#parasocially

[jestersking]

#jestertalks #i hate this person #parasocially

[jamesbranwen]

sorry for not posting art in a while do you guys still love me

#parasocially

[quackitytheduck]

fuck that greak (green freak) im watching q's announcement and im just happy he's excited and doing well

#parasocially #lb

[livingtheparallellife]

I once fell in love. And I didn't stand a chance. And I don't even know her name and I've never seen her face. But I spent countless hours loosing my mind by choice. Basking in the honey dripping sound of her husky voice.

I've heard her live through births and deaths. I've heard her laugh through joys and sorrows. I know how she sounds when out of breath. And I know by heart the tones that follow. I've heard her scream from the top of her lungs. I know her voice when it shamelessly quivers. And I know how 'I love you' tastes on her tongue. I've heard her whisper it under the covers.

I've even heard her sing. Oh, God, I've heard her sing!

And I know that I shouldn't. And I know she wasn't meant for me. But sometimes my mind wonders.

And I imagine All that we could be.

#poem #i'm not sure how to tag this #i'm just being too #gay #today #gay poetry #saphic #poetry #wlw yearning #saphic poetry #queer poetry #truth be told #this is actually an ode to a podficcer I loved #parasocially #she's long lost in the realms of internet but I still think about her voice every so often #podfic #fanfiction #it's all fine

[movedtolikeastr4y]

kinda need gerard to make some movement. show signs of life. for me and my wellbeing. as a silly little treat

#gerard way #mcr #my chemical romance #day 7482 of missing him #parasocially #not even gonna lie

[satanhasfeelingstoo]

if i had a time machine i’d transport austin show back in time 10 years and force him to film a youtube collab with tyler oakley

#drunk collab to be clear #i just think it’s be beautiful and natural #i love both these people to be clear #parasocially

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #polls about sex #submitted dec 10 #polls about relationships #polls about the internet #This one feels... concerning to me the blog runner lol #tumblr culture #parasocial relationships

[verawhisk]

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

#im in such a deeply parasocial relationship w him its not even a joke #gale dekarios #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #my art #bg3 spoilers

[roydeezed]

One thing for those who have watched The Boy and The Heron or will watch it. The Japanese title for it is How Do You Live? And Miyazaki stated he was leaving it for his grandson, saying, "Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving behind this film".

The deaths of contemporaries and friends such as Satoshi Kon and Isao Takahata and also the expected successor of Yoshifumi Kondo were things that have always weighed heavily on the back of Miyazaki's mind.

He recognizes the industry and the occupation for how soul crushing it was, grinding up either the spirit or the physical body of those who work in it. He loves and hates the industry he stands on the peak of and fully recognizes how it will probably be the death of him. And he knows it'll leave him unable to say a lot of things to his Grandson.

So How Do You Live? is a lesson. For his grandson. For himself. For his two sons. And probably for anyone else willing to pay attention.

Hayao Miyazaki is a flawed man that makes things so important to so many people. And I think more than any other film of his, in this you get to pull back the curtain a bit and see him at work. And what should be this giant unblemished titan can be seen for what he is, a sad old man who had higher hopes for himself and has even higher hopes for the people he makes his work for.

It's a beautiful thing to see another's humanity in their work. To look past the artifice and glam of commercialized art and find humans behind it. And humans willing to show their humanity and mortality is even rarer. And something to be celebrated. So when you watch it. Or if you've watched it already. Understand that this film is Miyazaki kneeling down, weary after years of weaving dreams and making mistakes, reaching out and saying to you that he hopes you can do better. It's an old man who's made all the mistakes of the world passing it on to you, hoping you do better, and making sure you know it's okay if you don't.

How do you Live? By making mistakes. By messing up. But still moving forward. And still reaching out.

