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[kanelia]

I am happy people have finally realised Euphoria is made by a misogynistic creep, but then again, it should not have taken 3 seasons to realise this when the show has had teen characters being "empowered" by selling sex to adult men since season 1.

[littleraysofmoonlight]

wow, I really love Zendaya and her representation of the brutal, unglamorous reality of addiction, alcoholism, and mental illness. I’d sure hate it if Sam Levinson turned this show into a blatantly male centered fetish-fest for his own entertainment!

[random-person10]

Euphoria Season 3

It's one thing for a show to make scenes that are shocking and eventually tie them to the plot, and another when it does that for the sole reason of shocking the audience.

The nudity, the drug mule scenes, Nate getting the teeth knocked out of him... none of that shit is significant to the plot, it's all just there because Sam Levinson thinks its grotesqueness will land him a name up with all “the greats” such as Quentin Tarantino (which I can see a hint of in the scenes, reminds me a bit of pulp fiction)

You can try to analyse euphoria all you like to explain why Sam Levinson decided to add in specific details and leave out others, but in reality, the man just scrapped his first two seasons and decided to fully indulge in himself, his fantasies, and what he thinks is cinema.

I think John Waters' theory of good bad taste explains this well: "One must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste. It's easy to disgust someone; I could make a ninety-minute film of people getting their limbs hacked off, but this would only be bad bad taste and not very stylish or original. To understand bad taste, one must have very good taste. Good bad taste can be creatively nauseating but must, at the same time, appeal to the especially twisted sense of humour, which is anything but universal.”

And Sam Levinson hasn't got the talent to begin to understand any of this.

[junglejim4322]

Man with female hysteria x woman with male loneliness or something

[junglejim4322]

Better call Saul

[daisiesonafield-blog]

For those obsessed with Heated Rivalry who have already read the books, Rachel Reid, the author, has 4 extra short stories about Shane and Ilya on her website, along with some cool fan art:

Read here

[random-person10]

Heated Rivalry

It’s so beautiful seeing people who haven’t read the book and are watching the plot from only knowing the show, see and appreciate how truly amazing and mind blowing this book was bro

I found it so impressive how well Jacob Tierney was able to make Reid’s words come to life like this without totally butchering the characters or plot.

I’m not gonna say it’s exactly the way I imagined it, but it’s uncanny how close it is. I was nervous when this show was first announced, but I’m honestly so impressed with the outcome and can’t wait to see what they do with The Long Game

[importantcatpics]

@importantcatpics

[sendme-2hell]

It’s always “phones are ruining our brains” and never “the virus known for post-viral cognitive decline, which causes short term memory loss, brain fog, and decreased spatial reasoning, that we let run rampant through our communities for years is ruining our brains”

[random-person10]

Cognitive decline is wrong to say firstly, use correct terminology and try not to spread dangerous misinformation.

Secondly, this being a common occurrence is a strong assumption, especially when this topic is still being studied and nothing has been confirmed. Plus, these cases include people with comorbidities so you need to take that into account.

I understand what you're getting at, but I think to wait for a scientific consensus and detailed explanation is when you should feel comfortable having a conversation about this.

[11johnn]

in season 3 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[rocktheholygrail]

[your-sister-karamazov]

Crime and Punishment oversimplified -

Everyone: You’re just a normal guy

Raskolnikov: No I’m not

Everyone: Yes, you are

Raskolnikov, smugly: Well, could a normal guy do this? *kills two old women and goes batshit insane for 800 pages*

[probuccalfat]

this feels like a bit. i know it’s not but this is so absurd that it feels like it’s right out of arrested development

[junglejim4322]

[jackoshadows]

When will Americans stop making their shitty "the invaders feel sad and traumatized about doing war crimes" movies?

Coming to theatres in March 2025, Warfare is another shitty movie from Alex Garland and an Iraqi war veteran about fascists murdering countless nameless Iraqis and looking cool as fuck just blowing shit up left and right.

And I get the feeling this shitty movie is going to be all over Tumblr because the cast includes Tumblr faves Joseph Quinn and Kit Connor.

