Parasocial relationships get a lot of flak, but I think a lot of pop culture junkies could benefit from them. You guys need people you trust. You need soft spots. You need blind faith! You need to fall in love with a critic and then disagree with them wholeheartedly to remind you that you’ll live afterward. You need to interface with media you... See more

try as i might, i can only seem to understand myself through the fictions of the more actualized — and, just as i reassure myself that i am drawn to this media because of some predetermined, inherent sense of self, i wonder if it is creating me, too. who would i be if i stopped consuming things? what would there be left to feel?