#the boy and the heron #how do you live #hayao miyazaki #i love you old man #i know you'll be back but if we're talking to each other through screens then thanks #if the wind rises was him exposing his mistakes then this is his apology #i really dislike the popularization of ideas like “parasocial relationships” and “seperate the art from the artist” and how it seeps into #the discussion of art. While people should be maintaining a detachment from people they don't know I think blunting arts impact by not #acknowledging the human behind it is a disservice to art. And you lose the beauty behind someone as flawed as you making something beautiful

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

Hate (affectionate) how it's made so clear from the very beginning of part 1 just how loved Paul is by his family and household. Both his parents, Duncan, Gurney, Thufir, even Dr Yueh all clearly care so deeply for this kid, and we're shown that time and time again.

Cut to the end of part two, and almost every one of those people is gone. The only ones who remain are a weird, came-back-wrong version of Jessica, and Gurney who has gone from mentor to worshipper. Paul goes from someone deeply loved and valued for who he is by a small but caring group of people - to someone followed and worshipped and feared by thousands. They're obsessed with him in a way, as a leader and "messiah", but nobody loves him.

The only one remaining who loves him for who he is is Chani, who leaves him because in the end that love isn't enough to bring who he is back.

#dune #dune part 2 #paul atreides #i am losing my MIND #upon rewatching part 1 it struck me just HOW loved paul is. and then you contrast that with his horde of followers in part 2 #none of whom will so much as touch him when he's injured badly enough that he can barely walk #he's not human anymore. he's just an idea. #i am in physical pain #something something it's about parasocial relationships & celebrity culture #like idk if that was frank or denis' intention but. i see a bit of That.

[trans-pilled]

genuinely cannot imagine dickriding the watcher guys the way some of you have been. like they made a bad business decision! they alienated their audience! they made jokes about "eating the rich" and then one of their owners turned around and bought a tesla! they said they'd pull all their old content off youtube and then immediately backpedaled and started gaslighting the people who noticed it! they're just guys on the internet, they're not your friends and they are not anti-capitalists. they just want money and they don't care about their primarily young/international/non-wealthy audience.

#yall are parasocial as hell #they don't deserve your $60 annually when they're putting out one thing per week!! you don't have to defend them!! #yes i understand that this is a business and they need to make money #but this is a slap in the fucking face #watcher #watcher entertainment #steven lim #ryan bergara #shane madej #watcher tv #1k #2k

[catgrandpa]

Someone has to draw Laios as his VA in this fit please for the love of everything

#I will never not laugh at referring to someone who I’ve been parasocial about for going on ten years as ‘Laios VA’ #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #laios dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #damien haas #shut up grandpa

[ssaseaprince]

People forget that while yes, Hozier is some kind of heartbreakingly poetic ancient God, he is also just some random Irish guy in his 30s named Andrew

#This is NOT Hozier hate #My parasocial relationship is so strong I'd jump off a cliff for that man #hozier #andrew hozier byrne

[remix-of-your-guts]

i'm trying to move away from the internet queer discoursing but ik i have some mutuals the are still in the trenches so i thought you guys might appreciate this clip of contrapoints being normal abt transmasc issues. btw.

#always remember intelligent people grounded in reality will not have the sort of insane takes we see from a lot of people on this website 🙏 #i'm aware it's parasocial of me to assume contrapoints is an intelligent person grounded in reality but i feel like #that is what she's shown herself to be pretty clearly. #transandrophobia

[khruschevshoe]

You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.

#taylor swift #anti taylor swift #to an extent #i honestly just view this as an analysis of her marketing strategy #like hates off to her for being the best possible microcosm of parasocial capitalism #girlie really knew how to harness the teen girl market and good for her billionaire self #she knows how to exploit the very tabloid culture that once strangled her #how to become the tabloid itself #and wield that against ex-boyfriends too but you didn’t hear that from me #joe alwyn #matty healy #travis kelce #taylor swift critical #ttpd #red tv #i bet you think about me #getaway car #bejeweled #gorgeous #london boy #lavender haze

[theeminentlyimpractical]

#oh ok we’re doing this again #my one true love the ox rib scene #please don’t let him know please let us have our fun #y’all parasocially unwell #in my shitposting era now i guess #good omens #good omens 2 #good enough for gomens work