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Having lost my beautiful mother this year, it has taken a lot to move forward with a broken heart. She defines the woman I want to be, the mother I want to be, the human being I want to be. I am blessed to call her mine. In this year of acceptance I internalized: ♦️Love yourself as your mother loved you - she always saw the very best in you ♦️Make your red line the one where you are not loved the way you deserve to be loved ♦️Even when life is a string of tragedies, be your own light because life itself is a gift. On days I don’t feel like going on, I tell myself how hurt her soul would be to see me give up. On days I feel neglected, I remind myself how she had loved me. On days I feel belittled, her voice tells me I am more than enough. She shone from within in a life that wasn’t kind to her but not everybody could see that light. I now realize that it is a gift to be able to perceive true love. It teaches one to forgive easily, accept gracefully, love freely. Like her, I choose to embrace love. For me, she was, is and will always be love. She fills the fractures of my life with her love, even from the afterlife. For those of you who also found your twin soul in your mom, hug her tight for as long as you can. Call her if you haven’t in a while. Make memories that will be the balm to your soul when she can no longer walk next to you.

The reaction to this slap is weird. Rue is a self-absorbed, walking disaster who is a danger to herself and those around her. This slap is long overdue. Her sense of entitlement, that she can just walk in and out of Jules’ life, is another level of narcissism. Jules made her life choices; Rue doesn’t get to judge them and be unwilling to be held to the same standard. She’s been a drug mule, buried a dead body, tried to frame someone else, now an informant, and yet thinks she can waltz into Jules’ life and start dreaming of a future with kids. This entire arc is delusional. For all the complaints about violence, co-opting this into a ‘man’ hitting a woman, is utterly shallow. Jules is a woman, who lives and emotes as a woman. She is hitting her ex-girlfriend, who has been a flake and provided no emotional security in their on-off relationship. Rue’s unreliability can be seen as a form of betrayal that erodes trust in a person. Where was this outrage when Maddy got violent with Cassie and gave her a bloody nose?! People were celebrating. Violence is violence. One is not more valid than the other. People debating all these gray areas, and making the debate about their own soap box, is continued hypocrisy at its best.

Given the responses from #NinaKing and #TrishaPaytas and how both seem taken aback by how little screentime they have in the final, it is possible that the same happened with other major actors too and some got far more or less airtime than expected. #Euphoria

Oh please. Every generation goes through their own versions of high school angst and trauma. And every subsequent generation seems more vapid than the last. Nobody expects adulthood to be rosy for such flawed characters but, in the name of drama, it’s been taken to such extremes that the characters are unrelatable.

@entrespire @PopBase Y’all are missing the point to see the traumatizing shit. They went through in high school. And to ask shocked about how that affects their adult hood is insane. Because it takes an immense amount of psychological energy to hold down a lifetime of trauma,

What did you think of tonight’s Euphoria episode?

@BeyondReporter_ Dull and lacking the emotional depth that defined the first two seasons. Anyone still saying that they are in love with this story is in denial, including Sam himself. I feel sorry for the wasted talent of this amazing cast.

What did you think of episode 6 of Euphoria?

I hate it when my sarcasm is validated. @HBO @euphoriaHBO you did us dirty. #JacobElordi 🤦🏻‍♀️

@JaneDarcy9 @XFashion Resistance is futile 😂😂😂

@entrespire @XFashion hahahaha you got me! Chicos was for my mom until recently when I got on that wagon 🤣

At what age does one transition from shopping at #Express to #Chicos? @XFashion What do these curated photos convey about how society perceives women as they age?

Not a bunch of noobs pretending like Demet invented Çağatay🙄 They are two equally matched professionals who built stellar careers on their own merit. They both know when to walk away from a story and move on to their next station. Neither is hurting for money or opportunities.

This is the right call for the team and the production. Go out on a high and leave a work that will have fantastic international sales for years to come. #EşrefRüya #ÇağatayUlusoy

@poppybe7 Dev Patel is an award winning actor, with a BAFTA win; Oscar, golden globe, Emmy nominations. He was gpretty famous for a while and a decade ahead of this lot. Doesn’t take away from Jacob’s achievements though.

Zendaya, jacob elordi y aunque no sea fan de ella sydney son bastante más estrellas de cine y más conocidos que la mayoría de esos por mucho que se empeñen aquí en hacerse los guays 😅 y encima Zendaya con dos emmys y jacob nominado al Oscar y demás premios importantes así que...

I enjoyed reading this piece on #Euphoria @SnoozyWeiss; it aligns well with opinions I have shared over time - in a far more delicate tone:) Yes, Euphoria has always been a bold social commentary on our milieu, tackling topics we would much rather pretend did not exist. The gender euphoria sought by increasing levels of entitled self-expression is well captured through the narrative and the visuals. However, it was done the best in Season 1, which captured its core audience. Season 2 also did well with balancing the pushing of boundaries with well-crafted storytelling. Season 3 is imbalanced and that is where the biggest rub is. More so than Sweeney’s over the top and uncharacteristic depiction of this uncontrolled Tinker Bell, fluttering for attention. All the characters are five years down the road but most have veered from where they were expected to go. They are all caught in ruts, all chasing euphoria of some form powered by their own form of drug - hallucinogens, s$x, money, lust, envy, greed, power. The depiction is more crass and repetitive than it needs to be, making it feel as though there is more smoke than fire. With such a stellar cast, the shallow approach is not feeling as clever as should and can be. Sydney baring her b00bs is a necessary perk of Sydney being on screen. It’s not a judgement and more power to her for embracing herself and the zeitgeist with her feminine power and bold strength. But, in the Sweeney-Zilla scene, which is quite the cinematic feat and captures the contradiction of how erotica is overshadowing art in the Mecca of the Arts, her baring herself added little to what had already as been shown for several minutes in the opening sequence already. My first reaction was to groan “again?”. This repetitive hammering of the concepts over and over again - Cassie’s eroticism and increasing vapidity, Nate’s hapless string of idiocy, Rue’s & Jules’ self-destructive, manic behavior, Maddy’s calculating and self-serving intoxication with money, Lexi’s self-righteous but hollow pursuit of glory - have been presented in every possible angle, multiple times. And that’s what irks a vested audience more than some moral outcry about Cassie repeatedly poking at a content, media, and validation hungry generation. None of the characters we got to know has had a relatable progression. I have no issues with the social commentary Sam tackles - the more clever the parallels, the richer the appreciation. But in favor of creating good looking cinema, his story seems compromised. And the strongest winner out of all this this far has been OnlyFans.

Who would have thought this guy would let some thug amputate him not once but twice?! If Nate is meant to die this season, let him die of shame. #Euphoria #NateJacobs

You put one of your most bankable stars in completely unbankable scenarios, leaving folks scratching their heads about what they are watching. Yes, misfortune abounds for you @euphoriaHBO @HBO • your marginal viewership is deservedly falling relative to S2.

The irony of a fraud funding “The Wolf of Wall Street” and now the creep is looking for a pardon from Trump. Hollywood/Bollywood has been a hub of money laundering for a long time. The world is full of depraved people strutting around like peacocks. 🔗👇 variety.com/2025/film/glob…

A reminder of wasted potential. Hunter brought far more heart into Season 1 but her talent seems inversely proportional to her popularity.

A new species ~ one who’s immune to the charms of #ÇağatayUlusoy 😄

@elordibr0con It’s at the beginning montage when she’s still talking about growing up with the boys. You blink and you miss it😄

I feel like I’m stupid did I miss this or