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Euphoria 1.02 — Stuntin’ Like My Daddy

Dear God, I know I’ve been a cunt for, like, a lot of my life, and I was mean to Lexi and my family and I am so, so, so sorry, but just please, God, I’m begging you, do not let me die tonight.

EUPHORIA — 1.02 “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy”

[justapotato89]

There's something about euphoria that feels like you're fading in and out of a hallucination. There are parts where it feels so painfully real and grounded and other times it feels like it's a fever dream, it's out of your reach, it's so "stereotypical". I could never imagine dressed like half the characters in the show, having access to a gun in my house, or staying out more than half the night during high school. They fit into the, "dramatising the teenage life to show off the broad spectrum of emotions" thing that people usually talk about when talking about Levinson's way of writing and directing the show.

And yet the flashbacks of Maddy being forced to give up her dream for something not related to her, Nate being forced to assume an appearance of extreme masculinity to protect someone close to him, Kat forever being outcast when she was a kid, waiting on the sidelines purely for her appearance, Cassie seeking male validation for her body because of her father and the way she was sexualised all the time, it hits you with a dull thud when you first come to know of it. And then from then on, every single time you can justify some hallucinatory, seemingly impossible and extreme action of theirs it almost pierces through you because of the knife-like quality of the shock.

Nate gave his dad up to the police because he was tired of protecting him. He did it with a gun hand, and an USB of extremely compromising videos in other. And to the audience, (atleast for me) the air thickens putting some space between them and the "i could never??? A gun???" nature of the action.

Then, he looks back at his dad who stands with his hands behind his head, with an almost elegiac look for what never was, a scared little boy mourning for his father, for their relationship which never could be, and suddenly that the gap ceases to exist with an inward rush of vacuum, pushing the detached audience head first into the ocean of overwhelming empathy and connection. Every moment Elordi's character stays there, the intense fluid highlights on his eyes, hand unwilling to pull, the audience is pushed further and further, drowned into that feeling, almost bordering on suffocation.

There's a space between real and not, and that's where euphoria exists for me. The naming is quite apt, because euphoria, the feeling itself, is real and reachable, but when you reach it, its impossible to realise you're manic. And when you don't, it's impossible to think of something that can even close in on a feeling like that. Hence, it's so hard to anchor that feeling down, it passes by between breaths. I'm pretty sure Nate will go back to being an asshole for most of the time in S3, abusive, manipulative, and yet that brief window of vulnerability really drives you insane. Makes it seem so real. Gives the show almost a liminal quality for me. Which is again, quite apt, since they're at the liminal period between childhood and adulthood.

What I suppose I'm trying to say is, it's so real because it ceases to be so. It's paradoxical, illogical but filled with overthinking characters, characters who are observant yet fail to observe the most basic of signals, characters who are unempathetic but the most suffering. This juxtaposition at the heart of adolescence which is adapted into the driving force of the show is what makes it so fucking real.

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Euphoria - Halloween

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recasting the mcu with actors from the tvd universe

@babycap and @pellucid-constellations expressed interest in this so here y’all go. feel free to ask me about any of these choices.

Bruce Banner - David Anders (John Gilbert)

Bucky Barnes - Michael Malarkey (Enzo St. John)

Clint Barton - Colin Woodel (Aiden from TO)

Peggy Carter - Leah Pipes (Cami O’Connell)

Phil Coulson - Zach Roerig (Matt Donovan)

Carol Danvers - Kat Graham (Bonnie Bennett)

Drax - ? Nobody is himbo enough

Nick Fury - Robert Pralgo (Tyler’s Dad)

Gamora - Nishi Munshi (Gia from TO)

Groot - ?

Ikaris - Paul Wesley (Stefan Salvatore)

Scott Lang - Steven Krueger (Josh from TO)

Loki - Joseph Morgan (Klaus Mikaelson)

Mantis - Kaylee Bryant (Josie Saltzman)

Wanda Maximoff - Danielle Rose Russell (Hope Mikaelson)

Nebula - Claire Holt (Rebekah Mikaelson)

Okoye - Tracy Ifeachor (Ayo from TO)

Peter Parker - Quincey Fouse (MG)

Pepper Potts - Candice King (Caroline Forbes)

Peter Quill - Nathaniel Buzolic (Kol Mikaelson)

James Rhodes - Demetrius Bridges (Dorian from TVD/Legacies)

Rocket - Daniel Sharman (Also Kol Mikaelson)

Steve Rogers - Nathan Parsons (Jackson Kenner)

Natasha Romanoff - Riley Voelkel (Freya Mikaelson)

Sersi - Remember Sophie’s sister Jane Anne from TO S1? Her.

