#is this parasocial relationship? yes
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Alright victims look. Dig out your ears and hear me out on this one.
V-tuber MC.
Look, the bills have to be paid in some way, right? A time-flexible job would be ideal, no? And if there an added layer of anonymity added to the job, won’t it be a perfect side-hustle?
Imagine streaming every week after classes, playing games or perhaps showcasing a certain talent of yours? Singing, drawing, dancing … whatever you’ve got. The list just goes on. Maybe you just sit down with your viewers, and have a light-hearted chat.
Talking about your friends and experiences seems to be well-welcomed, on your streams. Well, some of your experiences in Night Raven College are just… ridiculous. Having to run after a chaotic bunch of friends is exhausting, so at least those wacky experiences turn into good stories for the internet.
Everything is kept anonymous, of course. People get nicknames to cover their identities, and people think all of these tales come from you playing as the character they portray.
Now imagine Idia just stumbling across your streaming account. Perhaps he was bored, one day after class… and lo and behold, you were streaming right after class as well. Streaming some… story based game.
At first he joined just to have some background noise while he gamed. Idia told himself he’ll just lurk, maybe judge your gameplay for a bit. Yet he found himself clinging on to your every word, focusing more on your laughter then the controls of the console in his hand.
He ended up losing every match he played that day, but your follower count steadily went up by one.
Idia soon found himself tuning in more and more, looking forward to the days you were free to stream. They miraculously mirrored his quite closely, what a wonderful coincidence! He was still very much a lurker, but occasionally his trembling fingers will type out a word of encouragement or two, in the chat.
He likes the way you say his username, the way you read out every letter he typed. You remember him, oddly enough. Aways perking up whenever his username flashes across the screen, grinning away like an idiot.
Idia can’t say he doesn’t like it, though.
He keeps a keychain of you on his bag. A subtle design, never your model outright. Maybe it’s a small plushie of your fan mascot, or the logo of your avatar. Either way, he takes it with him everywhere, thumb stroking it whenever Idia’s thoughts wander.
Wonder what happens when one day, he stumbles across you in the hallway. Bags stuck together because your keychains tangled, and he saw you had the exact same one? The moment you open your mouth, apologising profusely… Idia knows. You’re the streamer he’s been faithfully watching ever since that day.
Oh no, he’ll never dox you outright. Idia knows all too well how badly parasocial relationships tend to go, and he would never want to scare you off. Somehow, one way or another, you end up sharing a class with Idia.
Now, he was fully planning to hide in the corner throughout the lesson… but you sat in front of him. Slipping your phone out of your pocket, before booting up… a game. He’ll never normally make the first move, but the moment he saw his favourite game pop up on your screen, a hesitant sentence slipped right off his tongue.
“I play that game too.”
Beaming at him, you spin around. Clutching your phone in your hands, excited to find another game enjoyer in the same class. You asked some friendly questions about what character he played, how far along the quests was he, and other gameplay related questions.
Idia had fun, discussing the game with you. Talking all the way until the teacher walked in and gave both of you a nasty glare. You slid right back around, but not before scribbling something quick onto Idia’s palm.
You wink at him, before folding up his fingers into a fist. Once your back was turned, Idia couldn’t help unclenching it to take a peek.
Your friend ID code, scribbled out in your favourite colour on his hand. Ending with a cute little heart. Great Seven, you were adorable.
Guess he’ll have to actually be serious about this game, for once.
