the rot and the ruin

at the drag show like i understand why men think the stripper likes them i'm putting a 5 in a queen's bra & she blows me a kiss bc she Loves Me...

Referring to someone as your “partner” sounds as if you are deliberately obscuring their gender and may subtly out you. “My ex”, however, is entirely unobtrusively gender-neutral. #breakupallrelationships

There were no survivors.

whenever there is discourse about carrie white being fat, i remember the passage of the book where stephen king clarifies she is fat but not THAT fat

Yes Mike Flanagan’s imagining of Carrie is fundamentally cowardly and spineless and tasteless and misogynistic but I think we need to acknowledge that 2026 Carrie could never work because 2026 Margaret White isn’t sending her kid to public school she’s doing IBLP homeschooling and still somehow suing the local school district for carrying books in their library that say “gender”

Carrie is, like, thee book about how we fail fat weird girls with abusive parents. Shaving all the edges off doesn't just make a worse story, it ignores the fundamentally ugly truth that we STILL FAIL girls who are too ugly or strange to be considered worthy of sympathy, leaving them to the whims of parents who may well hate them. I don't understand why Flanagan has become so pathologically incapable of letting horror stories just BE DARK, but it's really de-fanging a lot of stories for a lot of people! Hill House is not about the power of family it's about how lonely people will literally kill themselves to feel any sense of belonging, no matter how fleeting. Carrie is not about a mother and daughter doing their best, it's about the real and present hatred that ESPECIALLY ISOLATIONIST CHRISTIANS have for any young woman and especially young women who are fat, weird, and/especially or refuse to conform. Much like the society at large. I'm losing my mind

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.