I'm making this post public. :)

I believe that the concept of "parasocial friendships" is only gaining traction in popular usage, although the term itself has been around for some time now.  (As is often true.) Essentially, a parasocial friendship is one where you might feel very close to someone, but the closeness felt is very one-sided. This ( Read more... )

(Public entry, as a heads up.)

I keep meaning to post about this. There are major  spoilers for the last episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, although that's not the primary  focus of this entry. Mostly it's about internet culture and how it deals with crises, personal problems, and grief.
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There are two "hot coffee" stories - the popular one and the truth.

(Short post, cut is for use of .gifs.)
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Although I'm VERY glad we're addressing the emphasis on fashion and dating in girl's magazines (with disregard for the fact that girls do care about other things), I want to point out that Boys' Life isn't the boy version of Girls' Life. I thought that originally too, a few years ago when we happened to get both copies at work, but Boys' Life is ( Read more... )

Viewing this on  your flist (i.e. just clicking the cuts) might work better.

( See What This Exhausted Man Does Next )

So the internet has been talking about this for a while now - friends with kids versus friends who don't have them, single friends versus married friends, etc. We get videos like this, where Moms woefully explain why they can't talk to their childless friends anymore, and corresponding comments saying those Moms are selfish ( Read more... )

It's the most thankful time of year! The 30  Days of Thanks meme is circulating, some of it touching, some of it explainabragging (we get it, your life is perfect, unless you're overcompensating - but you wouldn't do that), some of it TMI, and some of it so mundane you almost wonder if it's supposed to be sarcasm ( Read more... )

This isn't part of the original meme, but it is a proper blog ( Read more... )

So there's a lot of talk these days about the "death of fandom," usually attributed to LJ sucking, Dreamwidth (which I personally think could replace LJ if it caught on more), other social media (tumblr primarily gets the blame, but twitter and Facebook as well), and so forth.

( Alas, poor fandom! )

When in the past twelve months, three people I know have had cancer and two of them have died because of it, "repost if you hate cancer" is the last f___g thing I want to see. (Excuse my french. I just don't think any other word properly expresses my annoyance.)

And also, many those photos being spread around are of kids who've already died or never ( Read more... )