"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!
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(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!