#paraso

[naru-nagi-hoard]

Wife <3

[rat-tango]

being parasocial is just being social with wings

[radcaduceus]

Sam Riegel you are a beautiful human inside and out (yes, even on the inside) and I am so glad you are doing better. The world would be a darker place without you and I am just one of many, many people who know so much joy because of you.

Thank you for your video and telling us about your journey. It is so clear that you have so much love for what you do and that there are so many people who love and support you (Marisha encouraging Sam from behind the camera made me cry even harder). It is wonderful to see your face again but please know that everyone who supports you wants nothing but the best for you, even if it includes recovering more in private.

We love you Sam!!!

[spiciestmarinara]

I know other people on here have probably checked out Jessie Gender's video on the *new* James Somerton comeback video, but she hit the nail on the fucking head.

She pointed out that the only people he apologized to by name in that video are her and Vito Russo, writer of The Celluloid Closet. AND he still has some content creators he stole from blocked.

This on top of everything else we have posted and shared about this terrible bid for relevancy. It is all for the illusion of contrition while trying to plug his next money making scheme and it's just so gross.

I don't want to be the official James Somerton hate account, but I wish he would have stayed gone and tried to peddle his snake oil elsewhere.

[lavaheadaddy]

The trailer for dropouts new show BIGGER with Brennan and Izzy literally almost made me cry with how fucking cute they are. The fact that they get to do an improv show and they seem so happy to be doing it with each other and just making each other laugh. Brennan when he explained that their relationship is almost telepathic that one of them will laugh before the bit is done cuz they’ll already know what the other would be doing and it already made them burst out laughing before they even do it!!! How fucking cute is that!!?!?!?!?

[1phakephan]

the way i just saw the word “phish” and actually had to take a second bc upon looking at it thought ‘who phan-ified that word??’ before remembering

no

that’s just a word and i’m in too goddamn deep rn jfc

[seven-cents]

i really like paraparapara and wanted to draw some fanart, but im not sure i would be able to finish it so here! (hopefully one day i can finish 🙏)

this is everything to me and I'm going to treasure it forever

[bluiex]

GoodtimeswithScar has no right making me as happy as he does 

[robinniko]

parasocial relationship but its me towards my mutuals

[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

you're genuinely the funniest person I've ever seen, like you're so iconic and ilysm, tysm for posting you make my day so much brighter <3

that's so nice of you to say!!! and i think everyone should share your opinion so i can be treated like the funniest most iconic greatest person ever by everyone forever because i deserve it :]

[xomoosexo]

hi!! sylvee was on ansichans stream today if u want to check out the vod once sapnap ends

https://x.com/ansiupdates/status/1728575548396380259?s=46

OMG SHE WAS ON SOMEONE'S STREAM AND I DIDNT KNOW 😥

[jadipose]

Or under multiple anonymous people's control?

that's what I'm hinting at, yes :)

[vocalux]

This might be a bit weird but could you maybe coin a prefix similar to Darl-ID but its for people you're parasocial towards?

— parasid / parasoid [ paras-id / paraso-id ]

an identity that you project onto who youre parasocial . you think them should be / that they are something . you see them as something ( even if them are not ) !

[plaquerat]

What's pillowfort like? Im not good at looking for new places

i honestly really think it's a good alternative to tumblr. when you join you're immediately put in a community for introductions. when you post there, you'll pretty quickly get comments from older users with resources to help you along. pillowfort101 is a community i highly recommend looking into on there as well.

there is a tag system, but pillowfort's circles mostly function as communities. tumblr is actually kind of ripping that off currently, haha. you can join communities and post/reblog to them, or do so directly on your account. i like to read posts in the web discussions community along with a few more fandom-leaning ones.

like and followers/following are private. nsfw is allowed and ai content is not. the culture is very much to curate your experience and honestly blocking and blacklisting are actually useful. you can also toggle nsfw content on and off.

you can have a little frame on your avatar and free badges- the site runs on donations and if you like you can get higher image resolutions, options more multiple avatars, and some more frames. staff is pretty transparent and unlike the other very popular tumblr alternative, there's actual management of their finances and they don't foster an incredibly parasoical environment.

i'd say the only real downside is it can be quiet, but i don't think that should be a reason not to join. if more people don't try it, it won't get much bigger! i enjoy it a lot and that's part of why i'm trying to get more people to check it out, especially since tumblr is getting worse and worse.

