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Most everything that needs saying is in the blog's description, but I did want to add a few things:

While this is not as relevant as it is to my tiktok account, my content is not for children, it's for older teenagers and adults.

While typical DNI applies to this blog- and all my social media accounts- (racism, homo/transphobia, etc.) there are a few more that need to be said: accounts that still post Harry Potter content, kids 15 or younger, people who make jokes like "I understand homophobia now" because another queer person did something "cringy" or strange, and anyone who doesn't fully and unequivocally support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza should not interact with this blog or any of my content.

Dorsey's pronouns are she/they, but I (the artist behind her, call me Ringmaster) am genderfluid, so if you need to refer to me, please use they/them only.

All my writing (poems, short stories, and posts that have to do with my writing) are tagged as 'writing'

The tag "dorsey rambles" is for original posts/posts that I've added to, the tag "ringmaster speaks" is for out-of-character stuff.

Carrie is bullied because she doesn't fit into the neat box of what people think a girl should, an issue that would be massively compounded by modern social media, and not just in the sense of makeup and fashion (though that is also a part), because tiktok and instagram (what I have experience with and what I can only assume the kids in the show are using) have mountains of content aimed at young women designed (maliciously or not) to funnel them into becoming a conventionally attractive trendy likeable #girl'sgirls, but not actually read any feminist theory or do any real self-reflection. I find it hard to imagine that the Margret we meet in the book would let Carrie have a phone or access to social media, which would push her even further away from this ideal. Carrie is also deeply religious, so even otherwise understanding people would call her a pick-me or say that she is participating in her own oppression and deserves what is happening to her because that's the no-nuance kind of leftism that gets a lot of young people (I say like I'm old lmao) and that thrives on short-form platforms like tiktok, or even twitter, where it's easier to have a snarky comeback than it is to have an actual discussion.

All of that could be really interesting! And plenty of other stuff I'm too tired to articulate right now! Like Sue's internal struggle of being expected to be the white-picket-fence Ideal Woman vs. the fact that she may not know what she wants but its not that! Or the way the platforms themselves encourage the kind of bullying and abuse Carrie suffers because it makes them more money! Even just for formatting you could have the real life stuff interspersed with true crime podcast clips (or reels, tiktoks, etc.) talking about Prom Night!

me five years ago: Veterans Appreciation month is May! You're just using people to be homophobic!