When platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn put everyone’s success on display, it seems like it’s only the girls with thousands of followers, the guy with a dad in the industry, and the folks with enough money to spare who are making their dreams happen. If they’re the ones dominating, is there room for the rest of us to succeed? Absolutely, yes. But the key to personal success includes a secret ingredient: “delusional” confidence. Confidence is home-grown. Your confidence is

There’s a beginning. There must be an end. This episode of Euphoria focused on reconciling one’s past with one’s present and future. It also focused on judgement, whether from others or from God. Making mistakes in one’s life is inevitable, but what separates bad from evil? All of the characters are faced with the reality that their betrayals, self-deceptions, and pursuits of fame and fortune have destroyed their lives. The hopes and dreams each character had for their future

This thought process began when I was watching Clueless in my Romantic Writers class. I grew up loving every part of that movie, but the house party scene in the Valley has had a grip on me for the past decade. From the outfits to the dancing and music, the vocabulary, everything was so quintessentially ‘90s. Of course, I mainly thought that because of the setting. Julia Stiles became the icon she is largely because of her dancing scene in 10 Things I Hate About You, where sh

The world is buzzing with the startling percentage of Gen Z who have never been in a romantic relationship (44%, to be exact). As a twenty-two-year-old who’s never changed her relationship status from single, the term in love feels like a forbidden phrase. It’s a bottle placed on a shelf I can’t quite reach. I’ve seen my friends grow tall enough to reach their bottles, popping them open and sipping the bubbly drink with stars in their eyes. I’ve also seen them drunk on the sw

After several years of liberal brainwashing and complete Europeanisation, I developed a very specific strategy for dating and dealing with men. I never sleep with a guy on the first date if I genuinely like him. But I can very easily “go over to check out his architecture book collection” with a guy who didn’t emotionally move me at all, but who seems hot, cute, and not particularly intelligent. My personal experience shows that if you sleep with someone actually worthy after

Where do I even begin? I have always strived to be an intentional and integral woman. For the ten years prior to my celibacy, I moved through long-term relationships with care, presence, and a genuine belief that what I was building with someone mattered. That it was ours. That it wasn't something to be careless with. For a long time, I held onto that belief, and I still do. But if I'm honest, I stayed even when I knew I should have left. I began to quietly notice something s

Ben has built an audience around dating, around French charm, humour, and the ongoing joke of “looking for a wife.” It’s playful, relatable, easy to consume. But behind the humour is something much more nuanced, cuz the moment your identity becomes visible at scale, it stops belonging only to you. It becomes something people interpret, project onto, and form opinions about before they’ve even met you. And somewhere in that shift, a question starts to form: What happens when b

I enjoyed the episode beginning with an introduction to Alamo’s backstory. It was reminiscent of the first season of Euphoria, when each character had a dedicated episode explaining their origins and traumas. It’s clear that Alamo’s childhood led him to value money above all else. He watched his mother leave a good man who adored both her and Alamo after his house was robbed. She didn’t even give him a chance to fix the situation, being even colder than we’ve seen Alamo be wh

There comes a point in a woman’s life where she has to decide what deserves her energy, and sadly enough in a world designed to constantly distract us; with social media, comparison, validation, gossip, relationships, and outside opinions, choosing yourself becomes a form of superpower. As a woman, I strongly believe the only things that should truly consume your mind are the questions that lead you closer to your highest self: How do I make more money? How do I become health

When it comes to fashion, many people proudly express that they dress for themselves, not for the public eye or the validation of others. But is that really true? When living in a city, it is almost impossible not to notice the fashionably dressed. People take clear pride in curating outfits that enhance their personality and public persona. A “good” city outfit typically includes thoughtful details: statement jewelry, quality shoes, impeccable grooming, makeup, and at least

How do we bring back caring in a generation where caring the least means you’ve won? Ethan Hawke recently said this on the 2026 Oscar red carpet when he was asked about love. He continued furthering that notion by saying, “The sun doesn't care whether the grass appreciates its rays, right? It just keeps on shining.” Look, dating has been bleak in Gen Z culture. Sometimes it seemingly feels like there is no end in sight, and a new plethora of words to describe the ways people

Discipline has become one of the rarest forms of beauty in modern life; not beauty in the superficial sense, not perfect features, expensive clothes, or curated aesthetics, but the kind of beauty that reveals character. The kind that quietly says, “I respect myself enough to stay committed, even when it’s difficult.” In a world driven by instant gratification, distraction, and convenience, discipline stands out because it is increasingly uncommon, and because it is uncommon,

Guillaume on identity, escapism, timeless music & building a world of his own. Some artists walk into a conversation exactly as you imagine them, while others completely pull you into their world. When we sat down with the artist behind Kadebostany, Guillaume, the conversation quickly stopped feeling like a traditional interview, and became something far more reflective; a discussion about identity, escapism, creativity and what it really means to build a life around art. Wha

“Lobotomy chic” and how being aloof while dating is making you uncool. Lobotomy chic, coined by @whatzaraloves6 on TikTok, is not the 1940s torture method that immediately pops into mind when you hear it, but a new wave of anti-emotion, smooth-brained, blank-stare members of Gen Z who believe that cold is the new hot. And that seeming, for lack of a better term, “thoughtless” is the golden path to being seen as detached, unbothered, and cool. We’ve seen a rise of “lobotomy ch