#twisted wonderland#twst#disney twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland x reader#twst x reader#Idia#Idia shroud#Idia shroud x reader#Idia x reader#lucky potion 🔷#parasocial relationship? no#slowly getting to know the person behind the screen and liking them for who they are and not the character they portray?#yes!#Idia is a man of culture I believe very much in him
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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 👽🥀
#i love dalien so much u guys…#i really DID feel like i was sending my son off to war. move over dnp i want custody.#do i have a parasocial relationship with a sim? well yes. and that is okay <3#gamingmas#dan and phil#dnp#dnpgames#dalien howlter#!!!MY SWEET LAD.#dapg sims#dan howell#phil lester#im so invested in dalien’s high school adventures. i felt real pain in my heart when he went to eat lunch w the principal#DALIEN I WANT NOTHING BUT THE BEST FOR YOU#he would love the cheerard outfit i know this to be true
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no broadcast is doing it like them, i fear
+ bonus control room celly
#capitals#washington capitals#nhl#nhledit#hockey#hockeyedit#meg.caps#meg.gif#meg.all#now THIS....#THIS is PASSION!!!!!!#alexa HOPPING around in joy i have tears in my eyes#she and alan were literally shitting themselves during intermission i love them. they're so me#idk i think a broadcast benefits when they also just LOVE their team and the monumental crew really does#when tj scored they hit the roof like they're so real. alexa and alan were nearly shaking with tension during this game#they're not pictured but locker yelling YES!!! over joe b when tj hit the net too like i had tears in my eyes#my parasocial relationship with monumental is something so real and true like FUCK ted leonsis but...... these guys... i love them
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I don’t blame uraume for being so defensive over sukuna when nearly every one of his opponents just ends up uncomfortably projecting their love issues onto their nonexistent dynamic
#sukuna content creator fighting off the strong parasocial relationships formed towards him#like yes gojo got the closet to being on his level and sharing an understanding#but if i was uraume i would constantly be yelling at people to give sukuna space too 😭#of all people to vent about your feelings to……. sukuna..#this is @ yorozu kashimo and gojo btw#yuuji jumping into this fight is needed bc his thing with sukuna is just. ‘this guy is the fucking worst’#jjk spoilers#jjk 238#uraume#sukuna#mypost
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i ache for katara so deeply, she deserves so much better than her canon fate. i cannot express in words how much her story and how the fandom views/treats her physically hurts me
#anti kataang#katara deserved better#i know she’s a fictional character so ppl can say think and feel however they want about her and it the end of the day it shouldn’t matter#cus she’s not real but i just feel for her so deeply it hurts#katara my beloved#katara#katara my best friend who i have a DEEP parasocial relationship with i will always be on your side#they can never make me hate you#WE COULDVE HAD IT ALL#yes i’m being dramatic but also 100% serious#truly my favorite character of all time and she has been done wrong not only by the writers but by the fans too lord give her a break#i need her to get justice so bad against bryke and everyone who speaks ill on her#god please take all her suffering and give it to bryke#am i being hyperbolic right now?#your guess is as good as mine#zutara#for exposure ig#anti bryke
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A arcanist’s work. Exhibited in the 1990s for 24 years. Completed in Summer, on September 13. The exhibition was first held in Manila, Philippines, and after 10 years the exhibit later traveled to Spain, before going all over the world.
◆ Medium: Hunger
◆ Afflatus: Banquet of Concrete [Mineral] Everlasting True Love
◆ Fragrance note: Fruity - Raspberry, Apple, Coconut. Meat, copper.
