you’re in their twitch chat

i’m in a parasocial relationship with their dnd characters

we are not the same

save me professor dekarios... save me...

me: idk, I just don't get parasocial relationships, famous people are just doing their jobs, it's not like we really know them or anything

dropout cast: hi

me: these are my friends and I love them

The flirt game between these two is something special.

Maisy landing it perfectly with the pun, then Fabian falling flat. The background track is helping add tension too lol.

Damn, Starkid really is just the boy band of theater, huh?

TOMMY 😭😭😭

(definitely not) unpopular opinion but i kinda hate it when ppl say they miss when ryan was scared on ghost hunts!!! no actually i dont! good on him for not being so nervous while ghost hunting i cheer him on when he chants ‘i am not my fear’ personally!!

you guys are gonna have to hear me out for this one

what's your opinion on fanfics about dnp? (more in a way of do you think that it's crossing boundaries and/or being parasocial)

i'm of the same mind of dnp in that phanfic is fucking incredible. it's an important and valid way to express yourself, as well as a building block of our community. i don't think it's crossing boundaries, as it's fiction. i don't see it as parasocial either--you're writing for you and others like you. most people don't want dnp reading their fics, it's not for them in a sense, it's for us.

i think dnp are extremely aware of fanfic and its value and place in community. they've always encouraged it, appreciated the support, and given us space about it. they're not ones to make videos about it and mock fans for it (which happened to some of our lovely fic writers here writing for other yt fandoms, and i'm so sorry about it). dnp are fandom culture people. they've written fic themselves! and published it in their book!

the word parasocial has been twisted lately to imply any fan support is unnatural and should be shamed, which is complete fucking bullshit. making art is always important and valued. and it is necessary for your existence as a human, but also for the thing you're a fan of to thrive.

the parasocial side comes in once you start believing you know this person. and that you're their real friend. when in reality, they do not know you specifically, and you are not their friend, you are an audience member.

so a parasocial relationship only occurs when people start crossing boundaries (digging for not publicly available information, contacting people in their personal life, showing up to their house, etc). which, is absolutely nowhere close to real fan behaviour.

tl;dr: phanfic is great, i love you fic writers, parasociality is a problem but not one that we have

i love when you see voice actors who clearly love a role they did on social media.

could people who think Critical Role has Lost The Magic (TM) because it's no longer livestreamed and the people who throw endless sobbing fits about having three weeks off from the main campaign in the main tag all fight each other and leave the rest of us in peace finally

There's something about scar... idk what it is but whether it's the fanon designs of his character or the irl person he's just so. Handsome. Cute. Everything. He's just the man. The only man ever actually.

He's so cool. I hope he knows it.

why did aleksa act like that on the cold ones podcast 3 years ago. i swear to god every 5 seconds he’d drop an intimate fact about alex in a blindly-in-love manner and then crack the funniest joke ever that nobody laughed at. i’m going insane. why. every time he jokes about being gay and then immediately denies it i see myself at dinner time wanting to tell my mother the truth but rather biting down on my tongue and tasting blood in fear of the commitment. i really just said that about 30 year old serbian-australian man. you know what i’m not even high right now, can you believe this is how i live every single day? really glad i don’t actually use tumblr so i don’t have an image to ruin because this would do it instantly

swifties attacking travis kelce’s ex, kayla nicole, and calling her a racist term

And this isn’t even showing the swifties that literally CAMP OUT in Kayla’s instagram comments so that they can harass her and tell her that Taylor is “so much better” than her.

I wonder if @taylorswift will ever tell her nasty fandom to stop harassing black women, since she once talked about being “ferociously anti racist.” Or was that all for show, just like when you spoke on Miss Americana about wanting to be on the “right side of history?”

I'm all about ship and let ship, interpret what you want how you want but can someone please explain how anyone watched Wonka and came away with a romantic interpretation of Noodle and Wonka's relationship?

Like at the most basic level they're friends, but at the most intimate they're brother and sister. There is no romantic or sexual tension or chemistry between them (or between Calah Lane and Timothee Chalamet).

Like the dancing scene, people thought they would kiss... the scene is about a whimsical man bringing some joy into this girl's life and she basically finally has a friend who makes her feel a bit optimistic. There's love, but it's certainly not romantic love.

Rereading worm, on colony 15.7, and I’ve noticed a motif with Taylor’s arm.  She hurts her shoulder in the lung fight, breaks her arm during Leviathan, gets stabbed by Fléchette in 15.6, and of course loses her arm to Scion. My analysis would be that this shows her reliance on her power, strengthening the whole extended metaphors of powers as trauma/coping with trauma, It shows Taylor’s almost suicidal disregard for her own life and further foreshadows the conflict drive, hearkening back to the central idea that Taylor will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals, the whole central ethical conflict of worm. Finally, it also shows the shard-body conflict in speck, Taylor’s losing herself, and also literally losing parts of her body.

I’m not all that great at analysis, I need a wormblogger like lakesbian to write a 5 paragraph analysis of this or tell me that I’m making shit up.