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Absolutely this. I didn't quite understand the power of putting the person you're talking to into an authoritative character until people started doing it to me in the last few years and it was extremely startling and humbling.

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Should I elaborate on this? It’s all theatre. When you approach a person with a posture of “oh great wise and learned person, I prostrate myself before thee”, you’re telling them how you want the interaction to go. Some enjoy this. Some find it burdensome twitter.com/visakanv/statu

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Aella

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As in, I'm typically an extremely 'nice' person, probably moreso than the average. But sometimes I get these fan emails that are super prostratey and I feel myself turn into some sadistic fuck who wants to hit them with my power and it's like oh god I didn't know that was in me

6:09 AM · Mar 21, 2020

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In a sense it’s not ~entiiirely~ within you 🤔 it’s almost the polite thing to do, to play along with the game they’re setting up. But it can also be enabling them in unhealthy patterns of thought

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Well, yes. They're assuming a character and the "way to engage" with that character is to become its foil, or something. It's just, I didn't know the ability to become a character so 'mean' was inside me; if you'd asked me before I would have sworn it'd never happen to me

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Would you prefer I not refer to you as "her royal tweeting excellency, Madame Aella!"...???