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	that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife
to the anonymous fan who sent me a #ValentinesDay gift...... thank you. it's perfect. how did you know. etc. did you make it? 💋
09:31 - 14 Feb

	that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife
open thread: ever found yourself telling a story that's actually someone else's as if yrs, and having to carry on because you've started it?
11:22 - 14 Feb

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Roxas @otherpromise ..that's not a dog collar, is it?

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @otherpromise it's a bracel

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @otherpromise I swear I thought it was a bracelet.

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @otherpromise is this popstar-normal?

lol

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Roxas @otherpromise for the punk part maybe, but the collar doesnt even look punk.

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife .@otherpromise so someone's fantasising about leading me around on a leash?

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife .@otherpromise I don't really care what other people think of me but don't involve me in it, thanks

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife .@otherpromise this was all I got, too. I hate this degrading piece of shit job and I hate this website

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Roxas @otherpromise Yeah sounds like you got an admirer. Creepy one but still. Do u really hate the job?

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @otherpromise I wish I was still an indie. I never had to put up with this bullshit when no-one knew who I was.

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Roxas @otherpromise That's picking up now, maybe even there this kind of attention will follow you. Collars and all

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @otherpromise has a fan ever sent you anything?

And here's my ticket to hell

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Roxas @otherpromise Yeah! But it didn't sense, they gave me an adult pacifier. I think

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @otherpromise yeah, that makes no sense. what's that for? I don't get it

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Roxas @otherpromise I don't know. It vibrates? Babies might like that but idk about older people

Open thread!

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Sariel MacLeod@moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife Does this include stage personas and social masks created to keep up appearances?

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel of course it does. never been very good at the boundary between characters and myself, personally.

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Sariel MacLeod@moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife It's a balancing act: I'm playing one myself, and I wonder at times if I chose one too close to my self

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel yeah, I get that. I think a lot of us in this business do.

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel I picked a stage name to keep it separate...... but then I just started calling myself that in my head.

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel we're paid to flash our souls about in public as consumer images. no wonder we get confused.

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Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife I've started answering to my own stage name more often than I do my real name.

Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife We're paid to have a bleeding heart, but the blood that flows is music

Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife Perhaps changing personas might help break you free?

Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife Unless your contract locks you into it?

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel I think a lot about other characters but I think I'd rather get the hang of this one first.

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel #TurnAndFaceTheStrange

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Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife Wise decision: let this one mature, but have one in mind for when it starts to fade

Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife When that happens, it makes it easier to let go and assume the new one.

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel do you think a lot of pop stars go insane and start believing they're their persona?

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel there's a few guys I can think of who might have started believing their own performance, but is it a job hazard?

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel do you think if it happened to me I could sue Virgo?

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Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife I think some do, but I think that's why the best phase out their personas when they start to vanish into them.

Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife Or why some get away from personas entirely, at least for a time.

Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife Calling it a job hazard is a sharp observation. But I wouldn't risk filing suit on those charges.

Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife At least not unless it really starts to trip you up & if they won't let you let go of the persona.

Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel @TheRealCloudStrife But considering how the labels tend to work, that won't be easily pulled off.

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel just don't talk to me about the label stuff right now, seriously. makes my head hurt.

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel plus, that's what my manager's here for.

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel just asked her. she says if I start to go insane that just means I'm doing it properly.

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel how'd you come across your persona? don't tell the others, but this whole asshole routine is draining.

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel I'm thinking I might become some kind of science fiction samurai with alien blood.

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	Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel
@TheRealCloudStrife I was intrigued by folklore and stories since I was a child, particularly tales of the Watcher Angels

	Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel
@TheRealCloudStrife They had the bravery to walk away from a dry and ordered heaven to embrace the vibrancy of earth

	Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel
@TheRealCloudStrife Just as I chose to walk away from the ordered life of my father's family

	Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel
@TheRealCloudStrife A science fiction samurai? That's quite a colorful persona

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel A ronin, physically addicted to his own body, that body created by electriCITY...... it doesn't make sense in words.

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel when I was 10 I used to pretend I was an alien, or a hero secretly saving the world, but I think everyone did that.

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	Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel
@TheRealCloudStrife Mm! We've all imagined ourselves to be something bigger and brighter than our ordinary lives

	Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel
@TheRealCloudStrife It helps us to entertain the possibilities that life can offer us.

	Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel
@TheRealCloudStrife I think I used to imagine myself as a wizard, but it's been so long the memory has clouded.

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that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel you're telling me about clouded memories......

that's how you'll fool 'em. @TheRealCloudStrife @moonangelsariel the past isn't really important whether you remember it or otherwise. it's about just carrying on anyway. right?

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	Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel
@TheRealCloudStrife The past might be the foundation to the present, but it's not something you can dwell on.

	Sariel MacLeod @moonangelsariel
@TheRealCloudStrife No more than if you'd think too hard about the foundation of the building you live in.