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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

just as reality is unrealistic, authenticity gets parsed as inauthentic

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1/7/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

my truest most authentic self is extremely “lumpy”, the subject exceeds the scope of the frame. Sensitivity to other people’s frames is broadly considered polite and dignified, but the authentic self isn’t always either of those things. It’s a bizarre game to play

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1/7/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

imagine scheduling periodically losing your shit on main in a structured and dignified way to prove that you’re not fake 😂

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1/7/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

What if I refuse to perform my weirdness? Does that make me more or less weird? 🤡

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1/7/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I don’t careeeee Or do I? Idk either, that’s the fun of it

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1/7/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

but what’s clear is that the more you demand authenticity the more it eludes you

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1/7/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

so fuck it and just do whatever

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1/7/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

all circumstances are imaginary to some degree, we are the universe conceiving itself, life is but a dream https://t.co/Tk99Aqa7z5

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 14 years ago

"Acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. An acting teacher told me that." - Gary Oldman

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1/7/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

in practice, authenticity has always really been about passing for others https://t.co/F5UVvOAdlc

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12/23/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

fiction is a blueprint we meme fantasy into reality authenticity is what we will it to be https://t.co/sD7iaaEwmb

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12/26/2021