#playing roles

[ankkalinna]

You're not alone, I love Beaks too. I think it's possible to love a character, and still understand they're a terrible person. Or bird.

Hah well it was jokes on my habit of, well *gestures at the blog title*

Tho with Beaks it’s not even that I like him, I think he’s interesting and has potential for some intersting plots. He’s a conman. It’s interesting and one could get into to what extent the other billionaire ducks fortunes are also a conjob.

[bilderbergwerk]

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[floralfairie]

Okay okay but like the one thing I like about being straight passing is that one day I can dress like a typical white Christian womanTM & the next I can show up wearing all black or all rainbows or with my “respect all pronouns” t shirt & throw all the previous assumptions out the window.

Of course once they begin talking to me they realize fairly quickly I probably don’t QUITE fit into the rest of the crowd unless I am REALLY playing the role well, because if I am asked genuine questions or not put into any specific role & just being myself, eventually I am probably going to attempt to figure out which common ground we have & by that I mean what can we talk about that aligns with any of my current hyperfixations lmao 🤣.

[grevilleacorner]

Buddha nature - #quote by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

“It’s very important to remember that we all have Buddha nature. That cannot be emphasized enough. We, all of us, are in the depths of our beings, the combination of wisdom and compassion. That’s our true nature. Our tragedy is that we identify basically with all the wrong things. We identify with our conceptual mind, our gross mind, our race, our gender, our professions, the roles that we are…

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[rustbeltjessie]

We were both playing parts in some piece of independent slacker cinema - he the promiscuous partykid; I the half-feral girl who sweeps into town and tears it down, who drinks and breaks hearts and has no remorse.

(Rust Belt) Jessie Lynn McMains, from a longer piece written in 2008

[feminism-from-kansas]

Elsewhere, when I found myself looking out of the frame- where he needed me to be less, and I wanted him to be more- I both made myself smaller and turned myself up, so as to turn him up, too.

Katherine Angel, Unmastered