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mio ([personal profile] moonblades) wrote2024-03-05 09:51 am
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[personal profile] truthdefiler 2024-03-22 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Mmhm. [Erika smirks. The bold confidence that she could have socially maneuvered her way into not only being acknowledged but genuinely liked. It wouldn't have done anything.]

Granted, most of the people I find myself with are rich socialites with tomes about how to properly perform in a social sphere. But the rules aren't as different as they'd have you believe. Nobody actually wants someone's social performance to be perfect.
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[personal profile] truthdefiler 2024-03-24 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, they never want you to be yourself. That's the fundamental rule of all social hierarchies. Be a palatable version, or an entirely fabricated persona, but never express your true self or tell the truth.

[People only really like her when she lies to them.]

It helps, of course, that people's "real selves" are more often than not hideously unpleasant. Including mine.
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[personal profile] truthdefiler 2024-03-24 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
Mm.

[Mio doesn't understand it, but Erika smiles, faintly amused at her phrasing. If she reflects on it, it's a bit more complicated than how she summarized it. But there's evidently nothing worth loving about her true nature, whether that be the sneering bully or the pitiful clingy manipulative little brat.]

We do things to be accepted by others so that we can live the lives we want to live for our own sakes. It's a fun paradox.