredulous, delirious, desperate for something to cling to.
The third time, it's like there's nothing left of her.
if i could never give you peace [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Explicit
A classic setup: 2x07 but Tai and Van don't get interrupted, and instead find an empty cabin.
with you, it's what i need [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Explicit
Post season 2. Tai is in New Jersey, Van is in New York; phone conversations ensue.
Rating: Teen & Up
Tai and Van - the kiss on the compound. Written after the 2x07 promo came out.
til the gravity's too much [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Explicit
Tai reaches for her, and Van can't say no to her. She's never been able to.
as long as we don't touch [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Tai and Van, after the 2x05 kiss.
Series: (you should see) the things we do
TaiShauna adventures in light to not-so-light bondage (and other non-bondage-related smut, and also a threesome with Van).
Rating: Explicit for all
in the way only you could [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Teen & Up
In their mid-twenties, Shauna leaves Jeff. She goes to the only place she can think of.
AKA the "Shauna sleeps on Tai's couch in her law school apartment" fic.
to be known so well [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Teen & Up
Tai and Shauna, over the years. They're not supposed to keep in touch, but they do, now and then. It's not romantic, but it's not NOT romantic.
if i could hold you [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Van draws the queen instead of Natalie. Tai and Shauna's relationship gets a lot more messed up. (Also significantly features Tai/Van and Shauna/Jackie.)
where the dark remembers you [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Teen & Up
1x08 bedsharing redux.
Rating: Teen & Up
It's the same old story: Tai isn't sleeping. She calls the only person she can.
this heart still beats for you [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Teen & Up
The Shauna/Jackie Ghost (1990) AU that absolutely nobody asked for. IN WHICH: Jackie is Patrick Swayze, Shauna is Demi Moore, and Lottie is Whoopi Goldberg. In short: Jackie solves her own murder, with the help of a storefront psychic named Lottie Matthews.
no one else can do it better [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Three times Shauna and Jackie kissed - twice while Jackie was alive, and once after she was gone.
home is where your teeth sink, love [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
A few weeks after Jackie's death, Shauna wakes up to a scratching at the window. Zombie AU, kind of.
(no choice but to) stay here forever [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Shauna Shipman and arrested development.
so you can sharpen your knife [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Teen & Up
Worshiping your bestie...just girly things.
can't choose how we're made [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
A transition timeline, of sorts. Her name is Isabel. The wilderness will always be part of her, and so will Nat.
Series: a new covenant (a real sharp one)
Van post-rescue, falling apart. Part 1: Van spirals. Part 2: Van joins another cult.
Rating: Explicit for part 1, Mature for part 2
the killing time (unwillingly mine) [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Reluctant antler queen Taissa Turner. Lottie finds out about her sleepwalking early in the series, and at doomcoming she crowns Tai instead of herself. Things diverge from there.
too much faith (in the make-believe) [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Teen & Up
A fic predicated on the premise: What if Laura Lee intensely believed that the rapture was imminent? Would it be sad? (Yes.)
a vessel for your good intent [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Shauna in the rescue and the aftermath. How does the butcher become a suburban housewife?
the body as the precipice [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Teen & Up
Van has been ignoring their gender for decades, but that can only go on for so long when you're the owner of a queer video store.
(if you can't scream then) swallow it down [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Van, and the hunt, again and again. / The worst part is how good it tastes, every time.
like our kiss is lost [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Tai character study masquerading as a Tai/Simone fic. / By the time she's twenty-five, Tai is practically normal.
it won't even hurt (i'm already dead) [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Tai, post-rescue, at Howard. Featuring taivan falling apart, letters that are never sent, and the love of my life Simone Abara.
the wreck we've made of our house [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Teen & Up
After the events of season 2, Tai tries to pick up the pieces of her life. Divorce time, baby!
my girl is starshine (on a summer night) [AO3] [SqW]
Rating: Mature
Everyone loves Natalie. Equal parts Misty/Nat, Travis/Nat, Lottie/Nat, and Wilderness/Nat.
Rating: Mature
Shauna's second pregnancy and the associated trauma, featuring Shauna "I don't even like my daughter" Shipman.