Nearly a million Iraqis died from the unlawful and illegal American invasion of Iraq. Civilians were raped, tortured and murdered with still no accountability till today. The country is still suffering from that war. Bush and co should have been tried and convicted of war crimes at the Hague.

And here Americans are making yet more movies depicting Arabs as the faceless, nameless, dehumanized baddies getting mowed down.

Let's be clear, the Americans are the invaders here, they don't merit any fucking sympathy. It's like making a movie about the Germans as the good guys during World War II - would that ever happen? No. But because Americans still think they are the good guys while massacring countless millions in other countries, we get shitty movies like this.

If you want to watch a war movie about Iraq, watch a movie from the perspective of the people whose country was being invaded:

Mosul (2019)

[random-person10]

Warfare

I don't think I will ever watch this movie. I've seen reviews, trailers, interviews, and the whole song and dance.

As a Iraqi girl who's parents suffered the events, aftermath, and consequences that Iraq was left with during and after the war, and who's visited Iraq multiple times including within the past 2 years. This movie is as tone-deaf as it gets.

I respect American soldiers for one reason and one reason only, and it's because they were just a bunch of unassuming Americans who were chosen in their youth to go and risk any sort of future they might've had for a country who lied and chose to use them as pawns for things deemed as more valuable than their souls and the people they were fighting. These people's lives are forever ruined and there isn't even a justification for any of the sacrifices they made, they left the country worse than they entered it, and it's something they have to live with for the rest of their lives.

American soldiers hold more guilt than any of the actual people responsible for this war ever will.

That said, I cannot express this well enough through a keyboard, but I am fucking sick of watching Iraq and it's war be exploited for the 6th millionth time ever.

Go and fucking search a movie about the goddamn Iraq war and bring me one fucking movie that isn't about the American perspective. None. And that's pretty fucking rich knowing there is well over 20+ movies made about it. THE WAR IS BARELY 20 YEARS OLD.

The only stuff talking about the Iraqi perspective are documentaries, ones that no one's heard of or watched. And to be fucking frank, who's gonna pick a goddamn documentary about a sad country they know nothing about, when there's a movie about guns and shit with Bradley Cooper as the main character.

I've heard the American side and I truly grieve for what they've seen, but what about the children, mothers, fathers, futures, landmarks, houses, businesses, hospitals, and stories of the goddamn civilians in the country where said war happened? Destroyed with no one left in the world to listen to them or make amends.

This war has affected the Iraqi population so deeply that people are still trying to fix the damage themselves without any help from the US. While American soldiers got to go back to safety, Iraqis still had to deal with the dismantled government and destroyed land that the USA left in it's cool cinema-worthy tank tracks.

Warfare wasn't even filmed in Iraq for fucks sake.

Why is it that whenever we are told the Iraqi perspective it's incoherent and foreign? Why is it not simply just human?

If English is the issue then there are English-speaking Iraqis, there are translators, there are a million ways to get it fucking across. Chernobyl (Ukrainain) was acted in fucking English, I'm sure we can give the Iraqi characters clear and intelligible screen time.

And on top of it all, warfare also gets a spectacular cast pick. Ugh like what the fuck is the point anymore? Is the US running low on soldiers again?

How many times do I have to see the catastrophes that my country went through get acted out like it's some play by white men who usually get paid to play house on camera.

I understand the movie is trying to show you how bad and horrendous war is, and in some expensive and weird way it's Ray Mendoza's attempt at expressing his trauma to warn others off of war. But, I wished he expressed a trickle of political and emotional empathy. Instead, it's nothing new. It's just another Iraq war movie. Yay.

There are a million Iraqis who will gladly tell you about their lives during the war. They'll tell you every detail, every traumatic moment, every loss they experienced.

You can make a movie about that. You can go ahead and show Iraqis as more than dirty barefooted children who scream and play in one scene only to get bombed in the next.

[junglejim4322]

They need a pride flag for this

[rosavaya]

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

[anarchistmemedistro]

[mentalhealthmemesofficial]

[notthegrouch]

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” 

- Vincent van Gogh

[engulfes]

HATE when you’re inserting your email somewhere and literally from the first letter the website is like “invalid email address” like yes i know. I’m typing it right now. My email address is obviously not just the letter ‘m’. Stop

[swiftrunnerfelidae]