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25-year-old Van Palmer (freshly heartbroken and living on Melissa's couch) needs roommates... And fast. Enter: Nat Scatorccio (fresh from rehab, definitely queer, probably flight risk) and Jackie Taylor (running from her compulsory heteronormative life, definitely NOT queer, according to Jackie).
What follows is a year-long masterclass in queer self-discovery featuring: Van's comprehensive flannel naming system, Nat's brutal honesty, Jackie's increasingly detailed "Gay Journey" notebook, and the slowest-burn Shauna/Jackie reconciliation in queer history.
No plane crash. No cannibalism. Just three queer disasters in a Brooklyn walk-up learning that found family isn't about survival—it's about choosing to stay.
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09 Jun 2026
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“Sure, I'll do it,” Nat agrees. Against her better judgement, maybe, but fuck it—she’s never been one for smart decisions, and she won't start now. “I'll be your arm candy, rage bait, whatever. Just don’t go falling in love with me or anything.”
The corner of Lottie’s mouth curls upwards, showing her crooked tooth. “I’ll do my best.”
She holds out her right hand, waiting. Nat reaches out and takes it, and there: an agreement struck by words, bound by skin. Down the hall, across sun-drenched tiling, the shadows of tree branches stretch out like antlers below them.
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07 Jun 2026
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Nat slows, hands in her jacket pockets and brows slightly raised because she’s never exactly been close with Lottie.
Yet there she is, peeling a menacing gaze away from the group of boys and settling a soft one upon Natalie once she spots her, all long brown hair and tan skin and god, Nat is always fucking winded at how tall she is.
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—Do you have any weapons on you?
—I have a longing that's killing me.
Mahmoud Darwish, from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)- Language:
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07 Jun 2026
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come to my window (crawl inside by the light of the moon) by alilbitgay
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
26 Jan 2024
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It’s just that sometimes, she thinks about Lottie, standing in her backyard, her eyes all soft in the starlight and her hair messy from climbing out of bed. Her mind slips past the memory, and the rain starts pouring down, and they stand there getting soaked and just looking at each other, and Nat feels like she’s reading poetry in Lottie’s eyes.
or: 4 times lottie climbs through nat's bedroom window, and one time nat returns the favor.
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- Part 1 of the come to my window cinematic universe
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05 Jun 2026
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once you stop, stop looking (it’ll hit you in the face) by novel_concept26
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
15 Sep 2023
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A week before Nationals, the Yellowjackets are primed for a bonding weekend. In the woods. Where they are all definitely equipped for camping and enough gay panic to fuel a plane.
(A Tumblr prompt fill [anon]: Instead of the plane crashing into the Wilderness—the team willingly goes camping in the woods, in order to team bond before nationals (Jackie's idea).)
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05 Jun 2026
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Natalie's life has been a rollercoaster of extreme lows and incredible highs. She makes meaningful friendships that run so deep in her she can't just throw them away. Not even after what Jackie said that one winter. Or when Natalie pulled the trigger that night and tried to push them all away. She's never known a sense of peace and yet, it's all she feels when she's around Lottie Matthews.
Lottie Matthews life has been one of loneliness. Absent parents, voices only she can hear, and no meaningful connections. Her mind seems to be her enemy most days and she knows it'll never give her peace. So why does Natalie Scatorccio call her mind beautiful and says she can't sleep at night unless it's with Lottie?
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31 May 2026
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“Um,” Jackie starts and twists at the bottom of her shirt with her fingers. “My, uh, parents aren’t…” She swallows, throat bobbing. “I can’t go home,” she whispers. “And Shauna is mad at me and she needs space even- even if she won’t say it, I know and— and I don’t want her to feel obligated… I just— I can’t— I have nowhere to go.”
Nat blinks at her a few times before she sighs heavily. “Goddamnit, Taylor,” she mutters harshly before she looks at her, almost angrily. “Let’s go. I can’t leave you out here on your own and something happen to you. Shipman would kick my ass.”
Jackie smiles wobbly and reaches out, carefully, and curls her fingers into Nat’s sleeve. “Thank you,” she says softly, thankfully despite the small tear tracks on her face.
“Whatever,” Nat bites out, but doesn’t pull away from Jackie’s grip on her jacket.
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OR,How one horrible night of November ‘96 brings the yellowjackets together closer than they’ve ever been all due to Jackie’s shitty parents.
OR,
Jackie Taylor collects friendships like they’re pokemon and is (mostly) oblivious.
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30 May 2026
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'Nat had understood. Of course she’d understood. But that had made it worse. The guilt was all encompassing. She wasn’t even angry, not really, instead just soaking in the guilt and self-hatred that had been brewing within her for longer than she’d like to admit. '
or; Nat gets sober, Lottie gets medicated, Van gets to bang them together like two barbies
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27 May 2026
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show me where my armor ends (show me where my skin begins) by aliciaclarkes
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
23 Jul 2023
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“This is just a one time thing,” Natalie reinforces quietly, refusing to look at Lottie as she says it. Her voice isn’t bitter or gritting, it’s just matter-of-fact. It’s simply a command that this won’t happen again, that Natalie won’t find herself crawling through Lottie’s window on all fours any other night this week or month or year. Lottie doesn’t believe it for a second, but she agrees regardless. It placates Natalie, to give in to something like this where tenderness is on the line, so her silent head nod is nothing short of generous.
newsflash - it was not a one time thing. or; the girls get nightmares after being rescued. sleeping with someone else seems to help.