[mcytblrconfessions]

truthing schlatt as an alcoholic bc of ur cringe flop parasoical relationship IS OUT. truthing him with erectile dysfunction bc of ur based swag parasocial relationship IS IN

[crunchycrystals]

still thinking about That Scene in chris grace as scarlett johansson and i want as many people to watch this as possible so under the cut it goes. watch this if you've ever been interested in representation in media and how it affects the way you perceive yourself

anyways so ive talked briefly about how i love a good full utilization of a format (link here) but now i wanna go more in depth on it bc i love it a lot

make some noise

jesus christ the first time i saw this i paused and started jumping up and down on my couch. let me start with basics !!! i love that the video of the show appears on the make some noise tv. its so unnerving to see something completely detached from make some noise now on the tv after watching dozens of episodes. and sam just saying the normal spiel he does every time leaves you wondering for a few extremely disorienting seconds if they just edited the video onto a normal episode until he starts to introduce chris and you see his nameplate is erased. another extremely disorienting thing because we NEVER see the nameplates empty and it ties in so well with the identity crisis currently happening in the show. he has no idea who he is as a performer like is the performer part of him the real part?? how much has been played up for entertainment??? and then after the horror has been slammed into you by the prompt and seeing chris as confused by all of this as we are, he runs off which leads to the thing that kept me standing on my couch for the next 10 minutes

very important people

first off. i absolutely love the coincidence (or intentional detail???? who knows but either way) of chris's first line on the make some noise set being "my name is..." because that's the thing that started vip !!!!!!! and throughout the rest of the existential crisis dropout trip he constantly says "hello my name is" too ough i love that so much thats why i started writing this whole post. very important people is the perfect show to add to this segment it makes me feel a little feral thinking about it. coming out on stage without any alterations to his appearance, again back to the idea of is the chris grace on stage the real chris grace?? can he ever be??? and again his name is gone like in the scene before. vic says "you can be anything you want" like the thing scarjo said to justify playing an asian character and he still can't come up with anything. then the card transition oh my godddddddd

dirty laundry

(side note i did say before that the cards on the vip set were dirty laundry cards. i was wrong they are vip card the designs just look very similar esp compared to s1 of vip)

this is gonna be way shorter than the two rambles above i just think it's really cool to use the dirty laundry question format for some identity crisis stuff. i don't know how to properly express how cool i think it is i don't think i can do it justice. the "who..." format for the cards is a great way of expressing how he is losing grip of his identity

this section of the post is also to point out that i am only noticing now that the "dropout presents" version of chris is seen on the couch at some point also heckling stage chris which is a nice detail especially since part of the card was "who is generally a hypocrite"

gastronauts

gastronauts hasn't come out yet so i can't analyze this as much as i'd like but to me it just seems like an extension of the thing started in dirty laundry of everyone confusing him for scarlett johansson. i initially see this as a reference to the fact that throughout the whole show it's been going deeper than him playing scarlett as she plays him and then her playing him plays her again, etc, but thinking about it more for this post makes me think it's like the line between the real person and character they play blurring. i think everyone in the dropout audience is pretty familiar with this like we know brennan pissed on game changer isn't actually how he is in real life, but it's extremely easy to fall into that parasocial trap. when you put so much of your actual self in a character or performance it's hard to find the line between, even for the performer. chris keeps saying that he's not scarlett but everyone insists it's who he is