Myles McNutt

Bill, you finally broke down and joined us here! (Feel free to chime in as we explore the trauma Rooster is tapping into for us professors).

And his primary point was that HE didn’t want to be making art in that climate, not just their art has no value.

I get the rejection of the colloquial "no one cares about this" but we have indeed more or less lost the original plot.

I love how Chalamet looked at how everyone was honestly kind of over Adrien Brody by the time he won his Oscar, but he won it anyway, and said "I have a vision."

(Also: he is not wrong about not being wrong.)

Yeah, this just brings me back to my initial reaction: we're trying to capture a lot of complex behaviors under a single banner, and they're using a term that also covers the fans DEFENDING them from those behaviors.

If they had just said stalkerish (which is really what they mean), no discussion! But they chose that word and that’s etymologically meaningful for a larger discourse on fandom and celebrity, yeah.

It’s less about what they should or should not be doing and more what it says about the perception of parasociality. I would argue we have historically perceived parasocial behavior as a double-edged sword, and this suggests the positive side has been erased by the negative.

A message shared by both Hudson Williams and Francois Arnaud on Instagram: "Don't call yourself a fan if you share racist/homophobic/misogynistic/ageist/ableist/parasocial/bigoted comments of any kind. None of us need your hateful "love." We all respect and support and love each other and are on the same side. If you can't accept that gtfoh." Also they left in the cursor on the Notes app because they were too impatient to wait for a moment where it didn't appear. I've been there.

There's a lot to unpack in Williams and Arnaud's choice to equate parasocial behavior—which I'm not necessarily here to defend, to be clear—with everything else they've listed.

I personally tend to go with "burn it down" as opposed to pushing it off a cliff, but I suppose that works too.

It’s a list with no differentiation, so yes. (Again, not saying they’re even wrong to do so, but it’s different than all the others on that list nonetheless).

I get that. Obviously not okay. But whereas every other term they use is unequivocally problematic, the same is not true of “parasocial comment.” Not denying the toxicity inherent to parasociality, but there’s a spectrum there where there isn’t with any of the others.

Right. There's a wide spectrum of parasocial behavior compared to their other instances, and while there's a baseline of toxicity, it's also just a reality of celebrity.

A message shared by both Hudson Williams and Francois Arnaud on Instagram: "Don't call yourself a fan if you share racist/homophobic/misogynistic/ageist/ableist/parasocial/bigoted comments of any kind. None of us need your hateful "love." We all respect and support and love each other and are on the same side. If you can't accept that gtfoh." Also they left in the cursor on the Notes app because they were too impatient to wait for a moment where it didn't appear. I've been there.

There's a lot to unpack in Williams and Arnaud's choice to equate parasocial behavior—which I'm not necessarily here to defend, to be clear—with everything else they've listed.

Yes I stayed up until midnight to listen to Harry's new album and yes I then stayed up to make this edit #KATTDO #HarryStyles #HeatedRivalry #Hollanov #ShaneHollander and Ilya Rozanov x Waiting Game ❤... TikTok video by ✩˚.⋆☾⋆✧

I know that it’s likely far from unprecedented, but TikTok has given me three different #HeatedRivalry edits set to three different songs from the new Harry Styles album today, as though the fans were just waiting for new inspiration to feed their creative hunger.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP84tpN9A/

“Could I interest you in a provost?”

We should propose a panel where all of us who overlap these worlds ask them to lay it out for us.

I would simply not go on #DragRace with this little respect for lip synching as an art form, y’know?

I feel confident mainlining both would be MUCH too triggering.

I mean, no one wants to be Winter's Bone.

Framing someone's ex as a monster? Did Lynn Johnston write on this show? (cc: @emilystjams.bsky.social)

Yeah, cast was very solid when they swang through last month.

My subheads really are a window into my current headspace.

My subheads really are a window into my current headspace.

I suspect it's a standardized testing problem (like so many I encounter), but it's EXTREMELY hard to convince students to stop writing assignments that read like they're writing school assignments.

No human being actually wants to read you cannibalizing the prompt language for no reason.

There’s just something in the air tonight.

This Andy Garcia is also throwing me. Was there some kind of lottery?

Orlando Bloom is presenting this award…why? #ActorAwards

Supporting Actor is such a weird one this year. You'd have made Penn the frontrunner in the abstract, but then Del Toro was the sentimental favorite in OBAA, and then you presumed they'd split the vote, and it turns out...no, it was just Penn all along considering BAFTA and SAG?

Curious stuff.

a man in a yellow and white striped shirt is sitting at a table and asking where 's wallace at . ALT: a man in a yellow and white striped shirt is sitting at a table and asking where 's wallace at .

Me watching the parade of Kristen Bell co-stars in her backstage #ActorAwards segments: