BLEEDING COLOUR - new post on well, read it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLuh8ouJEmc/?igshid=1hyb8lw5g2jqf
LESSONS ON BEING LOVED - new post on just that
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIho256p65s/?igshid=2dprtn08vr7y
#Introduction Hello Mastodonians (which I hope is a word you like), my name is Ramya Pandyan. I'm a writer, occasional stage performer, purveyor of all things colourful. I live in Mumbai which is also my identity, my cross to bear and my family. I've been blogging since 2004, a journey that led me into other social platforms, a career in digital and a new identity.
I'm going to toot about #Mastodon (for the benefit of my birdsite community), some poetry, plenty of saree and lipstick pics.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CMIQ0dZlj0r/?igshid=1q8221fnxdtf9
THE BOLD TYPE (Netflix) is The Devil Wears Prada from Miranda Priestley's point of view. Millennials are silly, entitled, callous. Fashion types are divas but nice. Privilege is a random trend. Perfectionist work ethic is god. Men are just...around. #RovingI
RT @_StevenFan@twitter.com
Yo, naval gazing about your own awareness is cool but have you tried being of service to suffering sentient beings.
π¦π: https://twitter.com/_StevenFan/status/1368459288629317633
This thread called SHADOW PLAY is also a post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJXyH0vJu1a/?igshid=1krnl4eng8a8y
Real life isn't like that of course, but it's nice to pretend it's possible. I guess we need our projections as much as we need our brutal realities.
I like reading stories alone. It's almost like borrowing a life to live, that I can control. And when it gets too painful, I can close the book & linger in the shadows for as long as I wish while the story waits for me.
I don't want to leave behind legacies that take years of karmic cleansing to dissolve. It's so unclean, so limited somehow. I'm glad for forgetting, for growing irrelevance, for shifting spotlights & even for shadows that let us practice fading.
How do you want to be remembered, the self-help quest went. Me, I don't want to be remembered. It's hard enough living with the expectations of people right now.
Till one day you will realise that projections are just shadow play. Shadows don't hurt and neither does light. That's the day the part of you that needs love the way the stories define it, dies.
You let that part of you shrivel away slowly, briefly perking up at a morsel of attention, before realising it's just someone testing out their kindness muscles. People like to do that to reassure themselves that they are, in fact kind. More projections.
UNBOTTLING FEAR - new post
What is your relationship with fear?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMFsDE0Flmf/?igshid=1bjy5khf9i1iz
Ugh such a fuccboi fratboi look. Ditto Ryan Reynolds & Ryan Gosling.
RT @sahejjm@twitter.com
Who's one conventionally good-looking person that you don't find attractive?
I'll start. Bradley Cooper.
π¦π: https://twitter.com/sahejjm/status/1368191894933635072
Feminist. Performer. Writer. GreenParent. Lipstick Diva. Saree Lover.
Has conversations with fictitious people. Falls in Intense Like with plants. In a polyamorous relationship with a bookshelf.
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