#parasocial

dan howell who ran away from his hometown the second he could and never looked back. dan howell who had a crush on a boy from the internet and moved himself in on the premise of needing to do laundry. dan howell who grappled with his sexuality for years before it broke him. dan howell who was promised his creative dream be fulfilled only for youtube to shaft him at the last minute. dan howell who turned around and wrote You Will Get Through This Night and Doomed because he needed to make art in order to survive. dan howell who took the time he needed to save his own life and come back on his own terms. dan howell, raised christian, realized no god was going to save him so he decided he had to. dan howell who again and again clawed his way into the light. made his own life the way he wanted it to be. fought back. dan howell, staunch disbeliever in red-string theory and fate and heaven because he worked every day of his life to get where he is and absolutely fuck some mythical entity who wants to take credit for that.

im like if maia arson crimew was trans

how many times do dnp have to say that parasocial relationships are natural and not inherently unhealthy—it’s just when people take it too far—before people stop making posts like “not to be parasocial but… i like them :)” unclench. you will not be shot on sight. parasociality is a value-neutral descriptor of the natural human response to getting to know another human on a screen when they do not know you. it’s fine