◆ Size: 175cm / 5’7’’
new six stars character yall <3 here's Venison's insight II illustration and their role garment menu (i built that template from SCRATCH bro, i'll drop the psd later) they're my lil mercenary, local cannibal guy, former manus member <3
here's their fullbody sprite under the cut, i got too lazy to actually render it lmfao
#reverse: 1999#reverse 1999#re1999#re1999 oc#reverse 1999 oc#digital art#purinsu art#venison beloved venison#i dont have their doc ready yet so teehee i suck at filling my own templates#yes theyre yandere or whatever. theyre extremely obsessive in general#does familial yandere exist? instead of like. ooo you gotta be my bf its ooo you gotta be my family#anyway. manus adopts a stray that vertin overlooked. it goes badly for everyone#thats their target wall in their insight II illust btw <3 mf is forming parasocial relationships with every person theyre sent to kill#love justifies the cannibalism and all#their arcanum is also bone and cartilage related! <3#which fits soooooo good with the manus and arcana's aesthetics#they just have. to get to the bone. clear access to it. to properly use their arcanum. which means they get to EAT/RIP THE FLESH CLEAN FIRS#do you see my vision do you see where im going with this. the game deserves truly deranged guys#i saw the fucking manus garment for diggers. guys. we need to talk bout it
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#I’m so sorry if you can’t read the text I made this on Insta#yes I have a parasocial relationship with them what can do#petrareads#petraposts#dndads#dungeons and daddies#will campos#Matt arnold#two wolves#dungeons and daddies memes
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You don't know Barry and Anthony personally so you shouldn't refer to them by just their first names. It's too intimate and also rude. I've met them quite a few times so I know the difference
I'M LAUGHING SO HARD
#uh yes sorry mr keoghan and mr boyle!! my bad!!#imagine barry keoghan looking you in the eyes and asking you to not to refer to him by his NAME#sorry mr keoghan for writing about your character literally having gay sex with your friends character!#i'll repent for my sins bbg dw#be so serious#this is 100% bait but imagine meeting a celebrity a few times and thinking you know them personally#the parasocial relationship is parasocialing#barry keoghan#saltburn#oliver quick
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i love driving on perilous roads at night when it's just me and my good friend Cars Behind Me
#oh cars behind me... we're really in it now...#the only parasocial relationship i ever feel or indulge in is the bond i have with cars driving behind me on a single lane highway#it was so dramatic and for what...#me leading the procession in the dark and fog and snow with my highbeams on.#them following behind me and taking none of the many chances to pass me when i offer them <3#following me like lambs to their shepherd through the pitch black woods#WE FORMED A WARRIORS BOND ON THE ROAD THIS NIGHT.#we made it through the mountains Together!!!#the comfort of their warm headlights in my rearviews was Unparalleled#ah... is this what Company feels like...#absolutely unprompted#i. i may be mentally unwell im realizing#< twas a jest! i've known the whole time#ohhhh and its starting to rain real hard... yes... i need this...#AND I STILL HAVE MUCH HAZELNUT MILK TEA LEFT!!! HUZZAH!!!!#its so good. creamy and roasty and nutty. mm.#still next time i'll have to track down a different boba shop that has my favorite milk tea flavor. i miss it!
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dug up this handy dandy graphic i made last year to explain my kukugumi hcs on a sliding scale of touch-starved to touchy
(reasoning under the cut:)
hikari & maya: self-explanatory. you don’t look at either of these two and think “well-adjusted.” i wholeheartedly believe that the closest thing hikari had to a hug before seisho was a mr. white pillow and the closest thing maya had to a friend was her idol saijou claudine, of whom she has all the bonus dvd content
junna: she’s a normal person. neither touch-starved nor touchy but she gets points for dipping karen out of nowhere, though i maintain that that was mostly for The Drama and not an indicator of her usual physicality
banana: she gives hugs which bumps her above junna but i feel like she’s more of an acts of service kind of person, ya know? also she probably rarely is on the receiving end of a comforting hug bc of her insistence to take care of everybody else, all the time. hop to it, junna!
futakao: literally always in contact with one another. the only reason they’re not higher is that they mostly just cling to each other (and banana, once, notably)
mahiru: she has four siblings and two children in the form of her roommates (one of whom she glomps on-screen), she has more physical affection than she knows what to do with. she’s bumped down in rankings because she’s a little more reserved than the next two menaces
claudine: she will whisper bonjour into your ear with no prompting, drape her arm over your seat while she slides next to you, make you believe she’s gonna kiss you with a hand on your cheek and a sudden closing of distance, spring a surprise waltz on you, hug you after battling through the school basement bogeymen on your first day of class to introduce herself etc. etc. and she will do it all with no shame whatsoever. i don’t think we acknowledge just how much of a cassanova kuro is just because she’s too often nerfed by maya but goddamn the effect she had on asami in overture, amemiya, lalafin and the frontier girls in the lovers’ bond story, even yachiyo in twenty faces--saijou claudine is canonically bitchless but if she knew what a work-life balance was she’d pull. that’s my manifesto
karen: she beats claudine by a slim margin because of the torpedo-like quality of her enthusiasm and the inescapable strength of her grip. if kaoruko had the lower body strength to drag karen across the floor in episode 6, karen would have held fast and let her do the dragging.