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26 May 2026
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i'm the smiling face on your tv (oh, i'm the cult of personality) by Pirateofantiva
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
25 Jul 2023
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Rescue comes in the winter of ’97, not ‘98: Jackie doesn’t die and Natalie’s never crowned, but the violence endures. Nat leaves her heart, spirit, and soul in the wilderness; Jackie loses two fingers, her memory, and Shauna Shipman. They’re figuring it out, together.
It works, right up until Lottie crashes her car into a tree and upends absolutely fucking everything.
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In the summer of ’99, the fractured Yellowjackets reunite to play the single worst season of roller derby that central Jersey has ever seen.Bookmarked by AlwaysChallenged
26 May 2026
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Lottie has her driver’s license for two and a half weeks before she totals her brand new Audi.
(you know, that age-old trope of 'friends to carpoolers to lovers' come on, you know the trope, it's great)
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25 May 2026
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There’s a reason Nat avoids physical touch.
She’s fine with sex, impersonal and fast, and she accepts the exuberant clash of her teammates when they win, but other than that she doesn't touch anyone and she doesn't let anyone touch her, either.
Because Nat is all burnt edges and hard lines and anger. She’s not made for tenderness, she isn't built to be held, or protected, or caressed. She couldn't tell you the last time someone hugged her, or held her just for the sake of holding her. And it's better that way, because deep down Nat thinks one gentle touch might break her completely.
Then along comes Lottie Matthews, all big brown eyes and faux-innocent expression, asking to fucking hug her and well.
It all just spirals from there.Touch adverse/touch starved Nat + five times Lottie touches her
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25 May 2026
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No matter how stubborn she is about it there is no doubting that Natalie Scatorccio is very sick and has a cold, but lucky for her, Lottie is there to help her.
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25 May 2026
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van
will lottie and nat ever escape the lovers allegations? truly who can saylottie
we WILLnat
stfu van nobody caresvan
whats that shakespeare quote?? the one. the relevant onecrystal
the lady doth protest too muchvan
THATS THE BITCHnat
well jokes on you i dont know what that means so you cant burn melottie
it means that someone is denying something a suspicious amount!! hope that helps :))jackie
yeah theyre never escaping those allegations.
“Well. I should probably get back to class. I’ll see you fifth period?”
“Yeah. I’ll see you fifth period.” Nat presses her lips together to keep from smiling.
Lottie doesn’t do a thing to hold back her magnificent smile, and it takes Nat’s breath away. “Bye, Nat.”
The exchange is stretching out longer than it needs to, Natalie can feel awkwardness seeping into the dingy tile beneath her feet, but she still lets her breath out a moment longer before she speaks. “Bye, Charlotte.”
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lottienat no-crash au spliced with groupchat shenanigans
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25 May 2026
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“My parents are going to DC next week,” she mumbles into Van’s sweatshirt. She’s tired—they’ve been up since five—but Jackie’s decided that the ride home should be an all-out ABBA singalong.
Taissa has the house—and ideally Van—to herself. She forgets about team bonding. And Van's mom.
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25 May 2026
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homesick for you (even in heaven) by dollfaces for MamaWeeds
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
28 Jul 2023
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Van has a teeny, tiny cold. But it's fine. She's fine.
(Reader, she was not fine).
or, Van’s pretty sick. Tai (and Nat) notice.
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25 May 2026
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i’ll take what i can get (give me everything you’ve got) by chasingfictions
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
18 May 2023
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in which callie tries to convince all her gen x cannibal aunts that they are in fact queer
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“Like — Aunt Lottie, you are a lesbian, right?”
“I really feel more that I connect to a — a person’s soul. Their spirit. I’m a fluid being. We all are, really.”
Callie’s trying so hard not to lose her mind. “Okay, but have you ever felt connected to a man’s soul or spirit?”Bookmarked by AlwaysChallenged
24 May 2026
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It hadn’t been Trinity’s plan to piss anyone off today.
But when she runs into an unhappy father in the ambulance bay, there's a part of her that can't help but provoke him.
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03 May 2026
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“There’s money on you or Abbot snagging that resident first.”
This piques Emery’s attention. Abbot. No mention of the intern. She tries not to let her interest show on her face. “Funny. I don’t know which resident you’re talking about.”
Garcia snorts. “I think you do.”
Walsh does not have a crush. However, when she finds out Dr. Samira Mohan is, in fact, single, she makes her move.
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28 Apr 2026
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this would be really funny if it weren't happening to me by lateralparallel
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
19 Oct 2025
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The second time Trinity sees Emery Walsh is two weeks after PittFest.
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27 Apr 2026