Estranged

29 | she/her | lost southern cheyenne native 

[nativedaze]

I wish there were magic in my rage. Imagine if women's fear of men fueled my horror and gave me the strength to pluck their eyes out with my claws, turn them to stone, rip them limb from limb... Imagine if the men who deserved it couldn't escape me. How satisfying would it be to know they have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. I'd crawl around their skull at night as they try to dream and reminisce of their life before unending unmerciful all-encompassing terror. Trapped and weeping in their new haunted reality, I'd laugh in their fucking faces.

[nativedaze]

A self portrait

[horrorgifs]

BRIDE OF CHUCKY (1998) dir. Ronny Yu

[nativedaze]

I love Jennifer Tilly

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Anybody interested in joining a virtual art club? All kinds of art is welcome. The only rules are to be excellent to each other and don’t put other people’s art down!

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[sheisraging]

Sydney Sweeney as Cassie Howard

Euphoria: S2.04, You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can

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I'm not convinced that this entire scene wasn't created just to become a gifset on tumblr

[nativedaze]

2 years

They had 2 years to write a second season and we still ended up with an episode that felt like someone tried to capture a Sad Girl Tumblr on film for an hour, hoping that the story would tell itself.

[yodaprod]

When cassettes ruled the world….

Source: Musikkassetten & Tapedeck

[sharkboxes]

[nativedaze]

I hate the Cassie x Nate storyline but not for what you think...

Cassie trying to truth bomb Nate with the fact that Nate and Maddy are toxic is laughable.

I can see why the Euphoria writers would want to tell this story. Chances are we have all encountered a Cassie: whether we are her, her sister, or her friend. Spoilers for S2 Ep 4 ahead.

And we have all helplessly watched the Cassie in our lives absolutely ruin themselves over a piece of shit dude. The gut reaction from the outside point of view is one of resentment whether we want to admit it or not. Logically, we hate Nate. So to see Cassie crawl back to his ass while also being cognizant of him being a piece of shit is so frustrating. It's easy to yell at the screen, "WHY? WHY? WHY?"

And that's the question I feel the writer's of Euphoria are trying to unpack. But are they successful?

Episode 3 was effective in showing us just how much Cassie wants to be seen by Nate. But last night's episode felt like they spent the whole episode just watching Cassie cry about Nate. And it was honestly so fucking boring.

Although I have to say that the moment Cassie threw up in that hot tub I was grateful. For one, that's the realest depiction of what happens when a bunch of sad young idiots get drunk at their friend's house. Secondly, it was nice to actually see some fucking action in this episode.

But what I feel is missing from telling this story is that we are never really shown what Nate is telling Cassie. All those dim lit shots of Nate caressing Cassie's naked body doesn't fully tell that story. I think we need to hear those conversations that Cassie has while crying on the phone with Nate. We need to be shown Cassie's fantasies about what she wants in the way that we saw Rue muse about how much she loves Jules. We need to see more moments of how Nate's warped sense of Heroism makes him just sweet enough at times to totally fucking bewitch Cassie.

If they had built that up, made us really intimately see what Cassie is so desperate for, then maybe it wouldn't have been so fucking hard to watch her cry about this shit for several minutes at several different points in this episode.

OR if you are going to tell us Cassie's story from the outside as through the lens of Lexi like they kind of alluded to in moments then THAT content needs to take up a lot more time and a lot less of us being on set with Cassie in a Sad Girl photoshoot. Yeah it was very pretty very cinematic very visual very AESTHETIC.

but that doesn't mean it's good storytelling and the actress who plays Cassie deserves more and the character of Cassie herself deserves more.

[nativedaze]

My goal in life is to get back into art.

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They teased us with the Lexi x Fezco storyline but then decided to waste precious episode time on this Maddy x Nate x Cassie bullshit.

Like what the fuck is this bullshit? Cassie will go on about how toxic Nate and Maddy are but she’s literally driving herself insane over Nate who has done nothing but antagonize her since season 1! He planted the sexist slut shaming mindset in Makay’s brain that killed his relationship with Cassie. That shit is stupid. I know it’s “real” or whatever but also they aren’t writing any action. They aren’t showing us in depth the things Nate says that are pressing all her insecure attachment issue buttons. They are just wasting time having us watch Cassie cry to music. Yeah, she’s real pretty and real tragic cause her daddy sucked ass but there’s gotta be a more interesting way to tell her story that doesn’t just annoy the fuck outta me.

And back to this Lexi x Fezco thing! At the end of season 1 Lexi expressed wanting to be more the main character in her own story and the first episode seemed to be setting up decent conflict! Lexi is a goodie two shoes and Fezco is a drug dealer but they are both such pure sweethearts. Lexi could bring a new world of culture and thought into Fez’s life. Fez is a minefield of real life experience that Lexi is lacking and depending on how Lexi decides to digest that experience could make for such great story telling! Not to mention all the outside factors of Fez’s gangster lifestyle that could complicate things. Where the fuck is all that action?

But instead we are wasting time slowly panning out on Cassie’s tears. 🙄

[dailyeuphoria]

MADDY & KAT 2.04 “You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can”

[nativedaze]

We are really going to spend 30 minutes per episode watching Cassie cry and make some real fucking annoying leaps of logic to justify her actions and then spend like 2 minutes checking in on Kat who truly has some shit to figure out? Come on!

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I’m just gonna say it...

The season started strong with that first Fezco episode and then adding depth to Cal but now...

Last nights episode honestly sucked lol. The only truly interesting thing to happen was Cal’s 7 minute dick out monologue.

[terminally-deranged]

sam, just hire some writers already

[divine17]

angus cloud and his manager, an ongoing saga

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