Artifice

A clever or cunning trick, devices or expedients (especially intended to deceive)*

Diana Soreil

Diana Soreil

@silencedrowns.bsky.social

I do mean it about all cosplay being drag and that’s why I’m not picky about character gender

no matter what the character, I’m wearing terrifying amounts of makeup, some specialty shapewear, and trying to look nothing like I do day to day. It’s all artifice and I’m damn proud of it.

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a stray

a stray

@astrayunled.bsky.social

Sometimes I miss performing burlesque. What I liked most about it was the artifice, constructing an exoskeleton of structural garments, cinching my waist and lifting my breasts. The creation of an ideal. Then standing on stage, stripping it all away, the body unbound. And the crowd goes wild.

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@thewordenreport.bsky.social

Whether Starbucks or Target, American retail has embraced fake jargon to appease aggrieved customers. Even "I apology for the inconvenience" is sheer artifice. Such talk is cheap, even free. "Happy Holidays" is biased and ideological.
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