Marie’s ChatGPT-Assisted Deconstruction Blog
Why Tuca & Bertie Passes My Bullshit Detector
A reflection on why this show feels emotionally accurate instead of performative, sentimental, or false.
Calling Out Fawning and Watching a Family System Change
A reflection on naming fawn responses, interrupting emotional parentification, and what it feels like when relational clarity actually lands.
How I Use My Phone as Cognitive Scaffolding
A look at how organizing apps, lists, and routines functions as an external nervous system rather than a productivity hack.
When Relief Feels Riskier Than Pain
A clear-eyed examination of porn, longing, ethics, and how authoritarian moral frameworks distort sexual self-trust long after belief systems collapse.
Untangling Desire From Purity Culture
A clear look at porn, sexual curiosity, and how inherited moral frameworks still shape what feels confusing instead of chosen.
Learning What Respectful Presence Actually Feels Like
Being a white person in a Black community space and realizing that discomfort can be awareness, not wrongdoing.
Reentering History After Evangelical Isolation
Watching secular history finally land as real—and realizing how religion severed my sense of time, context, and participation in the world.
Epistemic Violence Against White Women
An examination of how patriarchal systems strip white women of interpretive authority while binding them to the maintenance of domination.
We’re Live: Cognitive Terror, THC, and the Closet Inside the Self
A raw look at the “oh shit, we’re live” jolt—why sudden self-awareness can feel like danger when thinking was your only scaffold.
A Wobble at the Edge of Becoming
A reflection on unemployment, integration, and the strange steadiness that comes from finally living without scripts.