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[wolffyluna]

I'm getting kicked in the feels by a parasocial relationship. Which is awkward, because I'm feeling meep-y about a situation which is objectively small prospects potatoes, and probably shouldn't be making me this emotional.

(The situation is that one of the co-hosts of my favourite podcasts is stepping down. And it's all probably going to be for the best (he's stepping down for mental health reasons) and he's still going to be a guest every now and then, but it's not going to be the ~same~ and I don't ~like change~. Thus, meepyness.)

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[contrarianarchon]

"Parasocial relationships". Now isn't that a concept which I was trying to pin down for a while. I knew there must be a word for it!

(Specifically, I was trying to define the context of "Stuff I learned (moreso in the sense of intuitions/opinions so forth) reading someone's tumblr blog" which is more like learning a thing from a friend then like learning a thing from a book but completely asymmetric so it would be weird and false to call it stuff I learned from a friend.

(I feel like this should be a post on my blog but I can't be assed re-framing my words so that would make sense.)

In more specific terms - it's fine to feel sad when cool media is ending! It's always weird and stressful for the cool things to change. That's totally valid emotions!

[wolffyluna]

Thank you for your kind words (and I'm glad the term is useful to you!)

After a few days, I'm looking on the bright side a bit more: I've got >250 hours of podcast with the old co-host, and he has more or less set a date for guest appearance on the podcast, so there will be more podcasts with him.