Shang-Chi - Ben Levin (Jed from Legacies) (there is literally one asian man in the entire franchise I s2g)

Shuri - Omono Okojie (Cleo from Legacies)

Tony Stark - Ian Somerhalder (Damon Salvatore)

Stephen Strange - Daniel Gillies (Elijah Mikaelson)

T’Challa - Yusuf Gatewood (Finn Mikaelson/Vincent Griffiths)

Thanos - Sebastian Roche (Mikael)

Thor - Michael Trevino (Tyler Lockwood)

Valkyrie - Maisie Richardson Sellers (Eva/Also Rebekah Mikaelson)

Hope Van Dyne - Danielle Pineda (Sophie Deveraux)

Vision - Casper Zafer (Finn Mikaelson)

Sam Wilson - Charles Michael Davis (Marcel Gerard)

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flame emoji // @pyreshe

🔥 we all know that the cw has a problem with people of color and writing them correctly (see celeste, and lisina, and aya, and bonnie bennett, who should have been the protagonist of tvd imho because she is so much more compelling than elena, who didn't even get her book personality or her angel wings). but they also have an asian people problem. in the sense that they're, imho, constantly failing them: roswell new mexico? three seasons in and we haven't seen any asian characters aside from the evil indian alien guy from s1.

tvd: aimee bradley played by tiya sicar got killed by katherine because she had a point to make, meanwhile amber bradley, a white girl, lived.

to: gia got killed by one white man for another white man's man pain and suddenly there is no way to resurrect her even though characters came back from the dead before like davina; vincent was happy with ivy but whoops she died for dumb reasons too; van was, if i remember correctly, trying to take care of his family and got raked across the coals for it, and killed for it.

legacies: sanskrit is a core elective at the salvatore school yet there are zero indian characters. except for emma tig, the counselor, whose backstory consists of scraps that are haphazardly stitched together. emma tig flits in and out of the narrative and her character is as unsteady as i am whenever i walk in heels. oh! and don't forget that one nameless indian vampire who had something to do with malivore and then got eaten by it. and don’t even get me started on finch.

and to be fair, i didn't realize this before either. but now that i know, i can't unsee it. and i know it's not really up to the fans to fix stuff like this, and i hope this doesn't come across as me trying to push you - general you - or pressure you because that's not at all my intention. but i can't help but notice that there is only one (1) indian oc in the tvd ocs tag, none in the to ocs tag and none in the legacies ocs tag at the moment, and that there aren't any asian tvd/to/legacies ocs on the rp side of tumblr either.

which is so sad because legacies had the malivore plotline going for a long while: you could use jessie mei li as a child of xihe, and have them be like: "what's a malivore?" while she gathers their bearings and gets on alaric's nerves. or use naomi scott in her power rangers era as either a supernatural creature or a hunter. use simone ashley as a caroline forbes-esque human. or heck, use simone ashley as caroline!

it just sucks that indian characters only exist in tvdu canon to be canon fodder or a side character that gets brought in every once in a while. i tried for a while to bring gia back and though i had lovely interactions that i’ll cherish, it was a struggle sticking with her: i continually lost her muse because i felt as though most people - not all, but most of them - didn't particularly care about gia or what i tried to do with her so i stopped writing her.

not to mention the arrowverse and the way they utterly, utterly failed their characters of color. especially their asian ones like mckenna hall and william dey while white characters like lena luthor get a pass. despite the fact that she brutalized two men of color: malefic and russell rogers. don’t think i’ve forgotten about the way people cheered after william got killed on the show. don’t think i’ve forgotten about jack spheer.

emma, gia, aimee, mckenna, william, jack. all of them are amazing characters to take on and bring back. and yet, as far as i know, as far as i’ve seen, no one writes them.

so let me ask a question that’s been on my mind for a while now: are we really that uncompelling to write about? or is it just that you - general you - don’t feel like doing the necessary research?

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Euphoria - Halloween

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Euphoria isn't real. It's not meant to be logical.

It's the intrusive thought you have on your first whiff of cigarette. The flashbacks on how you promised that you'd never touch one because everyone told you how bad they were. The cinematic breaking of the promise which you're convinced starts you on a journey of drugs and alcohol. Rue is the dream you have that same night, family broken apart due to one whiff. It's how you convince yourself your first love is your true love. After reading so many stories about highschool heartbreak, and so many people with their blogs and videos and "funny" stories about highschool breakups, you still try to convince yourself its worth it. You're still unforgiving, you're still yourself, you still have control. You could break it off. You're Maddy. But you don't need to because you love them, and they love you. And that's why you're Maddy.

It's when you find yourself seeking comfort with how someone looks at you. How they play with your hair. How you keep your hair so they can play with it. How you wear short sleeves so they rest their palm on your elbow. It's the way you dress yourself for them, after watching feminist videos and podcasts and articles, how you still put your eyeliner on so you look pretty. Cassie is what the world has convinced you you are. If you choose the flowery top instead of a comfy tshirt, you're pretty much just batting your eyelashes at them and taking 4 hours every morning to get ready no?

It's when you think you're so fucked up no one will ever get you. It's when you think you're defined by your intrusive thoughts, its as bad as doing them. Everyone loves you, but it's so complex in your head and back home. You don't like them. Frankly, you think they're not worthy to be liked by you. You think you're not worthy to be liked by yourself. Nate is when you wish you had blackmail over that one bitch, when you thought it'd just be easy to be a fucking asshole.