#revue starlight#kagura hikari#tendou maya#hoshimi junna#daiba nana#hanayagi kaoruko#isurugi futaba#tsuyuzaki mahiru#saijou claudine#aijou karen#mine#yes the claires and floras are the extremes. i didn't plan this it just happened#little known fact masai and amemiya cast you according to how well you take a hug#i stand by baby maya having a parasocial relationship with baby claudine also. she's so lucky she has a million dollar poker face bc#i just KNOW that the moment she saw Saijou Claudine TM at the seisho entrance exams she felt the very earth beneath her feet reshape itself#into a world where she gets to breathe the same air as the burning star she had long been looking to#she was doing laps in her mind palace on her knees throwing sand in the air i just know it#(idr if it was ever confirmed when maya acquired those cds but i choose to believe she has been a fan for years reality is what i make it)
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its so sad to me that taylors basically a fictional character atm and yet no one seems to notice that!!!! they still think they know every single thing about her life and feel entitled to have every information they can gather even if it means completely misunderstanding her as a person. like im not saying i *know* who she is but at least im not pretending i do. so i wander through these nights i prefer hiding in plain sight my fourth drink in my hand these desperate prayers of a cursed man!!!!!!!!!
#yes i do have the parasocial relationship and it makes me sad no one seems to knowledge shes an actual human person!!!!!!!#paula.txt
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I'm very normal about John Wick actually
#yes i made these and went to a special store to get them printed that size#yes i bought the locket brooch specifically for this reason#to clarify i have a parasocial relationship with the character of John Wick and NOT Keanu because one is fictional and the other isnt#that being said id like to meet Keanu one day#keanu reeves#keanu memes#john wick#john wick 4#jardani jovonovich#chad stahelski#john wick parabellum#john wick 2#john wick franchise
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Analyzing a movie or a series PLANNED and WRITTEN by an author is absolutely okay and we're all absolutely happy to read about it.
Analyzing PERSONAL LIFES & RELATIONSHIPS of REAL PEOPLE like actors over Social Media Posts on the other hand is absolutely NOT okay.
Stop it.
#yes i am mainly talking about David Tennant and Michael Sheen here#but you're free to reblog with other examples#i am sick to see people analyzing personal lifes of people#and hating about their partners#stop pretending knowing them#its called parasocial relationship#michael sheen#david tennant#anna lundberg#georgia tennant
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Hi ABL!!! How are you? I am curious about something. I don't believe in shipping actors or Fan service. Do you?
Then I watched The Untamed and Word of Honor.
In spite of my no shipping policy I just fell for wang yibo and xiao zhan. Then I searched and found what XZ had to go through. I am sure it would have been difficult for WY as well.
I know it's all about good chemistry between the actors and surely good acting etc.
My question is why people go crazy ????
Does my question make sense??
Nope. Not a shipper at all. Certainly not of real humans. I find it pretty scary and somewhat repulsive. I'm kinda disgusted by fan service whether it's from individuals, branded pairs, or Kpop groups.
I understand why it's being done but I don't enjoy any part of it.
I have a number of posts on the subject, here's some. (The "why people crazy" is answered in the Sasang post at the end.)
GMMTV and Co-Branded BL Couples - pairs and marketing tactics:
This last one (above) is the deep dive meta that is probably what you are looking for.
Also watch the following YT. It is about fictional characters, but it applies to fictional relationships too (pair branding), and explains the psychosis behind the unhinged behavior.
Imaginary friends and real-world consequences: parasocial relationships | Jennifer Barnes | TEDxOU
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#shipping culture bothers the bejesus out of me#yes i think your creepy and unhinged if you do it#pair branding and shipping#oh the damage we do#parasocial relationship#pair brands
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(there's ranting. you've been warned.)
um... happy monday to the young royals fandom/edvin's fans in general.
