Matthew reads, I guess...

  So, this is another post that’s quite different, and something other than just what seems to be a glorified book report. The idea came to me in the wake of seeing one of my friends posting Holy Boy by Lee Heejoo, and seeing it was about an idol getting kidnapped. Then I thought that was a cool concept since I’m a K-pop fan, and came across Idol, Burning by Rin Usami, which is about a fan’s life spiralling after her idol gets into a scandal. Then seeing those two so close together, it inspired me to write about the concept of parasocial relationships. I’ll talk a little bit about how they’ve made it into more media now, and also my relationship with parasocial relationships. For a little bit of context, to explain what a parasocial relationship is on the most basic level would be to say that it is a one-sided relationship between someone like a celebrity or content creator and a, for lack of better phrasing, normal person, wherein the “normal person” forms some kind of attachmen...

  A very dramatic title, I know. I’m also not sure how many, if any, people read these, but it’s something I wanted to put out, just to get it out of my brain, especially since that’s what this platform is for me. It’s a place to get my writing/bookish thoughts out. The short version is that I’ve nuked this platform, and my other writing platform, and my bookish YouTube content because I don’t want to write a glorified book report for every book, good or bad, I read and want to do different bookish content. I want to post what I think is more varied and not be a place of negativity on the internet. The longer version can come down to a few things. The first being what I mentioned above. I started writing what was essentially a book report with mild review aspects within those book reports for every single book that I was reading to which I would also make content to go alongside it – like uploading to my book Instagram account, and my Booktube account on YouTube. I was doing this...