You're not those. But this show is about the fact that even if you were those, life wouldn't be over. You could make the worst fucking decisions, do the worst things in your life, and it'd still go on. Maybe you'd make more worse decisions, maybe you'll make one good one.

It's the stories that you make up in your head, how you'd be if no one taught you to control your life. How it'd be if everyone left your life to your own hands from a young age. How you'd push you and the world would push you until your back was to the wall.

But the wall is so much further. You're not even halfway there. The wall you have set up is much, much nearer. And you're gonna be absolutely fine.

It's about how the world feels when you're young. How debilitating and life ruining every small wrong decision feels. Every thought feels. How ecstatic, euphoric, every success feels. How it feels to have a body that's against you, a mind that wants to free itself of its body. It's about the extremes, it's about the stories.

Now you smoke 3 cigarettes a week. You talk about hating your coworkers. You buy pretty cocktail dresses for bars, for people you don't know and frankly don't like. How you convince yourself every love is real love to just feel like what it is to love. And maybe be loved. Possibly. Hopefully.

3 cigarettes is nothing compared to that first whiff. You don't feel it, till you look back inside your diary. That's nostalgia. That's stupidity. That's over-exaggeration. That's love. That's plot. That's the space between your thoughts and the real world. That's your story. That's the liminal world, fully furnished with imaginations. That's euphoria.

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Euphoria 1.02 — Stuntin’ Like My Daddy

Euphoria | Gia | Stuntin’ Like My Daddy

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Euphoria - Halloween

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Rue Bennett’s house

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Rue Bennett’s house

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Euphoria 1.02 — Stuntin’ Like My Daddy

every episode of euphoria  1.02 - “stuntin’ like my daddy”

“that’s the weird thing about the internet. ten people can feel like the whole world.”

[swoftbambi]

spoilers S1 episodes 1-7 of euphoria under the cut!! 🎀🦢

1. fuck nate jacobs i hate him i hate him i hate him. does he just pick who he wants to manipulate cause why jules. to be fair i kinda know why jules she sent him pictures and he can easily use that for his own selfish game. but fuck nate jacobs.

2. maddie perez. i love her mentality if i could do nothing for the rest of my life i would 100%. i love her attitude and i love how she dumped the jacobs family chili. but free my girl from the shackles of nate jacobs please she should not have been going every friday to a fucking motel just to meet this scum

3. cassie howards. i feel so bad for her because i kinda relate to her, but not the nudes, and sex part. but i love her and she deserves the world. her and mckay are perfect for each other. listen cassie stop tryna get with daniel, even though your stopping yourself from getting to the next level please. ALSO IM WATCHING EPISODE 7 RN AND SHE JUST ADMITTED AHE PREGNANT OMG. I HOPE MCKAY DOES SOMETHING GOOD CAUSE OMFG.

4. rue bennett. my dear dear rue. now i never saw anyone say this but i did think that her and jules were a lil toxic. she only wanted to get clean because of jules and that’s a bit toxic IN MY OPINION. she should’ve started getting clean for herself. but besides that i do think her and jules would be great!! i hope she gets out of this depression because i can’t stand to see rue like this

5. KAT KAT MY DARLING. i love how she got her confidence. i fucking love it!! but the whole pornstar thing she’s too young but i understand why. i love how she grew into herself she’s kinda a man eater and i love that.

6. jules. miss it girl. i love her but. please please please stop going on dating apps. i just want her to be safe. but besides that i love seeing her explore herself. but i fucking love jules. now there are flaws with her.

7. fez!!! that’s my dude!!! i love how he’s looking after rue. and ashtray is so cute. fuck nate jacobs rn because i think he just fucking called the cops on fez and i’m not about to have it. i’m fez is a drug dealer but tbh i don’t th ink he wants to be maybe i’m wrong but that’s what i think. he’s just doing it for his grandpa.

8. stingray mckay is so good. fuck his fraternity. we hate them on this blog we hate frats. swear to god him and cassie are so good togeyrjr. i do hate how he referred to him and cassies relationship as ‘jus chillin’. if my boyfriend said that to me i would never talk to him again. dont fucking play with me.

honorable mentions! 🥥🧸

cassies sister, lexi: what a goofie goober she is i love her. her bob ross outfit was too cute. she genuinely loves her friends and rue. love it

gia: girl what the hell is you doing smoking weed at the carnival parking lot, and go to a highschool party with roy/troy. but i feel for u, i feel bad for her. i truly do, having to see your sister OD and her leaving to go to rehab would traumatize me.

daniel: get a fucking hobby omg. you wanna fuck cassie so badly get a grip just cause you didn’t get your corndog sucked your gonna act like a bitch. anyways cassie did lead you on tho

ethan: you and kat would be perfect. but kat’s a bad bitch so you prolly will never be with her lol.

watching euphoria🏹🧜🏾‍♀️☁️

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Euphoria 1.01 — Pilot

every episode of euphoria  1.01 - “pilot”

“hey yo casper! need a ride?”