(via edvin's instagram stories)
he is... he is twenty years old. good grief.
(i won't comment on anything regarding his physical appearance on this post, even if everything i'd say would be very, very positive, due to the fact that, although he's never going to come across this, it would still go against his wishes.)
can we just please, please leave people alone? this behaviour... it's not healthy, for anyone involved.
generally speaking, we live in a society where beauty standards are, unfortunately, an inextricable part of some people's lives. these same people believe they can force their own standards, "inspired" by a million different factors surrounding all of us every day (family, school, friends, the environment we grow up in etc etc), to other people, the "trend" (if i can call it such) especially targeting complete strangers, mainly on the internet.
and yes, that includes celebrities, too. famous people, if you prefer this term better. artists. whatever they want to be and are- most of us have been there to not know a day where these people's rights on their personal lives and choices and clothes and pets or whatever a paparazzi or a fan is going to decide does not fit their standards of the day have not been infringed on.
because, believe it or not (and i am NOT refering to the wonderful, respecting, brilliant, supporting majority of fans, at least in this specific fandom), your favourite actor is not your friend. even if the comments on their appearance, for example, like in edvin's case, are written in a playful, sarcastic tone, this cannot be understood through text on a screen- another problem of our society's current state; harmful words you write on a screen, whatever the intention is, do not just stay there, floating around. you aren't trying to communicate with your notes app. a person is reading them, even though you may think they will never reach them, because, for instance, of their huge audience. and it can (excuse me for my language) fuck them up the same way it would fuck someone (e.g. at school or at work) up to say the same harsh words- again, even if you don't correctly estimate the power they can hold- to their face.
so, again, as i have written and reblogged posts in the past regarding similar issues in this specific fandom,, which i love so so dearly, my intention is not to play the part of the "angelic fan" or whichever label might fit the text.
my intention is to maybe, just maybe, reach someone out there who will change their way of thinking; who will have second thoughts when writing a comment about a mustache (for god's sake); who will gain a little grain of empathy towards a fellow global citizen of theirs; who will try to cease some of the "madness"... before a person whose only intention was to make their dreams come true by entering the, in this case, film industry feels obliged to address the issue via a platform on the internet, as if not commenting on his looks etc is not the sensible thing to do... before this attitude turns to bullying for real. if it hasn't already.
that's all i had to say. i am apologising for the length of the post or any mistakes, since english is not my first language and i am quite mad and disappointed, maybe little hurt actually, especially as someone who has been struggling with their physical appearance and comments on it since i was literally a child.
i cannot imagine dealing with that plus being famous and having people judging you all the time. jesus. i really hope edvin has his support system near him and that he will be alright. <3
#seriously okay#at first i was like#maria don't address the issue people are going to say there are more serious stuff going on#but then i was like#yes i acknowledge the very serious stuff surrounding us at the moment and not only in a social media space with only generic posts and such#(like many people OF COURSE)#(and people don't have to know everything we can act on justice withour the internet knowing)#so yeah i did it#because it pissed me off very much#this is not healthy at all tbh#i am not being judgy i thought taylor swift and selena gomez would be my besties when i was like eleven#but parasocial relationships are not good#neither is (technically speaking here) online bullying#some comments appeared on my instagram feed when i liked edvin's post the other day#but i did not want to comment on it if edvin did not say something bc it felt very personal so yeah#this happened#young royals#edvin ryding#cw discussion/(better) mention of physical appearance issues#anyway#i still canot believe that respecting one's boundaries is not taken for granted nowadays
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Swifties treating Taylor like a goddamn homework assignment where you have to “make the effort” to “learn the lore”
(or else you’re not a TrueSwiftie™️)
#yes i included that reply on purpose#shit swifties say#trueswifties™️#taylor swift#parasocial behavior#parasocial relationships#toxic swifties
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